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“[Emma, a fanfiction writer] says she feels like she has more in common, now, with that twelve-year-old girl [that she was] than with the professor she has seemed to become. "It is just sheerly for fun," Emma says of fandom. "It is grace freely given. It is joy shared without consideration of compensation or payback." To her, it's the opposite of work; it's play. [...] Fandom is about reclaiming that play space for "productive selfishness," she says, and "the assignment of your time according to whatever the fuck you feel like, instead of what would be most efficient, or most advantageous to others. It's as important to me as eating healthy or getting exercise.”

FeminismLeisure TimeFanfictionFandom CultureParasocial Relationships
Book:This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It
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“Modern man develops many parasocial relationships that grow on account of his era and his soulless heart, the latter, perhaps, of greater importance. Far away is the person he sees as a friend; his emotions perpetually tied to the outcomes of those he sees as deserving of his attention, it itself of no value. The death of relationships brought on one by one's own heart, beating to the tune of someone else's life. All reality is as real as imagination, causing such illusions of relationships to mark one's life as if of sense.”

FriendshipParasocial Relationships
Author:Manuel Custódia
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