unwanted associations

[ratcreature]

Am I the only one who gets horrible associations if in a romantic scene the POV character describes their partner as having "liquid eyes"? Like horror images of liquefying eyeballs.

(ETA: It does not help if later the eye colors -- don't ask why there are several, it's that "hazel" phenomenon -- are described as "melting" into each other.)

Comments

[auburn]

Ooooooh, hee, yes! Also whenever I see someone write that 'their eyes followed' someone. I see eyeballs bouncing along at their heels now, trailing torn out ocular nerves and such. It's... disturbing. It's resulted in me using 'gaze' a lot more than I used to.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, some images are just wrong. I'm not quite as sensitive about the independently acting zombie body parts (roaming hands etc.), but liquid eyes as an image don't even make sense to me. I know that through some sort of convention it is supposed to be a soft look, I think? But how does that even go together with "liquid"? At best eyes can be sort of wet, if they fill with tears.

But then I have often trouble with eye descriptions.