#retired!james

[earlgreyinpajamas]

00q fic recs: jealous!bond

1. gold rush by Path_Finder (@scarlettstarr)

All in all, James was sure he would have done almost anything to get rid of Q’s potential suitors. He had simply failed to realize how many there would be.

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5 times James thought Q was interested in somebody else + 1 time it was only James that Q had eyes for

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q’s confession and bond being oblivious for a change sparks so much joy i cannot

2. date, interrupted by thestalwartheart (@thestalwartheart)

Q just wants a nice night involving dinner, drinks, and a good shag (if he's lucky enough). It's too bad James Bond won't let him have one.

Or, the one where Bond is a persistent nuisance and keeps interrupting Q's dates.

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bond interrupting q’s dates is possibly my favourite trope

3. messages in bottles by Mlle_Heloise

When James asked Q to make him disappear permanently, Q expected that it might be, well, permanent. Instead Felix keeps showing up with messages from James, including a most unexpected question that Q doesn’t know how to answer.

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bond coming back out of jealousy just makes me cackle

[earlgreyinpajamas]

hey! got any outsider pov’s that are new-ish?

1. Just Dropped In by nipsu

Two years after going dark, Alec Trevelyan returns to London. After discovering his home has been sold, there might only be one other place he could go to lick his wounds. When he arrives, he realises just how much can change in two years. Was that a cat on his old friend's liquor cabinet?

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this one addresses the alex bond friendship quite nicely and there’s a smidgeon of a hint of 00q00 if that’s your thing, but otherwise you can read it as just 00q too

2. The Devil of Upper Winkleton by christinefromsherwood (@christinefromsherwood)

Upper Winkleton was a quiet village. Quaint, even, with orderly hedges framing meticulously landscaped front gardens, and a large village green in the center next to a post office that also served as a grocer's shop and a small cafe.

Indeed, Upper Winkleton was a very lovely village; a veritable garden of Eden in an ever changing and hastening world. However, just like that biblical garden, Upper Winkleton had its dark corner, complete with its own devil.

A house whose front door children didn’t dare approach to ask to get their ball back when it flew over the fence. A garden which was not only not mowed regularly, but overgrown with nettles and thistles and wildflowers, where even grown-ups didn't dare ring the bell and complain about the hornet nests steadily growing under the eves.

"So, what do you think is really up with Old Man Bond?” asked Tom. Only he had just rammed a fistful of peanuts into his mouth so it sounded more like “Uhuh hu hu hmmm hmm huh hmm hrrung?”

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i am screaming with how cute this is ahhh retired but still bamf 00q 

3. A Confession of a Deck by scarytheory (@scarytheory)

James Bond would be lost without me.

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ahhhhhh the deckkkkkk !!! its voice was captured so well

[earlgreyinpajamas]

HI. DO YOU HAVE ANY JAMES BOND OUTSIDER CONSPIRACY FIC RECS? I just really want to see crazy discord/Tumblr/twitter civilians trying to put together who the fuck this alcoholic but immune to alcohol poisoning cryptid is. 00Q is accepted thanks :D

1. The Blue-Eyed Baboon: The Daily Mail Exclusive by christinefromsherwood (@christinefromsherwood)

AN EXCLUSIVE LEAK OF A SCALDING HOT NEW NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Neighbour Atkinson reveals the Baboon’s shocking secret.

Neighbour Bird showed his anguish in detailing a ghastly encounter with the Baboon.

Neighbour Curry admitted to insomnia due to stress related to the Baboon.

Watch more on A Monkey Business: The Truth About the Blue-Eyed Baboon, A Netflix Documentary! Airs on April 10th, 2020

And James Bond thought him ending up on the news when he blew up that Embassy was bad! Now his name is everywhere and they even made a Netflix documentary about him.

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this is like next level crack and the formatting is just mwah

2. International Man of Mystery by VerdigrisSoup (@verdigrissoup)

“You know there’s a Wikipedia page on you?” “You’re lying.” “It’s an awful security risk, I take the pages down but new ones pop up every week. I guess that’s what happens when you insist on telling people your full name during every bloody mission.” “Are they saying good things about me at least?” “I tell you about your Wikipedia page and the first thing you do is stroke your ego.”

Or the one where one lazy morning Q tells Bond about how he's become a conspiracy theory.

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this is the fic that's almost tailor made to your ask. it's not necessarily outsider pov, but it does feature the conspiracy theory thing. also, this author's fics are always just the cutest.

3. The Devil of Upper Winkleton by christinefromsherwood (@christinefromsherwood)

Upper Winkleton was a quiet village. Quaint, even, with orderly hedges framing meticulously landscaped front gardens, and a large village green in the center next to a post office that also served as a grocer's shop and a small cafe.

Indeed, Upper Winkleton was a very lovely village; a veritable garden of Eden in an ever changing and hastening world. However, just like that biblical garden, Upper Winkleton had its dark corner, complete with its own devil.

A house whose front door children didn’t dare approach to ask to get their ball back when it flew over the fence. A garden which was not only not mowed regularly, but overgrown with nettles and thistles and wildflowers, where even grown-ups didn't dare ring the bell and complain about the hornet nests steadily growing under the eves.

"So, what do you think is really up with Old Man Bond?” asked Tom. Only he had just rammed a fistful of peanuts into his mouth so it sounded more like “Uhuh hu hu hmmm hmm huh hmm hrrung?”

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ok it's a bunch of kids theorising this time instead of twitter/netizens, but it's so cute that i couldn't not rec it. + i love the ending

[earlgreyinpajamas]

Hello! Thank you so much for finding all these fics for us. I was wondering if you knew any good kid fics for Bond/Q? I've just seen NTTD, and now I would love to see more of Bond interacting with children, preferably his own. Thank you!

1. Late Night Humiliation by Accidental_Ducky

Being a father was an amazing thing that James Bond wouldn’t give up for all the crazy missions in the world, but there were moments when he thought his daughter came straight from hell.

Or in which Gwen is teething, James is contemplating how to calm her down, and poor Q just wants his beauty sleep.

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this one is pretty cute ngl. new parents bond and q are just so soft

2. Curled Up In Your Skin by xphil98197

James and Q add a new member to their family after James retires.

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hello i am so emo after reading this TT they're also very cute here

3. Princess by astudyinfic (@astudyinfic)

Q told them he couldn't work that day. Not one of them had any idea that the reason would be so...adorable.

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this is the first fic in the series and the whole thing is just so cute.

[earlgreyinpajamas]

00q fic recs: kidnapped!q

1. oh mercy, i implore by sleeponrooftops (@sleeponrooftops)

Q wonders, briefly, how James could possibly think this is an appropriate time to profess his undying love—or whatever the hell it is he’s attempting to do; though, frankly, the skeleton suit did make him blink a bit stupidly at his laptop—but then something explodes to his left, and Q heaves a long-suffering sigh and snaps at him for ruining everything good in the world. James laughs and carries on wielding his Walther like it isn’t the 7500th replacement that Q has thrown at him.

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q pretty much rescuing himself from his own kidnapping? yes.

2. oh love, remind me by sleeponrooftops (@sleeponrooftops)

Sequel to: you’re a holy fool all colored blue.

Home, for James, was once a shoulder holster in a foreign country, women he didn’t know and regularly forgot, the London skyline outside his window, a martini shaken just right, and a suit so sharp, marks sometimes cut themselves on his edges. Home, now, is a person, is pizza after a long day, an entire cabinet full of tea, soft pillows and a warm mouth across his shoulders—it’s still London, but home is a flat he shares, a bed where he fights for blankets, the permanent indent of a book spine resting against his ribs, and he’s finally done running away.

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ok this is the last fic in the series and the whole series is just so good i adore it with my whole heart. it is such a roller coaster, but it’s a well written and well planned out one. i generally hate reading long fics, but i read all 140k of this series in less than a day because it was so absorbing. ++ bamf!q also showing his kidnappers who’s boss

3. The One Who Made Him Stay by JayPendragon (@multifandom-madnesss)

Twenty-one days after the Double-oh programme is reinstated, James Bond returns to MI6 with his Aston Martin and without Dr Swann. This is only the beginning of Q’s problems.

A Spectre Fix-It. COMPLETE.

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it’s been such a loooong time since i’ve read this fic but i can remember every single plot point like i’ve just read it yesterday. q gets kidnapped once and another kidnapping is attempted but thwarted, and it’s all just so so good.