i’ll never understand why we don’t call countries the names they actually call themselves
like, i know this is a weeaboo-sounding example, but let’s start with Japan. They call themselves Nippon or Nihon depending on… i guess, the speaker’s accent??? or their level of formality while speaking??? I dunno. But we still called them Zipangu for like a few hundred years. And now we call them Japan.
All because Marco Polo asked someone in China about that island over there and they said “oh that’s Cipangu” and Marco Polo was like “Oh, Zipangu, cool.” And then he went back to Italy and said “Y’ALL THERE’S THIS DOPE-ASS ISLAND CALLED ZIPANGU” and people back in Italy were like “An island called Giappone? Dope.”
And this pattern of people mishearing people kept repeating until we got to “Japan.”
And we still call them Japan even though we know better. Because fuck you, Marco Polo asked the wrong person 500 years ago and misheard them and we’re sticking to that, I guess.
that was literally just the world’s worst game of telephone
peter and shuri develop a tradition where if one of them calls out the beginning of a meme, the other person has to finish it.
he once made shuri yell “your dick is now a noodle” at okoye so she waits until steve finally lets peter hold his shield and yells “THIS BITCH EMPTY” only to watch peter scream “YEET” and fuckin throw the shield through a window
They get Groot in on in it and they both understand him
“I am Groot!”
“I won’t hesitate bitch!”
“They’ve barely known Groot and they can understand him perfectly.” Rocket is both amazed and confused
“Groot how can you know these terran memes? we’ve only been here for two days!”
the fuck was up with those pink panther movies that had nothing to do with the pink panther
wait… ur telling me the live action movies came before the cartoon? the cartoon has been a product of the live action movies the whole time? not the other way around? what the fuck
The first pink panther movie came out in 1963 and there weren’t any animated shorts staring the pink panther until 1964. Look it up the cartoon is a product of the weird live action movies. The pink panther is a diamonds fursona.
Homestuck is being shown off by Viz Media at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas!
Over its 30-year history, VIZ Media has pioneered new paths in publishing, animation and entertainment licensing of Japanese content in North America. Blockbuster properties, including BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS, JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE, ONE-PUNCH MAN and HOMESTUCK, are available as a variety of consumer products for audiences of all ages.
Thanks to The Toy Geeks Network for live streaming their walkaround, as it seems no one else has taken any pictures
seeing homestuck on a big ol official banner next to naruto is. somethin else
