Eye colour

[bunn]

Someone or other - ladyofastolat possibly?  I think posted a rantlet a while ago about how in fiction people are constantly noticing each other's eye colours, when most eyes are undistinctive.  And I said, I think, that I did tend to notice people's eyes, but ever since then I've felt slightly insecure about it, as if maybe I didn't notice people's eyes really, but somehow think I do.



However, I am now reassured.  I saw a chap this evening, only for a moment as I drove past. Tall man, good looking, extravagant facial hair, strawberry blond.  And he had golden-brown eyes.  I noticed them most particularly, even though I was only driving past, because you would not expect eyes that colour with that hair colouring.  I am writing a thing just now with a bloke in it with exactly that size and hair colouring, and I had assumed that he would have blue eyes, because stereotypically, Angles have blond hair and blue eyes.  But now, clearly, he must have golden eyes, and it is perfectly allowable because I saw them.

I am quite proud that I did not drive into a tree when I saw this huge golden Angle unfold himself out of a Volkswagen Golf.   I suppose it's an appropriately Germanic car, but it lacks the epic quality somewhat.


In other news, Footie cat has conjunctivitis and needs eye drops.  I really don't think I'm going to be able to do them singlehanded.  I did them once by surprising him, but he's wise to me now. :-/

Comments

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

That sounds like me, yes. I'm not sure if it even qualified as a rantlet, though. It amuses me, really, when in a fanfic Character A first glimpses Character B at 200 paces across a crowded room, but instantly knows their eye colour. I imagine twin beams of coloured light, sweeping across the room like search lights. Also, Fanfic Eyes are often capable of accurately conveying an enormous range of very complex emotions. (Maybe Fanfic Eyelashes have mastered semaphore?)

Your huge golden Angel (gah! Angle! Curse you, St Gregory, patron saint of Angle-related typos) is clearly a book character himself. The image of this epic god-like figure unfolding himself from a small car sounds vaguely Diana Wynne Jones to me.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Maybe it should have been a musing, or a minor mockery.

Because I am not naturally inclined to order, I am not sure how these things go, but I am visualisng you with a whole hierarchy of these things, all sorted carefully like piles of dice, from fullblown rant all the way down to bland observation.

The full blown rants probably need to be stored in extra strong Really Useful Boxes.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's why Really Useful Boxes come in so many different sizes and colours? Though I think all these things need to go in a different type of container: A Mug of Minor Mockery, a Vat of Vitriol or a Pot of Pique, all stored within a Zone of Repugnance, because I rediscovered that phrase today, and like it very much.