Is it weird that I just realized that Aral Vorkosigan in my head looks like Bruce Wayne from Batman Beyond??
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Jesse - Mar 23, 2016 4:43:35 am PDT #23787 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
-t - Mar 23, 2016 5:30:02 am PDT #23788 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Nah, that seems about right. He's not quite that broad in my head, but I have more of an impression than a real picture built up. Mental images are not my strong suit.
I'm up to Warrior's Apprentice, and I don't think I read the beginning of this one before, but I have actual memory of my first exposure to Miles being a serial in Analog that I came into part way through, so that's as it should be.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2016 5:49:38 am PDT #23789 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I pretty much always have a mental image, but I could almost never describe what it actually is.
-t - Mar 23, 2016 5:53:06 am PDT #23790 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That might be what I mean? There's an image in there, but I can't look straight at it, it just flits past when it wants to.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2016 5:59:44 am PDT #23791 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah! Like that.
Calli - Mar 23, 2016 6:49:29 am PDT #23792 of 28293
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I generally think of Aral as looking like Patrick Bauchau (Sydney on The Pretender). Which probably isn't that far off from the older Bruce Wayne.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2016 6:51:44 am PDT #23793 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, good one.
-t - Mar 23, 2016 7:29:17 am PDT #23794 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That works.
Kat - Mar 23, 2016 12:55:28 pm PDT #23795 of 28293
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I just finished Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee and I'm just annoyed that I stuck it out.
-t - Mar 23, 2016 8:24:27 pm PDT #23796 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Being a Count probably contributes to my thinking Batman is a good visual. Because The Count could definitely play The Batman in a muppet production.