Humans Being Humans - Tumblr Posts
At the gate for my flight home from visiting friends and there's a woman here with a service Shiba Inu. No pics because he has a Do Not Disturb vest and taking pics of strangers is illegal but I need to stress how ON DUTY this animal is. Ears up. Eyes doing Lazer scans of everything. Examining everyone who passes within 10ft like a security guard. Ass planted on her feet. I have never seen a dog with such intense chivalric guardian energy before. He has tiny eyebrows and they are FURROWED with concentration.
At the gate for my flight home from visiting friends and there's a woman here with a service Shiba Inu. No pics because he has a Do Not Disturb vest and taking pics of strangers is illegal but I need to stress how ON DUTY this animal is. Ears up. Eyes doing Lazer scans of everything. Examining everyone who passes within 10ft like a security guard. Ass planted on her feet. I have never seen a dog with such intense chivalric guardian energy before. He has tiny eyebrows and they are FURROWED with concentration.
i think r/BenignExistence is my favorite subreddit 🥲 i love these pleasant little glimpses into strangers' lives
Human eating something spicy: Good food
Cybertronian: You're actively burning and poisoning yourself. Stop eating that
Human: Mmm capsaicin
Cybertronian: I said stop eating that!
Chilis are too obvious and kind to them. Of course, the space aliens are highly concerned by spice challenges, especially with humans attempting to breed hotter, spicier peppers... as a fun hobby.
("Isn't capsaicin the active ingredient in pepper spray?" "Yes. But people enjoy eating spicy food.")
Cybertronians would be blown away by how much agriculture transformed human civilizations... as well as be boggled between humans' ability to endure extreme conditions, yet be so damn bodily fragile and inefficient.
Genetics have never looked so wild in the botanical community. Like yes, space alien, many vegetables are related. It's dependent on the area of concentration to painfully cultivate it for hundreds to thousands of years because some regions wanted something more leafy, while others focused on the pods or roots.
And yes, space alien, many cultivated foods had derived from poisonous origins. Animals (including humans) figured to circumvent it through evolutionary adaptations or utilizing methods to draw out the toxins.
Cybertronians can be impressed by how humans managed to figure that out in the countless preparation and cooking processes in different cuisines across various cultures... yet slap their helms because their funky, little squishy is having so many health issues because of the lack of Vitamin D or a Candida infection, so Cybertronians will unironically go "touch grass" with their assigned/favorite human.
(Cue confused Cybertronian noises when their human explains sunscreen and cancer.)
And fungi, like mushrooms, are a mindfuck within itself as a kingdom to both Cybertronians and humans.
This isn't delving into how other Earth organic species can't consume certain human foods due to toxicity, like dogs and chocolate.
I love how nothing is safe from Tumblr reposts. Instagram? There's entire accounts dedicated to Tumblr quotes. Pinterest? Isn't that what it's for?? TikTok? And infestation of Tumblr text boxes on people's foreheads. TUMBLR? You best believe there's a reblog of a reblog of a reblog with some screenshot and a Tumblr post rectangle floating inside.
people are good. one of my classmates asked me my favorite color today. it's such a simple and ultimately unimportant thing, but he asked with earnest interest. I'm not sure why that simple curiosity struck me. I think there's something purely human about it. and kind.
there's a game me and my friends used to play, it's called "the fork is a..." basically it's where everyone takes it in turns to say what the fork is until we get bored or someone can't breathe because of laughter
it was shockingly very popular
They did that thing on TikTok again, except this one guy did the arrangement
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list of mundane things that feel like ancient human rituals
cleaning or wipe your bare feet
breaking off a piece of bread and handing it to someone
putting the weight of a basket on your hip or head
eating nuts or berries while hunched over close to the ground
seeing something startling just out of your line of sight and very quickly stepping or leaping on to a larger object to get a better view
cupping your hands into running water to wash your face
the unanimous protection of a baby or child in a public space where women are present
when an elderly woman laughs and grips your forearm tightly
The beef between night owls and early birds is so silly. We complete each other. Evolutionary-speaking, wouldn’t it be useful to have people naturally alert at dawn to watch for saber tooth tigers and people alert at midnight watching for like, wolves?? Keeping us safe with internal clocks set to random.
All times of the day are beautiful.
My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:
Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.
Respectfully, Ireland is the best country on the planet
