#ax !!

[butch-chastity]

[image id: a single panel comic of a man and his dog. the dog is barking, which causes the air around her to glow, rings of power to ripple out from her, and a strong wind to blow. the man says, "she only does that around squirrels." The panel is titled 'tiny dog with a super loud bark.' End ID]

drawing people i see in the city (48/?)

[forlay]

old sketchingsss + newish axmarco

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[adorkastock]

[byelacey]

axposting

[wheatart]

Hey look! Proper Animorphs fanart! It's not exact, but it was heavily inspired from the books where is front legs slam out of him as he's deliriously morphing.

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/wheatart Commission info: wheatart.com/about

[butch-chastity]

drew this ax on the clock everyone appreciate his little face

[kamaslittlestar]

“That’s my wife!” I say. It isn’t. It is a grown man with tits bigger than mine. He doesn’t exist. He is fictional. The voices concur however, that is my beloved. My lover, my muse-

[tomberensonsghost]

Ax: Why would he even want a fiddle made of gold?

Tobias: Because gold is really valuable.

Ax: But fiddles are typically made of wood. A fiddle made of gold couldn't possibly produce the same sound quality. And gold's not even a very good metal.

Tobias: Don't say that, our entire economy is founded on the idea that gold is super important.

Jara: No. Wood super important. Base economy on wood.

Tobias: I mean... money is made of paper, which is made from wood...

Ax: Okay, so Johnny can have the fiddle made of gold, the musicality of which won't matter because human music is bad anyway, and we'll use the wooden fiddle for the economy.

Jara: I eat the wooden fiddle.

Tobias: Noooo. The economyyyyy.

Jara: I also eat your money.

Ax: This is good. Someone call the Devil.

[sad-blue-deer]

Bun-zah.

[gooseplumesart]

we all have exactly two things in common: we all need to eat and we're all going to die.

[rays-animorphs]

The dynamic between Ax and Jake is really something.

"Prince Jake"/"don't call me prince"/"yes, Prince Jake."

"I don't really understand how this human/American thing of having a leader with no authority works, so I'm going to project my expectations of military hierarchy onto you. We're going to have a relationship on my culture's terms."

"No, we're going to have a relationship on MY culture's terms, where I only have the power that my teammates decide to give me and they never actually have to do what I want and I can't do anything about it. You have to respect a request to call me the way I want to be called by the terms of my culture."

"Hmm, well you're my commanding officer by Andalite military standards so I have to do what you say, but also by those standards you can't absolve yourself of that role, so tough shit, prince. I will do (more or less) anything you tell me to, but I won't change my understanding of what our dynamic is because Andalite princes don't actually get to just turn over the entire military hierarchy so you don't get to do that either. And also, I want our relationship to exist on my culture's terms, and not yours."

And "prince" has such a romantic feel to it, very Chronicles of Narnia. I imagine some part of Jake LOVES being called "prince". It's such a status thing, and who doesn't like status? But at the same time, setting aside what "prince" actually means to Andalites, Americans don't have "princes". Not having princes (or kings or queens or hereditary titled nobility or any of that) is kind of the whole American deal, it's what America is, so Jake can't be a prince and also get a good grade in Being An American (something that is normal to want and possible to achieve.) And I think Jake cares a great deal about being a good American.

So he can't just not act like a prince (it's not enough that he calls for votes on big decisions and basically lets things go without consequences when the other kids go off and do their own thing or deliberately do things he told them not to do) he has to tell Ax to not call him a prince, over and over again.

At first I was mildly annoyed that Applegate went and did the very cliche thing of having a somewhat diverse team but making a white boy in charge, because there is ALWAYS a white boy in charge, and while that's still a relevant media critique in general, I do think Applegate at least did some interesting things with having a white boy in charge. Because...you can tell Jake was raised (is being raised, he's not done yet) with the expectation that he's likely to end up in some kind of leader/power role in society, and all the adventure stories with a white boy leader that talk about what it means to be a GOOD leader, he internalized all that, he knew it was aimed at him, he's got the American equivalent of noblesse oblige in spades, he's got a very strong internal sense of what abusing his power would look like and he wants, really badly, to NOT abuse his power. (And wow, this would be a different story if the Animorphs had coalesced around a leader who didn't have that ethic.)

And just like El in the Scholomance trilogy is wary of taking even the first step on the road to becoming an evil sorceress of great destruction, Jake is wary of taking even the first step to being a dictator, the road that ends with him going "I'm making all the decisions here and you all have to do what I say or else." (Which might well have caused the end of the Animorphs and therefor lost the war to the Yeerks, if he had done that.) So he has to say no to the title, over and over.

[katboykirby]

Good news for TriWorlds fans! The dateables + Luke are gonna be getting their own Makeship plushes as well 😍

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[jellhound]

POV: you were winning the fight but ax has decided to unleash their inner shounen protagonist