And in the Aw, What The Hell category...

[darkemeralds]

Not long ago, I challenged ravurian to get a photograph of himself at his most fabulous, and I said I would do the same. While we wait for Mr. R...






I don't know whether this is the most flattering picture, but I liked it the best of all the ten zillion I took trying to get something I could bear. I think it speaks the most truth about me.

Honestly, I wouldn't have posted these three weeks ago. Things are converging, and I'm growing down into my real, actual, 55-year-old self, so I figure I might as well show my face around here.

Comments

[cookiemom6067]

You're gorgeous!!!! What a beautiful smile.

[darkemeralds]

I thank you and my dentist thanks you. :D

(I'm actually quite pleased to see some resemblance between my anime-self in this icon and my real self--LOL!)

[karen_jk]

...only your real self is more beautiful.

You are John. You really, really are.

[darkemeralds]

Busted.

LOL! I did put a lot of myself into John. But the lifetime of being praised and misconstrued and troubled because of physical beauty--that's pretty much pure Jensen. I'm more Meg, the twin sister with a physicality a bit too aggressively...big to have qualified in the beauty rankings.

Ack! If I start psychologizing myself based on Restraint there will be no secrets left!

[karen_jk]

It's more something in your expression, not that you have to be as drop-dead gorgeous as John. It's the combination of animation and creativity with a kind of spiritual refinement.

[darkemeralds]

What a lovely compliment. Thank you so much.