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Tree roots following the pattern of concrete footpaths

#nature

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Hello!

This one is the troublesome (but very loved) potato, isn't it? I just found your blog and I'm not that much in this particular fandom but I love them all already. Is the comics done or there is a probability for a part 9?

Have a nice day!

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You are correct~ Bonnotte is the most time-consuming little potato, being the runt of the litter and the only one needing to be topped up with bottles because he spends all his time mewing instead of nursing and napping like his sisters.

He is named after the world's most expensive potato varietal; a species that only grows on a small strip of farmland on the Île de Noirmoutier off the coast of France, in the Bay of Biscay. Every le Bonnotte is lovingly harvested by hand during a one week period each year.

Q has created official identification papers for the kitties and listed them as Bond's beneficiaries in MI6's systems. He calls them Lizzy, Adi, Bon-Bon, Mari, Belle, and Lotte, and refers to them as Bond's wife and children.

And yes, there's a part 9 coming~

#the best potatoes #james bond #quartermaster #00q

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which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

#egad! #tea

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#as long as the cuffs are straight #everything will be ok #james bond

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Here's my 00Q contribution to week one of the @mi6-cafe Moodboard March challenge.

Fills the prompt: "I like to do some things the old-fashioned way."

Lyrics from "Old Old Fashioned" by Frightened Rabbit

#over here sighing wistfully #james bond #quartermaster #00q #MI6CafeChallenge #Moodboard March

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The AU where Bond becomes a PI after retiring from MI6 (and Q moonlights as his cyber expert).

For @mi6-cafe's Moodboard March Week 1: "I like to do some things the old-fashioned way" / noir

#ooh lovely #james bond #MI6CafeChallenge #Moodboard March

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#cackling #same Q. same #quartermaster #james bond

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Chapter 11 of Let Me Count the Ways is up on AO3!

In this chapter, the year ends with the Q Ball — and an offer.

Full summary below the cut…

Let Me Count the Ways by luminiferocity Chapters: 11/20 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond), Eve Moneypenny, Bill Tanner, M | Gareth Mallory, Madeleine Swann, Mathilde (James Bond) Additional Tags: No Time to Die (2021) Fix-It, Canon-Typical Violence, Slow Burn, Friends to Lovers, and they were HOUSEMATES, James Bond's Tendency to Run, Q Backstory (James Bond), BAMF Q (James Bond), James Bond Is A Menace, Q is a Little Shit, Bond is Delighted, M | Gareth Mallory is So Done

Summary:

“I bet you can’t name five things that make me an attractive option.” Q cocks his head, as if considering Bond. “We can’t all seduce our way to as long a trail of broken lovers as you. Even at your advanced age.”

Q thinks Bond is incapable of actually being offended, hence why he feels safe to throw aspersions his way. Indeed, Bond’s eyes register surprise, then they crinkle in amusement.

“I bet you I can name six.”

“Hmm?”

“Six reasons why our dear Quartermaster is a catch. Number one, you’re incredibly charming.”

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Or, what if Bond crashes Q’s date that night and never bloody leaves. A slow burn following NTTD and beyond, including Bond and Q discovering what they want in life and how to be the kind of people that can hold onto it.

#I need to catch up on comments but wanted to get this posted because #omg it's happeniiiing #james bond #quartermaster #00q #let me count the ways #my stuff #fanfic

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#as a somewhat-local these comments are giving me joy #carbs on carbs on carbs

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ask-jamesbond

#one of my faves #james bond #kincade

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No, I don't wanna get over you.

The National x James Bond || Pt. 3

#my heart #james bond #vesper lynd

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I fully believed Blanc is fucking dumb and that after his 4th date with Phillip he'd look at him, kind of startled like oh shit wait a minute what the fuck

Blanc: uhm. Phillip. Er, forgive me but... Is this a date?

Phillip: Ah yes, well done. I was worried that i hadn't been dropping enough clues.

Blanc: (realization dawning, mortified) oh my God...

Phillip: I understand that is primarily how detectives communicate, dont they? clues?

Blanc: Not primarily!!

Phillip: I was hoping for another death, so I could leave a formal invitation to dinner next to the murder weapon.

Blanc: (rolls his eyes) that won't be necessary. And my apologies. If it's any consolation i am very much enjoying being courted. Its just that we detectives are often so wrapped up in the not-so-obvious that we... overlook that which in retrospect is very obvious. Extremely obvious. (to himself) we walked around the park with gelato.

Phillip: no apologies needed, I figured you were fully occupied by Stuart's murder.

Blanc: well, I must confess I was only half occupied. Because you are very good looking. So this continues to be rather embarrassing.

#love this #benoit blanc #knives out

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00Q Outfit swap 

(redraw the original from 2014)

#would love a cameo of Blanc in The Cardigan in Knives Out 3 #james bond #quartermaster #00q #fan art

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#🙄 #hedy lamarr #science #women in stem

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Terry Pratchett about fantasy ❤

Terry Pratchett interview in The Onion, 1995 (x)

O: You’re quite a writer. You’ve a gift for language, you’re a deft hand at plotting, and your books seem to have an enormous amount of attention to detail put into them. You’re so good you could write anything. Why write fantasy?

Terry: I had a decent lunch, and I’m feeling quite amiable. That’s why you’re still alive. I think you’d have to explain to me why you’ve asked that question.

O: It’s a rather ghettoized genre.

Terry: This is true. I cannot speak for the US, where I merely sort of sell okay. But in the UK I think every book— I think I’ve done twenty in the series— since the fourth book, every one has been one the top ten national bestsellers, either as hardcover or paperback, and quite often as both. Twelve or thirteen have been number one. I’ve done six juveniles, all of those have nevertheless crossed over to the adult bestseller list. On one occasion I had the adult best seller, the paperback best-seller in a different title, and a third book on the juvenile bestseller list. Now tell me again that this is a ghettoized genre.

O: It’s certainly regarded as less than serious fiction.

Terry: (Sighs) Without a shadow of a doubt, the first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfire— Was it you who wrote the review? I thought I recognized it— Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning, and stuff like that. They did not tell one another literary stories. They did not complain about difficulties of male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some midwestern college campus.

Fantasy is without a shadow of a doubt the ur-literature, the spring from which all other literature has flown. Up to a few hundred years ago no one would have disagreed with this, because most stories were, in some sense, fantasy. Back in the middle ages, people wouldn’t have thought twice about bringing in Death as a character who would have a role to play in the story. Echoes of this can be seen in Pilgrim’s Progress, for example, which hark back to a much earlier type of storytelling. The epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest works of literature, and by the standard we would apply now— a big muscular guys with swords and certain godlike connections— That’s fantasy. The national literature of Finland, the Kalevala. Beowulf in England. I cannot pronounce Bahaghvad-Gita but the Indian one, you know what I mean. The national literature, the one that underpins everything else, is by the standards that we apply now, a work of fantasy.

Now I don’t know what you’d consider the national literature of America, but if the words Moby Dick are inching their way towards this conversation, whatever else it was, it was also a work of fantasy. Fantasy is kind of a plasma in which other things can be carried. I don’t think this is a ghetto. This is, fantasy is, almost a sea in which other genres swim. Now it may be that there has developed in the last couple of hundred years a subset of fantasy which merely uses a different icongraphy, and that is, if you like, the serious literature, the Booker Prize contender. Fantasy can be serious literature. Fantasy has often been serious literature. You have to fairly dense to think that Gulliver’s Travels is only a story about a guy having a real fun time among big people and little people and horses and stuff like that. What the book was about was something else. Fantasy can carry quite a serious burden, and so can humor. So what you’re saying is, strip away the trolls and the dwarves and things and put everyone into modern dress, get them to agonize a bit, mention Virginia Woolf a few times, and there! Hey! I’ve got a serious novel. But you don’t actually have to do that.

(Pauses) That was a bloody good answer, though I say it myself.

#terry pratchett #in defence of fantasy #writing

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HEY that's MY emotional support morally ambiguous misunderstood full of trauma touch starved yearning for love drenched in blood responsible for numerous atrocities comfort character who is TRYING & u will TREAT them with RESPECT

#fandom #writing

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#my heart #cats