“They know. They know something’s wrong. They just never ask. Sometimes we’re just sitting there, just staring at each other, you know? Every now and then, they’ll say, ‘Okay, I’ll give you 10 minutes, and then you need to tell us about what’s going on.’ And it’s so dumb, you know, like I’m not just going to talk with a gimmick like that. But then I do want to! I don’t know. It’s like I reverse-psyched myself.

But ten minutes pass, and they clear the table, and it’s over. We never talk about it.

I’m drowning in myself.

I think I’d be dead if you weren’t here.”

stills from a badly edited animation of a conversation from Fall 2019, translated from tamil

animations made on Stop Motion Studio and Procreate for iPad