#moshi moshi

[vizreef]

Bang & Olufson Beocom 1000 (Denmark, 1986)

[ate4happycunt]

childhood....

[dollunicornfairymermaid]

[1nkpatch]

something different i want to see if people have interest in!!

i’m going to start with sticker packs OR sticker blind bags and then maybe dabble in these keychains

UPDATE: available on my shop!!

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[vixensreiha]

Ina by TaLLgeese

[iheihairu]

Kaneki with braces

[malinastharlock]

I had some fun yesterday while working with my partner, we went to a 🧋Boba tea place called Moshi Moshi and grabbed a snack. The place was super cute and they had anime stuff all over. I got me a Tea Called Poison Ivy and she got... I have no idea 😬 I remember it had tapioca balls in it and I didn't really like those compared to my juicy balls with tons of flavor that just bust in my mouth. Then we grabbed some Taiyaki one had Nutella in it and the other was Hydrox both were really yummy but I liked my Nutella a lot. I liked it so much I did a happy girl dance while eating it.

[siegefault]

After the incidents at Kal Tur's Golden-Eye, the Tokolosh protocols from the Mfecane were repackaged and sold on the open market. The House of Sulfur took advantage of this both for operational intelligence as well as for force multiplication.

[periores]

Cringetober day14

candygore!!!!!

I was wondering who to draw for today then a friend on a group chat

Recommended this moshi monster

[devildom-doll]

I AM BRUTALLY IN LOVE WITH YOU. HELLLOOOOOOO?!!?!,

[solemn-seas-songs]

i re-recorded the moshi moshi cover i did the other day because it's a lot of fun to play and sing. i ended up doing it on my electric guitar so that i can test out how well my phone picks up both my guitar and my voice when im singing. these recordings are still a bit rough but whatever i'm having fun. it doesnt have to be perfect it just has to be, yknow?

anyway - enjoy.

[vizreef]

Nortel M1250 / M2250 'Meridian' // Operator / Attendant Console (Canada, 1998)

[sixminutestoriesblog]

hello?

It had grown dark in the time their mother had been gone. Liezel had been judged old enough to stay at home and watch over her little brother while her mother had taken her newest sister, who had just learned how to walk, across the village to see her aunt. Liezel had felt very grown up when her mother had entrusted her with her brother but now the evening shadows were fading into true night and the darkness was as thick as drawn curtains over the windows. She could hear sounds from the other houses nearby, people going about their nightly routines but everything sounded muted and much too far away. Whispers from the trees behind the house sounded much closer, the snap of a stick breaking somewhere in the foliage as sharp as a slap in the night. Her brother, rambunctious all day, had grown quieter the darker it had gotten, creeping closer and closer to where she sat trying to do her homework just as surely as the shadows crept closer under the door and from the corners of the room. After he bumped her elbow for the third time, messing up her admittedly already shaky attempts at solving math problems, she gave in and held her arm out and open for him. He took the invitation even though he said all the time, in the light of day, that he wasn't a baby anymore and didn't need to be snuggled. His warm body pressed against her side and she wrapped that arm around him, holding him close for his own courage - and hers too. Outside, the night had grown very quiet. The sounds of the village were gone. The darkness had swallowed everything and all that was left, safe in this world, was the small room with its tiny brave light.

The step outside the front door creaked. Her brother's grip on her tightened.

"It's just mama," she whispered to him but her throat was dry when she did and her whisper was very quiet.

Something brushed the door, the soft drag of cloth. Then - a knock.

"Tao po," softly sang a voice from the other side of the wooden barrier.

If you're Filipino, or familiar with that culture, (and if I wrote the above properly) you've just breathed a sigh of relief. The elongated form of the phrase is: "Tao po ako, hindi aswang".

"I am human and not aswang."

In Filipino folkore, the word aswang covered multiple monsters and they all had one thing in common. They were shapeshifters. Well, two things in common. They preyed on humans. What better way to get close enough to your human prey than to pretend to be someone they knew? So, especially when visiting, it was for the peace of mind of everyone involved to clear up the fact you were human right away. An aswang couldn't say the key phrase and it would give itself away immediately if it tried.*

*on that note - if I have anyone from the Philippines following my blog - I couldn't find out why. Is it a lack of ability to speak or just the inability of the tongue or an inability to lie? I'd love to hear the answer if anyone would like to share. All my research articles said they couldn't, but none of them would tell me why.

The Philippines isn't the only place to use a similar trick against shapeshifters either. In Japan, casual phone conversations often start with the phrase: "moshi moshi". Shapeshifting kitsune and other youkai apparently can't say the word 'moshi' twice in a row. So you can be sure you're having a conversation with who you really think you're having a conversation with if you both start off the conversation this way**

** casual conversation. 'Moshi moshi' is considered too casual for anyone but close friends and family. Also maaaaaybe its not entirely about kitsune. I also found notes that 'moshi moshi' is the cut down version of phrases switchboard operators used in Japan as the phone was first coming into use, a polite way to answer the upper class Japanese that were rich enough to be able to afford phones at the time.

Whatever the case, phrases like these are proof that humanity has collectively been searching down through the ages for ways to make sure that the things that come calling in the darkness of the night aren't hungry tricksters in disguise. Tao po, my friends. There's no one here but us humans.

[rfa0211]

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // Girl Ray - Hold Tight

From the album Prestige, out August 4th on Moshi Moshi.