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I absolutely positively believe that Q needs his Emotional Support Double-oh/Husband whenever he has to deal with Bureaucracy and/or Workplace Politics and/or People Being Stupid On Workplace Email Chains (But I Am Not Allowed To Tell Them They Are Very Very Stupid Or Else HR Will Get Mad At Me).

Q needs his hand held, his back patted, and a steady stream of fortifying tea and snacks delivered straight into his mouth. He needs to receive appropriate words of affirmation, too.

He needs to be told he is a Very Brave Boy who can handle this without going postal, but yes, those people ARE criminally stupid, and it IS a national disgrace that Q has to be polite to them and cannot rip into them via reply-all and tear them to shreds. Q is a MARTYR and an ANGEL and we are all lucky to have him, etc.

I am sighing loudly and trying to take deep calming breaths as I answer emails, answering questions that should already be answered by info already provided in the email chain. I want to call these people dumb bitches sooo so bad but I am being so good about it

Anyway consoling myself by imagining some 00q uno reversi, where Q is the one Loudly Complaining and in need of consoling pets cuddles and someone making sympathetic noises, as he complains about how stupid some of these people are and how are they not more anxious about this. seems the least anxious to ask questions people could so to be More anxious, like, have you no shame? no sense of. idk. pride, even?? like does it not make other people anxious/feel stupid to ask questions they think might be answered already, why are they not scanning the email chain to see if this was already answered. it's digital- you can ctrl+f for key words. And on top of that, this person was such a bitch to ME about "I asked you to review Carefully and Thoroughly I caught some typos-" okay well you also Didn't Follow Directions at all and wildly rewrote the last draft so I reverted it back and incorporated some of your new shit but like. I wanted you to okay the CONTENT before I wasted time on prettying up something which you might again largely (erroneously) discard?? Sure you did a lot of work whatever- I didn't ask you to do any of that, and also it was Not What We Needed so it's bad cuz it's useless to us.

also people need to stop emailing in asking for permission for things they already Know we advise against. I'm not gonna tell you yes you can do this thing- I will repeat to you that No we in fact advise against it. yes, still. 😩

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the thing abt Jame Bond that I don't think ppl think abt enough/put enough credence in, is that he is in fact a deeply silly, silly little man.

"we're teachers on sabbatical, and we just won the lottery!" yeah yeah he said that to be cheeky and have an excuse to stay at the luxury hotel sure, whatever. you can't tell me he wasn't also chortling to himself about how cheeky and clever he is tho

like I genuinely believe if you went to him with a deeply silly unserious roleplay scenario, that he'd be all for it

I just find it hard to believe that Mr. "😏You want to do WHAT to me?" would NOT be into it if you were like lets do sexy rival spies roleplay. "Weeeell well Mr. Bond, looks like I have you in my grasp and I need to sexy-torture your Very Important Spy Secrets out of you, how long could you possibly hold out *waggles eyebrows*"

actually no he would NOT play the spy type, he would play the femme fatale in the detective/spy-femme fatale set up. you canNOT tell me he would not have a BLAST playing the femme fatale. Fleming backs me up on this, look at how he described that one kiss between Bond & Solitaire !!! he'd still be the one who has to be sexily "tortured"/seduced out of his ?? secrets though still

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seriously, the market is too saturated (in MY subjective perception yes yes) with Q getting kidnapped / captured / beat up / etc. *what about second breakfast voice* what about beating the shit out of James Bond?

still does not happen NEARLY enough to him, for my tastes. well. I suppose I always have Fleming to turn to for Graphics Depictions of Violence (against James Bond specifically) <3

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I just noticed my darling baby boy (cat) sitting in his little loft bed about 5 inches away from the most delightful sunbeam, so I scooted it into the sunlight for him and he looked me with the biggest widest expression. I don’t think he knew that was an option. I think I just blew his whole little mind

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I think it probably really grinds Mallory's gears that he just has to accept that whatever intel he shares with Q is going to be subsequently told to Bond, and vice versa.

Like. Even if these two yahoos are not romantically involved (yet), they gotta discuss stuff with their work husband! It just has to happen! If there is Important Confidential Intel to consider, they have to put their heads together and talk it over and come up with a plan! They gotta loop each other in!

And it's extremely valid that this probably annoys the piss out of Mallory because this is legitimately terrible OPSEC. But. They're gonna do it anyway!

And they will keep this stuff confidential! It's just that they're gonna keep it confidential...between the two of them. They're kinda operating on the assumption that 'this is extremely confidential, don't discuss this with anyone' means 'except for your work husband, of course!'

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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...powerfully homoerotic

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I like this a lot for some reason. I think it's giving like, James Bond in Q-branch-core. He's PA'ing and/or running errands for his Quartermaster!!! in a Q-branch-adjacent-y manner!!!

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lake wants to kill and gnash and gnash my bones I think

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We as a fandom have debated a great deal about whether Bond is more cat-coded or dog-coded, and we have discussed both concepts at length.

But I think the concept of Bond-is-actually-very-ferret-coded is underexplored. I mean. This guy LOVES to steal stuff. He CANONICALLY has stashes of stuff he's stolen hidden everywhere. (Hello, Skyfall appearance of a random DB5 stashed in a random garage in London!)

I'm not really sure what else I have to say about this. It's just amusing me to think of Bond as a wriggly little danger noodle who is excited to steal anything that isn't nailed down (and also a few things that are). >:3

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It's a special day today - the Bluebird babies are hatching! I am keeping track with the nest with the Nestwatch app, and I was wondering if today was going to be the day... So far, three of the four have made it out of the egg, and the parents are taking good care of them. It is a mild day today too, so no extra stress with extreme heat or rain.

Update - Friday the 13th - the last baby hatched at 5:36 AM today.

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The fact that animals that care for their young will sometimes adopt others' lost or orphaned young to raise along their own is just funny to me. I know that it's all hormonal and there's no conscious thought involved in it, but the internal logic of it is so funny.

"Baby = success. More baby = more success. I have one baby and I found four other baby. I have five baby. I am being so fucking successful right now."

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too many movies have been ruined by not casting ugly people

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Re: this post which I just stumbled across -

I have always assumed Bond did a ton of underwater/SCUBA work in his time in the Navy and really enjoyed it.

And I have always headcanoned that Q is (like me) equal parts fascinated and horrified by stories of these underwater adventures.

Bond tells Q a story about a deep-water nighttime dive and meeting a shark face to face, making friends with an octopus, and observing bioluminescent creatures. Q is breathlessly fascinated.

Then Bond asks if Q wants to go diving with him sometime, and Q is like 🙅‍♂️🚫👎HAHA ABSOLUTELY NOT. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES 🙅‍♂️🚫👎

Listening to other people's stories about interesting ocean adventures and what they discovered down there? 👍✅😻

Strapping on a thin, fragile suit, plunging into deep dark water, and putting oneself at the mercy of the ocean and its creatures? 🤚⛔😾

Bond can go swimming with the sharks by himself, thanks!!

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i love the -with mama trend but sometimes i get sad because that is clearly papa and he aint getting any credit raising those darn kids...