Weekly Chat and Spectre Prompt Fest! (14/8-21/8)

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A new Friday means a new Weekly Chat! Don’t forget that the weekly chat is open until Friday of next week.

Anon commenting is on so you don’t need an account to join in the fun! If you are using anon comments, if you could put your name/handle in the subject line/body of the comments that would be fab (just so everyone knows who they are talking to!)

Weekly Recs

It’s time again for you to give your weekly recs! This week we’re looking for your favourite fics/art you’ve seen over the past week and those fics/art that fit into the genre of the week!

This week the genre of fanwork recs we’re looking for is: Humour. We want the silly fics, the hilarious comics, and the most ridiculous crack based fanworks that the fandom has seen!

When reccing fic/art, please can you make a separate comment with ‘Week Rec’ in the subject title. If you’re commenting anon, then just put your handle in brackets after the ‘Weekly Rec’ bit - eg Weekly Rec (cass). This just helps your friendly mod hunt down all your links and put them into the weekly rec post!

Spectre Prompt Fest!

The MI6 prompt bingo table continues! We’re releasing a new prompt every week up to when Spectre is released in the UK on November 6^th. You can write/draw/create anything of your choice in response to the prompt, and you can post fills for any of the revealed prompt!

This week the prompt is: “No.”

Exploding Objects	Love doesn’t solve everything	Broken	Health and Safety	Possession
Never say never	“Make me disappear”	“No.”	Hidden	Hidden
Hidden	Hidden	Hidden	Hidden	Hidden
Hidden	Hidden	Hidden	Hidden	Hidden

You can post your fills anywhere you like – tumblr, in the comments section of the weekly chat, to your own LJ! Feel free to link your fills in the chat, and don’t forget to tag your prompt fills with #mi6cafeprompt so everyone can share the 00Q love!

There is now an A03 collection that you can post your fills to! Please see the links in the sidebar for the A03 collection!

MI6 Café Book and Film Clubs

The Mi6 Café Book club is back tomorrow, don’t forget to check out the schedule to make sure you don’t miss out! Tomorrow we’ll be discussing the second half of Casino Royale.

The inaugural MI6 Cafe Film Club livestream is next weekend on Saturday the 22nd of August at 10:00 PM UTC, when we'll be streaming Casino Royale (2006).

00Q Reverse Big Bang
Whilst many of you will most likely know, the 00Q Reverse Big Bang signups are now OPEN. Please check all the rules on the 00Q Reverse BB tumblr, hope to see lots of you taking part!

This week’s questions
Feel free to add more questions below!
1)      How do Bond and Q feel about revenge? To what lengths would they go to achieve it? How would they exact their vengeance?
2)      Under what circumstances would Bond and Q agree to a polyamorous relationship?
3)      Did either or both of them have some kind of scouting/orienteering youth organization experience in their youth? If so, what was that experience like?
4)      Oxford comma: Who’s on which side of the debate?
5)      Which one agrees to pet-sit for a work colleague without consulting their partner first, and why?

Comments

[isthisrubble.livejournal.com]

ooooh humour fics! I've got a few of those squirrelled away, I'll post a massive list at some point probably, oops

1) How do Bond and Q feel about revenge? To what lengths would they go to achieve it? How would they exact their vengeance?
James tends not to be really interested in revenge... unless you make it really personal. I'm really interested in what happens to White in Spectre, because I had a fic idea of him hunting White down and killing him, but idk what might happen in canon.
I think Q is more spiteful - he'll take revenge on someone for something more petty, but he wouldn't go to the extremes that James, if properly motivated, could.

2) Under what circumstances would Bond and Q agree to a polyamorous relationship?
uummm. I'd say they are in an open relationship, but idk about poly - I think James definitely gets possessive, but idk really. I've never really thought of it before!

3) Did either or both of them have some kind of scouting/orienteering youth organisation experience in their youth? If so, what was that experience like?
oooh I was thinking about this the other day! James was homeschooled while his parents were alive, so when he goes to live with his aunt and she sends him to the local school, he also joins the local scout troop. He doesn't necessarily make lots of friends, but he learns a lot of stuff (I was a scout for 7 years, so I've got a bit of a soft spot for it). He has to stop going when he goes to boarding school, but then there are lots of sport teams for him to join, orienteering camps to go on, mountains to climb etc.
Q is a city kid, London born and bred, and played football for a while (though that didn't last very far into high school) but he didn't join any other sort of clubs or anything.

4) Oxford comma: Who’s on which side of the debate?
Neither of them really care. Eve, on the other hand - you'll have to pry the oxford comma from her cold, dead, hands.

5) Which one agrees to pet-sit for a work colleague without consulting their partner first, and why?
I don't think either of them would? They both have such unpredictable work schedules so it's not really practical. Although Q and Eve did share a cat before Q became Quartermaster (it was Eve's cat, but it spent more time with Q because she spent half the year out of the country).

Castillon

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3) Oh, I forgot that James was homeschooled! Good reminder. God, going from homeschooled in Scotland to a local school in England (is England right?) must have just been one more big change to adjust to after losing his parents. What on earth would the first day of school have been like for young Bond, still grieving,( still more used to Skyfall than elsewhere, still more comfortable with all the chores that come with living in the country than he is with walking into a roomful of people his age? I mean, he adapted, as Bond does, and he would have been used to traveling, but I imagine there was a bit of culture shock. I can see why he'd want to join the Scouts: keep up with the outdoors stuff, have some facilitated peer socialization...

(...was that squirreled away comment a reference to Rehfan's fic?)

Re: Castillon

[isthisrubble.livejournal.com]

small sad james bond nope

(??? no? wait, is that a squirrel au? wtf)

Re: Castillon (Weekly Rec)

[(Anonymous)]

There is indeed a 22k squirrel AU in this fandom: http://archiveofourown.org/works/862380/chapters/1653130

:D:D:D

Re: Castillon (Weekly Rec)

[isthisrubble.livejournal.com]

I say again: what the fuck

... I'm not reading that, the characters are squirrels and there's smut and I do not need to know how that works