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chewing over the idea of sending Bond on longterm undercover. becoming more and more convinced you could NOT do it with that man. you would lose him forever
( via @weidli )
#i think about this general concept often not necessarily in scenarios where he's going longterm undercover on mi6 assignment #but more because i think in several ways he IS longterm undercover as 007 in his life #and he IS losing himself to it and he knows it he just doesn't have any motivation to leave #that's what casino royale and qos are about To Me. beach speech and so on
No literally this, yess. This is another of the major throughlines of the inaugural Coconut-Crab School of Literary Criticism here at halfbaked00q dot edu. That the 007 skin is as much a skin as well. as any other that he may or may not have to put on for The Job.
#but also it would make a good horrible little dead dove fic to have a scenario where he DOES go undercover for mi6 long term #and it's exactly the kind of situation that feels Familiar and Comfortable (i.e. it's not actually safe or a situation he's particularly #happy in but it's clear what role he's expected to fulfill and what the rules are. and sometimes bad things happen because if they didn't #he'd be More on edge abt it. bodyguarding someone or smth) and he fits himself into the shape of it bone deep and yeah sure he's #in communication with mi6 but doing it with dead drops or something. some situation where they can't actually talk ever. and then the #final chaotic end of the mission and it turns violent just long enough for him to get solidly hit upside the head and then when he wakes #up the first few times he keeps doing the Undercover Role and not 007 freaking everyone the fuck out as he does. maybe with side of light #amnesia. god that would be fun. by which i mean horrible for everyone involved
โผโผโผ that would be sooooo fun, and delicious. to ME! (*communist bugs bunny* to US). I think it should be extra uncanny valley in that he remembers he's "supposed" to be James Bond but can't! remember what shape the James Bondโข skin is supposed to be so yeah he's saying all of the James Bondโข things but NOT! doing it the James Bondโข way!!! and part of the process is he starts like, learning all of the things he's Supposed to say and do and starts doing that, but it looks like when an actor is playing a character playing a different character/possessed by a different character. And sometimes he does slip up :3 and says sth that is like... Not Correct. And maybe he and Q had this little grounding exercise on the couple of times early on that they COULD make contact, so Q is all *gentle voice* Bond. (more firmly) Bond. (back to gentle) James. Do you know where you are?
but Bond is like *sharply, brusquely* of course I know where I am! (lie)
I mean yes this is 00q-brained of me but also I DO think you'd need Q to be there if you wanted any hope of getting James Bond back lmao. see my thing abt Q being M's spiritual successor, etc. And also,:
Bond may be a loaded gun but Q is the closest thing you'll get to a palm-print coded lock on him. which you will need now that the previous owner (M) is dead and gone! and to mix some metaphors, Mallory may be the new guy on the end of the radio calling the shots, but he sure as hell ain't the guy behind the wheel driving the tank.
Reblogged helloliriels
HandsOff2025.com World Wide Protest
On Saturday, April 5th, we rise up with one demand: Hands Off! This is a nationwide mobilization to stop the most brazen power grab in modern history. Trump, Musk, and their billionaire cronies are orchestrating an all-out assault on our government, our economy, and our basic rightsโenabled by Congress every step of the way. They want to strip America for partsโshuttering Social Security offices, firing essential workers, eliminating consumer protections, and gutting Medicaidโall to bankroll their billionaire tax scam. Theyโre handing over our tax dollars, our public services, and our democracy to the ultra-rich. If we donโt fight now, there wonโt be anything left to save.
There are several protests across the world, across the nation, and across your state! Fight fascism and find one in your city! This is not a time to let others take the lead. Call in sick. Drop your kids off with grandma. Show up. Be heard. WE WON'T BACK DOWN!
Find a protest near you:
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Outside of the United States:
For those living outside of the USA, or if you absolutely cannot make it, SHARE! Annoy your friends. Blast social media. Get. The. Word. Out!
Signed up!
Reblogged quillwritten
UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.
YOU CAN SEE THE ICONS OF ANONS SOMETIMES.
The way I was able to recognize several anons in one of my inboxes bc of this error. Oh my god. Guys. This isnโt supposed to happen.
Weighing in to say:
YES, I SEE THIS ON MOBILE. HOWEVER I DO **NOT** THINK IT'S SHOWING THE ANON'S REAL IDENTITY.
The profile pictures I see next to anon asks are profile pictures that belong to other, non-anon asks in my ask box also. Some info
- there are 14 asks in my inbox from the last ~5 days
- 9 anons, 5 logged in users
- ALL 14 show pfps, including the 9 anons
- ALL THE SHOWN PROFILE PICTURES BELONG TO THE 5 LOGGED IN USERS
I think the bug is the inbox INCORRECTLY attributing anons to neighboring, logged-in asks.
Which is still a bad bug! Considering it makes it look like a long-time follower of mine sent me a spam ask.
And is worse if, say, one of these was anon hate.
But it's NOT the anon's real identity. It's a neighboring ask asker's identity
So if you have anon hate in your inbox that looks like it's attributed to your dear friend, who sends you lovely asks all the time, it was Not them.
CONFIRMED THE BUG IS INCORRECT ATTRIBUTION.
Thanks @thepatchycat for being a test subject. As you can see the icon being attributed to this ask is NOT the patchy cat
The pictured icon belongs to @watchingforcomets who sent me a nice ask about nail polish yesterday which I have not yet answered!
Reblogged quillwritten
i can't be the only one who's just straight-up ... bored with women hating themselves. my mom keeps lamenting to me how upset she is about her gray hair. my friend stares at her laugh lines every day in agony. my sister loses sleep over the horrible unbearable thought of looking fat. and every time these women i love open up to me, i can't help but think ... then stop staring at yourself? stop drowning yourself, narcissus, and just fucking live your life instead of sitting in front of a mirror obeying cosmetic corporations' lies. just stop it. this is getting ridiculous. you're too smart to be falling for this bullshit. "oh no but these men who hate women told me that if i'm ugly i'm worthless!" girl if you actually believe that then good luck. but i am getting worse at being supportive of people whose nonsense worldviews keep them trapped in pain. stop looking at yourself start fucking living i am pleading you deserve to be happy and it is stupid that you disagree
Someone in the comments said "you really said just stop being insecure" and yes :) make an effort to stop spiralling about your looks, challenge insecure thoughts and stop doing things that lead to you feeling insecure.
I always come back to this: Do your insecurities match your morals?
Do you truly believe that having belly fat makes people disgusting? That the media should have final say on how you feel about yourself? If you don't believe it and there is a mismatch between your moral beliefs and your gut reaction to your appearance...
Then yeah. Stop being insecure. It's work but it's worth it.
Promoting @sarkywoman 's tags as that's a perfectly distilled mantra:
I am not the exception to my beliefs
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Not โOnly my reading of canon is correctโ or โInterpretations are subjective and all validโ but a secret third thing, โMore than one interpretation can be valid but thereโs a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and Iโm fine with telling you itโs wrong, actually.โ
If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if youโre going to claim theyโre actually yellow youโd better have a really good argument.
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matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao
from my sources adjacent to tumblr--from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector--im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just from support but from the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i'm hearing there are about 25 people left.
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colors of the sky.
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All things that you should not have to be rich in order to do
I'd just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.
Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.
He only took occasional sips of water.
The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.
Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.
Senator Booker's speech did reach many people. It wasn't a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.
Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to "make good trouble."
also like, a Black man breaking Strom Thurmond's record is absolutely *chef's kiss*
for those who are too young to know about Strom, he was literally a white supremacist
He trained himself to give this speech by practicing and then implementing limits on food and water intake leading up to this. He cut out food for days, then cut out water the day before.
He then went to do an appearance on Maddow after yielding.
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It looks like today is going to be a night of checking up with my friends to see which ones of them are now unemployedโฆ Tumblr seems to have been hit hard
It looks like developers, both web and mobile, are the biggest group in the 280 people laid off
After publication, we began hearing more about which orgs were impacted from various sources. According to at least one source, just north of 100 were from WooCommerce. Weโve also heard Tumblr, Day One, and the AI orgs were impacted. In the U.S., layoffs spanned roles, including account execs, marketing, product (management and design), sales, community, business operations, and more. The default severance package is just 9 weeks.
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l o l that Set Decorators of America article like "Q is preparing for his one of his boyfriends to turn up for supper" the man has multiple boys on a string and this is just the latest one, and if The Bond And Moneypenny Show mucked up his dinner plans and the guy gets disgruntled and cancels, well, [cut to Q perusing his Rolodex for one of his backup boyfriends because they are NOT preventing him from getting some tonight, Bond in the bg looking incredulous and slightly offended]
lmao I love a scenario where Bond (a known cad) is disgruntled because Moneypenny or Q or whoever is having sex with a person (or people! get it Q) who isnโt him.
Meanwhile, Qโs just waving about his Rolodex as a threat. โWell if you donโt want to be added to the list, why turn up, Bond? Honestly. Now are you going to show me a nice night or not?โ
... because i need all of this post, including @cicerfics' tags, on my blog.
You write thorough analyses of concepts and events, so I thought I would ask for your take on Senator Booker's speech today. Some people say it was disrespectful. What do you think? Thank you in advance for your opinion.
I think what Booker did was extraordinary on several levels. First, the sheer physical endurance it takes to speak for that long, almost uninterrupted, while remaining cogent, is absolutely incredible. Second, the actual content of what he said, based on what I've seen, was fantastic; he was impassioned, engaging and incisive, and the extent to which he kept on topic over that many hours is staggering. Third, the fact that he broke the record for the longest speech on the Senate floor, which is not only an achievement in its own right, but doubly meaningful given his status as a Black man when the previous record was set by a segregationist, Strom Thurmond, protesting the Civil Rights Act in 1957. And last but not least, the moral clarity inherent in rebuking, loudly and at length, the myriad abuses of a historically corrupt, fascist government while working to delay their business.
All that being so, I think there are only three plausible reasons for someone finding Booker's speech disrespectful. The first is predicated on agreeing so completely with the Trump administration's policies that disrupting their operation via a lawful, established form of political protest is cast as inherently bad - which would be very much in keeping with the logic of those who, to take just one example, see nothing illegal or indeed remarkable about Trump's insistence that the executive branch should be able to unilaterally overrule both the Senate and the judiciary. The second is predicated on being such a spineless appeasenik milquetoast that some nebulous concept of "civility" is considered more important, and thus more urgent, than doing literally anything to protest an administration so nakedly corrupt that the president is publicly shilling for crypto and Tesla in order to line his own pockets. And the third is, simply, racism, whether subconscious or overt, which here translates to the reflexive assumption that a Black man being loud and disruptive must of course be inherently bad, and certainly a worse offense than whatever he might be protesting.
So, in conclusion, no, I do not think Booker's speech was disrespectful - but even if it could be fairly labelled as such, as I don't believe this current administration is remotely deserving of anyone's respect, I'd still be cheering him on.
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Random 'give James Bond a hobby' thought:
I do think that he would really enjoy learning how to build elaborate ships in a bottle.
Yeah!! I, too, headcanon Q as someone who simply Needs to Be Doing Something With His Hands At All Times.
If he's not tinkering or coding, well, then he needs to be folding laundry or playing with the cats. And if he's not doing THAT, then he absolutely requires a Project to work on and he has to dive into his stash of crafting supplies. He has to crochet a few granny squares, or pick away at a cross-stitch project, or knit a sock, or SOMETHING.
And, as they spend more time together, Bond inadvertently becomes this sort of person too, just by the process of osmosis. But he can't find a craft that really turns his crank. He tries a handful, and they're fine, but nothing he's really wild about.
And Moneypenny gave him a ship-in-a-bottle kit as a gag gift when he retired from active service, and he had initially shelved it. But one day he pulls it out, intending to work on it a little bit while Q knits a winter toque for one of the cats.
And...surprise! Bond LOVES this activity.
Except he has gripes about the historical inaccuracies of the ship included in the kit, and he wants to make another! He wants to do a PROPER man-of-war, with the CORRECT number of sails! And a teeny cannon!
And from there, it's full-steam-ahead on this particular hyperfixation...
building on @halfbaked00q's tags -
... yes. I am 100% here for Bond pulling out the sunny yellow yarn and crochet hook from a suitably manly bag (and Mallory trying hard to not let his eyes bug out), but. Allow me to suggest that Bond might be whipping up one of these little guys ...
The game nerds among the minions are always clamoring for these dice bags. But also? When these little guys grow up, they make fabulous wine bottle cozies that show up at all the MI6 white elephant gift exchanges.
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people who write fics. how do you feel about comments on super old ones you wrote like 2+ years ago
Bringing this out of the tags:
A fic written 2 years ago is NOT OLD. Two years is nothing. Two years ago was yesterday.
Also I don't care if a fic is 10 years old. Leave those comments!! Even if you think the author isn't active, or moved on from the fandom, I promise you it will make them smile.
I commented on a fic that was 11 years old, and there was already a response by the time I got up the next morning. Comment on the fics, please, comment on them, I promise it'll make the author's day either way
I got a comment on a fic of mine this week that just read "TWO THOUSAND AND NINE?"
I replied to it within seconds, of course. someone commented on my fic