#tiago rodriguez

[lithiumseven]

Part I, Part II

[foemancer]

Raoul Silva + Outfits

[trideca-art]

Silva in a new outfit :p

[nfstssmm]

i just finished my favourite project yet, the iconic shirt Silva wears. As soon as i saw him on screen i HAD to have this shirt.

it isn’t an exact replica (ie. the pattern doesn’t match up in some places, the circle details are larger, etc) BUT ITS PRETTY CLOSE.

i drew out the pattern and had it printed onto 100% cotton fabric.

this is going to become a staple in my wardrobe.

[drpsps]

Silva being a like a panther who dyed his fur partially gold to disguise himself as a tiger…

Animal-ing characters is my hobby now guys

[charmbb]

Raoul Silva

Mow

[bewaretheidiotsofmarch]

So uhhhhh, I've been hyperfixating lately🤭 I may be a little bit in love with Tiago/Silva and Safin....💓😮‍💨💓

I may have made an oc for Safin🤫

I have prosopagnosia so drawing real people is always scary to me, but less so if they're on screen as basically a 2d image. I can't see faces at ALL in real time so I'm pretty proud that I've managed to get them anywhere near close.

[cloverpseudonym]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: James Bond & Raoul Silva | Tiago Rodriguez Characters: James Bond, Raoul Silva | Tiago Rodriguez, M | Olivia Mansfield Additional Tags: Mommy Issues, Men Crying, Grief/Mourning, not ship but could be read as ship, Insanity, Canon-Typical Violence, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary:

M succumbs to her wounds before Tiago and James arrive at the chapel

[persephonethewanderer]

i don't think there was ever this possibility but do you think that if M acknowledged the pain she caused/apologized to silva in any way, he would have still gone through with his plan? I don't think he would ever stop being resentful of her but seeing how difficult it was for him to kill her, I can't see him still doing it if he believed she had regrets about the trade. i'm curious of what u think (this is excluding the plot of spectre that kinda implied he had to do it for blofeld or whatever)

this is a really interesting question because i always saw silva’s mission to get revenge as something that he knew would culminate in his death. i don’t think the plan was to ever survive. i don’t think he could’ve, to be quite honest, especially after spending so long to obsess over her demise.

however, he is not a monster (as much as he wants to act like one and be perceived as such). the beauty of his character is that truly it’s not like he’s aiming at world domination. he’s aiming at getting back at his mother/handler. so the idea of him stopping, if m ever showed remorse for what she did, is not too far fetched. i am not sure it would’ve changed anything. but it is clear he still harbors a sliver of hope for her to acknowledge what she did (think on your sins). he says it himself, “no remorse, just as i imagined”. of course he knows her too well, he loves her too much, to play himself on the hope of her ever changing. but maybe— maybe there’s a small part of him that hoped until the very end. the part that makes him fly off the handle when she calls him mr. silva and not his real name. he asks, demands, to be called tiago rodriguez. and yet she doesn’t give it to him.

i think ultimately that is what cements in silva the idea that there’s no other way to end this but with total annihilation.

would he have entertained another possibility? was the pain blinding but not absolute? we might never know. but i bet he asked himself the same thing.

[carverl]

I want to talk about Raoul Silva AKA my favourite Bond villain and one of my favourite villains in all of cinema and why that is;

Silva (or Tiago Rodriguez) is a character I find endlessly fascinating, his charming personality and demeanor lead to him being incredibly likable from the start and how he speaks to Bond in a way that's friendly and honest yet with still a hint of menace is almost hypnotic to watch on screen. Javier Bardem plays this role to perfection and I feel he doesn't get enough credit for this performance, he is both a camp delight and incredibly threatening when he needs to be and I love every second he's on screen.

His design is also perfect, I don't know how they found a look that screams 'Bond Villain' but this is it, the way his suit is the inverted colour scheme of Bond's is a neat detail and his dyed hair and eyebrows are subtley off putting with how wrong it somehow feels hinting at that he seems well put together there is something off with this man.

The way he acts as the perfect dark reflection to Bond is so interesting to me, sure there have been plenty of characters like that in the film series before Silva i.e Red Grant, Scaramanga and Alec Trevelyan. But none of them are as well utilized as Silva in my opinion with how both he and Bond were betrayed by M and left to die but in Silva's case he went through literal hell whereas Bond just got shot. It's not hard to imagine Bond going rogue on a revenge mission to kill M if he were put through the torture Silva was. Another element to this is how Silva employs Bond's own methods to attack MI6, he attempts to seduce the closest ally to his target, deliberately gets himself captured to infiltrate his target's base to kill them easier and uses their own tech against them. All trademark tactics Bond uses against his villains but turned on him truly making it feel like Silva is three steps ahead of everyone.

The tragedy of Silva is so well handled, he's someone you can't help but feel bad for while watching Skyfall. All he really wants is revenge on the woman who left him to die, a woman he saw as a maternal figure. Like, yeah I get it and I love how Bond himself seems to understand and respect Silva with moments where it seems like he understands his pain. He's one of the few antagonists Bond has gone up against where it feels like he really respects them and probably doesn't even really want to kill him. And the fact that at the end of the film Silva wins, he gets what he wants and tbh, I'm kind of glad. Not that I hate M but it's just nice that Silva gets some closure after a lifetime of being denied that.

[foemancer]

Skyfall (2012) Dir. Sam Mendes

[mi6-cafe]

Long Fic Readalong!

What: We’re going to celebrate longer fanfics by dedicating a few weekends to reading them. This means we’ll read one or two chapters each readalong session.

When: Every Saturday at 9pm eastern/6pm Pacific (your local time here)

Where: We’ll be reading on discord in the readalongs channel. (Invite to discord here, or message @spiritofcamelot)

Okay cool, but what fic? We are reading “Bond'n'Roll” by CMDAK. You can join us without any familiarity of the story and just ask for a recap on what you missed.

July 6th we will be starting with chapter 1!!

Please join us to read, to just hang out and listen, and to generally enjoy a good story together!

Chapters: 27/27 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: James Bond/Q, Eve Moneypenny/R Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond), Alec Trevelyan, Eve Moneypenny, R (James Bond), M | Olivia Mansfield, Raoul Silva | Tiago Rodriguez, Le Chiffre, Safin (James Bond) Additional Tags: Rockstar AU, Possessive James Bond, Jealous James Bond, Jealous Silva, BAMF Q (James Bond), determined James Bond, Manager Q, Fluff Summary:

When one too many managers beg to either be reassigned or threaten to quit and go to SPECTRE, M decides to bring out the big guns and appoints Q to 'Shaken, not Stirred'. Some chapters will contain art by the lovely aliensundermybed. Fic based on their AU.

[nfstssmm]

[drpsps]

Tried to draw Raoul from memory because I’m finally drawing again and like I said drawing characters as their assigned animals so y’all got Anton as a cougar

[halfbaked00q]

was trying to figure out a way to coalesce some separate threads together but it became too much work so anyway in the meantime

so I do like when we poor little meow meow Bond and also I like when we, like... humanize, Bond, but I was really in the mood for fics where Bond is more... brutal? that's not quite right... more ruthless? and calculating? and more, like, cold manipulative agenty like not just as a persona but also in a more internal kind of way? *gestures*

and this fic absolutely does that:

Chapters: 17/21 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies), Skyfall (2012) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: James Bond/Q, James Bond/Original Female Character(s) Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond), M | Gareth Mallory, Eve Moneypenny, Bill Tanner, Raoul Silva | Tiago Rodriguez Additional Tags: Skyfall AU, Past Rape/Non-con, Sexual Assault, Canon-Typical Violence, BAMF Q (James Bond), Secrets, Mission Fic, Revenge, Trust Issues, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Slow Burn, Touch-Starved, Seduction, Romance, Top James Bond, Bottom Q (James Bond), Hand Jobs, Anal Sex, Possessive Sex, Hurt/Comfort Summary: After two months in the clutches of human traffickers, James Bond is freed by an enigmatic savior claiming to be an MI6 agent. But when James returns to MI6, he finds an agency that’s still reeling from M's death...and no trace of his mysterious rescuer. James's hunt for M’s killer leads him to dangerous secrets about the woman he trusted and an uneasy alliance with a hacker who has his own reasons to seek vengeance.

Basically- this fic presents imo an absolutely fascinating James Bond that is at once the like cold ruthlessly efficient and almost-unconsciously manipulative Agent but also regimented and in control of his instincts and training, BUT ALSO there's this complex exploration of trauma and PTSD that threads its way through and fractures that tight conscious control he has over himself. It's a deliciously complex flavor with that level of darkness that some of the "nicer" so to speak fics don't always have - the dangerous dropoff under the deceptively calm lake surface.

The other interesting thing this fic has is a thread of, like, non-acute sexual trauma that I find to be an absolutely fascinating layer to add to a 007 exploration. And the way it interplays with a sort of.... how do I describe it... like a sort of internalized and unconscious fawning-type mentality which plays absolutely fascinatingly with the "agents are trained to essentially discard large parts of their selves, in order to get the job done" complex.

(the Q in here is also not unappealing to me - there's this moment in particular where he's like, you're mine that I was like oooogh owo. but also I'm kind of like, is there a way we can put this 007 together with, say, A Matter of Control Q or Object Model Q?)

sorry this post has homework/background reading lmao but also pls god if anyone else reads these and like feels the vibe pleeeaaaase come back and talk to me about it, I need to bounce thoughts and ideas off someone maybe, maybe that will help the currently-unarticulable vibes I'm *feelin* to start coagulating into, like, verbalizable words and phrases lmao

[bewaretheidiotsofmarch]

WIP

Nowhere near to being finished so I thought I'd post my halfway WIP for y'all.

( bloody mouth is censored for now)

I wanted to draw him in his final scenes, but show the tangible effects of the acid at the same time. So it's a visual representation of his immense pain, but the actual injury is not happening in that very moment.