Foolish Child #110: Trauma Dump

Dickens friend asks if yesterday was a hard day at work due to the police shooting and car chase, but Dickens has already blocked work out from their memory. Their friend follows up by asking if maybe they should draw about their trauma so that they remember it. Dickens says that they want to come home and draw funny, fluffy things about their favorite ship- not trauma. They have their trauma of 15 years watching death and violence for their fan fiction, which of course does not comfort their friend at all. Dickens wearing a purple shirt and their friend is in a green sweatshirt, they are both talking against a purple ombre background. This s all hand drawn...

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I am a queer coparenting mama to Dickens Jr. Doodler by day, 911 dispatcher by night. All my favorite shows look better on Tumblr. I am two years and 450K words deep into constructing a fanfic called Ages and I'm never giving up on it. Bering & Wells.

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