Thinking about what Ollie told her, Bingo remembered a technique she was taught to deal with anger. She grabs the negative feelings from her arms, back of her neck, and everywhere else. Looking for a place to throw she spotted a painting of a harbor and threw it towards it.



Ollie: *looking curiously* What are you doing?



Bingo: Taking my anger and throwing it away.



Ollie (A little confused): Oh...I see. *looking at the painting* so why did you throw it at the painting?



Bingo: Not AT it, I threw it IN it.



Ollie: *looking again at the painting* Ohhhhh I see, you're throwing it in the water.



Bingo: mhm



Ollie: That's actually a nice technique, I never thought of using it before.



Bingo proud of the technique, remembers it was Bluey who taught her this way of dealing with anger.



Bingo: Mr. Pembroke, you can call Rudy now.



Ollie: Oh, you're ready talk to your family again?



Bingo: *nods*

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Story Context: Bandit brought Bluey and Bingo with him on a work trip to the QAGOMA, sort of as a "Bring your daughters to work day". Bandit was meeting with Rudy Pembroke, a curator and conservationist who Bandit accidentally got on the bad side of over assumptions he made about them at a holiday party. Bandit is hoping he can be able to make arrangements for an exhibition at the museum involving some parchment works, something that Rudy specializes in.



However, the trip hasn't been going well, especially for Bingo, who's starting to feel like her family doesn't care about her. Which started with Chilli putting the Yes/No button on her bag, under the assumption that Bingo kept losing track of it, not knowing that Bingo has grown to hate it as it just reminds her of her family taking her dance modes. Then Bandit ordered her a sandwich which she didn't like at the museum's cafe, under the assumption that just because he likes it must mean Bingo would like it as well. But worst of all, was Bluey, who seemed to be acting no worse than how she acted during that whole Dance Mode fiasco. As she has been policing/third-parenting her, constantly enforcing the smallest of rules and guidelines even when it's not her job to do so, and when Bandit planned on getting them ceramic figures, Bluey kept insisting that Bingo wanted the same unicorn figure she wanted when that wasn't even the case. All this pushed Bingo over the edge to the point of her snapping. Out of anger, Bingo breaks the Yes/No button and has a massive crash out, with Bluey getting the blunt of it.



At this point, Bingo has run off angry and upset, eventually crossing paths with a corgi named Ollie. Ollie is Rudy's younger brother, and has been waiting for them to finish with their meeting so he can spend time with them. To his surprise, when he asked if he could call Rudy to let them know where Bingo was, the little heeler shouted in refusal, telling him that she never wanted to talk to her family ever again. Initially confused, Ollie asked why she wouldn't. After an explanation, Ollie puts together that Bingo's sister seems to have been policing her, and is able to not only tell a story from his past similar to what Bingo was going through, but hopefully help her see that maybe Bingo's family does care about her but just went about showing it in the wrong way. Leading to the scene above.



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So this one is a bit personal for me, as this was based off a fanmade episode I made to combat some emotions I had towards a certain episode. And if you can't tell from the mention of the Yes/No button, that episode is of course Dance Mode, an episode I absolutely hate. I hated how Bandit, Chilli, and especially Bluey treated Bingo in that episode as they were basically peer pressuring her and taking her feelings for granted. And some of the lines came off as kind of hypocritical and just made me angry at the rest of the Heeler family. And when I see people, talk about this episode and it's morals, they do so in a way that focuses on the stuff with Bingo and leave out how the rest of Heelers could've handled it better, I think the only time I've agreed with someone's take on that episode was Joshscrocher's (aka TheFieryJoker). Don't get me wrong, I see why people like the episode, and why people defend it, but the episode pisses me off, and as someone who struggles with intrusive thoughts, it has became a source of many of them. I came up with a fan episode called "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day" as a way to help combat those intrusive thoughts, and I feel is a way to address those feelings I felt were unresolved from Dance Mode. I also developed a head canon that it was Bingo herself that was purposefully hiding the Yes/No button in the couch cushions as she still has some unresolved feelings about the whole situation. The fanmade episode would be Ollie's introduction as well as Rudy's, with Ollie trying to reconnect with Rudy as the two haven't been on good relations for various reasons. It was actually Ollie's talk with Bingo that would help encourage him to discuss his emotions regarding how Rudy treated him and his emotions.



Sorry for going on a bit of tangent, it's just there's a lot regarding this story that I wanted to address. As there's a bit of a story behind this drawing.