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she/her | 30s | UK

[luminiferocity]

007 Fest 2025 Masterpost

Manips

Looking sharp - Bond and Q looking fiiine

Keeping it simple - Solange and Vesper and their tragic parallels in Casino Royale

Evolution of man - Bond through the ages *checks cuffs*

Scavenger hunt

007 Fest 2025 Intro Post

Skyfall - Blackout poem based on the Glencoe page on Wikipedia

Bond in the wild - Strawberry Fields

James Bond x Derry Girls incorrect quotes

Silva's brilliance in Skyfall. Or: A headcanon in defence of Q

James Bond is an annoying coworker, but not for the reason you think: A headcanon

Thank you all for a wonderful Fest 💜

[pommedepersephone]

Just waitin' on a war for this and that There's got to be more to this than that "Waiting on a War" by Foo Fighters

[catbellybuttons]

at pride today we were trying to explain the chess vibrating anal beads controversy and this span out into us riffing on a chess set that vibrates your anal beads when you put someone into check and you can only cum when you get someone in checkmate ect ect. v funny. now we've been home a few hours and the gf (K) is like

K: imagine James Bond and your man...what's his name... Q?

Me: yes Q...?

K: doing the anal beads chess thing

Me: wait what?

K: James Bond is wearing the anal beads

Me: ...have you seen any of these films?

K: no

Me: I mean i'm down with this conceptually, i'm just confused as to why you think this is a 00q thing...?

K: It just seems like something they'd do

K: you can have that

K: *points at laptop* tell your little friends about that

[catbellybuttons]

#your gf has a beautiful beautiful mind#they would SO do this#q mentions chess n bond is like ohh yeah im sooo good at chess#or however he would sort of sayvthat#'ive seen my way around a few chess board in my time'#n q would be like okay well i was obssesed with it for like 5 years im not just good im unpleasantly good#bond insists they play together#qs like *sigh* if we have to#then they sit down to play n last minute qs like here put these in 🥰#bamb! qs evil plot to lure bond into wanting to play chess by pretending he doesnt want to#this is so dumb. do u see the vision (via @miniaturecowboys)

Oh I fully see the vision. Q feigning reluctance would absolutely convince Bond this is something he needs to talk Q into doing right now. this is a bad (good) (bad) idea. every time he looses a piece the vibration ramps up and that is NOT helping him play anymore effectively. Q could have ended this 11 moves ago but he's just enjoying watching Bond squirm. physically squirm. because of the anal beads. K has given their seal of approval too.

[myndelling]

@gloomymegu & I are thrilled to present the 2026 edition of Octopuzzly for @mi6-cafe 007 Fest!

Each day you will find a new puzzle - could be a jigsaw, could a be a word search, could be a cryptogram, could be something else - with a James Bond theme.

July 17 - Fill in the Blanks

We know there is a lot of activity during 007 Fest, so if puzzles are your thing, we invite you to follow the hashtag #Octopuzzly

[catbellybuttons]

For the WIP ask game, picking a word that could be gen or E rated... how about 'cheek'?

you do not know what a can of worms you've opened with a single word 😅😅 I did think this was going to end up with me getting my entire dick out on main even more so than I normally do which would be saying something. But I managed to find one instance that's almost normal, even a little funny. Still kinda horny tho *disclaimer voice*: you have been warned

(for this ask game)

The upward tilt of his hips and the deep dimples either side of his spine exaggerated the curve into his arse. The shape of it was satisfyingly round in profile, almost the platonic ideal of a nice arse, Q had always thought. Idly watching the man stalking about the bunker in those overly fitted suit trousers. Though straight on the cheeks had an odd squareness, a rounded angle between the crease and where they joined back to his legs.

The other 4 instances are... not like this... 😅😅

[james-bond-offical]

The kids may yearn for the mines, but the orphans yearn for MI6 training.

[mistysblueboxstuff]

soft Azi i painted yesterday

[thestalwartheart]

31 Days of Bond Fashion

DAY 17: THE RED BLOUSE AND SKIRT as seen in Skyfall (2012).

Skyfall was a film with plenty of casting overhauls: Ralph Fiennes stepping in as M, Ben Whishaw redefining the role of Q, Rory Kinnear bringing back Bill Tanner, and, perhaps most glamorous and electrifying of all, Naomie Harris stepping into Miss Moneypenny's heels (via, of course, some flats in the field).

Moneypenny's first appearance — though we don't yet know who she is — positions her style as professional but arguably far more practical than Bond's. While he clings to the armour of a fine suit, she is dressed (relatively) much more casually. She continues to play with convention off the field, too. As she flirts with a shirtless Bond in his Macau hotel room, she's dressed in amped-up officewear: a red silk blouse with cloverleaf lapels, a red pencil skirt and a wide tan leather belt fastened with a gold buckle. It's as bold as any red dress in the series, and it says plenty about her: that she's fiery, daring and willing to play by the rules of professionalism (the cut of her clothes) so long as she can bend them where she likes (the colour).

This Moneypenny had clearly come a long way from asking Bond to bring her back a diamond ring.

Sources: Fashioning James Bond: Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007, For His Eyes Only.

[memoriart]

i'm sorry his WHAT

[kitten-kin]

[kitten-kin]

@halfbaked00q re: my underselling of Bond's stance. Sometimes I go too far the other way tho. XD

[luminiferocity]

Chapter 2 of All of My Tomorrows on AO3

Q understands that it’s his destiny to lose James twice, once in death, once when his aged self walks away from a younger James in front of The Fighting Temeraire and triggers the next cycle to begin, until one cycle when he won’t lose James at all.

Or, it’s Q vs. the multiverse, and one of these lifetimes he’s going to win.

+

In this chapter, James has a run-in with Blofeld. Again and again and again.

“Please don’t.”

Chapters: 2/6 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies) Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond), Madeleine Swann, Mathilde (James Bond) Additional Tags: Time Travel Fix-It, Time Loop, Non-Linear Narrative, Angst with a Happy Ending, Movie: No Time to Die (2021), No Time to Die (2021) Fix-It, Remixes welcome, MI6 Cafe 007 Fest 2026

Written for @mi6-cafe 007 Fest 2026

[pommedepersephone]

What have we done with innocence? It disappeared with time, it never made much sense Adolescent resident Wasting another night on planning my revenge - "Monkey Wrench" by Foo Fighters

[catbellybuttons]

the highland scenes in skyfall are very haunting and dramatic but also they do paint an extremely misrepresentative picture of scotland's underfoot stability

I know all of this is bog

[catbellybuttons]

I found a walk in that area that's a walk highland bog factor 4

[dragonfurs]

*crushes my emotions with my bare hands* as I was saying,

[emiliasilverova]

GOLDENEYE (1995) / SKYFALL (2012)

(In celebration of Tenshi Day—07/14/2026)

I don't, admittedly, have the spoons to create something today. But while I did the Octopuzzly of the day (lovely homage, btw, @myndelling & @gloomymegu), I couldn't just sit there and not participate in Tenshi Day any further. Therefore, I present to you these two companion pieces, which I completed some months ago and showed to my friends on Discord—but somehow never posted here.

They are, I think, the best photomanips (if not artworks) I have ever made. I've never felt that either of these movies got the official posters they deserved, and perhaps you remember this is not my first foray into "fan-poster'ing" for GoldenEye (my literal first post on tumblr). This new GoldenEye was inspired by my favorite Brosnan era poster (the white version of The World is Not Enough), while the Skyfall is a gift to @prismatic-bell... and all my 00q friends who wish that the official promo was prettier to hang on their wall, and featured Q where he belongs. And for the bondalec crowd... Alec too, incidentally.

(They're half the size of actual one sheet movie posters, btw)

I hope @tentacletenshi can see these, somehow. Photomanipping was one of her loves, and now definitely one of enduring legacies. She was a pillar of both 00q and bondalec—and still is, in a way. I have mourned her, and I miss her, and I'm glad the fandom celebrates her today.

[hymnism]

"I need to set the table."

[luminiferocity]

A.N.E.M.O.N.E.: Another Novel Experience Magnifying Our Notorious Employees

A.N.E.M.O.N.E.: Agents Needling Executive Management Organising Novel "Entertainment"

A nebulous endeavour: maximising our neutralised enemies

A never-ending mission of normal employees:

Averting new extreme methods of needless explosions

Agents not exactly managing our nations' expenses

A pointed cough from over her shoulder makes Lyra jump, but it's too late to cover her notepad.

"Better not let M see that," Tanner says quietly, ever the voice of discretion. Then he adds, smiling slightly, "But you're not wrong."

@mi6-cafe 007 Fest 2026 scavenger hunt: Choose a character (or your Fest Character) and redo the acronym.

[cicerfics]

WIP Wednesday

@mi6-cafe

It's been practically a geological age since I've had a WIP Wednesday snippet to share, but I'm almost done with something I'm working on for fest!

For now, consider this 'the one where Bond discovers that Q is going gray'.

“Do you know,” Bond said, cheerfully, “that you’ve got a gray hair?”

Q paused.

For a hideous moment, he was painfully conscious of every millimeter of his skin and every angle of his body. He was certainly aware of the awkward proximity of his body and Bond’s: the latter, sprawled out for a scan of his sub-dermal trackers. The former, awkwardly bent over the exam chair, ultrasound wand in hand.

Q resisted the urge to shut his eyes or clear his throat.

Bond didn’t deserve to witness such obvious signs of discomfort, though he was undoubtedly fishing for that sort of reaction.

Wretched man. Of course he’d choose now to start picking at Q’s appearance.

Q adjusted his grip on the wand and tried to square his shoulders.

“Yes. I’m aware.”

He focused his attention on the monitor at his side.

“I wonder,” he added tartly, “who might be responsible for that.”

At his side, Bond made a thoughtful sound, as if he were seriously pondering the question.