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The picture in the background of the second one

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Tama is boss

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THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

ultrafacts

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

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For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

karinanotcinerina

Beautiful.

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Now I’m crying thanks

sapphic-matriarchy

and a new cat was hired right?

clarenecessities

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

beasti

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

lafayettelabaguette

Law

tooiconic

I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

sighinastorm

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016). There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

linkislost

a legacy

bemusedlybespectacled

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

kindaoffkilter

“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]

As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.

cryoverkiltmilk

Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

northeastartist

You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

redchrominance

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

twimmythebabywitch

you cannot pass without reblogging guys. i’m sorry, i don’t make the rules.

dduane

You can’t not reblog a goddess. It’s just what’s so. :)

butch-of-the-blades

ALWAYS REBLOG

I'm a quarter and still alive. 🌹

leepacey

I say, jolly good show, chaps. And did I panic? I think not.

zombeesknees

#the comic relief who is genuinely comic #and who makes the ‘incompetent bufoon’ trope actually work as an endearing quality as originally intended #well played movie - well played #john hannah #WHAT A FOX

antivillain

#but! BUT!!!#THE GREAT THING ABOUT JONATHAN#IS HE’S NOT INCOMPETENT#he can read ancient Egyptian albeit not as well as his baby sister#he clearly has an interest in archaeology if only for treasure-related reasons#he had to go through intensive schooling to get the sort of permit required#to even have digs of his own#WHICH HE CLEARLY DOES#on a dig down in Thebes#he says and Evie believes him#Jonathan reads from the Book of the Living and he’s an excellent shot with a rifle and is clearly a boxer#Jonathan is SO COMPETENT and SO IMPORTANT#while simultaneously being plucky comic relief without JUST being plucky comic relief#u get me?

star-anise

Jonathan, like Phryne Fisher, clearly hasn’t taken anything seriously since 1918.

jkthinkythoughts

And, I would suspect, for similar reasons.

thebluemeany

^^^This. Jonathan being in World War I makes total sense. It’s almost impossible for him not to have been. Given his age and background, he probably volunteered in 1914.

Of course he’s going to not take anything seriously. Of course he can shoot. The drinking, the skittishness, the recklessness, the sense of ‘keeping your head down’, the scepticism about traditional heroism….

The one with more actual experience of death, carnage and fighting is Jonathan. Not Rick. Not Ardeth Bey. Jonathan.

When Rick says ‘I’ve had worse (situation/odds)’ and Jonathan replies “ Me too”. That’s probably true.

Drop The Mummy into the real world context and that’s a character who’s going to have seen a lot of his school friends die, along with the myths and tales of heroism they were raised on. Sort of makes the line where Evie’s scolding him for drinking/messing about a lot darker…

Evie: Have you no respect for the dead? Jonathan: Of course I do, but sometimes I’d rather like to join them.

gingersnapwolves

I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW

deadcatwithaflamethrower

*record scratch*

Wait a minute. Why is it being assumed that Rick and Ardeth wouldn’t have fought in WWI, as well? Johnathan isn’t that much older than any of them–in fact, there is a good chance that he, Rick, and Ardeth are all of an age. Just because Johnathan’s hair is thinning doesn’t mean he’s a decade older.

It was a LOT easier to lie about your age back in the day. So much easier.

Johnathan is the soldier who fought in WWI and became disillusionsed with pretty much everything except wanting to live (most of the time) and live well–and where is the shame in that? He would have seen some of the darkest shit humanity has to offer, and he kept going. And the thing is, though, archaeological digs at that time were DANGEROUS. Not from curses (usually) but from assholes who would turn up with guns to try and steal anything you discovered. Johnathan never really STOPPED having to deal with dangerous pricks, it was just less dangerous than death raining down from the sky in bomb, bullet, and mustard gas form all the time.

Rick grew up in Egypt as an orphan. What paperwork? He joined the French Foreign Legion, which fought in World War I in some seriously critical battles on the Western Front in Europe. Rick is the soldier who quickly grew disillusioned with everything, but he didn’t know how to stop being a soldier. Johnathan had a career and schooling to fall back on. Rick had guns, the talent of not dying easily, and not much else. When the army finally left him behind because he was literally the only survivor of his last FFL battle, he literally didn’t know what to do. At all. “Looking for a good time” was code for “Please someone give me a fucking purpose.”

Ardeth grew up in the desert. He probably never enlisted…but if you think his people didn’t fight against invading forces during WWI, think again: that region of North Africa was swarming with soldiers on both sides, and they alll tried to claim everything they stumbled over even while in the midst of fighting each other. Ardeth spent his entire life fighting to protect what belonged to him, what belonged to his people, and trying to keep assholes from stealing things that didn’t belong to anyone (for good reason). By the time the war was over, Ardeth was disillisioned in everyone except his own people, and seriously fucking done with stupid idiots who stole in the name of archaeology. He is completely (justifiably) resigned to the worst when Rick the Magic Survivalist returns to Hamunaptra.

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This has been another episode of “Actual History adding context and depth to character behavior”

filthybonnet

I love when “The Mummy” fandom comes out to play. But it’s even better when the history side of tumblr is also in “The Mummy” fandom.

knottingthewind

Every time this post comes around I am compelled to watch The Mummy again.

rachelladytietjens

There is an explicitly nihilistic ‘old soldier’ in the movie too, just to drive home the point.

Winston: “Is it dangerous?”

Rick: “Well, you probably won’t live through it.”

Winston: “By Jove, do you think so?”

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A very rare Andean cat stretching out in front of wildlife cam

(via)

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Extremely Rare Forbidden Tum-Tum

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hallogallo

Smug face of a free man

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[Video Description: A TikTok by @signinngwolf showing a west asian person signing passionately at the camera with subtitles of what they are signing. The video concludes with the text “#blacklivesmatter”. The subtitles read:

Ok, this video is a little different but I just wanted to get something off my chest. I don’t know if this will affect my viewership but I can’t sit here and do nothing.

Breonna Taylor

She was someone who breathed. She was someone who loved. Someone who saved lives.

Why are we using her name as a meme…as some trivial caption…as a tool to increase our viewership? It’s disgusting.

When we use the quote: “Arrest the cops that killed Breonna Taylor” we are essentially using the passive voice. This means our attention is put on Breonna Taylor and Not the three cops that Killed her.

I Bet most white people who use that quote don’t know the names of the cops themselves.

Instead of using that quote, I suggest…Arrest Brett Hankison

Arrest Jonathan Mattingly

Arrest Myles Cosgrove

Arrest them. Know Their Faces.

Make them well known. Even if Nothing happens, their reputations will at least be destroyed. Does this mean that we forget Breonna’s name? No. Don’t. But we just treat her with Respect. Period. End Video Description.]

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Jonathan Mattingly, Myles Cosgrove, Brett Hankinson.

Enough with using Breonna's name as a trend. Enough with a tiktok song that doesn't help.

Stop saying "arrest the killers of Breonna Taylor" and start saying "arrest JONATHAN MATTINGLY, MYLES COSGROVE, AND BRETT HANKINSON."

You need to do better for Black women. You need to do better for Black lives.

powerfulwizard

Please donate to Riot Ribs!!

creaturey

They have received a lot of love and have requested that people donate to local independent journalists instead for now, who are also super worthy of your donation, as they are the only people covering what’s going on here in depth and are out here in the middle of the protests every night getting tear gassed and arrested!!

I recommend Andrew Jankowski in particular right now, because he was just arrested last night (7/16/20) (donate).

@PDocumentarians was also arrested a few weeks ago (donate).

And here’s an incomplete list I made a while back! Tuck Woodstock, Garrison Davis, Sergio Olmos, Donovan Farley, and Lindsay Smith (not listed - @LindsayPSmith7) are IMO doing some really exceptional journalism fieldwork right now and could use some extra $. I highly recommend following Robert Evans and Alex Zielinski as well.

creaturey

never mind lol they are REALLY determined to deny free food to the community and suppress altruistic acts of kindness with violence & arrest (from today 7/18/20 - video)

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mediamattersforamerica

Fox News is extremely racist. Here are six minutes of examples.

stayingwoke

Fox News is toxic as hell. Fuck them and all the racist white people who support them.

wilwheaton

Fox news is racist as fuck.

radicalurbanista

meghli

now whenever i see ppl talk about the iraqi journaist who threw a shoe at bush, i remember when he bragged on his page about beating his ex-wife to a pulp 😔 😔 😔

meghli

part of why i no longer engage w any content about him. i looked up to him as a kid but now as a woman i cant bring myself to ignore his virulent violence against women especially since hes in the parliament now. not only does he have a history w domestic violence but also hes always posting shit abt how decadence of middleeastern societies can be traced back to women “reading books”, “getting ideas” and wearing what they want

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dailyblep

Lil blop

andthenitgotstranger

*audible gasp*

residentgoodgirl

I cannot believe… they let chris rock get away with this

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he ain’t lie

molothoo

He really didn’t

periwinkle39

The real power move here is that the witness gave a very specific and useful description that the police could use to conduct their search. Yes, the suspect was black but he also offered height, weight, what he was wearing and non-racial identifying features. it was THE COPS who took all this useful information and decided to weaponize it against a kid.

This isn’t just an accurate depiction of how racism works. It’s a specific call-out about racist cops and the negative effect of racism on police work.