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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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“hi! how are you?”
“are u asking this for real or are u asking this because it’s a social norm”
“…”
“like how much time u got”
Ah man small talk. The worst.
I’m glad for the reminder, though my first full pregnancy was not too bad… I have baby rabies big time and I thought I’d never want to go through it again but now I got amnesia about gestating a human and I’m ready to go again.