Foolish Child #115: Exhaustion

In an illustration, Dickens si in a purple shirt that reads "Goin' into 2022 Like" while having dark bags under their eyes and a hand lazily waving to the reader. They have on white AirPods. Behind Dickens is a light blue background with words like "anxiety" and "sleep" floating around. Behind those words, in hazy colors are two more words: War, and Racism...

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Dickens

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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