#character with albinism

[nel-fie]

[ID: Two women, one with pale skin and white hair sitting with her legs crossed and giving a passionate hug to the second woman, who has dark skin and auburn hair, and is sitting in her friend's lap. They are holding their heads cheek to cheek, their eyes closed and with blissful smiles. END ID] Another drawing of these two. This took way too much time, but worth it. Save for some G'MIC filters, this is traditional: ink and watercolour. For more information on both characters, see this post: LINK

[dontbeabeast]

mon ami (et cory's ami) joanne :^]

[esotericsurgery]

WHY DID I NEVER UPLOAD MY GIRLIE!!!! this is melonie, she is awesome

my character design is not ur fetish bait! dni kink blogs

[vizsic]

special

Mini Rats SMP comic

[elviraaxen]

awh he walks!!!!

next, onto cleanup >:)

[anoant-haikyuu-dump]

Drawin some dudes i've never drawn before

[sapphicides]

long post but i needed to make it because I Have ThoughtsTM

something i loved so much about nosferatu (2024) was ellen’s inner conflict and the way it so perfectly symbolizes being abused but feeling unable to let go of your abuser.

the whole film centers around the push and pull of ellen and count orlok’s intense spiritual connection, a connection that was created by orlok when ellen was only a child. her entire life, she was treated by the highly religious regency-era society she grew up in as a monster for this connection she had to the occult, and, later, as a burden for the night terrors and fits of hysteria she endures because of it. she is raised to hate this part of herself, not because of the terrible thing that happened to her, but because she is deemed cursed because of it.

but don’t misunderstand, her anger towards count orlok does come from a place of genuine recognition of the wrongdoing he has committed against her. when she finally interacts with him face to face, she understands that he has violated her, and that his demand for consent to becoming his bride is woefully ironic. so not only has count orlok tarnished her reputation by virtue of society so often treating the abused as “dirty” or “damaged,” but he has damaged her psyche immensely.

still, she cannot sever the tie that exists between them. she is drawn to him not only in spite of the violation she suffered at his hands, but because of it. she knows he doesn’t want her because he loves her, she even says right to his face that she doesn’t believe he can love, and he agrees. but she just can’t get him out of her head, and she hates herself for it (even though he has literally forced his way in, a perfect example of a victim blaming themselves for the trauma their abuser inflicted upon them).

during her fits, she goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, especially towards her husband. earlier on in the film, she says how thomas’ presence in her life stifled her night terrors almost completely, and when he leaves they return in such force that anna immediately assumes it stems from the stress of his absence. she loves him wholly and depends on the stability he offers her, but when he finally returns and she’s being afflicted by count orlok yet again, she lashes out at him, even says to him, “you could never please me the way he can,” before having wild, rough sex with him, only for it to end in tears. she loves thomas, she loves the safety, but she desires the danger and passion because it’s what she’s become accustomed to with count orlok’s mental games. she, like so many victims, reacts to this unhealthy desire with hypersexuality in that moment.

she even tells thomas, “show him how we love,” as if to give in to some need to prove count orlok that she found a love deeper than his abuse, in spite of his abuse. only to break down because she realizes that her carnality comes back to that very abuse. she cries and begs thomas to just go, that her curse will only bring him pain, and he holds and her and says, “never.” and he holds onto her right until the very end.

the tragic part about ellen, though, is that her end is one defined by count orlok. she had finally started to break free of the notion that orlok’s abuse defined her, finally started to stand up for herself when she was treated as burdensome, finally had a man in her life that truly loved her and defended her throughout it all, just to be told that she must sacrifice herself to orlok in order to be free of his curse.

but that’s not really what her sacrifice was about, not to me, anyway. to me, her choice to let count orlok make her his bride and literally eat her heart out didn’t come from a place of self-loathing, it came from a place of love. she is told by the professor that her ability to connect with the occult is a blessing, not a curse. she refutes this, still carrying the belief that she must be evil to have such a connection, but when she hears thomas’ voice call from behind her, telling her it’s time to go, she makes the choice to succumb to that connection that she has hated for so very long in the name of protecting him. the very same way thomas vows to end count orlok’s life himself (despite the clear physical imbalance between them) in the name of protecting her.

her death is not justified or sweetened in any way because of this, though, because, though we are led to believe it was necessary to eliminating count orlok’s plague on the town, thomas himself points out that there could have been another way. we don’t know because the professor discovered this way in the ancient tomes and just ran with it, in part due to the severity and urgency of the situation and in part due to the observable madness of his methods. it’s interesting because the professor is the one who frees ellen from her literal restraints when he sees her tied up in her sleep, the one who paints her abuse not as a burden but a terrible thing that happened to her, and yet is also the one who strengthens the tie she has to count orlok and inadvertently places the responsibility of his reign of terror on her, ultimately leading her to her death.

there is one man who really understands ellen throughout the film, and that is thomas. he’s been touched by count orlok, too, though in a different way. notably, he reacts to this much differently than her, veering in the direction of pure hatred of the man because he frames the situation in an empathetic light. he understand ellen’s trauma, her pain, and he is sickened that anyone could inflict such pain upon the woman he loves. i believe ellen feels this, too, when she realizes the danger her husband is in at count orlok’s hands. she doesn’t want anyone else to suffer his abuse, so she lets herself be abused by him, instead. such is the way of the connection between two victims at the hand of the same monster.

i’m so many ways, nosferatu (2024) is about trauma bonds. the bond ellen has with count orlok exists because of the abuse he inflicted on her, and she cannot sever it even in death. the tragedy of her character is not the abuse she suffered, or the end she met in the name of it, but how hard and valiantly she fought against it and still lost. it’s a far too common experience that many victims share. it’s one i experienced for a long time until i was finally able to break free. seeing this represented in the film was heartbreaking for me, but so, so important.

[suja-janee]

This is kinda relating to my last post but I think some of you are mistaking Shen for an albino peacock.. cause he’s not

I mean, I don’t really blame you if you mistook him as one cause honestly I’m just a weirdo who reads wikis.

(skip everything and just read the bottom if you don’t wanna read my explanation)

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Shen is a peacock with leucism, not albinism.

(Leucism definition on the left, albinism on the right)

Here’s him compared to an actual albino peacock. As you can see, the albino has a pink and white pigmentation due to a lack of melanin, whereas Shen despite being mostly white is still full of color.

(And no, it’s not because it’s a silly cartoon. The creators of KFP had originally intended to make him albino to make him look “sickly” which would explain why he was neglected by his parents. They made the decision to scrap that in favor of having him be a peacock with leucism so there was no excuse or tragic backstory to justify his entitlement and actions)

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And if you REALLY don’t believe my explanation, here’s the KFP wiki page backing me up!

[purpleenma]

Vulcan albino OC?

Vulcan albino OC.

His name is Ych'a (he/they) ✨

[zetrystan]

I updated a while ago the design of my DnD leonin/aasimar character, Albin Oslion, to fit better with the backstory I have in mind for him.

He's an angle ___ (also now he doesn't look like a weird badly drawn hrothgar anymore lol)

[storytellering]

Welcoming 2024 the right way: by posting Nero Twinkification

[nel-fie]

A recent drawing of these two. It shows some progress, but also plenty of room for improvement. Perhaps better luck next time. (Also, I added the ID as the image description, let me know if it doesn't work.)

[v1x-holo]

Hooman Spatulady teehee

[esotericsurgery]

melonie sitting pretty

[eloaholiveira]

Made a shooting star for myself lol

Everyone seemed to like my lastest adopt, maybe i should do more space-themed designs or just go wild with them in general

[leastinsanesscpilot]

I think one of the funniest things about the priorities of my creation is that in a mech I am excellent at my job, while out of my mech I am a mess of genetic mistakes. You would think I would be any kind of useful out of a war machine, but my vision is actually quite poor even with ocular implants and I require mobility aids to get around outside my mech. I suppose physical fortitude isn’t so important as mental fortitude for a thing like me.