#i would have two nickels meme

[purrvaire]

black sails + tumblr text posts I have on my phone

[the-shy-artisan]

him

[panpanix]

if Oci had a nickel for every time she found someone with broken wings at the beginning of a reset she would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

[glade-constellation]

I take physical and physiological damage every time my brain decides to manually autocorrect Solar’s name into things. I had a bag of candy corn I accidentally called “Solar corn” once, which was funny at the time, but now I’ve gone and accidentally called orange Fanta “Solar Fanta”. I don’t even simp for the guy, he’s just there. Please get him out of my head.

[custard-cream-queen]

I was so proud of myself with this one.

(An image of the “Is this a pidgeon?” Meme, but “pidgeon” has been replace with “Elias Bouchard” and the butterfly has covered by a picture of a grey parrot with a metal pipe”)

(I’ve never done one of those before so I hope I did it right)

[corpumderelictum]

Brian if Twitter existed in August 1974:

[robotclownindulgence]

though i live in the boonies i had a fun "the world is small" moment this year when i was recommended an animatic with music by an artist i hadn't heard before and when i looked them up i found out they lived like an hours drive away from me

[official-time-loop-posts]

Official Time Loop Post

I've never watched a single episode of spn but I've been thinking about the implications of being stuck inside a meme

[mielmoto]

FANTASY, NOBILITY, ETC. prompts (accepting)

@swevene / ferdinand submitted:

heart of gold. sender renounces their title to be with the receiver.

It was all so romantic, wasn't it? The whole concept of him: a wayward prince, traveling lands near and far with naught in his heart but a wanderlust and unwavering desire to lend his hand to any in need; relinquishing the luxuries conferred to him by birth to instead experience the life and trappings of "common" man.

Anyone might reasonably assume he must have an ulterior motive; perhaps he viewed the whole endeavor as nothing more than a quaint vacation, a sojourn so that he may play tourist in the lives of those little people so far beneath his station—comfortable in the knowledge that he could, at any moment, return to the fretless comfort of his sovereignty. She might have assumed as much, if not for how his story mirrored her own—promised dominion over an inherited court given up to, instead, explore much of what the mortal world had to offer, wandering freely between the borders of this realm and the next.

A curious reflection, far too intriguing not to chance a closer look. Whatever reputation the folk may have, (oft deserved), her interest was innocent, her approach undesigning. She hadn't plans to steal him away—though the temptation always niggled when a particularly charming mortal came along—but rather came with a proposed exchange: if he'd let her play supporting character in his story, for a time, she'd broaden his horizons into realms which few mortals ever glimpsed.

A good deal, no? And a rare, even bargain, given the tricksier contracts which fairies were known to forge; neither stood anything to lose, and the deal could be broken at any time, simply parting ways and returning to their chosen paths. It was meant to be simple. Lightsome, and rewarding.

When, exactly, the change occurred, she couldn't say. Where did the boundary of light-hearted interchange and intimacy lie? At what point does a fascination grow to a fixation, to attachment? When had she decided that she didn't want to relent that little nook she'd carved for herself in his fable?...and when—if indeed the starry look in his eye was the proof she thought it to be—had she forgotten herself?

His declaration is a wake-up call. The reverie sewn over some months, suddenly broken.

She hadn't planned to steal him away, but had nearly done so, regardless; her desires, unspoken, had cast their spell over him, and nurtured the same enchantment in turn. A fact which stokes a nigh-unheard of flash of guilt in her chest, cursing her lack of control.

❝ Don't say that—oh, my sweet prince, please... ❞

...forgive me, she pleads somewhere beneath what words she does speak.

By and large, the fairy was not one to respect destiny. Honey had been long defiant in the face of "fate," and was ever the advocate for rebelling against what so-called prophets predeclared. Each creature was born to forge lives of their own making, as she saw it, and should bare no shackles to any will beyond their own... but he was not of the same mind. The prince bore his prophecy as a promise; he pursued it with an honest, hopeful heart. It was the very object of faith which had driven his noble journey in the first place, and lead him to a life worth living.

And she may be of fair folk, but was no cursed maiden.

He was not her hero, and she not the hard-won end to his tale—she was merely an interlude. A momentary diversion on his path, which he was long overdue to be set straight upon. These thoughts she conveys, in so many words, with a half-hewn smile and a distant sadness in her tone.

❝ An intermission as beautiful as a play, itself, to me. And one I promise I won't ever forget, as long as I live. ❞

Even though he, hopefully, would. Peony-pink lips press to his forehead; casting off the charm which had set the shimmer in his gaze, whisking away whatever fantasy future he might have envisioned and much of their time, with it. It is not a void of memory left behind—she wouldn't be so cruel—but a rewritten one; her parts in it filled with other faces, and glimpses of the world at the edge of his own made hazy, ephemeral...like a dream he could barely skim with his fingertips. And she, the same: a face he might almost remember. A fantasy, fleeting.

All as it should be.

[cheswirls]

how do you read the same fic a million times and then jokingly click the kudos button only for it to go thru bc you've never left a like 🙈 i'm so embarrassed. this is the second time in the past few days

[aunteutis]

but it's weird it happened twice

he can't keep doing this to me!!!!!

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

Honestly where would we be as a society without the "if I had a nickel for every time [x] happened, I would have two nickles. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice" meme. Perfect meme to express confusion that something happened two whole times which is not a LARGE number of times, usually, but for this specific thing that is a lot of times. We owe Doofenshmirtz everything

[crossbackpoke-check]

Fixed point (mathematics) // The History of Perspective // "Point of Disappearance", Dennis Held // How the Hughes hockey family stays grounded // Fixed Point Photography-- // "Portrait of A.", Tung-Hui Hu // Mic'd Up | Hughes NHL 25 cover shoot // "Burnt Norton", T.S. Eliot // "Circuitry", Janine Joseph // Bruce Bennett // Nick Wass // from obedience [maybe one day, during a point in time], kari edwards // Bill Rapai // "Errand Upon Which We Came", Stephanie Strickland // Benchmark (surveying)

art kid luke hughes

[tadc-harlequin-au]

Look who's yapping again lmao

Oh my god I just can't stop thinking about Showtime switching genders! Pomni actually becoming a short (twink) king and Caine a giant MILF and I'm just grrrR GRRR GRRRJAJDKAKQOEJWOWGRRRRGAAAKSSKWKKWNE SOMEONE SEND HELP!

*inhales* Sorry, I just love the big wife, small husband topic so fucking much!

(Insert the meme of the woman kissing a guy against a fence here LOL)

Well welll wellll.... If I had a nickel for everytime someone asked me about a genderswapped Harlequin Showtime, I would have two nickels

anyways wow look at that what a coincidence I happen to have made a concept!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /j /lh

Chat they're so chaotic couple core. I'm very mentally ill I need them to KISS

if you see this no you don't

[compaculaaa]

If I had a nickel for every time someone created an AU with Alpha Trion having given birth to both Orion/Optimus and Elita I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but...You know the rest of the meme

really?! may i know what AU the other is? asking for research purposes of course (・・;)

[pomrania]

Could They Survive Investigating Kira?

To clarify, this is about the Kira murders from Death Note, not the other manga/anime which has a serial murderer named Kira who kills via supernatural means. Insert "two nickels" meme here.

@couldtheycatchkira asks if a given character could catch Kira, and would they survive. Here, I'm focusing on the second part, and how to consider it. I've broken it down into four major questions:

Are they capable of dying (and staying dead)?

Are they capable of being killed by the Death Note?

Would Kira be able to kill them?

Would Kira choose to kill them?

1. Are they capable of dying (and staying dead)?

If a character cannot die, cannot be killed by any method whatsoever, won't even die from old age, then they survive investigating Kira; they survive ANY circumstance. You don't need to look at any further question, in order to get your answer (although you might choose to, just for enjoyment purposes).

Under this category, I'd also include characters with explicit good luck and/or uncanny ability to survive situations that should have killed them, where they're theoretically capable of dying, but circumstances arrange themselves such that it never actually happens. Not to be confused with "protagonist immortality", where a character survives because if they died the story would be over; this is a character who basically has indirect immortality as a superpower. Or they could fall under the category of "God's favourite chew-toy", where some higher (or lower) power simply won't let them die or stay dead.

Conversely, is the character capable of SURVIVING? In other words, how inherently doomed are they? If they were in a story where "character death" is a possibility, are they a character who's guaranteed to die? Note that this is distinct from being "doomed by the narrative", because that's doomed by ONE PARTICULAR narrative, and "getting Kira-murdered while investigating" might or might not fit their narrative doom.

This is also where I raise the issue of resurrection, and limited immortality. If a character dies but comes back to life, then they count as "surviving"; they need to STAY dead, in order to count as "does not survive". And if they're generally immortal (or at least unkillable), but can be killed under certain specific circumstances, then the question moves to "would Kira be able to figure out, and create, those circumstances".

2. Are they capable of being killed by the Death Note?

If they're immune to Kira's only real weapon, then they won't be killed by Kira; and unless they're otherwise doomed (see above), they'd survive.

Some characters, while capable of dying, outrank shinigami, or have connections that equate to such. The Death Note wouldn't work on them, for similar reasons as how an employee can't fire the head of their company.

Then there's non-human characters. This can be tricky, because in the world of Death Note, there's humans and there's shinigami, and the Note explicitly works on humans but not shinigami. To keep things fun and interesting, I'd say that any type of sapient mortal counts as a potential Death Note victim in the same way "human" does, because otherwise it gets boring; blanket immunity should be reserved for characters who specifically have it.

As for non-sapient and/or non-mortal characters… I don't have any overarching advice for them, except maybe see if you get a definitive answer in the next questions, and if not then you can use "might or might not be able to be killed by the Death Note" as a tie-breaker.

I think this is also the level to look at "characters who couldn't die from a heart attack". The Death Note CAN kill via other methods, but "heart attack" is the default. For this, you need to consider if Kira would REALIZE that simply writing the character's name down (to give them a heart attack) wouldn't suffice, and if he'd be able to figure out a method that WOULD work; but that shades into the next question.

3. Would Kira be able to kill them?

There's two major categories to this question; the issues Kira ran into in his story, and issues we get from characters who aren't "baseline human". I'll start with the second category.

Some characters have unorthodox death requirements, like non-human biology (or equivalent processes if non-biological), or limited immortality. Would Kira be able to figure out that he needs to do something different to kill them, and would he be able to figure out WHAT he needs to do?

Then, the "standard" issues, and what people first think of when they consider "would this character survive investigating Kira". In order for Kira to be able to kill someone, he first needs to know that they exist; then, their full name and how to spell it, and what their face looks like. If he doesn't have all three of those, then that character is safe from being Kira-murdered (but might still die in other ways).

4. Would Kira choose to kill them?

This factor seems to get neglected a lot, judging from the amount of times I've seen "lol they're a public figure, they'll die immediately". But Kira doesn't kill everyone whose identity he knows, because otherwise he'd be easy to locate, as the epicentre of mass death.

First, does the character fit his normal victim profile? If so, then he tries to kill them (which might or might not succeed, as detailed in the previous three questions), even if he doesn't know that they're investigating him.

Next, does he consider them a potential threat? If he doesn't know the character is even INVESTIGATING him, or if he thinks they're incompetent as an investigator, or if he believes he's sufficiently outsmarted them, then they're not a threat, and he has no reason to kill them.

Finally, does he have a reason NOT to kill them? Does he believe they should be left alive, on their own merits; or, more commonly, does he feel that they'd pose more of a threat to him dead than alive? For example, this could be them having information that would get sent out automatically upon their death, or being in a situation where suspicion would fall on him specifically if they die in an unnatural manner.