Parasocial Plight
There is someone I have followed on social media for a long time via various platforms, and while we have interacted once in a while, we are but online acquaintances at extreme arm's length.
Recently, this person has fallen on hard times (out of respect for their privacy I shan't name them) but it has been distressing to me to watch their situation unfold in a slow motion tragedy.
I watched them go from lows, to incredible highs, to a sudden, tragic fall that I have no context for as the cause was never disclosed (and another reason why I'm not being too specific as to the details of this as they don't seem to want to speak of it much).
But the point is they are in a dire situation, and aside from the usual social media activities such as amplifying their calls for help when they make them, there's not much I can do for them. And, despite not knowing them in person, my heart breaks for them and I wish I could extricate them from their situation- but I lack the resources to do anything meaningful.
It's a cruelty that while the internet has brought people so close together, it also painfully highlights our limitations, isolation and powerlessness to help each other at times.
As I write this, I'm stressed because it sounds so fucking hollow, like one of those "thoughts and prayers" bullshit screeds that people put out when something bad happens but they don't want to lift a finger to take actionable steps to fix the problem.
For now, I'll do what I can within the limits of my means and what they're willing to accept (if anything), but it's so frustrating.
I don't even know where I'm going with this entry except to say I feel so powerless and frustrated.
About Paisley P. Peinforte
A hater of Active voice, Lady Peinforte is titled nobility of the nation of Sealand. Having successfully invaded both America and Canada from her home base in Windsor, she has become horribly corrupted by the world, and is dedicated to "creating the greatest 'Ship of them all". She ponders horribly terrible, idiotic things for your amusement.
~explanation~
I'm a snarky, semi-horrible human being given to penning intentionally bad epic slashfiction involving improbable objects and individuals, with the ultimate ambition of befouling Kindle with it one day,which is ostensibly what this blog is for.
In practice, however, it tends to mainly be a circular file for my various thoughts and ideas, some whimsical and others not, in addition to my various Photoshop experiments, mainly collections of what I originally generated for Twitter but now do for Mastodon Threads Bluesky thanks to Twitter becoming a fascist hellscape.
I also have a sideproject doing art for my addition to Doctor Who fanon, Karnian Script which is a more sigil-based, witchy take on Galifreyan variants.