when i opened my eyes, you were halfway to london.

*points finger*

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

This is very stupid but it’s genuinely what I think about every time I consider skipping dinner after work

Delayed as I had some other things to attend to today and it ended up taking more time and so on - I made some of these in advance, but not all, so here we are. Woops!

The big man, the safe harbour; Kuno joined the cast in season 2 in the most dramatic way possible and became one of the most (if not THE most?) stable love interests of our girl Ghita. I described him originally as:

A Greenlandic dog trainer who befriends Ghita and her colleagues and supports them while they investigate in Greenland. Kuno was born in Greenland, but his parents split when he was young and his mother, a nurse, moved to Denmark. He stayed with her until finishing school at 19 and then made the decision to move back to stay with his father and pursue a dream of training sled dogs.  Now in his early 30s, he takes an interest in the investigation team and seizes the opportunity to be their guide and help them when the local police become inadequate. He is a kind man and down to earth. His build is large and sturdy. He falls for the main character quickly, but respects if she is unwilling to pursue a relationship.

Kuno is very much a 'he fell first and hardest' as his quick and sometimes shy attraction to Ghita is accelerated every time he gets the chance to spend time with her. I liked him being concerned and professional after saving her from the ice, but when they meet again, he's had some time to think and he just goes for it. I think it's so cute that he seemingly went "what the heck, might as well try" and stated his intentions.

There's something about it that I thought was very fitting with the setting. These small settlements are quite isolated along the coast, you can only get from one settlement to another via planes, so any outsiders come with a purpose. They're not there for long and they might never return. If you feel a spark with someone, it's honestly a race against time to sort out your feelings before they'll be gone forever.

I characterised Kuno as a very sociable man, someone who really needs human connection to thrive, and there's just something about the way he connects with Ghita - especially if you choose the Greenlandic background - that works on so many levels. His physical presence, his kindness, his spirituality; he was so acutely aware of his surroundings and at ease in the cold, harsh nature around them, that I think Ghita immediately felt safe around him and that's part of the reason why asking him to come to CPH without knowing him for that long didn't feel implausible. I do think we sometimes meet people that we connect with beyond knowledge and history, but really just that intangible soul connection. And Kuno really did feel deeply.

I wanted to address two things - first of all, the unspoken tension between Kuno and Mads. 🤫

Sometimes I get an idea and it is of zero consequence, but also is so obscure that I know, in advance, that this is more an inside hee-hee haa-haa to myself than to anyone else.... and I will add it.

Writing is supposed to be fun and stuff like this makes me smile.

Mads already gave a beautiful performance of "I'm not gay" at the front desk of the hotel if you're playing with a WLW Ghita, and this little joke chases him around until the end (him being weirdly specific about not arriving "together" with Yasin in the final scene like, yes, we get it, you're straight). The part of it I had the most fun with though, were these secret signals that Kuno was sending out to test if Mads was interested.

I'm not about to claim I know the first thing about how a man determines in the wild that another man is gay, but flirting is flirting and rejection is rejection. The fact that Mads recognises Kuno checking him out and changes how he speaks to him is just another one of those layers. Kuno on the other hand is pretty funny about it - in the breakfast scene episode 9, I couldn't help but phrase Kuno's address to Mads playfully, while Mads is rigid and dismissive, not impolite but just...... "hello stop flirting with me."

What can I say, it brought me joy!

Secondly, Kuno's role as the boyfriend. He was always meant to be unconnected to work once he was in Copenhagen. His quick adoption into Ghita's friend group and the sharp separation of work life and private life was very much on purpose. Kuno is perhaps the ideal "policewoman's husband" as Ghita can truly let go of work when she gets home to him. He's there for her to offload her burdens and he can shoulder a lot of her worries as he isn't himself involved.

In the dynamic with Alba, he offers the parts Alba cannot. Where Alba needs saving from Ghita, Kuno is there to pick up the slack. He will carry Ghita after she's spent all her energy carrying Alba. It's the first time I've done a poly relationship and I don't know if it necessarily added anything to the arc, but it was a good experiment. I also found that it changed the vibe of their interpersonal relationship, where Ghita (if I remember correctly) is much more stressed and worried about Kuno's giving nature on a Kuno-only route than she is on a Kuno-Alba route, simply because she needs more of him with a third person in the relationship.

Will it last? I don't know. Both Kuno and Alba challenge Ghita in their own way and with different motivations to reconsider her whole life. To me, they each seek a place to feel home and unfortunately, they're pulling in opposing directions. Compromises could be made, but at the end of the day Ghita's own dependency on her job, her police identity, could end up being the deciding factor. I don't know if she could settle for a bohemian life in Berlin, or wouldn't get bored in Sullulik.

I think Kuno is an important relationship for Ghita because he inadvertedly teaches her so much about herself, but given the kind of person she is, their happiness depends on her willingness to change for him too.

Thot Shit is the most obvious, its essentially a short film in which a powerful white man politician who enacts misogyny to women like megan while getting off to their bodies, is forced to go about his life unable to escape black women shaking ass in a hostile manner, and the video ends with a shot of the man having had his mouth surgically turned into a realistic sfx vulva. similarly, BOA is a short film clearly parodying creepypasta about haunted video games; three teens play a clearly haunted copy of "Curse of the Serpent Woman," and meg kills each of them, including killing a guy by literally crushing his face with her ass.

in Mamushi (probably the least absurdist), she's a shape-shifting serpent woman who seduces men at a sauna, kills them, and then her partner turns them into an undead army (in a scene inspired by a story from Akira Kurosawa's film Dreams). Roc Steady is a direct reference to Jennifer's Body, and it shows Meg being a quirky cheerleader who graphically kills and dismembers men. most recently Whenever is a music video that is literally set in a Salvador Dali painting (The Persistence of Memory), & while its less horror it is very absurdist in a specifically erotic way, with megan and her eroticism being associated with the strange, shifting room the music video takes place in, and is contrasted with a older woman who watches everything in quiet confusion. and that is accompanied by the repetition of "it's whatever, bitch," brushing off the need to make sense to other people.

commonality in all of these is how she blends horror, absurdity, and eroticism. her being sexy in these videos is not incidental to the horror or absurdism, and the horror isn't softened by her being sexy. the final shot of Thot Shit is genuinely unsettling; its a man with a vulva for a mouth, done with very realistic sfx makeup, clearly in horror himself. in BOA the deaths are depicted in a cartoony but still visceral way - the guy's face literally crushed by megan's ass, the girl's head blown up by being constricted by a snake. in Mamushi, megan swims through the water of the sauna, using her arched back to imitate a snake's movement in water. but when she turns into a giant snake, its just a Fucking Giant Snake. its huge and scary and a snake and it kills the guy who was admiring megan's beautiful human body. and then her victims are depicted as helpless bodies dragged away and repurposed, made into an undead thing for megan to order around.