Crush with the Housemate

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HOUSEMATE: Besides, he's pretty sexy.

ME: Oh?

HOUSEMATE: Yeah, you know, with the trench coat. Did I tell you I have this thing for trenchcoats?

ME: I see. So all this time, "Spike's my favorite character," blah, blah, and now the truth comes out.

HOUSEMATE (weakly): Well, he's a really interesting character, too. Very complex.

ME: Uh huh.

HOUSEMATE: And also, I sort of have a thing for guys carrying torches for girls who don't respond.

ME (thoughtful): Hmm. But this whole Spike/Buffy idea... still icky, right?

HOUSEMATE (almost entirely certain): Oh, yeah. Still icky. The stalking is really creepy.

ME: And then there's the smoking.

HOUSEMATE: Yeah.

ME: I mean, blood breath's bad enough...

HOUSEMATE: But blood breath and smoking...

ME: Yeah.

Comments

Re: *uses a very appeal color-scheme icon*

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

About all you can do is compare them to other smells, and there's only so much a vocabulary you can build from that. True. I'd never thought about it in quite that way before, but you're right.

Yes! I remember that! Nicely done! I like to wonder how Cora smells to him...does she have different smells in different moods? Is he more attuned to her because she's his daughter? How far does it go?

So I'm guessing for you it's as much implied as it is explicit? That the "color" of a section is as much in the word choice and general ambiance as it is the specific colors mentioned?


Definitely. Sometimes it's really important for me to communicate the color explicitly to the reader--L&B, for instance. But often it's just the way it feels to me that makes me associate it with a given color.

A's are yellow. B's are definitely blue. But I see L's as pink. Huh!

Re: *uses a very appeal color-scheme icon*

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Is he more attuned to her because she's his daughter? How far does it go?

I'm honestly not sure. I'm a little hampered here by not having much hands-on personal experience with infants. (That's actually the single biggest reason that thoughts of a sequel are at a stand-still right now.) It's fun to wonder about, though.