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back from a mission with just a few scrapes and bruises

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theyre very fuckin shipable all of them

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blossoming romance writing prompts:

accidental hand touching

eye contact across a crowded room

exchanging secret smiles

first conversations alone

admiring them from afar

asking them about their family

visiting them at their place of work

discovering common interests

exchanging gifts for the first time

a surprise encounter

picking a leaf/flower petal out of their hair, or brushing dirt off of their face

nervous embarrassment around them (blushing, fidgeting etc)

complimenting their appearance

looking at their lips as they talk

finding excuses to be alone with each other

naturally gravitating closer together

noticing their individual quirks

hello/goodbye hugs that linger

talking late into the night

clumsy attempts at flirting

sharing long term dreams, goals and aspirations with one another

playful teasing

being unable to keep their eyes off of them

attempting to find out if they are single/available

finding comfort in their scent

creating art inspired by them

sharing an umbrella in the rain, or a coat/blanket in the cold

surprising them with their favourite treat

visiting their home for the first time

confiding in them

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Casino Royale (2006) directed by Martin Campbell

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Queer (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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I think James Bond is absolutely more vanilla about sex than people expect him to be. He can and will do most things for a job, but when he's having sex with someone for pleasure? He likes to keep things simple.

I think he holds the belief that good sex - I mean really good, life-affirming sex - doesn't require bells and whistles. It doesn't need to involve power games or toys. It just requires two people who are really into each other.

I think he's absolutely obnoxious about this, too. Anytime a partner mentions a vibrator or a toy, he gets weirdly competitive about it. The furthest he'll go is using a blindfold or restraints, but those eventually get discarded, too.

I think he also thinks porn has become far too accessible and ubiquitous, not because people are tossing off more, but because it's made people worse at having sex. They're too busy trying to recreate a certain image than enjoying the sex for what it is.

Which leads me to my next point: I don't think he likes roleplay. He pretends to be so many things on the job that in his downtime, he prefers being himself. The one exception is pulling out his old Navy hat or service uniform. He's shameless about that - he's still a Commander, and he doesn't mind leaning into the cheeky military bit if his partner wants to shag a man in uniform. But he's uncompromising otherwise: don't call him anything other than James in bed. Don't expect him to call you anything other than your name, either.

Which isn't to say the right partner wouldn't be able to move the boundary lines a little. But he's a stubborn man and like anyone he has his preferences.

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DANIEL CRAIG IN THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

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BEN WHISHAW Interviewed for Port Magazine (April. 2024) Photographed by CHIESKA FORTUNE SMITH

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piggybacking off of @cicerfics post about q’s dad jokes, i can totally see q amusing himself with increasingly absurd ‘pet names’ for bond. Especially when chiding him fondly.

Imagine: “well we don’t all have your propensity for resurrection, mouse pad”

“let me guess, lava lamp, a Komodo dragon ate it?”

he tries to make them as ridiculous as possible to get a rise out of bond for it.

it's very easy to assign Bond as a "darling" guy, but. any thots on terms of endearment Q might favor? and/or ones that feel like they fit when applied to Bond?

I mean I can think of ones Dom Q would call Bond lol, but what about not-necessarily-Dom Q, hmm? or like, when he's not going to call Bond kitten or pet lol.

rather drawing a blank. I suppose this is where we reserve Q calling him James, as a sort of like. extra sign of closeness and affection.

I dunno, tho. I want, like. a real pet name. hm. will meditate on this some more

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the horror when q realizes that bond has been stashing all the travel size toiletries from the hotels he stays at in various drawers around q’s place.

it’s not like bond even uses them, but he still snags them out of habit because it never hurts to have extras when you have no idea how long you’ll be on the road. plus he just likes pinching these small things from time to time.

there’s so many holiday inn express pens jammed into the pen holder and all of them are missing the cap.

and he keeps on nicking hotel robes for a but there’s only so many white plush robes a man needs, bond.

WAIT just had a really fun/funny thought

okay you know how it's like, a common trope and/or fanon that Q is kind of a packrat & has a lot of trinkets & tchotchkes and whatever, meanwhile Bond is the sad empty blank slate flat guy?

What if tho. What if it's like. Bond is that. but only incidentally. Like, he is like that cuz he's on the road all the time & never around his own flat, and also the stuff he has tends to get churned & burned thru just as collateral from his lifestyle.

But what if, after he gets together with Q/moves in with Q/simply annexes space in Q's life and flat while not formally together. What if, now that he has, like, a permanent place for stuff to accumulate. He becomes like a packrat slash sad hoarder situation, but purely incidentally. Like maybe he's used to collecting stuff, but he's also used to *losing* said stuff, so it all sorts of evens out. Except now uhhhhhh oops! He has a permanent place for which the stuff to collect. The metaphoric river of his life may have previously kept the water and debris flowing, but surprise! there is now a beaver dam in place, and the stuff that would have been carried off & away before is now... accumulating....

At some point it's gonna get so bad that Q is going to have to stage an intervention lmao

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....tactic-at ears

that's all, i'll see myself out.

latest daily mission: trying to figure out what ridiculous circumstances I can manufacture so Q can get Bond in a perfectly tactical - I swear I prommy, it's entirely for tactical reasons and definitely no other reasons - cat-ears headband