Foolish Child #22: Too Sick to Function

Foolish Child is a biweekly comic series by Dickens



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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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3 Comments

  1. My mom was, and still is, often fond of saying those sorts of things to me. :-/

    However, she usually says things like that more negatively framed, not the more light-hearted way you mean here. And I imagine tons of pregnant women can empathize! =)

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