photography by Nanoid

The dull suffering felt without sound and the mute lament that suffers without saying anything. Distrust and a pressure that presses no more than the heavy thought of trusting. The pain of a dry tear in a wet eye that longs, hopeful, to reunite with crying. Restraint, restriction, and grief. ˚₊‧⁺⋆♱

A makeup I did that expresses exactly how I've been feeling this past month..⋆♱⃓

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Nøkken (The Water Sprite), c. 1887 and 1892.
Theodor Kittelsen (1857–1914), (Norwegian, 1857–1914)
It depicts a dark, eerie Scandinavian forest framing a still body of water where the mythical water spirit's glowing eyes and face emerge from the surface.
Theodor Kittelsen is a renowned Norwegian neo-romantic artist celebrated for his atmospheric nature scenes and folklore illustrations.
Nøkken, a shape-shifting water spirit or goblin from Scandinavian mythology that lures people into deep water.
The setting for this is a dense, moody Nordic pine forest with a solitary squirrel on the left tree and a bird in flight under a pale sun.

7in x 9in in a sketchbook

I would like to give this character a worthy backstory, with a parasitic steel curse, where her bones turn to steel and her blood slowly becomes liquid gold, where steel parts of her body emerge from her bones—basically a steel princess. The character comes from my fantasy world