I still can’t get over how Naruto is literally named after the little pink spiral thingies you get in ramen noodles
the western equivalent would be like naming your kid fucking Crouton
MY NAME IS CROUTON AND IM GONNA BE PRESIDENT SOMEDAY BELIEVE IT
It gets better: Narutomaki, the aforementioned topping, is named for the whirlpools in the region it originated from. His last name, Uzumaki, means vortex/spiral. So the kid’s name is basically whirlpool vortex, or if you really want to simplify it, spiral spiral.
Naruto Uzumaki joins Remus Lupin in the Moon Moon Category of naming.
The tumblr classical music fandom always seems to have a problem with how various people spell Tchaikovsky, and for that reason I present to you the Library of Congress’s list of recognized spelling variants:
whenever I feel bad about having a weird name I remind myself that C.S. Lewis’ middle name was Staples
When I was a kid, one of my family members quoted the first line of Dawn Treader—“There was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it"—and I said, “Brave words from a man whose name was Clive Staples Lewis,” and my mom lost it.
Steel Phoenix Studios 