#christopher nickel

[amberlin1]

Ruby

Blonde

19 yo at start of the story

Finds the Doctor at the revamping of the series

Takes a trip to the death of all she knew in space. Doctor makes it so she could call her mum

Doomsday plays around her narrative

Doctor refuses to take her to the church where she was found as a baby to find her mother.

Tells Ruby to make sure her mother, Carla, doesn't slap him

RTD is showrunner

Rose

Blonde

19yo at the start of the story

Finds the Doctor at the revamping of the series

Takes a trip to the death of all she knew in space. Doctor makes it so she coulld call her mum

Doomsday plays around her narrative

Doctor refuses to take her to the church that she went to as a baby to see her father

Her mother, Jackie, slaps him

RTD is showrunner

[mozzzz05]

If I had a nickel for every time Ty Tennant played a younger version of Tom Glynn-Carneys character I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

[thousand-winters]

"Christopher's eyes widened. "They're holding her in the Silent City?" he said, sounding inexplicably unhappy with this development.

Jesse appeared disturbed as well. As if he had suddenly realized something, he said sharply, "They keep the prisoners apart from each other, right? They must. She must not get near Grace.""

Christopher, you angel. And Jesse still cares! Lovely

I'm SO concerned. Getting the impression getting to Grace is exactly what Tatiana was seeking with this and I hate it. Leave her alone 😭

[nos7evin]

why am i just now learning that so many celebrities have alleged hitman relatives what is going ON

[bloodcrosses]

I'm just fucking tired of it all. I wanna go back to when saying "Christopher Nolan is a fantastic director" did not get met with "hand over your feminist card, Pick Me". I've been mocked and insulted because I was upset at being mocked. Because this man made me want to write films. He made me appreciate films in a way I never had before, I wanted to write something like Memento.

Instead I'll get my head metaphorically kicked in, mocked and called a Pick Me.

[closedcoffins]

@jfouler / my-pick starter call ( christopher shaldred ).

"Ahhh... What a lovely night! Just you, me, the cold pavement, and the inherent suspiciousness of loitering around at this hour ~ !"

Unusually for someone lying on the sidewalk late at night, Christopher's voice doesn't carry the influence of any sort of substance, and he's smiling widely, like he's entertained by something or other. Even in the dark of the night, two rows of sharpened teeth are set fully on display by the expression.

"I was trying to look at the stars in the woods, but if you can believe it, it's actually a little inconvenient, since the trees are in the way. Not that I begrudge the trees for anything! We should all love and worship trees and look upon them with respect. But they were getting in the way."

Chris takes a deep breath in and lets out a contented sigh, seemingly intent on talking regardless of the wishes of the man who's stumbled across him. "Of course, I laid down here to try the same thing unobstructed, but the view is slightly worse, so I can't bear to look at it."

[i-dont-know-nor-care-go-away]

If I had a nickel for every show where there is a extremely pretty lady that's been made tough by the hard life she's had, serving in an organization that isn't good all the time but isn't bad, while carrying the trauma of something she can't talk about, and she serves as the right hand lady of her male best friend that is the top leader of their work place who is goofy, likes to cook, makes dad jokes, and has just absolute dad energy, and is going to die and they know it, and they're both (non cannon, except to me) bisexual and they are just as blorbo together if they are life long best friends or married, and they both mentor / parent a witty, dark haired female lead that has trauma from both her traumatic childhood and the fact she is descended from someone who has weird genetics that gave them power but was also a murderer that hurt people, so she fears she is a monster until meeting someone almost like her who explains that her genetic mutation isnt morally bad and she isnt genetically predisposed to being a monster and they all work together and go on missions sometimes out in space but they are such a family it kills me

I'd have two nickels which like. I love.

But like. Melinda may, Philip Coulson and Daisy Johnson are just. So Una Chin Riley, Christopher Pike, and La'an Noonien Singh. The venn diagram is a circle. I am going insane over this

[jessequinnfirstofhername]

Two nickels for red headed not-British guys who play Star Wars characters with British accents starring in live-action Winnie the Pooh movies

*Live action Winnie The Pooh movies that also have "Christopher Robin" in the title.

Yeah, it's weird that it happened twice.

We should do a crossover. Let's create the Christopher Robin (feat. Red Headed Not-British Star Wars actors from the British Isles faking British accents) Cinematic Universe.

[littlesparklight]

Are there any good books (preferably non-fiction but idm fiction recs) about Paris and/or Helen you would recommend for someone wanting to dive more into the mythology of each?

Haha you're only getting non-fiction because I'm so picky about fiction when it comes to Greek myth I've barely read any at all. So I'll give you some of my favourite academia! Anything that isn't a book is a paper you can read for free either on academia.edu or on Jstor (the latter with a free account). Or, you know, getting it in some other way just like with the books /cough

Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation by Ruby Blondell - SO good (some reviewers feel the Odyssey chapter is lacking,); it's obviously about Helen mostly haha but Paris gets solid mentions in the first couple chapters and scattered ones throughout. Depending on the edition you get, it might or might not have a chapter/paper titled Bitch That I Am: Self-Blame and Self-Assertion in the Iliad ; I recommend this one too, and it can be read on Jstor.

The Body as Argument: Helen in Four Greek Texts by Nancy Worman - really interesting, especially for the Iliad and Sappho 16 sections. On Jstor.

Image, Text, and Story in the Recovery of Helen by Guy Hedreen - he goes through this really systematically! Obviously, nothing about Paris here, but it's definitely a good look at the part of Helen's story that has to do with her being reclaimed by Menelaos. On JStor.

Helen's "Judgment of Paris" and Greek Marriage Ritual in Sappho 16 by Eric Dodson-Robinson - Sappho 16 my beloved. Anyway, it was a while since I read this one, but I remember liking it, and it goes into Helen as subject. Can be found on Jstor, Academia, or downloaded from the university itself!

Aspects of Effeminacy and Masculinity in the Iliad by Christopher Ransom - If you start reading about Homeric masculinity, you'll very soon notice there often comes a line similar to something like this: "but Paris is not that". And if you want to, like, read some actual exploration of how/why Paris is not that and what that means, they will not provide it! This is where Ransom comes in; he walks through the Iliad and all the ways Paris deviates from normative Iliadic (and general ancient Greek) masculinity. Very good paper. On Academia.

Artistic and Literary Representations of the Judgement of Paris in Antiquity by Cristian Mancilla - this is an unpublished thesis and you'll have to google search for it but it's downloadable from the university. If you're interested in the Judgment, this is where to go!

Euripides and the Judgement of Paris by T.C.W. Stinton - you'll probably have to borrow this book from a library? (I got it second hand from a second hand bookstore not even in my country lol) But it's one of those works that gets referenced very often and laid a lot of ground. Is not actually only about Euripides' versions/use of Paris.

Paris in the Epic Tradition by Roberto Nickel - another unpublished thesis, so google search title+author. If you're interested in a (speculative but grounded in the Iliad) discussion of what Paris' character might have been like in earlier times, this is where to go. Nickel explores (but is certainly not the one to have thought of) the possibility of Paris once having had basically both his and Hektor's characteristics in the Trojan War story.

Some general recs:

Listening for the Plot: The Role of Desire in the Iliad's Narrative by Rachel Hart Lesser - this one is now also a published book! (As Desire in the Iliad: the Force That Moves the Epic and Its Audience.) But having compared them, I like the unpublished thesis a little better, personally (certain sections/discussions I liked very much have been restated in a more restricted way in the published book, or otherwise gets less obvious).

Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition Through Tragedy by Edith Hall - This one can fit for a Paris rec as well because Paris is a focus thanks to being the "patient zero" and the prime exemplar of the "eastern effeminate barbarian" which is part of what Hall discusses. Very good/interesting book! Go be a pirate about it or download it on Hall's own site, no piracy necessary.

The Iliad: A Commentary by G.S. Kirk (and other authors attached to the volumes past vol. 2) - if you want a commentary, I really like this one, and in terms of Paris and Helen, obviously checking out the volumes that contain the books they appear in is interesting and useful!

[i-love-all-things-camp]

✴THE BUDDIE WEDDING✴

Part 2 - The Wedding Party

For Buck and Eddie's wedding, there will be no "choosing sides". With them it's just one big party.

Officiant - Bobby Bobby really masterminded this whole relationship. If it weren't for him the lovebirds would have never met. There will be recreation of the scene in 1x6 where Bobby helps Buck with his suit for his date with Abby. Except now it's for his wedding :')) Maid of Honor/Wedding Planner - Maddie Maddie is more than happy to take on the role of maid of honor and eagerly offers to take charge of the planning as well. You thought Buck or Eddie would be the “Bridezilla”?? Think again. Remember to never give a Buckley a clipboard. Best Man - Christopher Just imagine the scene of Eddie asking Chris to be his best man! I’m crying already. And of course Chris is back home for the wedding. He wouldn’t miss it for the world :’) Groomsman - Chimney If Chimney had a nickel for every time a coworker of his became his brother-in-law, he'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. He also keeps trying to start a conga line on the dance floor. He is unsuccessful. Groomswoman - Hen Hen will be walking around collecting all of the “When Will These Two Idiots Get Together?" bet money at the reception. (Spoiler Alert: the winner was Athena). Flower Girl - Jee-Yun Self-explanatory.

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[fulltimecatwitch]

if I had a nickel for everytime Christopher Sean had to voice a character who is trying to live up to his family's legacy while learning to juggle his new responsabilities, all while discovering what being a family reslly means, i'd have two nickels, which isn’t much but it's weird that it happened twice

[the-twelfth-ghost]

Christopher. 🥀

Your nickel ain't worth my dime. 🖤

[kazu-naito]

if i had a nickel for every christopher in rc that had a twin brother i'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird it's happened twice

[green-cargaytions]

whatever you do don’t listen to when you come back down by nickel creek and think about eddie and christopher. especially after watching the finale. don’t do it

[materialsscienceandengineering]

'Flawed' material resolves superconductor conundrum

Christopher Parzyck had done everything right. Parzyck, a postdoctoral researcher, had brought his nickelate samples—a newly discovered family of superconductors—to a synchrotron beamline for X-ray scattering experiments. He was measuring his samples, which he'd synthesized with a new method, in the hope of detecting the suspected presence of "charge ordering"—a phenomenon in which electrons self-organize into periodic patterns. The phenomenon has been linked to high-temperature superconductivity. But there was no significant charge order in his samples. None. "He came back and said, 'The better samples didn't show it,'" said Kyle Shen, the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, who oversaw the project. "We were like, 'Oh, that's really weird. I don't understand that.'"

Read more.

[nikibogwater]

Niki Blethers: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio LET’S FREAKIN’ GOOOOOOOOO--

In case it was not already obvious, this was my most anticipated movie of the year. Heck, it was my only anticipated movie of the year. Having learned the hard way just how deeply disappointment stings, I don’t usually get my hopes up this high. But darn it, everything I heard about this movie prior to its release just filled me with too much excitement to ignore, and now that it is finally available to the wider public, it is my great pleasure to say--

HOLY MOTHER OF MARMALADE, DID THIS MOVIE LIVE UP TO MY HYPE AND THEN SOME

(Mild spoilers below the cut, GO WATCH THIS MOVIE IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT IT’S A MASTERPIECE)

First up: stop motion animation. We love to see it. And this movie doesn’t cut any corners with the stop motion. Even the fire is stop motion. The backgrounds are paintings (gorgeous ones at that), not just CG landscapes. The sets are so incredibly detailed I could’ve spent several minutes just staring at any given wide shot. There were very few instances where I could clearly see any effects that were obviously done in a computer. The animators and set builders went hard on this movie, and they have 1000% of my respect for it. 

Despite being a whimsical fairy tale, there is a pretty heavy sense of realism with this movie. Like, one scene, you have an overeager Pinocchio singing a cute little song about how excited he is to be alive, and then in the next one, he and Geppetto are walking past buildings plastered with posters promoting Mussolini’s Fascist regime. The way the film balances these two tonal opposites is absolutely genius, and I can’t remember a single instance of a jarring shift in tone. The light and whimsical always eases into the dark and realistic in a way that makes me feel like the two sides couldn’t exist without each other. 

Also speaking of realism, CAN I GET A HALLELUJIA FOR SOME HONEST-TO-GOODNESS CATHOLIC REP IN A CURRENT-YEAR CHILDREN’S MOVIE?!

This is obviously a personal thing for me, but I pretty much never see any accurate, respectful portrayals of my religion outside of films that are specifically made for Catholics. And I’ma be real with you, more often than not, the films made specifically for us turn out to be unbearably preachy or saccharine (and they’re never animated--another major point against them). To see a character who simply IS a Catholic (because this is Italy during the 1910s, so it’d be a little out-of-the-ordinary for him not to be), doing his little Catholic things, without it being a huge focus of the story or directly influencing the plot--ie, Catholicism being portrayed as just another normal part of every-day life--GAH. IT WAS JUST REALLY SPECIAL TO ME, OKAY? 

Also Geppetto locking Pinocchio in a closet because he doesn’t have time to deal with this, it’s time to go to Mass is a big fat Catholic mood. 

Okay, I’ll shut up about the Catholic stuff. Back to the movie.

If I had a nickel for every time David Bradly made me cry with his performance as a struggling father-figure overcoming the estrangement between him and his adopted son, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t very many, but it’s great that it happened twice. 

Ewan McGregor practically carries this movie as Sebastian J. Cricket. I knew he was going to be good, but somehow I failed to foresee just how good he truly is in the role. This interpretation of Jiminy Cricket as a mildly self-absorbed novelist who sees Pinocchio as little more than his house for most of the film is just *chef’s kiss.*

Ron Perlman as the Podestà was incredible. I actually didn’t realize it was him until three-fourths of the way through the movie, he just vanishes into the role so smoothly. And gotdang, is that character scary. 

Christoph Waltz clearly went all out with Count Volpe and I bet recording sessions with him were very fun. 

Gregory Mann did so great for such a little guy! It’s hard to find child actors, and even harder to find child voice actors, but he was fantastic, and really sold the character. 

Speaking of characters, OH MY GOSH I LOVE THEM SO MUCH WHERE DO I BEGIN

Geppetto is a very sentimental old guy whose only joy in life was his son Carlo. After Carlo is killed in a bombing raid, Geppetto completely collapses under the weight of his grief. Carving Pinocchio isn’t something he does out of creativity or joy, but rather the result of drunken and despairing rage. The scene is played out as a grotesque and heartbreaking moment, and I LOVE it. 

Pinocchio himself is a Very Real Boy from the start--by which I mean, he never shuts up, he gets into everything, he’s kind of a brat, and he brings unbridled chaos to Geppetto’s life in the way that only a young child can. I like it when movies portray children as, y’know, actual children, not just tiny adults. Yeah, kids are loud, they break stuff, they annoy the heck out of you, and they are also so, so precious, they’re worth every second of it. 

I’ve already talked about Sebastian J. Cricket so all I’m gonna say here is I felt the line “Oh, the pain! Life is such hideous pain” right down to my core.

This movie covers a lot of heavy themes, such as the difficulties of fatherhood, abuse, war, death, and grief. But it does so in a way that left me with a sense of hope. It doesn’t shy away from the reality of these things, but it assures you that you can endure them, that you can find immense joy even in the midst of great suffering. 

To get a little personal for the second time, the way this movie goes about presenting the reality of death and the grief of those left behind resonated with me very deeply. I’m the youngest child in my immediate family, and deep down, there’s a part of me that dreads the day when they will pass on and leave me behind. Barring any unforeseen accidents, I will likely outlive most of my siblings, and I’m lowkey terrified of that inevitablilty. So there was something oddly comforting about a film that speaks directly to my fear like that. A film that doesn’t sugar coat or try to persuade me that it won’t be so bad. A film that tells me my time with my family is so much more precious because it is so fleeting. 

So yeah, tears were shed, I’m not ashamed to admit it. 

I could probably say a bajillion things more about this movie, but it’s getting late now and I’ve prattled long enough. In conclusion, 10/10, easily the best movie of my year, and I truly think I can forgive Del Toro for Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans now.