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23:10 / 08.04.07

Sibelian is obvious an alien cat-person. Looks like a white siberian leopard.

Do you mean the manga sort that's got a human body and a cat head? A sort of white Bast? Or am I an actual leopard?

23:14 / 08.04.07

More Bast than manga.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

23:15 / 08.04.07

(NB: so we're clear, I was not annoyed by that comment upthread, I was just playing. You will know when I'm annoyed, trust me!)

Decrescent Daytripper I keep misreading as Descent Daytripper, which creates this lovely visual image of a gaily-coloured submersible craft trailing ribbons and streamers, sinking happily through clear blue waters to investigate the rocks and swimmy things below.

23:35 / 08.04.07

I may not be entirely satisfied in life until I spend large chunks of it walking in the moonlight in Shade's fabulous coat. Bachalo kinda drew Shade looking like an upright lemming, too.

And Mordant, under all forms of name, has always seemed to me a hand, holding a thick and potent glass and periodically slamming it on the table in pure impact-statemtent, sometimes just holding out the glass.

Princess Swashbuckling is Grace O'Malley, the prankquean. But with better hair and a tendency to go from totally relaxed to a little bug-eyed to relaxed again within seconds.

Olulabelle, I've always visualized as being quite statuesque. With a lovely neck and clothes by Edith Head at her least puffiest.

Tuna Ghost, especially with 'needs a gin martini' is just that. Chubby da Choona without the accent, and a mild existential crisis about not having hands to hold the martini with. Tuna Ghost actually does hover, but it's a ghostly bobbing hover, not a McFly-onna-hoverboard hover.

Astrojax69 was the videogame of glory some magazine advert promised but never saw release.

Ganesh; elephant head on a doctor's coat, giving interesting looks at people almost behind him.

Boboss is an eye that looks like it's winking even when it's totally wide open. Because you know it's really winking and in charge. Like when you've done something you shouldn't, but you're covered good, and the boss shows up, so you stutter a slight bit, but recover quick enough to remember your cover and get away with it all.

08:58 / 09.04.07

For a long time, I envisioned Mordant Carnival as looking like Jolly Roger, out of the Invisibles.

XK I imagined as some sort of cross between John Constantine and Chuck Norris...I had formed the impression she was male from the first post of hers that I read, regarding the carrying of knives and fighting. (I know, I know...a heteronormativist is me.)

Haus is a bit like Ford Prefect (TV series version) in my mind.

fridgemagnet resembles a less crazy Spider Jerusalem - with a suedehead haircut and a nice jumper instead of a bald head and tattoos.

Olulabelle has always reminded me of a female singer I know locally, Stella Davies. I don't imagine that's much help.

Flyboy is a kid with a black t-shirt, beige combat pants, funky sneakers, and an MP3 player permanently attached. He may or may not be carrying a spray can.

Boy in a Suitcase is like Flyboy but without the MP3 player, with cooler sunglasses and his hands twisted into some kind of mudra at all times.

Justrix looks like an Image comics superheroine - her costume is a sort of Claremont/Lee hyperbondage take on Lady Justice. She carries a sword and scales, has white hair and no visible pupils.

Our Lady of the Steel Uterus is a fifty-foot tall mechanised Brian Molko.

Tuna Ghost is like a Hanna Barbera cartoon character, with a Mandrake moustache, a top hat and a colourful costume.

Triplets is a trio of miniature versions of the wrestler Triple H. They run around constantly squeaking and hitting things with tiny sledgehammers.

Ganesh is Dr Marvin Monroe.

'Tis it for now.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:51 / 09.04.07

Hmmm. I guess I do look a little bit like Jolly Roger. Depends what my hair's doing.

However I do not--touch wood--require an eyepatch.

Earlier than I thought

14:21 / 09.04.07

Holy shit! You mean they're all real?

15:13 / 09.04.07

XK I imagined as some sort of cross between John Constantine and Chuck Norris...I had formed the impression she was male from the first post of hers that I read, regarding the carrying of knives and fighting. (I know, I know...a heteronormativist is me.)

Hey at least you can spell it!

I imagine Mist lounging about in a tasteful villain's outfit with a serene smile as he examines the cat images offered up in his thread.

Saturn's Nod is usually in a lab coat and a wise all knowing smile.

toksik I envisioned as fast talking scoundrel with a quick smile given to lounging across the entire bench of a pub booth.

Princess is usually flitting about dumping glitter on hawt-myns occassionally pausing long enough to say something truly insightful before being chased by a hawt-mun trying to grab his butt. Yes, I'm sorry if this is a bit too sexual an image but it's what I've got.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

20:34 / 09.04.07

Thinking about it today, Princess Swashbuckling looks like Kathy Acker in pirate drag, with scantily-clad pirate boys standing guard over hir; ze's got a goblet for drinking and a sword for slashing. At night, Princess sleeps with coins placed over hir eyes, in case one of hir enemies makes it past the honour guard.

20:42 / 09.04.07

All of you are incredibly insightful and are giving a real accurate description of my life. I really am that cool. Really.

I can PM one of you to prove it if you want?

20:55 / 09.04.07

"Princess Swashbuckling looks like Kathy Acker "
I have no idea who Kathy Acker is, but that brought to mind the image of Amy Acker in Pirate vestements.

I think Im going go watch Angel now.

21:22 / 09.04.07

Yes, Matt, sorry, but you've come off worst in my set:

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

21:28 / 09.04.07

Mist always appears in my head exhaling dry ice in slow wafts, looking very much like Ming the Merciless with a sense of taste; ze often stands in doorways partially in silhouette.

Sibelian...I like the jewel image, but I tend to picture hir as a bald Woman-of-the-Future in a pale blue supersuit. Hir eyes are always quite blue as well, giving off faint lights.

21:33 / 09.04.07

Sibelian...I like the jewel image, but I tend to picture hir as a bald Woman-of-the-Future in a pale blue supersuit. Hir eyes are always quite blue as well, giving off faint lights.

That's lovely!

Sorry Papers, I can't do better than that *cool* DC character version of you and it's been stuck in my head ever since it was said.

*

21:46 / 09.04.07

I'm not primarily visual. But many of you have voices due partly to your posting style and partly to your names.

Keggers, for instance, posts in a jovial, sarcastic baritone with a slight echo to it, like my frequently-drunk history professor friend in a racquetball court.

Haus' voice has no echo to it. The sound is flat and dry, with very little harmonic above or below; it does have a bit of a rasp, as if he is getting over a cough.

Lula has a lovely narrow alto voice, a bit reedy when she's disapproving of something, and a gorgeous full laugh.

Mordant sounds like my mental voice, the one that exhorts me come on, you can do better only crossed with an English teacher of mine in the eighth grade that I loved for her sarcastic wit and self-evident smartitude.

Our Lady of the Flowers has a beautiful contralto, trained to mold people into more pleasing shapes from a distance, and make them like it.

Flyboy sounds like an inveterate smoker who's just internalized the cough and turned it into something like a knife to lacerate his enemies with.

Hope none of this offends. Feel free to question, challenge, or object to my random auditory hallucinations/free associations.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

21:46 / 09.04.07

Well, I do like it and its certainly stuck in my head as how my ficsuit *looks*, so I'm happy.

04:17 / 10.04.07

Quantum looks to be about 120 years old, stocky, head awash in white beard and hair. His eyes are the shimmering, mischevious eyes of a 6-year-old.

many ravishing idperfections is a metallic-golden-and-purple beetle-person that looks terrifying in the first instant one encounters hir but turns out to be a guardian angel on closer inspection.

Princess Swashbuckling is the offsrping of Amelia Earhart and Tyrone Power, dressed in a fashion that evokes Prometheas of all eras.

Decresent Daytripper IS Bobby Carmichel, the Love Glove.

Boboss is the color green, live and in person.

Keggers is accompanied by an attack moose at all times. No one's ever asked why because no one's brave enough.

grant looks like any other dude but is, in fact, The Dude.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

07:18 / 10.04.07

It's weird, my mental image of Mordant changes a lot, but there's always a lot of black and purple and a monocle somewhere. Sort of a circus ringleader or something.

Daytripper always appears as a dude in jeans and a band t-shirt, high on mushrooms, falling through the sky with a trail of lucky charms (the cereal) flowing out behind him.

Astrojax is actually a box of cereal with a colorful design.

Quantum is theramin music, nothing else.

I also see grant as a dude who looks like just another dude until you realize he's actually THE dude, but you don't want to tell anybody.

Boboss also says "round" and "bouncy" to me, but there's a beard in there somewhere.

Toksik looks pretty normal, like some guy you'd see at the bus stop or on the subway or even sitting outside of a hospital smoking with the nurses. Sometimes I think he glows in the dark, but then I'm all like "naw that's silly".

07:35 / 10.04.07

for some reason, Daytripper is Mysterio for me...

08:48 / 10.04.07

I don't think I actually own a single band t-shirt. Kinda a shame.

I misread my own name as 'Descent' a lot, too. And have the same sort of stainedglass Beatlesque submarine image when I do.

And, Benny, really... Shade and Mysterio? You realize I think wearing Shade's coat over Mysterio's green jumpsuit with that wonderful crisscross pattern would just look fabulous!

Unfortunately, Mysterio's some sort of psycho telepathic rapist, these days.

Much as I love talking about myself, on to some more others:

Justrix looks like the sublevel of the main building at CalArts right after the summerschool kids've been there and the murals are covered under tags, doodles, weird marker and whiteout notes and other murals.

who killed the electric monk, is in fact, the electric monk, looking around entirely earnest about the whole question though apparently entirely not-dead (as opposed to undead).

sleazenation is the electric slide. Nobody's doing it, it's just there.

Hector Lima is a staircase ascending. To somewhere.

FinderWolf and Der Falke are parts of some large combining robot toy thingie that's gigantic and is awaiting the rest of it's smash-for-justice smaller robot parts.

bitchiekittie is the drunk, angry and yet somehow totally happy and excited Hello Kitty a friend of mine used to draw anywhere that ink would stay.

I always seem to think of Persephone as skipping or hopping lightly, for some reason.

cusm, on the other hand, jumps slightly forward occasionally to mumble, 'Cause I'm...' before leaning back.

And Tom Coates is omnipresent, coating everything we see or hear, like some warmer version of the voice from 'Outer Limits'.

08:53 / 10.04.07

Unfortunately, Mysterio's some sort of psycho telepathic rapist, these days.

gosh, really?

Definitely more shade then - shade with a fishbowl head

08:59 / 10.04.07

Looks like Mandrake the magician but with a much longer mustache.
Mist always appears in my head exhaling dry ice in slow wafts, looking very much like Ming the Merciless with a sense of taste; ze often stands in doorways partially in silhouette.
I imagine Mist lounging about in a tasteful villain's outfit with a serene smile as he examines the cat images offered up in his thread.

Egads! How did you see through my cunning camouflage so easily? It appears I wasn´t deceiving anyone but myself with posting all those pics in the cute badger thread.

I only vaguely imagine what other Barbeloids might look like. But I like the idea of imagining people wearing certain outfits.

Jack Denfeld wears Paul´s blue Sgt. Pepper uniform, Mordant Carnival has a WWI jacket and goggles, Evil Scientist wears his old straightjacket for the fond memories of good times, Whisky Priestess is dressed like a Jack Kirby character from Asgard, Dead Megatron wears a white blazer, XK has Switch´s white matrix outfit and Haus reminds me of Buffy´s librarian friend Rupert, so he wears his stuff.

09:21 / 10.04.07

Astrojax is actually a box of cereal with a colorful design.

99% fat-free-free, too! (though i wonder if that's code for me just being flaky...

)

09:35 / 10.04.07

Dead Megatron wears a white blazer

Blasphemy!

Mistofelles, are you sure you are not running some hellish limbo for lost human souls?

astrojax69 wears a jetpack... A sexy jetpack

Whisky Priestess

09:37 / 10.04.07

Perhaps I'm a literalist, but I've always imagined Boy in a Suitcase as one of those creepy, rather too lifelike ventriloquist's dummies with rosy cheeks, shiny wooden skin and eyes that snap open unexpectedly when your back is turned, and watch you with unfathomable menace ... or love, I suppose.

Much like Pinocchio, Boy in a Suitcase knows that when he finally escapes his suitcase (probably a metaffa for something) he will become a Real Boy ...

09:50 / 10.04.07

I'm so locked onto that Invissy Issue !1! sell-thread, I can't stop thinking of the issue or some vague porno! occult! item! in an open briefcase with a nice plush champagne interior-lining and a black vinyl exterior and big brassy locky things. Every time I see Boy in a Suitcase's name.

I'm almost hesitant to post that, and I may ask it to be deleted later, if we find that he views that image as entirely insulting or something.

It's not what I think of him, or his collective body of posting. It's just a recurring image that jumps to mind every time I see his handle for the past few weeks.

09:53 / 10.04.07

grant always has a slightly suspicious grin, as if there's a joke he's not telling you - but not out of spite, you understand, just like

Mistoffelees never tells anyone why he wears that top hat all the time.

Seth is, in fact, Britain's answer to Green Lantern. But not on a Sunday.

As for xk... Well, what can you say? What can you say?

10:10 / 10.04.07

Interestig that folks think of Boboss (previously Bobossboy) as bouncy and round. The name is a cross between Bob-bomb, from Mario 64, and Boss-boy, which I used to call my Mum's dog. Both were pretty bouncy, round entities.

God knows how the synthesis happened. I come from a family that likes to invent weird nick-names.

12:57 / 10.04.07

I keep imagining Boboss as an Elvis Presley look-a-like.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

13:35 / 10.04.07

Shit you're so close with Boboss it's almost frightening...B you are Elvis in Marioland from now on, "Uh Huh Ha I'm a gonna win"!

13:42 / 10.04.07

this outfit, Mist?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

13:48 / 10.04.07

Much like Pinocchio, Boy in a Suitcase knows that when he finally escapes his suitcase (probably a metaffa for something) he will become a Real Boy ...

I always picture him looking like one of those Kirby-designed "Build-a-friend" kits from the old OMAC Comics, dissassembled robot parts in a suitcase from THE WORLD OF TOMORROW.

Saturn's Nod is very much what the name implies - I see someone in pale yellow robes with a slightly out of proportion planet Saturn for a head, that wobbles as ze speaks.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

13:50 / 10.04.07

"I'm a gonna win"

All Acting Regiment

13:50 / 10.04.07

Do I look like anything?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

13:53 / 10.04.07

You used to look like a very fancy chicken with golden plumage, but the image has since dissolved into more of a cloud of golden vapour.

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