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What's your superpower?
I am very good at name and voice recognition. If I see an actor in one project, I can tell you everything else I've ever seen them in. If I'm listening to Podcast A, I may think, "That voice sounds familiar," and I go look up the person and find that they were once on a single episode of Podcast B that I listened to last year. When I was watching Arcane, obviously I recognized Shohreh Aghdashloo's voice, but she has a VERY distinctive voice so that isn't a surprise. What is a surprise is that I recognized Even Lindley's voice from the handful of You Are Good episodes she's been on, even though her part in Arcane is definitely a bit part.
I'm so good with faces that if I see you at one event and didn't even get introduced or learn your name, I'm still probably going to recognize you when I see you at another event. I'm so good with faces that I don't understand the whole "these white guys all look alike!" memes that go around the internet often. I'm so good with faces that I was truly and deeply shocked the other day when I finally put it together that Vanozza from The Borgias is Sorsha from Willow. (In my defense, the two projects were made more than 20 years apart and I hadn't seen Joanne Whalley in anything in the interim, so I didn't know how she aged.)
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elperian assures me that this is my superpower, and I think that is probably correct.
So what is your superpower? What's the thing you're really good at that most people aren't?
I'm so good with faces that if I see you at one event and didn't even get introduced or learn your name, I'm still probably going to recognize you when I see you at another event. I'm so good with faces that I don't understand the whole "these white guys all look alike!" memes that go around the internet often. I'm so good with faces that I was truly and deeply shocked the other day when I finally put it together that Vanozza from The Borgias is Sorsha from Willow. (In my defense, the two projects were made more than 20 years apart and I hadn't seen Joanne Whalley in anything in the interim, so I didn't know how she aged.)
elperian assures me that this is my superpower, and I think that is probably correct. So what is your superpower? What's the thing you're really good at that most people aren't?