smutphilia:

Fictional parasocial other/Parasocial fictional other

When ones fictional other is also their parasocial other or when ones parasocial other is also their fictional other.

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Context:

Screenshot of Parasocial Other post from transx-mogai-cafe reads, “Parasocial Other (p/o): a (most often famous) real life individual that you pair yourself with; similar to f/o (Fictional Other) except that one’s p/o is a real individual.”

Fictional Other likely refers to the term used in selfshipping communities, where people imagine themselves being paired – romantically, sexually, platonically, or otherwise – with a character. A famous example of this would be the Snapewives, where people seemingly created a religion around Severus Snape from the Harry Potter franchise (though that is an extreme example and most people aren’t that extreme).