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captain america (miggy)
Bit from latest chapter:

The man who'd spoken was tall and broad, his thick blond hair brushed back into immaculate waves above a square forehead and muddy blue eyes. His eyelashes and eyebrows were so pale they barely seemed to exist, making his gaze oddly reptilian.


I swear I have stolen the very blond eye-architecture hair -> reptilian description from somewhere, but I cannot think where.

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tinyplasticmeat
Feb. 1st, 2009 07:56 pm (UTC)
From the Super Mario Brothers movie? Koopa had that horrible platinum blond hair plastered to his head and then he de-evolved into a dinosaur...
nentuaby
Feb. 1st, 2009 11:17 pm (UTC)
I just write "blond" either way. People "correct" me and I tell them to go away. Not really a relevant comment to the actual content of the post, but eh!
karenhealey
Feb. 1st, 2009 11:35 pm (UTC)
I consider it a lovely and optional quirk of the lanugage, not one of those die-hard things like corect apostrophe use.
nentuaby
Feb. 2nd, 2009 02:47 am (UTC)
Mmmm... I consider it a wart on the bum of the language.

We need fewer constructions that encode gender in things that haven't got anything to do with it.
lirazel
Feb. 2nd, 2009 03:32 am (UTC)
I blame the French! (Or, if you want to get technical, the Normans!)

Is there a "male" word for brunette, or do only "females" get to be that?
karenhealey
Feb. 2nd, 2009 03:34 am (UTC)
I call 'em brunets, out of orneriness.
nentuaby
Feb. 2nd, 2009 10:04 am (UTC)
The dictionary calls that a real word, but it just says "especially" of a male and seems to think the spellings are interchangeable.
shewhohashope
Feb. 2nd, 2009 12:00 am (UTC)
I write 'blonde' either way. I thought 'blond' was a weird American thing for years.
seeksadventure
Feb. 2nd, 2009 02:32 am (UTC)
I prefer blonde as well; without the e I think it looks odd.
costumegoddess_
Feb. 2nd, 2009 05:25 pm (UTC)
I've always used the the e in either case. Looks funny without it.

~K~
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