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Ena board !
I don't like using the term stimboard for myself personally i dont know if this fits that definition. Just reminded me of her
#ena#ena joel g#stimboard#?#blue#yellow#webcore#??? i think#kidpix#speen#i got ALL of these from pinterest#rotary phone#i spy book covers#visual stim#joel g
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French Jumpscare warning
#hellsing#hellsing ultimate#seras victoria#pip bernadotte#a#vids#biblically accurate pip (French)#thank you cocolacola for supporting the Radiohead seras agenda she’s getting assigned karma police whether it’s actually logical or not#brain’s conflicted because on one hand I need to maintain continuity in how I draw characters but then if I do make changes#does that fuck up the old stuff? idk lolsies#pip seems like the kind of guy who would’ve loved I spy books#(<— ignoring the fact he would not have been a toddler when the first one was released sorry pip guess it sucks to suck)#pip seems like a blur kinda guy. wait shit what’s my silly little French bad uhhhh fuck#Big Soul!!! they’re fun I haven’t listened to them in a while so I don’t feel like a reliable source to be like this fucks or not#the cover for their first album is silly she’s a little insane but that’s okay
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sometimes you just gotta spend your afternoon/evening playing through a Castle (like the TV detective show) point-and-click murder mystery game from 2013, featuring such puzzles as:
This Can't Possibly Be How You Turn the TV On Every Night
and
Don't Make a Librarian Do This Every Day to Disarm the Alarms
and that gives you the funny mental imagery of this man stealing So Much Shit from different places to solve puzzles in other places, including one notable instance where to open a freezer that had frozen itself shut, you had to carry a lit candelabra across town that you stole from some dude's house you broke into instead of... you know... unplugging it
#//juri speaks#juri plays: never trust a book by its cover#10/10 very silly; had to use guides and the skip button on a handful of the non-i spy puzzles
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The silver Fox Spy saga continues!
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Clean version here xoxo
W.i.p. under the cut xox
Search #TF2 Spy Croft Comic Cover for more!
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#tf2#team fortress 2#tf2 spy maskless#tf2 spy#team fortress 2 spy#team fortress fanart#comic book aesthetic#this officially makes two#how many more will I make? the world may never know#art#artists on tumblr#fanart#digital art#digital artist#charlies arties#TF2 Spy Croft Comic Cover
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you learn something new every day and today i have learned that there is a tea company named karel capek. yeah like the author
edit: okay well now im just looking at karel capek on ebay heres some fun things ::-)
these books are expensive as f--k
This book is dedicated to the cover design of Josef Capek and it looks so delightful <3
This cover of RUR looks really cool (just a fancy lion filligree thing. not related)
Nine Fairy Tales (And one more thrown in for good measure) by karel and illustrated by josef, i have really only seen snatches of josefs art from looking up karel's name but it's so fun.
and another by karel and illustrated by the both of them ::-) i love the brother duo going on yay. also i really forgot how many books karel has
#original nonsense#personal#dang it and mozilla's translation feature apparently doesnt support japanese yet. oh well#DUDE THERE'S A BOOK DEDICATED TO JOSEF CAPEK'S COVER DESIGNS THATS SO DELIGHTFUL??#<- im just looking up karel capek on ebay tbh. i spy rur in the preview image#rurposting
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experimenting with index color mode in aseprite
I had a lot of fun whipping up this quick image, its like feel good vent art ❤️
#pixelart#pixel art#art#pixel graphics#pixel#shoutout to any I SPY fans who recognize the book cover used#Im also just a fan of this genre of imagery I think its neat : )#not sure what to call it but its nice
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Cool so I reread the series and I noticed a lot more than I did the first two times I read it which is fun. The relationship between Ben and Erica is more explored than I remembered which is good and I can definitely see her character arc a lot clearer.
X is still my least favorite book and there’s absolutely a corner that Gibbs wrote himself into on that one unless he’s entirely giving up on the idea of having Ben and co. be secret agents.
Ben’s a lot more of a competent spy than I remember too, which is refreshing.
I also completely forgot that all 10 of these books happen in the span of like a year and a half which is hilarious.
Oh and the age gap seems like something that would be a lot more of an issue if there weren’t only like 300 people in the world they could have contact with. Even Erica and Josh had a bit of a gap since she had to have been 14/15 or so while he was 17/18. A gap of 2.5 years would be problematic for normal kids but I think different rules would apply.
I'm so glad it was clearer on a second go around! Honestly, I didn't even really see it all that clearly until I reread the series a couple years ago (SSAS came out my first week of college) and had a lot more experience with how stories work on a fundamental idea. Erica's development is very much in the background, but when you're looking for it (excluding SSPX, but that's a different rant) it's so clear and interesting and I love it.
SSPX bothers me for SO MANY REASONS the biggest of which is that Mr. Gibbs puts the message before the overarching plot of everything, and then! It's not even a relevant message! Like, what twelve year old is hardcore believing QAnon (it's pretty obviously meant to be that or something similar). I feel like something could have been achieved and a message about privacy, like Murray makes getting a video of Ben part of some TikTok knockoff challenge, because that seems like a much more likely thing kids would do, but gotta make fun of people who remember what the news said two years ago and comparing it to what they say now! Can't have people with good memories! But yeah, it does shoot the series in the foot kind of, and I understand the reasoning behind why things were done the way they were! I just don't agree with it most of the time.
It's even funnier when you realize that it's not a year and a half evenly spread out, it's one mission his first year with five months before summer, one that summer, and seven his second year. Eight if you want to count SSGS and SSBI as different missions (I go back and forth as to whether or not I do). It's so funny. Please give poor Ben a break.
And yes! Ben is actually so much more competent than people seem to give him credit for sometimes. It's just that his skill set tends to be less flashy and useful in battle scenes, but he's very much the chess master of the group. He's the one planning and strategizing, and all the karate moves in the world aren't going to do you any good if you can't actually foil the plans.
My reasoning for why I'm okay with the age gap is because the narrative treats them as equals who are more or less in the same place in life. Like, yes she's two classes ahead of him, but for all intents and purposes, they're teamed up together constantly with others in Ben's class and I think Erica is the only one we really know about in her class (can't remember Chip's age, but he might be? idk, doesn't really matter). It's never dwelt on, and it bothers me when people try to make a deal about it! Like, they're not going to be in the same place in their lives forever. It's high school. Almost no one marries the person they dated in high school. I've long held that they'd break up sometimes after Erica graduates and starts her adult life while Ben is still in school (or something similar depending on how Mr. Gibbs decides to do things moving forward).
#anyway my own personal conspiracy theory#is that between SSAS and SSPX the CIA contacted mr. gibbs#and told him to stop writing stories where the government was covering things up#and also to make conspiracy theorists seem crazy#because whether or not you believe in actual conspiracy theories#you *cannot* deny that in the context of the Spy School universe#they are correct that the government is lying to them#because that's the only reason i could come up with why someone who's invested so much time writing a series#would mess it up so royally#and there's an out of universe reason why the school got blown up#(it's because it's hard to market a middle grade series where the characters are in high school)#(and don't say Harry Potter middle grade didn't exist as a marketing demographic back then so JK had more freedom in a lot of regards)#so i don't see why there couldn't be an out of universe explanation for the other stuff#especially because several authors *have* gotten contacted by the government when they guessed something a little too close to the truth#but anyway#enough of my crazy#it's how i cope with the book being *so bad*#and that's the stuff i can explain away#unlike Erica's characterization in that book#spy school#ginger answers#erica hale#ben ripley#anyway if you want to send me more asks i would absolutely love that#i've been missing talking about it and the tag has been *so dead* and hardly anyone comments on my ao3 stuff
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@drawfee thank you for very fun streams!
Part one • Part 2 • Part 3
#drawfee#spy x family#based on their book cover!! this was so fun#though the gun was SO HARD i just know the proportions are still off somehow#drawxfee
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happy ssgn (goes north) release month . soon…….
#still remember when the cover dropped and the synopsis dropped and…#ooh i remember waiting for ssr to release…years ago….the dark ages..#spy school#spy book tag
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hi guys!! I come here to finally show you a project in which I have been very excited to participate: "The lords of amber", making the cover for this spectacular novel brought by the hand of Francisco Tapia-Fuentes at @/conplumaypixel (on Instagram/Twitter)
"It is a pleasure and an honor for us to take you to explore the mysterious lands of the south, beyond the so-called Southern Kingdoms, and disembark you in the sordid port of the city of Tadenang, the maritime pearl of the Jet Coast. There we will tell you heroic sword and sorcery adventures, replete with street killers, pirates and sorcerers, all seen through the eyes of a strange anti-hero named Neram Kotep, a fellow with a dark past and an uncertain future." (extracted from the ConPlumayPixel website) It has been quite a challenge to draw a city as big as Tadenang, but I am very happy with the result 💜 You can find it right away in your nearest bookstore!
#im so sorry im so inactive i was so busy and now im left with a big artblock wkfhskfj#please look at this at least it took blood sweat and tears#my art#book cover#background art#ninja#spy#artists on tumblr#digital art
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venn diagram of fictional teenagers who underwent age-inappropriate training
#s&d tier#max remy superspy#alex rider#i don't expect anyone here to have read max remy but cha boy cola (spy wannabe) was all over that shit at age 12#if you know anything about me and anything about Max it's extremely obvious why#fun fact: when i first started drawing i actually copied the art style of the OG Max Remy covers#anyway all I'm saying is that I already had a mental little universe where Max and Alex were friends. just adding one more to the lineup#don't bother reading Max Remy unless you're into children's books but book 6 got me HARD#my art
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the briars are such a fucked up family i love them sm
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Day 2: JOMPBPC: Currently Reading
#justonemorepage#jompbpc#currently reading#ming & marie#spy for freedom#jackie french#beautiful book#beautiful cover#amazing author#pretty flowers#rose nylund#i love books
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Newest installment of "Fanny takes writing fanfiction way too seriously": me researching an early 1900s Japanese mystery writer to try to find a book whose cover matches what I want for this scene & whose content will drive a central component of these childrens' lives
This is going about as well as you'd expect.
#speculation nation#transAction shit#i need goro to be reading one of edogawa ranpo's mystery books. so akira can spy the 'akechi kogoro' and be inspired#i ALSO would like to find one of these books that has kogoro on the cover. looking like a handsome man. for reasons.#but it's actually really difficult to find a list of the books With covers#unfortunately i might have to go thru the wikipedia list of books & google each one to find a cover that fits my purposes...#oh the lengths i go to make things as realistic as fucking possible for my fanfiction...
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killers of a certain age | deanna raybourn | 2022
billie, helen, mary alice, and natalie are retiring after 40 years at the Museum - a extra-governmental agency formed after WWII to go after (and kill) escaped nazis. for their retirement, they are sent on an all-expenses-paid cruise and things go sideways when they clock one of the Museum’s own targeting them. the Museum has put a kill order out on them with a bounty and now they need to figure out who is after them and why - all while dealing with menopause.
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this book was fun! i always feel like with spy/assassin books that i need to suspend my disbelief just a smidge more than to i do for other books and this one was no exception. my mind just can’t wrap itself around the resources and logistics needed to successfully pull off any of these missions. so that’s my own brain getting in the way for me, but i consciously set that part of my brain aside and really just focused on the characters for this one. the plot was fine and entertaining - it hit all the spy/international-agent-of-intrigue marks.
this book uses a device that always sticks out to me as a device and like... not a free flowing narrative. there are some flashback chapters that help flush out some of the characters, but their placement is obvious. like they get to a point where they decide to kill these three dudes who they’ve work with for the past 40 years. so there is a flashback chapter featuring this dude and giving him unique characteristics that the women will exploit in the next chapter to kill him. i don’t think this takes away from the book at all, but i was definitely reading those chapters hunting for clues as to how they’ll use that info to kill him. the author, to her credit, doesn’t really handhold you through that leap at the start of the next chapter all that often, but it’s still something that i noticed.
what were the standout points for me in this book were the characters, the focus on women, and the art historical references throughout.
CHARACTERS:
while the book is focused mainly on billie, helen, mary alice, and natalie; billie is definitely the protagonist/main character. the book’s chapters are delineated by flashbacks that are told in 3rd person and present day written in 1st person from billie’s pov. i think billie was the natural choice for the narrator since she is kinda the most neutral? the other women are really Characters ™ with nat being a locksmith horndog, helen being a women struggling with grief for her late husband, and mary alice is dealing with her marriage. you could have maybe done from mary alice’s pov, but then you would have had to make her wife and their problems a bit more center stage and i don't think billie would have popped on the page if we hadn’t been inside her mind. billie is the one who got good at her job because she enjoyed it. she didn’t have the marriage like helen or mary alice and she didn’t seem all that interested in other people the way nat was. she dedicated herself to the job and was happy with that. it did mean that she eschewed a romance early on in career with another field agent, but this man (taverner) does make an appearance and you are lead to believe that they’ll rekindle their romance. i liked this pairing because they didn’t try to change for one another. they respected what the other wanted in life and chose what was best for them. and now they are at a time in their lives where what they want is the same. it’s kind of a love-at-first-sight thing going on but i think that works for what this is and the pages you want devoted to it.
the men are suitably vile and chauvinistic without it being cartoonish - a believable dickishness. the only redeemable one is taverner. martin starts off being a meek, computer geek who the women have a soft spot for and (they think) vice versa. but he turns out to be the instigator for everything after trying to launch a coup. i feel like i’ve been seeing this trend a lot with authors setting up with these men that position themselves as meek and mild to women only for that to be a guise for their manipulation and exploitation of them later. that’s not something for which i had to suspend my disbelief.
and it’s not just old women featured here, you’ve got minka (an ukrainian under billie’s wing and a tech wiz/app developer) who’s probably early 20s and naomi (a Museum agent) who’s in her mid-30s and pregnant with baby #3. my favorite parts of this book were when all of the women were interacting together. it was fun when they were killing the men together but also when they were just sitting around and talking. i find women fascinating so that helps lol.
ART HISTORICAL FOCUS:
the Museum was founded, in part, by some of the monuments men in WWII - this was a group that was dedicated to finding and safekeeping artworks stolen by the nazis. the Museum made it one of its missions to find and repatriate artworks back to the people they were stolen from. if that family can’t be identified or no living descendants remain, then the Museum retains it.
the painting at the center of this book is The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by sofonisba anguissola. i studied anguissola in one of my classes in graduate school so i was delighted to see her name being mentioned! she’s one of the few female painters known to us from the renaissance era. she became a court painter and she is mainly known for portraits. her most famous being that of her sisters playing a game of chess. however, this painting is fictional. the author describes it so well that i want it to be real, but alas it is not. and.... not to go all art historian.... the subject matter is a little out of left field for anguissola. maybe she makes that point in the book and i can’t remember, but anguissola was more of a portrait painter of courtly lords and ladies and less of a biblical scene painter as described in the book. i’ll forgive because it’s whatever but it really just feels like who she really wanted was an artemisia gentileschi painting with a name that was more insider baseball.
tl;dr: killer old ladies from (mostly) the united states stick it to the man (a few of them, in fact)
#killers of a certain age#deanna raybourn#book review#book club#spy novel#long post#i actually made my own header image this time lol#well i edited the existing cover#i added the blood at the tip of the knife#and extended her arm
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Alfred's Boy Part 5
@donesodone said:
I just wanted to know. Is there a continuation of Alfred's Boy in the Works? If not, that's fine. I just love it and want to see it continue.
Bruce didn't realize how quiet Danny indeed was until Wes appeared. He suspected, of course, that no child was removed from their home by a super secret ex-spy if it wasn't a terrible, horrible reason, but still, he was shocked to see the difference.
Alfred's foster son had a weight around him, wearing his sadness like a depressing cloak. It was apparent that Danny was just tired. As if though he hadn't gotten a good night's rest in a long time, even when he was moving about and doing his chores like nothing was amiss.
Bruce will admit that he hadn't realized that Danny was so sad. He had no previous reference to compare him to, so he assumed that the boy was naturally reserved.
If he's honest, he also thought it was impressive how Danny could take anything in stride without so much as a blink.
Finding out his boss was Batman? Another Tuesday.
Tim's photo album of him? Danny appreciates the art behind photography.
Damian burst into his room, covered in bleeding wounds, he just had to have Danny bind? He took lessons from Alfred and appreciated the change to practice.
What he failed to realize was through all those events, Danny had had a lukewarm reaction, as if he had forgotten how to enjoy things.
Now, however, watching him with Wes, he realizes that Danny is naturally bubbly. He smiled wide, talked a lot with his hands, and while the same sass he had seen before was still there, there was more ease in him wielding it.
"Fun Fact: Tango was initially invented to be done between two men, " He hears Wes say, as Bruce walks by the viewing room the two boys were in.
Unable to help himself, Bruce peeks into the room, fighting the urge to lecture Danny. The reason for the lecture is that Danny is currently sitting in Wes's lap, his back to Wes' chest, and both are staring at the book "Useless Information" in Wes' hands.
Not dating his ass.
"So what you're saying is: Tango is gay," Danny affirms, cuddling into the blankets tucked around him, and leaning further into Wes. "The dance of our people."
Wes hums, "If only we could dance."
"Boys." He calls because he really wants to step between them, but Bruce is already doing that against his kids, and he is done being the civilian in Jason's novels. "Would either of you like to go to an opera tonight? I have some box seat tickets a close friend gave me, but I had other plans and didn't want them to go to waste."
Bruce didn't, but a little white lie wouldn't hurt anyone. He could easily buy them before the kids got to the opera house.
Wes's eyes practically sparkled. Bruce knew they would; he heard Wes play some songs from three famous operas the other day while Danny was showering. "Opera with box seats!? I love to go!"
Danny grimaces, clearly not that big of a fan. "Now look what you did, Master Bruce."
"Please, can we go, Danny?" Wes whines, "I'll let you haunt me if we go."
Danny cracks a smile, and Bruce is stunned by its softness. Had he not noticed how empty Danny's smiles have been until now? "Okay, Okay, we can go. But if I fall asleep you can't complain."
"How could anyone fall asleep at the Opra?"
"Easy. It's boring." Steph snips, leaning on the door frame. Bruce hadn't realized she was there. He frowned in her direction, not missing how Wes rolled his eyes.
"Hello, green-eyed monster. How are you this evening?" He said, making Steph eyes narrow. Danny was swinging his head between them, looking confused, but before he could ask, Wes continued, "Want to go with us? Danny needs more people to cuddle, and my visit has an expiration date."
Steph looks taken back, but her whole face breaks into the largest smile Bruce has ever seen on her face in a while when Danny nods, seemingly embarrassed. "It would be nice to have more cuddles. I, ugh, realized I was going too long without them."
Hmm, that's the fifth time the two have mentioned cuddling since yesterday. Bruce knows he ignored Wes's entrance when he got here yesterday, but maybe he should look into it.
If Alfred allowed, of course.
"I'll go get ready!" Steph shouts, racing down the hall. There is a brief pause before a loud "Hey, watch it!" and quick, distant "Sorry, Jason!"
His second oldest stridden into the room, grumbling at the giant front stain on his shirt. A half-empty cup in his hand lets Bruce know Steph bumped into him, making him spill his precious soda.
"Can't get any peace around here," Jason mumbles.
"I can clean that for you, Master Jason." Danny is quick to say, standing up from his seat. Wes lifts his arm to let Danny wiggle out of his grasp, but Jason only shakes his head.
"Nah, it's fine, kid." With one hand, Jason yanks the shirt over his head. Wes drops his book, and Danny's face goes very red. Bruce has a moment of utter horror, but Jason doesn't seem to notice, throwing the ruined shirt over his shoulder. "I was going to shower after some reading anyway. What are you crazy kids up to?"
"O-Oprea," Danny shutters, staring up at Jason with strange emotion in his eyes. Wes looks like a deer caught in headlights beside him.
Jason's face brightens. "No way! I love the opera."
"You do?" We gasped.
"Yeah, though, I'm more of a play guy myself. I love the theater. Once a drama kid always a drama kid." Jason winks and, oh no, Wes looks to be swooning. What's worse, Danny seems to be swooning too.
"Want to come with?" Wes blurts, and Jason considers the invitation carefully before shrugging.
"You know what? Yeah, I love to. Let me go take my shower then get ready. It's at what time?"
"Seven," Bruce answers, stepping in when both boys seem unable to get their tongues to work. Jason nods, and then a wicked smirk grows on his face.
Bruce is instantly weary.
"Let's make this a family event. You guys don't mind, right?" Jason turns back to the boys, shaking their heads like bobble figures.
"The more, the merrier, Master Jason."
"Perfect" Quick as a whip, Jason pulls out his phone and sends a quick message. He leaves the room, but not before calling over his shoulder "I'll meet you in the main doorway at six-thirty."
Bruce's phone buzzes. He pulls it out, reading the message: Hey losers, Danny wants to see the Oprea. The really romantic one. Do any of you want to join us?
He feels a headache coming on. Especially with Wes and Danny looking at each other with shocked open mouths, looking like they were wordlessly expressing how attractive they thought Jason was.
Tim comes sprinting down the hall. Bruce is unsure what he is doing, seeing as his hair is wrapped in a towel, but he is wearing half of a chicken costume as he runs by. "I want to go, I want to go, I want to go! Don't leave without me!"
Wes squints at the open door hallway before laughing that strange, impish laugh of his. "This place is a riot."
Danny pauses before that same soft smile blooms on his face, and Bruce's heart melts. "Yeah, I like Wayne Manor too."
Maybe Danny isn't as happy as before, but maybe one day he will be. Bruce would be content with that.
#dcxdpdabbles#dc x dp crossover#Alfred's boy#Part 5#Danny has a medical condition where he needs cuddles#Wes has been in Wayne manor for fourteen hours and is tearing them apart#Jason is HOT and the Amity people know it#Bruce isn't sure if Wes and Danny are a thing#Nothing makes sense at Wayne manor#You bet all of Danny's wanna be sutiors are getting dressed to the nines for opra
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