Well, you were very nearly right.

London 2014 PPC Gathering Report (at last)! by Huinesoron on 2014-12-19 14:59:00 UTC Reply

Hey, it's still the same year and all! For a Gathering report, that's doing really well.

So, for your reading-and-viewing pleasure, I am proud to present the report of the August 2014 London PPC Gathering:

Distracted by a Thing

Featuring:

-Egypt!
-Greece!
-Rome!
-Shops!
-Geese!
-Legs!
-Centaurs!
-Voldemort!
-PPCers!

Enjo~oy!

hS

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Cool! :) by Hellga on 2014-12-22 05:03:00 UTC Reply

We should have something like that on the East Coast of the US. I would come even though I hardly know anyone anymore. :)

There was one in Chicago in September. by Iximaz on 2014-12-22 16:14:00 UTC Reply

I think it was only three people, though. Darkotas and I would have gone, but the parental units weren't exactly thrilled by the idea. :/ Maybe next year, when I finally ~~escape~~ set off for college, I'll be able to go.

I'm glad you had fun! (nm) by eatpraylove on 2014-12-19 21:34:00 UTC Reply
*laughs out loud* by son_of_heaven176 on 2014-12-19 20:51:00 UTC Reply

It seems that you had quite an adventure at the British Museum.

One of those things about Gathering pictures: people rarely look the same way you imagine that they would. For example, hS, I vaguely expected you to wear glasses...

Well, you were very nearly right. by Huinesoron on 2014-12-19 21:35:00 UTC Reply

Of my immediate family, everyone over the age of 4 wears glasses. I'm the lone non-bespectacled person among them.

Not to say that my eyes are terribly good - they're just mucked up in a different way. Red/green colourblindness for teh win?

hS

Colorblind, huh? by Iximaz on 2014-12-19 21:43:00 UTC Reply

Oh, that reminds me of a funny story- I have a friend in real life (shocking, right?) who is completely colorblind. Anyway, a few years ago, we had the same math class, and our teacher passed out one of those worksheets where depending on what answer you get, you had to draw a face a certain way. (For example, if you got the answer 2x+3y=18, you'd color the eyes blue, but if you got the answer 3x+2y=34, you'd color them green. And yes, it's just as silly and insulting as it sounds.)

Anyway, the teacher gave us a bucket of crayons that, thanks to some previous student(s), had all the wrappers torn off. I ended up having to pick out the right crayons for my friend because he had no way to tell them apart. The teacher came over and demanded to know why my friend couldn't just pick out his own crayons; she was pretty mortified when he told her he was colorblind.

If you don't mind me asking, hS, do you see reds and greens as grey, or just not at all? Or is it something else entirely?

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I have my own story like that. by Huinesoron on 2014-12-19 22:15:00 UTC Reply

Only it's the story of the teacher who stood there at the end of the day and said in a very scathing voice, "Someone thinks they have green hair." I was... maybe five or six? Not a happy memory, that one. (Fortunately she was only a supply teacher - a temporary stand-in)

And that might answer your question, actually. The problem is that I can't really see green - it just blurs into the colours on either side. Only of course you learn colour names to some extent by rote, so it's not that simple.

My favourite example is the MSPaint colour pallet. The yellow/lime green pair look identical to me, as do the pair underneath them; I'd say they're all yellow. The vertical pair immediately to their right are also identical, and both green - I guess one is actually a dark yellow?

And just in case you thought you understood - everything to the right of that is blue. The colour I have no headspace for at all is purple; my colour wheel goes from red to blue, possibly with a very limited pink in between.

(Which implies that the problem should be with my red-perception - but red is so vivid, and green is so boring and, when dark, just brown... yeah, I dunno)

Tell you what, here you go: a colour wheel.

hS

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That's really sad. by Iximaz on 2014-12-19 22:32:00 UTC Reply

About the teacher, I mean. Thank goodness she wasn't permanent. *offers internet hugs*

I'd hate not being able to see green (it's my favorite color). But your color wheel isn't too far off the mark; I suppose that's because you've learned to associate what your idea of the colors is with the 'normal' set? The bit you've labelled 'white' is actually very light blue, and the 'Brown? Green? Orange?' is a kind of muddy-looking orangeish-yellow.

And for the record, I once got in trouble for coloring a picture of myself with pink hair. It was silly; all I wanted was to look like Tonks, but my first-grade teacher had to shatter my dreams by mocking it. D: Just wanted to share that you're not the only one, though for different reasons.

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* sighs wistfully* by Iximaz on 2014-12-19 16:58:00 UTC Reply

One of these days, I'll make it to a Gathering. >_>

It looks like you guys had a ton of fun ~~with Voldemort~~! I've always wanted to go to the British Museum...