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00Q fic recommendations?

All right, let’s do this.

Smooth Criminal by Safaia: Bond is a mercenary, Q a hacker. Prepare for amazing teamwork, agent Moneypenny, oblivious Bond, pining Q (naturally). I found this fic a few weeks ago and I love it.

Keep Your Head Up (And Make it to Me) by wirewrappedlily: Angst, so much angst. Angsty Bond all the way, but it hurts so good. (Also it pays off to stick through it).

Speaking of angst: A Most Peculiar Way by @beaubete: Bond’s an astronaut and the annoying boffin he quite literally bumps into turns into his lifeline when he’s in space. A bit angsty but very sweet.

Ulysses by girlbookwrm: It’s nearly 90.000 words and it’s been a while since I read it, but when I bookmarked it I tagged it with

Now for AUs (I know, some of the others are AUs too, just not AU AUs.)

something has scarcely begun by @senatorgana: Pride & Prejudice AU! Bond seeing Q in his nightshirt and losing his shit! It’s a blast!

we’re all in the mood for a melody (and you’ve got us feeling alright) by laughtershock: Q is a pianist and talks to the attractive barkeeper in his bar a lot. Also, he says stupid shit when he’s drunk. More romantic than this description might sound.

ordinary, everyday things also by @senatorgana: A Harry Potter AU. M tries to tell Q (a wizard) that magic exists using Mary Poppins. Q laughs at him. It’s amazing.

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Thanks for sharing!

So I saw Mary Poppins Returns today

After a full afternoon of Christmas shopping I decided I needed a treat. And despite the range in reviews I spent most of the movie with a silly grin on my face (when I wasn’t sniffling). For two hours I forgot about the real world and just lived in the moment and walked out feeling like a new person.

While I have very fond memories of Mary Poppins, I’ve never put it on a pedestal so I had no problem with a sequel and spent very little time comparing this one to the original. Maybe if I’d watched it again beforehand…

ANYWAY, the whole cast shone (the kids should definitely get more mentions), it was gorgeous to look at and listen to and oh my god it made me want to go to London again. And I will be dragging my friends to see the movie with me again too.

Ben Whishaw really is the emotional centre of the film (yes I know I’m biased but it’s TRUE) and he was also (despite the moustache) quite beautiful. My inner fangirl heart was VERY happy :).

He should be contracted to release a heartwarming movie every Christmas. Next December will seem very bleak without him.

P.S. must pull out my old battered Mary Poppins books to re-read!

P.P.S. the Dumbo trailer also made me cry.

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Hahaha, delighted with these quotes.

From reviews of “Mary Poppins Returns”

Ben Whishaw plays the grown Michael Banks with so much dramatic intensity that he puts a pall over his scenes. - Vulture

The arguable standout is Whishaw, who sells Michael Banks’ heartbreak at the loss of his wife as well as his desperate terror at losing his old family house. He sells it, in fact, so well that you get cognitive whiplash as the story shifts from Mary Poppins’ goofy nonsense to Michael struggling to be a single father. - slashfilm.com

Whishaw’s performance helps compensate for the emotional vacancy elsewhere. - filminquiry.com

The tremulousness and fragility [Whishaw] he projects as a family man under pressure is the tenderest facet of the story; it’s tempting to say that the film might have fared better if “Mary Poppins Returns” had … pared its focus down to Michael rather than trying to keep all of Cherry Tree Lane and its romanticized version of London within its sights. - polygon.com

Well, that was predictable.  When you cast a tragedian of Shakespearean proportions in a corny musical, either one or the other winds up looking ridiculous.  Perhaps it would have helped if Michael Banks looked like a stuffed bear.

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lol

Martin Freeman reveals his and Andy Serkis’ nickname on the set of Black Panther

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Someone write this fic, please.

00Q AU: Q is the rich genius son of the man Bond is supposed to kill. 

(gifs not mine)

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So, about this tumblr migration

Anyone working on an open-sourced version of Tumblr, but better suited to fandom and fanart? Like:

A “most recent” newsfeed that shows all recent posts from people you follow, displayed by most recent publish date

A “discovery” newsfeed that shows all the reblogs

Free on a basic level

$10/month if you want to be a founding member and vote on the priority of features

Support for comment threads

Open-sourced

Ability to favorite posts and see your favorites in a collection

Warnings/permissions to view NSFW material

Post tagging and ability to search by tags

Follow people

Ability to start group chats 

Ability to create collections for posts about Big Bang challenges etc.

I half-hope Archive of Our Own, or some new contributors to AO3, will start this project.

I hear people are keen on pillowfort, but it is behind a paywall right now.

Reblog and discuss additional features you would want, if you’d like.

#pillowfort #ao3 #fandom #archiveofourown #please #tumblr

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I remember the days when Tom Hardy wasn’t as well known as he is now (knighted, seriously!), and had a Xanga blog with personal photos, which I discovered after googling the actor’s name after watching him on the BBC miniseries The Virgin Queen. 

Ben Whishaw is a much more famous actor compared to Tom Hardy at that stage, but still seems to not be as much of a household name as, say, Benedict Cumberbatch. 

But I am delighted that apparently he has a significant role in Mary Poppins, which will inevitably showcase the emotional brilliance in his acting and endear him to more audiences. 

Also, secretly pleased that as part of the promotional tour for Mary Poppins, he’ll have to appear on the Graham Norton show alongside Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Emily Mortimer. 

Yes, that Graham Norton show, which is known for its... good-humoured ribbing of its guests and occasionally ribald humor.

Ben seems to have a more serious/thoughtful personality compared to most Hollywood actors, who are much more comfortable sitting on armchairs at talk shows, responding to jests, and telling funny stories. So I’m curious what the Graham Norton show is going to pull out. Hoping they’ll make it a good time and it won’t be too nervewracking for BW and his costars.

#ben whishaw #favourite actors

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I’ve read at least TWO very good Pride and Prejudice 00q fics featuring a genius technician Q. They’re both on AO3!

How about a Jane Austen style AU for 00Q?

Q: Oops… His Lordship Bond: Who the devil are you and what are you doing in my study?

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In MORE news about actors crushing on Ben Whishaw based on his Hamlet performance... (see: Eddie Redmayne, etc.):

“At school there was a noticeboard with a picture of Ben Whishaw as Hamlet at the Old Vic on it. Kirby stole it for her bedroom wall, went to see the play three times and became obsessed with him, which was not helped by bumping into him on a London bus. She was in amateur local productions at the time, but after studying for an English degree at Exeter and then giving up a place at Lamda to go straight into work as an actor some years later, her first big chance was on The Hour – starring… Ben Whishaw. The director was tough on her, which may have been because: “I wasn’t paying any attention to the scene. In my head it was just alarm bells going: ‘Oh my God that’s Ben Whishaw.’” Afterwards she had to tell him everything. “And it felt good to finally confess my infatuation. Of course, he was with his boyfriend.”

#film #mission: impossible - rogue nation #culture #ben whishaw #celebrity crushes #actors

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7/19/18: All assistance would be appreciated. Things have been really flipping tricky, and the news I got today has just made it worse. I am struggling to not lose my electricity, doctor, meds, and ability to eat. 

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This Bloody Big Ship - Meta

Under ten minutes of shared screen time in two films, that’s what the 00Q fandom is built upon.  

From the bench before The Fighting Temeraire and the bowels of the hastily reconstructed MI6 and (eventually) relocated Q-Branch to Austria and back again to Q’s lair, James Bond and his Quartermaster spend less time together than it takes to savour a well-brewed cup of Earl Grey, with or without the pajamas. Yet, the brilliant performances of Daniel Craig and Ben Whishaw in those roles sparked more chemistry in those few moments of the storyline than Bond managed to manufacture with any Bond Girl since Vesper Lynd.  

It’s rather amazing in that regard.  

Johnlock, Merthur, Rinch, Spirk, Bagginshield … while the English teacher in me bemoans, at times, the portmanteau names of these ships, these pairings all have hours upon hours of character interaction upon which their shippers fuel their passion and draw their inspiration for fanworks of all kinds: fiction, poetry, visual art, videos, headcanon, and metawork.  

We have under 10 minutes of shared screen time in nearly 300 minutes of film. We don’t have John Watson pelting after Sherlock Holmes over rooftops and through the narrow streets of London, which is for me the moment Johnlock was born.  We don’t get to enjoy the hours of pranks and sarcastic quips exchanged between Merlin and Prince Arthur through 65 episodes.  We don’t have the concept of T’hy’la underpinning a relationship that spans two different iterations of Spock/Kirk shipping.  

By comparison, ten minutes hardly seems enough, does it?  Goodness knows we crave more.

But 00Q shippers are a hardy bunch of seafarers, and it’s actually this woefully insufficient amount of time that Bond and Q have together that makes our fandom unique.  

To extend the metaphor, the sails of this ship are filled not with the wind of what is suggested by hours of canon.  It has, instead, weighed anchor and successfully trawled the deep almost exclusively due to the brilliant creativity of the shippers themselves: writers and artists who have taken those fleeting moments in Skyfall and Spectre and given new life to a soul-tortured Double-O and a genius boffin in the employ of Her Majesty’s Secret Service.  Along the way, they have gathered up others from the flotsam and jetsam of canon as a whole:  Eve Moneypenny and Bill Tanner,  Gareth Mallory and M, R and a host of beleaguered doctors from Medical and Psych, and of course the retcon-redeemed Alec Trevelyan who stands either as Bond’s brother-in-arms and/or as his lover, often as such in a polyamorous relationship with Q.

This is a ship that is as much about those who ‘ship it’ as it is about the characters shipped.  It is about the connections we have built with one another as we craft the mission adventures and relationship experiences of our OTP or OT3.  Connections that now represent some of the most precious friendships of my life.  

So even though we have only under ten minutes of shared screen time to work with, we’ve taken that priceless resource and have used it to craft the foundation of a vivid and clever brave new world.  

I like to think that both James and Q are rather pleased with our ingenuity.  

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Hey everyone? This is not okay. In May, the US government officially adopted a policy separating children from their parents when they crossed the border. It was meant to act as a deterrent to anyone seeking to immigrate to this country. Don’t come with your kids, or we’ll arrest you and take your children away. Children should never be used as political pawns like this. It’s inhuman and cruel. 

One man killed himself after being taken away from his family

Children who do get placed in homes with families don’t know when they will see they parents again

The UN has said that this policy violates international law

Parents, after being separated from their children, are being tried as criminals. According to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “If you cross the Southwest border unlawful, then we will prosecute you. It’s that simple” So not only are families being torn apart, parents are being sent to jail. It’s really hard to be reunited with your child if you are in federal prison. 

Please pay attention to what is happening at our southern border. Please care about these people. I know there is a lot gong on in the world, and it’s hard to care about everything all the time, but please don’t forget about the immigrant families. Call you representatives. Vote the people who support this policy out of office in November. Find a local rally/protest. Donate to a charity. Don’t let the people in power get away with this. 

Sources are from The New York Times, the Boston Globe, and a video interview with Jess Session found on NBC news. Jacob Soboroff is a reporter for NBC news and MSNBC. 13 June 2018

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“Gentle nervous breakdown” lol

Ben describes the challenges of working with Great Danes while filming “A Very English Scandal”, plus out takes. 

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Ben Whishaw interview on A Very English Scandal & meeting Norman Scott