Sixth Post!

[hoisinsauce]

"The thing about illegally breeding fire-breathing possums is that you gotta keep a bucket of water handy."

*Those fools! Fire-breathing possums are greasy; water will only feed the flames! Oh, if only I could tell them of my empire...*

(Context: https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/1839.html?thread=2678831#cmt2678831)

Talk fandom! Making things! Reading, writing, drawing, whatever! Miscellaneous life chatter! Meme's happy to see you again!

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Re: Interesting Things

[(Anonymous)]

So I can't picture my mother's face, but I can tell you "she has a big nose" or her hairstyle/colour. But if you asked me to draw her, there are a lot of features I wouldn't know the shape of, and even if I did, I wouldn't know how they were proportioned against each other. Whereas if you put her picture in front of me, I could copy it well enough that I'd make a likeness others would recognise.

Re: Interesting Things

[(Anonymous)]

And I DO picture colors, and sounds, and smells (faintly). Which is part of how I know a big chunk of my visual stuff is missing. I live in an impressionist blur lol.

Re: Interesting Things

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

I second the other anon saying they can picture things but it's vague and more details take more effort. I wonder if there's much of a spectrum to this.

Re: Interesting Things

[(Anonymous)]

That's really interesting. I get what you mean, because I do recall things as a collection of disparate impressions and verbal definitions and I wouldn't be able to draw an accurate rendition of my mother's face even if I tried.

But I can definitely picture an apple in my head and then put it in a bowl. It's vague, though. The bowl doesn't have a color unless I consciously think about it, for example. I think I probably just have a poor visual memory, which matches with what I've noticed about my preferred learning style.