The SadakoMoose Tumblr

It's the tumblr that SadakoMoose writes. It's ok, you can ask me stuff.

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[crownedpatriot]

Get you a girl like this

[gayskuntank]

Me, feral,

[sadakomoose]

Damn it, Rachel...

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[sadakomoose]

roses are red, bank robbing is neat, her boot too big, for her goddamn feet

[foodstain]

[fartinonfaces]

please let me go here when i die

[funohtrixpointnever-deactivated]

[sadakomoose]

The Irony of these names is that Ray’s Hell Burger is actually a good restaurant that serves good burgers, whereas Cheeseburger in paradise is a mediocre, parrothead, fever dream...

[80sanime]

I was randomly thinking about Yappies today… This was a label some magazines were apparently pushing before Otaku became the main term of address for anime lovers in the mid-80s. Assuming this piece wasn’t tongue-in-cheek to begin with, it’s a charmingly naive relic of a time before the anime fan brand was inextricably associated with social deviance and a basic lack of hygiene.

[weirdlandtv]

Concept drawings for Disneyland Paris attraction, PHANTOM MANOR by Fernando Tenedora, Julie Svendsen and Christian Hope.

That last image, by Tenedora, is slightly hazy but I can’t seem to find a better version.

[transdrowned]

[the-minecraft-funnies]

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[hannecke]

Concepts for a Guy Fieri animated show.

[retrogirly]

[favila33]

Dream Police, original album cover, by Cheap Trick (1979)

[sadakomoose]

woop woop...

@one-time-i-dreamt

[pandavalkyrie]

I can’t believe Bananaphone is an ANTIFA anthem now

[pandavalkyrie]

ring ring ring ring ring ring ring

ANTIFA PHONE

BOOP, BOOPA DOOPA BOOP

[spooky-spaghetties]

RAFFI! OUR MAN!

[ferallindsay]

[oneinsilence]

Japanese-American

I volunteer at Japanese Language School helping to teach Japanese to elementary school children. I do it because knowing and learning the Japanese language has been an important part of my identity and I want to help children take advantage of the opportunity they have at this language school. I feel a connection with Japanese-American families and children. It’s so interesting when they tell me about going to Japan in the summer or visiting their grandparents in Japan because that was a lot like my upbringing. It makes me wonder what life for them is like in Japan because they aren’t at the level of being able to have a conversation in Japanese yet.  

My mom did not place me into Japanese School on Saturdays for specific reasons, but part of me wishes I was enrolled in that from elementary school till high school, because not being able to speak Japanese leaves me feeling disconnected from my Japanese culture and from my Japanese community. I am really curious what my students will be like when they grow up and become aware of their identity as a Japanese-American or a Half-Japanese person growing up in America. What will their relation between their heritage be to the society they live in? I think about this a lot because race is something I think about a lot. 

[5h1njuu]

Having watched and also known other children who have gone through rigorous Japanese language programs all the way from preschool through high school, I feel like it both can make a big difference and yet also doesn’t. The advantages are a close-to-native level pronunciation and a strong sense of identity, but the disadvantages largely lie with inevitable, discouraging collisions with the damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t expectations stemming from the widespread xenophobia we often encounter with “mainland” Japanese people who view even being brought up outside of Japan as something that diminishes our “Japanese-ness” (let alone all of the ugly blood quantum stuff).

I think if we rely on isolated diaspora communities and childhood language education in the US as a way to cultivate Japanese identity, the drop-off rate can be very rapid after adolescence. Out of everyone I know who went through a rigorous Japanese language program from a young age in the US, only a few of us still actively speak the language both professionally and at home because most people just stopped speaking it in middle school and high school (much to their parents’ dismay). I meet them again when we’re in our late 20s and they don’t feel Japanese or Japanese American to me, just American. There is no sense of shared identity and camaraderie.

Those of us who still speak the language speak it only because we live with it, every day. And this has only happened because we’ve either made it a priority to work in Japan and/ or study the language extensively as adults. In addition, I’ve met a number of people who ID as Japanese Americans who don’t speak a lick of Japanese but (to me) are culturally more Japanese than many Japanese people back in Japan. For them, it’s stuff like Kendo, martial arts, kitsuke, cooking or activities through their local temple or church.

The experience has taught me that, for diaspora, identity truly needs cultivating in order to be maintained.  Language need not be a requirement, but an intent to pursue one’s identity is.

[sadakomoose]

[erikapurringtnn]

ハウス house (1977), nobuhiko obayashi

[sadakomoose]

“Do I look like Bread-Cat to you? Bring me Lasagna...“

House would be a very different movie if the cat was Garfield...

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[pengunny]

This is the most beautiful piece of music ive ever heard. :’)

[sadakomoose]

Is this from that Anime about the Cat Player?

[thedevilwearsariadoney]

You fools….. you absolute Buffoons……….. there is only one place we can turn to in these dark times…….. we must return to the land of our beginnings…. our youth…….

[literallyaflame]

in 2019 we’re bringing back 2009 scene culture. everyone dust off your knee high converse. get out your hot topic band tees. dig up your rubber bracelets. i’m buying 27 cans of hair spray as we speak. i’m making you a cookie and i’m gonna fucking eated it

[beckyhop]

I’m not a fan of Evangelion, but I am looking forward to a new generation of anime fans screaming “WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST WATCH” at the ending like I did about 8 or 9 years ago.

[beckyhop]

Oh shit, I just realized this also means I can introduce a whole new generation to this clip afterwards:

[sadakomoose]

The more I listen to this, the more it sounds like a drunk episode of Terrible Writing Advice.