#siegmunds

[leidensygdom]

Wizard looks, but make it cyberpunky!

Heeello! Today I bring a lil drawing featuring Siegmund, my earth (metal?) genasi/tiefling wizard/artificer! I had this one in the works for a bit and I wanted to double down on the wizard aesthetic while keeping the more modern look on him. This time they have snatched a micro gryphon fantail pigeon, as a treat. It was fun to work on that titanium quartz aesthetic on him!

[zhemariart]

gotta catch up with some more of Artfight pieces of lovely lovely characters <:

Fotia © Adaridaba Marigold © @teaweltzer Ris'daer © @mmothmanners Siegmund © @leidensygdom

[the-evil-clergyman]

La Révélation, Brünnhilde découvrant Sieglinde et Siegmund by Gaston Bussière (1894)

[frenchcurious]

Siegmund Ogrodowczyk (Alpina - BMW 3.0 CSL) DRM - Nürburgring - Nordschleife 1974. © Rainer Schlegelmilch / Motorsport. - source Carros e Pilotos.

[macabrecabra]

And next artfight attack for @leidensygdom of their character Siegmund! Had a lot of fun doing the crystal rendering on this one! The horns especially! Hope I did the character justice!

[ungefaehr-so]

Nathanael: "Das Haus in dem wir wohnten ist niedergebrannt!"

Siegmund: "Nicht aufregen, BITTE"

Nathanael: "Nicht aufregen? Hier sind dunkle Mächte am Werk!"

[chrisjohndewitt]

The last of the 'World Tree' by Ben Wagin opposite the Tiergarten Station in Berlin 2018. A copy made by a group of artists can now be seen on the side of a building on Lehrter Strasse.

[jareckiworld]

Siegmund Schneider — Subversion  (oil on linen canvas, 2019)

[justineportraits]

Gudrun Eleonore Siegmund Mirror 2020

[ijustreadthisbook]

Top Five Books I've Read (so far) In 2023:

5. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Audiobook): One of the more unique novels I've read in a while, this book bounces around in time and place slowly weaving each dispirate story together around the fictitious ancient greek story of Cloud Cuckoo Land. Each character is so well created, and the slow thrill of putting the pieces together was so satisfying. The ending made me stare at the wall for a few moments before I could come back to earth.

Read if you like: Ted Chiang short stories, The Birds by Aristophanes, Margaret Atwood sci-fi

4. Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis (Physical book): The sequel to her debut novel, Axiom's End, this book takes the monster fucking story to a whole new level exploring the concepts of attraction, loyalty, love, and humanity. The world building is incredible, the main character doesn't have that awful trait that a lot of sci-fi audience inserts have where they cannot possibly make logical connections and answer questions themselves. Cora is smart, and Ellis assumes you are smart too. Plus the recreation of 2007 era America is fucking perfect.

Read if you like: Early 2000's nostalgia, Jeff VanderMeer books, Axiom's End, 90s alien movies like Contact, Independence Day, Aliens

3. The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegmund-Broka (Physical book): I've read a bunch of romance this year, and this was one of my absolute favorites. Certainly not the spiciest I've read, but the interplay between the two points of view creates a romantic, sexual, and professional tension that is so palpable and delicious. I loved the meta narrative of two people writing a book together about two people writing a book together, and the exploration of what making art together means and the intimacy required to do it. It's a little predictable, but that's what you want from a romance novel. This was a fun book with just enough stakes and just enough stress to make the payoff so worth it.

Read if you like: Emily Henry books, movies like You've Got Mail, Something's Gotta Give, Always Be My Maybe

2. The It Girl by Ruth Ware (audiobook): I love Ruth ware. I love her. I have read everything she has written so far and will read anything she puts out. I selected this one for my list because I love the setting of a close knit school campus, a shining bright young woman with a dark secret, and the real time unravelling of a murder mystery through the eyes of someone on the ground. This book explores the idea of how little we can know about the people we are closest to, and how easy it is to blind ourselves to the truth because of what we want to be true. It's a captivating read, easily finished in a day or two.

Read if you like: One by One by Ruth Ware, Gossip Girl, Jennifer's Body

1. The Secret History by Donna Tart (physical book): I cannot believe how long it took me to read this book. It was one of those books that kept getting recommended to me, but I was worried it was over hyped and would be awful. I tried to read it about two years ago and couldn't even get through the first chapter. And yet, somehow, I picked this book up and did not put it down for a week and a half. It's incredible. An absolute masterclass on Dark Academia, tension building, atmospheric storytelling, all the things I love the most about literature with all the modern trappings of an aesthetic I have also come to love. Rich kids in a private school testing the boundaries of privilege through the POV of an outsider desperate to be accepted is one of my favorite tropes and this book is the definition of how to do it right. It's dark, its academic, it's murdery, it's the 90s, it's excellent. I'll be reading this one again.

Read if you like: A Separate Peace, Brideshead Revisited, Gentlemen and Players, The Talented Mr Ripley

[bobdobalina]

Cover art to Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal: Orchestral highlights vol. II, Franz Konwitschny conducting the Munich State Opera (Bayerische Staatsoper), Urania Records (URLP 7065), 1952.

Artist uncredited, possibly Siegmund Forst, Frank Parisi, or Robert Galster. UPDATE: Jonas as Midcentury Classical dot com attributes it to Sam Norkin.

[leidensygdom]

There isn't such a thing as too many outfits for a character, and Siegmund (my earth genasi/tiefling wizard/artificer) is really fun to dress up. So here's a techwear outfit ft. my enemy, green. I can do green, I swear--

[haljathefangirlcat]

Siegmund and Sieglinde in Manga & Comicbook Adaptations of Wagner's Ring: Masterlist

Alice

Azumi

Djief, Jarry, et al.

Ikeda & Miyamoto

Kane & Thomas

Russell

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

What are you currently reading?

[shipcestuous]

Hey! :) I know some people on here have an interest in Siegmund and Sieglinde, Wagner's Ring Cycle's tragic incestuous twins, and... well, I've been doing this little project where I collected Siegmund/Sieglinde moments from various manga and comics adapting the Ring. Now I'm finally done with it, and I've just gathered all related posts in a masterlist ordered by author/artist...

Here it is!

Fair warning: the works listed are a mixed bag, with some being so faithful to Wagner's works, they almost adapt them line by line, and others being so loose, they're basically just doing their own thing. Some, ofc, downplay the incest or remove it entirely... even while, ironically enough, making the not-twins look so similar they might as well be related anyway. And some include sex scenes, implied or more explicit, while others prefer to leave all that to the readers' imagination...

Btw, happy holidays!!

What a wonderful resource!

Thank you so much for making this so accessible to us. This was a major project. I'm looking forward to perusing these and enjoying some Norse twins.

[heracliteanfire]

Scraps.

Chromolithographs by Siegmund Hildesheimer & Co., ca.1890

(via V&A)