Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4536066-20140428041456/@comment-4536066-20140529194055

oh, here's another thing: When people feel the need to constantly describe their characters' eyes.

Did you really need to tell me that she "turned her warm, chocolate, gold-speckled eyes onto the stranger?" Honestly, I'm all for creative writing and being descriptive, but I'm also a big fan of not writing extraneous fluff just for the sake of writing it. When people do this I feel like they expect me to suddenly think, "oh my gosh, her eyes are so beautiful, I just want to gaze into them." If it were up to me, I only need special details about your character's eyes if there's actually something about them that would be difficult for my character not to immediately notice. For example, does she have no pupils? I'm interested. Are her sclera black or turquoise? Also interested. Neon pink irises? Tell me that shit. Do you just want to tell me that she has blue-grey eyes because you percieve it as beautiful? That is an opinion and is not important to me or my character unless it's already relevant to something else in the roleplay.