It Looks Easy Through Borrowed Eyes

Hmmmmm...

[c3rvida3]

I think Joan of Arc's fursona would be a dog called Joan of Bark, but my partner thinks it would be a phoenix, which seems insensitive to me, but neither of us are furries, so I guess we don't really get a say either way.

[swiftrunnerfelidae]

I promise I’m not trying to be pretentious here. Jeanne d’Arc’s last name is d’Arc.  An overly-literal translator insisted it stood for “of Arc”, and that’s why we know her as Joan of Arc.  At the time, she was more commonly known as “Jeanne la Pucelle”, meaning “Joan the Maiden” or “Joan the Virgin”.

anyways since her main attack strategy was “hit them until they stop moving” I think she’d be a gorilla.

[c3rvida3]

*taking notes* What else do you know about this beautiful world?

[catchymemes]

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Not sure how this works when shark skin is so incredibly smooth

[memescomedy]

[spiletta42]

This is not an exaggeration.  Your download speed would slow down to the point where Windows would make this kind of absurd estimate, and you’d sigh and leave the room for a while (because you couldn’t use the computer while it was doing this for fear it would crash and lose all your progress) and then you’d come back in 40 minutes and maybe it would now say 52 years or maybe it would say 3 minutes, who knew, not Windows.

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

@xkcd-for-that

[xkcd-for-that]

They could say “the connection is probably lost,” but it’s more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.

Estimation

[orcboxer]

it's meee I'm your guardian angel hiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 so. in about six months, you're gonna die of starvation. 🥺 and if I don't protect you, I will get: #fired! 🫢 and that is No Good 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa So. 🙏 I looked into causes of starvation, and it turns out: Your death is totally preventable! 😯 Uh oh! 😆 There's more than enough food to sustain you without interfering with anyone else's survival, but you're not allowed to have it! 🤨 Whaaat? 🤷‍♀️ Apparently, your death is premeditated by thousands of things called "shareholders." So. 🙏 I've been killing people,

[arroscnleche]

soy yooo tu ángel de la guarda holiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 bueno. en como seis meses, vas a morir de hambre. 🥺 y si no te protejo, me van a: #¡despedir! 🫢 y eso No esta Chido 🙅‍♀️jajaaa Entonces. 🙏investigue acerca del tema y resulta que: ¡puedo prevenir tu muerte al 100%! 😯 ¡Uh oh! 😆 Hay más que suficiente comida para que sobrevivas sin que interfieras con la supervivencia de los demás, ¡pero no puedes teneral! 🤨 ¿Queeeé? 🤷‍♀️ Al parecer, tu muerte fue premeditada por miles de cosas llamadas "accionistas." Y bueno. 🙏 empeze a matar personas,

[tracing-rivers]

c'est moooi ton ange gardien coucooou 😇 bon 🙏 alors. dans genre six mois, tu vas mourir de faim. 🥺 et si je te protège pas, je vais me faire: #virer ! 🫢 et ça c'est pas Pas Super 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa Donc. 🙏 j'ai fait mes recherches sur les causes de famine et devine quoi: Ta mort est 100% évitable ! 😯 Oh-oh ! 😆 Il y a largement assez de ressources pour te nourrir sans interférer avec la survie d'autrui, mais tu n'y as pas accès ! 🤨 Quoooi ? 🤷‍♀️ Apparemment ta mort a été préméditée par des milliers de trucs appelées des "actionnaires". Du coup.🙏 j'ai tué pas mal de monde,

[clockworkspider]

hiiiiii 😇 我是亲的守护小天使！okay🙏 嗯。您在差不多半年会饿死哈🥺 若我不能救您我会被#炒鱿鱼！🫢 那可不行哦🙅‍♀️ 哈哈。所以昵🙏我查了一下人类饿死的原因，然后发现：诶呀呀😯亲的死是可以避免哒！😆 这世上有足够食物给亲吃，一点儿也不需要影响别人的生存率哒！但不给亲！🤨 怎么会这样昵？ 🤷‍♀️ 原来，亲的死是被一帮叫“股东”的东西计算好滴！ 所以昵🙏 我杀了一些人，

[orcboxer]

y'all are doing some rosetta stone shit to me

[holyfuckthisfishcandrive]

hiii, ich bin's, ich bin dein Schutzengel hiiii 😇 ok 🙏 also. ich sechs Monaten wirst du verhungern. 🥺 und falls ich dich nicht beschütze, werde ich: #gefeuert! 🫢 und das ist Nicht Gut 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa Also. 🙏 Ich hab mir ma' die Gründe fürs Verhungern angeschaut, und, stellt sich raus: Dein Tod ist vollkommen verhinderlich! 😯 Oh oh! 😆 Es gibt mehr als genug Nahrungsmittel um dich durchzufüttern, ohne das Überleben von irgendwem sonst zu beeinträchtigen, du darfst sie bloß nicht haben! 🤨 Häääääää? 🤷‍♀️ Anscheinend, wurde dein Tod von tausenden sogenannten "Aktionären" geplant. Jedenfalls. 🙏 Ich hab angefangen Leute zu töten,

[ship0ftheseus]

यह मैं हूँ! मैं तुम्हारी अभिभावक देवदूत हूँ, हाय! 😇 ओके 🙏 तो। लगभग छह महीनों में, तुम भूख से मर जाओगे। 🥺 और अगर मैंने तुम्हारी रक्षा नहीं की, तो मुझे: नौकरी से निकाल दिया जाएगा! 🫢 और यह बिल्कुल अच्छा नहीं है 🙅‍♀️ हाहाहा! तो। 🙏 मैंने भूख के कारणों की जाँच की, और पता चला: तुम्हारी मृत्यु पूरी तरह रोकी जा सकती है! 😯 अरे नहीं! 😆 तुम्हें जीवित रखने के लिए पर्याप्त से अधिक भोजन है जो किसी और के जीवन को प्रभावित नहीं करेगा, लेकिन तुम्हें वह लेने की अनुमति नहीं है! 🤨 यह क्या बात है? 🤷‍♀️ जाहिर तौर पर, तुम्हारी मृत्यु हज़ारों चीज़ों द्वारा पूर्व-नियोजित है जिन्हें "शेयरधारक" कहते हैं। तो। 🙏 मैं लोगों को मार रही हूँ l

[oghotonghoton-potiushi]

ওহে আমি তোমার অভিভাবক দেবদূত 😇 ঠিক আছে🙏 তো। প্রায় ছয় মাসের মধ্যে, তুমি অনাহারে মারা যাবে। 🥺 এবং আমি যদি তোমাকে রক্ষা না করি, আমি হব: #বরখাস্ত! 🫢 এবং এটা ভালো কিছু নয় 🙅‍♀️ হাহাহা তাই। 🙏 আমি অনাহারের কারণ অনুসন্ধান করেছি, এবং দেখা যাচ্ছে: তোমার মৃত্যু সম্পূর্ণ প্রতিরোধযোগ্য! 😯 ওহ! 😆 অন্য কারো বেঁচে থাকার সাথে হস্তক্ষেপ না করেই তোমাকে টিকিয়ে রাখার জন্য পর্যাপ্ত খাবারের চেয়েও বেশি কিছু আছে, কিন্তু তোমার এটি খাওয়ার অনুমতি নেই! 🤨 কি? 🤷‍♀️ দৃশ্যত, তোমার মৃত্যু "শেয়ারহোল্ডার" নামে হাজার হাজার জিনিস দ্বারা পূর্বপরিকল্পিত। তাই। 🙏 আমি মানুষ মারছি,

[gottagetgogottagetattahere]

안녀어어어엉, 내가 너의 수호천사야 😇 ㅇㅋ 🙏 그래서. 한 육개월 안에 네가 굶주림으로 죽을거야. 🥺 그리고 내가 널 안 지켜주면, 나는: #해고! 🫢 하고 그건 안 좋지 🙅‍♀️ 하하하하 그래서.🙏 내가 굶주림에 이유를 찾아 봤는데, 알고보니: 너 죽는건 엄청 막을수 있어! 😯 ¡어머! 😆 다른 사람의 생존을 안 위협해도 너 먹일수 있는 식량양은 차고도 넘쳐, 근데 그건 네가 가질 허락이 없어! 🤨 뭐어어어? 🤷‍♀️ 그게, 천개의 "주주" 들 이란 것들이 너의 죽음을 계획한 거 인가봐. 그래서. 🙏 내가 좀 사람들 죽이고 있는뎅,

[gayumama]

uy mars ako to!! guardian angel mo hiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 so. after ng mga anim na buwan, mamamatay ka sa gutom. 🥺 pag hinayaan ko mangyari yun, #masisisante lola mo! 🫢 at Di yun Very Good, nay 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa So. 🙏 nagbasabasa ko ng mga sanhi ng pagkamatay sa gutom, malaman mo ba: Hindi pala final answer ang walang magagawa kundi deds na lang! 😯 Grabe! 😆 Enough naman pala pagkain sa mundo para mabigyan lahat nang di mo ikakamatay pagkagutom, PERO hindi pala available yung solution! 🤨 Aba aba? 🤷‍♀️ Akalain mo, yung pagkamatay mo dala lang pala nung libo libong mga ano yung mga "shareholders" ba. Yun. 🙏 sinimulan ko na pagminus ng mga persons,

[symbolism145]

始めましてよろしくーあなたの守護天使だよーん 😇 えっとね〜🙏 あのさ。六ヶ月ぐらい立てばあなたは飢え死にしちゃうの 🥺 で、あなとを守らなければ、アタシは #クビになっちまうの！🫢 それはすごくNG 🙅‍♀️ エヘヘ〜 と言う事になりまして。🙏 飢餓の原因についてしらべたんだけど、実はね、あなたの死は全然防げるものだと判明したの！ 😯 あらら 😆 他の人の生存を脅かす事なく、あなたを養うには十分な食べ物があるのに、それを手に入れることは許されないらしい！🤨 なんてこった！ 🤷‍♀️ なんと、あなたの死は「株主」と言う数千のモノによって計画されているんだってー。それでね。🙏 人を殺し始めたんだけど、

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[pangur-and-grim]

my house is scary at night

[storyweavingspider]

Interpreted this initially not as shelves, but as your cat having erected defensive fortifications

[onedirectionforever]

“you support gay rights so you must be gay”

i support animal rights do i look like a fucking alpaca to you

[onedirectionforever]

turns out i am gay

[monsieurenjlolras]

holy shit how’d this alpaca learn how to type

[mywitchcultblr]

Diversity win! The alpaca is gay!

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

[thebirdkiwi]

he was a llama

[fritextramole]

a llama?! he’s supposed to be dead!

[sigmaleph]

every day i am thankful to ancient humans for the domestication of the cat. fucking genius idea. agriculture was a good one too btw but you really outdid yourselves with the cat thing

[sandmandaddy69]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You're right but don't say it like that

[mayhaps-a-blog]

Love how reluctant Janeway was to play Queen Arachnia as if she didn't adore period holonovels and wasn't obviously having the time of her life being as dramatic as possible XD

[frog43]

wha t if oregon trail was called wagon age: oregons

[naamahdarling]

This made me so angry the first time I saw it I’m reblogging it again.

[luxiethefool]

happy 10 years to wagon age oregons

[vulvalini]

[yesornopolls]

do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 1 day 1 hour

[whyamihereat4am]

Look I don't think Supergirl (2026) is secretly a perfect masterpiece or anything (I personally thought it was like. a 6/10 fun time) but I do think it's wild that Tumblr isn't going crazy for it because this Kara is one coattailed suit away from being a Tumblr sexyman. she is the flawed messy female character people have supposedly been clamouring for. she's the popular archetype of a gruff self-destructive alcoholic middle-aged man begrudgingly having to look after a kid and growing fond of them but genderswapped and also 23. she's allowed to be visibly messy and kind of gross and her hair is constantly all over the place and she literally cries, screams, throws up, and pisses onscreen. she's caustic and mean and puts up an act of carelessness but has a heart of gold. she's heavily traumatised and coping with it terribly. if anything happens to her dog she will kill everyone in this room and then herself. she spends most of the movie in a trench coat and baggy band T-shirt. she gets into bar brawls and breaks a guy's hand. she is Going Through It 24/7 and looks the part. she stabs a guy in the throat. how is everyone else not obsessed with her.

[normalcei]

Not all dogs have jobs and I think they should get to wear little vests too

[mendelssohn-kin]

Medusa was kinda problematic  :/

[mendelssohn-kin]

She objectified a lot of people 

[shadowfromthestarlight]

The thing that I find most annoying about signs in store windows advertising that they're welcoming to LGBT or that they accept everybody is that I really just assume that anyway. The sign is literally just a virtue signal and it's not there for any other reason, because every store is supposed to be open to the public by default. I would think it goes without saying you're not going to turn away a black person or someone wearing religious garb or a gay couple that walked in holding hands. If you did, word would get out immediately and you'd be in trouble. The signs are really a turn-off tbh because they're just so dumb.

[ghostlycow]

It's like a restaurant putting up a "My cooks won't spit in your food!" sign.

[generallemarc]

If I was walking past a store with a sign that said "immigrants welcome!" my first thought would be "what did they do to suggest that they weren't welcome?", because why would you need to specifically tell members of a specific group they can walk in and buy things, that they can do what you want as many people as possible to be doing because that's how stores work, unless there was some reason for them to think they couldn't or shouldn't? That's the vibe it gives off.

[isaacsapphire]

The only sign of this type that’s actually telling people any new information are the “we speak [non-English] language] come on in” in the non-English language. There’s some auto shops in my area that list three or four languages, and obviously a shop advertising some ethnic treat or shampoo or whatever in a non English language says “immigrants we got the stuff you missed from home”. Like, that’s the real, non virtue signaling way for a store to communicate “immigrants welcome”.

That said, I have seen gay flags on shop doors where it really did mean something; gun shops aren’t default assumed to be gay friendly, and it’s not a zero cost move to openly announce a gun shop is gay friendly.

Sometimes it’s a “we don’t spit in your food” sign and sometimes it’s a “we are nut-free” sign, you know? It’s contextual.

[rosebramblewolf]

this is huge actually

[attackoftheskydancers]

I used to think like this, but then Lauri Carleton was murdered. It's actually extremely brave to announce your support for a marginalized group in an era of increasing hate crimes and gun violence.

Daughters remember woman killed in Pride flag dispute as ‘fighter for equality'

Lauri Carleton was shot and killed in August 2023 following a dispute over a Pride flag outside her Lake Arrowhead shop.

[cardassiangoodreads]

As a lesbian myself I hard agree with prev:

#as a gay person i actually like seeing pride flags on businesses bc i know that if i go in there with my girlfriend#im not going to get bizarre attitude or hostility from the people who work there#which is not necessarily a given! some people will take your money while treating you horribly and its bad!

Being able to see these as purely "virtue signaling" means you've had the privilege to only live in places where support is assumed, which is not everywhere. In more hostile environments, it's very heartening to see that if you are in a group that can't be sure of that. And as this article shows, it's not like people who put those signs up are not assuming risk!

I'm so tired of this very insular Tumblr attitude that is so disdainful of allyship, assuming it must always be performative and fake - when allies have often been a (sometimes quite literal) lifeline for marginalized groups throughout history. It shows how much people who say these things live in a bubble, at a complete removal from anyone who has lived lives unlike their own, presently or currently. Go to a small town in a red state, you sheltered children. Or at least just like, leave the Internet once in a while, since I'm sure that is the real issue with a lot of people who make these posts.

[bigbigbigtruck]

Being able to see these as purely "virtue signaling" means you've had the privilege to only live in places where support is assumed, which is not everywhere.

[kppigpen]

I live in one of the bluest areas in the US and these kind of signs are still absolutely necessary. Because the assholes are all around like fungal spores and it can be the difference between them shutting up and fucking off or taking root and becoming regulars and inviting all their asshole friends.

[aranock]

Yeah as a trans lesbian living in Sask its relieving when places have that up, because its kinda the norm to not be treated well. Places doing that place themselves at risk to an extent. My uni regularly had nazi vandalization of our pride walk, theres a pretty famous video of a guy harassing volunteers who were painting the pride walk on broadway a few years back, and Ive heard of other instances around town. It has risk attached. It also makes me comfortable going places with my girlfriend, it makes me know staffs probably not going to harass us or stand by when I get called slurs in front of them(has happened many times usually when Im alone) or some weird transphobe in Harry Potter merch stalks me through a store(happened twice, the second time security of their own accors stopped the stalker just from how weird they were being following me). Its super helpful when medical places show it because discrimination is common, thankfully the pharmacy my gf and I go to has a really supportive staff, they display and wear pride flags and then back it up with how they support trans people going there for HRT. Sure a flag can be performative but not here, not when you can get harassed for it, not when its relatively uncommon. This reminds me of the people who whine about pronoun circles and other things and it tells me they've never lived somewhere thats norm isnt being queer supportive.

[hahlilvndr]

“city that traditionally decorates their doors with garlic found to have no vampire problems, therefore hanging garlic is useless vanity” is a hell of a take in the vampire states of america

[komaedalovemail]

i fucking hated your shoelaces this entire time

[butterfirefly]

for the uninitiated