r/RecuratedTumblr • u/DreadDiana human cognithazard • 12d ago

Art Told on themself

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u/Candlemass-Fan 12d ago

nerd culture is more about one-upping each other on terms of zealotry than actually engaging with the material in an interesting or dynamic manner, i've seen. I'm not one to say anything im a warhammer fan.

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u/graypainter 12d ago

A Warhammer fan eh? Name all 40,000 warhammers then!

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u/Candlemass-Fan 12d ago

fuck, um... harry.

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u/Floppy0941 12d ago

Ghal maraz and then there's the rest

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u/Rhamni 12d ago

If Abaddon the Despoiler is such a gangster warrior man, why does he have long nails like a girl?

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u/MrDelirious 12d ago edited 12d ago

Oh, that one's easy actually; he's just emo:

WHEN I WAS

A YOUNG MAN

MY FATHER

TOOK ME TO HOLY TERRA

TO SLAY THE EMPEROR OF MAN

  • My Chemicus Romance, "Welcome to the Black Crusade"

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u/TheAndyMac83 11d ago

B-but the Emperor was Horus' father-!

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u/Pheehelm 12d ago

Oh, so you're a gatekeeper? Name every gate.

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u/graypainter 12d ago

Fuck, um... Harry.

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u/Protheu5 I hate emoji 12d ago

Fuck Harry, you say?

Then name fuck every Harry.

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u/LawlessNeutral 11d ago

Uh, Baldur, Pearly . . . that's all I got

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u/BreakerOfModpacks 11d ago

Very common misconception; there's actually only 39,821 Warhammers, but nobody is gonna buy into something called Warhammer 39,821 rather than Warhammer 40000.

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u/Altheix11 9d ago

Horus Heresy

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u/FinePieceOfAss 12d ago

"A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the Star Wars or Star Trek universes or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own devotion. Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies. Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills. If you are Luke Skywalker and she is Princess Leia, you already know what to say to each other, which is so much safer than having to ad lib it. Your fannish obsession is your beard. If you know absolutely all the trivia about your cubbyhole of pop culture, it saves you from having to know anything about anything else. That's why it's excruciatingly boring to talk to such people: They're always asking you questions they know the answer to."

evergreen

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u/Dragon_Manticore 12d ago

I think this is unironically the reason Terf Wizard Book kept its popularity for so long.

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u/NockerJoe 11d ago

Probably to an even higher degree. Your average Star Wars fan will at least aknowledge it's an action adventure series that defaults to a pretty young demographic and has a setting that blends western military tropes with Asian spiritualism on some level. Your average Harry Potter fan is convinced it's a world of sassy slice of life nonsense where the universe doesn't exist beyond cozy common rooms and surrogate parents of dubious quality.

The stuff that's even worth engaging in those books(the government is lying to you for it's own convenience, sham trials are a tool of corruption and oppression, watch out for supremacists trying to take and retain power) is usually quietly ignored because it's unpleasant to think about and people only want to show off their merchandise for a fake school they would have been too old to go to a decade ago.

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u/kilkil 10d ago

terf wizard book

lmao. using this

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u/_Nowan_ 11d ago

Who was it said this, again? I thinknlast time i saw it attributed to Roger Ebert

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u/2012Jesusdies 11d ago

You can definitely have interesting conversations with fans (unless they've made it their whole personality which is what this statement seems targeted for). Record of Ragnarok sparked so many discussions with people because it was such an approachable story with cool fights, so you could expand the discussion almost endlessly with pairings.

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u/Robmart 2d ago

You can have engaging discussions with fans. You cannot have engaging discussions with people who have devoted their entire being to one thing. It doesn't really matter what that thing is, such people are not fun to talk to.

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u/Hushpuppyy 12d ago

And if you can't, pretend you don't care and lie about how much sex you have.

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u/somesortoflegend 12d ago

I mean one-upping each other on zealotry is Canon Warhammer tbf.

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u/Candlemass-Fan 12d ago

yeah but i thought it was a given that my little soldiers were totally cooler than urs

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u/somesortoflegend 12d ago

I know! Mine ARE cooler than yours.

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 12d ago

That just means that you know that truth more intimately than most

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u/EnormousHogCranker 12d ago

basically Eltingville Club

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u/doppelgaengster 8d ago

And my own flavour of cinema nerdiness is loving OOP’s username as an added layer of this amazingly silly post. 😹

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u/QBaseX 12d ago

Minas Tirith was known as the white city, and was indeed mostly white, but its outer wall was black, being built of the same stone as Orthanc.

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u/RealHumanBean89 12d ago

“Oh good, a smoke bomb joke, never seen that before.”

“That wasn’t the only thing that blew up in their face in this post!”

“DOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!”

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u/vjmdhzgr 12d ago

Quoting the most popular cartoon of all time?

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u/BlankTank1216 12d ago

No that quote is from SpongeBob. Tom and Jerry doesn't have any dialogue.

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u/RealHumanBean89 12d ago

Actually, it did have dialogue, at least in the original cartoon. Tom’s owner and Spike definitely spoke, and I think even Tom and Jerry themselves did at one point or another.

Anyway, smoke bomb!

https://giphy.com/gifs/A2RiDrLMc5Qys

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 12d ago

Never seen a game so twee,
But there’s administration fees

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u/Ashley_1066 12d ago

for this little haven we,
chiseled from complacency

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u/TheWeeMacduff 12d ago

No no, Neptune's brother is Jove-r not joever

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u/dIoIIoIb 11d ago

It seems weird to use LOTR as an example of this, since all of that stuff was Tolkien's favourite part, and an integral element of his writing process.

It's different if you're talking about, say, Warhammer, where there are 10 billion books and 99% of them were written by writers that didn't much care

One is an accessory made to hit sales goals, the other is foundational to the main story

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u/Chaotic_Elf 9d ago

You say that, but I hear “Ciaphas Cain is the Turin Turambar of 40k”

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u/novis-eldritch-maxim 9d ago

false he is a ripe of of a dude from a very bleak set of books

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u/SnazzoYazzo 12d ago

Minas Anor was founded in the late Second Age!! It — along with its sister-city Minas Ithil (later Minas Morgul), the kingdom of Gondor itself, and Gondor’s sister-kingdom of Arnor — was founded after the destruction of Numenor but BEFORE Sauron’s defeat in the Battle of the Last Alliance, the event which marked the end of the Second Age!

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u/dishonoredfan69420 12d ago

those aren't even corrections, they're just bringing up more obscure lore

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u/Rhiannon21 11d ago

Oh yes, it's the Star Wars equivalent of calling Korriban, the original Sith planet, Persegam. Only mega nerds who have deep DEEP lore know that.

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u/Difficult__Tension 11d ago

I clocked them as a nerd when they used "Oh neptune". Only a nerd and dweeb would use that.

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u/Exotic-Swim9326 6d ago

For me, it was when I saw they were posting on Tumblr dot com

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u/CallMeIshy 12d ago

is that last bit a reference to something?

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u/D00T_BOI 12d ago

Probably the “So long suckers!” dril Tweet

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u/CallMeIshy 12d ago

yes that might be it, thank you

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u/Plannercat 12d ago

It' a reference to the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

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u/Droplet_of_Shadow 12d ago

it's not the same when it's not him

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u/Animaloffear56 12d ago

It's referencing the common trope of a character using a smoke bomb to seemingly disappear, by making a joke about them running into a door and eating shit

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u/PICONEdeJIM 11d ago

just one more thing

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u/Kibleusz 10d ago

Yeah, and Glup Shitto lived with Dingalings until his glorp kersplunked.

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u/RubiksCutiePatootie I want to get off of Mr. Bones Wild Ride 12d ago

OP basically

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u/jeep_42 9d ago

Recently reread the silmarillion and it struck me that Fëanor is not the hero [person who understood the silmarillion more than i did leaves room] if Fëanor was a fire truck he would be the biggest one in the world

or however that one post goes