harry/the emh is so funny to me like for one they’re both characters where you’d think having gay sex would fix them but in this specific case it would absolutely make them both so much worse and it would be everyone else’s problem. the mess hall would become completely uninhabitable when they start arguing over which 17th century venetian composer is the best over breakfast. the doc always be asking harry to make all sorts of stupid and extraneous modifications to his program and harry would complain about it constantly. janeway (and possibly the rest of the crew too) would be desperately trying to break them up to no avail. it would be absolutely miserable for everyone within four lightyears of them
and oh my god can you imagine if b7 happened at the same time… then both of voyager’s senior engineering officers would be dating an artificial/semi-artificial lifeform who they love arguing with. absolutely insufferable
the thing is that harry deserves to let loose by getting a boyfriend who sucks and everyone hates and yes tom is the obvious contender here but there are other options out there. open your hearts and minds
both is an incredibly inspired idea i can only imagine how catty about it tom and the doctor would be. they’d be constantly trying to one up each other. on the verge of killing each other at least once a shift. just insane beef
Wow. Neither Paris/Kim or EMH/Harry are at all interesting to me, but Tom and the EMH being reluctant, non-involved, jealous members of a dysfunctional throuple? Unrivaled comic potential, sign me up. They’d rather be rivals in an old-fashioned love triangle but Harry made it clear he’s going to date them both and they have to get along and they agreed, each thinking he’d dump the other inside a week. It’s been months. Months, and there’s a schedule, including periodic group holodeck outings.
It should really tell you a lot that the first videogame I invested a lot of time and effort into was Below the Root. It’s a game where you can’t die or lose due to violence inflicted by others or by other misadventure, but you can lose by:
Being mean or violent
Giving your friends the wrong food
Not picking up what someone asked you to get at the store
It’s also the actual canonical ending to a beloved children’s SF series, and, arguably, a very early metroidvania.
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
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
“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.
Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better
You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.
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)
you cannot pass without reblogging guys. i’m sorry, i don’t make the rules.
You can’t not reblog a goddess. It’s just what’s so. :)
So, fun fact- the manga Noragami has an arc where the main character, Yato (a minor kami/God that is down on his luck but trying to make it big time) goes to a council/conference for all the Gods in Japan.
And they are announcing the winner of the “up and coming god” award, and of course, Yato thinks it’s him.
But no-
ITS TAMA!
Always reblogging this.
I have been informed that reblogging this is non-negotiable and “But I’m new here, fresh from Reddit, surely you can ease me into this whole “must reblog” thing” but no, instead you dump 16 years of heart-wrenching station cat lore on me all at once??
This opens up entirely new worlds of ideas for deities in my homebrew D&D universe.
haha what a funny joke, 175 years from now (assuming we make it through) and every station in the transcontinental solar-powered transonic railroad network has a little shrine to Tama Daimyojin, and there are always offerings in front of them.
Could we get more Mutants in red or is that strictly tied to blue and green?
my cancelable hot take is that 1 should count as a prime number
the problem is that if 1 is a prime number, then no number is.
One of the definitions of a prime number is that it’s a number that is evenly divisible by no prime numbers other than itself. Well, if one is a prime number, then EVERY prime number is divisible by one, because anything divided by one equals itself, so nothing is prime, which… kind of defeats the point of having a category of “prime numbers” in the first place.
Secondly, a fundamental idea of math is that any number can be broken down into a unique string of “prime factors” - for example, 69 (haha) is evenly divisible by 3 and 23. 42 is made by multiplying together 2, 3, and 7. 5040 is constructed by multiplying 2*2*2*2*3*3*5*7. You take a string of prime numbers, any string of prime numbers, and you will get exactly one composite number that can only be broken down into exactly that one string of prime numbers.
If 1 is a prime number, you can add as many 1s as you want onto the list and make it a different unique string that still becomes the same number in the end. This breaks a fundamental rule so important it’s literally called The Fundamental Theorem Of Arithmetic, so… breaking it is Kind Of A Big Deal, as a whole bunch of other more specific mathematical proofs are built upon the idea that the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic is true.
TL;DR: 1 is not a prime because math breaks in a couple Very Important Ways if we call it prime, so instead 1 has its own very special category (The Multiplicative Identity) and then all the prime numbers can Be Prime and let things just work.
when I think of 1 all sad and alone, the loneliest number, we could say, carefully excluded from the Cool Kids Prime Club despite being absolutely foundational to its definition of “any number divisible only by itself and 1”, excluded for being overqualified for being both itself and 1, I get too sad to care about any theorems fundamental or otherwise 😔
Math is made up anyway, let 1 have friends!
🥺
1 has lots of friends! It’s just, looking in the integers is the wrong place. It’s like 1 has a professional relationship (like therapist etc) to the prime numbers – it works with them a lot but isn’t allowed to be friends with them for professional ethics reasons.
1 has a whole big family of roots of unity out in the complex plane, and it’s the most essential element in any multiplicative subgroup of C!
1 is in the Euler identity, which is a very special and elite family. 1 is doing fine.
