#media special interest

[gaystims]

Media special interest stimboard prompts

Pt: Media special interest stimboard prompts.

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Make a board around the media as a franchise/series/ect, something that encompasses it as a whole

Character(s) you like

A ship from your special interest that you like (doesn't need to be romantic)

A location that has stuck with you

A headcanon for one of the characters you like (be as specific as possible)

A cross over with one (or more) your other special interests

Make a board around how the special interest makes you feel

Make a stimboard based around an alternative universe

Make one based around a piece of fan content (ie art, writing, ect) that you like. Remember to ask for permission before using art in your boards.

Make a boatd based around an item (ie weapon, object, food, ect) associated with a character

Make a board based around a character you currently don't like and/or are indifferent to

Make a board around a fashion or aesthetic style you think [character] would enjoy

If your special interest has music (including an OST, opening song, ect) make a board based around your favourite one

Make a board based around a character you didn't like and/or connect to at first but you like now

Make a board based around a character you thing is neglected and/or misunderstood by the fandom

Make a board for something that you haven't made a board of before (ie a character, ship, location, ect)

Make a board based around a piece of merch from your special interest that you own (or want to own)

Make a board based around a character you really liked but don't feel as strongly towards now

Make something self indulgent, no matter how 'cringe' you think it is

A prompt I haven’t thought of

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

[itsnotalemon]

Shes lost in the stupid sauce

[kazswift]

platonic relationships in media are actually so much more important to me than romantic ones. not sorry

[hildegardladyofbones]

One of the best things about Disco Elysium by far is that it does not fear ugly women. The world is full of ugly men, but ugly women are so hard to come by.

[r-aindr0p]

Fire emblem robbed us of Gremory Linhardt and Lorenz

A friend pointed out the diamond shape Lorenz's bangs + collar make together with that outfit, had to draw it to see not at all because he's my favorite ugliest haircut loser guy noo

[guzmasenbyboyfriend]

It's June 8th you know what that means

It's Ghostbusters Day!!!!

The 40th anniversary of my all time favorite 80s movie!

[rennybu]

i think Knell would have an annoying sensory memory to go with the whole blood magic fade connection...... which lingers with her a while after leaving meditation. trying to sleep but the fade thinks her head is still bleeding

[lillyorlyracat]

Look man, I understand perfectly well that 2012 tmnt is not wonderfully written. This does not change the fact that it is a part of meee

[pinkrosealice]

I really really really really want to write like a 50,000 word essay talking about the success and popularity of horror movies within the last 2 years that reflect on and explore the late 20th century phenomena of the Satanic Panic; so stuff like Late Night With The Devil, Maxxxine, Longlegs etc. and compare and contrast them with the fact that we are seeing a simultaneous reemergence of Japanese media that does the same with what could arguably be seen as the closest cultural equivalent to the Satanic Panic in East Asia, known as the Japanese Occult Boom. So stuff like the Silent Hill 2 Remake and anime like Dandadan.

And then juxtapose all of that against the current sociopolitical and economic circumstances around the world, since it is a very well documented fact that interest in the supernatural, paranormal, mystical and occult, all grow exponentially during times of sociopolitical uncertainty and upheaval.......

The problem is that my autism and ADHD would make it very very difficult for me to actually write it down in essay format so someone should bother me on this app and get me to talk about my thoughts and feelings on this topic. Please please please let me rant about my current biggest sociological/anthropological special interest!!!!

[autisticshizuo]

20 years ago, on this day the first volume of Durarara!! (デュラララ!!) was released in Japan. This volume contains the Dollars/Mika Harima arc, which is the start and readers' first meeting with such a well written plot, complex characters and artsy language.

Happy 20th anniversary to Durarara!! It will be forever my favorite media; no book, anime or manga can come close to the place that Durarara!! has in my heart. It will remain as a unique and one of a kind work, not only to me but to many other readers as well.

[romeoisalesbian]

so. sherlock and co has already been adapting stories from after sherlock returns from the dead, in the timeline of publication of original stories. which makes me realize the possibility that the show might END somewhere around the final problem (or they will do some sort of seasonal divide, perhaps).

but my goodness imagine getting through all other 60 or so (depending on what, exactly, they decide to go into) stories, at least over 100 episodes at that point, and realizing the final problem is all that's left to adapt. I don't have many thoughts about this podcast, beyond casually enjoying it as a longtime fan of the original Holmes and Watson stories, but DAMN it would hit me hard if they had some sort of ending with Holmes' death.

I would actually be really into the show seeming completely done with the final problem and then, perhaps a few months or a year later, getting some sort of epilogue or resolution focusing on Holmes' return. I don't exactly think this will happen, but damn am I curious about if, when, and how they will adapt Sherlock's death.

on another note, I also am deeply curious about how their moriarty will turn out, but that is neither here nor there

[riseandfallofsecunit]

Unreliable narrator, but they’re just autistic and don’t really pay attention unless a special interest is being discussed

[oldmanffucker]

my first instinct upon seeing this was to get angry and want to hit this person with hammers, but actually I want to talk about this.

this post, and I didn't even want to click in the read the rest bc it made me to sad to see, is saying that Wilson and Amber only dated for a maximum of three months, so should he really be this torn up about her loss?

So, as a grief support specialist and house fan, let's talk about it.

First and foremost, it's the depth, not the length, of a relationship that matters. Quality over quantity, all of that. Of course. But also, if we look at Amber and Wilson's relationship itself, this is kind of the first time Wilson is in a relationship that feels really good to him. Amber doesn't just want Wilson bc she needs him and needs to be put first by him, she wants him to take care of himself too. He's being challenged for the first time (in a romantic context) (canonically) to not put himself on the back burner for everyone else, but to think about what Wilson wants. House, of course, does this too, but in different ways. Which is also to say that Amber is a revelation for him because she is like House--House who is his longest and arguably only real friend, the person he trusts the most, is most able to be himself around. And now he's found this person who he can feel all that in a romantic and sexual context too.

Which is all to say that this relationship wasn't like any other three month fling he had, this one had a depth to it from the very beginning that was really important and profound to Wilson, and was changing some parts of himself in a way that was really kind of life altering, even as it was also pretty subtle in many ways to the casual viewer.

This, plus the fact that her death itself was really sudden, very traumatic, and prolonged (a couple days and many really traumatic failed attempts to save her life, including his best friend risking his life for her), really adds up to someone being profoundly affected by this loss.

But beyond this, Wilson did not only experience the loss of Amber with her death. There are losses we grieve beyond simply dying. The whole experience before finding out she was even missing and hurt, of seeing House without memory, of even for a little while thinking they may have had an affair, of watching House kill himself (literally) to bring back his memories - this portion of the situation alone is an experience of a loss of safety. He's realizing that life is random, and terrifying in a whole new way than he may have known it before. His best friend was in a bus accident. Life is random and he could have died. There is no guaranteed safety. His best friend who knows everything suddenly knows nothing. A loss of the status quo, of what he's assumed is the way things are. he's watching his best friend go to extreme lengths in order to capture his memories. he's watching his best friend fucking die on a bus floor as he tries to revive him with his boss. Loss of control, loss of the norm, loss of the future they could have had if none of this happened.

THEN.!! He's made aware that Amber was involved in all of this. And we don't know where she is or how she's doing. He's now been introduced to ambiguous loss (which he has experienced at great length with his brother who went missing, and is now experiencing again). Now they have to find Amber. Okay and now they've found her and she's in a coma and really on the brink of death. And this too is an ambiguous loss of another variety. He's experiencing both sides of ambiguous loss about Amber back to back (1. Physical absence and psychological presence (ex. someone missing/estranged) 2. Physical presence and psychological absence (ex. parent w dementia, someone in a coma))

He then has to skip over the grieving part and jump into problem solving and trying to keep her alive. and then his boy best friend has to risk his life for amber and wilson and almost die. And then Wilson has to realize that now, his kind of technically-alive-but-not girlfriend, he has to let her go. And she's woken up and he has mere moments to say his goodbyes and I love you's.

And ALL OF THAT is just the loss itself.

Then he is "grieving" or "mourning" in the way that is generally understood by the average person. If you ask the average person (esp in the US) what grief is, they'd usually point to this--after someone dies when you're sad--and none of the many paragraphs of grief and loss grappling I wrote about just before that.

The average bereavement leave is 3 days. Grief will invariably last more than three days. The amount of time we see Wilson grieving is frankly, really fucking regular. Even for a death less fraught and traumatic (subjectively) than this one.

Besides all of this, there are a number of different grief styles, and I think that Wilson's grief style is that of the Intuitive, or Heart, Griever (isn't that just perfect? I wonder if the writers knew that when they named the episode Wilson's Heart...).

This type of griever is more overtly emotional than the Intellectual, or Head, Griever (the other 2 styles are the Blended, or Head & Heart Griever, and the Dissonant, or Head vs Heart Griever). But is again, really common! Perhaps the asker of this original Reddit question is a head griever, or a dissonant griever, or perhaps even someone who has never yet had to grieve, and has only been fed the myths about grief, and they're trying to make sense of such a large grief.

There is no right way to grieve, there is no correct length of time that that grieving should last. There's no correct amount of time you are allowed to know someone before you grieve their death or pain. The way you grieve is the way you need to grieve, you simply have to try to honor it.

(I don't have a reddit so I can't respond to this directly, but feel free to link this in the responses to the post itself if you feel so inclined)

[ultrakill-confessions]

I kinda wonder what it is about ultrakill that uh (how do I say this without being an asshole) that attracts so many systems (?)

I like statistics so I wanna like, study what it is about certain games or series that seems to collect folks like that. Is it how the fandom treats a piece of media? Is it the demographic? I donno!

Like if we all just decided to treat doom 2016 the same way we treat ultrakill would introjects n stuff start popping up over there too? (I picked doom cause it's a bloody shoot em up with religious undertones and insano angst potential, but feel free to insert any other game here too) I'm just genuinely curious about it all

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[qoldenskies]

Little incomprehensible because I’m about to nap, but just got heartbroken over the thought of Donnie having his little shark plush (Genevieve?? Can’t remember what name you had said once but ik Donnie she/hers his things and gives them long ass names pfft) during CL. One of the boys like. Getting rid of her or tearing her when they trashed his room. It’s so small but like, I think it would’ve hurt. Especially with what happened to S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N., if Donnie’s the type to view stuffed animals as little friends you’re supposed to take care of. He tells himself that it’d just been a stupid toy, the same way his drone had been just one of his useless inventions, but he can’t help but feel that he failed. He failed to keep them safe. Uhmmm bonus points for the boys bringing Splinter the plush to him later while Donnie’s unconscious and recovering, and Splinter repairing and sewing up his baby boy’s stuffed shark. Extra bonus points if he didn’t realize Donnie still had it after all these years lol

UGHHHH things i would've added if i'd considered it back then because HRGHGHHGHHHHHHHHH :') there are actually two instances in cw of raph giving donnie one of his stuffies in a desperate attempt to comfort him (once in ch4, when he put him to bed, and once in 22) and the idea just made me think of that ....

it does make me think of all the things he must have lost though over the course of CL, and how many of those things they cant even get back/repair. especially when it comes to how many of his blueprints they destroyed. might've been month's worth of work at the very least