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Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy
I'm not positive this counts, but it's been hanging around for a while and I felt like, well, sharing, as the meme commands.
This is an experiment I did to write numbers in the colors that I associate them with in my head. Long story short, this is basically correct, though of course not really, because it's all way more vibrant and mutable in my head. That two is a leeetle bit too far on the yellow side as well, hm.
So, I gather this.. thing with me and numbers is grapheme synesthesia, though I don't have any medical evidence to back it up. No doctor's professional opinion or anything. And, just so you know, it's not like I look at numbers and see them in these colors. They're whatever color they are on page/sign/dial/etc, but in my head they kind of give an impression of the colors. It is nice to see them like this, though, I must say. Sometimes there's an impression of size too, sort of. When it's a group of numbers, like my mileage for example, sometimes a few numbers will seem bigger, in a way. Their color might dominate a bit too. Like my old college ID number had two zeroes and two sevens that really made the whole thing seem very dark purple, with a little patch of bright tan and yellow where there was a three and a nine together. But those sevens, and the two at the beginning, definitely felt taller than the other numbers.
This is more or less why I like having exact word-counts on my fics. I like seeing what combination of numbers the fic ends up having, if the colors clash or look good together, that kind of thing. It's sort of important. I don't think I've ever gone so far as editing a fic to make its word-count more pleasant, but I've wanted to a little. I especially love groups of numbers that are the same forwards and backwards. It's nice to see the symmetry of color and shape.
Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy
I'm not positive this counts, but it's been hanging around for a while and I felt like, well, sharing, as the meme commands.
This is an experiment I did to write numbers in the colors that I associate them with in my head. Long story short, this is basically correct, though of course not really, because it's all way more vibrant and mutable in my head. That two is a leeetle bit too far on the yellow side as well, hm.
So, I gather this.. thing with me and numbers is grapheme synesthesia, though I don't have any medical evidence to back it up. No doctor's professional opinion or anything. And, just so you know, it's not like I look at numbers and see them in these colors. They're whatever color they are on page/sign/dial/etc, but in my head they kind of give an impression of the colors. It is nice to see them like this, though, I must say. Sometimes there's an impression of size too, sort of. When it's a group of numbers, like my mileage for example, sometimes a few numbers will seem bigger, in a way. Their color might dominate a bit too. Like my old college ID number had two zeroes and two sevens that really made the whole thing seem very dark purple, with a little patch of bright tan and yellow where there was a three and a nine together. But those sevens, and the two at the beginning, definitely felt taller than the other numbers.
This is more or less why I like having exact word-counts on my fics. I like seeing what combination of numbers the fic ends up having, if the colors clash or look good together, that kind of thing. It's sort of important. I don't think I've ever gone so far as editing a fic to make its word-count more pleasant, but I've wanted to a little. I especially love groups of numbers that are the same forwards and backwards. It's nice to see the symmetry of color and shape.
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