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What’s a kick?

#the inception girlies were so right about them

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for the fic line guessing game: “Good god, Bond. You might have approached from the front.”

This sounds like remember, remember! It absolutely would have stumped me if I hadn’t looked up this exact fic for someone the other day.

Thanks for playing @dude-watchin-with-the-brontes ❤️

#ask box

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I saw your Fic Line Guessing game so here we go:

There’s something about that thought, the thought of sending Bond away smelling of sex — smelling of him — that makes Q dizzy. At the same time, the illicit thrill of it makes him nauseous. It’s unkind of him, but Bond was right. He’s always been too kind where he ought not to be.

With a quick smile, Q puts down his glass and lays his hands in his lap, suddenly quite overcome with the madness of the situation and all the things he’s come here for tonight. He and Bond hardly know each other, really.

“I love you. God, I love you so much, you infuriating, anachronistic relic.”

My choices here are entirely self-indulgent

Thank you for the ask @non-compos-mentis-nimbus ❤️❤️❤️ And thank you for allowing me to love my work again ❤️

I think these are:

1. like a catherine wheel

2. see it real

3. living on the fault line

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Just FYI the Latin translates to:

Woe to you and to all that you have made me feel

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

like a catherine wheel by @thestalwartheart

vae tibi et omnibus quae me sentire fecisti

Its not what I promised, but rather something else entirely.

Until next time,

Mare Noctis Studios

(K. E. Birch)

#I cry #00q

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like a catherine wheel by @thestalwartheart

vae tibi et omnibus quae me sentire fecisti

Its not what I promised, but rather something else entirely.

Until next time,

Mare Noctis Studios

(K. E. Birch)

#OMG ???????????? #BIRCH YOU ARE KILLING MEEEEE #😭😭😭 #thank you so much!!!! al the hearts are not enough ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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TGIF. It’s freezing in my house, so I’ve gone straight back to bed after logging off from work.

#personal

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💋

#he’s correct

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Shout out to the tennis rpf crowd: you would love Challengers. Go see it!!!

#hottest film of the year for sure #who was the little freak who watched one (1) roger/rafa tennis match and wrote a whole screenplay #I salute you 🫡 #anyway it genuinely is a great film and zendaya kills it

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I love all of this so much @cicerfics!

“Many jokes about Q's animal magnetism are made once he and Bond get together.” I AM DYING.

what superpower do you think q has that he has managed to keep hidden from everyone else? how about moneypenny, bond, leiter, etc?

I struggled over answering this! I wanted to say that Q is a secret flier (i.e. risk-taker), but really, how secret is that? Between being in cahoots with Bond from day one and testing experimental tech in the field, I think people know he is.

So I'll say his warmth. It's unexpected to most people. Even to Q himself. Maybe he grew up thinking he didn't like people very much, but that became "except this person, and this person" and then eventually there were a few many people he got on with to say he hated people.

I think he tried to be cold and arrogant for all of five minutes in his job, but as soon as he saw the horrors the agents dealt with, he let it go.

And I think his warmth leads to people putting their trust in him, telling him things they wouldn't otherwise tell a soul. By the end of his first year on the job, he's a hoarder of guns, tech and the secrets of secret keepers.

I'm going to throw the rest open to everyone else (though maybe I'll come back to Bond later on! I have plenty of thoughts I need to wrangle about him).

What are the MI6 teams hidden superpowers? Go! ❤️

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what superpower do you think q has that he has managed to keep hidden from everyone else? how about moneypenny, bond, leiter, etc?

I struggled over answering this! I wanted to say that Q is a secret flier (i.e. risk-taker), but really, how secret is that? Between being in cahoots with Bond from day one and testing experimental tech in the field, I think people know he is.

So I'll say his warmth. It's unexpected to most people. Even to Q himself. Maybe he grew up thinking he didn't like people very much, but that became "except this person, and this person" and then eventually there were a few many people he got on with to say he hated people.

I think he tried to be cold and arrogant for all of five minutes in his job, but as soon as he saw the horrors the agents dealt with, he let it go.

And I think his warmth leads to people putting their trust in him, telling him things they wouldn't otherwise tell a soul. By the end of his first year on the job, he's a hoarder of guns, tech and the secrets of secret keepers.

I'm going to throw the rest open to everyone else (though maybe I'll come back to Bond later on! I have plenty of thoughts I need to wrangle about him).

What are the MI6 teams hidden superpowers? Go! ❤️

#ask box

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controversial but if you are going to give that man a happy trail, might as well give him some chest hair. some armpit hair. arm hair. leg hair

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Fic Line Guessing Game

A -- go to my AO3/FF.net/Wattpad and pick out a line or three from one of my stories. Must be a full line, please -- no sentence fragments or speech tags or other such nonsense. B -- I will respond with which story of mine I think it's from. C -- A drabble (type-thing) to anyone who stumps me.

#oh this should be fun #80+ fics and a prompts and shorts collection with nearly 50 chapters #let's see how we go!

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A distraction! I've been wanting to start watching the Slow Horses TV adaptation and I'm posing this question to you since I know you enjoy it, is there anything to keep in mind as someone who has no prior exposure to it? (I know there are books but I haven't read any of them)

Hello!

The short answer:

I went in unprepared aside from knowing Gary Oldman was in it, and I had a blast. In general, I think if you like the world (and fanfic) of Bond you'll like Slow Horses a lot. It shows the full spectrum of working for a secret government service: the darkness, the lightness, the paperwork, the intensity and the idiocy. If you like found family dynamics, you'll love it. In many ways, it is the anti-James Bond franchise, but that's why I enjoyed it. Everyone is so dumb. They're doing their worst. It's fantastic.

Longer answer under the cut!

I'm not sure if you're asking about trigger/content warnings, but I will mention a few under the cut. As with Bond, there are some less savoury parts to the series, but on balance, I think something like London Spy is way more intense and hard to watch. Slow Horses is partly silly romp, and partly an unexpectedly moving action show.

The fatphobia (which really bothered me in the books for how rampant and unexpected it was) isn't nearly as bad in the TV show. But Gary Oldman's character is a bit of a visual gag, especially at the start (he's a lazy, washed up bastard - that's his whole thing).

There is some entertainment of white flag operations and conspiracy theories in S1. I think the show strikes the balance well when it comes to portraying those things tbh, but I know it is a point of criticism sometimes.

The only other thing I'd keep in mind is that during the first season, some of the more violent scenes are very intense. There are one or two pretty bloody/gnarly scenes, both of which involve an axe, but IMO it's not protracted beyond what the viewer needs to see to understand the story. I don't know how spoilery you want me to get, so I'll leave it there for now and if you have any other questions, just ask!

#ask box #slow horses

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A distraction for you! Will you tell me about a fluffy/hurt-comfort 00Q concept you would like to write, or wish someone would write for you?

I think I’ve talked about this before, but because of tumblr’s hot garbage fire search function, I can’t find it.

Anyway, I really want to write a fic (maybe as part of the black dog series) that sees Q signed off from work with stress/burnout/depression that’s exacerbated by a terrible incident. And either Bond’s been away or he’s just come back post-Spectre, but he can’t find Q at the office and no one will tell him where he is.

So obviously, like the stray cat he is, he goes to Q’s house and finds him in the depths of a depressive episode. And he just stays. Partly because he doesn’t have a flat anymore, but mostly because Q’s house is a mess, he hasn’t been eating, and he’s one more bout of insomnia away from burning down the house during an experiment.

I really want to explore Bond’s kindness. We see glimpses of it in canon, but he’s never been allowed to be kind for very long. And I’m also keen to explore how caring for Q will help him with his own demons. After all, extending grace and kindness to others is often the first step to finding it for ourselves.

Would 1000% love to write this but it’s a very personal topic for me and I am too tired to exorcise my own demons at the moment!!!

Thank you for the ask, @cicerfics ❤️

#ask box #00q

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Re: distractions, I don’t know if this was a thing outside of the United States, but as a kid we used to get popsicles that had amazingly bad jokes on the sticks, so as you ate your popsicle you could slowly see the joke and the answer. I recently discovered that popsicle put their popsicle stick jokes online so you can click through them, and it’s become my bad day ritual. You can find them here:

https://www.popsicle.com/us/en/playzone/jokes.html

Or if you’d like a preview:

Q: Why is a bad joke like a dull pencil?

A: It has no point!

..I know this is ridiculous, but sending a hug from here and hopes for good things coming your way! 💜

omg that's amazing! Personally, I really enjoyed: Q: What is a duck's favourite snack? A: Quackers!

We didn't have those fun popsicles with facts, but we did have these sweets called Fantales when I was younger, which had literal 'fan tales' - i.e. stories about movie stars - on the wrapper. Sadly, they were discontinued recently (probably because they weren't great sweets), but I wish the umbrella company that owned them added stories to the wrappers for something else!

We also have a brand of sanitary products over here that puts fun facts on the inside packaging. The facts are called 'Odd Spots' and include things like: - When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red, and; - Botanically, true berries include grape, tomato and eggplant, but not raspberries and blackberries.

You've just gotta take them with a grain of salt because there's some old wives tales in them for sure 😂

This was such a fun distraction! Thanks for the info, Ani, and the hug ❤️❤️❤️

#I love a penguin!

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Hi Mac, I’m coming to you in a sleep deprived haze but whenever I need a distraction I try to find the funniest looking lowest rated erotica I can find on my local library app and see how far I can read.

Last time I did this I checked out a book called “Deepest Desires of a Wicked Duke” and it ended up being actually a pretty compelling murder mystery on an island that just so happened to also be hosting a massive orgy. I was so unexpectedly invested, I was like hurry up with the orgy I want to know who killed them 😂

I will also go to used bookstores and do this too and go to the ultra cheap paperback section and go through the covers, they’re amazing. Older books especially are a delight.

I love you so much, Soup 😂😭 Also, that novel sounds like a Glass Onion porn parody.

When I was younger, my mum used the top shelf of the office cupboard to store all her terrible romance novels. They all had covers with Fabio on them (you should look him up if you don’t already know him) and I used to read them in the hours I had after school before she got home from work. I think her favourites were the “westerns” 😂

Thank you for dropping my to cheer me up, my friend ❤️

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Re: distractions, I don’t know if this was a thing outside of the United States, but as a kid we used to get popsicles that had amazingly bad jokes on the sticks, so as you ate your popsicle you could slowly see the joke and the answer. I recently discovered that popsicle put their popsicle stick jokes online so you can click through them, and it’s become my bad day ritual. You can find them here:

https://www.popsicle.com/us/en/playzone/jokes.html

Or if you’d like a preview:

Q: Why is a bad joke like a dull pencil?

A: It has no point!

..I know this is ridiculous, but sending a hug from here and hopes for good things coming your way! 💜

omg that's amazing! Personally, I really enjoyed: Q: What is a duck's favourite snack? A: Quackers!

We didn't have those fun popsicles with facts, but we did have these sweets called Fantales when I was younger, which had literal 'fan tales' - i.e. stories about movie stars - on the wrapper. Sadly, they were discontinued recently (probably because they weren't great sweets), but I wish the umbrella company that owned them added stories to the wrappers for something else!

We also have a brand of sanitary products over here that puts fun facts on the inside packaging. The facts are called 'Odd Spots' and include things like: - When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red, and; - Botanically, true berries include grape, tomato and eggplant, but not raspberries and blackberries.

You've just gotta take them with a grain of salt because there's some old wives tales in them for sure 😂

This was such a fun distraction! Thanks for the info, Ani, and the hug ❤️❤️❤️

#ask box