invictus

all the times i've said illiteracy is helping fash?

and that plenty of you are, in fact, functionally illiterate?

and that the corrupt state helped you along to this condition on purpose?

the nonzero number of notes from people who did not instantly clock this comic as an allegory: behold.

when you have no idea what a door is, or what a key is, or what glasses are, then you are effectively identical to this clean-faced dude.

and fash absolutely loves what you're doing with the place. sitting there not asking questions, or looking things up, or paying attention to context.

I knew she was 90 because she had been telling everyone who would listen that she’d just turned 90 and commenting on what everyone was wearing and whether she liked it or not. Just generally zero filter

Anyway, my stylist finished putting some more texture into my faux hawk and I was very aware of this woman watching me in the mirror, frowning like she wasn’t sure if she approved. But when it was time for me to stand up and leave she reached out a paper-thin hand to me and said, “I have to tell you, you have perfect eyebrows for that haircut. Your whole face just—“ and she made an expressive gesture with her hands, the bangles on her arms jangling like a wind chime. “You look so much better than when you came in.”

Which. Lol. Thank you? I guess?