HOT OR NOT MEME

[devoutish]

1. Post images of your characters (please link large ones!)
2. Tag other characters with an IC rating.
3. Have very objective and important IC discussions about those ratings.

Taken from here

Comments

[restingstitchface]

[A character analysis, based on aesthetics, is Crane's response. It's pretty accurate but ICBA filling it out cause meme.]

Oh that, mostly.

[catchacold]

...did you just try to prove to me how you care less about aesthetics than I do by doing an analysis of my aesthetics?

Because that seems backwards, doc.

[restingstitchface]

To you it would. To me? It was objective.

[catchacold]

Objectively judging aesthetics does not imply a lack of caring, only a lack of personal involvement.

Which I'm still grateful for, because if this had been how you'd professed a crush, that'd have been the worst way anyone has ever hit on me. And I've been to prison.

[restingstitchface]

[Oh. Well.]

Now you're just being facetious.

[catchacold]

Not everyone can take aesthetics as serious as you.

[restingstitchface]

Yes, because I understand there's a difference between taking them seriously, as part of a wider package, compared to respecting them but nothing else.

[catchacold]

You really shouldn't be talking about wider packages.

Anyway, I'm more concerned with personality than aesthetics, actually. But when I like someone's personality, it can feed into how I perceive their looks. A fairly normal process psychologically, I assume.

[restingstitchface]

[Is that a dig saying his psychological processes are abnormal??]

Oh. Yes. Personality and aesthetics both link into arousal - but when experiencing physiological responses related to fear, people mislabel those responses as arousal. Complicated, isn't it?

[catchacold]

[Defensive much?]

Arousal? That's taking it a step or two further. Needs to be someone special for that.

Psychology never struck me as simple. Are we talking adrenaline here?

[restingstitchface]

Yes. Amongst other factors, such as emotion and neurotransmitters epinephrine. It's a fascinating field of research.

[catchacold]

If you say so. I flunked out of high school, so this is clearly going over my head.

Though I know you're the expert.