#eyeposting

[pbflutist]

realized my lifelong dream of having strong enough shoulders to rip a shirt in half today but unfortunately it was 1. not on cue 2. not part of some grand hilarious bit 3. brought about by me stretching my arms wrong for the briefest of instants and 4. in the middle of the office in the middle of the morning. so be careful what you wish for i guess

[brightmoontrigon]

(am now recovering at home after surgery btw! still very out of it but seem to be getting a little better each day. thanks so much everyone who sent or continues to send good vibes and well-wishes 💖 hoping you all are doing well too)

[ceaseless-bitcher]

you always love to hear a man (Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute) whimper

(Source attached, 15:42-17:08. #0172804, recorded direct from subject)

[nightvale-thoughts]

i feel u on the eye avatar thing lmao i love other people’s business. it’s a guilty pleasure or smth.

LITERALLY LIKE,, why is ur living room window open if u don’t want me to watch u having a family dinner from across the street 🤨

[thesleepierhead]

i went out and all i got was angry enough to break my art block

[pbflutist]

at the office yesterday we put bluey on for a six-year-old who was extremely unhappy about having her first eye appointment and for whatever reason some older guy felt the need to comment about how the show "makes no sense" because bluey "looks like a boy dog but is a girl dog," which. i've never seen cartoon dogs less specifically gendered in my whole life first of all, and who gives a shit second of all. but his example of the Righteous and Wholesome Kids' Cartoons of Yore was fucking BLUES CLUES?? the most famous example of a cartoon dog being blue and a girl at the same time???

[brightmoontrigon]

hello am alive, my vision is still kinda all fucked up but the tumor is gone and I probably wont need radiation after all (yippee 💛)

[ceaseless-bitcher]

I think it’s absolutely fascinating that this episode, in which Elias tells the story of Daisy’s Slaughter encounter with and eventual murder of Calvin Benchley, is named “The Eyewitnesses,” and pronounced far more like “The Eye Witnesses.” Both titles work; Elias points out that Daisy is the only living person who knows how she got her namesake scar (since she’d killed Benchley), and then proceeds to defy that by telling her story, which he only could’ve obtained through his connection with Beholding/“The Eye.” There are no “Eyewitnesses,” so the blackmail Elias held over her head came from what “The Eye Witnesses.”

I know this is pretty obvious, but on my re-listen I found it a clever pun worth acknowledging.

[eyesteeth]

[is struck with euphoria] god eyeballs fucking rule funky little vision spheres. gods bless em.

[brightmoontrigon]

brain surgery tomorrow morning (cries)

[justarchivingthings]

In regards to the model of the 4 Fs of Trauma Response (fight, flight, freeze and fawn) from Pete Walker's book “Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving" shout-out to archival assistant Fiona Law for adding the 5th F: faint.

[belladonnafey]

Can someone make TMA live vase reaction

[brightmoontrigon]

[brightmoontrigon]

frankly i hoped things would improve with my mri results but that was naïve as hell because dealing with the us healthcare/insurance system has just thrown me further into the torment nexus of waiting, uncertainty, and having to spend So Much Money

[brightmoontrigon]

good news: I got both of the MRIs I needed in one appointment after all!

bad news: tumor :(

its a benign sort (meningioma?) by my pituitary gland but its pressing on my optic nerve and causing problems. hopefully removing it will restore my vision quality but that's not a guarantee

[brightmoontrigon]

neuro-ophthalmology appointment. tomorrow (screams in fear of the unknown)