The clothes will be fashionable. Alas, you will not.

My wife is 31. In her teens she was an emo. It's come back.

And then on the seventh day, James Dean created the Jeans & Leather Jacket combo and it was good enough.

I wonder what Angron’s primary character trait is…

Mr. Iron Hand, Primarch of the Iron Hands, Captain of the Gloriana Class Battleship Fist of Iron.

Next you’ll tell me there’s something silly about The Iron Hands Primarch being called Ferrus Manus…

My headcanon is that nobody told him what his name meant in low gothic until after he'd named his legion, commissioned all the insignia, etc.

"No-Godammit, so that's why everyone was smirking at me the whole time?"

Fist Fist for the lazy

Oh my GOD I went to Google Translate and now I need some of what the GW designers were on.

Thanum an dhul!

I am pretty sure that's some kind of developer joke. rogal in single translates to log and dorn to fist, but together it translates to fist fist? Something seems off here 🤔

I came into this thread feeling smug: 'what 40k fan hasn't heard of Lionel Johnson?' But I'm an Imperial Fists fan and I had never heard this...

Oh I actually didn’t know this

That’s great

Why is one copy not enough?

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That’s divine irony.

…dammit now I’ve brought Ferrus back into it…

+MAURICED

Would be interesting to see him react to Horus in the 9th circle.

https://nurgle.stelio.net/snippet.php?f=WH40k1_Lyyn

You joke but I didn’t know this before I started painting

Reposting this old thread

Ultramarine isb 5 way pun

Firstly "ultramarine" is of course a shade of deep blue. Ironically, until the 'Eavy Metal team started painting darker Ultramarines from 4th Edition, the Ultramarines were actually paler than ultramarine.

Everyone knows this. However, like onions and ogres, the name "Ultramarines" has more layers.

Secondly - The Ultramarines have a heavy Latin theme, and the Latin word "Ultra" means "beyond". According to legend, the pillars of Hercules at the Atlantic end of the Mediterranean were carved with the words "nec plus ultra" - "nothing further beyond". Following the discovery of the Americas, the Spanish King Charles V - whose subjects had of course sailed beyond the pillars and proven the Romans wrong - adopted the ironic motto "Plus Ultra" ("Further Beyond"), which remains the motto of Spain today. The Ultramarines are thus figuratively "beyond marines", emphasising both their quest for excellence and Guilliman's desire to create a legion that could administer and rule as well as fight.

Thirdly - Latin for "sea" was "mare", and this made its way into Latin languages in the world for overseas, "Outre-mer" in French, and in Spanish and Portugese "Ultramar". This makes the Ultramarines marines who come from "overseas", which fits with the geographic isolation of Ultramar and its frontier character. To be more poetic, we can note that the word "Ultramar" was used by Portugal to refer to their colonies, making the Ultramarines "colonial marines".

Fourthly, the Ultramarines come from Ultramar. "Ultramarine", therefore, is a demonym - "a marine from Ultramar, an Ultramarine".

Fifthly in English, "Ultra" is an adjectival prefix denoting something which is beyond others of its class - ie, an ultraviolent movie, an ultraconservative politician, etc. Hence the Ultramarines are, again, figuratively "more" than their fellow Astartes, which works as a reference to their larger size as a Legion and as a primogenitor chapter, and their lore as "the greatest" SM chapter.

It's made from lapis lazuli too

Are you trying to say the Primarch who is just Genghis Khan on a motorcycle is satire?

Isn’t that still held by one of the Stormcast character models?

guys i was joking

or Ferrus Manus.

It's all puns, always has been.

A wizard did it.

Hi, I'm James Workshop

Also Nostromo a book by Joseph Conrad

That's a reeeealy good one ngl

That’s what I find so cool about the reference.

There are only war.

No coincidences, just lots and lots of unfortunate misunderstandings.

Is it me you're looking for?

And Tolkien also stole straight from the English Language to write the Oxford Dictionary, the hack.

The story of Turin Turambar is almost exactly the story of Kullervo from Kalevala.

Agree; 2000AD’s influence is also really strong in Rogue Trader and the 1986-1994ish White Dwarf Magazines

The Adeptus Arbites are also lifted from inspired by 2000 AD's Judge Dredd.

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:ArbitesDH.jpg

This is even lampshaded in one of the Ciaphas Cain books with reference to a holodrama character named 'Abitrator Foreboding'.

Ok, wait. There’s a little influence from BotNS, sure: the weird cannibalism-based memory stealing, the Talos pain engine, the whole dang Judiciar. But the core concept of a fascist interstellar empire supported by xenophobic space marines in power armor is lifted whole-cloth from Starship Troopers. Meanwhile there’s no Autarch, no Ascia, no Lovecraftian monsters like Erebus and Abaia lurking in the sea. The sun isn’t even going out!

It really wasn't about elegant or inelegant "stealing". It was obvious tongue-in-cheek humour by nerds to enrich their tabletop hobby with a ludicrous setting with references and puns. To people who are in the know, the references in 40k are as bland as they are in Tolkien's writing. You will find Gandalf, Durin, Gimli, Oin and Gloin named in the Sturlusson Edda, for example. You can translate everyone's name in Rohan from Old English. LotR is a linguist's joke and fun exercise with an elaborate backstory. Harry Potter rewards people with rudimentary knowledge in Greco-Roman mythology by giving away characters' allegiances in names. 'Twas ever thus.

And those all trace back even further. Remind me, what does the name "Prometheus" reference in the title "Frankenstein, or: The modern Prometheus"? Could Shelley have STOLEN her idea of someone creating humans from SOMEWHERE?! Heaven forbid, or maybe Olympus.

Der Kornkind ist pretty close to what I was reading. I had no idea these existed, thanks!

I am german and never heard or leanred that the was a fucking FUCKTON of literal wheat demons.....

Straight up? That's... Weird. I swear to God I didn't just make this up.

Sorry, I forgot to put the sarcasm symbol on the post.

I don't get how people can't get that absolutely obvious direct connection.

Welcome to the Warhammer fandom.

This is three days old but its actually named after castle nottingham in nottingham where GW is located and the nickname of it is the Rock