Pillow Sleeves and Obsessed Fan

[marcus_sez_vote]

This article about a subset of Otaku into "body pillows" is quite disturbing. It makes me wonder if people in other cultures, as anime/otaku culture has gone global, have the same fetish/depth of emotion. The article is somewhat graphic in a few parts, but here's an excerpt:

She lifted him right out of his misery. “It’s hard to explain in words,

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[funwithrage]

Interesting.

On the one hand, as someone who would be a fairly cheerful Henry Higgins-style loner if I wasn't currently in a nice relationship, I can understand the "real people are pains in the ass to live with" thing. I mean, relationships do have many upsides, but so does living alone: not having to consider another person when deciding what time you'll be back at night or what you'll have for dinner or whatever. If things don't work out with Current Boy, I can totally see myself embracing cantankerous bachelorhood rather than looking for another partner.

On the other, and perhaps more important hand, these guys are in love with pillows. Like, there's a line, they're all the way on the "enormously creepy" side, and now I need to go shower for thirty minutes.

[marcus_sez_vote]

Yes the inanimate object is not going to judge/curtail your actions. On the other hand, it is an inanimate object.

The fan video is hilarious if you have a moment to check it out.

Be well.

[funwithrage]

Hee, yeah. It's like...I don't know, I guess in America it'd be the difference between living alone and reading a lot of romance novels (cool) and actually pretending that the people in said novels are around and talking to you, or that you're married to them on the Astral Plane, or whatever (oh, the batshit insanity).

Holy God, that video is wacky. Hee!