#tf2 spy zine

[vacueye]

looking through old tf2 stuff again + felt like reuploading some of my favorite (mostly spy) art throughout the years

[bob-mirum]

well I have nothing to say

spah

[myxineye]

little crop of a zine piece wip, looking thru my tf2 stuff for this year and realizing how much of it is just spy + double agent 😭😭

[capetillar]

A picture I made for mine and @pavlova0000 ‘s zine! Here is the zine by the way! @tf2supportzine

[yeehawpim]

some spy oc doodles as I screem at larger projects in the works

[redkehlchen]

I can‘t believe I made this to motivate myself to actually work on an animatic… and now it‘s been over a year… 🫠

[tf2spyzine]

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for all of your support throughout the course of this project. A few weeks ago, I (Mod Ren) made our donation to Le Refuge, a grand total of 2,889 Euros, or at the time of conversion, over $3000 USD. Below are the receipts, with my personal information blacked out.

Again, I and the rest of the mod team want to extend our gratitude to everybody who supported us, whether it was contributing your work to the zine, reblogging our posts, or buying our items. It's thanks to everyone's help that we were able to make such a big donation to Le Refuge!

This project is now completed! If you would like to support our contributors, please view our contributor list here. A few of them will be posting their spyzine works as their own merch, so if you missed out, you might still be able to nab something from them!

Wishing everyone a happy new year and a better 2023,

The mods of INTRUDER ALERT! A TF2 Spy Zine

[moonisagremlin]

okay, so i'm re-reading ALL of the TF2 comics for my little zine project, and i have discovered interesting things and silly things.

starting with the WAR! update comic:

-The Bitch connects her microphone to different speakers to talk to both RED and BLU team.

-Meet the Spy is canon in the comics.

-The Bitch can read people pretty well i guess.

-The BLU soldier and the RED demo are besties. They met at a projectile weapons expo. They knew eachother for six months before the WAR! comic.

-The Bitch doesn't have any friends (whomp whomp).

-The Bitch: "In my experience, Miss Pauling, nothing kills a friendship faster... than a healthy competition."

-Saxton Hale is... just. like. that.

-Wait, did the first design of Bidwell have a moustache?

-Saxton FUCKS. (With The Bitch. What the fuck.) ((he also tries flirting with Miss Pauling.))

-monke lore:

poopy joe was an american monkeynaut that sadly passed away in a tragic explosion that occurred moments later after the launch. mann.co was involved in this accident but they keep denying it for legal reasons (during the comic they're going to be under senate investigation soon, and it seems that they were in BIG TROUBLE, so Helen asking for weapons was actually a great way for them to dispose of those weapons involved in the accident).

-(RED) Demoman lives in a mansion in New Mexico with his mum.

-He only has one morning off a week.

-He has three jobs

-His mum is quite mad at him because his dad (rip) had 26 jobs (and somehow managed to be with his family)

-He makes 5 million dollars a year (with the current inflation that would be around- 48,980,957.43$ ????? WHAT??????)

-Demo is halfway to retirement, around his 30's

-He was raised in a home with a bad economic situation :c

-His dad killed the (obviously not real) Queen of England

-The mum misses demo's father :(

-The Eyelander is a haunted, pattern-welded damascus steel and harmonically balanced sword slowly-forged for generations in the bowels of captured english kings

-Not only did Miss Pauling gave him The Eyelander, also multiple cases with weapons that we see in-game (the scottish resistance, for example)

-Miss Pauling calls him Mister DeGroot, which is kinda weird considering they're coworkers and know eachother, but i guess that during this time they weren't really close because demo only knew her as "that wee lass that works with the angry lady who's always screamin' at us while we fight".

-BLU soldier lives in a really secured appartment with lots of locks in his door. He also has two little doors in which he can take his arms outside to necksnap people.

-He lives miserably. He doesn't let ANYONE enter his house. Only the tomato soup wholesaler or the delivery man from the rib place.

-He has BOXES filled with cans of food, so he's house really looks like a fucking bunker.

-They both fought the police together???? Friendship goals honestly.

-Neither Demo and Soldier wanted to fight eachother, they did it to defend themselves from the other one. Demo was made sure that Soldier betrayed him first, and Soldier was manipulated into believing that his best friend said he was a civilian thanks to a poorly-made robotic voice of Tavish. This all led to both of them fighting eachother for their own safety.

[doctorassistedzine]

CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT - FLAPDOODLEZ (he/him)

Tumblr: @flapdoodlez | Twitter: @ flapdoodlez | Instagram: @ flapdoodlez

Q: What brings you in to the office?

Hiya! I'm Flapjack :) I'm an artist and hopelessly addicted to making fanart and playing tf2. I think the one merc I've coincidentally ended up drawing the most actually has been Medic! Happy to be included again after the Spy Zine! :D

Be sure to mark your calendars! Preorders open August 25th 🕊️

[amazing-spiderling]

For the fic writer asks,

🌿how does creating make you feel?

💝what is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

💥find your least kudos'd fic - say something wonderful about it.

🧿what steps do you take to not take things personally if a fic doesn't do well, or if your writing/posting/sharing experience isn't going how you'd like it to?

<3

🌿how does creating make you feel?

Ahh... wow... well, sometimes during, a little stressed, ngl. That's probably why I enjoy working on projects with friends and sharing things so much- having someone to bounce ideas off of and work with helps take some of the pressure off, but I also don't want to let them down, so it keeps me engaged even when things get challenging. Then after a project gets shared/posted, there's an immediate sense of relief- like whew! I can take it easy for a day. (Or the, "nobody ever ask me for anything ever again" feeling haha). And over time, that relief turns to satisfaction, especially as I look back after a long time and thing, "Wow, yeah. I did that."

💝what is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

I wrote a fic for a recent Metal Gear Solid zine called, "Dance Like You Want to Win", (an Evangelion reference I've been dying to use in an MGS fic for years). It was based on an idea I had for a story that was over a decade old, and I actually found part of my original draft collecting dust in the bottom of my google docs. I hadn't written for the fandom in a LONG time, and I was really worried about my characterization, the world-building, and having to write *action* scenes in a mission fic, neither of which are my forte. I was really worried people were going to read it and think I'd lost my touch.

But in the end, people liked it! I actually got compliments on the banter and overall, way more love than I was expecting, even some comments when I finally posted it to AO3. It felt like old times, and that really warmed my heart. <3

💥find your least kudos'd fic - say something wonderful about it.

The story in question is "Kind of Cool" which is a mashup of sorts of two webcomics by Kieran Thompson, "This is the Worst Idea You've Ever Had" and "Cuanta Vida" which was a TF2 fancomic. I had to read over it, because I'd forgotten what it was about, honestly. XD

The TLDR is that two characters in TITWIYEH (a modern magic story) had a few familiar faces from Cuanta Vida (with names! and much happier fates), so I had two characters discussing their non-serious theory that linguistics professor Jordi Betrand was actually a French spy- the joke being that the man is so softspoken and gentle, he's clearly nothing of the sort. I did get a chuckle from myself at this

The young man shook his head again, running weary fingers through his shaggy blonde hair. "Nicole, Professor Jordi Bertrand has got to be the most unassuming and boring man on the entire planet. I doubt he's ever experienced anything more exciting than a birthday party in his entire life- and not even a surprise party! Like a regular one with invitations where everyone knows when and where to go."

A lot of the humor in this fic is reliant on people having read both comics... which explains why it has a whopping 2 kudos, but even after a decade, the easter eggs are still pinging in my brain, so I guess that means I hid some good ones. XD

🧿what steps do you take to not take things personally if a fic doesn't do well, or if your writing/posting/sharing experience isn't going how you'd like it to?

Oh, gosh. Hm. Sometimes, I'm a big believer in "being the change you want to see in the world" when it comes to fandom and creative works. If you can't find the thing you want, make it- and that includes your own hype. If I want a story to get a little more attention, I might do some artwork for it (or commission some if I'm able) to hopefully pique people's interest. I might also do stuff like record podfics or something. But usually, the "next step" is to just move on to the next project and hope it gets a warmer reception.

I've found that trying to work too hard to cater to other people's wants just to get the reception I want doesn't always go to plan- or worse, I might get lots of comments and kudos, but it feels hollow because I feel like I'm being told, "you're really good at knowing what we will like" instead of "you are really good at writing and expressing this idea"- so over time, I've gotten a lot more comfortable making things for me. That way I'm guaranteed at least one person will like it, in the end. And even my "weird" fics are eventually found by people who appreciate them- and that really means a lot.

[tf2heritageposts]

if you want to do a collaborative project, you should talk to the dont need a dispenser group! they are a group for fanmade tf2 projects, like the spy zine, tf2 big band and secret saxton! you can find them on tumblr on @dontneedadispenser (same on twitter!)

uhhhhhh we’re actually banned from their server so i don’t think they’d be willing

[vacueye]

quick sketch i need to draw them more o-(-(

[myxineye]

just running a general interest check, would ppl be interested in a small artbook / zine of my spy and double agent art :0?

got a small mockup of the cover here, but im debating if i should print out a few for myself or if i should get some extras to sell!

EDIT: i think ill also include other mercs + characters, but it'll primarily be of the spies since i draw them most :0

[owmyartbones]

I made a submission for the @tf2spyzine - Which is now having leftover sales!  If you want this unlucky bastard IN PRINT, head over to https://tf2spyzine.bigcartel.com/ RIGHT NOW

[svengalia]

my contribution to Intruder Alert! @tf2spyzine

leftover sales are still on until December 19th !

[snarfle]

My postcard print for @tf2spyzine 💙

We now have some leftovers available so head over to the store to get yourself this wonderful zine!

I had so much fun creating my piece and I’m so proud to be a part of this project >:D