Interacting with media relating to your identity.

skekrik 🌐

I am curious for to the people here who's identity is somehow shown or related to any form of media. No matter if you are fully shown in a movie or if your race has a vague mention in a book; how often do you interact with media relating to your identity? And how do you do this?

For me personally: my most "significant" (meaning the ones I personally resonate with the most still in my current life) lives are shown in a movie and a TV-series. I can say with ease that every single day I put up either said movie or episodes of the TV-series I am shown in. I don't have to actively watch it but just having it on in the background while I do other things brings me a kind of comfort I can't get in any other way. Just to hear people talk about me or to me in that life, to hear them using the right name for me even if it's indirectly because it's in the past. It feels like mourning a loved one and listening to a voicemail they left you before their passing, over and over again. Just to feel like they're still there. Most of the time I can accept that I am here and that the past is the past, but other days I find it harder to bear the knowledge that I can not go back there.
Either way, besides that I also make, collect and watch a lot of edits made of myself or people I knew. Having a meaningful song playing while flashing images or scenes of myself from the media scratches my brain just right.
Lastly, I also have playlists with music for all of my lives, they're all quite long and filled with songs containing lyrics that somehow relate to events or feelings I once held in that life, and still do to this day.

I am a very nostalgic person, to past and current lives. I find it important to emerge myself in things from the past. It lifts me up and makes me feel like I an use my past knowledge to make better choices in the future.
My partner, soulmate, my other half. She is quite the opposite, she rarely rewatches media she or we are shown in. She won't look away when she sees me watching it but feels no need for it herself. Regardless, she doesn't feel any less connected to her lives. Just doesn't want to rewatch them.

So I was wondering about how people on here experience this, please feel free to comment with your experiences. I am incredibly curious.

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I can understand what you mean. Personally, I find it comforting, but also sometimes it makes me feel homesick. I constantly feel like I don't belong here, like my body is wrong, and the like. Mind you, it's not common to find something that mentions the fae, or the Sionnach Sidhe. Usually, I have to get this from watching things about elves or kitsune (which are at least very similar to a Sionnach Sidhe, just that the kitsune has foxfire and extra tails), so I don't think I would get this to quite the same level as a fictionkin watching the series they are from or something like that.

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Is there any specific thing you like to watch the most? Perhaps a movie or scene you keep rewatching because it reminds you the most of yourself/your identity?

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The closest I get is when the fellowship goes to Rivendell. Some of what they show in there reminds me of dealing with the fae courts.

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