Storm

HeroesCon 2014 sketch

Basically had the go ahead to do whatever I wanted with her so I played with my redesign a bit.  

X-men Facts.

The Jean Grey one is so accurate. I could never take her SLs seriously every time she died.

Bless this post.

sorry not sorry

Adapt to this

LET ME JUST POINT OUT THE VARIOUS FLAWS OF LOGIC HERE. FIRST OF ALL DARWINS POWER IS TO LITERALLY ADAPT TO ANYTHING IN THE EFFING UNIVERSE. HIS POWERS DEEMED IT TOO DANGEROUS TO FIGHT THE HULK AND TELEPORTED HIM TO ANOTHER COUNTRY. HE ONCE BECAME PURE COSMIC EFFING ENERGY AND SHORTLY AFTER REMATERIALIZED AS A HUMAN BEING TO PREVENT HIS DEATH. DARWIN IS LITERALLY INEFFINGVINCIBLE. AND YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT A PATHETIC BALL OF KINETIC ENERGY FROM SEBASTIAN SHAW MERKS HIM?!?!?! THEY OBVIOUSLY ARE OUT TO KILL THE BLACK MAN IN THE PLOT AND LITERALLY WROTE THIS SCENE WITH NO REGARDS TO DARWINS POWERS WHATSOEVER AND ITS FRUSTRATING THAT THEY WOULD GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO KILL HIM OFF LIKE THAT

I’m saying. Even in sci fi we ain’t safe

in my headcanon darwin literally became a being of energy and ascended to another plain of existence so he doesn’t have to deal with anymore of this white nonsense

Even in Scifi? We not safe in real life.

thank you I’ve been saying this for the longest!!!!! He is a damn omega level mutant, meaning in the movie he would be a class 5! Dude even adapted into a God and became the God of Death! Dude was college educated in the comics and they made him a taxi driver…like Black folks weren’t educated in the 70’s. And they didn’t even acknowledge that he was an Afro Latino…his name is Armando Munoz, he’s one of the few Afro latino superheros and they did him so dirty.

A movie that’s a metaphor for prejudice/racism/etc did the black guy dirty.

This

Yep. This was some white nonsense for real

↳ marvel fancast: angela bassett as ororo munroe

THIS IS WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED.

No offense to Halle, but Angela Bassett should have been Ororo/Storm.

This.

2013: (Art) Year In Review

I wish that I could cram all of the artwork that I’ve done this year, and it was definitely hard to choose.  I think the thing that I’ve done the best this year was to not be lazy with drawing and try to do as many backgrounds as I possibly could.  2013 was great for me artwise, I just wish that I could have drawn even more…which is my resolution for 2014…as well as attend cons finally.  

And 2013 was the year that I finally opened up an online storefront to sell prints (which all of these are sold on…Illumistrations.storenvy.com, selfless plug I know).  

Here’s to an even better 2014!

OH MY GOD I LIVE I LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVEEEEEEE YOU KNOW HOW LONG I’VE BEEN WAITING TO SEE A BLACK VELMA AND A BLACK ALICE IN WONDERLAND……*CRIES INTENSELY IN PRAISE*

This art is everything. I need to buy some prints from Illumistrations for real.

PUSSY GAME INTERGALACTIC

So I want to take a second to talk about Xavin from Runaways, the character you see in these middle panels.  (FYI: I’ve chosen to use both male and female pronouns for writing about this character because Xavin’s pronouns tended to shift depending on if the character looked male or female.)

Runaways was about teens with super powers escaping their evil parents.   Xavin was the first bisexual character I encountered in comics, and showed up for the first time in Volume 5 of the collected editions (Escape to New York).   His bisexuality was inextricably linked to her ability to shapeshift.   While in the presence of his partner, Karolina Dean who identified as a lesbian, Xavin mostly presented as female (though sometimes switched to male depending on the situation).  

When hanging out with Chase or the other guys, he would often appear male.   Sometimes he played board games with Molly in male form, others in female form, switching effortlessly with no transition between panels.  No matter what gender she appeared to be, she always had dark skin (unless he was in Super Skrull form then it was green).  It was the first time I’d ever seen a character that could be identified as genderqueer (though to my knowledge the word was never used) in mainstream comics.  

It was also one of the few times I’ve seen the issues of a mixed-orientation relationship explored by a mainstream publisher.  Karolina struggled with Xavin at times, wanting to put her into a box of being ‘really’ female and not always understanding Xavin’s need to appear in male form as well as female form.   Meanwhile Xavin struggled with the binary nature of the human gender system, which he found confusing and irritating.   

The series also had an African American boy and an Asian American girl leading the team, and an 11 year old girl who loved pink but could beat the hell out of The Hulk.   Be still my heart.   

Marvel aimed the series right at the heart of teen demographics and even now, 10 years after it was originally published, I see teens at the library falling in love with it all over again.   It’s a series I wholeheartedly recommend to fans of mainstream superhero stories with diverse casts. 

- Sarah 

I.love.storm.

Transmisogyny blows, call it out.

I dig the new all ladies x-men team. Please help me in calling out Brian Wood and Marvel that their promo featuring the XX (chromosome reference) is cissexist and transmisogynystic. Not all women have XX chromosomes and not all XX chromosomal folk are women. If you want to help tweet @brianwood and @marvel that the promo is transmisogynystic; #notallxx

Yes.

MOHAWK STORM

GOOD COSTUMES (SO FAR)

SISTERS OUT DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES

STICK IT IN

Get Marrow or X-23 up in here at some point and I’ll straight up gay marry this comic. Right now, we’re just pre-engaged. It’s a nice ring.

This looks fantastic. The current proposed team is amazing. I am really excited. 

Though- one MAJOR complaint, the fact that they seem to be basing the team around this idea of XX chromosomes/DNA helix- that is cissexist and transmisogynystic as fuck. I really hope they rethink this aspect as that’s pretty gross. 

I am super excited about an all girl team though!  (ESPECIALLY MOWHAWK STORM?! AND KITTY AND JUBILEE AND ROGUE?! I second the call for Marrow or X-23.)

*sigh* at the "XX" bit.  Yeah, chromosomes don't determine gender.

But Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! RACHEL GREY and KITTY PRYDE and STORM.  All the badass ladies.

(I ship Kitty/Rachel so hard. ;_;  So judge me.)

{x} Favourite Costumes - Rachel Grey 

Marvel Pride by ~arzeno

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