Picturing you

[resonant]

Do you have a mental picture of the friends you only know online? I find that I have quite clear images of some of you; others I can only see in parts (hair, hands); and others I can't see at all as people.

For instance, I've seen a picture of laurakaye, but in my head she looks just like her icon of a reading girl. resmiranda is a snatch of a song. And flambeau is type set in Verdana in some muted color other than black.

In my head, julad is small, with pale skin and short mahogany hair. For some reason I've got a pretty clear picture of her hands -- small, pale, with bitten nails. And she waves them around a lot when she talks. I also get the impression she has trouble sitting still.



kaneko has longish strawberry-blonde hair and freckles. She smiles almost all the time.

giglet has short brown hair and sparkling eyes and strong square tanned hands.

darthfox has light-brown hair with a bit of a reddish tint to it. Light eyes and pale eyelashes.

fabularasa is tall and has unusually good posture. Her hair is reddish, and because she scrabbles her hands through it when she's thinking, it's usually in disarray.

I think I may be picturing cmshaw when she was seven, because I see a brown-haired, sun-browned, freckled girl who's all knees and elbows.

Have I seen a picture of kassrachel? When I picture her, I feel less like I'm making it up and more like I've actually seen her. She's round and fair, with curly hair that's brown with a sort of red overdye, and she has a lovely smile.

lanning has short salt-and-pepper hair, high cheekbones, and a rather elegant mouth. Sometimes she wears glasses; the rest of the time they're around her neck on some sort of interesting chain.

tradescant looks a bit like Princess Leia, only younger and a little less harsh around the mouth.

merryish has short, straight brown hair and is on the short side. I imagine her with the brisk, slightly world-weary manner of a camp counselor trying to wrangle two dozen eight-year-olds and not let any of them drown, no matter how richly they deserve it.

imkalena is tall and wiry, with long fingers. She's tanned, and her brown hair is sunbleached and somewhat windblown.

kormantic -- I can't see her face, but I can hear her voice. It's a nice rich alto speaking voice, slightly rough (smoker?), talking veryveryfastwithoutevenstoppingforbreath.

shrift has long, dark-blonde hair and very dark brown eyes.

prillalar is tall, with light-brown hair and light eyes and a disconcertingly sharp gaze.

brighidestone is mid-height and curvy, with dark brown hair and eyes. She and destina both have a sort of Gibson-girl prettiness.

helvirago has straight shiny blonde hair, but is more regal than cute.

One of my grade-school friends had an older sister named Shay, so in my head shayheyred looks like her: tall, with brown hair in a ponytail, and never walks anywhere if she can run, bounce, or skip.

eliade and katallison both look like a younger Patti Smith to me. I think Kat may actually have used a photo of a younger Patti Smith on her website at one time, which is probably the source of the confusion. Of the two of them, eliade is taller, with a longer face and sleepier eyes.

carlacoupe is tall, with chin-length reddish-dark-brown hair, a mischievous face, and an unusually deep voice.

mommybird is short and round, with round glasses and dark, thick, wavy hair.

bettyp is sort of Nordic-looking -- thick pale hair, ice-blue eyes, broad cheekbones. And younger than her writing voice would suggest.

ellen_fremedon has very thick medium-brown hair. She's solid, muscular, a very reassuring physical presence.

I disqualify myself from imagining cesperanza, liviapenn, thete1, spike21, and miriam_heddy because I've seen pictures of them. And ivyblossom, jacquez, ukcalico, and mauralabingi because they have self-portrait icons. (I always see nopejr's icon as a self-portrait, too, though it may not be intended that way.)

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

darthfox has light-brown hair with a bit of a reddish tint to it. Light eyes and pale eyelashes.

don't get too excited about that uncanniness fabularasa was talking about. it's possible you could have been more wrong, i guess, but not a lot more. [g] (okay, granted, you've only got four things, here, so it's not like a major catalog of features. but still.)

i have rather dark brown hair, actually, with a bit of reddish tint to it; it gets redder toward the ends, but up at the roots it's really just dark. that's the natural color, anyway. the current color is the natural color supplemented with shades called "cherry cola" and "merlot" -- the result being a slightly darker brown and a slightly redder red. (red in the sense of those non-hair-colored reds we were talking about that one time. more like burgundy.)

i have brown eyes and dark eyelashes. but i never wear mascara except under duress, so maybe compared to other dark-lashed people my eyelashes look pale. :-D

[axiom_of_stripe]

well, considering that she pictures you as human, i'd call that pretty close. :)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

point. i forget if it was res or ellen who had to take a second one evening, when i said in chat that i'd just scratched my ear, and remind herself that the ear in question wasn't pointy and i'd scratched it with my hand and not my hind leg. :-)