“Lessons Learned” - A personal painting I have been waiting excitedly to share for a year now 🐻✨ this was my last truly inspired to work on/complex artwork before burnout truly set in. My lovely patrons gifted me the time to make this back in Jan ‘23, just sharing publicly now.
“I wanted a thousand different things as we stood there, but most of all, I wanted the girl who had been beside me in Boston to turn and realize that I was beside her now. … “This feels like a safe house.” She finally turned to look at me. “Doesn’t it feel safe, Cam?” “Yeah, Macey,” I said softly. “It does.”
The Dr. Pepper lecture is scary as heck, but that’s not even the part that got to me. It’s not really foreshadowing either, but there are some hints to Joe’s character. The whole speech is just so riddled with emotion that you don’t really catch the first time. Joe Solomon is a scary dude–the only reason he’s not scary to us is because he stops being scary to Cammie eventually, but all in all, he’s a scary dude. Except there’s two sides to him, really. Spy and human. And Spy Joe doesn’t even come close to being as terrifying as Human Joe.
“For every ounce of anger, he’s got twice the forgiveness. He’s an intense guy, but he’ll come around. He always does.” In the end, these are the words that supply the most hope. These are the words that assure Edward Townsend that he’s not in as bad of shape as he thinks he is.
So I had to put the book down and walk around the house for a bit, because Joe Solomon does not pull any punches.
I’m not even at the Dr Pepper lecture yet (and thanks, once again, for ripping my heart out with that analysis @averagejoesolomon because wow did you hit the nail on the head with that). I literally hit the very first CoveOps lecture— “Get good, ladies. Or get dead.” —and had to stop.
Oh god. Sometimes knowing what happens to characters further down the line, and what already happened to some of the characters, really makes everything worse. (Read: exponentially more painful.)
Just reread all the books again and feeling this ^^^
You’re a supervillain who has done a number of questionably ethical things to keep your little sister safe. This is complicated by the fact that she is leading the rebel coalition against you.
ALT
