Foolish Child #116: Four Hours of Sleep

In a four panel comic with a bright blue sky, Dickens yawns. Their friend Saria notes, “oh are we back to boxes now”— referencing the comic style — and Dickens responds, “for no reason at all, I have no energy for anything more complex right now.

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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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7 Comments

  1. It took me longer than it should have to realize that “boxes” was referring to the perfectly square frames in the comic, and not some sort of cultural or lifestyle reference which was going over my head.

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