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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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I certainly like clowns far less than I did before reading this article (and I didn’t like them). I can’t believe that’s a thing. :P
Wow. That’s all I can say. Seriously.
I would like a mime to provide some thought provoking gestures on the topic. Maybe there is an invisible wall that is hiding the relevance of “clown lives matter”? I’ll wait. I hate this year.