#diandra forrest

[fruitchouli]

[99oceans]

Diandra Forrest by Laur Lončar

[ferry-of-the-damned]

Behold! My Linda! She is biracial with her mom being black and her dad is Japanese. Her mom moved from New Jersey to Japan for school and decided to stay, even though she was ostracized. Her dad was perfectly willing to move but her mom refused to be pushed out of her new home.

When Linda was born it was even harder. Not only being biracial but also albino. She was made fun of constantly and people avoided her like the plague. It became clear to her early on that she was an outcast, and that this world would not be kind to her.

So why should she be kind back?

She spent years trying to find a way she could experience the sun. Maybe then she would have a chance at being able to have a normal life. But she knew if she wanted that it would not be in Japan. Thus, at 27, she packed up her things and moved to her mother's home state of New Jersey.

I'll post more about her career later.

[lullabyashes]

Drew over an old sketch of Lucifer

I was gonna render this a little bit more but I got tired

Photo reference:

Lucifer is also visually based on this model, Diandra Forrest :) They're just a little curvier/softer than Diandra, with a looser curl pattern.

[brighter-arda]

For day 5 of @finweanladiesweek, those who married in

[Images

1: Nerdanel. a Black woman, sculpting tools, a statue with leaves over it. Text = wise, sculptor, craftswoman

2: Anairë. Cherise Morris (a African American woman), books, candles with a star of David. Text = holiest, scholar, devout

3: Eärwen. Diandra Forrest (African American woman with albinism), sailboats, seashells. Text = sea maiden, princess, prophetess]

[instantfrost]

State of the Dolls update!

I dove into the doll closet to get out my MH shoes and clothes so my three eyed ghoul could have a photo shoot. Found these ghouls, their reroots are complete and they are just waiting on me to finish (or ….start….) their faceups.

I also found this gal, head was sold as a “practice” head and it is very thin compared to legit MH. Her head wobbles around on this body under the weight of her own hair. I looked at a lot of Diandra Forrest pictures while painting her and then I smudged her and gave up. To Be Repainted pile.

[giftedverse-confidential]

Splendor. Splendor. Splendor. Please, I need to know more about her lore in this universe.

Return of the mf queen

She's still albino because I still love that concept so much. Her face claim continues to be Diandra Forrest.

Uses a stage name for her modeling career

Pretty much the same in terms of personality with a few tweaks. She can come off as mean and a bitch as a defense mechanism. She has a haughty way of speaking and carries herself in an overconfident manner.

Her relationship with Irefumi is also the same. He's the wife guy of all time.

Aspec queen

The ultimate office siren

Her powers are still the same

Mother of three currently. Two boys and one girl

[yearofthesnape]

As an unserious aside, the constant focus on Snape's features being dark and then cold, as well as Lavender being light (and that's all we know), have led to my fashion headcanons of Snape being a Dark Winter (looks good in dark colors with cool undertones):

And Lavender being a Light Spring, for maximum contrast (light colors with warm undertones):

Or possibly a Light Summer (light colors with cool undertones):

Bonus Diandra Forrest picture for Light Summer:

Meta: Lavender Brown, the Invisible Girl

In writing a story starring both Lavender Brown and Severus Snape, I have often been struck by the extreme contrast between the physical descriptors we get in canon for Lavender versus the ones we get for Snape. It is odd that a character with so intensely visual a name — two colors — should have so few visual descriptors, but so it is.

In Snape's case, we have a surplus of knowledge. We know his hair color and type, the shape of his nose and mouth and hands, his overall physique (thin, taller than Narcissa but shorter than Sirius), his skin tone, and his manner of walking. We know precisely how Harry feels about all of this, too.

Meanwhile, about Lavender we know only that she has light skin. This is never described directly; we are forced to conclude this from the combined evidence of two lines from HBP and GoF. The infamous line from HBP, in which it is said to be difficult to tell Ron's hands from Lavender's, might imply that Lavender's skin is as pale as Ron's, but since (unlike Ron) we never see Lavender directly described as being pale, this already hyperbolic statement might simply imply that Lavender and Ron are very closely physically entangled. I find the GoF statement more convincing; Lavender, we are told, blushed after the false Moody revealed that she was passing Parvati a horoscope under the table, and this implies that Lavender has a skin tone that can show a blush.

It is extremely weird that this is all we know about Lavender, both because it smacks of colorism to know only someone's skin tone, and also because you can throw a dart at nearly any other Harry Potter character and find more physical information than we have for Lavender. Snape is a particularly egregious example, but a quick survey of characters in similar roles to Lavender (background, especially female, characters) shows that even here, Lavender is a rarity.

If nothing else, Harry tends to notice a person's hair. He notes Hannah Abbott's "blonde pigtails" in PS/SS and Marietta Edgecombe's "curly reddish-blonde hair" in OotP. While taking his OWLs, he gets lost contemplating the gold lights in Parvati Patil's "long dark hair." He notes Angelina's braids, Lee's dreads, Seamus's sandy hair. One might think Ron Weasley would help us out and say something about the girl he dated for eight months, but he has far more to say about Romilda Vane's hair and eyes than about Lavender's, and Harry too has more to report about Romilda than Lavender; we get not only Romilda's hair and eyes, but the shape of her chin and her bold demeanor.

Even in situations where Harry describes other people's appearances in detail, he skips over Lavender. At her Sorting, we are told that Lavender becomes the first Gryffindor as the Weasley twins catcall, but whereas most other Sorted students get physical descriptors, Lavender gets none. (The catcalling could indicate that the thirteen-year-old twins think eleven-year-old Lavender is a catch, but I think that's reading into it a bit; more likely, they are simply catcalling because they can.) At the Yule Ball, too, Harry tells us all about Parvati's, Padma's, Pansy's, Cho's, and of course Hermione's robes, but not Lavender's. (Pansy has heretofore been given the description "hard-faced" in PS/SS, which, though unflattering, is at least a descriptor.) Oddly, however, although we know from Parvati's report that Lavender is going to the ball with Seamus (it is rather telling, incidentally, that Lavender herself is not permitted to report this, although she's standing right there!), Lavender is never actually reported as being at the ball. Seamus is; we see him laughing with Dean at Harry dancing. But Lavender is strangely absent.

Is there anything we can conclude from all this silence? Any descriptors that Harry would tend to overlook?

When it comes to hair, we are largely out of luck. Harry freely reports on black, brown, blond, and red hair with general impartiality. He similarly tends to note hairstyles (braids, pigtails, dreads, ponytails) whenever applicable. It is unlikely that Lavender has red hair, as this would probably have been commented on in the HBP scene. We might be able to give brown hair a slight preference, especially if it is more or less straight and of medium body, say around a 1B in terms of hair classifications? (Harry notes bushiness and thinness, as well as curliness or waviness, more than most people do.) Having type 4 textured hair is possible too, as I don't remember Harry reporting on what Dean's hair looks like (the only established Black character who seems not to be wearing a more elaborate hairstyle or being bald).

It is rare for Harry to discuss eye colors without also discussing hair, but there is an excellent post which discusses HP eye colors and points out that brown is surprisingly underrepresented in the narration, and so we might be able to give brown eyes a slight preference.

Harry tends to comment on variations from the average in terms of height and weight, so we might be able to guess Lavender is not particularly conspicuous this way as well.

It is also possible, of course, that Lavender is actually the most strikingly not-average-looking person in Hogwarts and Harry has simply never bothered to notice. But Lavender was certainly getting on Harry's nerves in HBP, if not before, and Harry tends to describe the physicality of people who annoy him. I take it, then, that Lavender is like a female Lupin — not particularly noticeable physically, and in Lavender's case, lacking the markers of poverty and ill health that cause Lupin to stand out at all. Perhaps it's fitting, for someone who will follow Lupin's fate in being attacked by Greyback.

[99oceans]

Diandra Forrest by Laur Lončar

[thatbitchsimone]

[moviemosaics]

Afronauts

directed by Nuotama Bodomo, 2014

[bl00dlight]

Like im so mad. They could've gotten an albino actress... look at my girl Diandra Forrest, she is literally eating THEM UPPP and she looks nothing like a targ? Like you could've left her with her natural more yellow toned light blonde? It's EATINGNGGGG

Lowkey so mad about how dirty they did Mysaria in HOTD?? Like this is NOT directed at the actress, she's great. But the fucken accent is atrocious, like unbearable. I just wanna know who thought THAT was a good idea.

Second of all why is she not even remotely the same character as her book counterpart? I understand that some characters had to have their looks altered, such as the Velaryons being cast as POC because otherwise it may just become too confusing. And Rhaneys needing to have blonde hair as to make Rhaneyra's sons undeniably not of Velaryon blood.

But I cannot justify why they changed Mysaria??? Was it just to validate Daemon's Valyrian supremacist penis arc? Was that legit it? Because Mysaria is already Valyrian? She is from Lys... which is a valryian stronghold? It's why Targaryens have often married Lyseni nobles, because they are of valryian blood like Velaryons? And it's also why Daemon even took her as a paramour to begin with. Also Mysaria looks STARKLY different to the Targaryens, she is a fucken albino. Like I'm sorry but??

(wweskywalker) (Naomimakesart)

It would have been so easy to make her look distinctive, literally just using very light makeup on the actress and giving her pure white hair and brows. I don't care about her eyes staying dark, if anything that would make her look even MORE distinctive to the Targaryen's? That's literally why she is called Lady Misery & the White Worm? Because she looks so ghostly and Ethereal? She also lowkey was a CURVY QUEEN!!! And on top of that her appereance is what gives her this intensely strange mystique because she's not typically beauitful by Westerosi standards. Idk, I just feel like they really erased what could have been a really unique female character design for no reason? And then replaced her with a more convenially attractive actress, which btw the look could have been achieved on the actress? I feel like it's the opposite of diversity to strip away her albinism. That's such a unique feature and it would have BEEN AMAZINGGG to see it done on TV?? Also it does annoy me abit that they chickened out and didn't even cast a curvier actress? Like what was the reason for that? Mysaria is specifically said to have "thickened" as she aged. It just feels wrong having a very thin, non-albino actress take her place. Or not even having the actress embody the character in that way? It just idk, seeing a albino queen okay and HER BODY TEA TOO? SEEING HER wouldve been amazing. But??? This is the only time I've raised my brows as their casting choices. And again, the other actress is gorgeous but she just really isn't giving Mysaria at all.

(chillyravenart)

Like its kinda abit sus. And the accent has made her SOOO hated on as a character, it just seems unfair since there are no other female characters like her in the show? Also they ERASED HER ACTUAL PREGNANCY? It bothers me so much.

[mortispbf]

[modelsof-color]

Diandra Forrest by Catherine Servel for Refinery 29 Magazine - November 2019  

[hmncndtns]

Diandra Forrest in Afronauts (dir. Nuotama Bodomo, 2014)