#boffin1710

[dassandre-00qpidsarrow]

Q could barely maintain a platonic friendship outside the walls of Six. What possible business did he have attempting something romantic with a man who somehow managed to complicate every part of his life simply by existing in it?

Chapters: 24/? Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Q/Alec Trevelyan, Q & Alec Trevelyan, James Bond & Q Characters: Q (James Bond), Alec Trevelyan, M | Gareth Mallory, Bill Tanner, Original Characters Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Deception, Friendship, Betrayal, No Time To Die, Safin - Freeform, Dom/sub Undertones Summary:

There will be no resurrection for James Bond this time.

Weeks after he died on Safin's island, Bond's body, now deemed safe from Herakles, is returned to London. Bond's escort is someone wholly unexpected, and one who ultimately forces Q to acknowledge things about himself and MI6 that he'd been wrestling with for a rather long time, but particularly since the Herakles debacle.

[boffin1710]

[sparklycitrus]

Finally Finished A Fic!

OMG y’all. I did a thing! I finally did a thing, and that is: I have finished writing a fanfic that I’ve started like, 3+ years ago. Yep, I finished it yesterday. Not done editing, because there are still some major parts I have to tweak, and of course the language could be prettier, transition smoother, etc. But, yeah, wow. Took so damn long!

Which fanfic is it? I’m glad you asked (you didn’t, but I’m going to talk about it anyway). Well, I have a nifty little tag called #cellophane in my archives, and that’s the snippets I’ve been posting off and on throughout the years. You can also probably find it under the generic #fanfic in my blog too. It’s supposed to be a standalone but has morphed into a major series, because I can’t just leave a story be, apparently. It’s also supposed to be a substitute fill for when I joined 00QRBB in, uh, 2019? I believe? The original fill got ballooned into a plot of more than 100k words, and I knew I wouldn’t be able to finish it, so I wrote what I could and pretty much abandoned the whole thing. Well, I feel TERRIBLE about that, so I wrote another story in its place later, hoping at least to belatedly fulfill it. Um...I did not realize it’ll take me to June 2022 to be done! So sorry, @boffin1710 (that’s my artist), I will have something up for you, after all this time, most likely during the 007 Fest (oh btw people go sign up if you haven’t already!)

[foxsoulcourt]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 9/75 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: James Bond & Q, James Bond/Q Characters: Q (James Bond), James Bond, M | Gareth Mallory, Original R Character (James Bond), Original Male Character(s) of Color Additional Tags: No Time to Die (2021) Fix-It, Grief/Mourning, Mallory is a Traitorous Arse, Q Has Cats (James Bond), Rogue Q (James Bond) Summary:

After James Bond dies in a hail of missiles on Safin’s island, Q wrestles not only with his grief but with his anger toward Six and his own culpability in Bond’s death. Deciding it’s time for some changes in his life, Q’s wanderings manage to bring him some clarity and healing, but an encounter with the impossible shows him he can’t escape his past. Rather than shun it, Q seizes the opportunity to atone for his mistakes, leading him to a resurrection of hopes and dreams he never knew he even had.

Bookmarker's Notes:

It's now been 268 days since I first wept when Daniel Craig's version of James Bond realised he was going to sacrifice himself for the great good. i.e. Die.

Did I know it was coming? Not really, but I also intentionally didn't dig into how that movie would end because I didn't want to know.

What I did know is that experiencing the arc of that story (See James find out he's a father. See James return to protect his child + the woman he loved. See James nearly outsmart the villain. Etc.) physically shocked me. It happened all over again the five times I saw the movie. I didn't cry each time, but whenever Mallory began reading those lines by London + we saw Q throw back ALL of his toast to Bond, something rankled.

Until I read the first few chapters of this story I just didn't realise how.much.it.rankled. Because y'know, anticipation, see the movie, analyse it, read some fics, etc. But. Now it's July 2022 + we're three days into this year's 007 Fest, my first as a participant. And THIS WORK, this creation by the amazing @boffin1710 + @dassandre-00qpidsarrow has brought me to tears several times. Speaking for myself, which is all I can do, it has created a vessel for my unresolved issues about the movie to roam around like a maelstrom and sort themselves out.

That's all I'm going to say here because you, Dear Reader, owe it to yourself to go on this adventure for your own experience.

Here's to it. 💜

[frickandfrack83]

Pantry  Vanilla Scones

Inspired by a recipe from @dassandre-00qpidsarrow and @boffin1710′s saga Without Being Told. They were supposed to be Vanilla Bean Scones but the exchequer was rather lean and we’re still under shelter-at-home restrictions so they became vanilla-extract-from-the-pantry scones. 

 And a pic of a real life scone, which was very yummy. (And, yes, I’m aware that scones are traditional cut into triangles. I’m a lazy baker. Vaguely squarish shapes worked just fine, thank you very much.) 

[mi6-cafe]

We’re still blown away by the enthusiasm the fandom’s shown for our miniBang (it’s now 26 fics and 26 pieces of art!!). And so to thank everyone who signed up, we’ve decided to rec their work in these posts and also to help you to get to know them better. You see, besides old favourites, we’ve also got quite a few newcomers! (See all the spotlight posts here.)

We know that we’ve advertised the miniBang as “one last event before the movie” and now the premier’s moved to November, but the Bond fandom has no time to sigh!

We’ll keep writing and arting and supporting our writers and artists with many reblogs and comments!

Now, give it up for:

Ghoul

AO3 

What are your top three dream Bond-film destinations for a holiday?

Macau, Haiti, & Scotland. 

Do you have a favourite Bond film?

Skyfall! By a slim margin (having Q and Moneypenny & the most enjoyable villain arc helps!). 

What’s your Bond OTP/OT3? What’s your favourite rare pair?

00Q for the OTP. Rare pair is certainly Moneypenny/Q. 

Choose your favourite child (fic, artwork). Tell us about it. (OK, you can pick 2. But that’s it!)

Prototype 

Bond is not an easy man to offer comfort to. Q just looks at failures and recalculates. A fic where a mission goes awry for someone else, but Bond comes back safe and sound and a bit rattled.

I’m writing a fic for the minibang. 

I’m writing for the prompt: 

"A’s trying to act like everything is fine. But B fucking knows A’s been turned. B found the bugs in their bedroom."

@boffin1710  is my partner! 

This work of theirs is my favourite: 

Sexual Fantasy bc I laughed so hard at it

Ask your partner: “If you were an ice cream flavour what flavour would you be and why?” What was their answer?

I'm unsure on theirs! I've found a birthday cake flavored one recently though... 

[themuller13]

@00qreversebang:

My art prompt for the 00Q Reverse Big Bang 2017-2018: Wretch.

AsheTarasovich (natalieashe), Boffin1710 (@boffin1710): We can hide things away, but we can't forget.

"...What or who are you hiding? No one ever asks that..."

[dassandre-00qpidsarrow]

Chapters: 28/? Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Q/Alec Trevelyan, Q & Alec Trevelyan, James Bond & Q Characters: Q (James Bond), Alec Trevelyan, M | Gareth Mallory, Bill Tanner, Original Characters Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Deception, Friendship, Betrayal, No Time To Die, Safin - Freeform, Dom/sub Undertones Chapter Summary:

Q loosened and tugged off his tie with the flagging energy of a man whose next major life goal was unconsciousness. He shoved it into his pocket as he stepped into the house, mentally cataloguing the minimum effort required to feed the cats and get himself into bed.