Well, Then

[amarie24]

I am...desolate.

Quite simply desolate.

I've seen posts on my Tumblr dash and elsewhere asserting that this is not the end, we can and should hang in there, we'll keep fighting, we'll protect each other, we'll stay strong.

This is not the end.

We'll keep fighting.

But, it's just...y'know...I kinda, really, truly hoped that we wouldn't have to fight. That maybe just a little, teeny bit of that would be over.

Kinda hoped for some good news tonight. Some very, very, very good news.

'Cause, y'know, good news is good.

Well, then. See if my black woman is ass going to have the spoons to attend school tomorrow with the white fools that are my classmates.

Just see.


--Amarie

Comments

[smurasaki]

I can't even. It horrifies me. But I have to get up in the morning, go to work, and... be kind. To all the people who just got told that the majority doesn't want them.

That's all I can do.


*offers hugs*

[amarie24]

-hugs you back & hugs you very, very close- Then you are braver and stronger than me, Depi. You really, truly are. You have a good day at work tomorrow, alright? You hang in there.

[smurasaki]

Thank you. You hang in there, too.

And I'm going to do my damnedest to avoid Evil Shelving Lady (my least favorite coworker, obviously). Because if she gloats about how Trump is going to "fix" things, I doubt any response I'd have would be printable. Or work appropriate.

[amarie24]

Y'know, I would say that people like Evil Shelving Lady (that is an awesome nickname) and people like her are going to get what's coming to her with the Trump Turd, now. But I do wish that marginalized people like me won't have to be dragged down, too. I really, really do.

[silveradept]

Give 'em hell, Amarie. Because it's going to take that for the magnitude of what may happened to sink in.

[amarie24]

I'd love to give 'em hell, but...I dunno, I kinda just feel like they gave me and a whole lotta my fellow marginalized people hell on a silver platter.

And I also dunno about the magnitude of this sinking in. Like...so, so many people either outright voted for Trump or they voted third party and while the mainstream media is shit, there were several other news outlets that made sure people knew what was at stake in throwing away their vote like that.

They still didn't get it.

I'm just...I dunno anymore.

[silveradept]

Yeah. We'll get through it. Angry Book Dragon is not amused at this. And now gets to go to the unenviable team of providing accurate information to all their users.

Maybe we can set it up so that I'm carrying a megaphone that you can shout through and it sounds like me.

[amarie24]

Maybe we can set it up so that I'm carrying a megaphone that you can shout through and it sounds like me.

Nyahahaha! Okay, that made me laugh! Thank you very, very much, Silver! I needed that! :D

[azurelunatic]

Be the best Angry Dragon you can, friend, for those in worse positions to hide behind. Guard your library and its children well.

[amarie24]

Being an Angry Dragon sounds pretty good, but, uhh...

I myself am a lower middle class millennial black woman, going to school for nursing. I'm, ummm...I'm not very much to hide behind...

[azurelunatic]

That one was for Silver.

Not everyone is in a position to be an angry dragon. I am not sure how much I can be.

[amarie24]

Oh shit, I am so embarrassed, haha. See how stressed out and zoned out I am? Hah! Deleted and I apologize.

[azurelunatic]

<3

It's not a great day.

[azurelunatic]

Love you.

[azurelunatic]

(This one was for you.)

[gehayi]

This is heartbreaking. And so, so wrong.

In spite of all the signs of Trump supporters' racism, ableism, Islamophobia and misogyny, I really, really hoped that they were an aberration. A minority, albeit a very loud and singularly unpleasant minority.

I thought better of this country.

[amarie24]

Nope. No aberration, no minority, my friend. None whatsoever.

May some kind of miraculous justice occur.

[trascendenza]

I feel like we've just unwilling entered into an abusive relationship that we won't be able to escape for at least four years. This is such a nightmare :(

[amarie24]

My feelings exactly, friend. My feelings exactly.

[lonespark]

Something like this, yeah.

We all have to live in Shitty Angry Grandpa's house. Gaaahhhh!!!

[amarie24]

And may we find a way to burn that house straight the fuck down before we truly, officially have to live in it...

(I understand that there's still hope that the Electoral College will choose Clinton, going by the popular vote. Plus, while the rape case against the Trump Turd has been dropped due to the poor woman receiving numerous death threats and other harassment, there's still a pending fraud case against him this coming December...)