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[queen_geek]

I am not quite sure what made me think about this -- possibly some line in a story I read -- but now I'm thinking about it, and so I'm gonna say it.

Say you're watching tv. Character A wears glasses, Character B does not. Characters A and B are about to make out, or are in the middle of some kissy-time, and B removes A's glasses. This pisses me

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[stumphed]

I also love 3:30 in the morning and would love it even more if I /could/ sit outside without being eaten alive by nasty mosquitoes. It would be the BEST if I could be at the park swinging on the swings right now. Or lying at the top of the climbing wall tower thing staring up at the sky with TTTYG playing on my iPod. Wil and I do that most nights around midnight but it'd be great at 3:30am, too.

[stumphed]

oh oh oh oh also! i've been meaning to link you to this. Click the link for the art.

I won't even pretend that I haven't been staring at that for DAYS now. It's my wallpaper. It's PERFECT.

[queen_geek]

That art is phenomenal. Just, like, CRAZY GOOD.

Curse mosquitoes and their 3:30-denying abilities.

[bexone]

(It entertains me that Pete kind of looks like he's wearing my glasses in this icon.)

I think the glasses off thing is a holdover from the librarian cliche. You know, the one where he takes off her glasses and loosens her bun and gasps "why miss mary! you're beautiful!" or whatever. What's the line in Wrinkle In Time? Calvin tells Meg she's got dreamboat eyes and she should keep her glasses on around everyone else, he doesn't want anyone else to know. (I may have been gently warped by my reading material as a child.)

...although, someone who knew me well enough would probably also already know that I do just about as well without glasses as with, so it becomes more a question of whether I trust that person to actually put the damn things where they won't get broke.

3am knows all my deep dark secrets. I try to sleep through it as often as possible. *shivers*

[queen_geek]

I guess I should have specified that I mostly take issue when the Character A just takes the glasses off without asking. I am cool with it if there's like, permission first, but. Okay, yeah, trust issues! Moving on!

I wish you sleep for every 3AM that comes.

[0nlymemories]

I appreciate it when people take my glasses off, because then I don't have to find somewhere to clean the face prints off them later, and I tend to forget.

I, too, have been in glasses since I was 9 and am functionally blind without them. I bet you that we and Mikeyway had about the same prescription before his Lasik, going from the hand waving he's done in interviews. Isn't being blind fun? *rolls eyes*

[queen_geek]

Four inches from my face, it's all good. Anything beyond that? Blurry! People are flesh-coloured blobs, furniture is cloth-coloured blobs, tables are wood-coloured blobs. It's awesome, in the not-really kind of way.

I guess, yeah, the faceprint thing is something to take into consideration. I have ridiculously little practical knowledge on this subject!

[0nlymemories]

I can manage six, maybe. I can read books without my glasses on, if I hold them close to my face. But yeah, after that? Doomed.

But basically, like. Kissing with glasses is all well and good if it's, like. Little kisses. But if you're getting into Gee-and-Frank at Download kind of kissing, and beyond? By the time you're done your glasses are so gross that they're practically unwearable, generally speaking. So the taking them off is really actually helpful.

They're not trying to make us blind, I promise!