After debating it internally for months, I finally got another piercing. The impetus to go ended up being Leila, who wanted to get her rook repierced and was looking for company. A picture:
For a while, I wasn’t sure what direction I wanted to go in with it — eyebrow?; cartilage of my other ear? — but in the end, I settled on augmenting my existing piercing by turning it into an orbital. The new piercing (the bottom barbell in the picture) needs to settle for a few months before I can put new jewelry into both holes and end up with the look I want, but even for the moment, I’m very pleased with the outcome.
Also, in my continuing exploration of my (apparently selective) fear of needles, I found out today that piercings somehow, in my brain, work entirely differently than getting injections or having blood drawn. Whereas I faint without exception at either of those, the piercing itself was only briefly painful and I wasn’t lightheaded at all afterwards. Strange, bu definitely a good thing.