#bond/Q

[trenchcoat-full-of-recs]

Favourite fics of 2023

Now that the year is over, I figured I'd cast my eye back over the previous year to see what were my favourite fics I discovered that year. Notably, they may not have been published last year--just the ones that I read during that time period.

I have absolutely no idea what they will be, so I'm curious to dive into my bookmarks...

MDZS/CQL

Stunted, Starving Juvenility by TomatenMark -- oooh, apparently it was last year that I consumed this. It's a behemoth of a story at over 700k words; it's a slowly sprawling tale, and I read and reread it during the same year. And it's been one of the rare WIPs that I have been following faithfully. It's an AU in which WWX and LWJ, early on during the Gusu lectures, have the extra-canonical chapters' dreams about each other (that's to say, the ravishing in the library and the peaceful domesticity) and this triggers them realizing their feelings, which in turn changes rather a lot of things. This sounds underwhelming, but the fic really is very good and rather epic in scope! I have appreciated how it depicts WWX--intensely intelligent, precocious, but in need of guidance; and he and LWJ are darling together. I only hope it keeps being this good for the next 700k words or however much it takes!

You'll See Me Again by anon -- oh man, I loved this one. It's sadly a short-ish WIP (12k> words), but the concept is brilliant: it's NHS, who's time-travelled back and is determined to fix everything by getting WWX as his younger brother, and it's told from NMJ's baffled point of view. It's very good! I just wish it were longer.

Mourning Dove by jaemyun - a WIP featuring a dark LWJ who's very fed up with the hypocrisy of the cultivation world. Hasn't updated in a while, though...

SVSSS

This was the year I read SVSSS! Boy, did I ever love it. This naturally unlocked a new fandom for me, so here are some of my favourite fics:

A Transmigrator and a Time Traveler Walk Into the Bamboo House by VeryCharismaticDragon - this is super lovely! This is Binghe who time-travels from after SQQ's self-destruction to the start of the story. And he's determined to change things, even as he's trying to understand them. The whole thing is great.

The More You Don't Know by Neery - this is sweet and angsty in just the right way. Binghe is convinced SQQ only loves him because he doesn't realize he's a demon, and does his best to hide. (There's also a canon divergence in there.)

The Peace Between Divine Pec- ah-hm sorry - uh…Peaks by AceOfDivineChlorophyll - I need to catch up with the latest chapters of this, but I have it bookmarked as "absolutely love it, mega oblivious SQQ thinks he's LBH's advisor and not realizing that he's effectively the empress (something everyone around him sees) and of course not realizing also that he's super in love with LBH."

Particular by thehoyden - a very sweet SQQ/LBH a/b/o!

The King's Avatar

This is also the year when I consumed this canon!

Born of Fire (We Shall Not Fall) by TheDefenestrator - I loved this fic so much. So much. It's my favourite take on omegaverse I've ever seen in any fic, ever. It's got a super lovely Ye Xiu/Han Wenqing slowburn and Ye Xiu joining Tyranny, but it's also set in this universe which brings this omegaverse context into everything and makes it extra delicious. It's so well done. I just hope it updates one day.

here in search of your glory by Synoshian - I also adored this long slowburn long slowburn Ye Xiu/Han Wenqing WIP where Ye Xiu joins Tyranny.

Bond/Q

a bloodless coup by Ark - scorchingly hot, great characterisations, very well done.

There's a lot more fics that I read and enjoyed last year, but these were in my bookmarks as absolute faves, so I figure it's fair enough to end it here!

[nana-71926]

Gorgeous 00Q doujin cover by RaRa. Japanese novel inside.

[stinastar]

WIP Wednesday - amanita 🍄

Most of something I may or may not ever do something with

“Ooo, Bond, look!” Q tugged on Bond’s hand, towards the side of the path. Bond let himself be pulled, smiling fondly at Q’s enthusiasm.

“Amanita Muscaria. It’s poisonous, but it’s boiled and eaten in various countries, and has hallucinogenic properties. I used to call them fairy mushrooms, when I was small.”

“Oh?” Bond raised a brow, intrigued.

“They had them in the illustrations of a book on fairies I had when I was a child. The rare times I saw them in real life, I would always scour the area for signs of the fair folk.”

“And did you ever find any?” Bond asked with a fond smile.

“Nothing concrete,” Q said with a frown. “Though I did once find an acorn cap nearby, which I imagined might have been one’s hat.”

“I see,” Bond said, holding back a chuckle. “And how about now, do you see anything?”

“Oh, leave off,” Q said, giving Bond a little shove. “I was only a child.”

@mi6-cafe

[silverdragonreads]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies), Skyfall (2012) - Fandom Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Pre James Bond/Q - Relationship Characters: James Bond, Alec Trevelyan, Q (Bond - Craig movies) Additional Tags: Headaches & Migraines, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff Series: Part 42 of 00Q Tumblr Prompt Fills Summary:

Q gets migraines. When they come, he doesn't want to deal with anyone, let alone a 00. But 007 has his own plans for Q's pains.

[johnlocked1827384]

00Q fanfiction

so I wrote a thing...

It's a 00Q fanfiction of how I think bond and Q's relationship develops (there's a lot of smut) read it. Or don't. We don't stan peer pressure here.

[hannaloony]

James Bond. In 2024

[lithiumseven]

Part II, Part I

[vanillabean-97]

It’s so them ✨

[delessss]

[cicerfics]

You know what? There are so many reasons I love a demiromantic/demisexual Q. So many reasons why that characterization detail works for me and resonates with me personally.

But also? I am kinda just in it for Q falling in love for the first time when he's in his 30s.

I'm kinda in it for Q having a crush on someone/being horny for someone for the FIRST TIME at the ripe old age of 32, after a lifetime BLISSFULLY free of such nonsense.

He got through his ENTIRE education, including MULTIPLE graduate degrees without even a STIRRING of attraction to anybody. He progressed rapidly in his career because he was not DISTRACTED by such things!

And now? The indignity?? The mortifying ordeal of falling in love??? The humiliation of finding himself HORNY for a fellow human being???

I just like to think about Q contently shaping his life around his work and his cats, never feeling sexual or romantic attraction or WANTING to feel it, comfortably single and content to remain so.

And then Bond enters his life like a wrecking ball.

And six months into their friendship, Q is placidly sipping his cup of tea one morning, thinking about Bond.

And suddenly he freezes and goes, Oh no.

[sl-newsie]

My strange coping method?

[teddybarebones]

00q fic idea: Q gets kidnapped, and Bond is sent to recover him.

Bond, M, and Moneypenny are all tense, worried what the kidnappers are going to do to their quartermaster, trusting that he wouldn’t break, but fearing how badly he’ll be hurt. Bond is obviously chosen to retrieve him, and he’s ready to kill every person that gets in his way (and anyone who had anything to do with hurting Q)

What he didn’t expect at the scene was bodies upon bodies in the facility, like someone had already gunned through before him. Tense and suspicious, Bond follows the sound of gunshots on the other side of the building. Thinking the possibility of a gang war or infighting.

What he found instead, was his skinny quartermaster straddling an armed man, repeatedly beating his skull with a mallet. Undershirt covered in blood, breathing hard but evenly. Bond is frozen in place at the scene before him, distracted enough at the sight that he neglected his surroundings.

Q whips his head to face him, curls untamed and bouncing, as he grabs the gun from the beaten soldier’s grasp, and instantly fires a bullet over Bond’s shoulder.

The sound of a heavy body hitting the concrete floor behind him causes his to quickly turn around to see another armoured man, dead only a few meters from him, bullet wound directly through his left eye…

…Slowly turning to face his quartermaster once more, he watches as the not so scrawny man gracefully stands from off the body, bespectacled blue eyes not straying for a second from his own. Blood spattering high cheekbones, thin fingers tightly wrapped around the grip of the gun, hands steady and confident. He’s done this before.

“007, I take it you’re here to rescue me?”

…Bond has never been so attracted to someone in his entire life.

[spockvarietyhour]

GoldenEye (1995) directed by Martin Campbell

Bonus:

[qcoded]

BPD NINE MAXXING?!??#?! BASED???!?

Nine's villain arc was actually just him crashing out I DON'T MAKE THE RULES!!!!!!!!!

[sanerontheinside]

Uncontroversial opinion: Skyfall is The 00Q anthem

You agree. reblog.

[pommedepersephone]

I'll hazard I can do more damage on my laptop sitting in my pajamas before my first cup of Earl Grey than you can do in a year in the field.

How it started and how it ended. With Q proving he was telling the absolute truth.