#Random Text Generator

[kiera-raelyn]

I am Rae, God of all the people. Well. If the shoe fits, I suppose.

Bow before me!

I am Arran, god of the most important thing

EDIT: if y'all don’t wanna use your name use your username

[lynne-monstr]

i'm having renewed hatred for subscriptions and advertising. I bought a silly game app a few years ago so I could play it without ads. it was a small one-time fee and I had no problems buying it. today, they put the obnoxious ads back (with sounds!!! what the actual fuck) and are charging a monthly fee to remove them. anyway I un-installed the app immediately.

I'm so tired of having ads shoved in my face and having to pay in perpetuity for some peace and quiet. I don't mind buying things I like, but can we go back to when we only had to buy the thing once.

[faulknercore]

Saw characters x BRAT text generator .ᐟ ꒰ is this anything ꒱

[meamiki]

Happy Anniversary In Stars and Time!! Have some Friend Quest based drawings :D

(These have specific quote picks related to them! And there's also a long ramble on why I like those specific quotes below if interested)

(And by long, I mean roughly 2k+ words of proper ramble total, so be warned before clicking keep reading this link right here to the rb!!)

[thatguywhodoesstuff]

Anyone else think that Diligence kinda sounds like G1 Starscream?

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Definitely an ego thing but y'all should make bingo cards of pokemon I've yet to crochet and maybe that'll be fun extra motivation for me to actually finish them all this year. Because it's definitely possible, there are only 318 left to go, and that's less than a years worth so if I did a new one daily..

[arcticdementor]

I rather enjoyed Code Geass despite its many, many, many flaws, to a great extent because it's the only work I can really think of that takes the "Magneto side" of the Professor-X-vs-Magneto dynamic; and that the "change the system peacefully from within" guy knows, at some unconscious level, that his cause is hopeless and he's only sticking to it so strongly in hopes of fulfilling his deep-seated death wish.

That said, this also provides me the chance to mention something I've been meaning to post: the "Western names" bit. Code Geass is pretty bad on this front, but far from the worst, particularly when you note that a number of the odd given names are in fact real surnames, like Lelouch, Nunnally, and Rivalz — and there are plenty of Mackenzies, Kennedys, and Madisons out there. (There's no excuse for Schneizel, though.)

Gundam has some real weird ones — but then it has the whole "future sci-fi names" thing going (plus Casval's Obviously Fake Pseudonyms). The Nasuverse gets even weirder, but almost all of them are wizards, belonging to their own insular wizard culture (which apparently thinks names like "Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri," "Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia," "Marisbury Animusphere" and "Jubstacheit von Einzbern" are perfectly reasonable). But it's hard to top monikers like Freezing's Satellizer L. Bridget, or Baccano's Jacuzzi Splot.

Off and on for over a year now, I've been manually scraping various fandom wikis gathering a big list of "Western character names" from anime and manga (plus a couple of Chinese mobile games). I used to try feeding this list into a Markov chain (an order-3 character-by-character one) that I wrote up in javascript years ago. (Only, now the method I used to load the content of a text file into a javascript string variable is no longer supported in current browsers for security reasons, and I haven't figured out the modern replacement yet.)

While the results were a lot of gibberish, or else just names from the list recreated, I did occasionally get some notable results, the top examples of which I have saved, and will now present here for your amusement (with some commentary in square brackets):

Aenola von Zeppendelg [very much in keeping with the common pseudo-German pseudo-nobility thing]

Albridge Kiddenburg

Arcia di Raine

Argriffon O'Land

Arslina S. Drostor

Barth Bazilvato

Beatt Shake [And here's the "random English words as name" entry]

Bennia Rodriscogne

Britz Shaftman [The Engrish is strong with this one]

Charcia Harony

Cony Blandoba

Dance Octus ["random English word as name" take two]

Donova B. Kylenberg

Eleary von Jose [presumably pronounced, in the German manner, as /ˈjoː.zə/, not Spanish /xoˈse/]

Elith Gassenbereson

Elynn Breelson [I can easily see someone spelling "Ellen" that way]

Elysitra C. Shamburg

Emillenda Framón

Esmelia Rotobine

Eugraclavia A. Irew ["Eugraclavia" is so very an anime character name]

Fairention Ohank-Albareaux [And just where on Earth — or what other planet — would this name be from?]

Fleur Gascard [Some of them are quite normal and reasonable, occasionally]

Gadokie Pickle [This remains my absolute favorite]

Grunessa Orvestat

Harlette Walkenzeed

Henry Cygnallia

Ingarune la Celyn

Jando Abengau

Judiadonne Winneström

Juliya Kriegor [Not quite Russian, not quite German…]

Kate Clockmorster [I can totally see "Clockmorster" as a surname descended from some obscure Medieval profession.]

Kihamerica Nöll

Larastra Beeferrie

Larcia Armondick

Lelotte von Bolivia [Interestingly, "Bolivia" does not appear in the source text — it looks to be composed via overlapping substrings from "Bolic" and "Olivia"]

Levy Kravendy [This one's fun to say out loud]

Locket Squit ["random English word" take 3, with added Jacuzzi Splot-level silliness]

Lucy Donatalis

Makia J. Grave

Marinico Fordy

Maristephiez Twift

Maxwelle Frantallia [I can totally see someone using "Maxwelle" as a feminine form of Maxwell]

Melo Mirulyne-Krugelweizer [What even is that double surname?]

Nemaillia Folkwyb

Neodylan Vladivlad [My second favorite; should totally be a Gundam character]

Orgo MacNear

Pronch Dorelet

Redis Schrönn

Riddy Mirard

Roberg Asberg

Roston Knutmight [Put "Knutmight" up there with "Clockmorster"]

Sephild Waldarl

Shakira Öswell [Not only is "Shakira" not in the original list, it looks to have required substrings from three different names to produce]

Sharlee Albertoilenda

Sila Medrini

Solenno Bastarosa

Susie Gloristophilia [The juxtaposition of the perfectly normal given name with ridiculously-implausible surname]

Syda Barters

Sylpha Martlee

Tequille Richenhein [Like "tequila" crossed with "Shaquille"]

Thorna Fiorrevík

Timmy Squimpton

Uriam Sisguy

Vans Torris ["random English word" take 4]

Wulf Lavenicoda

Yagelas Lusilovsky

Ziske Oxforton [Would this supposedly be British?]

Will we ever get anything quite like Code Geass again?

I don't think it's possible.

Code Geass is Japanese nationalist propaganda disguised as a global political drama, disguised as a military mecha show, disguised as yaoibait, disguised as a teen melodrama, disguised as a high school romcom, disguised as a Pizza Hut commercial...

...except those layers aren't layers at all, but are instead comingled in a giant snake ball of insanity.

The lead writer, Ichirō Ōkouchi, only ever worked as an episode writer for other shows prior to Code Geass, and never took the helm of an anime series ever again. And it shows.

The minute-to-minute pacing is impeccable from a mechanical standpoint, with tension and stakes rising to ever-higher peaks, balanced out by the slow simmers of the b-plot and c-plot. It keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat at all times. Meanwhile, the large-scale plot is the most off-the-wall middle school nonsense I've ever seen, continually surprising the viewer by pulling twists too dumb to have ever have been on their radar—and therefore more effective in terms of raw shock value.

"Greenlight it!" was the mantra of this anime's production. It must have been. It has, in no particular order, all of the following:

Character designs from CLAMP, the foremost yaoi/BL group in Japan at the time—for characters who are only queer insofar as they can bait the audience, and only straight insofar as they can be more misogynist to the female cast.

Speaking of the female cast, hoo boy the fanservice. We've all seen anime girls breast boobily, with many cases more egregious than Code Geass, but there's something special about it happening immediately after—or sometimes in the middle of!—scenes of military conflict and ethnic cleansing.

Pizza Hut product placement everywhere, in every conceivable situation. High-speed chases, light slice-of-life scenes, intimate character moments, all of it. Gotta have Pizza Hut.

The anime-only Pizza Hut mascot, Cheese-kun. He wears a fedora.

The most hilarious approximations of European names—which I would love to see more often, frankly. Names like, I dunno, "Count Schnitzelgrübe zi Blanquezzio."

A depiction of China that is wholly removed from any modern reality, with red-and-gold pagodas, ornamental robes, scheming eunuchs, and a brainwashed child empress. There's a character named General Tsao, like the chicken.

Inappropriate free-form jazz in the soundtrack, intruding at the most unexpected times.

A secret cabal not unlike the Illuminati, run by an immortal shota with magic powers, holding influence all across the world, at the highest levels of government. They matter for approximately three episodes.

An unexpected insert scene of a schoolgirl using the corner of a table to masturbate. She's doing it to thoughts of her crush, the princess Euphemia—because she believes Euphemia to be as racist as she herself is, and that gets her off. This interrupts an unrelated scene of our protagonist faction planning their next move, which then resumes as if uninterrupted.

Said schoolgirl, in a fit of hysteria, threatens to detonate a worse-than-nuclear bomb in the middle of her school. She then goes on to develop an even more destructive version of that bomb, and become a war criminal, in a chain of cause-and-effect stemming from the moment she finds out that Euphemia wasn't actually that racist.

A character called "the Earl of Pudding."

A premise that asks us to believe that the name Lelouch is normal enough that he didn't need to change it when he went into hiding as an ordinary civilian. "No, that's not Prince Strimbleford von Vanquish! That's our classmate, Strimbleford Smith."

The collective unconscious, a la Carl Jung, within which the protagonist fights his villainous father for control over the fate of humankind. After this is over, the anime just keeps going for about ten more episodes.

An episode in which a mech tosses a giant pizza.

A gay yandere sleeper agent who can manipulate the perception of time.

Chess being played very badly, even to the untrained eye. Lelouch frequently checkmates his opponent by moving his king. This goes hand-in-hand with the anime's crock of bad chess symbolism.

A fictional drug that can most succinctly be described as "nostalgia heroin."

Roller-skating mecha in knightly armor, and some of the most sickass mecha fight choreography that I've seen.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. This anime is what the average Westerner in 2006 thought anime was, and it was made in a confluence of factors that cannot be replicated. I've never had so much fun watching something that I found so... insulting. Repugnant. Ridiculous. Baffling. I love it sincerely.

Catch me cosplaying Lloyd Asplund at a con sometime, or maybe even the big gay loser himself, Lelouch vi Britannia.

[asteroid-fruitcup]

copying the way you type is my love language

[gophergal]

Council delegates are such Funny Dudes

[paper-mario-wiki]

currently reading Franken Fran and it's giving me looooots of ideas about Ambrosia. god i need to get good at art so i can make comics. i have so much Lore to Convey

[arttsuka]

"Ai just makes art more accessible" has to be one of the wrongest and stupidest things I've ever heard.

So let's stop pretending ai just suddenly made art 'accessible'. If you can use ai that means you have access to a phone/pc aka access to any free digital painting program. Even if you don't have that, you probably have access to paper and a pencil or pen (therefore making art more accessible than using generative ai).

Art is one of the most accessible ways to express yourself, people just lack the passion and don't want to spend any time to learn and improve.

[sumboionline]

I asked an AI text generator to come up with an idea for megamind 2

It basically gave me the exact same stuff we saw in the hideous trailer

This is QUITE LITERALLY WHAT WE SAID WOULD HAPPEN

[cessmaga]

not to be obsessed but I like ben and rex parallel to each other

rex's powers are bio-mechanical, while ben's is bio-organic (something like that)

rex can manipulate devices, while ben power is in the device

adds the fact that rex's symbol is a gear while ben's symbol is a watch

rex's is red while ben's green, literally the opposite of the color wheel

they both have themes of humanity and technology

they both have the responsibility to protect the world with their powers at a young age, they are both actually child soldiers

despite that their lives are completely different from one another

[delhe-dalim]

Ok but

General Grievous? In my kitchen?? Angry because he can't eat chocolate???

My dreams sometimes are so weird 🧍‍♀️

[purple-raspberries]

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