wearemagneton:

brin-bellway replied to your link: So this is a thing now. (Starts Monday)

…why yes I am following you preemptively. (It’ll be weird, because I tend to think of Internet people as beings comprised purely of text and the occasional GIF. No matter what face they…

I tend to imagine Internet people’s appearances the same way I do with characters in books, dreams, or other things where I haven’t seen them otherwise. There’s a basic body shape, possibly skin and hair colour*, and if they’re very lucky they’ll get some defined clothes as well. It doesn’t seem as weird as it sounds when I put it that way. I hear some of it’s a prosopagnosic thing.

*Which doesn’t always match what I know it should be. (Brain, it’s supposed to be Holly Short that’s brown and Felaben Jackson that’s white, not the other way ‘round.)