Kereea Says Unionize

Fiona is married so it's time to reunite with her parents. But instead of marrying a prince, she's married to an ogre. Not just that, but she's also an ogre. (Yes everyone knew she would sometimes be an ogre but that was when she was a child, she didn't know she would be an ogre for the rest of her life, and besides once she met the right prince she would stop being an ogre. She was supposed to stop being an ogre.)

But okay they're both ogres. We can still ask about when they'll have children because even if they're ogres they can still have kids, right? That's what married princes and princesses do so naturally that's what everyone does. Even if ogres might not be great parents (I've heard that ogres eat their young, is that something you people do?) it's still something that should be discussed.

And okay you can stay in Fiona's childhood bedroom filled with all the reminders that hey, everyone thought she was just a princess and princesses marry princes. Her toys left out from the last time she played with them. The prince slays the ogre. The princess offers a token of gratitude for slaying the ogre. Fiona wrote Mrs. Fiona Charming a million times in her diary because what else was she supposed to grow up to be?

And Harold you have to fix this, your country can't be ruled by ogres. You were unfit to rule when you were a frog but I changed you, I made you better, I made you a prince. You know how this works. Think of your daughter's safety.

Katie Harris is photographed with her Appaloosa. Harris made most of the horse trappings as well as her own traditional outfits herself, including the bead work. Some of the trappings are passed down from older generations but the girls like to make their own to continue the tradition.

Trigger warnings are NOT A BAD THING. They're a good thing. But they rapidly went from stuff like "please tell me if there's discussion of CSA in this unit before we study it so I can prepare myself due to severe trauma" to "the above, but also I may choose not to do the work and to substitute something of equal relevance" to "the above except it's not severe trauma, it just makes me really uncomfortable" to "you are triggering me by saying things I don't like."

And when we hit that point, a lot of teachers just....gave up. Already overworked, underpaid, disrespected, and distrusted by a progressively more authoritarian government, villainized and vilified by the media, they just hoped to keep their jobs.

And that is why there are now school districts in Florida that have decided they're not going to teach the Holocaust anymore because it "triggered" their Muslim students who didn't like hearing that Jews aren't evil overlords actually and felt "left out" that the Holocaust was taught in US history but Islam wasn't. It was "traumatic" to them that Holocaust denial was a lie. And I would love to tell you I made this up for shock value, but it is a real case really happening in the summer of 2026.

The Kingdom of Hawai’i was illegally overthrown with the help of American businessmen and we have suffered under the iron grip of America.

Our land is simply seen as a vacation spot, my people are simply seen as tour guides and hula dancers. We have had our culture, our history, and our people turned into a commercialized joke by America.

The rampant tourism kills our islands with endless hotels, attractions and overcrowding. The housing and living costs are out of control because of the false “paradise” narrative. The Navy poisons our water and destroys our land. Covid has killed so many of my people due to the reckless and selfish nature of tourists. I have lost loved ones to this virus, because tourists “couldn’t stay away”.

My people have suffered. I have suffered.

We are more than your vacation. We are more than an aesthetic.

We are a sovereign nation illegally occupied by the United States of America.

Restore Hawai’i to Hawaiians. End the American Occupation.

See the links below to learn more and to read up on your Hawaiian history.

to the democratic party:

Keep it up!!!!!! Surgically remove EVERY supporter of that nazi rapist from having any say in the direction of our party. We’re supposed to believe they have good political instincts? The people who ignored all the red flags of racism, antisemitism, misogyny, and sadism that were plainly apparent to anyone with half a brain are not fit to have a say in their HOAs, much less American politics. Hold the line! Do not allow anyone compromised by this man to endanger the seat any more than they already have! The only solution is a swift and decisive condemnation of him and his candidacy. Do not get bullied into compromising the moral standards of the Democratic Party! Your voters need to know you condemn him and his actions wholeheartedly!

to graham platner:

For most of the world, the idea that superheroes would take on teenage wards was no new information. Certainly not if you were plugged into the history of superheroes as a social and cultural force.

For the people of Gotham, specifically its criminals, they were a bit too busy getting the shit kicked out of them by a twelve year old to admonish the shadowy cryptic they were all still terrified of for his safety.

Neither group would really be able to guess the change that the coming of the Boy Wonder would have on said shadowy terror.

(An art piece commissioned by an unknown Gotham artist showing the coming of Robin, underneath this piece would be the first usage of the term "Boy Wonder")

In general, as I've shown across this blog in various ways, the idea of the teenage ward was one that stretched all the way back to the heart of the Golden Age. Even the two men who are often cited as the first of their kind, the Crimson Avenger and the Sandman were both partnered up with young partners by the time they truly stepped into the public limelight. Robin was just the first of a new generation (christened "sidekicks" this time around, using parlance that had become much more common in the era of television and other mass media) and would be quickly followed by other members of what we would later know as the original Teen Titans generations. Speedy, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, etc.

The people and criminals of Gotham specifically were pretty openly baffled by the young man's appearance, because of the way the Batman was viewed during his first year of operation. He was a cryptid, halfway to an urban legend, it was only starting to become an untenable position to claim he didn't really exist! Fear and paranoia about his methods and true nature were still high. Many wondering if, like the superhumans cropping up around him, if he wasn't some kind of monster or other inhuman creature enacting his violent vengeance upon the city's criminal element.

And then, less than a year into his career, he begins to appear on the scene with a pre-teen dressed in bright green shorts and fairy boots! A pre-teen partner who becomes instantly known for his high flying acts of daring do, audibly laughing in the face of death and danger, cracking jokes all along the way. And before ANYONE can get it in their heads to either disrespect the boy or disrespect Batman ABOUT the boy, he helped to publically dismantle the violent Zucco Mob inside less than a week.

Day after day, as the news and popular culture struggle on how to even RESPOND to what is happening before their eyes, Robin is put up against the criminal masterminds that had driven Batman to the brink in the year previous and new threats besides. And not only does he stand up against them, he exceeds them. Standing beside the Dark Knight without missing a beat. He saves lives, he stops bad guys and more than even that he seems to be CHANGING the Batman into something...new.

Gone are the heavy gothic blacks that once left Gotham's protector an unidentified inkiness on the edge of security cameras. He became a dashing figure, cloaked in greys and blues, still colors of the night but more the shades of a coming dawn than a midnight laying heavy across the landscape. The Batsignal shows that the legal system in the city, once hell bent on quashing Batman and the anti-corruption he represented had now been overtaken and reformed by crusaders just the same as him. This angry, snarling vigilante unveils himself as a member of the Justice League, showing himself to the world as one of its foremost and stalwart defenders. Not long after that, Robin joins with the other young wards as the Teen Titan. The two of them embracing the deepening roots of a superhero community that only grows wider with each passing day.

Those heady and halcyon days are gone now, and the boy we once knew as Robin is know seemingly known as Nightwing, another unbreakable sentinel of a community too long known for coming under fire from crime and corruption. Other young men and women have risen to take his place by the side of the Bat, many of THEM growing into greater mantles and roles. Now the idea of the Batman as an unfeeling, unflinching monster is laughable. Because Robin turned him, and his nature, toward the light. And one undeniable truth.

The world did not need to fear his visage.