#dixing

[avaantares]

After... *checks calendar* eleven months and three separate scrap-the-entire-design-and-restart-from-scratch events, I have FINALLY finished my Guardian travel posters! (Sorry to the two people who contacted me on Etsy last spring and asked when these would be available, and I said I'd have them up by May... I had no idea how many problems I'd have with these monsters. T_T)

Since some of my other fantasy travel posters ended up reducing to weird sizes, I gave these a native canvas size of 24" x 30", so they print well at any dimension but reduce to a conveniently-framed 8" x 10" for the mini prints (which are the most popular size). The enormous area means there's also a lot of hand-drawn detail -- and a few frankly ridiculous Easter eggs -- buried in them.

These are for two different @guardianbingo prompts ("Dragon City" and "Dixing/Difu"), but I'm posting them together since they're nominally a set.

As usual, if anyone would like these on physical product, they're on Etsy (mini prints, stickers) and TeePublic/Redbubble (everything else).

#guardian #zhen hun #dragon city #dixing #retro travel posters #guardian bingo fest #fanart #ava's art

[dragoncityinteriordesign]

Sadly, the only time we get to see the Black Cloak Envoy using his cool official seal is when he signs off on taking Mirror Girl back to Hell -- and the closest we get there to seeing what the stamp actually looks like is this blurry frame right before the shot cuts away.

However, based on what little you can see there, I’m pretty sure that the design that he stamps in episode 6 is the same one that comes up in episode 30 on the order to return to Dixing that Guo Changcheng correctly identifies as a fake. It’s a clever piece of continuity, having Ye Zun swipe that for forgery’s sake, on the presumption that Chu Shuzhi will be in midair the second the Black Cloak Envoy says jump. And oh boy, that’s seal script; I can’t even begin to read that. If somebody else can tell me what that says, that’d be awesome.

There are a few other places that something like the SID seal shows up, but you can see bits of the Haixing logo in the middle instead of the SI shield. They’re not as cool as Shen Wei’s fancypants stamp, though.

I don’t think the show quite leans enough into the hilarity of its implied bureaucracy. Yes, the scary man with the nasty-looking polearm has shown up to haul people with magical powers back to centuries-long imprisonment in an underground hellscape, but we can’t let him do it unless he signs all the paperwork first.

#guardian #zhen hun #SID #dixing #text and handwriting

[random-brushstrokes]

Otto Dix - Sunrise (1913)

#otto dix #german art #landscape #1910s

[victusinveritas]

The Triumph of Death - Otto Dix, 1934.

#otto dix #art #german art #1930s #grave goods #antifascist art #neue sachlichkeit #art history

[maydayz-hiki]

daily mana images day 20~🖤

WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WE ARE IN FACT BACK DAY 20 YIPPEEE !!!!!!!!!!!

SOSOSOSOOSOSOSOOSOZOSOSO SORRY I LEFT FOR LIKE 40 YEARS BUT I HAVE RETURNED <3

#vkei #gothic lolita #malice mizer #mana sama #visual kei #moi dix moi

[sleepgarden]

First drawing of the year! 🖤

#mana sama #malice mizer #moi dix mois #moi meme moitie

[musicktoplayinthedark]

Otto dix, Lustmord

#otto dix #art

[ranuunculus]

mana with dracula DVD

#haven’t drawn Mana in forever he always intimidates me #i can never get his face right #malice mizer #moi dix mois #mana sama #mana #visual kei #vkei #jrock #music #metal #fanart #digital art #procreate #painting #portrait #sketch #black #goth #dracula #art #drawing #merrymakes

[tygerland]

Otto Dix Canon. 1914. Oil on board: 98 × 69 cm (38 × 27 in).

#otto dix #wwi #art #war #1910s #20th century #culture #painting #chaos #angst #horror #history #art history #graphic art #politics #surreal #german #expressionism #dark #oil painting #💥

[madnessofmen]

Assortment of etchings from Otto Dix’s The War.

Dix's War prints were published in 1924, the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, as an antidote to the heroic interpretation of the war.

In the series, Dix depicts scenes of executions and famine, with trenches and corpses amid the desolate landscapes in Flanders and the Somme.  He shows images of emaciated and decaying corpses, grimacing skeletons, bodies crucified or impaled on barbed wire, the wounded with bulging eyes and open flesh, in a hallucinatory dance macabre. The prints are based on wartime photographs, hundreds of sketches that Dix made during the war, and his own memories.

#otto dix #der krieg #wwi #would anybody be interested in me posting All of Der Krieg here to tumblr #uh #body horror

[dragoncityinteriordesign]

I think what confused me the most about the layout of the Dixing palace is where (most) people get tied up. That pole is at the back of the hall, not the front (i.e., where the Regent’s office is). And I really shouldn't say "that pole" because there are two of them, one on either side of the hall. If you were standing in the Regent's office and looking out at the room, you'd see the one everyone gets tied to on the left, and the one Xiao Guo gets stashed behind on the right.

What's delightful about those poles is that they are not load-bearing columns at all. They have no structural function. They taper upward to blorpy little points in a manner reminiscent of some stupa spires. Whoever installed these babies appears to have done so largely for the purpose of having something to tie someone to.

Being tied to a mere pole, however, is a thing only for commoners -- namely, Zhao Yunlan and Chu Shuzhi (twice!). When it's time to tie up Shen Wei, he does get to go to the front of the hall, where he's strapped to the base of one of the Nio. More specifically, he is tied rather meaningfully to the base of the left statue of the pair, Narayana. I'm gonna let Wikipedia do the explaining here, since it's already got everything formatted all fancy:

The right statue is traditionally called Guhyapāda and has his mouth open, representing the vocalization of the first grapheme of Sanskrit Devanāgarī (अ) which is pronounced "a". The left statue is traditionally called Nārāyaṇa and has his mouth closed, representing the vocalization of the last grapheme of Devanāgarī (ह [ɦ]) which is pronounced "ɦūṃ" (हूँ). These two characters together (a-hūṃ/a-un) symbolize the birth and death of all things. (Men are supposedly born speaking the "a" sound with mouths open and die speaking an "ɦūṃ" and mouths closed.) [...] The contraction of both is Aum (ॐ), which is Sanskrit for The Absolute.

So Ye Zun isn't just being a jerk by tying his brother up to one of the big statues, he is being a very symbolic jerk. ...And a symbolic jerk who has to use CG'd dark energy cords to keep him there, because it seems like winding that much rope around the legs of a giant polystyrene guy might have been somewhat prohibitive, but never mind that. He makes do! He's a make-do kinda guy.

...I hadn't made the connection before now that the statue we specifically see being toppled when Ye Zun loses (and which remains downed for the brothers' reconciliation) is Narayana. I don't know if that symbolism was purposeful, but I like it.

#guardian #zhen hun #dixing #you got your buddhism in my danmei #you got your danmei in my buddhism #two great tastes that ommmmmmmm

[random-brushstrokes]

Otto Dix - Melancholia (1930)

#otto dix #german art #1930s

[feralforestgoblinn]

Melodramatic Sappy Hozier Song Lyric as Title (cropped)

... full on Patreon. xoxo

#murder husbands #married hannigram #hannibal #nbc hannibal #will x hannibal #hannigram art #hannibal art #hannibal fanart #my art #hannigram #scribbles #soft murder husbands #babies #they eat people #whoops #hannibal lecter fanart #will graham fanart #fad server #dix out on patreon #patreon #spicy art #sfw #sfw version #figure study #m/m #lgbt fanart

[maydayz-hiki]

Daily mana images day 15~🖤

I’m so tired rn

Mana fact of the day ~ 🖤

He’s a console collector !!

#vkei #gothic lolita #malice mizer #mana sama #visual kei #vkeistyle #moi dix moi #lolita fashion

[yenpondering]

drawing request of Baron combined with a drawing request of ‘kitty cat’!

#The Cat Returns #Baron #doodling #thanks 15560931 for the Baron request!! #and thanks gus-dix for the 'kitty cat' request!! #no lie I like the colors I eyedropped from the screenshots #very nostalgic color vibes

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Otto Dix · Sylvia von Harden

Otto Dix (1891-1969) ~ Bildnis der Journalistin Sylvia von Harden, 1926. Oil and tempera on wood | src Centre Pompidou view & read more on wordPress

[Note the inscription of her aristocratic name "Sylvia von Harden" on the inner cover of the cigarette box]

Journaliste à Berlin dans les années 1920, Sylvia von Harden (1894-1963) s’affiche en intellectuelle émancipée par une pose nonchalante. Otto Dix contrarie son arrogance par le détail d’un bas défait. Sa robe-sac à gros carreaux rouges détonne avec l’environnement rose, typique…

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#Otto Dix #androgynous #Sylvia von Harden #August Sander #die neue frau #weimar republic #Journalistin #monocle #neue frau #Neue Sachlichkeit #portrait #new objectivity #new woman #tempera on wood #oil on wood #painting #Porträt #retrato #ritratto #portret #1920s #retrat #Bildnis #Sylvia von Halle #tempera painting #gemalde #the new woman #Weimar #weimar era #weimar republic art