#axe: starfox

[graphicpolicy]

X-Men Krakoa Era Reading Guide Part 3

X-Men Krakoa Era Reading Guide Part 3. Get caught up before Fall of X ends! #krakoa #xmen #comics

Welcome to part 3 of Graphic Policy‘s (mostly) comprehensive reading guide for the X-Men’s Krakoan Era, if you missed part 1 here’s the link and here’s the link to part 2. Last time we covered Reign of X, The Hellfire Gala, The Trial Of Magneto, and Inferno. This time we’re covering X Lives/X Deaths Of Wolverine, Destiny Of X, A.X.E.: Judgment Day, Dark Web and finally Sins Of Sinister. Now I’m…

[thebibliomancer]

[voices-in-dark-violets-head]

"Be Yourself", says the Furry Fandom.

And yet, as with many things in life, it's far easier said than done.

I've found that 'being myself' can take a lot of bravery, but I want to tell you why it's so, so important.

Storytime!

At Eurofurence this year, I ran the e621 Gameshow for the third year in a row. And for the third year in a row, we were over capacity. As in, security-comes-in-to-tell-people-to-leave levels of over capacity (Which, my dear sympathies once again with those who had to go!)

We had a crowd that was there for an hour and a half of weird furry porn. Who cheered for horsecock. Who delighted in Falco Lombardi macro art. A hundred people - a quarter of the room - gleefully admitted to being into vore.

The atmosphere was electric, and I hadn't even needed my e-stim kit. This was a crowd who rejoiced in the adult side of the fandom!

And then I asked them - how many people had a fetish they'd be nervous admitting to?

A third of the room raised their hands.

In a room that had been laughing moments earlier about the amount of Mufasa/Simba porn, or getting a 100% success rate on guessing popular cock shapes, 1/3 of them weren't confident in revealing those same parts of themselves.

I don't think this is rare.

I've had folks ask me if I get hate for the kind of art I draw (not really much at all, by the way). But worse, I get people telling me - they wish they could draw what they want, write the characters they love… but they fear what others might say.

I've had commissioners remain anonymous, for fear of people knowing what they're into. Known artists start up alt accounts, so that they can draw a kink without their friends knowing. Writers wringing their hands over possible reactions to their stories.

And I would love to tell you it's all just fear - but truth is, it isn't.

Because it ain't just the big patron sites that are swinging the axe on the 'too weird'. Our own sites - our communities - sharpen their restrictions. Whole kinks, loving and accepted, are now 'too far'.

We're fearing the gaze from the outside. We're hearing their derision. And that can scare us, cause us to hide not just ourselves, but those around us. "What if they think that I'm into that? What would they say? I need to prove I'm not!"

We all crave love and acceptance. And in a fandom formed in rejection from society, don't we just hold such ideals even more tightly? So much so that the very idea of this same community throwing us out - for being ourselves? Of course it's terrifying.

But it turns out, even us outcasts, outsiders… we can all hold prejudices. We all have the ability to draw lines, and give too little thought to what that means. We can so easily turn our own opinions, our fear of what others think of us, into rules that hurt and exclude.

And therein lies the issue. "Be yourself", says the fandom, without stopping to consider how treacherous, how thorned that path can be. To be yourself, sometimes, is to suffer the disgust of those who would tell you to do it in the first place.

But… I'm missing something.

Thing is, this fandom isn't based on any one thing. We're not just here because Zootopia was a kinda cool movie, or Twokinds is pretty sexy, or StarFox looks good when he's fifteen stories tall.

We follow no one IP, no webcomic, no TV show. We follow only one thing:

Ourselves.

WE make the fandom we live in. We're dozens of sexualities, a hundred meetups and conventions, a thousand discord servers and Telegram channels, a million pictures and stories and alt-accounts and roleplays…

We decide what we are.

Aren't we the haven of the weird? The questioning of sexualities? The taboo, even incomprehensible kinks? We joke about vore, knots, gratuitous foot fetishists, but isn't that what makes this place home? Isn't every artist drawing obvious kink art following a beautiful legacy?

We are the monsterfuckers. The maw-obsessed, the paw-sluts, the musk-lovers (er, not that one). With every fetish we draw, every kink we commission, every smut-filled story and problematic character and taboo-laden roleplay…

We're the fandom, making ourselves.

Through being myself, through art and stories and chats and servers, I've found new communities. New friends. New ways to think, new art to enjoy. I've found love, deeper than I ever thought possible.

I've found myself.

And I've been told that through my artwork, stories, friend groups, I've helped people do the same. They've found the words to describe what's been inside them this whole time.

They've found they're not alone.

It's one of the sweetest and most delightful things I've heard.

Yes, it takes bravery to be yourself. You risk being misperceived, either accidentally or wilfully. You risk hurt. You risk confusion. But it's nothing you haven't done before. And in its wake, you will find yourself.

Do not let other people dictate who you are.

Do not let other people dictate who you are.

So when I say to keep furry weird, this is what I mean. Find that part of yourself that yearns to be free, and make this fandom the place for it.

Be yourself. Be so amazingly yourself that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

And Keep. Furry. Weird.

[fancysasquatch]

Just watched the new Deadpool movie. I didn't like the first two that much but I did like this one. The movies have always been good action flicks, and I consider David Leitch to be the greatest working action director, but I just didn't find them as funny as they tried to be.

I will give these movies their props on one thing, though. Even though Ryan Reynolds' whole public persona is based about being the most insufferably irony poisoned person imaginable, these movie managed to balance out the constant irreverent humor by also being genuinely earnest and sentimental in a way that the Whedon/Waikiki/Gunn movies can't pull off as well. Those movies have such a big distinction between "funny scenes" and "heartfelt scenes" that they might as well be flipping a big Frankenstein switch back and forth for two hours. The Deadpool movies are good at sprinkling in jokes during the serious moments and showing hints of emotional vulnerability during the comedic moments.

Spoilers below the cut

This new movie was also very cameo-heavy, which I'm normally not a fan of. I'm not going to give a standing ovation in the theater just because a movie is showing me something I already recognize, but I can still appreciate it if a movie does it well. For the first ten years the big MCU team up movies felt like they earned it by building up to each huge crossover, but since then they've just been throwing spaghetti against the wall. "Starfox and Pip the Troll are here. And here's Patrick Stewart back as Professor X. Remember when people online wanted John Krasinki to play Reed Richards? Well he's here too." I didn't see the Flash movie (why the hell would I?) but from what I heard it has a bunch of that too, like deepfake Christopher Reeves or Nick Cage from that one Superman movie which didn't even get made.

Well I think Deadpool pulled off it's cameos pretty well for a similar reason to the Avengers movies. The Fox Marvel movies were never intended to build up to a big crossover climax like the MCU movies were, but this movie still managed to tie together the framework those movies created in a satisfying way. Back in the 2000s Fox would just pick one of their IPs at random and pump out as many movies as it took to stop being profitable, then axe it and move on to the next one. And that's just how the movie industry works, that's hollywood baby. But compared to the MCU, where even side characters will make recurring appearances across different movies/shows, it does feel like those movies and those characters were just kind of tossed into the garbage to be forgotten. Including the character of Deadpool. Despite his popularity with comic readers, he would've just been a one-off character in a terrible Xman prequel if Ryan Reynolds hadn't spent more than a decade getting his passion project Deadpool movie made.

So with all of that, it felt kind of fitting that this was the movie to introduce the Fox IP characters into the MCU, and that the way they did it was by bringing back all these different characters that would've been recurring MCU characters but who instead have been forgotten for ~20 years. Like, I didn't particularly enjoy Elektra, but I also don't think that character deserves to be forgotten while Darcy Lewis gets to keep popping back up every few years. This movie was a good send off to that whole era of movies. So for that reason I actually liked the cameos in this movie, and I wouldn't have hated it if Nick Cage or Thomas Jane had shown up too.

[erosoftitan]

[[ I had a horrible nightmare in which some asshole kid made a movie where Starfox ended up a sexual predator (and was wearing his old costume and was ugly) and I tried to explain to him that Starfox has been expunged of this record and tried to get him to read AXE but I left the starfox one-shot and the relevant AXE issues somewhere else, and he refused to consider treating Eros as a likeable character and I of course was lamenting about how this guy had set Starfox back to step 0 even though Starfox was always a hero and was Mar-Vell's best friend etc. But then my brain fixed it by having the guy's movie have an epilogue where it was just a trick for the Avengers to catch the real criminal or something like that and starfox was cute and they were all congratulatory so it was good. And it for some reason was a cute cartoon style at the end so his old costume was cute]]

[foximator-blog]

Any idea why skylanders super changers pick bowser and donkey Kong over these guys

While I can't say anything for Samus or Link... Apparently They did originally plan on Adding in Peach, Kirby, and Starfox... But those ideas fell through.

The Peach concept apparently had her wielding a sword, and Nintendo axed it cause at the time they said it was out of character (yet look at the new Peach game now). Nintendo also forbade the team from using any hero characters from the Mario universe (I guess DK was considered an antihero)

Kirby fell through due to him being partially owned by Hal laboratories, and they didn't want to give any permissions.

And I forgot what blocked fox.

Still, despite being limited to Bowser and DK Nintendo still allowed Vicarious visions to go wild with their movesets and upgrades, so that's good considering the limitations imposed on them at the time.

I'm still so mad tho, I have brainstormed concepts in my mind for Vehicle/elemental matchups for Mario, Luigi, Peach, Kirby, and Now Samus. (Nothing against Link or Fox)

Here's my main source if you're curious

[wwprice1]

What a cover by Mark Brooks!

[johnconn]

Harry styles will never truly be able to capture starfox's sluttiness

[kujiga]

Peppy! He can actually see a bit out of his eyes. I was concerned that the eyes were going to be to high up on the head. But I also cut out the nostrils for a tiny extra amount of vision, lol. Once I started working on the sides and back of his head I kinda just did whatever shape to meet my needs. XD I am going as Fox @ayankun as Falco @du-chefpanda as Peppy @ryuuna as Slippy The construction of the other heads are done, will post those pictures in the next up coming days. Still working on the hands, feet etc. Also everyone got a nice coat of plasti dip yesterday and will get a coat of primer today. Side note: got a new glue gun, which works great. The trigger on this gun is so smooth compared to my super stiff trigger of my old gun. Makes me wish I bought a new glue gun ages ago. Other tools I use: Link

[graphicpolicy]

Preview: A.X.E.: Starfox #1

A.X.E.: Starfox #1 preview. Starfox of Titan! The equal of his brother Thanos, matching his achievements every step of the... What? #comics #comicbooks

[thebibliomancer]

It feels appropriate that this all started with Druig doing vote manipulation to get Thanos on the throne and ends with Starfox doing voter fraud to boot Druig off it

[blackbear972]

Sometimes, mornings are hard.

[su-whisterfield]

Our bright, beautiful Elf on the cover of an upcoming issue of AXE Judgement Day.

Cant find a bigger, better copy, came someone else find one? And the artist? Need to buy them a drink… Mark Brooks. Good man!

And, yes, that is indeed Starfox!

[mystickingstuff]

NOT HIM, PLEASE

Eros Starfox on AXE: Judgment Day #3

[cybercitycomix]

Top New Marvel Comic Releases for the Week of October 5th, 2022.

Amazing Spider-Man #1 Facsimile,

AXE Starfox,

AXE X-Men #1,

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #5,

Edge of Spider-Verse #5,

Jane Foster Mighty Thor #5

Miracleman #0,

Spider-Man #1,

Star Wars Mandalorian #4 +

Tomb of Dracula #1 Facsimile.

[th3-0bjectivist]

    Every once and a while I’m feeling lazy but still wanna post a batch of stuff to Tumblr. I try to post one new musical entry two times per week usually, and tonight I’m totally lethargic. When I’m feeling sluggish in the future, I think I’m just gonna post video game music covers to my page in hopes that a gamer Tumblr page out there somewhere will resonate with my nerdy video game nostalgia as well, and repost. So, this is just an interesting tune I found on Soundcloud. It’s a rock version of the track titled Corneria from the soundtrack of 1993′s Starfox, a legendary 16-bit rail shooter for the Super Nintendo. While it’s just a cover, it’s the most KICK ASS rock n’ roll cover of a song I’ve ever heard. The man performing it is a Youtuber called FamilyJules (click link) who does guitar covers of video games semi-professionally, so there’s your plug buddy, and yes, he is clearly very talented with the axe. This song reminds me of flying through a heavily pixelated linear environment, blasting enemies with Nova bombs and lasers, and of course, listening to my anthropomorphic comrades gibber incoherently as we made our way across space to take on Andross, the final boss. Good God do I miss my youth and playing classic games. Smash play and enjoy a punchier version of a tune from a game that innovated in its time rather than imitating, soundtrack included!