Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TheDarkestShark@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of my favorite fan theories is that the authors did not name the ship after the horse from don quixote directly. There is a Rush song called Cygnus X-1 that’s basically a space opera and the ship in that song is called the Rocinate, and one of the authors of The Expanse is a huge rush fan. So in my mind that is where the ships name comes from.

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  • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One the expanse loosely based on a play by post RPG game the author was running? Maybe the name came from that? Isn’t that also why Shed was killed off, the player couldn’t play anymore.

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I also learned it from Rush, hell yeah!

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• sanzky@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love that the guys say something like “it means war horse”. Rocinante is a word play with “Rocin antes”. Rocin being an old weak horse unfit for serious work and. ‘antes’ is the spanish word for ‘before’.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    americans wrote it. it has to be ‘bad ass’.

    americans can’t understand irony. too dumb.

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    • rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      From the book:

      Holden punched the comm system on the wall. “Well, crew, welcome aboard the gas freighter Rocinante.”

      “What does that name even mean?” Naomi said after he let go of the comm button.

      “It means we need to go find some windmills,” Holden said over his shoulder as he headed to the lift.

      Try harder.

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      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        they are talking about the TV show.

        try harder.

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  • crapwittyname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So it translates to “Prenag”? I love it.

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I only know it because it’s the name of my best friends horse. He played the violin at our wedding

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What a talented horse

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Smart horse

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• Ashiette@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For me it’s because of One Piece

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shame! (bling)

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• bunnyBoy@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I only know it because of Limbus Company XD

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• TipRing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I never made this connection but now I imagine this as Holden being self-aware / self-critical.

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• monotremata@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For me it’s “An Animated Description of Mr. Maps” by The Books.

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• pno2nr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What about John Steinbeck? Travels with Charley.

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