#furaha

[shydaydreamer28]

Wolverine's fangs being emphasized.

For a reason, perhaps?

Again, not getting my hopes up. But a Stormverine fan can dream & hope.

Just don't put Storm back with BP, and I will accept anything else. Lol It was boring & only done for the sake of having the 2 most popular black characters together as a gimmick with no thoughts or plans beyond that.

[comicwaren]

From Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #004, “Mama”

Art by Federica Mancin and Java Tartaglia

Written by Murewa Ayodele

[furaha-howlett-munroe]

Oh oh. Logan is in trouble

This is my latest Franken-painting!

I really wanted to show what could be a small snapshot of the Munroe-Howlett household. Just Wolverine showing Furaha how to growl while Storm attempts to get her hair into a cute hairstyle.

For those that don’t know; I am not an artist so I create franken-paintings. I make a base composition using pics or art which resembles what I’m seeing in my head. I then paint that (franken-painting) and I give credit by posting the pics I use as bases!

As always, here are the images I used as bases cause I cannot draw to save my life. These were borrowed from the amazing comic “Storm” by @AyodeleMurewa which if you aren’t reading you are really missing out:

These were also used as bases and inspiration!

And of course the frankenpainting wouldn’t be able to be pulled off without the incredible procreate brushes from:

MurphyandFrank

KsTumanova

DigitalArtbyChao

ProCreativeBreeze

ByNaomiArts

ByVegalia

[ororoiqaditchalla]

"Why you always lyyyyyin'?" Debunking RoLo lies for shits and giggles

@intlschizo-blog, I know I threw out terms to you after you challenged me to show "one thing" that @ClawsandThunder got wrong in her week-long fanfiction screed dedicated to Storm and Wolverine's "love". I respect the fact that you bent the knee and declined, knowing full well that you were going to lose.

While I'm disappointed that I won't get the opportunity to roast your ass clear to Asgard and back, I'm going to show you why you were wise to step away before I block you outright (the way I should have the second you showed up). Let the record reflect that you challenged me to prove that CaT was lying, so don't go crying later on when you realize that there is no Santa Claus, okay?

Out of all the lies CaT told, let's focus on the one of the simplest ones. In regards to Storm being mounted and nearly breeded in Storm #3 (in the mud, no less) she wrote: "This wasn't just a hookup. (snip) This was passion. This was electric. This was monumental."

This is a lie. I don't mean this is a difference of opinion. I don't mean CaT is misunderstanding the situation - she is flat out lying to her readers. She is lying to you. How do we know this? Because the author of the Storm solo said the exact opposite.

Listen to what Murewa Ayodele - y'know, the guy who wrote the damn story - has to say. Stated by Ayodele just two days after #3 dropped. Skip to 2:13:08.

"Imagine you're dying and there's this person you always had a crush on and you eventually like open up - this is just an illustration I eventually open up (cut)...you do get physical and you find out that it's done nothing to you. Like, you're still dying. You still feel sad about it. Just because you had sex with someone didn't change anything. You need something different. This is not what you need and you want to go and look for that thing or just try to live your life. So that's what's happening...(cut) she's saying "I'm sorry" because she had to hurt Logan to try to get better."

Mind you, even I don't believe this. Rather, I think Ayodele is gaslighting the fuck out of the readers at the expense of RoLo fans. I think it's completely unfair to Stormverine fans. I've said it and I've said it and I've said it again: STORMVERINE DESERVES BETTER THAN THIS SHIT. But Ayodele is the author. We can't argue with what he is saying about his own story.

And yet no matter how many times he says it, Stormverine fans simply refuse to believe him. They continue to hold up Storm #3 as proof of Wolverine and Storm's "love". Just think about that for a second, and try to imagine that level of delusion in your life: Stormverine fans do not believe the man who actually wrote the goddamned story. It's not possible to misconstrue what the man said. It is, however, possible to just make some shit up. And that's exactly what CaT did.

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CaT's next big lie: that Wolverine and Storm were ever a couple. "This wasn't a hookup. Or some no-strings-attached type of thing." Once again, CaT is lying. Not misreading, not having a difference of opinion - lying. The book made it clear over...and over...and over that Storm and Wolverine were not in a relationship at all. Here's one example, where Wolverine is dumping Storm to her face so he could be with with another woman (some broad named Pinch, I think).

Here's another woman Wolverine ditched Storm for - Melita Garner. Unlike Storm, Wolverine actually loved this woman, as we can clearly see.

Here's just one of numerous times Wolverine takes off, leaving Storm with nothing but wet panties and a cracked face. I'd post more, but there is a 10 picture limit here.

All this talk about how Storm is the yin to his yang and soothes the inner beast? Pure bullshit. Storm spent her entire time in Wolverine's books begging him to stick around. She couldn't control that man if she tried.

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CaT also lied when she wrote this regarding Storm #3: Logan made it crystal clear: Whatever lingering feelings he had for Jean? Over. Done. Bye-Bye!

Not only did Logan not say a single word to Storm, he showed no interest in Storm after sleeping with her. Even when they were in bed together, Logan was sprawled on his stomach as if he were hungover out of night at Harry's Bar. The next morning, when he sees that Storm has ghosted him, all he says is "Storm's gone, huh?" not remotely interested in why she left, let alone why she left him.

Again...not a misconception. A straight-up lie.

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Not good enough for you? Of course it's not - you're RoLo, and facts don't matter. But let's look at lie #4: that Wolverine was/is the love of Storm's life. In the words of my old Army days: TOO EASY, DRILL SERGEANT, TOO EASY!

When Wolverine died, Storm took a cute little trip to space to BAWWWWWWW about Wolverine. Then she came back to earth and said that she would "miss him". Nothing about loving him at all. Yet when T'Challa was near death - not even dead, just dying - Storm went to Hell itself and exchanged her life for his. Why did she live? Because T'Challa promptly rejected that arrangement, informing death that he would fight "forever" to be by her side, Wakanda be damned.

Still not convinced? Okay, let's skip to 2019, five years after Wolverine's death.

CHECKMATE.

Straight from the woman's own lips. No excuses. And just to drive the knife in further, let's see what Storm said to her father when she was dying in Storm #4. For the record, #4 came AFTER #3.

Her first crush (T'Challa).

Her wedding (to T'Challa).

She even gushes about being queen (with T'Challa).

Let that sink in. The woman who was worshipped as a goddess and uplifted to an actual god in Wakanda wanted to tell her mother all about being queen. She says it twice. This is something she was proud of, and that's what Stormverine fans can't stand. Ororo loved T'Challa. She says it over and over and over again, even as late as 2022 in the despised Ridley run. Tell me, Stormverine. In Wolverine and Storm's 50-year-history, how many times have Wolverine or Storm ever exchanged those words to one another in 616 canon?

Not. Even. ONCE.*

And this is why you lie about T'Choro. And lie. And lie. And you get so angry at the people who confront those lies with truth that you go as far as to wish us dead.

Mind you, this is just scratching the surface of the RoLo myth. I'm not going to bury you - hell, you can barely read what I've written because your eyes are so filled with tears. I'm going to encourage you to follow the lead of your fellow cult member, @bananabrain0. They wrote:

But here's what non-RoLo shippers need to understand: Your canon arguments don't matter.

I respect the entire fuck out of that statement because it is true. Facts don't matter when you're Stormverine. The truth doesn't matter. Storm's words don't matter. T'Challa's words don't matter. The author's own words don't matter. The more your ship is presented with facts, the further you cling to lies. Hell, you're so desperate to hang on to the last scraps of your shipwrecked fandom that you are co-signing arguments about the viability of mutant sperm. Beloved?

You are in a cult.

In regards to RoLo's future, CaT wrote: "Watching. Waiting. Counting down until the next big moment." You're going to be waiting a long-ass time, my friend. Again, let's check the facts:

T'Challa is the confirmed father and grandfather of Ororo's offspring in the 616 universe, not alt verse. Logan is not.

T'Challa was on Ororo's mind when she died; Logan was not.

When Storm returned from being resurrected, she more than likely called T'Challa.** She definitely did not call Logan.

T'Challa has been regularly seen and/or referred to since Storm #3. Logan hasn't even been whispered about.

Manifold and Maggott asked Storm if she was secretly dating "Emperor" T'Challa. This strongly suggests that they have seen or heard something that led them to ask this question.

And that's important because, as we all know, T'Challa is confirmed as coming to the Storm solo after Rogue Storm, while Wolverine is confirmed not to be.

T'Challa's Intergalactic run will be revisited in his solo book in December 2025. Guess who T'Challa is with in that run? Here, let me help you.

Oh, and just so you know? Furaha is a location in Wakanda, T'Challa does have fangs (skip to 31:39 in the chat) and Black hair, and T'Challa has powers outside of the magic herb that may or may not be passed down (we won't know until their first child is born). And yes, Ayodele knew all about the Furaha apartments in Wakanda. ***

Now, let me be clear. I'm not trying to convert anybody here. I don't care if you're RoLo or not. I don't even give a damn if you're a virulent racist waxing poetic how ignorant T'Choro fans are and how we'll see your side once we're "educated". But let the record show that I was minding my Black-ass business when you pulled your delusional, hateful, racist ass up to try and prove something to me. Don't do that again. Because next time I will take the sign...

...and beat your ass with it.

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*Blah blah blah "lover in my arms" after a year w/Storm being the only woman on the planet. This is how we know that it bothers you that Storm and Wolverine have never said "I love" you in 616 - you keep bringing it up while ignoring that a lover is just the person you're fucking. Storm said that Craig was "the lover I chose" - does that mean they were in love? No? Then shut the fuck up already.

**Evidenced by the Wakandan armor/spear she has wielded since Storm #6, but this is just a theory. It makes sense, however, that the two of them have been in contact since #6, leading to the dating question in #10.

*** I won't even address that breakdown because I don't think the child exists at all.

[ffverr]

Regarding a previous anon (different person), they said it was a missed opportunity to not have Storm's new daughter have a maa name. Does maa mean maasai? And if so does Storm have a connection to the maasai people? I do not know as much about her as you and I am curious

Hi!

As a disclaimer, I'm not an expert on eastern African cultures and Storm's background in terms of tribes or specific heritage is still kind of imprecise in comics, but let's talk about the canon!

On that point, yes, last anon was referencing the Maasai people which are an ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.

Anon noted that it could've been interesting that the daughter gets a name of Maasai origin because in the comics, when Storm's powers kicked in, she decided to leave Cairo for her mother's home country, Kenya.

On the way, she went through the Serengeti plains on the north of Tanzania at the Southern border of Kenya to then settle in the Uzuri Village in Kenya which she served as Goddess for years before Charles Xavier convinced her to join the X-Men.

In classic comics Storm's specific origins are kinda restricted to her mother just being Kenyan, without details while her father is from Harlem. But in more modern comics her heritage is traced back to a tribe of a "hidden village" in the Great Rift valley in Kenya.

All in all, considering the local Maasai culture, it would've been a nice touch to pick a specifically Maa name for her (maybe) futur daughter in order to pay homage to these years of her life and the people that welcomed her in her youth.

So that's the little story!

Personally I don't mind the canon choice at all since I find that it makes for a great mix of Ororo's very rich history and cultural influences. Swahili is still the official language of Kenya and the influence of her childhood spent with her parents in Cairo is so often put aside in terms of cultural background in favour of her just being a thief that I think it's a compelling aspect of the name for it to also have Arabic roots.

Plus, it makes for nice symmetry with Ororo's own name meaning one simple word! (Ororo meaning Beauty and Furaha meaning Joy)

That's all, hope it helped ! 🫡

[madkakerlaken]

Forgot to put these doodles here!!! Furaha and Bahia, kids of Asaya and Hazel. Bahia has a two-toned mane now, this picture here is the first try on a redesign for him.

A random girl inspired by an old friend's character from a role-play.

...and Urufu, also a very old role-play character of mine. Small, sarcastic, annoying little s**t, but also the pride's healer.

[alphynix]

Spectember Interlude: Furahan Biology

Created by Gert van Dijk, a Dutch professor of neurophysiology and a talented artist (often writing under the name Sigmund Nastrazzurro), the Furaha project has been in development since 1979 – starting as a series of paintings of speculative alien creatures, and eventually expanding to detailed essays on their anatomy and ecology.

Set on the planet Nu Phoenicis IV, Furaha documents the natural history of the world and its plants and animals using paintings, illustrations, CG models, and even animations to show how their limb arrangements work. Although only a small number of organisms are featured on the main site, the associated blog provides much more information, including the incredible amount of scientific background that goes into the creation of the Furahan ecosystems.

Few specevo projects are this rigorous, with van Dijk using physical and biological constraints along with computer simulations to figure out the biomechanics of how Furahan creatures live and move, from the giant millipede-like rusps to the four-winged flying tetrapterates to the swimming membranes of the cloakfish. One of the most heavily debated subjects over the years has involved trying to determine if floating balloon-like "ballont" animals are actually possible.

The blog also occasionally discusses other elements of speculative biology and creature design, including reviews of other spec projects and media.

A fully illustrated book version of Furaha is currently in the works – although being a solo project entirely in van Dijk's spare time it's very much a "it'll be done when it's done" situation.

[alixbalica]

Furaha, the perishing princess.