[ SECRET POST #4431 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4431 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

i'm not the op of this thread and i'm neither gay nor a man, but... no? i don't consume media to vicariously experience things, i consume it because i'm invested in the characters and the story and i want to read about their experiences and their feelings, not bring my own into it. tbh i find it a little creepy that so many people apparently do get this personally invested in fiction, but i suppose that explains things like shipping wars.

[(Anonymous)]

i don't consume media to vicariously experience things, i consume it because i'm invested in the characters and the story and i want to read about their experiences and their feelings

That...sounds like vicarious experience to me.

Like, you care about what happens to the characters. Why? Because you have empathy with them - i.e. when stuff happens to them, you feel it. That is vicarious experience. Vicarious experience is what makes fiction engaging in the first place. We care because what's happening in the story impacts us emotionally, even though it's not actually happening to us.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - Vicariously following emotional story beats is a completely different level from only connecting to characters you can physically switch yourself out with entirely.