ALBINO VS LEUCISTIC: Get it right, PLEASE!
I’m not an expert, but this is something that I thought was an easy thing to understand. I’ll put this in Layman’s terms, since I’m not very confident when it comes to genetics.
Everything on the left side is albino. On the right, leucistic. What’s the difference? I can understand the confusion, especially when the leucistic animal has high amounts of white or the photo is obscured/blurry, but the surefire way is checking if you can is the eyes. Red/pinkish? Albinism. Light blue, or whatever the animal’s normal color is? Leucism. Albinos lack ALL color pigments, leucistic things just have reduced color.
Also, if it has patches of white, it is not albino. HALF ALBINO IS NEVER A TERM YOU SHOULD USE EVER, PLEASE. IT DOES NOT EXIST. Pied, piebald, etc are terms that can used to describe things that have white patches, but they are just forms of leucism (or chimerisim, but that’s another story).
These piebald fawns are disappointed by your former misuse of these terms.
THIS IS A PET PEEVE POST.
Now see, I’ve never even heard the word “leucistic,” so if I had seen an all-white animal I would have just assumed it was albino.
They’re also close and I applaud their effort, but albinos do not lack all color pigment. Only melanin. It’s why most albino reptiles and amphibians are a mix of white and vibrant, highlighter-like colors. Leucistic animals still have their melanocytes, they merely didn’t descend properly from the neural crest during fetal development.
There’s also hypomelanism. Which can look close to albinism, but cause merely an extreme paleness. Most human “albinos” are actually hypomelanistic, hence their blue eyes and/or pale blonde hair. We just for some reason round up various pigment disorders under one label when dealing with our own species.
TFP: Toxicity
Thats my girl. - Bulkhead
My heart. I just, Bulkhead why you make me feel? ;_; Hope someone makes a gif with bulkhead saying this and with Miko flashbacks. (If i knew how to make them i would.)
Fuck guys talking Insecticon?! Hardshell, you one of my favorite now. Your warrior paint on you. I kind of felt bad when the other Insecticons kept getting hit by that ‘Kryptonite’ like stuff.
Just for the sake of pointing it out, those lines all over Hardshell don’t look like paint. They look like scratch marks from fighting his fellow Insecticons for hive dominance. Which may be even better.
This scene gets to me every time. Rotorstrom…
Can i just forever crey at Rotorstorm’s death scene? I really liked that guy and his adorable pink visor asdwhd ;^;
Whose face did Overlord slap off again?
lmfao I wondered why I was suddenly losing a bunch of followers. guess it’s the Whedon thing.
but look, my problem with Whedon is that I, unlike most everyone else I meet and talk to, do not think he is god’s gift to geeks, nor is he god’s gift to feminist geeks. everyone…
How Whedon handled Alien: Resurrection on its own should be enough to point out he’s good, but not infallible. Even 20th Century Fox has acknowledged the rampant problems with Resurrection to the point where they struck it from “the Alien Definitive Collection,” which ends with 3. When even Fox admits it’s bad, you’ve got a problem.
Alright, as much as I hate to be the downer to this pretty nicely done comic series, I wouldn’t think Applejack the religious type.
Nor for the ponies to believe in Titans.
Or use holograms.
Why do I get the feeling there is going to be a twist later in the story and I get to say “HA! I knew it”?
Considering new Pony has minotaurs, manticores, Tartarus and Cerberus, and old Pony used a big centaur villain, titans wouldn’t seem that out of place. They use a lot of Greek myth. And apparently ancient pegasi in MLP wore Roman armor and acted a little like Greek gods.
They use it in a silly fashion, though. While you can say “Oh but it’s because it’s a children’s show!”, that’s part of the reason it’s likable. Ponies and religion just seems off setting, distracting. I honestly don’t see why it needs to be mentioned by pastel colored ponies that talk.
It’s still a great comic, that’s a fact. What’s my opinion is that the religious Applejack seems odd to me.
I do totally agree that religious Applejack seems a little off. But I still wouldn’t be surprised if titans were involved somewhere along the line in their world creation story.
Alright, as much as I hate to be the downer to this pretty nicely done comic series, I wouldn’t think Applejack the religious type.
Nor for the ponies to believe in Titans.
Or use holograms.
Why do I get the feeling there is going to be a twist later in the story and I get to say “HA! I knew it”?
Considering new Pony has minotaurs, manticores, Tartarus and Cerberus, and old Pony used a big centaur villain, titans wouldn’t seem that out of place. They use a lot of Greek myth. And apparently ancient pegasi in MLP wore Roman armor and acted a little like Greek gods.
