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A co-worker of mine was standing outside with me during a break from customers to share a cigarette with me, and told me about how he had lost his brother that he was close with some years ago. He told me about how they used to be in a band together with some friends, and how ever since he'd died, he hadn't played any music because he'd been too scared and anxious. I told him about how I'd lost my brother to suicide some years ago.

I went home and pulled out an old tiny wooden box my brother had given me before he'd died. I'd been using it to store guitar picks I'd collected over the years, including one guitar pick that used to be his. I haven't played the guitar since he'd died, my hands are too small to play some of the chords, so I play bass and piano instead.

I went to work the next day and gifted my brothers old guitar pick to my co-worker. I told him that it'd been sitting in a box for ten years unused, and would probably sit there for longer if I kept it there. Told him that I thought he deserved to have it, because I bet he could put it to better use than I ever would. Told him I didn't feel like it was coincidence that me and him would cross paths with each other in our lives, and that it seemed suiting that we had these similar experiences but split in two halves. That somehow, I felt like he was meant to have the guitar pick. I told him that I knew he'd not played guitar since his brother died, but that if he ever decided to play again one of these days, maybe he'd be able to honor both of our brothers by using that guitar pick.

He almost cried. He thanked me. Then he went home that night and for the first time in years he played the guitar.

I don't know what the meaning of life is or what my purpose is, but I do believe that love and human connection is one of the most important things in life. It's finding ways to tell strangers you love them and share experiences with others. I think it's all just about love.

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#00q#have not committed to a sex or name for this dog yet but I am now in love with them being an English springer spaniel#part of me thinks it would be funny if the dog is named sth like Princess or Sparkles#can you imagine Bond having to be like Sparkles! Search!#I did a search for some actual names ppl have given springer spaniel working dogs & examples like Angus and Skye have come up#and now I'm like ooooh. oh. what if the dog's name is. like. Bonnie#imagine a bit if a Scottish accent slips out in the way Bond says Bonnie. ooooh ouh oug#(the difference is subtle but definitely There enough to make a difference and okay okay I think I fell in love with a name lmao) (@halfbaked00q)

SCREAMING.

I ADORE this and this is now canon in MY HEART.

Bonnie the springer spaniel! A highly respected and decorated veteran who has a whole little dress uniform to contain her MANY medals for honorable service! Probably she has also done search-and-rescue work and saved lives over the course of her impressive career! I love and support her!!!

Bond ABSOLUTELY teaches her to sniff out electronics on the grounds that 'she needs additional enrichment, Q, I'm doing this for HER'.

Bond also takes her along on his fishing trips, on the grounds that 'it's good for her to be out in the fresh air and she was bred as a hunting dog anyway, Q. She needs to be out in nature. It says so in this article about spaniels!'

Q nods along and agrees that Bond is doing exceptional work and he is very proud of Bond's improvement. Um, the dog's improvement, that is!!

in love w @cicerfics's "give Bond a government(Q)-assigned therapy dog - I mean obv you are providing the dog with therapy not the other way around-" so I decided to look up some common breeds of bomb dogs in the UK cuz all I know is GSD but I wanted options, and one of the results is a springer spaniel. and yea okay, okay, I can get behind this!

Excellent dog and I love that it's, like. a smaller-ish medium size dog, like smaller than a GSD. like yes the idea of Bond walking w a GSD or malinois or sth along those lines would be in line with the bad boy macho superspy image. But! Imagine him instead walking around with a lil dude like this!!!! lol:

What extra sold me on this is was an excellent example I found in Buster, who was a Royal Air Force Police Arms and Explosives Search Dog & said to have served more tours than any other military dog. Here are pics of him:

What an excellent lil dude.

And also!! Plus !!!! look what ALSO came up when I searched springer spaniel!!! :

Wiltshire Police 'Digi-dogs' trained to sniff out technology

They're trained to sniff out hard drives, USB sticks, and SIM cards, are they? 👀 well well well sounds very topical

Maybe this can be the Tasks that Bond decides to take on w his retired buddy to like, give 'em further enrichment.

Actually wait, no this should be something Q brings up to Bond. Maybe Bond is grumbling like couldn't Q haven't gotten him a more dignified breed like a GSD or malinois or something, and Q is like nonsense, English springer spaniels make excellent sniffer dogs, they've even been trained up to sniff out tech, there was this article on it on the BBC etc. and Bond is like hm,. well if he's gonna be stuck w this Creature then he might as well put 'em to work and see if he can, in fact, teach an old dog new tricks - simultaneously giving 'em a new lease on life and also fulfilling some of that Drive to Work need that working dogs, even retired ones have, but in a way where the dog can get more Tasks in everyday life.

(Q did in fact do this on purpose to seed the idea in Bond's head but make him think it was his own idea - so that he would be more receptive to it and also so he would throw himself into this task with his fiendish laser-focused determination).

Anyway lol. Here's how my "Q telling Bond 'I'm so proud of the progress he - I mean the dog - is making'" idea which yes I am In Love With and determined to make Happen, can still win--

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Breaking this comment off on it's own because the sugar baby Bond/househusband Bond post is getting a bit unwieldy:

@phinniastuff)

...Oh my GOD.

OK, I can actually buy that Bond has SOME experience washing dishes from, like, kitchen duty in the Navy or whatever. And maybe he also has to do his own dishes when he's out in the field and snowbound in a remote safehouse or whatever?

But what if...he has only ever done dishes BY HAND.

What if, whenever he's in his Sad Bachelor Flat eating his Sad Bachelor Dinner (as opposed to on a Glamour Mission eating at Michelin star restaurants or living off room service!) he just...washes his single plate and single fork/knife by hand?

What if this man has honestly NEVER operated a dishwasher before in his LIFE?!

What if he tries to do the dishes at Q's place, in order to make a good impression on his new boyfriend, but tragically, NO ONE EVER TOLD BOND THAT LIQUID DISH DETERGENT DOESN'T GO IN THE DISHWASHER?!

There is now a carpet of suds across the kitchen floor that is ankle-deep. The dishwasher is STILL churning out new bubbles. Pickle and Pimento are equal parts fascinated and horrified by this turn of events.

Bond is stoically panicking. Q's key has just turned in the lock, and Bond doesn't even KNOW how to explain this.

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“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.” 

- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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ping ponging back and forth between seeing immense beauty everywhere and feeling deeply like i am in hell

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That really is how being in your 30s is like 😭

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:)

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The pastoralist fantasy of "modern life is too stressful so I should move to a remote area and do hard labor" is so funny

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when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all

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Mythology Aesthetic: Icarus!Q — Boffins who play with field agents are sure to get burnt.

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Lyra, my beloved cat of 13 years, passed away this year on Father's Day. She's been by my side through very difficult times and was my little rock of steady and unrelenting love. I struggled a lot drawing this, and struggled a lot posting it, but I know I would've wanted to read a comic like this that validated my grief for her when I lost her.

Wherever you are, Lyra my little summer star, I love you always! Thank you for being the best thing in my life.

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New chapter of unhinged 00Q chatfic declassified now!

Come scream with @cicerfics and I about increasingly unhinged 00Q AUs!

tags: magical spontaneous conception, mpreg, infertility, unplanned pregnancy, fluff and angst, Q and Bond are So Very Normal About Each Other

teaser:

cicerfics: WAIT OMG I ALMOST FORGOT. I had a weird random 00Q mpreg dream last night! I literally woke up thinking of it at 5am, and I've been rotating this idea in my brain like a rotisserie chicken all day long.

miri-tiazan: OH MAN I would love to hear about the dream

cicerfics: Okay, so it's very odd because it's like...magical realism, basically? I have no idea how my brain came up with this or why it spat this idea out last night, but basically the premise is that if you love someone enough, you can just magically become pregnant with their child, even if you've never slept with them.

And this is just a Known Phenomenon, though very rare and sort of...dubiously regarded because it's hard to PROVE that the pregnancy happened without sex.

Anyway, it basically involves Q spontaneously conceiving Bond's baby post-Spectre, when he's right in the middle of all that heartbreak, and then having to decide What To Do.

miri-tiazan: Ooooooohhhhhhhh

Continued on ao3:

00Q Chatfics and Assorted Headcanons (4473 words) by cicer, miri_tiazan Chapters: 2/? Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond) Additional Tags: Omegaverse, Mpreg | Male Pregnancy, weird omegaverse hormone nonsense, Menopause, Fluff, Crack Treated Seriously, Bond and Q are So Normal About Each Other, Just Coworker Things, Retirement, magical spontaneous conception, Infertility, Unplanned Pregnancy, Fluff and Angst Summary: Lightly edited chat transcripts between cicer and miri_tiazan: some live-written fics, some random headcanons, some plot-free fluff, all 00Q!

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oh~~~Q is so handsome >3<

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still not over the fact that they put him in a thigh holster - the most useless but who-needs-utility-when-you-can-be-sexy of holsters - for NTTD. they really said if ur gonna go out then might as well go out sluttily

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Happy snow sausage

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