Weekly Chat!

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Yes it's that time of the week again, the weekly chat is OPEN! Don't forget anonymous comments are enabled so you don't need an LJ account to actually comment on the threads!

Weekly Recs!

We had some wonderful weekly recs last week for the genre of fluff! This week, as well as those fanworks you've seen over the past week, we want to see your fanwork recs for the genre of:

First Time!

This could be those fics that have James and Q's first kiss, first time having sex, or even first time making some new recipie out of the cook book!

Developing the Comm

The floor was opened up last week to hear everyone's ideas as to what the comm could host in terms of fests and other ideas to get people interested! So far we have the following ideas:

1) Weekly guest post - where fandom members are interviewed and asked to give a prompt and question for the rest of the fandom to discuss!
2) Book/film club - either a fest/monthly event where those who are interested can listen to and discuss the James Bond audiobooks/canon, as well as organised film livestreams for everyone to watch and comment upon!
3) Team Competition/Fest - a fest which will likely be held early next year (after the reverse BB and the Halloween Exchange have both finished), which involves participents being split up into different teams to compete for points! Points can be awarded for writing, reading, arting, crafting or whatever!
4) Prompt Challenge/Bingo Card - A bingo card with a new prompt revealed every week up to the release of Spectre!

If anyone has any ideas please do put them below! I will be having a general 'idea and helping out' post next week where anyone who wishes to help can also note your interest!

Question Time!

1) Whose seen the new Spectre TV spot? What do you think of it? Excited for the film yet?
2) What's the one genre in fanworks that you avoid like the plague? Any particular reason?
3) Where do you think James and Q would go on holiday? Why is this?
4) If James and Q have a fight, how do you think they make up afterwards? Who says sorry first?
5) Whose your favourite member of MI6 (apart from James + Q) - eg Eve/Tanner/M, and why?

If you have any more questions, please feel free to add more! :)

Comments

Re: Castillon

[teacass.livejournal.com]

6) That's a really interesting reading of Q, I totally agree with you re: the fact he had to use his smart words to defend himself. It's really interesting, normally I write James as the one who has struggles with trusting another and I never really consider how Q's personality would play into his trusting ability. (especially with listening to criticism/getting stuff wrong/disagreeing and communicating his needs to James)

I am all for secret signals - it seems very apt for two people who work in a secret organisation and quite apt for their personalities too. I like to thing that they use the secret signals less as their relationship develops (and so their trust in one another grows to the point where they feel comfortable communicating what they're feeling to another).

Re: Castillon

[(Anonymous)]

Love the idea of the secret signals getting used less and less as they grow to trust each other more and learn healthier communication habits!

I also really loved question four in general; it was something that I had to think hard about, and even now I know that what I've said is only true for the versions of Q and Bond that I've headcanoned for the prompt. Would you mind if I posted question 4 in the 00Q tag (or you could post it, too, if the timing works out that way or you want to keep the question on the MI6 Cafe blog)? Super curious about what other people would think about it and hopeful that they'll feel as engaged by the question as I did! (I would love to see an interpretation that's radically different from mine, for example.)

Re: Castillon

[teacass.livejournal.com]

Sure you can post the question! If you want give a heads up about the comm (free advertisement is a good thing) and it might even get some more people to come over and say hi!