#gareth mallory

[ageofgeek]

Bond falls victim to what I am now calling "Steve Rogers Syndrome," where a main character throws away his found family (which the audience has become much more attached to) in favor of a bland, boring, nuclear/heterosexual life. Just because Bond doesn't get his "happy ending" doesn't mean that he doesn't fall into this trope.

I think a lot of people would agree with me when I say that Bond & Madeline have no chemistry. They had no chemistry in Spectre and they continue to have none in NTTD. And yet, we're supposed to care about their relationship because 1) the narrative (i.e. Bond) tells us, instead of shows us, that he loves her, and 2) there is a child (which the narrative also tells us that we should care about).

But the truth is that Bond doesn't trust Madeline. Not really. The second he's attacked by Spectre, he immediately blames her and doesn't even question if he's wrong (and she doesn't really try to convince him otherwise). Now, you may chalk this up to Bond not trusting anybody, but here's where we get to the found family: because he does trust his MI6 family, implicitly, immediately.

He trusts Eve enough to tell her about the scientist, Feliks, what happened in Cuba, etc., and to ask for her help. He trusts Q so much that he gives him the flashdrive he recovered in Cuba, he stays with Q in his apt while he's in London, he places his life in Q's hands multiple times throughout Skyfall, Spectre, and NTTD. He trusts Mallory - even after knowing his shadiness with Herakles, he still trusts him enough to go back under his command. He even trusts Nomi after only a few days of meeting her - enough to trust her to have his back on the island, enough to trust her with Madeline and his child.

So the fact that Bond doesn't trust Madeline is a huge, huge red flag. To me, the "trilogy" of Skyfall, Spectre, and NTTD were all about establishing Bond's support system and family within MI6. In Casino Royale and QoS, he really only had M, and no other connections to MI6 beyond her. But starting with Skyfall, he begins to build a support network of people he does trust in MI6, and the audience begins to trust them (and love them) along with Bond.

This simply doesn't apply to Madeline, because Bond doesn't trust her, and so the audience is never shown why we should trust her or love her.

#this rant has been in my drafts for months since i saw NTTD and you know what??? #i'm posting it #b/c it's true af #still bitter #james bond #no time to die #nttd #nttd spoilers #skyfall #spectre #quartermaster #eve moneypenny #gareth mallory #mine #meta #rant

[dontcxckitup]

Incorrect MI6 quotes 68/??

#Eve Moneypenny #Bill Tanner #Gareth Mallory #Q #James Bond #;;incorrect mi6

[hungry-hobbits]

casino royale/skyfall/spectre + the onion headlines

#james bond #casino royale #skyfall #spectre #raoul silva #le chiffre #q #bill tanner #gareth mallory #olivia mansfield #lucia sciarra #max denbigh #c

[patrice-bergerons]

BONUS:

#james bond #skyfall #olivia mansfield #dench!m #daniel craig #judi dench #bill tanner #gareth mallory #ralph fiennes #007 #mallory's is *this* your babygirl?? look kills me #also the out of focus sneaky look tanner gives M at the end #ALSO THAT EYEROLL to end all eyerolls #skyfall is an office comedy?? #my gifs

[luminiferocity]

Here be headcanons

It's happening! Kicking off the first day of 007 Fest 2023 with some MI6 worldbuilding headcanons for Headcanons Day (AKA the HCs crammed into my WIP to make sense of film-world MI6)

Q Branch is just a small part of Six (and everyone else thinks the double-oh programme is more trouble than it's worth)

Q Branch makes no sense. As film!Q is a shorthand for the mission support teams for narrative ease, Q Branch seems to run independently and Q himself is a polymath taking on all the roles.

Eh, I'm okay with genius Q because I love him 🤷 Other Q Branchers are all wildly smart and eccentric in their own ways. That's Q's hiring policy

Most analysis, missions, etc. are run through logical departments with hundreds of staff, which the problem children doubles-ohs and Q Branch build on for their specialist missions

Lots of Six staff don't like the double-ohs and Q Branch by extension – they burn through the budget, cause havoc and get away with multitudes, and a little more secrecy and intelligence in the SIS would be much preferred

Maybe it's for the best that Q Branch is away from HQ up-river at Millbank Pier (based on this excellent post)

Essentially, Mallory has hundreds, maybe thousands, of staff and assets globally, yet it's 1% of his staff that causes 99.9% of his headaches

Heracles isn't the first off-book project and it won't be the last

Mallory was used as a character to hang the Heracles plot on, but it leaves a lot of questions. Why was he even involved? Why isn't it the responsibility of the Defence Science and Technology Lab?

I figure all the UK's intelligence agencies have joint off-book operations like the Heracles research, some farmed out to private contractors, etc. So, Heracles isn't special, it's just that this secret got found out and had big consequences

Maybe Mallory had a hand in Obruchev defecting, so those consequences were extra personal

Also, imagine being Mallory: was Chair of the committee looking into MI6 shadiness, only to get hired as M and get tangled into all this shadiness

Q & Moneypenny besties: great; Q & Moneypenny & Tanner: even better

After Spectre, they didn't know who to trust, except one another. They keep Six running and they're each other's rocks and best bitching buddies

Q, despite what he says, is the most dramatic of the three. Moneypenny, of course, delights in winding Q up. Tanner isn't as catty as those two, except for when the mood strikes and he's the worst

Tanner gets swept up in various antics, often Bond's, along with Q and Moneypenny. However, he's perfected bland-faced innocence and Mallory never gives him grief for it. Q and Moneypenny find this very annoying

#007 fest 2023 #headcanons #meta #james bond #quartermaster #eve moneypenny #bill tanner #gareth mallory #let me count the ways #teamcivilian #team civilian #headcanonday #headcanon day

[foxsoulcourt]

Navigating Purgatory (12032 words) by Anyawen Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: M | Gareth Mallory, Q (James Bond), James Bond, Bill Tanner, Eve Moneypenny, Paloma (James Bond) Additional Tags: NTTD Fix-It, mallory takes responsibility, attempts to make amends, paying respects to the dead, Travel, Bit of introspection, Angst, Past James Bond/Madeleine Swann, Grief, Political Fallout, personal fallout, things look up ... eventually, 007 Fest 2023, TeamQBranch Series: Part 1 of Purgatory Summary:

There is no restitution Mallory can offer to make amends for the decisions that led to the missile strike on Safin's island —and the death of James Bond.

That doesn't mean he does nothing.

Bookmarker's Notes:

When this fic posted last July I did.not.have the capacity to give Mallory his due. But today I did and W O W! What a gift it was to dive into this 'verse with all its complexities + delightful ways it fills in canon's gaps of logic.

L O V E @anyawen's way with OCs; in this story line that means Akari. Love witnessing Mallory experience all the pain he deserves for the series of choices he made around Heracles, but also how Anyawen provides him a way forward into a life worth living.

As much as I want to say more, out of respect for YOUR upcoming experience Dear Reader, I won't. If easing the pain of how No Time To Die unfolded is what you're after, you've come to a place where another way is skillfully imagined. Hydrate beforehand + bring your tissues because there are m a n y tender moments. Enjoy m'friend, ENJOY!

#navigating purgatory #nttd fix-it #mallory takes responsibility for his choices + actions #the journey of making amends + paying respects to the dead #gareth mallory #mallory goes on a worthwhile journey #but first his quartermaster busts his chops #q #quartermaster #james bond #and all the people #anyawen #00q #notice how i put that at the end #because while that is there THERE'S SO MUCH MORE beforehand #foxsoulcourt 00q fic rec

[vanillabean-97]

Seeing it’s Skyfall anniversary I thought I’d show you guys one of my first fanart for this movie and fandom. Originally I wanted to clean this up and make it look like those cool character design line-ups. Sadly I never finished it. Might try again someday…

#my art #james bond #skyfall #007 #MI6 squad #eve moneypenny #gareth mallory #bill tanner #quartermaster #ben whishaw Q #judi dench M

[aniron48]

James Bond x Schitt's Creek Quotes

(For Scavenger Hunt #9, "create an incorrect quotes post.")

#james bond #quartermaster #dench!m #gareth mallory #schitt's creek #007 fest 2023 #team q branch #qb-a1

[hecticwinter]

James Bond as Bob's Burgers scenes (2/?)

Original Scenes Credits - nocontext_bobs (Twitter)

#source: bobs burgers #james bond #007 #incorrect quotes #q james bond #bill tanner #gareth mallory #eve moneypenny #from drafts #00q

[foeofcolor]

The young james bond series is so insanely funny to me as a concept esp if we take it as Canon to the craig movies, like.

James Bond, working with SIS since age 15 qnd has been almost dying since age 13 : I think the new Q is too young.

Q would be so incensed abt it and like... does everyone else know??? That even as a teenager james bond was just terrible ar staying out trouble???

Now I'm thinking about tanner, eve and mallory and q finding out abt this and going hey 007 what the fuck is wrong with u

#ITS JUST SO FUNNY TO ME LIKE #HE WOULDDD #james bond #q #quartermaster #007 #ian fleming #young bond #skyfall #00q #daniel craig #ben winshaw #gareth mallory #skyfall 2012 #bill tanner

[elsewheregremlin]

Sorry Mallory & Tanner, but you two had to take one for the team.

Edit: okay apparently this is my queering the character day fill now.

Edit: I counted this as eight memes stacked together?

#007 fest 2022 #team00 #q #james bond #olivia mansfield #nomi #gareth mallory #paloma #bill tanner #memes #mine

[dontcxckitup]

Incorrect MI6 quotes 67/??

#Gareth Mallory #James Bond #;;incorrect mi6

[captsharonstark]

His name is Bond. James Bond. And he’s a man on a mission.

#Daniel Craig #James Bond #Ralph Fiennes #Gareth Mallory #00swann #Madeleine Swann #lea seydoux #my first ever JB edit!! #i could not get this song out of my head and how well it fit with him! so I made something with it #I am not an experienced video maker lmao but I had so much fun with this and I’m quite proud of it! #and with it being Daniel Craig’s birthday it seems like a good day to post it! #HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEL CRAIG #my edits

[cornishkat]

Protecting M - Pt Five

Gareth Mallory x F!Reader

Warnings:  Guns, violence, swearing, blood, implied sexual violence. NSFW Smut p in v, oral.

Summary: M had been right there was more to you than first met the eye and he sees just how much as you both get yourselves into a dangerous situation.

Notes:  Did know if I would finish this, Benn distracted but have finally come back to it hope you like the ending and apologies for any mistakes or inconsistencies.

As you closed the front door behind you and felt tiredness hit you like a brick wall, today had taken it toll on you. You knew you should have stuck around to get checked out and debriefed but you had needed to get out of that factory.  You needed to put some space between you and M, you were starting to feel Bond had an ulteria motives for getting you to undertake this job.  You had seen him watching you and M, he really was an insufferable bastard at times.   You poured yourself a large whisky before slumping down on the sofa and as you did a subtle waft of aftershave rose off the jacket you were still wearing, a comforting smell of spice and sandalwood, the smell of M.  Taking one last deep breath of the comforting smell of the jacket you shrugged it off and placed it carefully over the back of a chair.  Walking through to the bedroom you pulled off the rest of your clothes and headed for the shower.  The hot water stung at the cuts on your body and you watched the water swirl red at your feet, but it helped to numb your aching muscles.

Pulling on sweats and a t-shirt you went and curled up back on the sofa but before you could refill your glass you heard a knock at the door.  Glancing at the security screen of the front door you were surprised to see M stood on your doorstep.

“Sir what can I do for you”

“I just wanted to make sure you were ok, you had left by the time I finished with Bond.  You should have gone back to HQ, gotten yourself checked out.  I also thought maybe we should talk after today”

Standing back you motioned for him to enter and closed the door behind him.

“Drink?”

“Thank you”

“Make yourself comfortable”

As you poured another glass you watched M pacing quietly around the living room, as you offered him his glass you gestured for him to sit down.  Taking off his coat he sat down and took a sip of his drink.  He was for once not in his usual three piece suit, instead he wore an open neck shirt, the casual look made you look at him in a whole different way.  You sat patiently waiting for him to speak, he obviously had something on his mind for him to come and see you at this time in the evening.

“How are you, did you get those cuts cleaned up?”

“They were just scratches, nothing serious”

“Good, I’m glad”

You watched M, he sat looking down into the amber liquid in his glass and if you didn’t know better, he seemed almost nervous.

“M are you ok?”

“Yes, just wanted to ensure you were ok”

“You said you wanted to talk”

“What you did today, you shouldn’t have done that”

“I don’t understand, I did what I needed to do”

“You had every opportunity to say stop and he would have left you alone and moved on to me”

“And that is why I didn’t say stop”

“You don’t need to protect me”

“I chose to protect you, my choice”

“But why, he was going to……”

“I know but better me than you”

“No, you don’t get hurt for me.  Do you understand that can’t happen”

“M you do understand that Bond brought me into to protect you not to do your filing”

“After today I understand why, I’m glad you’re on my side”

“Not that I did a great job of it”

“That was on me not you, you did more than I did to keep us in one piece, but you put yourself on the line for me”

‘If the position was reversed, would you have done the same for me, would you have said stop and let him hurt me?”

“No of course not”

“Then why is it any different for me”

You watched as M drained his glass, he was still looking down at his glass rather than at you.

“Because it is my job to protect my staff, it is not your job to protect me”

“Technically I’m not your staff and it is my job”

“And that is the only reason you were going to let him….”

Taking a deep breath you drained your glass, was this going were you thought it was going?  Was he wanting you to tell him how you felt, you supposed you had nothing to lose, you had done what Bond had wanted you to do.  Worst case scenario you made a fool of yourself and never saw him again.

“No…”

“Then why?”

He almost whispered, still looking down at his empty glass, moving closer to him on the sofa you gently took the glass from his hands and placed it down on the table.  Placing a hand gently under his chin,

“Please look at me M”

“Gareth, please call me Gareth”

Turning his head, you could see the emotion swirling through his eyes, cupping his face with your other hand you gently pressed your lips to his.  You felt him tense under your touch before leaning into the kiss, his hands gently pulling you towards him.  His soft tentative kiss becoming more urgent, hungrier as a low groan escaped your mouth.   You both pulled away, holding eye contact, holding each other.

“Why did you protect me today Y/N/N?”

“Do I need to say it?”

“I need you to say, I need to hear it”

“Because I seem to be falling for you, and I couldn’t see you hurt”

You watched the smile spread across his face, a smile also mixed with relief.  You gently pushed him back onto the sofa and straddled his lap, his hands went to your hips as you undid his tie and the top buttons on his shirt.  Dipping your head once again you breathed in the scent of him and pressed your lips against the soft skin at the curve of his neck, he groaned as you continued to kiss his neck and trailed your tongue up to earlobe.

“Y/N/N are you sure?”

“Very sure, are you?”

“I couldn’t stop now even if I wanted too”

He wrapped his arms around you and stood up, wrapping your legs around his waist you let him carry you through to the bedroom.  Dropping you gently down in front of him, he ran his hands up under your t shirt before pulling it up over your head.  As he ran his hands over your breasts and gently down over the cuts and bruises on your skin, you saw concern cloud his eyes.  Smiling at him you pulled his braces down over his shoulders and undid the rest of his shirt, you ran your hands over his broad chest as he knelt down in front of you, planting soft kisses on your stomach as he pulled your sweats down over your legs leaving you naked before him,

“Beautiful, so beautiful”

He looked up at you from under his eyelashes as he stood up, his stunning blue eyes never leaving yours as you undid his belt and let his trousers fall to the floor.  Taking a step back you took in every inch of him, pushing down his boxers you let your eyes drop to his hard cock, kneeling on the bed you dipped your head and slowly ran your tongue up over his glistening head.  You felt the growl he emanated reverberate down through his body and through yourself

“Dear god Y/N/N….”

“I think I’m going to enjoy teasing you”

Before you could do anything else he lifted you and threw you down on the bed pinning your hands above your head.

“Really, how about we see how you like being teased”

He trailed his tongue down over your stomach and parting your thighs he planted soft kisses over the insides of them.

“Gareth, please…”

“Please what, tell me what you want”

“You, all of you”

Smiling he dipped his head back down and he started to trail kisses up the inside of your thighs, as you arched your back his tongue lapped at your already wet pussy.  Every nerve in your body was tingling, every fibre of you just wanted him, all of him deep inside of you.  Crying out as he pushed two of his fingers deep inside of you as he continued to lick and suck with his mouth.  You could feel your orgasm building in the pit of your stomach as you writhed under his touch and tried to pull away.

“Please I’m going to come”

“Then come for me”

Bucking your hips, you could feel yourself losing control as he kept going, his fingers curling inside of you as he finally tipped you over the edge.  The climax tore through you, your body shaking as you collapsed back on the bed, panting hard.

Before you could gather yourself, Gareth’s lips were on yours, you could taste yourself on them as he pushed the tip of his hard cock against your still sensitive pussy.

“I need you inside of me, god I need you”

With one smooth thrust he was inside your wet pussy, his hard cock filling you completely.  Wrapping your legs around his waist you pulled him deeper and deeper inside of you as he started to rhythmically thrust in and out of you.

“Damn your so tight around me”

“I want to feel you come inside of me”

Gareth growled as he picked up the pace and you dragged your fingernails down his back.  You could feel another climax building deep inside you as you whimpered into his neck.

“God Gareth….”

As you came over his hard cock and your muscles spasmed around him, you felt him push hard one last time and come deep inside of you.  Panting hard you looked up into his icy blue eyes, gently he rolled off you and lying on the bed next to you he pulled you towards him.

“Well that happened”

“Yes it did”

“Not wishing to spoil the moment Gareth, but I’m not one for playing games.  If that was just a one off…”

Cupping your face gently in his hand, he silenced you with a kiss before you could finish,

“I am not a man for one night stands and after that you  don’t have a hope of getting rid of me, if that is ok with you”

“I think I can handle that, plus we should make sure that wasn’t just a fluke”

“One hell of a fluke, but I think your right, best to make sure”

#007m #gareth mallory x reader #Gareth Mallory #james bond #007 q #bond fanfic

[hardwiredweird]

Watched The Menu last night and had to draw Fiennes as M again.

#gareth mallory #james bond #ralph fiennes #fanart #digital art #digital sketch #{weird art}

[foxsoulcourt]

To Tell The Good From Bad, Villains From Heroes (55180 words) by moon_of_mercury Chapters: 18/18 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: James Bond/Q, M | Gareth Mallory/Eve Moneypenny Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond), Eve Moneypenny, M | Gareth Mallory, Bill Tanner, Nomi (James Bond), Felix Leiter, Madeleine Swann Additional Tags: Mission Fic Summary:

Almost 5 years have passed since SPECTRE left MI6 vulnerable. Bond and Q have both made their own choices in the aftermath. Now, the time to pay the price is at hand.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Six months ago I gobbled down this whole work, part of the 2020/2021 RBB. It's a testament to the power of it that I had not yet marked it as read written a bookmark for it. Circling back today to do both.

This is a f a b u l o u s, complex, well-constructed work sparked by @themuller13​‘s art ​. I LOVE it both the evocative art + the story so much. Love seeing Q walk away from MI6 + learning why; love how damn complicated it is for Q + Bond to turn towards each other; the MI6 family is so.well.done, and L O V E the many OCs which round out the cast of characters.

What's f*%!ing W i L d is something I had to keep reminding myself over + over + over again: this a NTTD fix-it completed over six months before we knew eXaCtLy w h y we needed a fix-it fic! Yeah. Wow.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. And if you do, please love up the author @themerc for all the reasons. Because, yeah, wow. 💜

#to tell the good from the bad villains from heroes #moon_over-mercury #themerc #themuller #this fic knocked me flat when i read it IN A GREAT WAY #the art haunts me #because it takes seriously why q might leave mi6 in an nttd universe #great action #complex characters #and THEN we get to q + bond (snort!) #loved mallory here in a way i didn't expect to #q #mi6 quartermaster #james bond #007 #nomi #paloma #gareth mallory #eve moneypenny #foxsoulcourt 00q fic rec