#eyeposting

[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

[ceaseless-bitcher]

Hamilton-style musical of rendition of Robert Smirke’s crew and the fallout between himself, Jonah Magnus, and the rest of them.

Ambitious Scottish upstart Jonah Magnus, plunging into the scene of higher society and academia

Interpersonal drama in the esoteric research and philosophy sphere

A power ballad aria from Smirke as he describes his grand, utopian plans for balance

Jonah seeing the wonders of this new world and getting increasingly involved in it, probably getting in some heated theoretical debates with Rayner et al. about it because, being Beholding- and Dark-aligned, their fundamental views would be diametrically opposed

A slowly-shifting musical motif for Jonah as his intentions develop over the course of the play

Barnabas pleading with Jonah through his letter; they’re in separate parts of the stage with different lightings and they can’t see each other. Jonah is reading, rather than listening to, his words

SPOTLIGHTS REMINISCENT OF EYES

Harrowing solo as Jonah sinks deeper into fearing the possibility of rituals

More below the cut because I’m going nuts about this.

I would feel like there’s too much ground to cover (c. 1809 [estimated year Jonah gets introduced to the Fears if he established the Institute in 1818 and talked Smirke into working on Millbank 1815-1821] all the way to 1867 [year of Smirke’s death and the final decommissioning of Millbank: the year in which I place Jonah’s first attempt at the Watcher’s Crown]) if it weren’t for the several decades covered in Hamilton. It provides a pretty good guide for such a varied timeline.

More insane scenes:

Contrast of Albrecht Von Closen’s 1816 letter informing Jonah of his findings at his nephew’s estate vs Dr. Johnathan Fanshawe’s 1831 letter revealing how Jonah knowingly caused Von Closen’s death by stealing his books and got him filled with eyes

Smirke watching the group he formed fall to the Fears in turn, clinging to his alliance with Jonah and therefore being blind to his own turn towards Beholding

Jonah’s financial wheedling with Mordechai Lukas and other donors for his fledgling Institute

Jonah being so gleeful about his brand new Magnus Institute in Edinburgh, after several years of compiling statements informally

HE GETS TO DELIGHT IN ALL THE SCHEDULING AND LOGISTICS!!!

Just. all the letters we have record of. I haven’t even gotten to Dr. Algernon Moss or the conflict between George Gilbert Scott and Sampson Kempthorne

PETTY architecture drama

[mimeo-tan]

its so unfair. *picks up pairing knife* why does nobody want to fuck my eye sockets. they should, i want them to. do they not get it? maybe if i just

*puts down pairing knife* nevermind i can't afford to go blind right now

[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???

[raphs-kinner]

i should have gills

[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 🤨

[coffeecalliope]

Ah, an avatar of the Eye. @vague-magnus-archives

You have one super power: The ability to know without fail what the truth is to any asked question. You planned to help the world as a super hero. It took you six hours for the government to declare you public enemy number one and the most deadly super villain alive.

[brightmoontrigon]

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

[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)

[mimeo-tan]

i wanna fuck an eye socket / have mine fucked but ill never get to and it makes me sad

[lioneliness-etc]

But consider:

Jon giggling while he a variety of colored contacts lenses across his whole body like band-aids. Then his eyes starts to glow and he lights up like a Christmas tree.

Jon applying mascara and eyeliner like: Martin, come here! Can you do my non-dominant arm please?”

do you think when Jon showers (rare occurance) he finds it impossible because the soap gets in his eyes and also his eyes and also his eyes and also his eyes and don’t forget his eyes and oh his eyes as well and his eyes and

[pbflutist]

mid-glasses sale when i saw movement in the corner of my eye and when i turned to look i found a mostly deflated helium balloon skirting along the floor. absolutely no fucking precedent for that

[raphs-kinner]

if i see one more person refer to me as a girl im going to eat them istg

- eyefestation

[ceaseless-bitcher]

YIPPEE

hottest tma take is that every single fan is the beholding. no uquizzes to figure out fear attachments, no assigning everyone in the group chat their own entities. if you listened to the podcast you are in-universe by definition part of the beholding. assigned Eye at canon. one of the characters even hates you personally and tells you this right into the tape recorder

[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]

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.