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

[ratcreature]

Eyes with a color mix aren't unusual here either, but they are slotted into one color that fits best in a fairly neutral daylight, and then they are called that color. Kind of like almost everywhere you can only pick from one of two genders, and then that has to fit, no matter that the biological reality of chromosomes/hormones/internal and external organs is so much more complicated (as all the awful stuff that some female athletes who are accused of not being "real women" have to deal with shows, complete with ever more complicated gender tests). At least with eye colors it's fairly benign.