When working with categories of optics, string diagrams are a useful tool for reasoning about and depicting the bidirectional information flow present. For monoidal categories, diagrams for the category of optics over them have a formal standing. Each diagram has a well-defined denotation and we can meaningfully represent dualised objects and counits topologically. In fact Riley proves that the optics construction is in a way the universal category constructed by freely adding counits and dualised objects to any strict symmetric monoidal category. However, in categorical cybernetics we use more exotic forms of optics involving actions of monoidal categories and extra parameters which we draw vertically. It is harder to give formal meaning to diagrams for these things becuase they generally involve collages of morphisms and objects belonging to multiple categories, but we understand what they mean because locally any diagram is a string diagram for one of the categories involved. In this post I am exploring one avenue for making sense of diagrams like this, as diagrams in a category constructed as a collage of actegories when viewed as a kind of categorified profunctor.