@sreppub 's de aged Bruce content has renewed my brainworms for my own de-aging story: this time featuring even babier Bruce (and also Alfred)

I’m dumb and i will make a crossover of anything i love

in the guard's defense, fire ants sting 😔

So I was trying to mentally design a setting for a book, very 1960s spy-fi vibes, and then I remembered a floor pattern from The Woman Called Fujiko Mine that I really want to rework somewhere in the book. The one from episode 2 in the casino.

But part of my brain found it familiar somewhere, so I did a little search-engine-ing and...

I knew it was real somewhere! It's a Verner Panton furnishing design! Geometri!

THAT is how hard The Woman Called Fujiko Mine goes for the 1960s aesthetic. I was curious if anyone else has picked up on this, maybe mentioned in trivia about Lupin III. Google came up with nothing.

I could be wrong, but no else seems to have picked up on this, and I have just because I'm a big enough dork about '60s design.

Eve Moneypenny Day

A few headcanons for our favourite BAMF!PA

Eve's path to the SIS came first as a police officer. She joined the Met straight out of school and was immediately directed to their Officer Fasttrack Programme. By 22 she had a degree in Criminology, had completed the advanced evasive driving skills courses and was a DC with the armed protection unit.

It was on an inter-agency mission between The Met, MI5 and MI6 that Moneypenny first came to the attention of M as she drove backwards at 90 miles per hour on the M25 to block in the suspected suicide bomber on their way to central London.

M personally mentored Moneypenny. She saw a lot of her younger self in the Agent.

Eve didn't mins shooting Bond too much. The hours they had spent together flying to Turkey had revealed just how much he could drink and how difficult he found being told 'no' to his sexual advances.

She flew to Cancun at Q's request. Bond wouldn't have been the first Agent to suddenly reappear, only to have joined forces with the other side. She also wanted to get the shagging out of the way so they could work together properly. She thoroughly checked Bond's room and clothing as he slept afterwards.

It was Tanner that persuaded her to leave the field and become Malloy's 'PA'.

Tanner and Moneypenny have a curry together once a month. They basically run the SIS between them and allow themselves two hours each month to gossip and complain about everyone.

She slips away quietly to marry her partner just before being made M. Tanner and Q act as witnesses and she makes Bond be her Bridesman. He is surprisingly good at the job.

I read somewhere that Zagreus has an adoptive half-brother, Adonis.

How do you think they would get along? More importantly, how would he interact with other members of the House?

Hello, thank you for your ask! I've actually been meaning to get around to making an Adonis OC, but anyways... First! I think Adonis was only an infant when he was given to Persephone to raise, and the circumstances of his birth were kept from him for awhile. The tale is rather unpleasant, after all... however, due to his birth mother mother being transformed into a tree, Adonis has similar laurel growths on his head to Zagreus. So if anyone asks, he just claims to be a child of Hades and Persephone. Nyx was also involved in bringing him up, though to a lesser extent because she knew how excited Persephone was to be able to raise a child of her own for the first time. He's a bit meek and closed off compared to Zagreus, and struggles to socialize with others. Zag is of course the complete opposite, he can make friends with just about anyone... at times this causes them to butt heads with one another, but at the end of the day Adonis does appreciate Zag's gentle encouragement and kindness. And in turn, Zag learns to slow down at times! Adonis is one of the only people who can convince him to actually sit down and get some rest. Additionally, he feels a kinship with Asterius due to the fact he was also born of a curse, and treats him with respect and warmth. Adonis enjoys using the bow, and unexpectedly has befriended Skelly while using him as a training dummy. He thinks Hypnos is a little annoying ( </3 ) but doesn't mind spending time with him, especially because they often nap together. As for Than and Meg... well! He finds them a bit intimidating!

all this mistaking Raffles and Bunny for John and Sherlock

what if modern AU where they break into 221b and Raffles decides to have a little fun when they end up getting caught

and then snarky banter and intellectual oneupmanship and Raffles walks out of there with Sherlock’s phone and Sherlock turns up at the Albany that evening and just says “give it back.” takes his phone and leaves. John teases him about it for a week.

MI6's Biggest Swimwear-Embarrassment Headcanons

Whilst on holiday in Turks and Caicos in her early 20s, Eve Moneypenny snorkeled over a section of shallow coral reef and got her bikini bottoms caught…and tugged clean off! She panicked, instinctively dove after the sinking scrap of pink fabric, and inhaled a couple lungs' worth of seawater through her snorkel. Her girlfriends came to her aid and kept her afloat, and after she’d stopped choking and realized her bottoms weren’t coming back, they fetched her a towel so she could exit the ocean with her dignity (mostly) intact.

Gareth Mallory’s mum kept an embarrassing photo of him (aged 3, standing starkers in a kiddie pool with arm floaties and a big grin) that she showed to everyone for the first 30 years of his life. Every girlfriend or mate he ever brought round his mum’s, every neighbor and vicar…Mallory bore the doting humiliations with begrudged grace. But the day Mallory decided to enter politics, he removed the photo from her scrapbook and burned it.

For his first male honey-pot mission, James Bond overcompensated by buying the tiniest thong he could find (string-ties over his hips!)…and the mark he was trying to seduce mocked him for it. So Bond removed the thong and went au naturel. The man promptly stopped laughing, and the seduction worked out just fine…but Bond still remembers that laughter and will never wear a thong again.

For his honeymoon, Bill Tanner took his bride to Jamaica, their luggage packed with travel-themed gifts from their friends and family. Tanner thought of his brother-in-law as a staid, sober fellow, until he unpacked the new set of swim trunks the man had gifted him and discovered they were actually a gag gift (SpongeBob Square Pants themed!). Tanner refused to put them on, and wouldn’t even let his wife hold them up against his hips, and he paid out the nose for a replacement pair of trunks at the resort’s gift shop. 

When Felix Leiter was in college, his fraternity teamed up with a sorority to hold a car wash to raise money for their Homecoming Weekend party. They all stripped down to bathing suits for the event, but Felix was the only member of his fraternity brave enough to accept the sorority’s dare and wear a women’s bikini top. His brothers teased him for three years over it, but freshman Felix’s bravery scored him a date to the Homecoming Dance with the sorority president Monique—the most beautiful woman on campus, and a senior to boot!—so he had no regrets about the decision.

"Je comprend! Je comprend! Arsène Lupin n'inspire qu'une confiance relative. Il empoche le demi-million et ne rend pas l'ôtage. Ah, mon cher Maître, je suis un grand méconnu! Parce que le destin m'a conduit à des actes d'une nature un peu... spéciale, on suspecte ma bonne foi... à moi! Moi qui suit l'homme du scrupule et de la délicatesse!"

Arsène "Oh Woe Is Me I Am Misunderstood" Lupin, everyone!

JEEVES AND WOOSTER!

Characters in order: Bertie, Jeeves, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Aunt Agatha, Honoria Glossop, Madeline Bassett,Trixie

I love them so so so so much so I did some character designs :3

I'm weak for Lucifer ngl

Lucifer Drawing Guides!

Heheh he's got so many silly expressions. I'm probably going to do a separate sheet for his demon form later.

i’m crying…

Bunny Manders, Watson to the great cracksman Raffles. 

I started this last.. Christmas..? as a gift for wonderful ghostbees and just never got round to finishing it! Here it is sir, late but made with love. 

I've been having so many thoughts about Bunny Manders the Unreliable Narrator and the absolute tragedy that is Raffles' very real and in my opinion reciprocal romantic feelings of genuine love for Bunny that Bunny simply does not see because he's stupid blinded by his own affliction to the point of rewriting history through the lens of self-loathing bias. Sooo many words of meta under the cut.

All the stories are permeated in it but The Gift of the Emperor is like. Incomprehensible without this reading! Bunny is so good at simultaneously deifying and villainizing Raffles that he only offers us the briefest, most cursory explanations for Raffles' motivations in this story, dehumanizing him entirely. And worst of all rushes thoughtlessly through the set up, during which he explains he left Raffles!! He LEFT HIM!! To be a JOURNALIST! He quit burglary and sodomy because he was so guilty and torn up and afraid and shameful. And HE DIDN'T EVEN TALK TO RAFFLES FOR SEVERAL MONTHS (likely because he knew he can't resist him, can't say no to him, so the only way to truly quit The Crimes cold turkey was to remove himself from Raffles' presence and influence entirely).

When we meet up with them at the beginning of The Gift of the Emperor they haven't been in close contact for awhile. Never once does Bunny wonder what Raffles has been feeling all this time, (even though later, on the ship Raffles tells him he's missed him and grown reliant on his company), only that Raffles refers to Bunny's abandonment as his "apostasy" and "lapse into virtue," (both so wildly suggestive and sexy I can hardly breathe!) Bunny wants him to bring up stealing the pearl, wants Raffles to ask, but Raffles doesn't. Of course, Bunny chalks this up to (his perception of) Raffles indifference to him/Raffles not needing him....not at all what it really is: That Raffles is afraid!!! he won't agree to it!. Raffles was left! By him! That Raffles knows he's a flight risk and is terrified of losing him again and has probably spent these last few months concocting an elaborate plan to hook Bunny back by inspiring such a powerful jealousy in him he falls back into The Crimes and thus can be locked down with the pearl's fortune so they can literally run away to fucking Australia together!!!

Bunny is chronically underestimating or straight up overlooking his value to Raffles. He has no idea Raffles loves him back (or he does but he's in denial for it because he thinks it's more of a testament to Raffles memory if he remembers him as a cold calculated charming sociopath and not a flawed gay guy just like him, but I won't get to that for a minute, stay tuned). He can't even see the ways in which Raffles, as a homosexual thief, doesn't have the option to "lapse" into virtue and opt out of a criminal lifestyle. He can't, at this point anyway, imagine that any of Raffles schemes in this story are motivated by the fact he has been left, for several months, by a man who could ruin him, and that he loves Bunny and wants him back! Wants him mollified!! In writing himself as a powerless victim of his friend's charisma and sway, Bunnt strips Raffles of all his humanity and vulnerability, which we only catch glimpses of in their dialog in this story.

"Bunny!" he cried so fiercely I braces myself for a blow. But no more followed.

"Do you think you could live happily?" I made bold to ask him.

"God knows," he answered. And with that, he left me to marvel at his look and tone.

It's all right here, imo. This is not Raffles discussing running away to Australia with Delilah, but with Bunny. That's who he steals the pearl with. That's who he asks if he can swim and for how far. That's who he's imagining securing a future of drawing stumps, starting clean, and living happily ever after with in the Bush. And Bunny is just too fucking stupid and self-hating and desperately in love (and desperately guilty for being so in love) That he can't see it. Or if he does see it, he doesn't trust it. He certainly doesn't tell us until later.

Also in this story, they have a discussion (that Bunny's end of is not written out in detail, which to me means he had something to hide) about virtue and guilt. Bunny admits he wanted Raffles to ask him to steal the pearl come back to him when they very first reunited, and Raffles is struck, surprised. He's skeptical that Bunny was willing, he thought he had to coax him into it (as he has been coaxing!!).

Then Bunny launches into this long, guilty, agonized description of how fucking hard it is for him to live a life of crime despite his profound craving for it and NATURE, (good God this is not just about burglary IT'S NOT ABOUT FUCKING BURGLARY).

"Yet you would have listened to me the other day?"

Certainly I would, and I told him so without reserve; not brazenly, you understand; not even now with the gusto of a man who savours such an adventure for its own sake, but doggedly, defiantly, through my teeth, as one who had tried to live honestly and failed. And, while I was about it, I told him much more. Eloquently enough, I daresay, I gave him chapter and verse of my hopeless struggle, my inevitable defeat; for hopeless and inevitable they were to a man with my record, even though that record was written only in one's own soul. It was the old story of the thief trying to turn honest man; the thing was against nature, and there was an end of it.

Ah yes, the internalized Burglarphobia.

And to make matters more wild, this account is followed by another rare moment of Raffes' bleak unseen honesty:

Raffles entirely disagreed with me. He shook his head over my conventional view. Human nature was a chequered board; why not reconcile one's self to alternate black and white? Why desire to be all one thing or all the other, like our forefathers on the stage or in the old-fashioned fiction? For his part, he enjoyed himself on all squares of the board, and liked the light the better for the shade. My conclusion he considered absurd.

"But you err in good company, Bunny, for all the cheap moralists who preach the same twaddle: old Virgil was the first and worst offender of you all. I back myself to climb out of Avernus any day I like, and sooner or later I shall climb out for good. I suppose I can't very well turn myself into a Limited Liability Company. But I could retire and settle down and live blamelessly ever after. I'm not sure that it couldn't be done on this pearl alone!"

Again. Raffles hinting at retirement. About using the pearl to quit at least that crime (stealing), to live in the full heat and commitment of the other one (sodomy). Raffles has dedicated these months without Bunny to determining a plan to keep him. To alleviate at least one of his reservations, perhaps to soften the blow of the other. Bunny just can't see it--he's too jealous of Delilah, he's too convinced of his own lack of worth, he's too convinced Raffles is too GOOD to want the same crass base unexciting thing he wants (to be in love).

Because the Raffles stories are told in retrospect, I do think Older Bunny has some degree of understanding regarding Raffles' feelings for him, but he is so ashamed of them (on Raffles' Behalf) he thinks that making them explicit will be a dishonor and sully Raffles memory.

This comes up a lot in a Thief in the Night, where the frame for those stories is Bunny sharing with us the accounts that were "too scandalous" for the Amateur Cracksman. Are they really more scandalous, though? Is there a single story about Raffles more damning to his character than Wilful Murder? I don't think so, not by my moral standards anyway, so what is it, exactly, that makes the Thief in the Night stories more disrespectful to Raffles?

IMO it's the hints of reciprocity Bunny is more willing to mention. That Raffles was so worried for him in A Bad Night that he left the cricket game to check on him. That Raffles was so touched by Bunny drunkenly rushing to save him in A Trap to Catch a Cracksman. Raffles remembering the bit Bunny wrote for the school paper in The Field of Phillipi. And of course, the bookends of it all: Raffles going to Bunny's fiance the night they stole form Lady Melrose, to clear his name. The secret he'd held all that time that she kept for him, that Bunny only pens at the very last, once he is dead: that Raffles was not as cold and selfish as Bunny insisted on writing him as. He was guilty of the very crime Bunny abhors in himself, and spends the majority of the books trying to exonerate Raffles from: the crime of loving a man.

IT MAKES ME CRAZY!!!

playing w these designs a bit more before i start trying to use them in actual comic pages, so firstly a redraw of my favourite one of the og illustrations from Ides of March <3

(under the cut, along w an alt version of mine)

Both Raffles and Holmes have this annoying trait of making jokes literal seconds after something dangerous happened. Bunny fell off nearly 5 meters to the ground and you checked he's alright? "You wanted to break your record or your neck Roger Rabbit lmao". Dr. Watson literally saved your life from being poisoned by your own God-forsaken experiment? "Well, the poison did not turn me crazy if I already was beforehand". You little shits. You are both so dumb.