#two nickels meme

[aisforinterval]

they're both very good games btw

[machinel1ke]

If I had a nickel for every recent movie based on a book where a boy from a prestigious background who lost everything after the death of his father was exiled from his city home, fell in love with a kind, defiant, somewhat feral girl and was welcomed into her close-knit nomadic community, only to eventually betray her and become a mass-murdering dictator, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?

[the-wanderer]

[r1-jw-lover]

so i made a meme shitpost, i guess

[ID: The “I’d have two nickels” meme with the upper text reading, “If I had a nickel for every time Donnie Yen plays a badass blind character who knows martial arts I’d have two nickels”. The bottom text reads, “which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice” with a picture of Chirrut Imwe from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and another of Caine from John Wick: Chapter 4 side by side, to the right above the bottom text.]

[heretherebedork]

If I had a nickel for each gay mafia man who turned himself into the police so he could come out the other side with a fresh start for his lover I would have two nickels and I am fascinated that I only have two. You would think there would be more, honestly. But the other one is an innocent person going to jail for the mafia and not expecting anyone to wait for him.

[pep-rambles]

If I had a nickel for every piece of media that had a 100+ year old femboy separated from his twin sister over more than one lifetime and also there is another character who makes a lot of ducks, I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[faeriekit]

Times which I have been unintentionally racially microaggressed against on fandom-based webbed sites:

[kyliafanfiction]

If I had a nickel for each time a blonde female character leaves a 90s genre TV show and her planned arc is given to a new character brought in specifically to fill her arc played by a woman with red hair

I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.

[superbeans89]

[maybe-i-will-fandom]

If I had a nickel for every season Hugh Laurie directed of a show based on a retelling of a famous British murder mystery writer's detective pair with a one legged doctor as a main character and a mentally unstable doctor as a character played by Hugh Laurie himself... id have 2 nickles which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[aisforinterval]

i think about how much these two have in common a lot...

thankfully, they differ where it matters lol

[pedanther]

A couple of points that appear in Robin Buss' modern translation of this chapter that are missing from the 19th-century translation:

When Edmond is summarizing his tale of woe, the old translation has him say, "My captain is dead; I have barely escaped; but I am a good sailor." Buss' translation adds two more woes to the list: at the beginning, that the ship he was sailing on is sunk, and at the end, that he has lost all his clothes and been left "totally naked". And again, when the captain suggests that Jacopo lend Edmond his spare clothes, there's a reminder that he's "stark naked". (You may recall, if you cast your mind back, that he disrobed before getting in the bodybag, because the men carrying the bodybag would have been suspicious if they felt that the occupant was still wearing clothes.)

One can understand why a Victorian translator would have wanted to avoid reminding the reader that the protagonist was doing all this in a state of exposure, but it did mean that as I was reading the chapter I was left wondering why Edmond wasn't worried that his rescuers would see that he was wearing prison clothes, and then why he needed to borrow clothes from them.

Speaking of Jacopo: Where the old translation describes him as "a sailor of a frank and manly appearance", Buss has the more specific "a sailor with a frank and open face, framed in long side-whiskers". If I had a nickel for every time the old translation has elided a description of a man with side-whiskers...

[heroofthreefaces]

If I had a nickel for every time I saw a Tumblr post and thought “What episode is that??” because I’d mistaken Jason Alexander for Gary Burghoff, I’d have two nickels

i want to caption this as "george costanza haunted by the spectre of male/male sexuality" but i think people would take it as a Funny Tumblr Joke and i need you to know that that is canonically the context of this image

[ethecookednoodle]

Had a realization about two of my ocs

[heretherebedork]

Sing Harit is the king of 'rich spoiled asshole gets into weirdly homoerotic relationship with someone close to his family who ends up with a completely different philosophy at least partially because of his assholery who points a gun at him at some point' which is an extremely niche role to be in but works for him, so who am I to question it? Both shows also prominently feature Gun as an actor so... you know. Two nickels and all that.

(Note: gun in question is pointed at his character but not him as actor so cannot do identical shots.)

[classycoffeecat]

[sees new promo pic for gk]

so what I am gathering here is that if you are a love interest for Harvey Dent you are contractually obligated to restrain him in some way... okay okay