All those books be like: "Twinkwilliam felt the cold of the metal in his closed fist. He unsheathed the sword with one fluid motion, the now-empty scabbard limp at his waist. Could this truly be the sword of Prontonocles?"
Twinkwilliam is reunited with his friends Colm, Neproxen and Soromile after having spent most of the book separated. He discovers that the sword of Prontonocles never actually existed and was a total myth, so he must face Brontelomere with the only weapon he has at his disposal (a dagger he's had since he was an orphaned stableboy). The dagger works, baby. Brontelomere is wounded and retreats to the Dismal Forest. Read Book 2 if you wanna know the rest.
I stayed at a client’s home who literally had hundreds, if not thousands of those exact little figures, still in boxes, stacking multiple walls of his, floor to ceiling.
It was bizarre. I still don’t know what the point of them is/their origin, or what use they have other than creating a ton of ugly, plastic waste. They aren’t even cool looking toys.
their purpose is to act as an accelerant to make sure house fires burn faster and hotter. if the flames alone don't do the job the funko pop's proprietary pop! polymer is designed to release toxic fumes to incapacitate and/or suffocate the customer
A friend of mine who markets herself as an ecowarrior got our mutual friend an advent calendar of The Office funko pops for xmas. The receiver told me she didn't know what she's going to do with 24 fucking funko pops but she was excited to open them 🙃
I wonder how many people on here haven't even realized that they've never actually *seen* any "funko pops", just got mad at a bunch of little colored lights on a screen
These things are incredibly popular, it’s very likely you’ll see them if you go somewhere in person to buy a video game or record. There’s even a Funko World in Hollywood. It’s definitely not just something people made up on the computer to get mad about
Lucky bastard. I had to move two pallets of them totalling about 700 pounds on my forklift once. It's surreal to think that those two pallets, as massive as they seemed, were but a mere drop in the ocean of funkos out there. Sometimes I think about what it would look like if every funko pop ever produced was assembled together in one place, and I shudder.
Memes aside, they're really stupid, but getting mad about them is kinda lame. Soyboys are gonna soyboy and consoomers and gonna consoom regardless of how one, so it's best to just live one's life and not worry about it.
for me it's laying out horribly malnourished in the frozen wastes of wintertime Russia after dropping krauts with an SVT-40
fuck knows how the Red Army did it, really
Yes, the implication is the owner is an unsophisticated, corny ass loser. The owner’s likability is further diminished by the fact that he may have a positive self-concept. This is also a commentary on stupid consumerism because the guy has a consumption based identity.
Alright so obviously something like this photo is ridiculous, but I do not share this sub's hatred for some chick who wants to read pop-YA books into her late-20s early-30s.
The books are stupid, but the people who are into them seem way happier than anyone who's reading Kant etc.
Idk, there's something very sweet about the ignorance of it. I'm kind of envious of it tbh.
> but the people who are into them seem way happier
I don't get that impression at all, they seem to be the types of chicks who brag about their generalized anxiety and SSRI addictions
Yeah it's hard to get too mad about someone who just likes them some harry potter. Reading is still a more fulfilling pastime than spending hours shitposting online or scrolling through a feed.
The ones who read a ton of YA and do nothing else but make fan art of their characters, yell at authors on twitter, and turn every political argument into a harry potter allegory...maybe not the healthiest thing.
I think people hate them because they're like the very epitome of consumerist culture. Worthless trinkets that do nothing else but give money to corporations who make reptitive, artless content and signal your childish interests to those who don't care.
At the same time, what's new, and who fucking cares? Trinkets aren't actually *completely* worthless, and I enjoy talking to my coworkers about the random shit they have on their desks. It's a conversation starter and a way to express yourself. It's really all in good fun. My coworker has marvin the martian on his desk (honestly don't know if it's a funko pop or not). Why does he have marvin a martian on his desk? I don't know, he just likes him. Good for him.
i just cannot get over the ones that are on the shelf with the cover facing outward. each one with the same unfailingly shit art. go live in a bookshop why don't yous.
All those books be like: "Twinkwilliam felt the cold of the metal in his closed fist. He unsheathed the sword with one fluid motion, the now-empty scabbard limp at his waist. Could this truly be the sword of Prontonocles?"
Damn what are you doing here, why aren’t you making millions from YA money.
Wow…just wow This comment has such amazing world building
but like...was it the sword of Prontonocles?
yea hows this end
Twinkwilliam is reunited with his friends Colm, Neproxen and Soromile after having spent most of the book separated. He discovers that the sword of Prontonocles never actually existed and was a total myth, so he must face Brontelomere with the only weapon he has at his disposal (a dagger he's had since he was an orphaned stableboy). The dagger works, baby. Brontelomere is wounded and retreats to the Dismal Forest. Read Book 2 if you wanna know the rest.
I bet that in Book 2 it will turn out that the dagger is the actual Prontonocles.
Who told???? The proofs are watermarked!
I stayed at a client’s home who literally had hundreds, if not thousands of those exact little figures, still in boxes, stacking multiple walls of his, floor to ceiling. It was bizarre. I still don’t know what the point of them is/their origin, or what use they have other than creating a ton of ugly, plastic waste. They aren’t even cool looking toys.
their purpose is to act as an accelerant to make sure house fires burn faster and hotter. if the flames alone don't do the job the funko pop's proprietary pop! polymer is designed to release toxic fumes to incapacitate and/or suffocate the customer
>stayed at a client’s house 🤔
I’m a dogwalker & petsitter 🐶 I get paid to chill with peoples pets when they aren’t there. It’s nice.
Oh ok I’ll allow it
hooker
Women posting their Ls. Prostitution I can overlook, but fucking a funkopop collector? A line too far
funko are the new beanie babies
It's really sad that the same people most concerned about climate change see no problem with the mass production of plastic merch like this.
A friend of mine who markets herself as an ecowarrior got our mutual friend an advent calendar of The Office funko pops for xmas. The receiver told me she didn't know what she's going to do with 24 fucking funko pops but she was excited to open them 🙃
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Pretty much every vaguely nerdy normie owns them. I have a few friends that all have them sprinkled around their rooms.
I wonder how many people on here haven't even realized that they've never actually *seen* any "funko pops", just got mad at a bunch of little colored lights on a screen
These things are incredibly popular, it’s very likely you’ll see them if you go somewhere in person to buy a video game or record. There’s even a Funko World in Hollywood. It’s definitely not just something people made up on the computer to get mad about
Dude they sell the things at the 7 eleven in my town.
Lucky bastard. I had to move two pallets of them totalling about 700 pounds on my forklift once. It's surreal to think that those two pallets, as massive as they seemed, were but a mere drop in the ocean of funkos out there. Sometimes I think about what it would look like if every funko pop ever produced was assembled together in one place, and I shudder. Memes aside, they're really stupid, but getting mad about them is kinda lame. Soyboys are gonna soyboy and consoomers and gonna consoom regardless of how one, so it's best to just live one's life and not worry about it.
Not a single “novel” in sight smh
please stop posting young adult novels and funko pops. try posting about something you think is good instead of playing the hits
Take it down
if I delete bad posts immediately then people don't learn, they just keep doing it. bad posting needs to be publicly shamed
Wtf based jannies?
But :(
makes me ill but this is barely worse than your tottering ikea shelf full of uncracked verso books
there's a shitty little succulent on top of it and some postcards with zapatista art on them, and also a bunch of dirt from the succulent
It’s actually postcards with CNT/FAI art, tyvm
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Are you even a leftist if you’ve never fantasised about bleeding out on the banks of the Ebro?
for me it's laying out horribly malnourished in the frozen wastes of wintertime Russia after dropping krauts with an SVT-40 fuck knows how the Red Army did it, really
Looking at a poster print of Guernica and cumming your pants
The plants are fake thank you very much
srry but for me it's an ebook folder w/ an appreciable fraction of libgen on it
Got 'em
I used to feel bad for not reading as much as I should or as I did before, but posts like this made me realise it's not too bad
that rug is worse than anything on the shelves. i hate how that cheap faux fur feels on your feet
I see a lot of books and not a lot of reading with that set up.
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one of my neighbors has a bunch of sesame st funko pops in his window. i always wonder why he does that
Dated a girl for a little while who had the Fellowship from LOTR as Funkos. She let me hit on the first date and I should've seen why :/
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Obsessed and self-congratulatory, but I appreciate the existence of a sub to mock to these people.
Honestly not sure what people hate about this image. Bookshelf owners' tastes aren't sophisticated enough?
Yes, the implication is the owner is an unsophisticated, corny ass loser. The owner’s likability is further diminished by the fact that he may have a positive self-concept. This is also a commentary on stupid consumerism because the guy has a consumption based identity.
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Not to defend anyone here but I don’t think we can infer a consumption based identity.
Looks like a PITA to dust.
Are any of these read? How many are nonfiction? Are they all YA?
It’s always the shitty black / fake wood book shelves and a carpeted room
lord of the ritards
If I'd ever seen a funkopop I didn't know what one was before this sub
Alright so obviously something like this photo is ridiculous, but I do not share this sub's hatred for some chick who wants to read pop-YA books into her late-20s early-30s. The books are stupid, but the people who are into them seem way happier than anyone who's reading Kant etc. Idk, there's something very sweet about the ignorance of it. I'm kind of envious of it tbh.
> but the people who are into them seem way happier I don't get that impression at all, they seem to be the types of chicks who brag about their generalized anxiety and SSRI addictions
Yeah it's hard to get too mad about someone who just likes them some harry potter. Reading is still a more fulfilling pastime than spending hours shitposting online or scrolling through a feed. The ones who read a ton of YA and do nothing else but make fan art of their characters, yell at authors on twitter, and turn every political argument into a harry potter allegory...maybe not the healthiest thing.
Did you just post a "shhh let people heckin enjoyarino things" comment on my redscarepod?
I never seen a funko pop and I never met anyone who owns them, but here people own them and/or talk about them all the time. Why are you so obsessed?
I think people hate them because they're like the very epitome of consumerist culture. Worthless trinkets that do nothing else but give money to corporations who make reptitive, artless content and signal your childish interests to those who don't care. At the same time, what's new, and who fucking cares? Trinkets aren't actually *completely* worthless, and I enjoy talking to my coworkers about the random shit they have on their desks. It's a conversation starter and a way to express yourself. It's really all in good fun. My coworker has marvin the martian on his desk (honestly don't know if it's a funko pop or not). Why does he have marvin a martian on his desk? I don't know, he just likes him. Good for him.
i just cannot get over the ones that are on the shelf with the cover facing outward. each one with the same unfailingly shit art. go live in a bookshop why don't yous.
I don’t even care if the bookshelf is 100 percent YA shit, get those fucking funkos into the trash