#eye squick

[cleolinda]

Content note: discussion of injury! Nothing gory, nothing broken, no blood.

Bless my nephew’s baby heart—he is six and also an MCU fan, so when my sister spent the last week prepping him for how gnarly my face looks, he thought “Aunt [Cleo] has a black eye” meant I had LOST AN EYE, Thor-style. Honestly, anything would be pretty chill compared to that.

We have small family dinners where my sister’s crew comes over on Sundays, so he hadn’t seen me in a week. And I fell down the deck steps last Monday (a week ago today). In the middle of dinner, long after we had discussed all of this, he turns to me and cheerfully says, “You look terrible, [Cleo]. I love you.” He has multiple special needs, including very hyper ADHD, but he is also the sweetest little super-empathetic boy. “I hope you feel better soon,” he told me when I hugged him goodbye.

I still look like roadkill. Most of the swelling on my face has gone down, but my cheekbone is a hard lumpy knot to the touch. My cheek is chartreuse; there’s some mulberry bruising around my eye—

—and most of the bruising, in the weird way of bruising, “drained” all the way down to my jaw. I didn’t do shit to my jaw but it looks the most horrible. Just, like, indigo. Still got a cut over my lip. And yet, I’d still sally out to LensCrafters for new glasses, except that my cheek is too swollen to try on frames. So, another week of blurry squinting. Yay.

I will not detail how fucked up my left leg is. Just believe that it is. The right leg looks bad but it doesn’t hurt. My right arm is a little gnarly but it’s coming along well. Arnica gel has helped the bruising disperse, although you can also use diluted vinegar to break it up.

I didn’t hit my nose per se (hashtag blessed), but my sense of smell is, let’s say, compromised, between the dregs of a head cold and the bruising. So I HAVE new perfume samples, but I’m not sure any impressions of them would be accurate right now.

I was looking over my old Dracula tweet threads, but it’s a bit hard with the squinting. Significant amounts of reading are right out until I get new glasses, which may be this weekend.

Typing isn’t too bad (as you see), particularly on my phone, which I can peer more closely at. Bottom line, this fucking sucks, but we persevere.

[minimanic]

Colete Martin

[quitecontrarytv]

nothing gets me like ramping up the tension right after getting lost in the vibes of solving a puzzle lol

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[tennessoui]

The second chapter of fishook has possibly the best chapter ending of any of your fics. I adore it. :D

I think fish hook is the story that has one half of Obikin meet the consequences of his manipulations/actions the fastest

like this obi-wan manipulates anakin into thinking of him as mate instead of enemy and then less than a week later (or like 2 weeks? I can’t recall exactly) anakin shows back up with a child he’s expecting the least natural parent in the history of the galaxy to be enthused to parent

like. Many of my anakins and obi-wans use either manipulation or miscommunication or straight up lying about things to win over their partners. Sometimes there are consequences when the manipulations or lying is found out.

very very rarely is there a child and a dead Sith Lord in the mix so soon

[hyperbali]

I'm finally starting to wear contacts for the first time this week and I need y'all to give me good removal tips because it has NOT been going well at the end of the night, lmao

[fisheito]

hiya l'il-- medium?...large?? Assorted Sizes-Guy

oh thanks! i could always use more spices-

. what am i supposed to do with this.

[falseren]

not to open more pandora's boxes and i know this fandom hates m/f ships but i feel like false/ren should be a more popular hermitship given the vast screentime of interactions and the little coincidences and being v sweet and loyal to each other. they're just each other's special little guys y'know

[finniigan-fr]

A Grove raffle prize for ChibiFluffy! Check out their colourful abby Moss :3

[smalltimidbean]

About a month ago someone asked if there would be a clone based on the secrets, and I have - once again - overthought the idea and ended up with too many kgklfd

So have some concepts while I try to finalise them! They will be just one character, but I might recycle unused concepts later

[mothbaubles]

so like. usually pooltoys don't get me hot n' bothered but I had this dream about pooltoy tf last night...

[worlds-smallest-epsilon]

“Foreign Object” by the Mountain Goats slaps. Easily one of the top 10 songs about stabbing someone in the eye with a foreign object

[minimanic]

Chloe Chen

[isaaccecilbryant]

((As much as I would love for Ai-Zak to have a tail to wag...

I can't trust him to have it put away when inside someone's head. Could you imagine the damage he'd do to an optic nerve with his tail wagging?))

[scpwiki-official]

Spill

[tennessoui]

I was thinking abt the roadtrip au today and like we all agree Obi-Wan is a bit bitchy right.

Like he would be the snarkiest most infuriating backseat driver and Anakin would just have to take it bc he can’t snap back at his pregnant omega.

At a certain point they would both become intolerably snippy and pull over for a roadside bj to break the tension

Please obi-wan is the most bitchiest in that entire fic literally this is the guy who has figured out if he shows his bestie friend his stomach where the baby is, he’ll get his way no matter what he wants. He’s fully prepared and ready to bulldoze over anakin’s desires in favor of his own now that he has this secret weapon of patpatpat stomach

(There’s a scene I think where he wants something so he frames his tummy and anakin says no and obi-wan is confused and pats his tummy pointedly because did anakin miss that? why isn’t this working? This always works!?)

(There’s also a scene where obi-wan is mad at anakin so he doesn’t let him hold his hand and then when he gets his way he lets anakin hold his hand and anakin is like “so this is some sort of positive reinforcement?” And obi-wan is like I don’t know what you mean 🥰😘)

Bitchiest omega!! Anakin is a saint!!

[deva-arts]

...It's fitting that Nathaniel and his alternate make 66.6% of the vote honestly

I voted for Eric though. I just think he's neat

Eric really is neat, isn't he? 😁

...Nate has been eating up this poll though.. 👀