I met someone online who had an absolutely fascinating (to me) profile she listed a bunch of authors I liked, my opening message was a question of which protagonist she preferred from the two sets of books and she was also also into a lot of the same stuff as me (politics and history) but didn't have a profile picture.

We had long conversations and I had no idea what she looked like for the first month or so, she commented that I hadn't asked for a picture which men normally do straight away, my response was "I enjoy talking to you".

She eventually sent a picture when we arrange to go on a date last week, turns out she is absolutely stunning (not I find her attractive, I mean objectively stunning) and the reason she took her picture off was all the "Hey baby, want sum fuk?" messages she was getting.

Date went well and we are going out again soon, I'm not handsome, I'm pretty average looking except for been in decent physical shape (swimming, cycling and dropping 60lbs will do that), frankly if I'd known what she looks like first I probably wouldn't have sent her a message in the first place figuring I didn't have a chance.

The world is a strange place sometimes.