User blog comment:Omyx/Alien QoL suggestion/@comment-24922135-20161213153009/@comment-1824169-20161213170534

I'd like to think I'm not a shitty writer, and I do use the writing technique you talked about, but I'd still find this handy. Descriptions of appearances in books are restricted by the medium in sense, since you more or less have to be either long-winded or vague. Using your example, I don't really know what the alien I'm supposed to be envisioning looks like except for "humanoid otter". Sure, that's what Faucet is, but it doesn't convey any of the intricacies of the design. The nice thing about the Wikia format is that we can use cross-media techniques within a single work and enhance the overall experience.

For me, at least, this would also be helpful because I am shit at envisioning things I don't know the exact appearance of. This might simply be due to my status as an Autismo-American, but whenever I read a description of something in a book, my brain just sees it as the closest thing I'm familiar with. Faucet's description just brings up the image of a normal otter standing on its hind legs. Literally any golem I read about in fiction just processes in my head as Golurk from Pokemon. This is part is more of a problem for me personally, but still.