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Surviving Awkward

@happy-killer-ninja-panda / happy-killer-ninja-panda.tumblr.com

Hello, I'm Carie a weird 35-year-old geek, writer, and mini-mart goddess from Rochester, NY with more anxieties than I can count. I'm also the personification of awesome and only here to entertain myself.
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Slowly toeing my way back into the mini Mart. It feels normal and I remember why I loved working there. I wanna stay there for a while. I mean where else am I gonna find a job where the management has my back, and will tell customers to fuck off. Also, I know the owner and his family and he treats all of us like people. Not to mention, he pays us well and isn't gonna take a penis rocket to space for 5 of, what I hear from people who know space, the most unsatisfying minutes of its entire existance. So yeah.

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charliebink

Exactly. 

Imagine a wall full of circular holes, that circles can keep walking in and out of with no difficulty.

Now imagine that the triangles manage to get the resources together, after years of not being able to fit through the circle’s holes, to drill a single triangle space into the wall.

Now imagine that the circle — who previously supported the triangle’s efforts because they are well-rounded (har) and value equality —  comes along and sees the construction project. But instead of being happy, they get angry.

“Well, I won’t be able to fit through your hole!!!!” the circle cries.

“I helped you get the drill!!!!” the circle shrieks.

“Make it fit me too!!!!” the circle demands.

The triangles, barely holding it together enough to get a triangle hole together, stare at the circle in confusion. 

“You have all the holes you need,” the triangles explain. “This is for us. You don’t need to fit through our hole, too.”

“YOU’RE BEING UNEQUAL AND HURTING MY FEELINGS!” the circle wails. “I DON’T SUPPORT YOUR HOLE IF IT DOESN’T FIT ME TOO. GIVE ME MY DRILL BACK.” 

“It’s not your drill, it’s our drill. You helped us get it, because you said you cared.”

“I ONLY CARED WHEN I THOUGHT YOU’D MAKE A HOLE EVERYONE COULD FIT THROUGH. YOU’RE PERPETUATING INEQUALITY!!!”

“Why is it up to us, the small group that has never been able to fit through the wall at all, to make a hole everyone can use? Why isn’t it up to you, the people who have been able to cross back and forth at will for years? We just want to see the other side; why are you yelling at us?”

“I DIDN’T ASK TO BE BORN A CIRCLE, OMG. I’VE HAD TO WORK HARD ALL MY LIFE TOO. YOU’RE JUST BEING BIGOTED AGAINST ME BECAUSE OF SOMETHING I CAN’T CONTROL, JUST LIKE EVERYONE IS AGAINST YOU.”

“You are interfering with our project and asking us to comfort you while we’re trying to make progress. Please leave.”

“I’m going to tell everyone about this,” the circle warns. “Nobody will support you now.”

“Apparently nobody ever did,” the triangles sigh, getting back to work.

It’s kind of sad

That we have to draw comics using colorful shapes

To explain systematic inequality to people

Reblogging again because yes good

i’ve never thought a circle in a story could get me so angry

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"I know we're all sick of hearing about this but... "

No, shut the fuck up. If you have to preface some statement you're about to make with something like the above, just shut the fuck up. We literally don't wanna hear it.

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I hate when religious people post shit about how God gave them a son or daughter (because they usually only recognize two genders). Like dude, that's just nature. Sperm meets egg together they produce a baby. The only part God had in it was of you moaned, "oh God" when you were getting fucked. Just saying.

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Like, I vape high. I'm a douche bag now.

I've always been a douche bag but no, okay, so I used to do edibles because they are a good way to get high. But then my gummy guy died so my access was cut off. He was a cool dude. So anyway, long story short, it's the only way I can get it so I don't have to smell like it for reasons.

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