12 am: aima sits typing at the computer, a blank expression on her face. caption reads "Faffin' about online."
1 am: aima yanks the shower door open, hair full of shampoo suds, as she says "OH SHIT". captain reads: "Shower-- OH WAIT IT'S HOURLY COMIC DAY"
2 am: aima lays on her bed with her cats, looking at her phone. captain reads: "So you're going to bed now... /Right?/"
3 am: sundown appears and grabs the back of aima's head, faceplanting her into her pillow, sending the cats flying. caption reads: "I said you're GOING TO BED- /NOW./"
10 am: sundown is grabbing aima's hair, lifting it up from sleep now. sundown says "Wake up." aima says "Nuh...". caption reads: "Well, I would but there's--"
11 am: parker stands on the bed in all his stripey glory, holding his stuffed toy broom in his mouth with big eager eyes. caption reads: "PARKER!!"
12 pm: aima sits in silence at the breakfast table eating eggs and wearing headphones. speech bubbles filled with exclamation points surround her on both sides. caption reads: "Breakfast. Family talks Politics. I ignore them."
1 pm: aima still sits at the table, drawing in her sketchbook now. the speech bubbles are pointier now, and crowding in on aima more. caption reads: "Hourlies. Still ignoring family noises"
2 pm: aima holds up a sparkling quesadilla like link holds a new item in twilight princess, but with a non-plussed expression on her face. caption reads: "Also: Quesadilla✨"
3 pm: aima still sits at the table, annoyed as she tries to think of things to draw for hourlies. caption reads: "Bro, if you only work on hourlies all day, you're not gonna have anything interesting to draw today..."
4 pm: close up of aima's face, one eye covered by her glasses reflection as she looks contemplative. caption reads: "Though I guess... Maybe it's ok to not be interesting."
4:30 pm: aima dries off the steaming dishes that are freshly clean out of the dishwasher. caption reads: "After everything that happened last year..."
5 pm: aima plays with her cat luna with a wand toy, as luna rolls around on her back, arms in the air. caption reads: "Maybe it's ok to take it easy where you can."
the next panel, labeled "March 11th", is drawn to look taped-in, replacing the slot where 6 pm would be. aima is surprised and worried as she sees her dad fall to his knees on the stairs, clutching his back in pain. caption reads: "After all, you never know when something could suddenly happen..."
the next taped-in panel is labeled "April (xx)". notes are written in the empty space around the panel; a phone number for a doctor's office, a checked box on a medical form, and the paper is wrinkled and stained by a mug. a date is scrawled in the corner.
the panel itself shows aima sitting on the side of her father's bed in silence, her face blank as she stares ahead into space while her haggard-looking dad sleeps. caption reads: "To throw you right back into the hell you thought you'd just crawled out of."
the next taped-in panel is labeled "May or June???". the paper is even more wrinkled and smudged now, and scribble marks crowd in around the entire panel. more notes crowd in; the top of a shopping list, a to-do list with items checked off, a note scrawled that reads "CALL Dr. Xy, ask about-"
the panel itself shows aima rubbing her father's back around the scar from his recent back surgery to help ease the pain from said surgery. the look on her face is serious as she contemplates the surgery scar. amongst all the chaos of the surrounding panel, the caption has to be circled so it can be identified, reading: "Sometimes it's all you can do to survive."
at the very bottom of the page, aima sits cross-legged with her head in her hands, depressed and overworked. sundown looks worried and rubs her back, trying to comfort her. the two are surrounded by thick black scribbles, filling the rest of the negative space of the page. the caption reads: "Even if it means coping in whatever ways you can."
hey wow! hourly comic day! i made it just in time!!
...it's still 2025, right?
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