in the tweet below it shows a screenshot of 4chan so cw for antisemitism, transphobia and weird fetishization of Abigail Shapiro

  • AernaLingus [any]
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    2 years ago

    Most of the emotes are pretty self-explanatory, but as someone whose only experience with Watchmen is watching the movie (but falling asleep halfway through) and borrowing the graphic novel (but never reading it) I never understood what this one was supposed to imply. Can anyone fill me in?

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      The line from that panel is “ I'm tired of this Earth, these people. I'm tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives”

      While Manhattan posts up on mars

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It also gets used in the "it is [year], I am [thing], [repeat twice with different years]" meme.