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You Rebuilt My Car
A double-drabble for fest.
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“You rebuilt my car,” said Bond, stunned.
“Yes,” said Q. “An interesting technical…”
“I could kiss you,” Bond teased.
“Please don’t,” said Q after a nearly imperceptible pause.
His tone was dry and bored. He’d rolled his eyes and was almost the picture of the disinterested quartermaster—who dealt with multiple deadly, flirtatious agents on a regular basis—almost.
Bond’s life, too often, depended on him noticing the things others didn’t want him to see. And right now, there was something that Q didn’t want him to see.
So, he looked.
“You didn’t rebuild the car I dunked in the Tiber,” said Bond.
“Please,” said Q. “It’s still drying out.”
“Nor the Jag 004 crashed in Monaco.”
“Unsalvageable,” said Q. “Not worth the effort.”
“I’d assumed this was too,” said Bond.
“Recreating the original modifications was an interesting technical challenge,” Q repeated.
“I’m sure.” Bond took a step closer. Q held his ground though there was a flicker of concern in his eyes.
“You rebuilt my car,” said Bond, more gently than the first time. “I could kiss you.”
Not a statement.
An offer.
“Don’t,” said Q, eyes moving restlessly, looking everywhere but at Bond. “Not unless you mean it.”
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Skyfall + Letterboxd reviews
#007 fest 2023#007 fest#teamcivilian#team civilian#james bond#scary bond gifs#skyfall#scary theory gifs
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James Bond x Fleabag incorrect quotes
Scavenger hunt item #9
#james bond#fleabag#incorrect quotes#quartermaster#00q#007 fest 2023#scavenger hunt#teamcivilian#team civilian#my stuff
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I know we all love the headcanon where Q sweats through missions and yells at Bond for doing stupid, insane, risk-taking things in the field. BUT. Hear me out.
I think Q likes a bit of risk. And I think he secretly enjoys watching the agents when they’re doing something that’s both ingenious and death-defying.
I mean, imagine if Q had seen Bond do a motorcycle jump like the one in NTTD. You’re telling me he wouldn’t have hidden a smile behind his mug? That he wouldn’t have said something droll and witty? That he wouldn’t have had just one fleeting, extremely inappropriate thought about Bond in motorcycle leathers and had to hide his reaction to it by clearing his throat or typing a bit too hard at his keyboard?
Q’s got the worst blood pressure medical has ever seen, but at least he’s having fun.
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Announcement for a special Remembrance
Some of you know Tenshi aka slimysuckers aka Alexis from the last year(s) of the 007 fest.
A member of the team civilian and shipper of 00Q, she was a very much liked and gentle person. Many of you - and others - got to know her as a chat partner for James Bond related subjects, as for private, friendly conversation.
She left earth at the 7th of March and is clearly missed in this Fandom.
So I talked to others at this time (please look here) and I proposed a Tenshi Day for the next 007 fest.
It will be at the 15th of July for us, lots of time to prepare.
We want to cherish her, speak her name, tell anecdotes, make gifs, etc for her. What we are comfortable with.
No one will be forced to anticipate, and no one will be forced to use the 15th. If you want to post something earlier, later, more often, just tag 'tenshiday' and it will get reblogged on the civilian Blog. Of course we can reblog it also on private Blogs. Speak a person's name and they will not die.
I hope I did not overstep with this announcement and wish you all a wonderful 007 fest 2023!
Much love,
Penny
#teamcivilian#mi6cafe#007 fest calender#007 fest 2023#Message from the co-captain#Gingerfan#Tenshiday
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A headcanon prompted by @anyawen (any [00Q], #37. The tender ache when you press against a bruise)
Q has always been the sort to poke at things better left alone. (He wouldn’t exactly be very good at his job if he wasn’t.)
He’d pushed schoolmates and friends as a child, making pointed observations that he later learned would be more polite to keep to himself. He’d questioned teachers relentlessly when he felt they weren’t being clear, or when things simply didn’t make sense, and only felt vindicated when he wound up in trouble for it. He’d learned to push whatever technology he got his hands on past its limits, learned how to slip past boundaries he was never meant to pass (he feels less vindicated getting in trouble for that, but it earns him his job in the end, so it all turns out alright).
One habit in particular that his mother had despaired of was his tendency to poke at bruises as they healed – testing the give of the flesh as it colored from black and purple to green and yellow, feeling the way the ache would lessen over time when he tapped around the edges.
It’s a habit he never quite grows out of, and one he doesn’t feel inclined to break when Bond goes out on missions, and it feels as though the shape of his mouth and the dots of his fingertips bruised into Q’s skin are the only thing he’s left with. The ache isn’t a fascination, then, but a reminder, and a keepsake to hold onto until Bond returns.
#00q#007 fest 2023#teamcivilian#bondq#q#bond#solar wrote#anyawen#tagging you here since for some reason Tumblr won't let me tag you in the post
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#Tanner day#team civilian#teamcivilian#gingerfan#Michael kitchen#pierce brosnan#Goldeneye#Tanner tuesday#mi6 cafe
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007 Fest 2023 - Headcanons!
Run out the guns, it's headcanon time! Prepare for barrage! (and my first post, so forgive me if I make a few mistakes, and it's a bit late due to my personal schedule)
Bond Headcanons
James Bond is not a codename.
Quite frankly, I've never subscribed to this theory. I've always believed that we jump to a slightly different universe with every actor switch. Each universe shares vaguely the same series of events, with certain commonalities. Such as…
Every film Bond has lost their Tracy, except (maybe) Connery and Craig.
Moore still visits his Tracy's grave, Dalton's was mentioned to have been married in LTK. Brosnan we never know flat out, but remember - "Or if you find forgiveness in the arms of those willing women, for all the dead ones you failed to protect…" Connery represents and interesting scenario. Diamonds are Forever can be read in two ways - either Bond is out Spectre-hunting after You Only Live Twice to catch the remains of what remains of Spectre, or he's on the warpath after Tracy died in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. For the sake of this theory, let's say that the latter scenario is canon.
Brosnan's Bond used to have unlimited spending money, but then Dench!M cut the funding, hence her nickname of evil queen of numbers
This is something that has some basis in the Fleming books. Bond in Casino Royale is allowed to spend exorbitant amounts of money on the Secret Service's tab - millions of francs that is. Despite the fact that in the 50s 1 pound meant 13 francs, this still constitutes a hefty amount. I remember reading that novel!Bond basically has an unlimited budget in a guidebook. I have a feeling this is similar in the movies - after all, I doubt even a RN commander's pension could afford the hundreds of thousands in monies Bond is bound to lose in the movies. Of course, in Brosnan!Bond's timeline, I have a feeling Dench!M ended up putting an end to that little scenario.
There was no Cuban Missile Crisis in the Fleming books.
Rather, Operation Thunderball was the "big nuclear scare that defined the Cold War". In the movies, it's largely kept under wraps, but in the book, it eventually goes public by the end of the story. Of course, the loss of two atomic bombs in the Caribbean may have convinced certain figures in the Soviet Union that keeping their nukes in such an area would be… disastrous to say the least. So with that in mind, they decided not to bite the bullet and kept Cuba nuke-free.
SMERSH was kept around specifically to counter the OO Section in the books.
SMERSH in real life was disassembled in 1946, whereupon the MGB took on its counter-intelligence duties before reformatting into the KGB in 1954. We know in later books, specifically The Man With the Golden Gun and Octopussy and the Living Daylights, that the KGB does exist in the Fleming books. However, considering how more proactive the British Secret Service is, especially with the OO section, I would hazard a guess that SMERSH was kept around specifically to combat them, at least until the KGB came into existence (which then absorbed it).
Brosnan's Lleweylln!Q did retire…
He took his fishing boat to Wales and lived out the rest of his days somewhere in the countryside where they only speak Welsh (a little something @emiliasilverova and I cooked up a few years ago)
Kincade is (or at least was) married to May Maxwell
For those of you who don't know, May Maxwell is Book!Bond's Scottish housekeeper. In between assignments, she and Kincade stay up in Skyfall, before Bond summons her to look after his flat until he returns. Sadly, perhaps the reason we don't see her in Craig!Bond's run is that she may have passed away at some point.
Blofeld was always a megalomaniac, but kept that under wraps... until Bond drove him over the edge
One major line of thinking I remember when I watched Tim Burton's Batman movies is that Batman is always just one step behind his villains in the crazy department, with his morals relatively intact. Conversely, we see Blofeld acting like an absolute machine in Thunderball (and all his appearances in the movies before YOLT), but when Bond foiled his plots, he slowly began to lose it. This gave way into him being more expressive, megalomanaical, and downright unconventional (biological warfare, suicide gardens, and diamond lasers) as time goes on. After all, how would YOU process your hundred-million-dollar master plans going up in smoke at the hands of a suave secret agent who always gets away with it?
Bond's favorite book is Treasure Island
John Gardner mentioned that Robert Louis Stevenson was Bond's favorite author. And with the latter writing a sea story that stars a young orphan named James, who gets involved in some epic swashbuckling adventures, it just feels right.
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A slightly smutty prompt filled for @holdingtwopens
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007 Fest 2023 intro post: lapsang-and-earlgrey
Tumblr/AO3/slack: lapsang-and-earlgrey
Civilian role (nickname): lap/lappy booboo aka lapsang (where did my house go) earl grey
What you were doing before being rudely interrupted by an international crisis: gardening
Favourite snack/drink to have while watching the events unfold: Pepsi Max Cherry and popcorn with nutritional yeast and Old Bay
What you’re most looking forward to during Fest:just hanging out and reading
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Posted a new chapter just in time for the crossover day :-)
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Playing on team civilian this year for 007 fest, but I will have a couple things to post.
Here's a manipulative Dench M recruiting an adolescent hacker who will grow up to be Q.
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Family Matters
Drabble, 00Q, Q Branch
"Thanks, mum."
Bond watches the handler retreat then turns to Q. "Why'd they call you that?"
"Oh." Q points vaguely skywards. "NASA Mission Operations Managers get called Mom. It's stuck."
"Unfortunately?"
Q replies, unexpectedly soft. "It's stuck because we're family, apparently, so I suppose I can endure it."
Three months later…
"Morning mum, morning dad," the Q Branchers chorus as they pass along the corridor.
"Why'd they call you that?" M asks suspiciously, stalling on his own way past.
They subtly take half steps away from one another, and Bond drops his hand from Q's back.
"No reason," Q says.
#james bond#quartermaster#00q#007 fest 2023#drabble and doodle day#teamcivilian#team civilian#my stuff
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31 Days of Bond locations
DAY 30: VENICE, ITALY.
as seen in Casino Royale.
"The job is done. The bitch is dead."
#007 fest 2023#teamcivilian#31 days of bond locations#casino royale#james bond#vesper </3#look at them - she was the love of his life
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July 15th is Tenshi Day!
It’s the day for remembering Alexis_tenshi aka slimysuckers, our former Team civilian member, who was a dear friend for so many.
Ways to participate:
Sharing stories about Alexis
Making gifs, drabbel, or drawing about her favourite ships
Reblogging her entries from the former fest
Simply writing/speaking her name
Whatever you feel comfortable with, as also without any pressure please ❤️
Tag #tenshi day #007 fest 2023
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A headcanon prompted by @kitten-kin (James Bond - #4. Napping in sunshine)
Even in retirement (or “retirement”), Bond never quite adapts to a normal sleeping schedule. His bedroom is equipped with the best blackout curtains he could find, ready for him to lay down and sleep no matter the time of day.
His couch, however, is positioned perfectly to catch the optimal amount of sunshine that pours through the wide sitting room windows in the morning. He can be found there as often as in his bed, napping in the warmth of the sun like it’s all he needs in the world.
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