The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Parasocial relationships are a “new” (but not really new) phenomenon of the age of mass media. In the 20th Century with radio and television shows, large numbers of people started imagining the voices from the electric hallucinogens as being people whom they knew--like friends, and love interests ...

Keep in mind that, historically, a “troll” in Swedish was not a monster but a rural pagan. There's a famous medieval Swedish song Herr Mannelig , or “Sir Manly.” It's about a “trolla,” i.e. pagan woman, who wants Sir Manly the knight to marry her but he rebukes her because he is a Christian and will ...

Trolling is when you say something to get a rise out of people. Doesn't matter whether or not you believe the thing that you're saying--trolling is specifically and only to make people online angry. If you go to a feminist facebook group and post “Can I speak to the man in charge?” that's trolling ...

P.S. I'm not talking about perverts having perverse parties and calling them “conventions.” Maybe that's what you meant. Furfags don't even qualify in the same category as manchildren. They should get punished the same as regular fags.

And remember, there's a strong correlation between all types of ...

Of what are you thinking in particular ?

Comic books/comic book movies
Dungeons & Dragons
Anime
Warhammer 40k
Certain popular video games
Star Trek
etc.

You are hinting at some kind of BAD conventions, it sounds like ?

Nah, “hobby” conventions are all bad. If “hobby” meant crochet or ...

Playing dress-up. It really couldn't be simpler, and you could have googled it easily.

Fiction-brained children (and manchildren) go to this thing called “conventions” dressed up as characters from their favourite cartoons and stuff. For some reason they made up as special “cosplay” word for ...