I'd like to posit that using fans getting emotionally distraught may in fact weaken your argument on the basis that a lot of behaviors that fall into that categ

I'd like to posit that using fans getting emotionally distraught may in fact weaken your argument on the basis that a lot of behaviors that fall into that category are overwrought to the point of lashing out. Gaimans point isn't that you can't feel disappointed, it's that when you try to treat your end of the parasocial relationship as a burden with the direct implication that GRRM directly and personally owes you that you are treating him like your bitch.