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lazarusthirsting · 10 months ago

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Calling on writers/readers to help come up with terms for facial expressions if they exist.

For today, I'm calling this "the (un)impressed pout", but it's not quite a pout and not only used when (un)impressed. You see the issue.

If you were writing a story and want to express that a character is doing this exact thing with their mouth while considering something they perceive to be unknown but low stakes, how would you describe it? The shorter the better, I'm specifically hoping someone comes up with something as repeatable as "knowing smirk" or "frowning doubtfully" that anyone could use, or even find via google search (took a while to find all these, i had to look up "funny faces" to find them).

Extra bonus points if there *is* a term for this expression in a non-English language! Loan words are more than valid!!

#(using SPN faces bc this is the SPN website and I have an SPN blog #but all are welcome to chime in)#writing #writing support #writing emotions #im not writing fic these days but it's tough translating personality from screen to text #or even when writing original works it can be tough to make it clear when/how often a character is emphatically expressive #at least not without risking flow/style with overly descriptive language #maybe i will make more of these if this catches anyone's interests #(also maybe a word/phrase already exists and im just ignorant to it pls be nice if so thx!)

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