#spiesiversary

[smytherines]

happy tenth spiesiversary <3

Mary Kate Wiles x | x Spies Are Forever digital download

[hectarehollyhock]

happy 10 years to spies are forever, the reason i jump up like an excited dog ready to mansplain away whenever someone mentions the lavender scare in my vicinity 🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🎊🎈 turning people's fascination with the cold war from a red flag to a pride flag since 2016

[smytherines]

tried my hand at intarsia for the first time to celebrate spies day!

details below

I did trace their faces off of a screenshot from the staircase scene, because doing intarsia portraiture you need to be able to instantly recognize the profile, and I'm not that good of an artist

Owen is cut from granadillo (hair), birch (skin), and purpleheart (jacket)

Curt is cut from wenge (hair and jacket), hard maple (skin), and padauk (red patch)

They are both finished with Odies oil

The lettering is reclaimed wood from a white oak drawer side, and the (totally obliterated) dresser it came from had a maker's mark of 1956, so that's a fun little piece of history!

The pieces were cut with a scroll saw, and fixed to a 12x12 baltic birch backer. I used Krylon clear glaze on the lettering and the backer, but the pictures are laughably bad at capturing how sparkly and shiny it is in person

[smytherines]

Happy Spies Day!!

[smytherines]

do you think they ever imagined that this show would be so beloved? that ten years later there would still be an active fanbase creating art and fics and edits, writing theory posts and making gifs?

spies are forever you are so precious to us

[smytherines]

ten years of spiesss

[smytherines]

It's hard to put into words what Spies are Forever has meant to me. Before I got into this show, I hadn't written anything seriously in years. I had totally lost the love I had for writing, wrote it off as impossible due to the adhd. But I've written tens of thousands of words (probably much more than that, if I'm honest) about this show, either via theory posts or fanfiction

This show inspired me to start teaching myself art, to learn to make gifs and edits. It's inspired me at woodworking, when the creative joy of that had sorta died out for me too

While saf makes me almost unbearably sad sometimes, it also brings me a huge amount of joy. It's given me a community full of funny, creative, insightful people to share this interest with

I'm grateful to every wonderfully talented person who made this show happen, to the people who funded it, and to the people who kept this fandom alive before me

Happy spies day 💜

[smytherines]