#book x pencil

[emiliapuffs]

More (rambling) on Pencil and Book's Parallelisms + TPOT 15...

If you hadn't seen my other post on about Book and Pencil, please check it out!

Before getting into this post, I just want to say that TPOT 15 was good! I really liked it, especially the talk with Pencil…which is something I want to talk about and how I think it can oddly connect to Book, in some way. 

I specifically want to talk about the line of Pencil saying “Now…now everyone I knew is trusted is gone. And the people I do know won’t even talk to me”.

I find this line having some connections to how Book was like during her time in TPOT before episode 10. 

In TPOT 10, it is revealed from Pillow that Book’s nightmare was about being alone.

We get pieces of dialogue of how Book lost most of her friends, her having baggage with the people around her, pushing her friends away, and not sure where to go on from there.

I feel like this is something Pencil is dealing with right now. 

Pencil is on a team (CloudYAY) where she’s not even familiar or/and doesn’t get along with. 

Her friends are all gone (not with her) and the people who she considers friends don’t want to talk to her. 

I think also how Book pushed her friends away can be like how Pencil, unintentionally, pushed her alliance as well. 

I also want to mention, as well, how they deal with their teammates in TPOT quite differently as well.

I’ll just send my discord messages about the contrast between Book and Pencil dealing with their team in TPOT (it’s a bit messy, please forgive me): 

These two seem to have a connection, an understanding on how it feels like pushing away your teammates and the effects it can cause thanks to that.

While Book seems to try to move on from her past by trying to be a better person to others and herself.

Pencil is stuck in the past. Thinking that maybe changing her past will help improve her future.

(Feel free to discuss with me about this + I’m still hoping for these two to interact in the future + Book to be safe as well!)

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the people yearn for toxic butchfemme yuri

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some fankids

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

"I once considered him the center of my life, the sun in my galaxy."

I'm so so happy and excited to share this! It's the billford illustration I crunched really hard to finish before the con last week! I had a fantastic time selling these at my table, and I'm really pumped to have this print on my online store, so I can share it with EVERYONE! Not to mention! I printed it with my fancy new photo printer, so I'm extra happy with how it turned out.

Here's my store! And... my patrons voted for their favorite thumbnail when I was planning this illustration. They chose this design! They also got to see wips as I went. Here's my patreon too!

Uncolored version, sketch, and thumbnails under the cut:

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I FORGOT I NEVER POSTED THE SWAP AU POSTER HERE MY BAD

some roles are changed since the last time I drew this au :] hope youuu like!

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Jude and Cardan

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billford

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more circus nightcrawler 🏹 he's fun to draw and i feel like i'm being productive practicing weird poses 🕺

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MOOD BOARD TIMEEEEEEE

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[vertigoartgore]

2002's Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do Vol.1 #2 cover by Terry & Rachel Dodson. Source

[emiliapuffs]

TPOT BOOK AND PENCIL'S DYNAMIC - OBSERVATIONS/ANAYSIS + POTENTIAL IDEAS..

Now, before TPOT 15 release…I wanna make a quick rundown about Book and Pencil in TPOT + make a crazy statement.. and say Book may play a big role in Pencil’s arc (about the alliance).

I feel like some will say I’m just tweaking, but I’ll bring evidence and do my best to explain that’ll back up what I’m saying.

Here’s the first:

I think what makes this scene interesting to me is that all of these characters, who said the lines, were affected by a CloudYAY member they mentioned. Price Tag has been murdered by Pillow. Ice Cube’s legs were stolen from Yellow Face. But Book? Book’s the only one who doesn’t give an example on what Pencil has done to her. She could've been more descriptive about it, saying that Pencil’s forcing her and Ice Cube to join her alliance. But no, Book just makes a vague comment about how she’s “sick of Pencil” without giving any examples as to why she is.

I know Fanny made a comment on how she’s sick of “bossy-bot Golf Ball” but that seems to be more of a general statement that’s being said throughout the show and not much of a personal problem compared to the other three. With the idea in mind of how the three Team Two members said something that is related to some personal issue they have with one of the CloudYAY members, this brings up the point as to why I believe Book may play a big role in Pencil’s arc.

I also wanna give a quick runthrough of Book and Pencil’s relationship for my next point: we know that these two were in Freesmart around BFDIA and IDFB until the first episode of BFB where Book was the one who told Pencil that the team wasn’t healthy for her [Book] and Ice Cube.

But during the alliance, Pencil was considered to be one of Book’s best friends until something happened that caused a shift towards Book’s friendship with Pencil (and seemingly Freesmart?).

Ever since Book and Ice Cube leaving, the two didn’t have any forms of contact/interaction until TPOT when Pencil joined in Episode 13.

During the challenge, Book initiates a conversation with Ice Cube about Pencil.

She makes a comment on wondering if Pencil has “changed” and was about to ask another question until she slipped.

Book doesn't seem at all hostile or annoyed about Pencil joining, but rather she says it in a more lighthearted, curious tone. With how she sounded and the question about Pencil joining makes me wonder that Book is perhaps reconsidering Pencil as a person. Book, in the past, had commented on how she felt mistreated during her time in Freesmart, and with some screenshots I’ll show is Pencil making comments or doing stuff to Book in BFDIA.

Looking in Book’s shoes, imagine the one person that mistreated you, to be all of a sudden excited to see you and wanting you to form a cross-team alliance with once you see her again from many years must’ve felt odd and not in-character to how Pencil acted before towards her. So I can see why Book had made that comment about Pencil possibly changing. I could even say that comment could hint onto the fact that Book’s willing to perhaps be friends (or be on better terms) with Pencil afterwards. Let’s bring the fact back that Book considered Pencil to be one of her “best friends” back in BFDIA (and probably in IDFB for a while). The two have known each other for a while and Book is shown to value Pencil as a friend during her [Book’s] time with Pencil A LOT.

In BFDIA 9, Book was willing to go first after hearing Pencil not wanting to go first.

In BFDIA 11, she gets pissed at Coiny when he used Pencil to write onto Book.

In BFDIA 14, Book literally was the one helping Pencil when Evil Leafy almost got her [Pencil].

In BFDIA 15, Book says she's not willing to steal from Pencil and there was the picture I showed earlier with the page that shows her 'besties' (including Pencil).

And in IDFB 1, Book saved Pencil after she fell down the tower.

So with the context of their relationship in the past and that exchange I talked about earlier with Book and Ice Cube, I don’t think that Book wanting to be friends with Pencil (perhaps) is out of the picture. They both had a friendship with each other and seeing that Pencil, who didn’t treat Book well at times, is seemingly interested in her would make sense if Book is reconsidering her friendship with Pencil.

Now I know in episode 14, I showed first about Book being sick of Pencil, but we see that earlier in the episode of some small details I took note of.

After Price Tag drags Book and Ice Cube out of the clubhouse, Book’s shown looking back at it.

After that scene, we ONLY see Book’s reaction and her turning to see what’s going on.

Some may think I’m cornplating or the last evidence was just because the animator didn’t want to add Ice Cube. While I could maybe see where people are going with the last part, I just wanna say that with the evidence I’ve provided above, I doubt it’s just coincidence or just a choice they made “cause why not?”. Also, the scenes (and some of the evidence on TPOT I said above) had at least been planned, storyboarded, and animated with the higher ups in the JNJ team's approval to let those choices into the final product.

I also want to comment on people that might think that saying Book playing a big role in Pencil’s arc undermines Ice Cube playing a part in this as well since Pencil is also shown making Ice Cube join her alliance as well. While I can say that Ice Cube does play a role in this and has history with Pencil (I mean, she knew her way before Book did), I personally don’t see some things aligning to what I believe Book thinks or believes about Pencil. In my opinion, Ice Cube seems to be bitter and indifferent with Pencil’s appearance.

She got mad with the mention of Pencil in TPOT 1.

Was the one to drag Book out of Pencil talking to her about a cross-team alliance.

In TPOT 13, she didn’t start the conversation [with Book] or insight into what she thinks of Pencil joining.

In TPOT 14, she didn’t look back after both her and Book were dragged out of the clubhouse.

Ignoring Pencil’s comment on “Grassy’s ugly face”.

And, it’s funny too, being petty and showing Pencil her “ugly face”.

Also, I feel like Book seems to be closer to Pencil than Ice Cube ever was [with Pencil]. Which brings more of a point to why I believe Book will play a huge role in Pencil’s arc.

However, I’m willing to hear what you guys could have to say about this! This is all just for fun and shouldn’t be taken seriously. I simply found interesting observations I made while watching the show and Book + Pencil’s relationship/dynamic. I love these two a lot and I hope to see these two more in the future!

Also, briefly questioning Book's conversation, I wonder if we'll see this being played in the next episode or/and Pencil’s arc? And if so, well we maybe get a hint as to what Book might’ve said before slipping?

I’m hoping that TPOT 15 will talk about this as I’m really curious on how it’ll play with not only Pencil’s character, but Book’s + their dynamic in general.

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I bought the Spy x Family coloring book a while back, and here's one of the pages I colored in.

For the first image, I edited it by increasing the contrast (to make it look brighter and to make some details more visible.) The second image is the unedited version.

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Letters to Jude from Cardan

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gift for my dad's colleague 🐲

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Some random doodles I’ve done over my break from school