#genericable

[commodorez]

Genericable - Brian L, Jesse C, Robert K, Nikki C, Kelby B, Ari W, Kyle S

So I recently learned it's pronounced like "generic cable" but portmanteau'd. Because it's generic cable TV. Weatherstar stuff abounds!

VCF East XX

[cattewife]

A and B are cuddling on the couch when A suddenly pulls back a little and goes tense, eyebrows pinching and eyes fluttering shut before--

"hHh-!! hHdD'sZSCHhhiew!!" the sneeze is intense and sounds drenchingly wet, jolting A against B and rocking them forward into their tented hands.

"augh," A says, pulling their hands away to, sure enough, reveal a shimmering spray coating both hands.

"hahaha, wow, that was a wet one!" B says, admiring this.

"you're teasing me," A says, pouting, and retaliates by wiping off their wet hands on the thighs of B's pants.

B shivers and stares at A, feeling the friction of A's hands against the dampness seeping into their pants, shockingly turned on by this casual use of their person.

[halfbaked00q]

okay as an admitted did-not-watch-NTTD'er who got, like, all of their info from uhh recappers, the wiki synopsis, the specific clips with Q I watched, and whatever I osmosis'ed from fics.

I finally watched the beginning of NTTD at @prismatic-bell's nudging. And I was like. Okay wait. wait wait wait. This is... well-written? And shot and directed & acted?? In a hollywood movie lmao?? Like. The way it's set up w Madeleine's backstory, and then the Bond & Madeleine stuff that does a much better job of establishing their relationship, the goooorgeous wide shots.

I admittedly was rather "I close my eyes I do not see" to a lot of canon - coming from partially a comics fandom background I'm very aware, well-versed, and well-practiced in the 'canon is your pick-and-choose buffet no need to feel like you have to 'respect' the 'sanctity' of 'canon' esp when it's Bad (like it contradicts other canon or you can just Tell this character was Not Written Well and it's like, here's what it could be that is better)' - and from opinions I saw on NTTD I was expecting to be very pick & choose about it.

But okay, wait. wait wait wait. It works. The beginning at least which I watched. Works. Like, it establishes a key character moment for Madeleine that Explains Everything about her behavior, actually - like she just like Bond is actually also very traumatized & has been locking it down/deflecting it vs processing it, and the whole like Vesper thing is (to me) very obviously her misdirecting Bond away from her own Goin Thru It. I can see how it can read as very suspicious to Bond esp with everything else but it, like, is a Narrative and Makes Sense for her character and Works. wild.

Even the Bond stuff makes a ton of sense. Like, when I hadn't watched it and was going off second & third hand information, one of the things I was hrrrm ?? about was the. How do you get from the guy who says "I miss you" at Vesper's grave, to the guy who put Madeleine on the train. The man who, even after finding out Vesper betrayed him, still wanted to save her? Would... send Madeleine away? In what, a fit of pique? Surely he's more of a "run to me and I will handle it" if it turns out not to be true or a "if it is, I'll handle it" kind of guy.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IT WAS. YOU KNOW WHAT IT FUCKING WAS LMAO. I WAS MISLED BY THE FUCKIN. BILLIE EILISH SONG LMAO. The lyrics of it make it SOUND like it's a like "you betrayed/cheated on me how could I have ever trusted you" break-up song kind of situation. BUT IT ABSOLUTELY FCKN WASN'T LMAO.

It's like. two traumatized individuals who trauma-bonded and honestly maybe should have spent time apart healing/learning themselves again before re-evaluating if they think a relationship could work, but like. they both were Goin Thru It and let themselves get carried away with it ig. And then right when Madeleine was like. hm I've been Not Dealing with this a Lot (tbh her being a psychologist probably made it worse cuz I think it made her more effective at Not Dealing With It and deflecting/misdirecting, but like. I don't think she was doing it intentionally, I think it was just a "combination of circumstances" thing. But this also works cuz I think before the like why did Madeleine push him towards Vesper again even though he said she was in his past. And it's like. She was delaying dealing with HER shit and probably unconsciously deflected his attention by poking at waht she thinks is still HIS equivalent to her baggage) where was I. Oh yeah, Madeleine is like. hm. yeah. the whole letting go of secrets thing. I. need to come clean to him...

but then all of the Spectre stuff happens.

Even the him sitting in the car thing is soooo so so. Cuz Craig absolutely put his whole pussy in the acting for this scene. he's got that like. wrong side of overstimulated so you shoot past being in the zone and instead are zoning out lowkey thing going on, mixed with the like. agent faced with a hopeless situation Observing Everything still but like vaguely morbidly amused about it, probably what's running through the brain rn is "lmao, wonder which bullet will be The One" kind of deal. And cross-cutting the shooting & wide shots with the bells was *chefs kiss* genius.

Even Madeleine not managing to tell him was well written/paced. Cuz it was very believable that she (not trained for this) was scared/shocked & couldn't get a word out. Until the "JAMES. I'd rather die than have you think I--" and then the fucking. tragedy of the bad timing. god. And then even her not just saying it later is like, it all makes sense with the way it was paced, shot, & edited. It was beaaautiful oh man. This also where I was like. damn lmao. miscommunication in a movie where it. feels like it makes sense and isn't just a stupid macguffin lol??? In a hollywood movie?? wild

but yeah this is also where it was like. hey wait. the man who, in the face of sort of a morbid (passively?) suicidal emotional blowout due to the Everything, but was able to break through it when she got through to him enough for him to look at her, and her to cry & shake her head like no, it's not true/no don't do this/please/(w.e). and go, "Okay." and take action. How does he put her on the train??

BUT. BUT FUCKING. BUT THEN. MY GOD. *Actually* watching the fucking scene I was like. Ooooh. ough ough oh god. This isn't him vindicatively cutting her out of his life "the bitch is dead" style. This is his Vesper in the elevator cage moment. He's fucking drowning in the cage but he doesn't want to take her with him. He's locking her out of the cage. god.

And the fucking. devastation on his face while he's on the platform. THAT'S HIS FUCKIN. VESPER HOLDING HIM ONE LAST TIME AND SHOVING HERSELF TO TH EBACK OF THE CAGE AAARGGGGHH BARK BARK BARK

Which, a-fucking-gain. THEN MAKES THE NO TIME TO DIE SONG. ALL THE FUCKING MORE EGREGIOUS LMAO. "was I stupid to love you was I foolish to trust was it obvious to everybody else" WHAT ARE YOU ON. THIS IS A SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY THIS ISN'T FUCKIN. 'THE BITCH IS DEAD.'

God this is like when ppl are convinced QoS was Bond going on a revenge rampage when he was (1) not even rampaging (2) not on a revenge quest/storyline - that was Camille's story!!!* caveat I did not watch QoS either lol, but I did watch a video essay breaking it down which I found Very Compelling and have since incorporated it into my worldview lmao. Like, in light of me actually watching the beginning of NTTD, and then it launching into the title sequence and the song. IT ACTIVELY. REWRITES HISTORY YOU JUST WATCHED ON THE SCREEN AAAGGGHHH BITE CHOMP KILL. IT UNDERMINES THE WHOLE. ALL OF THE WORK THE FILMMAKERS DID UP TO THAT POINT IN PLOTTING OUT ACTING OUT & ESTABLISHING THE STORY TO THIS POINT.

Like. The problem of the song isn't even oh it's a limited POV thing. IT'S NOT EVEN WAHT BOND'S POV WOULD HAVE BEEN/SHOULD HAVE BEEN BY THAT POINT. Again, this is the "the bitch is dead" edit of the scene, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. THIS IS BOND LOWKEY SPIRALING AND LIKE. OVERSTIMULATED-EXTREME-EMOTIONAL-AMBUSH-IN-A-VERY-SHORT-TIME LOWKEY EMOTIONALLY SPINNING OUT. BUT THEN BREAKING THRU IT ENOUGH WHEN MADELEINE CALLED FOR HIM. TO LOCK HER OUT OF HIS SINKING CAGE. BRUH. BE SO FORREAL RN.

also lmao she clutches her torso WAY too high up, bruh that's her sternum not her belly... but ig the idea translates across still.

but yeah. god. And here I thought No Time to Die the song was just. boring & musically uninspiring. but no. it's so much worse lmao. god.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I'm all for trademark infringement. Any wad of toilet paper is a kleenex. Any adhesive strip thats stops bleeding is a bandaid. I love popping bubblewrap and eating popsicles and cleaning my ears with q-tips, but the one brand I never call by name is "post-it note." Post-it note? What are you, a cop? Buddy, that's a sticky note. Nobody calls them post-its, that's just dumb! All permanent markers are sharpies, all packing material is styrofoam, all search engines are google, I use white-out and jetskis and scotch tape and saran wrap and velcro and tupperware, but I will be deep in the cold, cold ground before I start calling them post-it notes.

[taylor-titmouse]

quality of life patch

i went through the tag list in my pinned post and added lists of the most relevant characters' names to their descriptions. should make it easier to find more information if i mention somebody off-hand who maybe hasn't been posted about in a long time or doesn't have a book title/name tag

[panvani]

See you only dislike anime because you're racist, unlike myself, who is so enlightened that I love when little Asian girls are exploited for my gratification

[corrucyst]

wanted to draw a couple different "styles" of mech in one place

[merulinaguardian]

i think koumei shuld have a pity system

[void-botanist]

Get to Know Me tag

Thank you @touloserlautrec for the tag! (This is the writeblr/more personal blog for @an-elegant-void.)

Rules: Tag 10 or more people you want to get to know better

Relationship status: married to my husband, who I mention occasionally since he helps me work out story bugs

Favorite color: purple

Song stuck in my head: right now, The Walker by Fitz and The Tantrums, for no reason. But lately it's been the soundtrack for Into The Breach, which is a great game.

Favorite food: I'm not sure I have a Favorite but one of my favorites is blackberry pie

Last song listened to: Drive You Mild by The Verve Pipe

Dream trip: seeing my best friend in Europe (he lives there, I don't)

Last tv show/movie: Dead End: Paranormal Park season 2 lol

Spicy/sweet/savory?: honestly same as Jasper but most of the time if I had to pick one I'd go savory. I'm always that person going "this would be awesome if it was 50% less sweet" unless we're talking about very specific things that are supposed to be very sweet, like gulab jamun or those store-bought sugar cookies with the icing

Last thing I googled: "hero jounral", by which I meant "hero's journal", because I had heard about it and I wanted to take a look at it

Tagging: @multi-lefaiye @jezifster @kk7-rbs @outpost51 @writernopal @vacantgodling @autumnalwalker @sunset-a-story @sarahlizziewrites @kahvilahuhut

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

I was wondering why the characters in FEH kept awkwardly calling popsicles “frozen treats” and it turns out that “popsicle” is technically a brand name

[whumprat-archive]

this might be an unpopular opinion idk but i would ALWAYS rather read fic about characters i don't know than characters whose names are "Whumpee," "Whumper," and/or "Caretaker"

[king-of-men]

Yes, but is the LLM a doubleplusgood duckquacker?

[halfbaked00q]

This is genuinely going to sound so weird lmao but i stumbled across this blog a few days ago and it kinda made me into a 00q shipper except i’ve never seen even a MINUTE of any bond movie which is……… sure okay i’ll ship these two men i know nothing about

gonna let you in an a secret *gestures you closer*

when I first got into 00q years ago, I literally had not meaningfully seen any of the Bond movies either LMAO (I think I might have seen Skyfall in theaters when it came out? but that would years ago again even from when I got into 00q)

like I think I was into Man from UNCLE at that point maybe and was like, I need more spy content. ...00q should do it. -and then, like, brute-forced my way into the fandom just by diving into fic via AO3 and going from there lol. Like, I figured I could probably pick up the highlights - or at least the highlights-according-to-fandom - via direct immersion anyway, and this would get me my fix (fics) faster than like sitting thru the movies first lol. maybe I pulled up some/a Bond & Q clip on youtube? can't remember (it would have been the National Gallery scene if it was anything)

and honestly? maybe a controversial opinion but, that doesn't NOT work, you know what I mean? cuz it's valuable to have first-hand canon knowledge to form your own opinions and stuff (and esp if you are gonna engage in any sort of analysis or meta on the text, -unless you're planning to do a more meta-metatextual analysis on fanon as metatext vs trying to extrapolate that per se back to the text sight unseen),

BUT I also hold to my theorem of fandom being a form of, like, analog *oral tradition*, and so like the iterative (/collaborative) storytelling aspect is also a central... tenet? feature? of fandom which sort of allows you to engage with the iterations before you, and also to further iterate on them yourself, without necessarily HAVING to trace the lineage of the storytelling all the way back to the source before you can start engaging with the collaborative iterative storytelling effort we sort of do in fandom.

but yeah lol taking off my amateur armchair anthropologist hat... 😃 a warm and hearty welcome on behalf of the rest of us here in 00q I suppose lol (a possibly-dubious option tho I may be as a representative of our whole), please enjoy the fun (at large) and lowkey chaotic madness (here specifically)

[jenny-dreadful]

today i got the opportunity to SPONTANEOUSLY go n PICK CHERRIES and it made me LATE to D&D

[cutthroatpixie]

kind of obsessed with this ngl

no idea where i was going with this but i abandoned it at the most disconcerting moment possible