This Place

trash blog, no rhyme or reason just things I enjoy. Also lots of pictures of my corn snake

[wordwizards]

new tumblr people if you have a blank blog and you only like stuff but never reblog anything people are going to assume you’re not a real person and block you

[trackerkitsune]

Go full gremlin and reblog everything you want to, new tumblr peeps! There’s no such thing as “old posts” on here.

[bisquicklite]

Is this the first thing I’ve reblogged? Maybe? Do I know what I’m doing? Absolutely not. Am I encouraged by the phrase ‘go full gremlin’? Yes.

I am now filled with the urge to shove all the pretty rocks and tidbits into my pockets.

[dholwrites]

[literaturenut]

My parents got a new kitten and it’s very cute. It spends like 90% of its time sleeping and 10% of its time acting as a small furry rocket with the sole goal of taking you out at the ankles.

[literaturenut]

Look I try to be a good snake mom and provide lots of hides and enrichment that are big enough for a growing corn, but this little bastard insists on cramming into a literal piece of trash that he is barely small enough to fit in. Why creature. Why.

[deactivationgocrazy-deactivated]

"the education system traumatizes students it deems stupid" and "the education system traumatizes students it deems gifted" are two concepts that can and should coexist.

[doubleca5t]

I think I've got a compromise

[literaturenut]

In the previous tags there is mention of confusion as to why people might fight over who had it worse, and speaking as someone who is at one point or another deemed gifted or deemed stupid, the education system uses both groups as tools against one another.

Like the gifted kids are simultaneously warned that they don’t want to be relegated to the stupid class, while also seeing that, from their perspective, the “stupid kids” have much less going on in the gifted kids who are constantly being worked to death have going on. The slackers always seem to have it easy.

On the other hand, the stupid kids are constantly belittled and told that they will never have access to the same kind of opportunities that their gift counterparts will. They see that the gifted kids get all of the meager resources, while the stupid kids are prevented from participating in the few things that make school life fun. You can’t join sports, or be in the school play if your GPA isn’t good enough.

The system works best when it puts these groups against each other, and so it’s no surprise, to me at least, that those resentments continue on along with the trauma.

[hellenhighwater]

we have an overflow of Ashleys in my class of Bar-takers, and the two I spend the most time with could not be more opposite if they tried. One Ashley has plastered a wall of her study room with motivational quotes and inspirational Disney lines, to help her keep her spirits up and pass the Bar. The other Ashley has plastered the wall of her study room with pictures of the dumbest lawyers she’s ever met, because if they can pass the Bar, she can pass the Bar. 

we’re all a little crazy at this point.

[literaturenut]

Fresh substrate demands some exploration, even when in blue

[literaturenut]

8 months later, and Lord WiggleWorm still loves a paper towel tube more then anything. He uh doesn’t fit nearly as well now though.

[literaturenut]

Sleeve friend

[literaturenut]

A sweet baby, checks in on life outside his favorite. tube.

[ultrafacts]

Source

Video of Tama

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[majikkant-deactivated20180504]

The picture in the background of the second one

[pizzaismylifepizzaisking]

Tama is boss

[ultrafacts]

[cat-fandom]

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]

[retro-geek-deactivated20220412]

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.

[system-fail-ure-deactivated2021]

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.

[gothiccharmschool]

You don’t have to reblog this. But I will.

[augustdementhe]

I love this saga.

[vida-magkav-phinks-sister]

I started crying but it is beautiful

[omg-snakes]

I have my friend's corn snake. She bought her from PetSmart in Sept 2018. She's grown quite a bit over the last few months, but I'm worried she's still underweight. She is a bit over 2 feet long and her widest part around is maybe as big as my thumb. I've been giving her 2 pinkies every 10 days. What would you suggest?

Hrm, she’s two years old and still getting pinkies? It sounds like your friend was underfeeding her by quite a bit. I would recommend getting her on a kitchen scale and weighing her. Offer prey equal to 10% of her body weight every 7 days, gradually increasing the prey size over the next month or so until she’s getting about 15% of her body weight in food. I’d say stick with 15% of her weight every week and keep an eye on her growth rate over the next year. She might be permanently stunted but she might also catch up over time? Watch her body condition, too. Corn snakes should be shaped somewhat like a slice of zucchini bread or pound cake, with a domed back and straight sides. If her body condition seems to be getting pudgy you can decrease her meals to 10% and/or decrease feeding frequency to every 10 days again. I hope that she gets onto a sturdy growth rate and that you enjoy getting to know her!

[literaturenut]

Absolutely not an expert, but one of the reasons I'm aware of that you graduate from pinkies, is because the older, larger prey have more developed bones, and introduce more calcium to the snake. I know garters for instance, if they're eating only fish, need calcium supplemented through vitamin powder and the like.

[pasdecoeur]

so.

i guess fanfiction wasn’t a phase….

[pasdecoeur]

anyway tag how old you were when you got into fanfiction, and your first fandom, and how long you’ve been stuck in the trenches with all the rest of us

[supervillainny]

I am 38 tomorrow and I have been in fandom for 25 freaking years

[literaturenut]

Lord WiggleWorm in training to be a shoulder snake, watching some youtube with me

[revoltingchild]

[mxlabradorite]

I will reblog this every Christmas season I’m on tumblr.

[drunkygoesonadventures]

It’s beginning to look a lot like shit scram

[literaturenut]

My sweet baby, Lord WiggleWorm himself, snuggled up for the day in his moss bucket. I love him so so much

[whitepeopletwitter]

[vbartilucci]

Radioactive sand, yet.

[the-library-alcove]

Helpful little map showing just how much sand, in fact.  Look at all of those areas of “under one person per square mile”

[dutchster]

when it’s november 1st

[crazyaboutlefandoms]

Songs with the same bpm but played over different than original video tracks give me life

[angryschnauzer]

This really has the 2020 vibe huh