What you want out of 007 Fest: First time participating! I just want to get some of my WIPs done. Maybe complete a prompt table with drabbles. (The Classic one grabs my attention the most. And also whoever came up with the LeChiffre/Silva/Mr.White in the OT3 table deserves lots and lots of cakes and candy.) And I do live in LA which is a stone’s throw away from Disneyland, so there’s a small chance I might actually be able to fulfill #8 on the Scavenger Hunt list....
Am currently seriously considering changing my tumblr name from sparklymirror to sparklylemon.
Because I can’t believe I really had to use the citrus scale now for a text headcanon due to tumblr being dumb. So why not embrace it. Sparklylemon sounds funner anyway.
BUT am probably not going to do it during 007 Fest because that’ll just cause massive confusion. Later, though. Later.
Hi! I just read your old 00q fic series 'runaway' and I just have to ask you: is it possible for you to let me know what happens in the end? Is Q dead? Is Bond dead? Do they both live and disappear together or is it a tragic death/suicide thing? Is MI6 dead, essentially? I really love the series and the cliffhanger end is going to bother me forever. I welcome the short version, long version, anything, just a bit of closure. Thanks!
Hello @sparklymirror! ^__^ I did see your comment actually, and I was incredibly surprised considering it’s been a good few years since I’ve written for 00Q. I gotta admit – it really made my day, seeing that someone, even now, could get so invested in my writing to even have headcanons for a story. So, thank you for that. It means a lot.
I’ve actually been meaning to finish and wrap up the epilogue to the fic (it does have one in my drafts) and post it for closure, bc I’m still incredibly fond of that series. I don’t know when I’ll be able to, tho, so for now, here you go, then – this is how I intended we don’t bleed to end:
[fic spoilers for part two of the runaway series]There are a few big hints throughout the story, in particular these scenes:- the one of Q coming to Bond in the middle of the night, “I need to tell you” leading to “You promised”, and revisited in Ch3 (“‘When this is executed.’ Q says it so calmly, like he isn’t serving his own sentence to himself.”)- “Q wonders if Bond realizes just what Q has given him. Perhaps he hasn’t, but more likely he has and he’s just not thinking about it, and so he’d been able to leave” / “His belief in Bond is and always be unshakable: Bond will always come back. Q, however, is another question entirely”- the White Queen Rogue Protocol (All directive from Mikhail Asprey rendered terminated and non-recognized. Subject Mikhail Asprey status designation:deceased)- “Perhaps Bond is another of Q’s collateral, in the end”- “Q” (Everything.) “Gone”- “Q just needs to hold out just a bit longer, too” leading to when Bond leaves Q in South Africa; and,- “...there’s nothing for MI6 to take anymore”, leading to “even boy Quartermasters can die”
So: Bond believes Q is dead. (Everyone believes Q is dead.) The thing about this fic series is even if it’s in third person POV, Bond is the primary narrator/perspective and he’s slightly unreliable. The idea is that Bond spends a large part of the story seeing all these hints but refusing to see them, bc he believes he’s going to be the one who dies, leaving Q to continue on, up until he’s in MI6 seeing the words rogue protocol confirm? and he understands that the program could only be activated after Q is gone – because the only way for him to command White Queen is to transfer directive, and the only way ‘transfer directive’ works is if Q is no longer there. It’s when he realizes the underlying meaning of what Q had been telling him, back in Manila – that this is Q’s last act, and he’d been asking Bond to execute it. So he does.
I like it like this, bc it parallels the sort of – fatalistic, maybe? way I’ve portrayed Q throughout this series: a little uncaring about himself, about the personal consequences. His own life is secondary to the things he loves: Bond, his work. So this is his way of saying goodbye – building this all up, setting it up that everyone and Bond believes he’s gone, then handing it over to Bond so Bond himself can choose his own ending without having to worry about Q. And what Bond chooses is to execute the White Queen, and have one last daring escape. And he faces down Alec, who shoots.
But Alec’s not an idiot; he knows his friend, he’s been paying attention, he’s come to the same conclusions as Bond. So he shoots. And he’s the one who confirms to MI6 that James Bond, former Agent 007, is dead.
MI6 picks themselves up in the aftermath. It’s slow going, with a lot of inquisitions and investigations and restructuring, but they do. And in the midst of the rebuild, no one notices that any and all traces of James Bond are meticulously erased from the system. (There have never been traces of Q, at all.) They declare both James Bond and Mikhail Boothroyd dead, and they move on.
Then one day, sometime in the future, a quiet, muted, rainy day – the kind Q liked best – a man in a well-worn suit walks into a cemetery in Dover. It’s taken a long, long time, but he’s finally found where the Aspreys are buried. When he gets to the graves, there’s a groundskeeper nearby who’s surprised at a visitor. He tells the man only one other person has come up here – skinny thing, looked like he badly needed a haircut, paler than anything.
And Bond doesn’t want to believe it, but also he does. Because there’s a grave here (empty), for Mikhail Asprey, but if Q is—
There’s a quiet, unobtrusive cough from behind him.
Bond turns around, and Q’s smiling, not the knife smile, the one like a scalpel, thin and precise. It’s a small smile, the softest upturn of lips, but it’s real and Q’s real and here. Q smiles, terribly fond and resigned.
Laviyuu n/sfw headcannons, asked by @sparklymirror >:D
SFW #10 : Any pets? Or plants?
I think they would have a few pets, not more than three or four. I can see Kanda having a big dog, like a Doberman or Siberian Husky. Lavi would probably like quieter animals, like cats, rabbits or guinea pigs, that would sit on his lap while he reads. Lavi might also keep a few cacti for fun.
SFW #12 : Can they stand silence? Who talks the most? Who talks the least?
They can share comfortable silence when they’re both focusing on something in the same room. At any other times, Lavi literally does not shut up cause his brain is in overdrive. Kanda, on the other hand, can live in zen-like silence forever.
NSFW #7 : Genital headcanons
I have no fucking clue either... er my best guess is like, peen sizes??? In that case, I think they’re both of standard size, and neither gives a shit.
NSFW #8 : Favourite erogenous zones
Lavi’s are the insides of his thighs and his earlobes. Kanda likes scalp scratches.
NSFW #10 : First to orgasm? Last to orgasm? Who comes the most? Does someone ever end up unfinished?
Lavi usually comes first! His nipples and prostate are more sensitive than Kanda’s, so Kanda uses them to make him melt into a puddle. Kanda can go on for pretty long whether he’s topping or bottoming. Sometimes when Lavi is doing the fucking, he comes and falls asleep immediately afterwards, and Kanda just gives up and goes to sleep too. (However, the next day he may be woken up a nice morning bj).
Alright guys it turns out if I change my username it’ll break all the links if someone else links to my works, but not my own url. So that means I should change it NOW as opposed to AFTER the 007 Fest just in case it breaks the Masterposts. So yeah:
Sparklymirror is now Sparklycitrus. Because why not?
(thanks for the suggestion @castella-rays)
Edit: Now I can maybe actually find an icon - photoshop a bunch of sparkles onto a fruit I guess~
writing meme: when I think of you the fic that pop up most is that ninja school one you had ages ago (Laugh Quietly?). It's so unique and fun! Also there's whenever in your AUs Lavi goes "mmh, darling" to Kanda. I can almost hear the lilt in his voice, and think: how distinct, and IC, and not American. XD
the ‘laugh quietly’ fic was inspired by the prompt ‘ninja’ and me having the hots for the guy who ran the ramen shop by the train station ;) it was also done overnight and the next morning i had no recollection…of writing…. it…. also i don’t have a particular accent in mind for lavi, other than he slurs a lot and also goes mmh, darling a lot :DDD thanks jane!
