#The Spectator

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Oh my goodness, I just stumbled upon your blog- incredibly compelled by the icon, that is the cutest face I've seen in ages omgomgomg who is that bean- how are they so precious and cute aaaa- 💕

Aaaaaa wah, thank you so much!!! That would be Skies, my iterator oc!! I haven’t drawn them in a long while (this blog is kind of dead art-wise because i’ve been busy/fixating upon other things) but I’m glad that you like them!!!

Here’s some old Skies art from a WHILE back:

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Tea time with Hatter, Caterpillar, Cheshire Cat, and the Hound.

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Beholder style sprites! ft. my freaks + a M. Vonel

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Kategate is nuts. It has a whiff of decadence, too. I can’t be the only person wondering what it says about our country that so many people have oodles of time to scrutinise a pic like jumped-up Columbos. Do people work? ‘This photo raises even more questions about Kate’s health and whereabouts!’, The kate truthers cry. No it doesn’t. Your obsession with it raises questions about your sanity, though..

Leave Kate Middleton alone

12 March 2024, 12:25p Brendan O’Neill

Well done everyone for ruining Mother’s Day for the Princess of Wales. I hope you’re proud of yourselves. A young-ish mum posts a lovely photo of herself surrounded by her beaming kids and instead of saying ‘Ahh’ you pore over it like lunatic sleuths for signs of villainous photoshopping. End result: mum issues an apology. For doing something sweet. On Mother’s Day. You all need to get off the internet.

The obsession with that pic of Catherine and her three children has become unhinged. It’s still on the front pages of the papers. ‘PICTURE OF CHAOS’, screams the Mirror. Oh behave. There’s war in Europe and the Middle East, an energy crisis, a lame-duck government waddling to defeat and people waiting five days in A&E to see a nurse, and you’re still yapping about a princess slightly misaligning her daughter’s sleeve while editing a family photo? 

Kategate is nuts. It has a whiff of decadence, too. I can’t be the only person wondering what it says about our country that so many people have oodles of time to scrutinise a pic like jumped-up Columbos. Do people work? ‘This photo raises even more questions about Kate’s health and whereabouts!’, the Kate truthers cry. No it doesn’t. Your obsession with it raises questions about your sanity, though.

Hypocrisy is at play. I bet you every one of the hacks writing breathless reports about Kate’s scandalous doctoring of a photo have on occasion filtered themselves into oblivion for profile pics on social media. Everyone does. Colour added to pallid faces, crow’s feet trimmed, blemishes erased. I thought we all knew that pretty much every photo we see online – whether of celebrity or civilian – has been touched up in some way?

The way people are banging on about the princess’s photoshopping – which caused tiny...

Joe Biden is the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party after his victory overnight in the Georgia primary pushed him passed the threshold of 1,968 delegates.

Donald Trump also passed the threshold of 1,215 delegates.

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"Compiled by the UK-Israel All Party Parliamentary Group, this report is an essential document, recording in stark detail the murder, torture, and sexual violence inflicted upon innocent civilians. It ensures that this horror is preserved in the historical record, beyond the reach of those who would seek to distort or deny it."

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Of COURSE this is the same magazine that did the Nicola Coughlan hitpiece

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Bren Luke - The Spectator, 2013

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//Out of character.//

HELLO ALL, I'm putting this here because it didn't make much sense to post this anywhere else, I could but I'm just embarrassed.

This is my offical design of my Author character, The Spectator. I might change things later.

I know he's pretty edgy looking but he's actually pretty nice!

I used a character base from @Mellon_Soup on tiktok, for this because I SUCK at anatomy and I am currently feeling a bit under the weather.

If you have any questions let me know!

[madainncheothar]

I have reached the point where A. Hamilton has persuaded me to read "the Spectator" by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. I had never heard this book till yesterday, which shows how much time I pass each day thinking and learning things about Hamilton. I wish I could meet him and his whole family (especially Eliza), but I'll just spend my time reading about him in books, or reading his favorite books.

"The Spectator" looks like a book that will challenge me both in language and in content, but challenge accepted. I know I will never read all volumes but I'll at least try reading some pages.

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Easter Special cover for The Spectator by J. G. Fox. Cover dated 19 April 2025.

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Into the Dcverse and Spec is not happy

(Aka an excuse to draw fanart of @gl1tchr ‘s Dc Au, Gotham City Limits.)

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side doodles

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The Spectator 'Obituary'

Fred died on the 29th February, so we can only properly commemorate the anniversary of his death every 4 years, which seems strangely fitting. The 22nd anniversary of his death will be in 2028. Meanwhile, I didn't want to wait to share this affectionate and poignant tribute from the Spectator magazine.

Apologies for the quality - I had to screenshot it through a letterbox!

The Spectator, 8th March 1940

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In Memoriam: Cartoonist Colin Whittock

We’re sorry to report the passing of cartoonist and caricaturist Colin Whittock, who died on 14th February, aged 84