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«I usually let my comics stand on their own, but in this case I thought a bit of context would be nice 💚
I see a lot of people in relationships like this: when someone feels their main role in a relationship is as a “protector” and their partner needs to constantly validate it. In these situations, it is the “protector” who is being protected. They are protected from the horror that they might not be “protecting” and therefore have no role to play, and it is their partner who has to do all that work.
I was recently sharing an umbrella with someone in a downpour, and thought of it as an interesting metaphor for relationships. Of course it works better when you are both holding your own umbrella! And you don’t need someone to keep your umbrella dry.

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I love working on this series because it’s so challenging to fit these ideas succinctly into three panels. This one has been through so many drafts to make it work! The main breakthrough was making the umbrellas extremely tall to accommodate the speech bubbles. And I wanted to have someone who wasn’t the orange blob pointing out that pink blob is holding up both umbrellas- and after a lot of thinking I decided it would be funny to just have a rain drop saying it out of nowhere! But I also think that works as a way of questioning what we are being “protected” from. We can be made to feel like people from outside our relationship are bad, when they might be the very people who can see the toxic relationship objectively for what it is, and help us realise that.»

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