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Anime is great. Anime will be like “this is my character of ambiguous western descent. Their name is the most incomprehensible combination of made up sounds. And if not that, it is a name that has not appeared on a single birth certificate since 1773.

Code Geass went and said “most of these character hail from Future Sort-of-Britain, including our main character, who will be named Lelouch just like every single British person isn’t.” Then they decided to distract you from this by naming his love interest Shirley, cornering the market of 80+ year old grandmothers clutching their 3 bowls of strawberry sucker candy in delight. Code Geass didn’t even call it a day here they had one more trick up their sleeve and it was to name the third character in the group Rivalz, a name and a character which appeal to exactly no one.

Tiger and Bunny said “What should our western young-20′s heartthrob successful pretty-boy deuteragonist be named? What screams ‘young’ and ‘trendy’ and ‘brilliant’ and ‘sexy’? Barnaby. Barnaby Brooks. This is our Sex Symbol Barnaby.” I bet a bunch of ghosts from the 17th century were stoked about that one. I bet Barnaby walks into gift shops asking if they have any of the travel keychains in his name and he gets laughed out of the store. I bet Barnaby’s parents didn’t die, they just faked their deaths to get away from him seeing as they hated him enough to name him Barnaby.

I haven’t followed Attack on Titan in 7 years but yall have a character named Pieck Finger. That’s it that’s my roast.

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I JUST REMEMBERED

BACCANO HAS A CHARACTER NAMED JACUZZI SPLOT

JACUZZI SPLOT

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There are 3 kinds of tags on this post

Code Geass fans saying “that’s fair”

HxH/Death Note/Fate/JoJo fans informing me of terrible horrible names that perfectly prove my point and also deal psychic damage with every new addition

Baccano fans who are absolutely ready to throw hands with me

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WH–

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CHROLLOS ALT NAME IS THAT????

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QUATTRO

W H A T

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..Why is this my mosT reBloGGed PosT? -_-

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“The Militarization of the Police Department – Deadly Farce,” an original painting by Richard Williams from “The 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2014″ in Mad magazine #531, published by DC Comics, February 2015.

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Here’s the original, for comparison. And here’s a bit more about the artist and why he created the piece above for MAD Magazine.

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Richard Williams on Norman Rockwell:

“For most people, he was the painter of ‘America,’” he added. “But even he said his vision was what he wanted ‘America’ to be. It was a mythical ‘America,’ a place where all people were decent, honest and full of good will. His work was full of gentle humor that made you feel a little better; even if you knew it wasn’t really true… you just wished it was. My parody of Rockwell’s painting simply says, ‘That myth is dead.’”

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I think it’s relevant to add that even Norman Rockwell chose to leave his cushy job at the Saturday Evening Post because he wanted to make artwork that was more radical. The Post had rules that wouldn’t allow him to do artwork depicting black people as anything other than servants. The job paid really well and that was a huge reason he continued on. But he wanted change that and so he moved to Look magazine.

A lot of people know about the very first piece he did when he left the post which was the The Problem We All Live With which depicts Ruby Bridges walking to school under federal protection.

But I don’t think enough people know about Murder in Mississippi which depicts three real civil rights activists who were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and sherriffs. The magazine ran the sketch instead of the finished piece because they felt it had a more striking statement to accompany the article. Norman Rockwell would finish that version after publication which is here

Rockwell’s legacy is sanitized because he decided to maintain his job at the Post for so long despite his frustrations with not being able to express himself. The civil rights movement was just his final straw to change what he could with the little time he had left. Look magazine received a lot of hate for Rockwell painting these as well.

Another favorite piece of mine is The Right to Know which depicts an integrated populace questioning their government. In 1968, the year of Vietnam and the year the Fair Housing Act only just got signed in months prior:

But I think it’s important to include the caption Rockwell originally wrote for the piece as well. I think it represents how a 74 year old Rockwell felt about the America he believed in and the people in it:

We are the governed, but we govern too. Assume our love of country, for it is only the simplest of self-love. Worry little about our strength, for we have our history to show for it. And because we are strong, there are others who have hope. But watch us more closely from now on, for those of us who stand here mean to watch those we put in the seats of power. And listen to us, you who lead, for we are listening harder for the truth that you have not always offered us. Your voice must be ours, and ours speaks of cities that are not safe, and of wars we do not want, of poor in a land of plenty, and of a world that will not take the shape our arms would give it. We are not fierce, and the truth will not frighten us. Trust us, for we have given you our trust. We are the governed, remember, but we govern too.

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I’d just like to briefly say even Rockwell’s seemingly feel good Americana pieces are often more political than people today realize for example

likely the most famous picture of a Thanksgiving dinner ever painted and you see it all the time.

What you may not know is its actual title

“Freedom From Want” it’s a part of a series of 4, including this now famous meme

“Freedom of Speech” These paintings were illustrations of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech where The President laid out a vision that would become what the Allies were fighting for in WWII universal human rights that became a part of the UN charter.

So this homey American Thanksgiving scene was also a bold statement that no one in the world should go hungry

Rockwell’s work was very political, he used that Americana small town America vibe of his work to make what he was saying feel very close to the viewers he was trying to reach and also his optimism of the human spirt but for sure not blind to the need to build a better world.

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@cyberneticlagomorph

DuDe, you know I'm a psyKhoPomP By now. I haVe Power oVer Death ;)

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I haven't spoken to you in like 4 years my guy

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I know, iT's Been... Busy. Two young KiDs running around. Or floaTing around, in TiKvah's Kase :|

@cyberneticlagomorph

DuDe, you know I'm a psyKhoPomP By now. I haVe Power oVer Death ;)

#cyberneticlagomorph #((I have been driving a truck for the last few years all over the country :3

Me: And these balloons you speak of, are they buoyant?

Pennywise, clearly annoyed: Is there a way you can ask that without sounding lile a pretentious dick?

harry potter saga, a summary:

diligentpsychopomp

As opposed to literally any other year at school.

#Harry Potter #Random thoughts

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I forced a bot to listen to over 1,000 hours of Warhammer audiobooks and then asked it to write a Ciaphas Cain movie of its own. Here is the first page.

#warhammer 40k #accurate

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@0empty0eyes0 @punkkroc @malleablepersonage @diligentpsychopomp

Kris I can understand here since he’s human, 8ut the rest of you are certifia8le.

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Neither Do I, really. I was mosTly raiseD on Earth :p

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before i forget…

Finished Retepa :3c A recently revamped troll; she’s kind and studious and has an incredible luck streak. The kind to be able to find patterns and exploit loopholes pretty easily, always makes the best of a sticky situation optimistically. She’s kind and friendly, though there’s a bigger story here that she’s trying to sort out.

Ya see, there’s an old tale about a few trolls who fell themselves to lock away a dangerous otherworldly entity…. whether or not this holds truth is beyond her; she just wants to know what she and her friends have to do with it…. ;)

Her old sprite design is under the cut.

Keep reading

#beautiful people

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#in-laws #beautiful people

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Oh fuck my vampire boyfriend *accelerates time until the universe resets*

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everyone is cowboys now

diligentpsychopomp

What in tarnation...?

#random thoughts #chefpyro

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@diligentpsychopomp i was literally gutted 0nce get 0n my level

diligentpsychopomp

Then where's the sKar? :p

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radical-eve

kasaron

Guessing it uses ultrasound?

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Ultrasonic background noise, yes.

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Ye, that’s what I’d use.

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The real question is whether they’re gonna hold the patent close to their chest so they can sell it, or if they’ll open the patent so homegamers can take a crack at building their own.