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** Rick Mora embraces the loin! <ref>From an interview, "It's kind of funny...[[Magical Native American|the essence of the Native Spirit tends to resist modernization for a desire to return to the Old Ways]], yet we struggle to show that the Native does not only come drunk, [[Loin Cloth|in breechcloth]] and [[Proud Warrior Race|sounding primitive]]. Don't get me wrong, I embrace the loin, that's my bread and butter but we still have a ways to go."</ref>
** Rick Mora embraces the loin! <ref>From an interview, "It's kind of funny...[[Magical Native American|the essence of the Native Spirit tends to resist modernization for a desire to return to the Old Ways]], yet we struggle to show that the Native does not only come drunk, [[Loin Cloth|in breechcloth]] and [[Proud Warrior Race|sounding primitive]]. Don't get me wrong, I embrace the loin, that's my bread and butter but we still have a ways to go."</ref>
** In Croatian language, Cullen sounds a lot like "kulen" which is a type of spicy salami. So anytime you want to make fun of Twilight in Croatia, just say Edward Kulen.
** In Croatian language, Cullen sounds a lot like "kulen" which is a type of spicy salami. So anytime you want to make fun of Twilight in Croatia, just say Edward Kulen.
** Still a better love story than Twilight. <ref>Special bonus if said subject was ''outside'' the romance genre.</ref>
** Still a better love story than Twilight.<ref>Special bonus if said subject was ''outside'' the romance genre.</ref>
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'':
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'':
** It is known.
** It is known.
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** I want to see him fly!
** I want to see him fly!
* [[John Ringo]]'s ''[[Paladin of Shadows|Ghost]]''
* [[John Ringo]]'s ''[[Paladin of Shadows|Ghost]]''
** [http://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html OH JOHN RINGO NO].<ref> The phrase comes from a [[Live Journal]] review of ''[[Paladin of Shadows|Ghost]]'', wherein the reviewer is reading along and finding something interesting, then runs into something totally, brain-breakingly wrong, prompting the uttering of the phrase. Given that the book, an exercise in letting loose some demons in Ringo's head that were blocking his writing other stories, was originally to be titled "The Wanker Piece" until [[Baen Books]] marketing convinced Ringo otherwise, it goes without saying this was a frequent utterance on the reviewer's part.</ref>
** [http://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html OH JOHN RINGO NO].<ref>The phrase comes from a [[Live Journal]] review of ''[[Paladin of Shadows|Ghost]]'', wherein the reviewer is reading along and finding something interesting, then runs into something totally, brain-breakingly wrong, prompting the uttering of the phrase. Given that the book, an exercise in letting loose some demons in Ringo's head that were blocking his writing other stories, was originally to be titled "The Wanker Piece" until [[Baen Books]] marketing convinced Ringo otherwise, it goes without saying this was a frequent utterance on the reviewer's part.</ref>
** Ringo had the review pointed out to him, and in the journal he replied with praise for it as the most accurate review of the book he had ever seen. Later, the phrase was used as part of a t-shirt design for a garment whose proceeds were to be sent to an organization helping sexually exploited women around the world, many in the situation of pretty much all the prostitutes in the ''[[Paladin of Shadows]]'' series.
** Ringo had the review pointed out to him, and in the journal he replied with praise for it as the most accurate review of the book he had ever seen. Later, the phrase was used as part of a t-shirt design for a garment whose proceeds were to be sent to an organization helping sexually exploited women around the world, many in the situation of pretty much all the prostitutes in the ''[[Paladin of Shadows]]'' series.
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'':
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'':
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** ''Fuck'' Subtle.
** ''Fuck'' Subtle.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'': The Borg. They '''[[Peter David|EAT. FUCKING. PLUTO.]]'''
* ''[[Star Trek]]'': The Borg. They '''[[Peter David|EAT. FUCKING. PLUTO.]]'''
* Dorothy Parker told us that "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." (Hey, she was an American and she died in [[The Sixties]]--she was unfamiliar with the concept of a [[Meganekko]].)
* Dorothy Parker told us that "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." (Hey, she was an American and she died in [[The Sixties]]—she was unfamiliar with the concept of a [[Meganekko]].)
* [[Ogden Nash]]'s idea of how to win over a girl: "[[Everything's Better with Chocolate|Candy]] is dandy, [[But Liquor Is Quicker]]."
* [[Ogden Nash]]'s idea of how to win over a girl: "[[Everything's Better with Chocolate|Candy]] is dandy, [[But Liquor Is Quicker]]."
** He also mutated Joyce Kilmer's "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree" into "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."
** He also mutated Joyce Kilmer's "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree" into "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."
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* ''[[Vernor Vinge]]'': Hexapodia is the key insight.
* ''[[Vernor Vinge]]'': Hexapodia is the key insight.
* ''[[Don Quixote]]'': This book [[Older Than Steam|generated various memes that have survived for more than four hundred years]], and even are words recognized by the Spanish Royal Language Academy’s dictionary:
* ''[[Don Quixote]]'': This book [[Older Than Steam|generated various memes that have survived for more than four hundred years]], and even are words recognized by the Spanish Royal Language Academy’s dictionary:
** '''"¿Leoncitos a mi?" ''' Could be translated as [[Badass Boast|"Do they want to scare me with those little lions?" ]]
** '''"¿Leoncitos a mi?" ''' Could be translated as [[Badass Boast|"Do they want to scare me with those little lions?"]]
** '''Quixote''': Man who fight for love of the ideal. Man who fight for noble causes
** '''Quixote''': Man who fight for love of the ideal. Man who fight for noble causes
** '''Maritornes''': A rude, ugly and mannish maid.
** '''Maritornes''': A rude, ugly and mannish maid.
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** We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
** We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
* [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]: Anakin Solo had the hots for his aunt?
* [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]: Anakin Solo had the hots for his aunt?
** Cliegg: Your son's dead, son. Accept it. <ref>In ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'', we see Luke as a ghost. Yes, he'd be over 150 now, but we have proof of Jedi living hundreds of years, even human Jedi. LFL won't say if Luke's alive or dead.</ref>
** Cliegg: Your son's dead, son. Accept it.<ref>In ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'', we see Luke as a ghost. Yes, he'd be over 150 now, but we have proof of Jedi living hundreds of years, even human Jedi. LFL won't say if Luke's alive or dead.</ref>
*** Your Wookiee's dead son. Accept it. <ref>They killed Chewbacca at the beginning of the [[New Jedi Order]], making all those heartwarming moments in the Holiday Special and the like turn into a huge [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]].</ref>
*** Your Wookiee's dead son. Accept it.<ref>They killed Chewbacca at the beginning of the [[New Jedi Order]], making all those heartwarming moments in the Holiday Special and the like turn into a huge [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]].</ref>
** Jimmy <ref>Lucasfilm referred to the death of a character given the operative name "Jimmy". Turned out to be Anakin Solo.</ref>
** Jimmy <ref>Lucasfilm referred to the death of a character given the operative name "Jimmy". Turned out to be Anakin Solo.</ref>
** Destroy your planet. <ref>No, not the Death Star. This one comes from the Marvels: "If Lando dies, I'll destroy your planet."</ref>
** Destroy your planet.<ref>No, not the Death Star. This one comes from the Marvels: "If Lando dies, I'll destroy your planet."</ref>
** Jacen's penis! <ref>The art for the American cover of ''Destiny's Way'' is a bit, ahem, suggestive.</ref>
** Jacen's penis! <ref>The art for the American cover of ''Destiny's Way'' is a bit, ahem, suggestive.</ref>
* "My god--it's full of stars!" The last thing said by Dave Bowman in ''2001: A Space Odyssey'', though not in the film.
* "My god--it's full of stars!" The last thing said by Dave Bowman in ''2001: A Space Odyssey'', though not in the film.
* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' fandom:
* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' fandom:
** [[Ax Crazy|Mapleshade]] eats cats! <ref>A user on the [[Warriors Official Forum]] claimed to have obtained Night Whispers early and said that Mapleshade ate a cat in it.</ref>
** [[Ax Crazy|Mapleshade]] eats cats! <ref>A user on the [[Warriors Official Forum]] claimed to have obtained Night Whispers early and said that Mapleshade ate a cat in it.</ref>
** All hail [[Memetic Badass|Purdystar!!]] <ref>Purdy has become a popular character in the fandom</ref>.
** All hail [[Memetic Badass|Purdystar!!]].<ref>Purdy has become a popular character in the fandom</ref>
** Every last part of the fanfic ''[[Starkit's Prophecy]]''.
** Every last part of the fanfic ''[[Starkit's Prophecy]]''.
*** The most-quoted line is: ''And he held out... SOME JEW!''
*** The most-quoted line is: ''And he held out... SOME JEW!''
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** "I must take... the challenge!" <ref>This is a line from the "[[SSS Warrior Cats]]" fanimation that fans found a bit narmy.</ref>
** "I must take... the challenge!" <ref>This is a line from the "[[SSS Warrior Cats]]" fanimation that fans found a bit narmy.</ref>
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fOBhtrhTZQ Firestar Doesn't Like Waffles]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fOBhtrhTZQ Firestar Doesn't Like Waffles]
** Sol is trollin'. <ref>Sol's [[Affably Evil]] attitude has led to fans comparing him to an internet [[Troll]]. [http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo247/rykerzero/Random%20Stuff/skyclanSol.png This image macro] is an example.</ref>
** Sol is trollin'.<ref>Sol's [[Affably Evil]] attitude has led to fans comparing him to an internet [[Troll]]. [http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo247/rykerzero/Random%20Stuff/skyclanSol.png This image macro] is an example.</ref>
* In ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'' fandom:
* In ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'' fandom:
** What exactly is a french before it's fried?
** What exactly is a french before it's fried?
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*** The Penguin being Spaders best friend.
*** The Penguin being Spaders best friend.
** Everything obscure Bobby says is quoted enough to be considered a meme. Especially anything he has to say about clowns, smilie faces, or his boxers.
** Everything obscure Bobby says is quoted enough to be considered a meme. Especially anything he has to say about clowns, smilie faces, or his boxers.
* This trope becomes a lot less funny and gets a rather large serving of [[Nightmare Fuel]] when ''[[Faction Paradox]]'' enters the picture. Their [[Sarcasm Mode|beautiful]] universe has the Celestis, a group of Homeworld agents who foresaw a monstrous Time War, and obsessed with preventing the destruction of their bodies, they destroy them themselves, and leaving their ''meaning'' behind, making them sentient ideas, the literal physical incarnation of this trope. After they [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]], it becomes painfully obvious they're still the same fearful, backstabbing [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]] they were, and they find about [[Oh Crap|their new cool powers]]...
* This trope becomes a lot less funny and gets a rather large serving of [[Nightmare Fuel]] when ''[[Faction Paradox]]'' enters the picture. Their [[Sarcasm Mode|beautiful]] universe has the Celestis, a group of Homeworld agents who foresaw a monstrous Time War, and obsessed with preventing the destruction of their bodies, they destroy them themselves, and leaving their ''meaning'' behind, making them sentient ideas, the literal physical incarnation of this trope. After they [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]], it becomes painfully obvious they're still the same fearful, backstabbing [[Complete Monster]]s they were, and they find about [[Oh Crap|their new cool powers]]...
* [[Maradonia Saga]]: 2 dislikes. Gloria and her mom have been here. <ref> Inevitably, whenever a video criticizes Team Tesch, 2 dislikes will appear. Because fandom for Tesch's books is literally nonexistent, youtubers took to saying they had to be Gloria and her mom. It's not clear where this first surfaced.</ref>
* [[Maradonia Saga]]: 2 dislikes. Gloria and her mom have been here.<ref>Inevitably, whenever a video criticizes Team Tesch, 2 dislikes will appear. Because fandom for Tesch's books is literally nonexistent, youtubers took to saying they had to be Gloria and her mom. It's not clear where this first surfaced.</ref>
** "Appolyon's Club of Evil": "''The powers of evil believe in teamwork''!" <ref> [http://impishidea.com/Humor/615/maradonia-sporkings-part-fifteen Actual excerpts from the book] about the ''villains'', in a clear case of "I don't think those words mean what you think they mean" by Tesch. Now used to show how much of [[Designated Villain|Designated Villains]] Apollyon and co. are</ref>.
** "Appolyon's Club of Evil": "''The powers of evil believe in teamwork''!".<ref>[http://impishidea.com/Humor/615/maradonia-sporkings-part-fifteen Actual excerpts from the book] about the ''villains'', in a clear case of "I don't think those words mean what you think they mean" by Tesch. Now used to show how much of [[Designated Villain]]s Apollyon and co. are</ref>
* ''[[Faust]]'':
* ''[[Faust]]'':
** A Faustian pact or bargain as a [[Deal with the Devil]], or anyone else who probably should have been avoided.
** A Faustian pact or bargain as a [[Deal with the Devil]], or anyone else who probably should have been avoided.

Revision as of 22:27, 3 February 2015


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We saw these memes in a book somewhere... but we really read them for the actual stories, we swear! (Look at that... we're poets and we were unaware of this fact until recently.)

Please add entries in the following format:

  • The name of the book.
    • Meme name: description of meme and how it's used.
      • Source of meme and fandom it relates to in the form of a hot tip.
      • Famous instances (such as the Rick Roll during the Thanksgiving parade).
      • Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

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" by heart by people of all sorts, that the instant they see any lean hack, they say, 'There goes Rocinante.' "

    • Con la iglesia hemos topado: Could be translated as "We have run onto the church". A case of both a meme and Beam Me Up, Scotty, as the original phrase is actually "Con la iglesia hemos dado, Sancho". In the book it is literal (they examine a stone wall and determine it is a church) but it is always quoted to denote a situation in which the Church, bureaucracy or some other power that be is impeding your progress.
    • Maybe they're just windmills, but They Might Be Giants...
  • The Faerie Queene: Malacasta is so sassy!
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: "Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers..."
  • Star Wars Expanded Universe: Anakin Solo had the hots for his aunt?
    • Cliegg: Your son's dead, son. Accept it.[5]
      • Your Wookiee's dead son. Accept it.[6]
    • Jimmy [7]
    • Destroy your planet.[8]
    • Jacen's penis! [9]
  • "My god--it's full of stars!" The last thing said by Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey, though not in the film.
  • In the Warrior Cats fandom:
  • In The Pendragon Adventure fandom:
    • What exactly is a french before it's fried?
    • Hobey ho! Let's go!
      • Hobey lady of the night!!!! Let's go!!!
    • This is the way it was meant to be.
    • THERE ARE FREAKIN' POLAR BEARS AND PENGUINS IN THE DESERT.
    • Everything obscure Bobby says is quoted enough to be considered a meme. Especially anything he has to say about clowns, smilie faces, or his boxers.
  • This trope becomes a lot less funny and gets a rather large serving of Nightmare Fuel when Faction Paradox enters the picture. Their beautiful universe has the Celestis, a group of Homeworld agents who foresaw a monstrous Time War, and obsessed with preventing the destruction of their bodies, they destroy them themselves, and leaving their meaning behind, making them sentient ideas, the literal physical incarnation of this trope. After they Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence, it becomes painfully obvious they're still the same fearful, backstabbing Complete Monsters they were, and they find about their new cool powers...
  • Maradonia Saga: 2 dislikes. Gloria and her mom have been here.[14]
    • "Appolyon's Club of Evil": "The powers of evil believe in teamwork!".[15]
  • Faust:
    • A Faustian pact or bargain as a Deal with the Devil, or anyone else who probably should have been avoided.
    • Forbidden knowledge or diabolical research methods.
  • I Want My Hat Back
    • I HAVE SEEN MY HAT
    • Substituting characters from different fandoms for the characters in the book
  • The Phantom of the Opera has several, mostly originating from the Live Journal badfic-sporking community, Phanwank:
    • The most ubiquitous is "Roule's Ingenious Plane," which also has a Distaff Counterpart in "Christine's Small Bus" and a modern-day counterpart in "Ryan's Lime Service."[16]
    • "Erique would never kill a whale!" and "Erique is one with teh walez!!!11!!"[17]
    • "Erik's Wonton Goddess."[18]
    • "Bonnie-Marie."[19]
    • "KIMMEEEEEEEEEEEEH!"[20]
    • "Erik's pink kissable lips."
    • "Erik the hospital."
  1. ↑ With Snape often being shown doing these, the awarded House is always Slytherin, and the penalized House always Gryffindor.
  2. ↑ From an interview, "It's kind of funny...the essence of the Native Spirit tends to resist modernization for a desire to return to the Old Ways, yet we struggle to show that the Native does not only come drunk, in breechcloth and sounding primitive. Don't get me wrong, I embrace the loin, that's my bread and butter but we still have a ways to go."
  3. ↑ Special bonus if said subject was outside the romance genre.
  4. ↑ The phrase comes from a Live Journal review of Ghost, wherein the reviewer is reading along and finding something interesting, then runs into something totally, brain-breakingly wrong, prompting the uttering of the phrase. Given that the book, an exercise in letting loose some demons in Ringo's head that were blocking his writing other stories, was originally to be titled "The Wanker Piece" until Baen Books marketing convinced Ringo otherwise, it goes without saying this was a frequent utterance on the reviewer's part.
  5. ↑ In Star Wars Legacy, we see Luke as a ghost. Yes, he'd be over 150 now, but we have proof of Jedi living hundreds of years, even human Jedi. LFL won't say if Luke's alive or dead.
  6. ↑ They killed Chewbacca at the beginning of the New Jedi Order, making all those heartwarming moments in the Holiday Special and the like turn into a huge Funny Aneurysm Moment.
  7. ↑ Lucasfilm referred to the death of a character given the operative name "Jimmy". Turned out to be Anakin Solo.
  8. ↑ No, not the Death Star. This one comes from the Marvels: "If Lando dies, I'll destroy your planet."
  9. ↑ The art for the American cover of Destiny's Way is a bit, ahem, suggestive.
  10. ↑ A user on the Warriors Official Forum claimed to have obtained Night Whispers early and said that Mapleshade ate a cat in it.
  11. ↑ Purdy has become a popular character in the fandom
  12. ↑ This is a line from the "SSS Warrior Cats" fanimation that fans found a bit narmy.
  13. ↑ Sol's Affably Evil attitude has led to fans comparing him to an internet Troll. This image macro is an example.
  14. ↑ Inevitably, whenever a video criticizes Team Tesch, 2 dislikes will appear. Because fandom for Tesch's books is literally nonexistent, youtubers took to saying they had to be Gloria and her mom. It's not clear where this first surfaced.
  15. ↑ Actual excerpts from the book about the villains, in a clear case of "I don't think those words mean what you think they mean" by Tesch. Now used to show how much of Designated Villains Apollyon and co. are
  16. ↑ All originate from typos in terrible pieces of fanfiction; in the first, the author was trying to say "Raoul's ingenious plan." The second comes from a Mary Sue fic in which Erik compares the Sue's bustline (or at least tries to) to Christine's, and the third from a modern-day fic in which... we have no idea what the author was trying to say.
  17. ↑ Spammed by the phanwank members to an anti-Raoul community.
  18. ↑ The author of the fic was trying to say "wanton."
  19. ↑ The name of a particularly hideous Mary Sue; she went on to be a major player in The Sueniverse.
  20. ↑ The name of a modern-day Sue's best friend; this meme is often accompanied by a picture of Bob Saget.
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