When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew
- Arrigo Boito
"I remember the first time we met. U.N.C.L.E. Germany HQ, Mr. Beldon called me to his office. You stood there, with this cocky smile of yours that was so common on your face then (hah, maybe that's the reason why you were getting beaten up more often back in the day). But for a moment, when you turned to me, your face changed. You hid this emotion so fast, I barely caught it. I think I read it as a simple surprise at first, but later I saw it again - when you looked at some incredibly charming woman. Just a blink of an eye. But I started to wonder..."
A few things to say
The quote is oftenly ascribed to William Shakespeare, which would fit so nice for reasons, buuuut it actually belongs to Arrigo Boito. You can read more here.
Huge sponsor of my change of mind on the "who fell in love first" topic was THIS. Yes one video was enough. Thanks, Robert.
Ah and a few wips bc I suddenly found it interesting to show the way things changed in the process. I have an explanation for every change and that's kinda satisfying ahah.
P.S. I wish writing a background, unimportant text didn't take me an entire evening and another one for second thoughts. But I always doubt my english lol... and then in the end it all was hidden or cut out
... Ok I have nothing to say for myself. Take my silly sketches of this hip new show I've been whatching khkglflfolf (blaming my friend for getting me invested in 60s spy shows)
Anyway, Illya Kuryakin my beloved
I must say I was not expecting 'Men getting pegged' to be a central theme
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Thanks for coming to my 'the man from U.N.C.L.E' best of (from what I've seen)
PS : We've been selectioning episodes to whatch from Tumblr, so if you want to tell me your favorite episode(s) that would be great ! (Yes we're running out of recommandation posts-)
Napoleon looks at Illya with SO MUCH LOVE AND PRIDE in this clip 😭😭😭😭😭😍😍😍😍😍 And tack on the tease at the end and you've got yourself a couple who have been married for 25 years 😆
Obsessed with how obvious it is that this woman just wanted to shoot her shot with the agency slut but instead ended up third-wheeling to Napoleon and Illya’s gay little secretary role play <3
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I love these two glhohkgkgjgk the silly 60s spies are cute ok ;; (and there is something about an american man and a russian man romancing each other during the cold war-)
Process (+ a long ass rant about what they are eating (with pics)) below vvv
For this one I wanted to challenge myself by drawing something that's really challenging for me : food ! It's really hard for me to make it look appetizing- I don't really like eating, and I don't usually bother to cook (why cook when I could just grab a baguette, a piece of cheese that could kill an american on sight, and combine the two to create easely one of the top 5 dish france has to offer ?), so I really struggle with making it look good lgkglflfofi but I'm very happy with how it turned out !!!
Welcome to my long ass rent on a very specific type of french food :
So the plan for this was always to have them eat at a french restaurant, but I could not resist doing something really personal and extremely specific to my hometown- so they are eating in Nice ! And Nissart cuisine is very different from the rest of France. Why ? Quick history (I swear this has something to do with food), Nice was a very late addition to France, only becoming french in 1860, before that point it was part of the kingdom of Sardinia (so not Italian, but pretty close). It mostly translate to it having it's own dead language "Niçois" (a derivation of "Provençal", the old french language of the south), it's own anthem "Nissa la bella" and a very distinct cuisine.
So what are they eating ? First, you'll notice they have a little plate of Pissaladière ! It's flatbread with caramelized onions, anchovy (this is a crucial part of the dish, if you exclude them your just eating onion pie (/neg)), and black olive (btw I checked the english wikipedia page for pissaladière- it's so shit omg nooo)
It's commonly free in restaurants, and served while you wait for your order (not all restaurants do that, but it's always so nice when they do fkfjkf). It's a pain in the ass to make, and all the ones you buy in boulangeries or stores are dogshit-
Ok for the actual dishes (It was hard to find something that would go well with red wine kgkgfjlfk because that means no fish-) ! Napoleon is eating roasted rabbit a la Niçoise ! The rabbit is flavored with olive oil, onions, garlic, lard and white wine (quick note, nearly everything we cook in Nice is in olive oil, not a big fan of butter). It's served with cooked tomatoes, rosemary, potatoes and black olive.
And Illya is eating two distinct things, 1) zucchini flower fritters ('beignets de fleurs de courgette' in french) ! More specifically, the flatter version (it taste more like the flower. The more crispy version tastes more like just oil (in my opinion)).
And 2) stuffed vegetable a la niçoise ('farcis niçois' in french) ! Just empty a tomato/zucchini/eggplant/bell pepper, stuff it with a mixture of meat, garlic, thyme, parsley and parmesan, then put bread crumbs on top.
PS : just wanted to share a quote from my evil advisor (@quijicroix) : "I'm glad the waiter brought their F cups" (this is my best attempt to translate : "damn le serveur de genre indéterminé qui ramene les miches !")