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]
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.
Beautiful.
Now I’m crying thanks
and a new cat was hired right?
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
Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.
Law
I’m crying at 11pm over train cats
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.
a legacy
I’d just like to add that there is a ‘Santama’, whose name was ‘SUNtamatama’ (the capitalisation is not my own, it’s in the actual name). They were sent to Okayama prefecture for station-master training. The Okayama PR rep Mister/Ms Y, who was looking after SUNtamatama then refused to let go of the cat, saying something along the lines of, “This child is ours and I will not let them go, they will stay in Okayama”, and so SUNtamatama remained in Okayama.
“if labyrinth was in modern day everyone would be so tumblr horny and fandom weird for david bowie” is such a weird thing to say… like… did you see labyrinth… that’s like the whole point of david bowie in the movie. did you see his crotch.
Children today are wild with their, ‘Can you believe we would’ve sexualized the Goblin King, a character made to be sexualized or else they wouldn’t have stuffed that goddamn grapefruit down the front of Bowie’s trousers?’ and their ‘Because it was mostly on LiveJournal, we’re going to pretend nobody was writing obscene amounts of Depp Wonka fic.’
Next it’ll be, ‘Holy shit, people would’ve wanted to fuck Dr. Frank-N-Furter!!!’ and ‘Good thing we invented shipping, because now we can all finally consider if Kirk and Spock would’ve been a good couple.’
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