To counteract all the shitty Twitters, please go read the description for Dayo Okeniyi's Twitter.

I generally miss nuances of character description, unless it's a big deal, like someone gets rhapsodic over the color of someone's hair etc. The people in my head appear more as the shapes of their names rather than pictures of faces, ie, the shape of the word Katniss rather than a person.

This.

BUT I am not that visual in my head, so don't necessarily picture characters at all, unless what they look like is explicitly described. So obviously Cho Chang is Asian, but I wouldn't (if I had read those books) have an actual picture in my head.

And this.

Which is why I don't have huge problems with casting choices in general.

But if you say a coat is red, it's red.

Which is why I felt that either Schindler's Ark or Michener's Poland must have ripped off the other even though I read them years apart. Same damn girl with the red coat.

And when my husband came home and questioned why our blonde little boy's bottom was wrapped in one of his t-shirts and I explained the situation to him, I could tell when he hid his face in his hands how upset he was about the whole situation as well. And then he put his hands on my shoulders and shook his head before looking into my eyes and said, 'Just promise me you'll never watch The Crying Game.'

I want to believe this means that the husband has a clue while the poster does not. (Assuming the poster is serious, which I suspect not.)

I somehow missed any descriptors about Ged's coloring the first time I read A Wizard of Earthsea. (In my defense I was like eleven at the time, so I wasn't too concerned about what anyone looked like except the dragons.)

I want to believe this means that the husband has a clue while the poster does not

I think it's a pretty safe assumption that the poster is creating a character to mock here, with a husband who gets it.

everyone is a race neutral character in my head

Yeah, I'm gonna make three guesses as to what "race neutral" looks like, and the first two don't count.

Didn't someone reply to that comment with a picture of the Greendale Human Being and the Little Human Being?

ita !, that's what I meant by being serious -- that the poster was mocking the views of the other posters.

I somehow missed any descriptors about Ged's coloring the first time I read A Wizard of Earthsea.

Me too, until I bought a copy of the trilogy in England, and my DH ranted about the blue-eyed blond white Ged on the cover.

I remembered the invaders looked like that, and so presumably different from Ged, but I didn't bother to picture Ged as other than the word "Ged."

Now I try to really picture the characters, because of things like Hunger Games. If you don't see Rue and Thresh as "the dark, dark kind of skin", then you miss that the Capitol has put African-heritaged people to work on government plantations, which is another whole level of commentary.

The poster is serious about mocking, or serious about her words? I mean, either way, I don't think there's much chance she's not making fun. That's what I meant.

"Not serious" as in "it didn't really happen, I'm just mocking (or making fun, or satirizing)." Or, not really a mom who got all bent out of shape because a box of diapers had a picture of a black baby.

We're coming from the same place.