#i have visual aphantasia

[imnothereyet]

can anyone tell me why i just thought it would be a good idea to throw myself headlong into a sequence of research & effort that summarizes as "human geography & urban planning historical revisionism" and would require learning how to do a from-the-ground-up redesign of entire metro areas based off of current understanding of the course of technological advancement, finding the oldest topographic data to use, spending hundreds of hours learning to effectively draw/paint semi-realistic architectural & landscape scenes, likely learning 3D modeling whether digital or physical, improving my understanding of building standards/options, and keeping up with emerging technologies.

[existencebringsonlypain]

hey can someone describe what imagining something is like? like imagining an image?

[semiotomatics]

literally just realized ppl without aphantasia can prolly actually visualize what theyre going to make (draw, paint, sculpt, knit, etc) before/as they make it. wtf.

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is not realizing that everyone related or self-projected into romance in media, not just appreciating the relationship as a separate and fictional thing. (im arospec but yea, didnt know that ppl projected themselves onto the characters when they have a relationship what the heck. is that why there is so many unnecessary romance scenes?)

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[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

[ID: An image with five silhouettes of heads showing different apples. Choice 1 is shown as a hyper-realistic red apple with shading and color, 2 as a slightly less realistic apple with less shading, 3 as the same apple as 2 but in black and white, 4 as the outline of the apple with no color, and 5 as no visual apple. End ID]

asking bc i found out i have aphantasia recently (no visual) and did not realize people can See the things they are visualizing in their minds. for reference i'm a 5 (completely dark/no visual and only think about the apple w/ concepts)

[asleep-and-afraid]

fanfic writers crafting gorgeously descriptive and vivid scenes describing a character’s actions just for my unable-to-visualize ass skimming over them and going straight to the dialogue 😭

[kingcunny]

🦄 for the dance era targaryens

🦄 - Characters' physical appearance

dance era targs (roughly) oldest to youngest

rhaenys. tanned/olive skintone. takes more after jocelyn than aemon, but got aemons pale lilac eye color. not buff, but toned, swimmers build almost. when i read f&b for a sec i misinterpreted rhaenys “hair streaked with white” line as not referencing her age, but as poliosis.

and i think thats a really cool look for her so im keeping it :) if i can get a little anime with it, its reversed in laena and laenor. silver hair with black streaks.

daemon . more silver than gold. pale skin. pale purple eyes. looks just alyssa, big ears, crooked gap-tooth smile. but didnt get her curly hair or freckles. strong but also not built, lithe. for Some Reason having facial hair makes daemon want to die 🤔 so hes obsessive about staying clean shaven no matter where he is. notible then, that while he was hanging around harrenhal waiting for aemond to show up he hadnt shaved in weeks.

rhaenyra . takes more after viserys than aemma, but cooler coloring than him. silver>gold. rich purple eyes. wavy/curly hair. she also got alyssas silly ears and smile through viserys, as well as his sense of fashion. dresses in dramatized valyrian style, not at all historically accurate but looks sick as fuck. canon traits: fat, big nose, long braid, lots of jewelry.

aegon ii and helaena both take more after viserys, aemond and daeron after alicent.

aegon ii . flushed, bloated, alcoholic face. yall know that bit in the beginning of disco elysium when harry stumbles into the bathroom and starts groping his face talking about how much it sucks and how badly it hurts? aegon2s daily morning routine. sallow skin. gold>silver. tries to grow a mustache to look like viserys but he managed to dodge both viserys and ottos facial hair genes, ends up with a little pencil stache. canon trait?: fat

helaena . shorter. rounder face and softer features. pale purple eyes. freckles. crooked gap-toothed smile. wavy/curly hair. canon trait?: fat

aemond . tallest out of anyone here. skinny and lanky. not an ounce of muscle or fat on him. silver>gold. cooler skin tone. freckles?

daeron . i know the book says daeron had the valyrian look but i like thinking that he DIDNT. and thats why he got sent away to military school oldtown. hes kinda fucking with the greens whole “rhaenyra is a SLUT just LOOK at her children its obvious :/“ ive been picturing him with brown hair (from alicent) and purple eyes, but i saw this one fanart where he had the silver hair but green eyes and that looked really cool too. tan skin, freckles. shorter, but strong. curly hair.

baela and rhaena are fraternal twins, not identical. (baela wishes they were identical) they take more after laena than daemon. im kinda thinking about having one of them inherit laenas reverse poliosis, but im not such which. i do think it should be only one of them though.

baela . black/mixed. stockier build. i like the idea of her having short box braids, with the beaded ends. or short twists, especially in this half up style. feels very baela. likes to wear pants+dress like a man. light green/mint jewelry for moondancer, but otherwise doesnt really like to dress up. crooked smile.

rhaena . black/mixed. long goddess/butterfly locs. hair usually done up. always a bunch of jewelry and accessories in her hair. soft flowing fabrics, pastel colors. pink for mo(u)rning, maybe she also wears green for moondancer. lots of jewelry.

jacaerys . out of all of rhaenyras children, including aegon3 and vis2, jace is the one that looks the most like her. little brown haired boy version of nyra. has the valyrian nose if not the colors. wavy hair, not as curly as luke+joffs. darker skin. tall but bad posture so he looks shorter than he is. purpleish brown eye color. able to gain the most muscle.

aegon iii . very skinny. pale, sallow skin, deep set eyes, dark eye bags. straight, lank, hair. cutting scars on his chest. silver>gold but barely even silver, more white. also got alyssas gap toothed smile, but he never smiles so you wouldnt know it. essentially looks like a living ghost. canon traits?: purple eyes so dark they look black.

viserys ii . gold>silver. tan skin. freckles? curly hair. chubby and shorter.

if anyones not mentioned here its either because they died as a child and i dont have any strong opinions about their appearance or i forgor

[solitaireships]

This is Boone’s body type to me btw

[jamisonwritestf2trash]

Just found out I can visually hallucinate.

[aphantimes]

"why is drawing so hard" says the aphant that self taught terrible practices and very rarely uses references

[chronicas]

Okay. Look at me. You wanna learn color theory? Get something that can cast colored light in a dark room. (I used my laptop screen) Grab random items you know the color of and shove it in front of the colored light. Now you understand how light and color works.

Now get two light sources in two different spots. Make them different colors. Hold up the items. LOOK at them, look at them and see the colors they are. Now you’re getting it.

Now observe these phenomena in life every day forever and know the colors of things. Look at the colors. LOOK at the colors. Know them. Now GO get funky with it!!!

[lesenbyan]

Me: maybe I don't have OSDD. Maybe I'm just faking. I can't hear any voices but my own and no one else takes full executive control and intermittent OCD might just mean I'm faking that and-

Me: finds aphantasia posts in the DID subreddit

Me: oh. maybe I do have osdd. ok.

[im-not-a-sheep]

I think I might have some form of colour synesthesia?

As in, whenever I play piano I have realised that I infact colour certain segments of a piece in my brain

[kazamajun]

this isn't all of the panels, nor the footage that will be in the final thing, more just part of a proof-of-concept mock up while I sort out composition

[holopossums]

you know how you can just feel, as an artist, that you're about to have some sort of breakthrough sometime soon (maybe within the next year or less) because you can feel your technique slowly but surely catching up with what you see and observe? yeah that's the good stuff.