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The cover that started it all for me. An old British only cover (I think) of Nancy Drew, The Clue of the Velvet Mask. A cover which I encountered as a youth in my local library, and made me realise that DiD might be up my street. Big shout out to for finding this after I though it'd been lost forvever. I'm not sure who the original artist is, but props to you sir!Related content
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In all my searches through public libraries as a kid, I've never seen this one.
I think it's as you said, a British version or something.
Really cool, because "Clue of the Velvet Mask" didn't have a good illustration, at least out of the yellow books.
It had a good word description of a DiD scene, though.
This is gold here, my friend.
Kudos to your friend for finding it.
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Yeah I saw it years ago and never again until now, so it was good to see it here. Yeah that one did have a good distress scene worded, though the one with Nancy in the attic with the black widow remains my favourite
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Oh man, I forgot about that one! Yeah, that one was really, really great. Very intense, if memory serves.
Which one was that?
I think my fave is the very first iteration of "The Mystery at Lilac Inn".
I love how Nancy was regagged.
The titular heroine was still defiant in the face of her female captor.
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It was new to me to. I have to thank Rockner for finding it
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It is quite a discovery
I t was good of him to share it
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I'm sure I ran into this kind of stuff all the time when I was a kid, although mostly through TV shows and cartoons. I know I came across some scenes in books, but I really can't remember any of it clearly anymore...aside from a Choose Your Own Adventure story where I unfortunately ran into a Bad Ending in a scene where the main character (a boy) was tied up and left in a hopeless peril that spelled his/my inevitable doom. The accompanying page even included a VERY detailed illustration of it. By that time, I'm sure my brain was already fixated on this stuff pretty firmly, so while it definitely left an impression on me, it didn't do much to steer me any closer to this world than I already was.
We are the last generation who will have any stories like this, I think kids are finding stuff online much younger that's beyond anything we could have imagined at that age.
edit: Is that a guy or another girl tied up behind her?
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In the story, it's supposed to be a girl, Nancy's friend Bess. But it looks like a boy in this image.
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I dunno, there's always going to be more innocent tie up scenes in literature, certainly when used primarily for plot reasons (oh the horror 
If I remember the plot, it's Bess tied up with Nancy, but yeah, not the best pic of her has to be said...Nancy looks nice though
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Agreed drew crew all the way and what a find
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This is a very nice picture. I can see why it would be the turning point for you.
Ive thought a lot recently about where my appreciation for DiD scenarios came from, and I think I finally remembered it. On an old muppets episode, the guest star was an absolutelt gorgeous woman named Raquel Welch. One scene had her getting caught in a spiders web, and I was transfixed by it (I actually got so embarrassed by being attracted to her rhat I would leave the room during that scene). Ironically, nowadays Im not a fan of DiD material involving spider webs, just pure rope and tape bondage. But that scene is where it started for me.
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That sounds intriguing...seems everyone has a starter image in their head
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I just now realized I should probably get myself one of those little picture thingies to go along with my name, so that I'm not just some half-smiling random joe. I've had an account on DeviantArt for years and years, but I've never looked into that.
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Awesome! Shame that any covers made like this today would be lambasted to hell and back, though. That's an entire generation missing out on DiD! XD I kid, though, and understand why it wouldn't be published today.
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I dunno. I mean people are more aware of the conotations now (and I've noticed kids animated series seem a lot more reluctant to have a distress scene as a result) but if it's relevant to the story I'm sure they would publish it, as long as it was tasteful.
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Book covers generally suck these days, anyway. The vast majority of the time it's just a picture of a guy model and a girl model posing together in front of a generic background looking all angsty. Handdrawn images depicting actual scenes within the book itself have unfortunately become quite rare in general. And of the covers like this that do exist, most of them are drawn in a deliberately cartoonish or caricature-type style. There are very, very few books coming out today that have covers that are done in the same way the old Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys covers were. Even modern-day Nancy Drew books don't follow the old pattern.
I've definitely noticed that modern-day cartoons are much more reluctant to have distress scenes than the cartoons of old, and I'm quite convinced it's because someone somewhere (*cough* politicians *cough*) got the idea in their heads that such images are harmful to children's (more specifically, boys') psyches. But I don't think children have actually changed from generation to generation, however. Two of my nieces live in a new neighborhood that is absolutely full of children ages ten and under, and they still play the same sorts of chase, capture, and rescue games previous generations did. My nieces, as well as all the other neighborhood girls, have already taken their turns holding the distress ball in these games. The more things change....
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I think artists and writers are a lot more aware of the implications of tie up scenes now, as indeed are audiences. They know repeated tie up scenes will raise questions about who they are catering these tales to (one reason why I don't make my Sara tales more mainstream). But I think there's a balance to be had. I think as long as they hold a purpose in the plot (something I always try in my tales anyway) and it doesn't stray into more sexual terrtory, it's all good. Harry Potter has loads of tie up scenes, for instance. And I'm sure kids will always play capture games, as long as they can have access to ropes and tape...
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If you were in publishing, I doubt you'd be too eager to slap a cover like this onto a book, regardless of the age it was targeted towards.
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If I were in publishing (which I am, actually), I would be far more interested in doing whatever it took to get attention and stand out from the pack. If that meant featuring a cover art like this, then I would seriously consider it.
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The interesting thing to me is that Nancy Drew has never been bound and gagged on any of her American covers, despite being so well-known for getting tied up. However, foreign editions of the books feature Nancy bound and gagged all the time. Makes me wonder if there's been a conscious effort to avoid showcasing Nancy tied up in the U.S. all along. After all, she's somehow managed to avoid getting tied up in any of her onscreen adaptations so far.
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Wow! That is so cool! How have I gone through life without this?
I can't remember exactly what my first scene was, there were quite a few that circulated in the mainstream when I was young, I remember being embarrassed whenever I saw one and not really understanding why. I eventually realised that I had this strange thing for DiD but it still felt a little strange, that is until I stumbled across LOZ's website.
I was looking up pictures of Anna Paquin on Google because I had a thing for her at the time, but I didn't know that was her name at the time, I just searched for Rogue X-men, aside hay was who she played, and hidden amongst all the images of Anna Paquin was this one image of Rogue from X-men Evolution bound and cleave gagged. To this day I cannot fathom why that image was there amongst all those unrelated publicity shots for X-men: The Last Stand but it revealed to me the fact that I was not alone in my fascination with DiD and for that I will always be grateful.
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I'm glad I found it, just to prove it existed.
I kinda stumbled onto DA as well, I was trying to find Zelda pics more than anything, and ended up staying for the damsels. I don't remember a distress scene in X-Men evolution, but there was a decent scene for Rogue in Wolverine and the X-Men where the X-men are all captured by Silver Samurai save for Rogue, who is left tied to a chair as bait for Wolverine to find. That was pretty cool
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Jean Grey does get kidnapped by Blob in one of the early episodes, but other than that I don't think there were any. Β I do remember that one from Wolverine and the X-men, shame it doesn't happen more often these days.
this is the pic I meant:Β
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It was indeed. Found it in my local library when I was a kid. Good isnt it?
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