Even if you do have half your face burned off a la Two-Face in the Batman series, being visibly smart and funny will boost your apparent prettiness by quite a lot.
I find that most people have some things attractive about them. If they are interesting and kindly disposed toward me, it is not hard to focus on the attractive features, and blur out the less attractive features. It works very much like the affective death spiral, but with no real negative consequences.
Once you find enough things attractive about someone, you enter the spiral, and you begin to notice the very attractive square line of Harvey’s non-burned jaw, and just don’t even notice the scary skeletor burn face anymore, or you might even find little parts of it that start to look interesting to you.
Well, this all assumes a counter-fictional Harvey that doesn’t go fully dark-side, or recovers at some point to something like his former moral and mental self.
In my experience, women generally much more naturally focus on good features and ignore average ones, though men do too. That said, I dated a hand model with a lazy eye...never saw nicer hands in my life! The eye was a bad feature from pretty much any human perspective, it’s not logically impossible for a person to have all their features be such features.
Also, I think rats are adorable. Any other rat lovers out there?
There’s possibly even someone out there who likes “<X” as a favicon more than “Lw”. Outlandish, I know, but there’s probably one person out there.
And now there is a favicon that is worse than all favicons that have come before. Clearly we are approaching the capability to have a recursively self-worsening favicon. Huzzah!
Rat lover here. They’re adorable little creatures, and have distinct personalities and quirks. The only shortcoming of rats is that they don’t live that long, so you’re having to deal with the death of your cherished little friends every 2 or 3 years or so.
For anybody who likes rats or is just curious to learn more about them, I highly recommend the most awesome ratbehavior.org
Seconding this from direct experience—and I would also add that what people find attractive is much more subjective than is commonly taken for granted.
Even if you do have half your face burned off a la Two-Face in the Batman series, being visibly smart and funny will boost your apparent prettiness by quite a lot.
I find that most people have some things attractive about them. If they are interesting and kindly disposed toward me, it is not hard to focus on the attractive features, and blur out the less attractive features. It works very much like the affective death spiral, but with no real negative consequences.
Once you find enough things attractive about someone, you enter the spiral, and you begin to notice the very attractive square line of Harvey’s non-burned jaw, and just don’t even notice the scary skeletor burn face anymore, or you might even find little parts of it that start to look interesting to you.
Well, this all assumes a counter-fictional Harvey that doesn’t go fully dark-side, or recovers at some point to something like his former moral and mental self.
And no matter who you are, there’s someone out there who thinks you’re hot.
(while talking about the Harry Potter movies, before she’d started on MoR)
Erin: …I did like the fluffy things, though.
Me: Fluffy things?
Erin: I forget what they’re called.
Me: (thinks for a bit...)
Me: Dementors? The flying corpses in shrouds?
Erin: Yeah! Dementors are cute.
Me: Puppies are cute. Dementors are not cute.
Erin: Puppies are food.
Me: Help me, I’ve been shipped to Bellatrix.
Are there any paperclip-maximizer-lovers? How about paperclip-maximizer’s-humanoid-robot-lovers?
In my experience, women generally much more naturally focus on good features and ignore average ones, though men do too. That said, I dated a hand model with a lazy eye...never saw nicer hands in my life! The eye was a bad feature from pretty much any human perspective, it’s not logically impossible for a person to have all their features be such features.
Also, I think rats are adorable. Any other rat lovers out there?
There’s possibly even someone out there who likes “<X” as a favicon more than “Lw”. Outlandish, I know, but there’s probably one person out there.
I find this hard to believe.
I do exist!
And now there is a favicon that is worse than all favicons that have come before. Clearly we are approaching the capability to have a recursively self-worsening favicon. Huzzah!
Rat lover here. They’re adorable little creatures, and have distinct personalities and quirks. The only shortcoming of rats is that they don’t live that long, so you’re having to deal with the death of your cherished little friends every 2 or 3 years or so.
For anybody who likes rats or is just curious to learn more about them, I highly recommend the most awesome ratbehavior.org
Rats are adorable. Disregarding fur texture, I’d be hard pressed to choose between a rat and a guinea pig, for cuteness.
Seconding this from direct experience—and I would also add that what people find attractive is much more subjective than is commonly taken for granted.