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James Bond, doing Very Much the Opposite of Helping. but! very enthusiastically! *turns to Q* and is like. I'm Helping!! 😊

Q, *pained smile*: yeah........................... good job thanks......................................

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hmm. anyone here every been to Dragon Con? contemplating Dragon Con

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Changing the relationship status to "Stalemate"

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HELLO. does anyone have a link to the post that's like, a puppy that is a future service dog, wearing a vest for the first time

and then there's a shot of the puppy flat on its back, legs in the air?

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man. instead of makign new posts sometimes maybe i should just go back into my archive and reblog my old posts lmao

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wrote a post. somehow accidentally dismissed it and it didn't ask me if I was sure/if I wanted to save it, etc. so now it is gone. was like. maybe this is a sign. but nah I'm bored and back on a computer so here we go

anyway. what are some of y'alls uhh what tf did I call it before. Acceptable Q Names. I think is what I called it. like, what are names you either see for Q, headcanon for Q, or can tolerate for Q?

I think some of mine are, like. in no particular order. uhh. Ethan. Spencer (tho lowkey more as an Official Alias). Gabriel -- maybe my favorite actually. Elliot? possibly? maybe within a margin of tolerance. uhhh. Theodore cuz it's kinda cute (Theo, or Teddy, by his mum). Maaaybe Oliver but as long as it's not used too much. James is a funny option but I see it as purely a crack/humor one, I don't see him as a James. Robert maaybe as an Official Alias option...? depends on the last name. Julian maybe. but I feel like it works for the brevifolia-verse, idk abt elsewhere. Quentin but only as a like Clearly A Fake Name level of name. and again used sparingly.

I do, however, still prefer he be referred to as Q. in narration. like it lowkey kinda throws me off when he's called a name. although. ig it still depends. on how long the fic is, for one. and the contexts of like how it's introduced and used and etc ig, how it's positioned within the narrative.

anyway I DO have at least one name that is a no for me, dawg, not going to say it but I think perhaps a few of us Know or Can Guess what it might be lmao. or maybe not! idk lol

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The thing is, I somehow do see Bond as fundamentally whimsical and even silly type of guy. I think it got buried underneath the years of military training and trauma, but I do think he was very much a Calvin type of child, and I think he retains those qualities even now, whether he knows it or not.

I enjoy thinking about what Bond might've been like as a child (pre-trauma, before he was orphaned). I suspect he was very active and adventurous and mischievous and really loved imagining things. I think he loved playing pretend and messing around with building stuff or taking it apart. I think he thoroughly enjoyed Whimsy (tm).

And I do think Bond is (or could be) like that even as a scarred and traumatized adult man! I think if he felt safe and secure, if he found a firm place to stand while he excavated his own sense of identity outside of the double-oh program, he'd do a whole lot of goofy things.

I strongly suspect that the first sign Bond is doing well and adjusting to retirement is that he sends Q absolutely ridiculous pictures/videos of things Bond is allegedly doing 'with the cats' while Q is at work.

Like, Pickle is sitting on top of the toolbox and Pimento has her paw on the power drill, and Bond sends the picture to Q and says Pimento is going to work on putting up the new shelves while Pickle tells her if they're straight or not.

And Bond commits to that bit and sends a whole bunch more photos of the cats 'repairing' or 'constructing' things about the flat. And then it just gets progressively weirder and sillier from there, until he's sending Q the most unhinged photos of himself and the cats with no captions or explanations whatsoever.

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“is this really a hill you’re willing to die on?” wouldn’t have carried my happy ass up the hill otherwise brother

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I like my men how I like my dogs, with a collar a bite history and unexplained trauma that I have to piece together through context clues

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I'm putting you in my saw traps because I like you a lot

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why does making out have to always be amorous or sexual. maybe theyre making out for tax purposes

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okay lol you said finance meeting and I was like !! yes that!! but then when I first opened Let Me Count the Ways I couldn't find the ctrl+f terms I was searching so I was like, surely not. But then I went back and tried some others and. well!

“So what does FIF stand for?” “Oh, er, Financial Impact Follow-up.” The way Tanner says it is clearly a question. Q glances at Bond, and he can see he’s amused now, the penny having dropped. “And what does it really stand for?” Moneypenny laughs as she replies. “Fuck It Friday.”

It sure is this!

I was sooo sure Mallory was like sorry Im late, and Bond reflecting on the ties they made were the same thing tho, and like. I CHECKED Important Dates lmao, but ig I was so focused on "it's the same scene and I'm p sure it was in a pub" that I didn't think it was it. But. No I think you're right lmao... I think it's this:

Bond realizes — in a way that perhaps he never really has before — just how much he left them all in their hour of need. Yes, he got started without clear authority from Mallory, perhaps saving them when they were too caught up in the reorganization to see what was really happening. Yes, he was utterly exhausted by the time they captured Blofeld, and he sorely needed to feel like more than just a weapon, and… well Madeleine seemed like a good option. Until he realized that he couldn’t run from the job when the job was so completely part of him. He understood when he came back that he’d have to work to get into everyone’s good (or at least ambivalent) graces again, but listening to what they went through, he’s frankly surprised he was given the chance at all. ...

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James has truly never had anything quite like it, nor has he ever been part of a “family dinner” like this. At least not in memory. He realizes as he watches them all joke with one another that he is still not really a part of it. He has individual relationships with each of these people, but because he ran off with Madeleine, he missed the trial by fire that forged the bonds between them all. He prevented the world from going to a very dark place, blowing up whatever he needed to in order to prevent it from happening. But they had to put it back together. And though he’s helped since he’s been back, the worst of it was already behind them. He’s almost envious of the ties they share.

so yeah. Mystery solved! Thank youuu <3 <3 <3

there was another fic - for sure in the 00q tag on ao3 - that became my, like, holy grail of MI6 dynamics. like, it was set post-SPECTRE, after Bond hared off w Madeleine and then it didn't work out and he came back. and he's trying to get back into everyone's good graces maybe...? hazy on this.

the main point is, he gets invited out to the pub for drinks (by Q??) and it's with Q, Moneypenny, Tanner, and then Mallory shows up and is like, sorry I'm late or sth like that. and Bond kind of ruminates on how they've formed this, like, core group where they (wording hazy) went thru the gauntlet of dealing with Spectre/Nine-Eyes together, and about how he did kind of leave them in the lurch and etc.

but basically the points that stuck with me was that there IS this, like, MI6 core group that is Q, Moneypenny, Tanner, and also Mallory. and they get together after work for drinks together.

anyway lmao. anyone know THIS fic? lol

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also. you know what. Im gonna say it. Bond breaking into Q branch or Q's house to make Q give him stitches. passé. it's overdone, at this point. and sometimes it's shit where I'm like "should that be getting stitches...... shouldn't that be getting packed and idk what happens after that, but. packed???" (stab wounds), or "......cmon be so forreal now, does that even actually need stitches....." (like a shallower kinda slash- surely sth more topical would work better than sth so invasive as stitches.....)

Hmmmmm..... quastion. Where does Bond fighting the shit out of getting proper medical treatment come from? Is it canon? Is it like, kinda sorta partially canon? Or is it mostly fanon?

cuz like. I get it. the ethos of paranoid super secret machismo agent man probs w a lot of trauma and control issues out the wazoo fighting tooth & nail w Medical is a certain type of compelling.

But also like. lowkey. I do think it's kinda rly stupid? To not seek proper medical care? Like yes ik in Skyfall Bond seems like he very much was not. But also he just "died" okay, I think he's got some extenuating circumstances going for him there.

iirc in the books Bond yeah maybe hates hospitals and being laid up and etc. But I don't think he, like, avoids proper medical or tries to escape from hospitals or etc, right?

anyway lol just came across in a fic where Bond flat-out refused to let Medical patch him up properly from where he'd done kind of a hack job of it, and it's like. idk I'm sitting here like "idk man, sounds super dumb and like that's begging for infection, and even if there's no infection, for the wound to heal poorly which also negatively affects future fitness and longevity as a 00...."

but also I like it when Bond & Medical are frenemies, but also he does have a deep personal respect for the senior Medical staff if nothing else, and like he may be professionally antagonistic still, but not, like. ...you know. ....stupid about it.. lmao

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Hmmmmm..... quastion. Where does Bond fighting the shit out of getting proper medical treatment come from? Is it canon? Is it like, kinda sorta partially canon? Or is it mostly fanon?

cuz like. I get it. the ethos of paranoid super secret machismo agent man probs w a lot of trauma and control issues out the wazoo fighting tooth & nail w Medical is a certain type of compelling.

But also like. lowkey. I do think it's kinda rly stupid? To not seek proper medical care? Like yes ik in Skyfall Bond seems like he very much was not. But also he just "died" okay, I think he's got some extenuating circumstances going for him there.

iirc in the books Bond yeah maybe hates hospitals and being laid up and etc. But I don't think he, like, avoids proper medical or tries to escape from hospitals or etc, right?

anyway lol just came across in a fic where Bond flat-out refused to let Medical patch him up properly from where he'd done kind of a hack job of it, and it's like. idk I'm sitting here like "idk man, sounds super dumb and like that's begging for infection, and even if there's no infection, for the wound to heal poorly which also negatively affects future fitness and longevity as a 00...."

but also I like it when Bond & Medical are frenemies, but also he does have a deep personal respect for the senior Medical staff if nothing else, and like he may be professionally antagonistic still, but not, like. ...you know. ....stupid about it.. lmao

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sorry (lie) to be back on this again, but god, that. stray caress of hair down his forehead.. kills me. every time

bonus these are (okay a tad oversaturated lmao) also have some. just. sheer Emotion to them, okay

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00q textposts because i have got to convert some of y'all. for my own evil ends

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i made this version of that popular cake meme as a love letter to my favourite artists, writers, editors etc who keep making content about my favourite characters/ship

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I LOVE YALL!!!!!!!!