facebook reminded me that today a few years back, august 2nd 2012, i met a time traveler
dude wearing extremely stereotypical hipster gear (plaid scarf, cut-off jeans, vest over ironic tee, fedora) but looked about 35ish.
he walked up to me, this was in 2012 when i ascribed to my assigned gender and was very clearly dressed in a feminine way with my hair all done up and heavy makeup and girly clothes, and he said “excuse me sir are you good with your history?”
he punctuates the sentence by showing me a little silver spoon with the new york skyline on it. i decide against correcting him.
having JUST graduated high school, i said “kinda”
he nods and says a little quietly “when was it that the.. erm..” he struggles for a second, then recognition lights up his eyes. “ah, the two towers collapsed?”
i’m jolted by the bus coming to a stop. i blink a few times and say “september 11th. 2001.”
he says “right. of course. thank you.” and immediately gets off the bus.
“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
this post truly marks the absolute fucking DIVIDE in homestucks pre-omegapause and homestucks post-omegapause because half of you don’t know what the FUCK is happening and the other half are asking why i didn’t use the picture of him squatting w the toblerone instead.
