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Someone on Amtrak’s social media team deserves a raise like N O W. 😂

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idk thinking about how sometimes you have to show up for people you aren't that close to, because sometimes you're just the person who's there. sometimes you invite a new friend to a party and end up having to sit with them through a panic attack. sometimes you run into an acquaintance on their worst day and they need to talk about what happened. sometimes someone is crying in a stairwell and you're the only one around to ask if they're okay. and none of this is "trauma dumping" or whatever the fuck it's just being there for people because you're the one in the room with them.

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Welcome to Octopuzzly, the place to celebrate all things Bond with daily puzzles during the @mi6-cafe 007 Fest! Each day you will find a new puzzle - could be a jigsaw, could a be a word search, could be a cryptogram, could be something else - with a James Bond theme.

Day 9 - Movie Quote Cryptogram

We know there is a lot of activity during 007 Fest, so if puzzles are your thing, we invite you to follow the hashtag #Octopuzzly

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"M.G." is Mary Goodnight, secretary to the Double-Oh Section in some of Ian Fleming's novels. This blackout poem is based on the first and last paragraphs of Bond's obituary submitted to The Times in "You Only Live Twice".

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Q definitely makes up songs and sings them to his cats, and Bond definitely makes fun of this habit (good naturedly!) when he first discovers it. (And Bond also subsequently gets the cat-songs stuck in his head and reflexively hums them to the cats on the nights when Q is working late, because he misses the familiar background noise of Q singing to the cats.)

But I think the moment Q realizes this thing he's got going on with Bond is For Keeps happens when he discovers Bond has been secretly composing his OWN Cat Songs and singing them to the cats when Q isn't around.

Q comes home early one day, and Bond is halfway through the third verse of the sea-shanty he dedicated to Pickle. (The song itself is about the fact that she's so salty, she must have been soaked in a cask of brine, etc. Possibly it's a riff on 'Drunken Sailor'. 'What shall we do with a pickled feline', etc.)

Bond is singing it to her while he washes the dishes, and she is sitting at his feet, listening attentively, because That's Her Jam. 😽

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''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

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I was trying to take an up close and artsy photo of this bumbledbee and she LEAPTS AT ME

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When it was discovered that Zalim (ironically meaning, cruel) was in the company of two very young cubs, those at Ranthambore feared the worst: that, as an adult male, he would kill them. Instead, he surprised naturalists with his “motherly” behavior when he took in his twin daughters following the death of their mother.

At this time, science stated that tigers were only as social as mothers and cubs could go and that tiger fathers rarely interacted with their offspring. Zalim changed that when he was witnessed, month after month, caring for his daughters and teaching them how to hunt. Their relationship eventually ceased when the two girls were shifted to Sariska Tiger Reserve and Zalim went on to father another litter with the then-dominant tigress Sundari, the so-called Lady of the Lakes. When she too mysteriously disappeared, Zalim unsurprisingly took care of their cubs as well.

Ranthambore National Park, India Photograph taken via camera trap

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workdays should be like 4 hrs long max. and even that is pushing it tbqh

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Prompt Table 003: Poetry - Square 4: Limerick

There once was a boffin named Q, Who always knew just what to do. With encryption and weapons, And other inventions He’d make all the spies have a swoon.

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Sweet peas

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Happy Q₁₀ day!

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Another Scavenger Hunt Scavenger Hunt! (#70)

Scavenger hunt scavenger hunt! Create a short list of items and post them for others to hunt down! Try to make it Bond-themed in some way without making it impossible. ("Fancy car" instead of "Aston Martin DB5," "bottle of vodka" instead of "a Vesper martini," etc.)

We've already got plenty of scavenger-hunts-within-the-scavenger-hunt circulating but I thought one more couldn't hurt!

(Remember, completing someone else's scavenger hunt lets you check off #10 on the main scavenger hunt list!)

Let's look for these seven lucky items, in honor of our not-always-so-lucky 007!

A nice watch (fit to grace the wrist of any self-respecting double-oh...it needn't explode, of course!)

A motorbike (suitable for riding through crowded markets, perhaps?)

A fruit or flower stand (let's hope 007 doesn't demolish this one!)

A balcony (the perfect place for a bit of parkour practice!)

A sailboat (so 007 can blissfully sail off into the horizon after he's caused enough chaos in his current location...)

A postcard (so he can finally fulfill his promise to Q...about time, don't you think?)

A cardigan (and since Q might be a bit shirty about 007's latest destroyed kit, don't you think Bond should pick up a cardigan his quartermaster might like...?)

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Chapters: 1/1 Word Count: 923 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond) Additional Tags: Manipulation, Humor, MI6 Shenanigans (James Bond) 

Summary: Q has ways of keeping MI6’s agents in line.

Written for @mi6-cafe’s 007 Fest 2025, specifically for Scavenger Hunt item #7 (write a short Bond fic and then have a partner re-write it). Don’t miss @bondlocker’s remix of this fic, posting in a few minutes!

HAPPY Q-DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!