Quick thing I've been noticing: Certain characters either have their eyes injured or lose them entirely, and i think this is in relation to Objectified's grander theme of perspective.

Here, every time citrus gains an eye injury (either literally or symbolically), his perspective shifts: His relationship with Spool starts to turn more playful, he learns about assimilated objects having souls, and he, of course, begins to accept his love for Spool and see him different entirely.

Wagyu was losing his eye from the start as his entire world changes, and he's forced to learn basically everything outside of his little personal bubble. He seems to "gain" a new eye as the symbiote takes over and he adjusts to his body.

Brandy and Minty are pretty self explanatory. Minty got his scratch when he realized he needed to leave his childhood home, Brandy got his eye shattered as Minty crash-coursed into his life, and Minty got another eye injury as his vision and opinion of Brandy truly, definitively hard-shifted.

Gum also has one eye covered during almost the entirety of her flashback with Wick, which (judging by most of the rest of her scars seeming to be in order) could be directly representative of her deciding she can't do this line of work anymore. Her and Candy also both take out eachothers eyes as they break apart from eachother and Gum changes her entire life around.

There's some other details that stick out to me here, too: Comet's eye being covered in her cast art as everything around her changes drastically and beyond her understanding, Fuzzball having an eye covered and specifically her old eye being visible on Razor (the intense knowledge that Razor has here that Fuzzball doesn't?), Turtleshell only having his eyes be visible and being a character based in knowledge, starsheet affecting eyes heavily, Toothbrush having his goggles on and seeming to be blind to his own problems, Painkiller, Dragonscale, and Gum all having their perspectives warped at some point...

Neat! Possibly related to the white rabbit having one eye covered at all times? Who knows!

im gonna do something dumb ://

i feel like that one i had potential shirt or whatever

A good stupid or bad stupid

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No bad stupid stuff tonight and uh ill uh be really proud and give you a hug maybe a mwah on the forehead

i would love a mwah on the forehead

Then don't do bad bad bad stupid AND EAT YOUR DINNER ok??? It can be bad stupid as long as no one incurs harm

yeah it depends on your definition of harm but im not cutting again dw, that would be Bad Bad stupid which it's not

Good good then, hug and mwah once you get the chance and if it turns you havent done the bad stupid thing I'll give you a hug and two mwahs

im gonna do something dumb ://

i feel like that one i had potential shirt or whatever

A good stupid or bad stupid

:////

No bad stupid stuff tonight and uh ill uh be really proud and give you a hug maybe a mwah on the forehead

i would love a mwah on the forehead

Then don't do bad bad bad stupid AND EAT YOUR DINNER ok??? It can be bad stupid as long as no one incurs harm

im gonna do something dumb ://

i feel like that one i had potential shirt or whatever

A good stupid or bad stupid

:////

No bad stupid stuff tonight and uh ill uh be really proud and give you a hug maybe a mwah on the forehead

im gonna do something dumb ://

i feel like that one i had potential shirt or whatever

A good stupid or bad stupid

Hey, just in case nobody's ever told you, you can just live with your friends. I don't mean as a temporary roommate situation until you get a better job or a romantic partner; you can do it forever if you want to. Like, I know my view is a little scewed here because I'm aroace, but you can't convince me that most people's lives wouldn't be vastly improved by living with a tight-knit group of people that all love and care about and support each other. You don't have to live alone! You don't have to live alone with your partner either! If the only thing stopping you is societal convention, then fuck it!! Break free of your chains!!! Do whatever you want forever!!!!

@mintyfresh2763 i believe u will be allowed to live with @8promises and me if u so wish

:00000000 really :000 ill keep the place spotless

perfect, cause i will have a hard time doing that

As do i but I will be motivated by the knowledge that my friends will come home to a nice clean living place

I think u really underestimate how messy i am lol

(but that would be so peak living with both of yall)

Shhhhhhhhhhh Im cleaning shhhhhhhh

Hey, just in case nobody's ever told you, you can just live with your friends. I don't mean as a temporary roommate situation until you get a better job or a romantic partner; you can do it forever if you want to. Like, I know my view is a little scewed here because I'm aroace, but you can't convince me that most people's lives wouldn't be vastly improved by living with a tight-knit group of people that all love and care about and support each other. You don't have to live alone! You don't have to live alone with your partner either! If the only thing stopping you is societal convention, then fuck it!! Break free of your chains!!! Do whatever you want forever!!!!

@mintyfresh2763 i believe u will be allowed to live with @8promises and me if u so wish

:00000000 really :000 ill keep the place spotless

perfect, cause i will have a hard time doing that

As do i but I will be motivated by the knowledge that my friends will come home to a nice clean living place

We have nothingburger and everything bagel, implying the existence of a third, elusive contender: the Something Sandwich

Hey, just in case nobody's ever told you, you can just live with your friends. I don't mean as a temporary roommate situation until you get a better job or a romantic partner; you can do it forever if you want to. Like, I know my view is a little scewed here because I'm aroace, but you can't convince me that most people's lives wouldn't be vastly improved by living with a tight-knit group of people that all love and care about and support each other. You don't have to live alone! You don't have to live alone with your partner either! If the only thing stopping you is societal convention, then fuck it!! Break free of your chains!!! Do whatever you want forever!!!!

@mintyfresh2763 i believe u will be allowed to live with @8promises and me if u so wish

:00000000 really :000 ill keep the place spotless

TICK PSA

Alright you guys, ‘tis the season again and I’ve already seen bullshit float about so here we go: what to do and what not to do when you happen to have a tick attached to yours truly.

WHAT NOT TO DO:

DON’T cover the tick in anything. Vaseline, nailpolish, whatever. Doesn’t matter. It’ll all suffocate the tick, making it panic vomit germs into your blood stream. That’s the opposite of what you want.

DON’T burn the tick. Same problem, plus the additional option of giving yourself a burn wound in the process. 

DON’T squeeze the body of the tick when you try to remove it. Again this empties the tick’s digestive system into your body. Bad. 

DON’T wait for the tick to detach itself. The longer it stays on you, the higher the chances it’ll transmit anything to you. Plus when ti detaches it may again vomit germs into you. 

WHAT TO ACTUALLY DO

STAY CALM. A tick hanging on you is not a reason to panick. You’re not going to keel over just like that, and if you’re unsure what to do, there are many resources on the internet on how to safely remove a tick, like this one from the CDC (aka the professionals)

USE APPROPRIATE TOOLS. These can be suitable tweezers (the pointy kind, not blunt tipped ones), tick removers (there are cheap ones out there, those you can buy at the vets are totally fine for use on humans, too!). Ideally you can remove the entire tick in one go, however if that doesn’t work and the mouth part breaks off in your skin, that’s not a terribly big deal and you can totally remove it separately after you got the body remove. Again, don’t panic.

KILL THE REMOVED TICK. But not by squeezing it. Flush it down the toilet, submerse it in alcohol in a container etc. Ideally if the tick has bitten you and not your dog, keep the tick around in a sealed container in case you start having symptoms and someone needs to identify the tick species. Also IF you start getting symptoms like the tell tale Lyme disease rash, HIT A DOCTOR RIGHT AWAY AND TELL THEM ABOUT YOUR TICK BITE. Do not wait this out, ticks can transmit a whole host of diseases beside Lyme, so be mindful of that, too! 

Some of those diseases you can actually get vaccinated again, such as tick born encephalitis. Check with the local authorities if you live in a risk area, and if so, get the shots to protect yourself. 

Excellent post! I would like to add that ticks hide in tall grass and bushes mostly. They do not drop down from trees or jump to other people’s heads etc. Ticks aren’t designed to jump, they latch on somewhere on your leg and then crawl upwards in most cases. 

So be careful with bare legs and tall grass!

I missed drawing you wagyu…

@mintyfresh2763 jingles keys objectifiedddd