Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

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Co-authors: Charles Egnatz and Kadijah Booth Watkins “Mm, I didn’t wanna leave you, I didn’t wanna lie/Started to cry, but then remembered/I can buy myself flowers/Write my name in the sand/Talk to myself for hours/Say things you don’t understand” —Miley Cyrus Teen romance looks very different today than it did a generation ago. Texting, social media, and even AI chatbots have changed how teens connect, communicate, and even break up with one another. While digital spaces can help teens feel closer and more supported, they can bring new challenges including ghosting, blocking and harassment. And those who sustain or initiate…

Don’t ask me why, but somehow “Critters 2: The Main Course” became the DEFINITIVE Easter-themed horror movie.An underrated ’80s sequel that’s pretty much essential Easter viewingOK, so Easter really isn’t the best holiday to anchor a horror movie around. You’ve got bunnies and pastel-colored hard-boiled eggs and resurrected messiahs … well, on second thought, Easter sounds like the PERFECT holiday to anchor a horror movie around. Which makes it so surprising/confounding that the holiday never got its corresponding magnum opus a’la Halloween, Black Christmas, April Fool’s Day or New Year’s Evil.There have been some noble efforts to capitalize/exploit the conceits…

You have a personal style and pattern of how you interact with others. This pattern of behavior is how you and others know whether you are acting “normally” or not. Your interpersonal style has likely been shaped by your life experiences, the expectations others have for you, cultural norms, and your personal preferences of how you want to show up in the world. It can sometimes be a challenge to maintain a healthy balance between what you, others, and the world expect of you. Have you noticed a pattern in which you repeatedly compromise your needs and preferences to make…

Pizza Boy – A Horror Short Film: Now on Kickstarter to Raise Post-Production Funds: “Pizza Boy is a psychological horror short about a cook whose routine night begins to fracture into something much darker. What starts as another closing shift order slowly becomes a confrontation with trauma, memory, and something far more sinister. This is not a story about monsters. It’s a story about what people carry with them. Pizza Boy is an independent horror short filmed on location in New York City. The visual style is grounded and gritty, influenced by Good Time and It Follows, building a world that grows more saturated and…

One in three children in the United States will be reported to child protective services (CPS) before they turn 18. For Black children, that number is nearly one in two. This is not a minor issue. Reporting touches millions of families—disproportionately Black, Brown, Indigenous, immigrant, disabled, and poor. But most families learn how this system works only after they are already in it. This piece is for you. Read it before that happens. Understand your risks so you can mitigate them. What mandated reporting is—and what it isn’t Mandated reporters are people required by law to report suspected child abuse…

The 2026 UFL season kicked off Friday, March 27 on FOX UFL Friday, and it will consist of a 10-week regular season ending on May 31, followed by playoffs starting the week of June 7 and the championship game later that month.There are new teams, new coaches, new players and new uniforms this season — and that’s just the beginning.The league’s media partners — FOX, FS1, ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 — combine to broadcast all 43 games during the UFL’s third season. Select games in Spanish will also air across FOX Deportes and ESPN Deportes. Here are the full 2026 schedules for…

Fascism is the troublesome political ideology that just won’t go away. It usually begins with great enthusiasm, only to end with catastrophe and regret. Despite this record of misery and failure, fascism continues to attract true believers. It typically gains traction when levels of frustration, fear, anger, and resentment rise a little too high within a relatively free society. People love answers, true or false, that seem to explain their unease. They demand change, and some especially want the kind of change that hurts groups of people they don’t like. Enter stage right, the grinning pseudo-patriot problem solver who promises…

“A gold-toothed corpse, a town hungry for vengeance, and a hearse full of secrets” await readers within the pages of The Undertaker, Volume One: The Gold Eater and Dance of the Vultures. Written by Xavier Dorison, illustrated by Ralph Meyer, and featuring colors by Caroline Delabie and Ralph Meyer, the Western graphic novel is now available in hardcover from Abrams ComicArts, and we’ve been provided with an exclusive excerpt to share with Daily Dead readers! Below, you can see tensions rise on a hellish hearse ride in our exclusive preview of The Undertaker, Volume One: The Gold Eater and Dance…

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