Fanart Thursday

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An X-Men/Star Wars mash-up

Kurt, I am your Mother - colored by *Arzeno on deviantART

Kurt Skywalker is rather lovely, and Darth Mystique is a marvellous bit of design.


And now a combination of two of my least favourite marketing concepts in one horrifying package.

Symbiote Pikachu by ~Moonshaft on deviantART

On the plus side, it/they might have eaten Ash... lightly fried of course.

And now let's learn a new word - Dakimakura also known as a "Dutch Pillow", it's designed to be a quilt on your bed that you can... well, this is s_d, I don't imagine I need to draw anyone a picture... oh wait, someone already has...

Nightwing Body Pillow by ~soltian on deviantART

And before I'm accused of bias... or in this case... bi-ass

Jason Todd Dakimakura by ~soltian on deviantART

And an assortment in an interesting artistic style, a sort of etching

Batman rises by ~lalesco7 on deviantART

The joker by *lalesco7 on deviantART

Barbara Gordon - Batgirl by *lalesco7 on deviantART

Nightwing by *lalesco7 on deviantART

And now for some pure fanservice, courtesy of some clever rotoscoping at this this Tumblr post where you will find another few pictures, at a MUCH larger size, enjoy!


 

Comments

[crinos]

Not a fan of Pokemon?

Funny, I just got into it again and am playing through Soul Silver. Also going to pre order Black 2 on Amazon either this or next week depending on my money situation.

[icon_uk]

Pokemon will always be "Dog fighting with superpowers" to me. These are creatures which would live fairly normal uneventful lives until captured (and I DO mean captured, nearly all these creatures fight to escape the Pokeballs at first until they are actively forced to give up) and are then forced to fight against other (and really injure) similarly enslaved creatures as a sick form of entertainment for the masses, and so their human captors can gain glory and adulation.

And the cartoon annoys me intensely with stuff like "Who pays for all this crap? Who pays for Ash's lodgings and food? What kind of parent lets a 13 year old leave school permanently so he can become an unpaid Pokemon trainer?"

[sharky_chan]

Well, it's that or an allegory for imperialism. Video games! :Db.

The best part is when the Black/White games try to actually address the issue with keen commentary such as "but they like it!" and "well, if you don't want to enslave pokemon, that's okay, but you shouldn't force your opinion on others" or, best of all, "the people claiming they're for pokemon rights are actually bad guys, so I guess that settles that debate."

Wow, Nintendo. Thanks for that insightful analysis of the situation. But seriously. I'm a fan of their ham-handed approach to ethical dilemmas :Db.

[crinos]

Hey, its more thought provoking than the previous games, which basically amounted to "Travel around and get badges, become champ." And the whole "Terrorists going to destroy the world with super powerful pokemon" is relegated to the B plot.

And anyways, Not all of Team Plasma is made up of jerks. N at the very least practices what he preaches, since whenever you fight him its with local Pokemon he picked up from the surrounding area, which he immediately lets go. Its just Ghetsis and his cronies who are up to no good.

In fact, in the upcoming Black/White 2, Team Plasma is split between N's group (Which still advocate Pokemon rights), and Ghetsis' team plasma (Which dress in all black and want to use a legendary Dragon to bring nuclear winter onto the region, so you know, SSDD for the Pokemon world.)

[sharky_chan]

Yeeaaaah....I'm glad it works for you, but for me, I found calling attention to it then failing to come up with any compelling argument to be more baffling than just ignoring it. I guess personally I find that failure more noticeable than a complete lack of acknowledgement, but different strokes :).

[shadwing]

Reminds me of the 'Pokemon' parody they put on Reboot,,,

Bob> So let me get this straight...you capture these creatures cram them into balls and only let them out to fight for you?
Enzo> Yup!
Bob> Thats SICK!!

[icon_uk]

Indeed, the marvellous "PantsuHebe X" scene from "My Two Bobs", made especially funny when you realise that in Japanese that would translate, roughly, as "Trouser Snake X" and what "Pocket Monster" USED to mean.

[crinos]

The general idea of a Pokemon trainer is that its a pre-adolescent fantasy: All the freedom to go wherever you want but without any of the responsibility and worry of living on your own.

As for Pokemon themselves. I actually saw a thread debating the ethics of the game on another board recently. My observation is that the Pokemon, as a species, are incredibly aggressive and love to battle.

I mean every single time you step into tall grass, or into a cave, or surf on the water, you can't generally take five steps before something jumps you to tear your throat out.

As a general rule, in real life, animals don't do that. They just don't attack humans when they walk by. In fact, most wild animals are terrified of us, since we do have a tendency in real life to kill/enslave anything stupid enough to screw with us.

But not Pokemon, as soon as they become aware of a trainer, they leap on them, no matter how outmatched they are: Pigeons, rats, rabbits, even caterpillars and freaking PUPAS will jump in to try and kick you in the shins. And with the exception of legendaries, the trainer does not initiate this: He can go walking in the grass expecting to get attacked, maybe hoping to get jumped, but its always the wild Pokemon who attacks you, not the other way around. Furthermore, with a few exceptions (Teleporting Pokemon, Safari Zone Pokemon, wandering legendaries like the Dogs/Sprites/Genies.) The wild pokemon never try and run away. Humans have the option to flee, but the Pokemon never do.

Plus, its also a fact that Pokemon can, and often do, ignore and refuse to obey their trainers if they don't respect them. So its not like they are being forced to do this against their will, since they do get a vote in whether or not they want to fight or not, and if they don't, then the trainer is SOL.

The Pokemon world is basically an ecosystem as designed by Tyler Durden and John Kreese; The Pokemon are already vicious fighting machines, and they really do seem to get as much enjoyment out of it as the trainers do.

[icon_uk]

Except most Pokemon are barely animals in the normal sense, they are sentient, sapient beings. So think of them as remote tribes of people who have little contact with the outside world if they have any say in the matter, but if they do, it rarely ends well.

They see humans on their territory (and they do appear to largely be territorial) that usually means some pointless human alpha-male posturing "battle" is upcoming, where the human orders fellow Pokemon around and takes all the glory despite it being the Pokemon get injured. (One reason I like Huntik better as a concept, humans bond to their Titans, and if the Titans (who are, with one exception, not particularly self aware) get injured, then the human feels it too).

I'd be bloody hostile too if that kept happening to me on my home turf.

[kurenai_tenka]

K that's basically amazing that you can actually buy those pillows. XD

Also the Deadpool one, oh the horror: http://soltian.tumblr.com/post/30811075834/last-but-very-far-from-least-the-infamous

[junkurosu]

I actually own one of the Nightwing pillows (they're very nice) and will be getting the Red Hood (the artist is a joy to work with, they were the one who figured out how to put that pesky red helmet in). Soltian also has a Roy Harper one (and of course the Deadpool one for all your "meido" dreams).

[blackruzsa]

That is a looootttt of ass.

[dry_ice]

That etchy art style is quite beautiful. Especially the rain.

Also... I tried very hard to admire the first two rotoscopes (or even look at them) but I kept getting distracted by that third one there....