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A Tiny Change of Pace (& of Face!)
Nov. 24th, 2024 12:42 amToday, we finally got our septum pierced—something we've wanted to do probably since we were twelve! It's taken a lot of time to find a shop (and to be willing to eat the 85USD), but we finally have the extra hole in our nose! We got a little silver titanium horseshoe—we’d meant to ask for gold, because it pairs better with our extremely yellow undertones, but we forgot until it was too late. Oh well.
The experience was honestly exactly what we expected. It wasn’t very painful, but our eyes watered like a bitch, and the most stressful part was paying for it (especially for Crow&, who has insane money guilt).
Except for one thing: Crow& didn’t do the piercing.
We had assumed it would be Crow&, because for all feyr squishiness, fey is absolutely our collective tank. Fey generally takes on all of our medical issues, fronts through all our health flares, and endures all our body’s major discomfort—it’s how fey ended up fronting so much in the first place. Plus, we were going to the appointment with a friend of feyrs. It seemed like a given.
But Crow& was tired of that. Fey doesn’t want to be the default for suffering, even if that was a self-imposed state. Fey wasn’t ready to give up on taking pain as a whole, but a mildly painful procedure didn’t need to be feyr.
We don’t remember which of the two suggested it, but last night, it was decided that TW would take the piercing instead. Vae has the most self-control of any of us—Crow& is extremely good at staying almost creepily still for procedures, but TW has that kind of control for anything, which made vaer a solid candidate. (Plus, our only other available adult in the safety pins is Riley, who is known for many things, but an ability to sit still without talking is not among them.)
Crow& spent most of the time with feyr friend, and when it was time to get off the Metro to head to the tattoo parlor, TW took over. Vae appreciated the silver horseshoe, which surprised us all—it seems Crow& might be the one who really likes gold, but we hadn’t considered that there might be conflicting opinions there. The pain, as we said, wasn’t bad—it was barely sunburn-tier. But it was pain that Crow& very intentionally let someone else take.
(Pictures coming soon, probably!)
The experience was honestly exactly what we expected. It wasn’t very painful, but our eyes watered like a bitch, and the most stressful part was paying for it (especially for Crow&, who has insane money guilt).
Except for one thing: Crow& didn’t do the piercing.
We had assumed it would be Crow&, because for all feyr squishiness, fey is absolutely our collective tank. Fey generally takes on all of our medical issues, fronts through all our health flares, and endures all our body’s major discomfort—it’s how fey ended up fronting so much in the first place. Plus, we were going to the appointment with a friend of feyrs. It seemed like a given.
But Crow& was tired of that. Fey doesn’t want to be the default for suffering, even if that was a self-imposed state. Fey wasn’t ready to give up on taking pain as a whole, but a mildly painful procedure didn’t need to be feyr.
We don’t remember which of the two suggested it, but last night, it was decided that TW would take the piercing instead. Vae has the most self-control of any of us—Crow& is extremely good at staying almost creepily still for procedures, but TW has that kind of control for anything, which made vaer a solid candidate. (Plus, our only other available adult in the safety pins is Riley, who is known for many things, but an ability to sit still without talking is not among them.)
Crow& spent most of the time with feyr friend, and when it was time to get off the Metro to head to the tattoo parlor, TW took over. Vae appreciated the silver horseshoe, which surprised us all—it seems Crow& might be the one who really likes gold, but we hadn’t considered that there might be conflicting opinions there. The pain, as we said, wasn’t bad—it was barely sunburn-tier. But it was pain that Crow& very intentionally let someone else take.
(Pictures coming soon, probably!)
