[LMB] That grin should be illegal

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Marna Nightingale wrote:

> Azalais Aranxta wrote:
>
> > Telling me to smile, if I'm not doing it on my own, is among the
> > top ten ways to get me to bite your head off.  It always rankles
> > more from guys, too.
>
> I usually give them my very best 1000-metre stare. THEN I smile. Or, you
> know, show them my canine teeth.

*hee*

> Anyway, smiles on fairly sober-looking people can in fact
> transform their faces, and Aral's described as looking very
> stern and a bit brutal when sober.

Oh, there's no question of that.  But spontaneous smiles are
necessary to do that.

> And a face-splitting boyish GRIN, which IIRC was what Cordelia
> was so struck by, would probably cause me to revise my opinion
> of such a face, yes.

Heh, yes. :)  I'm not quibbling with the canon!  Only with
someone a few threads back who spoke of 'reminding' people to
smile, as if smiling were a civic duty like recycling, wiping the
toilet seat, &c.

~malfoy :)
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