#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

[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.

[pbflutist]

good friend of mine introduced me to the woman he's seeing and one of the first things i did was offer to adjust her glasses bc they seemed like they were slipping down a lot. there is no saving me

[brightmoontrigon]

admittedly i do feel a lot of anxiety / pressure lately like I have to both look at and make as much art and other things as as possible because losing more of my vision feels like it's an inevitability or some kind of inescapable doom for me now. just because it hasn't happened Yet doesn't mean its Not Going To

[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)

[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

[mimeo-tan]

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

[raphs-kinner]

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

- eyefestation

[thesleepierhead]

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

[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

[pbflutist]

made it home after a long day at the glasses factory and the whole drive home i kept feeling something in my shoe digging into my heel but i couldn't check. on account of driving my vehicle. anyway just took my shoe off and the something was a fucking nosepad

[brightmoontrigon]

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