glumshoe:

keeperofthirteen:

glumshoe:

“Slow and steady wins the race” is not the fucking moral of The Tortoise and the Hare. Try “don’t be a smug, haughty asshole and disregard people lacking obvious advantages” or “persistence and effort can be powerful on their own”. The tortoise didn’t win because he was slow and steady, he won because the hare looked down on him as his inferior.

DAMN STRAIGHT

I was so distressed in grade school when our teacher read us that story and said “slow and steady wins the race!!1!”

NO goddammit it’s don’t look down on others or let your humble background dissuade you from even trying