2016 tumblr renaissance

Rae | 23 | Space girl in Tokyo 

[catchymemes]

[ahotknife]

the beach boys were right. it would be nice

[cannibalchicken]

he was neither impressed nor offended

[utopians]

forgot the best part of death note, the american names written by someone who was just kind of guessing what american names sounded like. anyways rip to raye penber, arire weekwood, and lian zapack, average american men

[utopians]

rest in peace real character and average american man mail jeevas

[utopians]

the real american men and women of death note taken STRAIGHT from the manga

[elkaos]

Same energy

[udon-tea]

Ok I know many foreign names in manga/anime do sound this dumb out of cluelessness and it's funny to point and laugh, but in the case of Death Note in particular, this was not a "haha japanese man doesn't know american names" thing. The weird names were a deliberate choice.

I don't have my copy with me right now to directly quote the passage, but on the Death Note vol. 13 tankoubon—which consists of extras and behind-the-scenes content—, the author says that all the names in the series (including the japanese ones) were chosen to not be similar to real names, to avoid creating awkwardness/fear/superstition due to someone's real name being in the fictional Death Note.

For the japanese names, this was achieved by using names that sound like normal japanese names, but are written with unusual kanji (such as the surname Ide being spelled 伊出 rather than 井手, or Takahashi spelled 鷹橋 rather than 高橋). Light's whole name, Yagami Light spelled 夜神月, is very unique and unusual, to avoid creating unwanted association between him and any real person.

Since names in english don't have kanji, the author just invented names that sound vaguely american/british but are not real names in those countries.

[lostsometime]

oh i didn’t know this!  that’s actually really cool!

[ayanarts-01]

want more of whatever’s going on with maomao and jinshi

[jonathanssweatercollection]

loving the lord of the rings so far

[handmed0wnart]

[kaijuno]

If the USA is so great then why did they make a USB?

[bonyassfish]

[kaijuno]

Yeah okay that’s fair

[obsob]

good morning i would like to bring attention to the list of names from th woodlouse wiki page

[obsob]

[obsob]

literally could do this all day

[noramoon]

wait guys im curious— what were you doing 500 days ago? you can use a diary or whatever to check i just think that it'd just be cool to see

[luwha]

Tumblr: No NSFW! You know how it is we banned it because of the bots in 2018!

Also tumblr:

[hithisismeandmyfaces]

lmao

[luwha]

You know how it is then, folks!

[roach-works]

hot local singles in your area! hot local singles YOU CANNOT REMOVE FROM YOUR AREA

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

i discovered that my favorite ytp on the planet got taken down... I still think about this scene every day

[caecilius-est-pater]

[Transcript:]

Gandalf: This is the wawawawawawa forged by the dark lord SaS.

Frodo: SaS was destroyed.

Ring: Ayayayayayayayaaaa!

Gandalf: No, Frodorf.

[angel-derangement]

losing my mind at this article about a guy trying out the meta verse

[cryptotheism]

I had a dream that Joe Biden addressed the nation wearing a Miko robe like a Shinto priestess. He was also visibly 8 months pregnant. He didn't talk about that until the press asked him about it, to which he replied "I bear the child of a great spirit" as if that was like, something mildly inconvenient like getting stuck in traffic.

[flagellant]

[cryptotheism]

Laika how did you make this that fast

[flagellant]

Who do you think gave you the dream

[luthienne]

extremely fucked up that the only way out is through

[zofranfan]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[the-vegan-muser]

this Tears of the Kingdom gameplay is incredible

[reasoncourt]

god forbid women do anything