Vexishereandveryqueer - Vex Being Odd

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I don't think it's a radical ideal for the want of Hawai'i to become their own independent country. It should have never been taken over by the US in the first place. For a country whose entire foundation is based upon "separation from a colonial country" it's laughable that they made an entire population that was self governed into a state. It's insulting. It's already blatantly obvious that this whole country was based on lies and blood, and it only continues to perpetuate that. I'm shocked that the Hawai'ian sovereignty movement isn't mainstream even though they have been fighting for it since 1997. Fuck the American government.

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— Unknown

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Duke and Jason Being Hood Kids, Part 2

Duke considers cutting his hair off after his parents are hospitalized. Mama used to braid it for him every Sunday, but she obviously can’t do it now that she’s…yeah.

Yeah.

He tries doing it himself and can’t manage anything better than straight-backs. He looks like Queen Latifah in Set It Off. Mama used to braid intricate patterns and gold beads into his hair with ease. Once, when he first started high school, she braided his name into the back of his head. He avoided putting his hood up the whole week just to show it off.

Duke’s never had to do this himself. He watches an endless stream of YouTube tutorials and TikToks, but he just can’t get the hang of it. At one point, he just blows it all out and settles for a low bun because he can’t handle trying again. The girls at school fawn over “all that hair!” Duke just feels like a failure.

That’s when Jason steps in.

“Wish you’d said something sooner.” How does he even respond to that? The Red Hood, guardian of the Narrows, is detangling his hair and parting it into sections. What the fuck is his life? “Now you’ve got split ends.”

“In my defense,” Duke says, grunting softly when Jason pulls a particularly troublesome knot. “I didn’t exactly know I could say something about this. Especially not to you.”

Duke doesn’t point out that Jason’s hair is nothing like his own. That his hair is slightly curly, but nowhere near the kinky texture Duke has. That nobody in the Manor has hair like Duke’s or would understand the difference between a wide-tooth comb and a rat-tail comb. That no one else would know the L-O-C method to keep his hair moisturized, or that Aminata’s Beauty on Hall Street is the only one that carries his favorite deep conditioner. He stays silent and hopes Jason will assume that he meant “I can’t ask the Red Hood to do my hair.”

Jason hums thoughtfully as he clips two detangled sections down. “I can see that. If you’d asked, though, you’d know that the Red Hood makes house-calls. And that some of those calls involve kids who want to go to school looking like somebody loves them.”

Part. Shea butter. Braid. Next.

“No fuckin’ way,” Duke laughs. “You’re—what, braiding hair and trimming split ends in between drug busts? You retwisting locs?”

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“If that’s what it takes,” Jason responds. He sticks the rat-tail comb behind his ear as his fingers move across Duke’s scalp. “Papí at the bodega gives out free snacks. Mr. Chen opens his restaurant to kids who want a safe place to do homework. I blow up warehouses and occasionally make sure kids with no one at home can smile on Picture Day.”

Part. Shea butter. Braid. Next.

“I feel some of type of way about this.”

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“You want me to stop?”

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“No. Uh…thanks.”

“Any time.”