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Roger Moore as James Bond

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RQG 152 Decompressing

The party meets up with Barnes & Carter

AJN: I keep saying Carnes and Barter Lydia: that’s their team name

Discussion of quarantine, mutual suspicion due to possible infection.

Carter, irrepressible. Barnes, unflappable.

Tunnel with cart rails, mine vibes. Minecraft vibes. Emerge into wooded area where there used to be a camp.

It’s a sunny day! Storm’s gone.

Detritus on the beach, can see from the top of the hill. Zolf praises Cel. They chat. Azu lies flat on the ground near Hamid. They chat.

Carter slips off, comes back with horses. Azu summons Topaz.

Hamid uses the mobile stone to call Ishak. “Not a zombie? Wicked.” Gets an update on family & others. Zolf says why it’s a bad idea. Hamid argues. Azu gets between them.

Zolf and Azu “have to talk,” though Zolf is bad at it 🔥💗🌊 Carter tries to eavesdrop, Zolf throws a little rock.

Cult of Aphrodite are doing medical support.

Azu is blue. Zolf and Hamid bolster her. (Not your fault.)

Cel tells Carter about the island. Barnes throws a little rock, shuts it down.

Hamid chats with Cel. Cel is feeling guilty too.

Arrive at inn - Wilde is cold. Have a bath, go to the cell. It’s pretty crowded. Good thing they all like other so much 😅

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Black Doves 1.02 /A Little Black Dove/

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Metaparasocial relationship = feelings of friendship, affection, attraction to (fictional) characters

Fondly recalling discussions of RQG and other fandoms with @sidewaystime

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Finally getting back to my relisten, of course I had to listen to the end of the episode again.

I am delighted & somewhat abashed by how happy these people make me - players and characters.

RQG 151 Giblets!

[recap, including some singing (and blaming Tim Meredith for the impulse to burst into song), in the operational areas]

Big room full of machinery, raised walkway - they surprise some mooks and take them out

The equipment is for monitoring the (kobold) (slave) cavern - the mooks are the kind of evil that follows lots of orders

Azu splashes the last mook into giblets … Cel recognizes him as someone who bothered their village

Through another door, down another winding corridor. Azu makes swimming & flapping motions as she flies 💗

Lockers. Signs about keeping the secret tunnel secret. Some water breathing potions.

A door, hidden from the other side. Cel concerned that blokes are therefore at their village 😰

Tunnel to left back toward institute, to right is glass under water, a bit fancier than they’ve seen. Go right…

Cel embiggens. It’s dark but tunnel is smooth and straight. Cel is very worried. 😧

Flashes of light in the distance - spell craft says Flare and probably a fight - they all take the Run action [game actions even as emotions ramp up]

[here I pause for a moment to heighten my anticipation for what’s down the corridor - rather, for who is there]

A dome ahead, like a bathysphere… Hamid casts Fly and almost catches up with Cel, who runs into the room

Sounds of blades! Lounge area with sofas &c - with a fight! Bunch of mooks and two people Cel doesn’t know

Ben: it’s gonna be bloody Barnes & Carter!

Helen: fucking Carter!

Me: there’s my boys!

Barnes swashbuckling against 3, Carter throwing knives at 5 more

Fighting. Cel’s bomb misses, second bomb hits 2, hits again - more giblets! “Get ‘er” the mooks yell. “You know I hate that!” Cel yells and blows up a chair, splash damage.

Hamid magic missiles a mook flanking Barnes, just as Zolf and Azu arrive at doorway

Barnes & Carter not fighting well 😫

Cel’s battle cry: “Pronouns Are They/Them!” Gets mooks with crossbow

Azu yells (in confusion) at Carter as she runs in. Zolf yells (in greeting) and casts Searing Light … mook is fatally hopeful

Barnes gives Zolf a flourishing, piratical bow. (He’s Poldark.) Fancy sword work makes the last mooks run away.

Carter takes down one with a dagger (but that’s it) “Why are you even here?!”

Cel hits the other with a couple of arrows. Hamid mutters for the kobolds & takes them out with scorching ray

All together now, leaving the Shoin Institute decimated

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As a flaming sapiosexual I fully endorse this message.

...But really, I do think Q is SO horny for Bond's brain.

I don't think I talk about this enough, but Craig!Bond is clearly SMART-smart and I think Q is SO INCREDIBLY INTO THAT SHIT.

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There’s such art to this, the textures of his shirt and tie, the way the blues and browns are picked up in the background. The blinking light on the back table that makes it a room, not just a set.

Mostly, though, his hands. That finger-twiddle at the end…

BEN WHISHAW on Q and Bond’s relationship.

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Old people love to own two identical ugly as shit dogs

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You might be frustrated by the library never having a complete manga collection on its shelves at any given time, but the 12 year old checking out 14 volumes of One Piece at once is vital to the library ecosystem. He's like the sea otter keeping the kelp forest from being devastated by an excess of sea urchins.

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the girls are fightingggg💥

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i love stock photos so much

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I found the original post on Facebook and shared it… there’s not much overlap between my Tumblr mutuals and Facebook friends, and I do love to share over there the crowd-sourced wisdom of this hellsite.

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The wonderful, emotional, profound world of Queer (2024) behind the scenes (a small chunk of what was shared to the interweb).