#interests colliding

[horsecockofapersonality]

Was NO ONE going to tell me Avalanche was used in the season 2 Black Sails finale as well as, of course ofmd,,,,,,,,,,,,the power of Leonard Cohen

#black sails #ofmd #girls I screamed #interests colliding #but really those interests are pirates and Leonard cohen

[personinthepalace]

Today I learned that Amy Acker played both Huntress in Justice League Unlimited and Nova/Astrid in Once Upon A Time!

#I was thinking about huntress earlier today and decided to look up her actor #imagine my shock when I realized that she is in the show I’m currently watching haha #how did I not realize it haha #she plays such different characters! #once again I love it when my interests collide #interests colliding #when interests collide #amy acker #huntress #helena bertinelli #justice league unlimited #nova #astrid #once upon a time #jlu #ouat #rambles in the palace

[thesinglesock]

my old How to Train your Dragon obsession suddenly re-emerging now, after I've spent years learning about Historical Viking Clothing and Crafts is great actually cause I get to apply the Fun History Knowledge to my favorite blorbos, and now I have some very specific scenarios.

in Viking culture, gift giving was a big complicated very significant thing. And one gift that was Especially Significant was that of a New Shirt. Women would propose to the guy they wanted to marry by making him a brand new linen shirt. I could go on for several pages about what that tells us about viking culture, gender roles, and also the extremely fun ways viking age stories used "gifting a shirt" as a symbol in romantic stories, but I'll restrain myself. This post is about How to Train your Dragon.

Astrid Hofferson can't sew. There's no way. Girl spent her whole life training to be a warrior, she has not had the time or patience to sit down and learn to sew (even though it involves a whole lot of stabbing things with a sharp object). I mean even her own clothes are made with minimal amounts of sewing (a needlebound tank top and some furs wrapped around her arms instead of sleeves).

Hiccup Haddock Horrendus III, on the other hand, knows how to sew. Sure he mostly works with metal and leather, but leatherwork requires sewing. I'm pretty sure I can find actual footage of him using a needle. Also his clothes are nicely sewn, and since he grew up without a mum, and his dad is a very busy man, he must have made at least parts of his outfit himself.

So my question is: how did they ever get engaged. How did that proposal go? Did Astrid suffer through learning a new skill so she could spend months of her life painstakingly stitching together the Worst Shirt Ever Made? I imagine her rage quitting after she has to undo that one seam for a fourth time, and in true Astrid fashion, just chucking it at Hiccup with full force when he walks into the room.

or! would Hiccup defy Viking Gender Norms because he gets that Astrid has no interest in sewing? and then he gets it into his head that it has to be the most elaborate shirt on the whole island cause it's for his girlfriend and he can't even remember ever seeing her in a nice shirt before? and that's a shame cause she deserves to have nice things! And he overthinks every choice along the way because what if she hates it???? But ofc it turns out really nice and she adores it.

#two interests in my brain collided and I have many thoughts now #don't know what else to do with 'em so they go here #vitpost #how to train your dragon #httyd #hiccstrid #< never used that tag before lmao #not much of a shipper but I do enjoy a good proposal tradition

[xxrat--punkxx]

In light of uh... Recent trigun events on twitter, here's a tihylttw and trigun crossover

#yhank you bigolas dickolas Wolfwood for your servise #when worlds collide #thisnis literally thr worst timeline #ao much has happned over the past 12 hours and wathing it fuvking live has been interesting #sometimes twotter is amazing #anyway heres blue as vash and red as wolfwood but with a few character design liberties #i always tske my shitpost srt so damn seriously man #im on a huge trigun server and all we cna tlak abt is this situation i am pissing myself #its so funny and just so... random #like top 10 things i never would have tjought would happen ever #anyway im capitalising off of thr fact trogun is trendeing lol #cursed #my art #trigun #trigun wolfwood #vash trigun #trigun maximum #tihylttw #this is how you lose the time war #trigun fanart #trigun art #blue tihylttw #red tihylttw #books #sapphic books

[doctorwhommm]

adding doctor who to the long tradition of media with absolutely shockingly bad beatles wigs

#my two life long special interests r colliding #doctor who #dw #doctor who spoilers #the beatles #beatles #@ rtd cannonise mclennon it would be the funniest possible thing im not joking #15th doctor #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #I’m really scared for this episode they’re gonna get my blorbos all wrong #they’ve done the coconut hair again gIRL LEAVE THEM ALONE

[ph-cutie]

ancient reptilian brain voice: remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer

#disco elysium #darkest dungeon #SORRYYY for taking the deep media guys out of context and putting them in Another context. but the interests are colliding #anyways yeah i couldnt rlly rectify the premises of both games so the DE characters are all just mercs now #only 2 people in the world will like this but at least those 2 people will be happy (through gritted teeth) #my art #wait when heroes in DD1 have heart attacks they go back to like 70 stress right. thatswhat happened to harry #ok cant keep this to myself any longer. out at 7 PM you go

[strawberricakeandpie]

Can I say something

#ace attorney #apollo justice #klavier gavin #klapollo #aa4 #rarijack #rarity #applejack #mlp #mlp g4 #my little pony #mlp fim #I’m sorry y’all I had this revelation recently #my special interests are colliding

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

JOAN OF ARC + SAM WINCHESTER: POSTMODERN MARTYRS

Luc Besson, Joan of Arc (1999) | Panthéon, "Jeanne d'Arc ayant la vision de l'archange Michel" | 1.14, "Nightmare" | Anne Llewellyn Barstow, "Joan of Arc: Heretic, Mystic, Shaman" | Susan Visvanathan, "Representing Joan of Arc" | 2.13, "Houses of the Holy" | Robert Bresson, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) | John Everett Millais, "Joan of Arc" (1865) | 11.02, "Form and Void" | 1.11, "Scarecrow" |

This is incredibly self-indulgent, but there's an interesting comparison to be made here I think, between Joan as a cultural symbol and Sam as a variant on her. like her - his character also consists of ambiguities. He is both hero and monster/witch, saviour and pariah, transgressive while still fitting into the traditional mold of heroism. And because of their ambiguities, they're also both outsiders.

Joan is isolated because of her steadfast faith, and she's punished for it. She saves France as a young girl in men's clothes, hearing the voices of angels, and gets put on trial as a heretic by the very same Church that would later burn her at the stake. The very same institution to later saint her. Only in death does she get to become a holy martyr, no longer ambiguous. She is the hero with a thousand faces; Catholic saint, patriotic icon, queer symbol.

Unlike Joan, however, Sam's narrative is a horror story on failed martyrdom. He is the saint who never gets to die. His sacrifices never end in closure, not really. he's either stopped at the last moment, or retrieved from the depths of hell. He's denied the certainty that comes with dying, the nobility that comes with becoming immortalised as a memory. His faults are laid out on the altar, time and again, but he's not granted the crowning reprieve that death would afford him.

He holds onto hope and belief in others, clings onto faith in a higher power, whether that power be God or his family - his brother. He keeps faith in others in order to keep faith in himself. And he's let down over and over by that faith. His brother betrays him like a man; his visions come from a demon, the voice of God is really Lucifer in his ear. His own story turns on him like a pillory, trapping him before a jeering audience, unsympathetic to his suffering.

Sam, the heart of it all, more scapegoat than sacrificial lamb. In the end he only gets to exit the story by choosing to trust himself, and live.

#sam winchester #sam winchester edit #spn edit #spn meta #spn #joan of arc #forty minutes left where I am so... HAPPY 41st BIRTHDAY SAM?? #not quite a birthday post bc i've been working on this for so long lol but it feels like a gift to release it today..... #when two special interests collide!!!!! #comparatives #web weaving #sam and martyrdom #my meta #j.edit

[mage8]

Today on Doctor Who, the world was saved by the power of McLennon.

The Devil's Chord

#when your special interests collide #mclennon #doctor who #no for real why was this episode so gay #love sick lesbians #genderfuck baddies #and john and Paul saving the world while staring into each other's eyes #the actors looked nothing like their counterparts but their voices were spot on #doctor who spoilers #the devil's chord #also i love that Cilla Black was in it

[assiraphales]

I knew this scene reminded me of something

#cold zoro that's cold!!!! #opla #one piece #one piece live action #star wars #colliding interests #roronoa zoro #cabaji the acrobat

[cheesebrackers]

Chat.

Chat is anybody listening.

#they would be friends #I love when my interests collide #cheesebrackers says shit #dc #the suicide squad #tsq #Harley Quinn #maccadam #maccadams #tfp #transformers prime #wheeljack

[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)

#long post #sorry. 2 special interests collide. #house #text post #house md #gregory house #james wilson #my post #wilson #amber #amber volakis #wilsonamber #amberwilson #wilson's heart #danny wilson #grief #loss #media analysis

[desultory-novice]

I just realized: True Arena Magolor (Dess chuckled. "You mean the Dark Matter Wizard?") wouldn't even have the mercy of going to Hell in Apologies.

Also realized why he's called Dark Matter Wizard, not Dark Matter King, despite the corruption artifact being a crown. There can only be one, and it's not you, Mags.

Did you just subtly imply full possession Dark Matter King Dedede in my inbox?! If so, thank you so much, I absolutely love it!

(Yesss, let's take all of Adeleine's precious people from her. That will be "good" for her health. "You're a lot like my brother!" indeed...)

That said, man...I don't think :cough: "Dark Matter Wizard" has the mercy of anything resembling salvation, even in game-verse!

I meant to write about this somewhere but a couple of fans have speculated that the True Arena isn't just a bad end, it's a bad end that takes place specifically after the epilogue. IE: Magolor loses to Mistelteinn and becomes RE:CROWNED. Which would explain why it corrupts him so much faster/why he reaches the point of no return.

No Merry Magoland Hell Branch for him, I-...

Actually, hold up...I've just realized...

(Noir + The Sword count as two.)

#Apologies AU #Magoland Branch AU #Two AUs collide! How shockingly self-indulgent!! #Starting tomorrow I shall post stuff of general interest again #Magolor Soul #Noir (Human-form DMS) #Adeleine #Gooey Kirby #Ribbon Kirby #Dess Sketch Post #Magolor #King Dedede

[likealizardyousay]

i made my mom listen to iDKHOW and she said that she imagines the singer as David Tennant’s Hamlet and i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it

do the vibes weirdly match or am i crazy tumblr help i am going insane over this

#the more i think about it the more lyrics i’m relating to hamlet #what love would get this vicious #im a voluntary victim #we’re so young but we’re probably gonna die #im a teenage beauty queen of sorts #as charming as we are we are nothing but pretty trash #what a precious basket case #parade through the ballrooms decay in your costumes #i hear voices i see visions these spirits are your prison #aaaah i feel like a conspiracy theorist #ive connected the dots #but actually ive connected nothing #it is not good when the special interests collide #idkhow #dallon weekes #david tennant hamlet

[wisteriagoesvroom]

someone explain to me why im about to lose it over 2 white guys and 2 wasians playing padel omfg girl GET UP it's like he's making friends at the school on his first day back pls help me

source: ig

#oscar piastri #LOOK AT HE #alex albon #logan sargeant #my two niche interests colliding: #oscar looking huggable #and alex looking *industrial machinery whirr* *pencil sharpeners* *chair screeching on floor* #also if ur new here u will never guess who the second wasian is asjdskdsjkdjd

[almostshamelesspenguin]

WHY DOES SHE FIT IN

#ace attorney #athena cykes #ace attorney meme #vocaloid #vocaloid meme #my interests are colliding... #anyway im this close to making some sort of aa vocaloid au thing