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the unknown craftsman
This is a another location prompt table fill that fills two prompts. One from @sweetbabyangels and one from @eleanor-is-fine, who sent me 'The British Museum' and 'a beloved place' respectively. I'm sorry this isn't set at the British Museum itself, but it was inspired by Grayson Perry's exhibition there called The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. Our beloved place is the MI6 Memorial Wall.
Warning for grieving/mourning and (the aftermath of) a Major Character Death.
[Read on AO3]
Under a gnarled tree in a private garden—the kind of garden people rarely saw in the urban sprawl of London these days— sat a mound of earth lay recently disturbed and repacked. It sat at the edge of a neat and well-tended-to memorial wall, and for days it had been drawing a crowd of mourners.
The mourners were not tourists or flighty visitors. They were sentinels, defenders, worker bees and secret keepers, and they did not lay flowers as most people would. Not fresh ones, at least.
Instead, they built a frame of objects around the soil. To any outsider, it would look mad; cult-like and strange, but then the man they were remembering was strange too. He would have been—or would be, depending on one’s beliefs—delighted to see the bullets dotted on the ground around him. He would have smiled at the model planes and the innocuous-looking watches and the ripped-apart computer accessories. To his right, a jade vase shaped like a hairless cat sparkled in the sun. He’d never seen it in life. It was a gift planned for a day too late, and it was one of the giver’s deepest regrets that he never got to give it to the man now in the ground.
One woman, who could not keep her tears in whenever she looked upon the grave, placed a bouquet of steel-wrought roses on top of the fresh dirt. They remained there through rain and shine until a new white headstone arrived, gleaming brightly.
“He was one of the greatest inventors of our age,” explained a man called Tanner to a crowd of colleagues as the headstone hit the ground. “And no one even knows his name. But you have him to thank for the peace of this country and the lives of our agents, half of whom would be dead without the things he built them.”
Tanner looked to a man at the back of the crowd, whose blue eyes were shining.
All the mourners raised a toast to that. They were drinking a fine single malt from a small distillery in Wales. It reminded Tanner of the sweeping green hills of Bannau Brycheiniog and of marmalade on rye.
“To our Quartermaster,” he said. “To Q.”
“To Q.”
The whisky went down smooth and warm, and people began to desert the grave in hushed groups. They returned to work with memories of Q flowing from their tongues, stories of technical prowess and nerve and shared pots of tea early on weekday mornings.
At the end, two men remained: Tanner and the blue-eyed man.
“No chance your talent for resurrection extends to others?” asked Tanner. Alone with a friend, he slumped with fatigue and grief.
“If it did, I wouldn’t be looking at a headstone.”
The man poured Tanner another drink, and they stood for an age in silence. The tombstone in front of them spoke well enough of everything they wanted to say. It read, simply:
Q, the unknown craftsman
1982 - 2038.
A stalwart defender of the nation and a dear friend.
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🦀 This is just to say
I have unleashed
the crabs
that were on
my dashboard
and which
you had gifted
to me
for crab day
Thank you
they were delightful
so scuttle-y
and so red
thank you so much for all the crabs @anyawen, @foxsoulcourt, @sweetbabyangels, and Anon friend! I would have sent this message of thanks much sooner, but I unleashed so many crabs that I could not see my dashboard. 😂
and to the people I sent crabs to (mostly anonymously, because #intrigue)--I hope you enjoyed! 😁 🦀
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@beshdi @sweetbabyangels i found it:
this was the moment we realised:
a) he was going to be a recurring character in the BWCU (ben whishaw cinematic universe) instead of just a one-off guest star, and
b) he was absolutely fucking hilariously petty
but i don't think any of us foresaw just how serious they were gonna end up being. we thought he was just part of ben's messy 2019 era tbh. it wasn't until the 2020 photos started popping up that we even considered the prospect of them being in an Actual Relationship lol (sorry kadiff ilu).
#had to talk my 60yo technophobe mother through accessing an external hard disc drive over the phone in order to get this#'why do you have all these videos of strange men lah???' 😭😭😭😭😭#v traumatising for us both#everyone say mgoy to my ma
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this is totally not a link to download a pdf of attis
( @sweetbabyangels here! this should work :] )
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Send this to all the blogs you love! Don’t forget to spread the love!💕
Thank you and I'm not sooooo good with jumping into ppls messages or asks, and there's so many blogs I love and enjoy. So I'm gonna tag them, I will probably forget a few cause I follow soooo many awesome ppl.
@a-haunted-passion711 @pinky-e-pie @endlesslyanya @seduce-me-if-you-can @preyforyourdeath @blacklipsdarkheart @midnightflowx @xvampycandyx @midnight-moon-glow @sweetbabyangell @ominousmaiden @batsintheshadows @randa-roo @meltykiss and more and more lolz. That's the fun thing for Tumblr, so many awesome ppl and their blogs, @not-ellie you as well 💀💞👻🙃🤪😄
Hope everyone, mutual and not has a great day and spread the love on enjoying ppls blogs
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Top favorite mutuals? 💚
Don't make me choose! They're all so lovely 😊 I'm gonna list a few off the top of my head! (If I could I'd list them all but these are the first couple of moots that I thought of!!)
@liv-dawn
@soft-karina
@loveliest-victim
@if-n0t-l8ter-when
@guiltyypleasure-xx
@princessskye09
@lovely-n0vember
@mtncherub
@sauriella
@brinkof-goingsupernova
@lovedollie
@theseviolentdelights22
@vampyressx
@bewitchingbimbo
@squeeze-my-lemonss
@planetsomewhere
@sandtripper
@sweetbabyangell
@blazin-beauty
@nikkilunalace
@loganxcouture
@cowardlycowboys
@thatradslut
@moonlitxngel
@one-moment-of-sanity
@666bedbugs
@mrs-milano
@lulondrous
@xxfelldowntherabb1tholexx
@vexeddevotion
@cthulustits
@restingbluntface
@xphobos
@fanciedfairy
@whothefuckiskatlyn
@dem0ndawg
@guineepercy66
If you're not already, go give all these great people a follow and show them some love! 😊💚
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Thank you for the tag @dude-watchin-with-the-brontes and @cicerfics! This was a fun little tag game!
Last song: Once Upon a Poolside - The National & Sufjan Stevens (back in my Sad Tunes era).
Favourite colour: red and other autumnal tones. Imagine me as the sponge lady yelling earth tones.
Currently watching: Ripley, Star Trek Voyager (for casual rewatching), and Twin Peaks (also a rewatch but definitely not casual).
Savoury/sweet/spicy: Savoury, most of the time. Preferably also crispy.
Current obsession: Wolf Hall (the book), Ripley, a podcast called 'Sweet Bobby' about a really sad catfishing case.
Last thing you googled looked up on duckduckgo: how to open up the door of an Electrolux washing machine when something's stuck in the door (I did this amid water flooding my laundry).
Tagging @ato-the-bean @sweetbabyangels @bishybarnaby @mr-iskender and whoever else wants to play along.
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sweetbabyangel 😌
I think this technically counts as three words but I mean I’ll let it slide 🤭 I love u!!!!! 💞💓💕
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Never in a billion years would I have been able to predict that this Lana Del Rey coquette soft girl Tumblr classic that I really only knew in gifs and screenshots was actually a Czech anti-communist feminist masterpiece written and directed by a woman! Huhh!! This flick has been on my list since the golden years of Tumblr and I finally sat down tonight maybe 10 years after I first glanced these cuties in flower crowns with tags like #sweetbabyangel #lovergirl #softaesthetic etc. and my guesses were this was probably some French exploitation flick with some artfully shot nude scenes of barely legal models dancing in fields and painting their nipples purple. But no. This female director said fuck the bourgeoise and let these little demons run wild. And there is not a moment where I felt they were being ogled or exploited. In their moments of nudity or sexuality, the camera sat still and the characters held the power.
Beautiful. I loved it. Might be one of my favorite films I've ever seen and that really just.. God I was expecting it to be so pretentious and annoying! Yay! Joy bitch joy!
#daisies 1966#feminist#coquette tumblr#lana del rey#feminism#mine#coquette asthetic#soft girl#film#women in cinema#cinema
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First Lines
runnRules: Post the first lines of your last 10 fics posted to AO3 (Sort by date posted.) If you have less than 10 fics posted, post what you have!
Thanks so much for tagging me in, @stinastar & @ato-the-bean! My last 10 fics are all 00Q, and I'm clearly an in medias res kind of writer.
The guards shove him into the showroom, hard enough that the hobbling chains bruise his ankles as he stumbles. —Off the Books
James makes the handsome blond fellow at the hotel bar as an operative in under three minutes—and CIA within five. —Flirting with Danger
"I've already spoken with R about staff availability," Tanner says, and pauses to acknowledge her with a small nod before continuing his explanation to Q. "There's a limited roster of staff qualified to run the system they need set up for the meeting, and of those qualified, all but one have already been granted leave for Christmas." —The Highland Holiday Set-Up
His lips are swollen from hours of kissing, his neck so warm from beard burn that he leaves his scarf tucked in his pocket. —Roman Holiday
Bond carries the two heaviest bags while Q carries the lighter one and unlocks the front door. —Groceries and Other Conundrums
"007, Shen just got on the highway heading East. Your on-ramp will be coming up on the right. You must intercept him before he reaches the airfield," Q says into the microphone. —The Laws of Road and Reason
The heavens open ten minutes after the pickup truck—and his erstwhile pursuers—explode. —In from the Storm
"The joystick is highly sensitive, so a light touch—" —Please Ask (for Help)
The new quartermaster is young, attractive, and endlessly creative. —Touch It, Stroke It, and Undress It
James wakes from a heavy sleep to his mobile buzzing in an unfamiliar room. It takes a second longer than it should to reach full consciousness and pull together the clues—dawn light, a soft tropical breeze from the open window, the faint edge of a hangover, James naked and mostly hard, and Q sprawled over his chest…wearing a ring on his left hand where his fingers curl over James’s heart. —Above Honey and Everything
I'm tagging in @pterawaters @sweetbabyangels @stinastar @wantonlywindswept @arasigyrn @emiliasilverova @aprettyspy @stormofsharpthings and anyone else who wants to participate.
Tag, you're it!
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wip tag game
Thank you for the tag @patrice-bergerons! ❤️
RULES: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.
The last line I wrote was in a completely new 00Q fic I'm working on:
At least for six months it is.
Tagging @anyawen @dude-watchin-with-the-brontes @spiritofcamelot @eleanor-is-fine @l219tj @sweetbabyangels @aniron48
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Um, excuse me, Bond fandom, how have none of you ever brought this picture of Ben Whishaw to my attention before...?
cc: @sweetbabyangels (!!)
Source: this interview
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Do you know if there’s a Ben Whishaw fan group here on Tumblr or somewhere else? xo
there's not really a fan group on here, more of a shambolic collection of blogs that occasionally overlap around ben and/or the characters he plays lol. i'll list some of them (they're all nice people, i promise 💕)
@iceforcutie @vvomentalking @deciulla @byrdcalls @thestalwartheart @beb-whishaw @rannamn-blog (check the likes) @amongthejumbledheap @sweetbabyangels @amatesura (check their ben tag) @foxsoulcourt @cicerfics @bishybarnaby @moonwest @stilettochat @boffin1710 @indigoperegrine and tbh if you check out the @mi6-cafe (a bond fandom community) you'll find loads of other people who reblog/post ben stuff (usually in a Q setting tbh).
#i'm forgetting sooooo many people#like i'm looking at this list and i know people are missing#sorry but i am forgetful and dumb
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Tagged my @untraced-beauty
🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then tag 10 of your followers🎶✨ Please don’t feel obligated to do it if you don’t want to!
I tag @sweetbabyangell @carb0nmono @hellboyyy25 @letspretendimnotevenhere @wolves-atthedoor @nottodayanxiety @leenaway @enjoli-paige @peaachyleaf @joydivisi0n
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If you’ve arrived here and you’re looking for some good ol’ wholesome (or not so wholesome) 00q/ballet boys/Roman shit, you should head to my actual tumblr @sweetbabyangels
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my sweetbabyangel almost died but mummy saved him
#sims 4#sims 4 100 baby#100 baby#sims 100 baby challenge#sims 4 100 baby challenge#1#100 baby challenge#the sims 4 100 baby challenge#jorge#robotics
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