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[cimorene]

Sometimes I save things in my notebook of quotes from fic spelunking that are neither bad epithets nor malapropisms. The tag I use for these is "#ok", and sometimes they're just really weird and other times just accidentally funny...

• the specks of gold floating in his pupils



• His gaze was soothed and his pupils sparkling



• noticing the drying drops of water as they fell through his skin



• his tattoos stretched alongside his skin



• he opened his back to take the towel out



• His hand immediately retracted.



• locked eyes with Steve, deep-soul brown to sunlight-through-a-beer-bottle hazel

Comments

[stranger]

Most of these kind of imply mechanical bodies. Hmm. Is the future all robots? Is it a collective metaphor for how we think of our physical bodies?

Would R2-D2 and their cousins have the same kind of awareness as humans, if their bodies are so different? It's C3PO, after all, who is the speaker-to-humans character. Hmm.

[cimorene]

I think three of them are from the same fic, so there was something weird going on there. I DON'T think it was a non-native speaker, and the author was clearly not dyslexic, but I wonder if there was something like that... mental images getting ahead of the fingers, or something like that? IDK. But I also find them weirdly accidentally poetic, and you're right, they could be referring to artificial life or robots, too.

R2D2 might have some sort of messages about being banged up that aren't quite the same as pain (because he seems not to have pain), but surely even if you translated astromech to English they wouldn't refer to their bodyparts as 'skin' and 'back' and so on, when they're so non-humanoid... although it could be interesting as well if they did of course...

[krait]

His hand immediately retracted

Go, go, Gadget Arm! I choose to believe that the quoted line is from Inspector Gadget erotica and shall not be persuaded otherwise. :D

[cimorene]

Holy shit. Actually the back opening with a towel could be Gadget too! ... Not rain going through his skin, thuogh, that requires some kind of android or robot.

[lazaefair]

I was just about to comment "but I have seen gold flecks in eyes though" and then I reread the snippet and it's gold flecks in PUPILS, not irises, and okay, I see why you saved that one.