#beast

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Leyline Prowler

It feeds on the dark energies that course through the deep world—and on any other creature lured by the leyline's pull.

Artist: YW Tang TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[cornerofhell]

Watched Days of Future Past today after years....

The kills were just as sad and brutal as I remember. Honestly this entire movie was just a clusterfuck of sad badassery. The ending of everyone being back made me cry too.

Somebody get Logan, Erik, Charles, Raven, and Hank all therapy please and thank you.

[rufinator]

Tyzer Speedpaint on Break...

In time for Werewolf Wednesday

[mikyapixie]

𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐳𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐕𝐒 𝐗-𝐦𝐞𝐧

[vertigoartgore]

2010's X-Factor Forever Vol.1 #1-5 covers by artist Dan Panosian.

[wwprice1]

Giant-Size X-Men anniversary art by Adam Kubert.

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Avengers #183 (May, 1979) Art by George Pérez & Terry Austin

[rei-ismyname]

Jean Grey is skeptical AF of Xavier and his school

There have been many rewrites and modernizations of the original X-Men, especially their early years. It makes sense - the 1963 run sucks badly and there's a lot to be gained by exploring those years through a different lens. For example, in Season One Jean has not drunk the kool-aid - not wanting to 'join a psychic bald guy's freak show' lol. She's not sold on the idea yet, let's say.

With the focus being mostly on Jean, the narrative isn't chronological. Instead it jumps around to better show her journey from skeptic to true believer. During Magneto's attack on Cape Citadel, Jean is there and doing her best but openly tells Xavier that this is dangerous and irresponsible. The story doesn't shy away from the ethics and danger of recruiting child soldiers, but it also shows why they might choose to stay (and why that agency might be diminished.)

Jean is kinda right! They're five hastily trained teenagers dressed in Spandex trying to stop the most powerful mutant in the world from setting off nukes. It's objectively fucked up. Magneto ends up saying he let them live out of respect for Charles, which is a thin reed to gamble their lives on. Dude is throwing around planes and battleships - he's having a blast. Skywriting and breaking the laws of physics.

Warren tells Jean about his press ganging recruitment and it's pretty funny. Old man Worthington calling Chuck 'Captain Eyebrows' and having the maid forcibly wheel him out is worth a chuckle, though Warren's acceptance of them being mindful controlled makes you wonder if he didn't get the same treatment. Angel had been operating as a vigilante for a while, and it's shown repeatedly that he loves it here. Still, it's kidnapping.

Despite thinking the Professor is skeevy, Jean is coming around. Rather, she does like some elements of the Xavier School - mainly the company and camaraderie.

Later on in Jean's tour of her new school, Chuck brings her to watch a Danger Room session. A lot to unpack here. Jean immediately clicks that 'school' is actually 'secret paramilitary academy' and isn't shy about saying so. Chuck (who can't see the future) frames it as him doing what's necessary for being a mutant in the world. Jean doesn't exactly buy that, so Chuck is like 'yeah okay, it's a secret paramilitary academy - except the goal is to change the world. To do that there's going to be violence and I can't protect you from it, only train you. Also, stay away from your family, for their protection.'

Jean's crossed arms and body language say that she's very skeptical about all of this. With parents out of the equation, school-aged teenagers arguably shouldn't be making these decisions for themselves. Personally I believe in bodily and personal autonomy for everyone - it's the subterfuge and a sense of wearing down the X-Men's objections that feel shady to me.

Scott, for example, has nowhere else to go and feels personally indebted to Xavier. Can he truly consent considering the power disparity and minimised ability to choose? Beast leaves the school in act two and is immediately thrust into poverty because he's very young and his family doesn't know he exists anymore. He was free to leave there, but he had to give up accommodation and other financial support. That's a big part of the parent/child power dynamic - being reliant on them for survival (plus the state's willingness to enforce it.) Xavier has supplanted most of the O5's parents and I doubt he'd have been successful recruiting older mutants with more agency and experience.

Jean has been here for three weeks and she doesn't agree with what's going on. They just got back from fighting Magneto (who could have killed them easily) and there's plenty more to come. She thinks her peers are messed up and that teenage X-Men is a bad idea. Despite that, it feels like home. Worn down or a natural fit for Jean's needs? Probably both tbh. There's a lot to be said for having peers that share your experiences.

Time to check in with Chuck again, who's concerned about group cohesion. They're kinda having two different conversations for a moment there, with Jean not wanting to discuss her feelings for either Scott or Warren, definitely not with this guy.

Despite enjoying herself and feeling at home, she still thinks Chuck is an irresponsible motherfucker for sending teenagers into danger. They recently spent several days in the Savage Land and it was terrifying.

Jean and Warren were captives, made all the more awkward by an unrequited crush and Warren being the OG himbo. Jean is justifiably rattled by being in constant danger for shit that's not really their problem. Warren has faith in field leader Cyclops, though.

That faith turns out to be justified, as when the pair were about to be eaten by a T-Rex, Cyclops optic blasted that anachronistic terror. Jean immediately hugged him then made out with him, though Scott's awkwardness has made things a little tense. DW, they start dating, but right now Jean thinks this whole X-Men thing is lunacy.

After a whole bunch of fights and public rejections, Beast ends up leaving, which we see from Jean's POV. Chuck is ... a condescending asshole about it, to be frank. Hank is blatantly picking apart the means and ends of the Dream, and I like that Xavier doesn't have a satisfying answer for him. The Dream is a faith-based ideology and the X-Men are an insane means of achieving it. Sure, it's probably a bad thing if Magneto takes over the world but he's going to keep trying. Signing kids up to a forever war with him doesn't feel like the best use of his time or resources.

Beast saw Chuck palling it up with Magneto and understandably thinks he's full of shit. I suspect he didn't tell them because he's a secretive MF, but also because they're children, and a black and white/good vs evil conflict is an easier narrative to swallow. Beast is gone so he opens up to Jean instead.

Here we start to see Xavier's God complex. Magneto made his own choices and they're not great ones, but neither are Xavier's IMO. They're both very stubborn men who think they are the chosen one. Xavier brings himself back down to Earth in the gayest possible way, and Jean is like 'ohhhhhhhh. That makes sense. Also, you're so full of shit. It's annoying that you chose to be honest about this one thing.' The X-Men eventually convince Beast to return, and Chuck sets him up with a lab to work in.

Then Magneto attacks the mansion. I wish I had more room for images because he subdues Chuck in the funniest way possible. Like his husband, he's incapable of recruiting like a normal person and decides to terrify and lightly torture the X-Men while beating up their boss for an entire day.

Something clicks in Jean and she's decided that she is down for hanging out with these weirdos, kissing Slim, and fighting Magneto forever. She likes it and feels confident. You know what? That's as good a reason as any. Chuck is still a delusional creep but if everyone is having fun then good for them. Everything is fine - it's Magneto that's the problem.

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Fight: St George Kills the Dragon VI

Artist: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (English, 1833-1898)

Date: 1866

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Description

More commonly an excuse for high drama and dynamic design, the legend of St George inspired in Edward Burne-Jones a typically lyrical response. This image presents the viewer with something akin to a dream. The knight is hardy enough, dispatching his beastly (but undernourished) enemy with assurance; yet this St George is a creature of the mind. The blurry 'sfumato' of the forms - Burne-Jones had yet to perfect his brittle manner - and the elegance of the poses encourage reverie, not alarm. Burne-Jones was the least ideological of the Pre-Raphaelites, yet the most enduring, always keeping faith with a moonlit world of bloodless damsels and epicene saints. Henry James called the Burne-Jones type 'pale, sickly and wan'. No progressive, the English artist loathed the impressionists, preferring their symbolist contemporaries, whom he admired and greatly influenced.

[nico-di-angelol]

o5 you will always be famous

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Gemrazer

Artist: Evan Shipard TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[exo-gr4vity]

(via beastistheb2st)

[remirtillo]

what's wrong with him

[lunegrimm]

Nachtschwärmer - [night owl/ night person]

New personal piece just in time for the return of the werewolf designs (more details will follow soon] I felt like making coloured version this time as well & I love how it looks! #WerewolfWednesday

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