Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away⦠An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the catās funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]
For those who havenāt read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. Sheās now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.
Beautiful.
Now Iām crying thanks
and a new cat was hired right?
yep! her name is Nitama (essentially āsecond tamaā or ātama IIā) 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
Iām crying at 11pm over train cats
Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).Ā 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
okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because itās 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
āSun-tama-tamaā (a pun off of āSantamaā, lit. āthird Tamaā) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tamaās successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, āI will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.ā [25]
As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tamaās Twitter account.
Can you imagine being that bird? You see a big falling dot off in the distance, so you go to investigate. And itās a human. Just, like, hanging out, in the middle of the sky. Plumbing toward earth at terminal velocity.
āHuh, thatās weirdā you think to yourself.
You land on them. They seem nonplussed by their predicament.
But youāre a busy bird, youāve got places to be. So you just fly off. Good luck, crazy human. Hope you make it.