#ldws 2024

[mi6-cafe]

Our Week 2 LDWS Drabbles are here!

Prompt: an image prompt of a red train travelling over a stone bridge in a tree-filled Scottish landscape:

Word count: 150

You can read their drabbles HERE and vote for your top three favorites using THIS FORM!

Thank you so much not just to our writers, but also to our readers and voters—we couldn’t have this competition without any of your valuable contributions. <3

We’ll release voting results on Monday. Good luck with week two, writers!

And join us in discord Saturday night at 9pm eastern to read the drabbles aloud!

[thestalwartheart]

thestalwartheart's LDWS 2024 Masterlist

Four weeks, four prompts, four drabbles and countless wonderful conversations. Thank you so much to @mi6-cafe for running this event again. It's one of my favourite events in the calendar.

irreplaceable

Any engineer worth their salt knows there's a workaround for everything. And thankfully, Q is the very best there is.

fates

Since the day they met, Q and Bond have been having the same conversation. Q thinks there's something comforting about that.

a good look

When Q finds Bond peeking in around Q Branch archives, absurdity ensues.

mercies, small and large

The night before Q sees through a difficult decision, he's more human than Bond has ever seen him.

[pommedepersephone]

Pomme's LDWS 2024 Masterlist

Thank you so much to @mi6-cafe for running this event - my first year participating and I had a delightful time.

fake plants are tacky

Q never was any good at keeping the things he was fond of alive.

the train may fall in love with a station

“We can pretend you never said it, but I’d rather not, if it is all the same to you.”

the death of common humanity

"I’ve seen flagrant infidelities patched up, I’ve seen crimes and even murder forgiven by the other party... But never the death of common humanity in one of the partners. I have called it the Law of the Quantum of Solace." - Ian Fleming, Quantum of Solace

make it count

When Bond comes crashing back into Q’s life (and date night) after disappearing, the welcome he gets isn't the welcome he expected at all.

[mi6-cafe]

Last Drabble Writer Standing is here!!

If you are unfamiliar, this is a four-week competition where we give prompts to writers and challenge them to write a drabble each week. These drabbles are then posted anonymously for everyone to read and vote on.

Each writer has one week to write the drabble and submit it in time for the weekend voting spree. And if you would like to host a weekend readalong of the drabbles, reach out to the mods to get it on the calendar!

(You can find the full details here: https://mi6cafe.wordpress.com/events/last-drabble-writer-standing/)

So, without further ado, if this all sounds interesting to you and you’d like to be one of the writers, you can

Sign up here!!!!

Sign-ups run from Sept 1-15 and the first prompt goes out on Sept 20.

[mi6-cafe]

Week 4 Results!

Overall results will be coming soon, but first, results from the final week:

First place: mercies, small and large by @thestalwartheart Second place: make it count by @pommedepersephone Third place: Just one regret by @l219tj

Congratulations to all our writers!! We enjoyed reading your delightful drabbles!

The author names will be added to the document soon, but they are also here below.

anyawen - Apocalyptic ato the bean - by the light of the shimmering doom Beauty-of-nyx - The Last Dance BondLocker - War. edenavari - A Return to Arms hypatia - Before Things Went to Shit L219TJ - Just one regret Mely - No Delicate Flower Myn - Waiting phinnia - dinner for three pommedepersephone - make it count themuller13 - Change thestalwartheart - mercies, small and large

[pommedepersephone]

The train may fall in love with a station

Words: 150

Rating: General

Relationships: James Bond/Q

Tags: Love Confessions, TRAINS

Summary: “We can pretend you never said it, but I’d rather not, if it is all the same to you.”

My entries for the 2024 MI6 Cafe Last Drabble Writer Standing on ao3

[thestalwartheart]

a good look

Words: 250

Rating: Teen and Up

Relationships: James Bond/Q

Tags: Pre-relationship, humour, Q Branch gadgets, flirting

Summary:

When Q finds Bond peeking in around Q Branch archives, absurdity ensues.

[Read on AO3]

[thestalwartheart]

fates

Words: 150 Rating: General Relationships: James Bond/Q Tags: Pre-relationship, or at least ambiguous relationship, Conversations, Light Philosophy Summary:

Since the day they met, Q and Bond have been having the same conversation. Q thinks there's something comforting about that.

[Read on AO3]