ok so.. apparently there’s a bug going around that it makes you block (or makes it appear that you blocked) your mutuals and that they blocked you in turn. i’m just letting you guys know that if it appears that i blocked you, that is 100% not the case and is just tumblr being funky again.
reblogs are ok and appreciated because holy shit this website is a hellhole
“Imagine a woman in the long skirts and high collar of the early 20th century standing in front of the painting she created. It is a massive piece—about 10 feet tall by 8 feet wide—and it is not a landscape, a portrait, a still life, nor a scene from myth or history. Dominating the composition is a bold yellow form reminiscent of a plant or sea creature, glowing amid colorful, biomorphic shapes and vigorous lines. This is just one of 10 such works that she has created almost entirely alone—sometimes walking on her work as she lays down the paint—and one of 193 radically abstract paintings that she has made in a few short years, between 1906 and 1915. None of these details fit with the story told in museums and art history courses. We know the first abstract painters so well that we often refer to them by last names alone: Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian. We know who is celebrated for doing “action painting” on giant canvases laid on the floor—Pollock. Each of these men has been lauded for opening a way into new territory. As it turns out, that territory had already been explored by another artist. Her name was Hilma af Klint.”
While in devolved form, Dumah’s role, personality, and armor were influenced by the idea of a Ronin Samurai. Who it was that initially inspired his vampire appearance is still unknown. Dumah’s vampire features include a down-turned nose, pointed chin, square shaped jaw, and trademark scar over his right eye. I tried sourcing possible influences by looking at old Japanese silent films from close to the same era as the other posts. I found an actor by the name Ōkōchi Denjirō (大河内 傳次郎) who plays the lead role in Tange Sazen, a ronin formerly known as Tange Samanosuke. The film (丹下左膳余話 百萬両の壺 Tange Sazen Yowa: Hyakuman Ryō no Tsubo, 1935) shows Tange Sazen with a down-turned frown and is always very stern faced throughout the film. As punishment for betrayal of his clan, the Soma Samurai, he was mutilated in such a way that it left his eye scarred and missing an arm.
Historically in Japan, the Soma clan fought against aggressive expansionist clan lead by Date Masamune, one of the memorialized leaders in Tohoku Japan. He was missing an eye and was wearing a full suit of samurai armor in most of his statues. He was given the nick name “One-Eyed Dragon of Ōshu”. I actually saw this statue in person during my visit to Aoba Castle. You can spot one of his eyes in the statue is completely smoothed over to show his blindness.
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