Brinens and Things

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thetevintersoldier:

brin-bellway:

aflightygrim:

a romcom where the main character has prosopagnosia and has no idea they’ve been wooing the same person for months b/c the other character keeps changing their clothes and hairstyle

#i promise it would be great #but uh probably only … to people who don’t …….. yeah #i don’t know how this would play out to people who can recognize faces lmao #actually the likelihood it would confuse and piss of people without stupid visual agnosias like #makes it better tbh 

Have you heard of Faces in the Crowd? (Note: I haven’t actually seen it, just read about it.) I read some of the IMDB reviews a while back: many of the non-prosos thought it was neat how they portrayed it by having several similar-looking-but-different actors play each part, and the prosos were like “wait, they what now?”.

Similarly, I expect a movie like that would play out better to people with normal facial recognition, both because they are more likely to notice that anything strange is going on at all and because cringe comedy is worse if there’s a layer of “it could happen to you”. (Or would that actually make it better for someone already inclined to like cringe comedy? I wouldn’t know.)

I had not heard of that movie! I might give it a shot, if it’s on Netflix or somethin’, just because I wanna see how well it works. Curious to see it portrayed on screen. Hooray brain problems \o/ Actually, I remember someone talking about a book where the MC had prosopagnosia, too, and she was a … mountain climber? I can’t remember the title right now.

The more I think about it, the more I wonder whose POV a rom-com style thing about that would work from. The love interest, who’s like “why does this person keep doing/saying nice things one day then ignoring me like we’ve never met the next ?__?” or the proso person who is just kind of blithely and unassumingly kind and doesn’t realize that, like, their barista rides the same bus as they do or whatever?

also now i’m wondering how early you’d want to give away the fact that the main character’s got face blindness. 

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#(February 2014) #conversational aglets #prosopagnosia #embarrassment squick #story ideas I will never write #(fittingly for a prosopagnosia conversation OP put on a new nametag and is now unrecognisable) #((but the Tumblr metadata reveals that they are one and the same))