toy time!

[ID: lineless, digitally illustrated, brightly coloured comic featuring anthropomorphic animals in domestic settings. The two children, a green dog and an orange dog, peer around the corner of a door frame at their grandfather, a grey dog, who is sitting in a chair. Text reads "We don't do that around grandpa. A kids book about traumas and triggers. By Athen O.E." The children are playing with pop caps. Text "Me and Lilly like sparkly things. They go Pop, Pop, Pop, and Crack, Crack, Crack." The grandfather looks distressed. Text "We like them because they're Luod [sic, Loud] but Gandpa [sic, Grandpa] doesn't. It remind him of things made him scared and angry." The pop caps in the bin. Text "So we don't do that around grandpa." Auntie May, a yellow cat with a green dress and a pink awareness ribbon, looks worried. Text "Auntie May is sad. Something scary happened to her. Hearing about uncle Dave makes her even more sad." The children give Auntie May flowers. In the background is a photo of two cats, Auntie May and a purple cat, both with green clothes and pink ribbons, and a love heart above their heads. Text "So we don't talk about him around Auntie May." The children play video games while Jay, a light purple cat, stands nervously to the side. Text "Cousin Jay is quiet. They don't like to talk to people anymore. We used to play zombie games together. But then cousin Jay saw something scary at school." The children are playing a tennis video game together, with Jay watching. Text "It made them afraid of things like zombie game. So we don't play those with them anymore." The orange dog stands in front of Ruby, a red rabbit. Ruby is crying and has a bandage around her leg. The orange dog is defending her from a vocal regular dog. Text reads "My best friend Ruby is afraid of dogs. She said a big mean one bit her leg. Ruby gets scared and cries when she sees one, the bite hurt a lot." The orange dog and Ruby are inside, Ruby runs to hug a larger pink rabbit, presumably an adult family member, while the orange dog closes the door. Text "We don't bring dogs around her anymore." The four characters, Grandpa, Auntie May, Cousin Jay, and Ruby, having emotional reactions. Text reads "And every time one of them is scared..." A white paw and a grey paw overlapping with colourful emphasis triangles around them. Text "We hold their hand and tell them it'll be OK. Because that's what we do around people we care about." /end ID]