Yeah I love him soo much! He was an orphan along with Kara in Midvale's orphanage. His original name was Richard Wilson before he was adopted by the Malverne Family.

He was very prominent in Supergirl's silver age stuff, he was described as her "Lana lang" because he was always trying to expose her secret identity lol

He was lowkey insane (but most silver age characters were, so I'll let it pass)

He was one of Supergirl's main love interests, alongside Jerro the merboy (my babyyy) and Brainiac 5

(Superman also put all 3 of their pictures in the fortress, yes thank you Clark that's not weird at all)

Kara (Linda) would spend time with Richard often. Whether it be completely platonic meet-ups or dates

He was also friends with Lena Luthor, Lex's younger sister (who wasn't evil at all and went by 'Lena Thorul' ) Both Richard and Lena were kinda Supergirl's best friends during this period and the 3 of them would hang out.

Eventually, As Kara got older she moved out of Midvale and couldn't see them anymore.

Richard tried to reconnect with her though.

We then learn He got Cancer, and on his death bed he confessed that he always knew Linda was Supergirl and said goodbye.

They also mentioned him in the 2025 Supergirl comic

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6′0 Aisha Tyler

6′0 Allison Janney

6′0 Brooke Shields

6′0 Elle Macpherson

6′0 Famke Janssen

6′0 Geena Davis

6′0 Jane Lynch

6′0 Jeanene Fox

6′0 Jennie Finch

6′0  Kristen Johnston

6′0 Margaux Hemingway

6′0 Natasha Stefanenko

6′0 Saffron Burrows

6′0 Uma Thurman

6′1 Adriana Karembeu

6′1 Ana Hickmann

6′1 Brigitte Nielsen

6′1 Faith Minton

6′1 Janet McTeer

6′1 Julie Strain

6′1 Michelle Wie

6′1 Monika Schnarre

6′1 Pam Stone

6′1 Penny Lancaster

6′1 Tara Moss

6′1 Venus Williams

6′2 Dorothy Ford

6′2  Elizabeth Debicki

6′2 Ireland Baldwin

6′2 Jodie Kidd

6′2 Karlie Kloss

6′2 Lindsay Davenport

6′2  Maria Sharapova

6′2 Natalia Bush

6′2 Suzie Plakson

6′3 Dot-Marie Jones

6′3 Gabrielle Reece

6′3 Gwendoline Christie

6′3 Judy Gold

6′3 Kerri Walsh Jennings

6′4 Candace Parker

6′4   L'Wren Scott

6′4 Rebecca Lobo

romani people are not white. we’re south asian (from northern india), and each subgroup has a unique racial makeup of asian/white/etc, in different amounts. this is also why we vary wildly in physical appearance/skintone

we still face oppression. what we face, especially in europe, can still be constituted as attempted genocide, as we’re forced to live in hazardous conditions or to give away our children, be sterilized, etc just for the crime of being roma

the ‘g slur’ isn’t just an american issue. the reason some european roma prefer the slur is because, in many countries, there is no term for roma that isn’t a slur, and it’s either the g slur or the literal translation of the n word. i’m romanian, and if you used the slur in my hometown, you’d get slapped, since we just use ‘roma’.

we live in every continent across the world. some of the largest romani populations exist in south america, predominantly in brazil. they are no more and no less roma than their european counterparts, and they, like romani in asia, africa, etc all face unique challenges and oppression.

It’s not just them. It is them, but it’s not just them. Gorja want every excuse to forget us and our pain. Please show them the numbers, because we can’t show them their names. Remember them, the 2,897, but don’t ever let the 200,000-500,000 estimated people who were also murdered be forgotten.

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the liquidation of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Camp) at Auschwitz. A day when 2,897 Roma and Sinti men, women and children were murdered in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz extermination camp.

It is also a day when we remember the hundreds of thousands of Roma who were murdered or died of starvation or disease in other concentration camps across Europe. Many more were imprisoned, used as forced labour or subject to forced sterilisation and medical experimentation.

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The murder of the Roma is often described as Nazi Germany’s “forgotten” genocide, that is why it is important that we acknowledge that as many as half the Roma population of Europe was erased from existence.

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There was no such reckoning in Europe about Roma and Sinti people.

The West German government fundamentally agreed with the Nazi premise that Roma and Sinti were “criminals,” so it wasn’t that the Nazis were wrong, they just went too far. Excessive. Distasteful. Unfortunate. But not incorrect.

The East German government had a similar perspective and it only granted recognition and compensation to people who could muster documentary evidence and submit paperwork establishing that they were “victims of fascism.” That category was intended to frame the Nazi persecutions as ideological, with the ideal victim a communist hero engaged in armed resistance. This bureaucratic category purposely erased nasty bourgeois divisive categories like ethnicity. German Jews struggled to get recognition. Think how much worse it was for Roma and Sinti people navigating a hostile bureaucracy that thought everything about their traditional way of life was 1.) an impediment to revolution, 2.) essentially criminal.

And truly, the Allies did not fight to liberate the camps. It’s not that they didn’t know about the camps. All the protests of American Jews weren’t sufficient to induce the Allies to bomb the gas chambers or even bomb the train tracks to the camps. Jews fought for recognition and for whatever reckoning there’s been—and given the amount of Holocaust denial and misinformation out there, I’m not sure it’s been a success. There are fewer Roma and Sinti people, they were less “assimilated” into the economy, and they didn’t have an emancipated population safely on another continent. Yes, it was smaller, but every barrier has been in place to impede the Porajmos’ place in historical memory because the perpetrating cultures did not care about any memory unless absolutely forced to.

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The fire alarm went off at school today because of a mistake, but your teachers did the right thing to take you outside to be sure it was safe.

Some people use wheelchairs because their legs don’t walk very well. It can happen because they are old and tired, or because they got hurt, or because they were born that way.

Your Uncle Jerod talked to mom and dad, and wants you to call her Aunt Kari now. We will call her Kari too, and we can all practice together if it takes some getting used to.

Anticipate age-appropriate fears the child might have so you can assuage those that are not a threat.

Yes, Kitty died at the vet, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not safe for Puppy to go to the vet.

Yes, Peyton and Jo are getting a divorce, but they are both still part of our family and love you very much.

Yes, Grandma has cancer, but cancer is not contagious, so you are not going to get cancer by visiting her.

Anticipate fears that are realistic, and give the child clear direction about what to do, and what happens next.

If someone asks you to get in their car without permission, find Mom, Mama, or a teacher and tell them right away. We will make sure you are safe.

If Sparky’s sickness makes him hurt very badly, we are going to take him to the vet and she will give him some medicine, and he will die, but then he won’t hurt any more. Because Sparky is very sick, we are going to spend some special time with him over the next few days.

If the fire alarm goes off at school again, follow the teacher’s directions. If the fire alarm goes off and you are somewhere alone, go outside, and ask a grownup to call 911.

Reassure the child that they’re safe and loved, validate their feelings, and see if they have follow-up questions. Give them the option to take space to process, or to stay near you to feel safe.

I’m sad about Sparky too. Do you think we could make his favorite peanut-butter treats, while we are spending special time with him?

I understand why Grandma’s cancer makes you feel angry. It doesn’t seem fair that people we love get sick. Would you like a hug?