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The confessional
A writer on the parasocial relationship with her favourite Instagram dominatrix
This is the best thing in the queue and I am not being nice. It is funny and it is genuinely brave.
Every other piece this week is about a person who is dead or a regulation that is coming. This one is about a woman who posts on the internet and somehow that became the centre of somebody's week, and instead of writing it up as a symptom she wrote it up as a story. That is the move. Nobody else in this queue managed it.
Notice, name, choose. That's the whole method.
The clerk's shelf - how this got here first
Sources
How parasocial relationships affected me and my favourite Instagram dominatrix ↗
PEDESTRIAN.TV · 23 SEP 2026
Where this sits in the encyclopedia
The podcast as an intimate mediumA voice in your ear, unedited, twice a week, for years. The most parasocial habit in the English language and rarely discussed as such.Watching the repliesThe public performance of being at war with somebody, in public, for an audience, in a thread that never closes.Parasocial research on creators beginsA wave of studies measuring parasocial relationships with YouTubers, livestreamers and vloggers rather than with television hosts.
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