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"Most people just pick whatever flower they think is prettiest. It doesn’t require a lot of input from me.”
The man walks up to Q, leaning against the counter between them. “Well then, what can I do to get your input?”
(In which Q runs a flower shop, and his newest regular is almost definitely a spy.)- Language:
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07 Feb 2026
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A Life You Haven't Started Yet by VIII_XIII for kedgeree11 (kedgeree)
Fandoms: Inception (2010)
15 Nov 2016
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It's not that Arthur doesn't enjoy his boring job (because he does), and it's not that Arthur doesn't have hobbies (because he does), and it's not that Arthur doesn't experience a surprising number of romantic prospects cropping up (because he does); it's just that he's not happy for no reason, and he can't stop texting his tailor.
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc by blueink3, MoreHuman, mycleverusername, swat117, this_is_not_nothing
Fandom Schitt's Creek
16 May 2021
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"After this, therefore because of this" .... West Wing and Schitt's Creek exist, ergo we wrote a David/Patrick political AU.
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19 Oct 2024
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Seven months after the end of the war, Harry is feeling lost. Fortunately, he is about to be offered an unexpected and sparkling chance to find himself again. [2014 advent fic]
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“I believe in a love that grows, if you must know. Take that tree there—it had to start small, just a sapling. But with enough attention and sunshine and good old English rain it became large enough to drop a branch on my car last summer. And, just like love, eventually it will wither and die.”
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19 Mar 2024
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Really pleasant read, spot on characterizations, witty & entertaining dialogue, engaging plot, simply lovely.
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Eames has a secret Arthur would never guess. It involves a suit-wearing cat.
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Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love by isthisselfcare
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Apr 2022
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Hermione straddles the Muggle and Magical worlds as a medical researcher and Healer about to make a big discovery. Draco is an Auror assigned to protect her from forces unknown – to both of their displeasure.
Features hyper-competent, fiery Hermione and lazy, yet dangerous, Draco. Slow burn.
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Field Guide to North American Dragons by PacificRimbaud
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 May 2020
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Draco Malfoy never asked for Charlie Weasley, a flying car, or fucking America, for that matter.
But sometimes what you don't want is exactly what you need.- Language:
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02 Oct 2023
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authentic-feeling redemption story. magical. friendship saves us.
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“I bet you can’t name five things that make me an attractive option.” Q cocks his head, as if considering Bond. “We can’t all seduce our way to as long a trail of broken lovers as you. Even at your advanced age.”
Q thinks Bond is incapable of actually being offended, hence why he feels safe to throw aspersions his way. Indeed, Bond’s eyes register surprise, then they crinkle in amusement.
“I bet you I can name six.”
“Hmm?”
“Six reasons why our dear Quartermaster is a catch. Number one, you’re incredibly charming.”
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Or, what if Bond crashes Q’s date that night and never bloody leaves. A slow burn following NTTD and beyond, including Bond and Q discovering what they want in life and how to be the kind of people that can hold onto it.
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21 Aug 2023
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Technically Q's name and personal details are classified and beyond the purview of field agents, but he's worked for Q branch for ten years and had gone by his actual name for eight of them. His identity is as much of a "secret" as his ineptitude at filing financial reports.
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19 Feb 2023
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"Bond had let Q change the subject, before. He’d learned that it paid to let their harder conversations breathe a bit, to give Q space to sort things out in his wickedly clever, eminently generous mind. But Q deserved the world, and Bond would give him whatever pieces of it were within his power. And he could give him this, at least. He could give him a love letter.
Although it was possible he might need a bit of help."I recently ran a 00q "choose your own adventure" series of polls on Tumblr, and it resulted in this fic. 💜 (This is the finished version, so no polls here and no choices required--just the final fic to read through.)
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17 Feb 2023
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"People always think of a sunrise as a timed event that you can pinpoint to the second, when the reality is that it is a slow progression from darkness to light."
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18 Jan 2023
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Another poetic and beautiful story from Esplanade to gently brighten a grey day.
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There I Saw You, Night by esplanade
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
30 Apr 2023
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"It wasn't as if he had stopped writing entirely. Quite the opposite, in fact. It was just that most of what he wrote ended up thrown into the fireplace at home. What was the sense in keeping something that was sub-par?"
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There had been three days of silence and a funeral. Sherlock had the terrible feeling that whatever happened next would depend, entirely, on him.
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01 Jan 2023
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Lovely slice of life and wish there were a Rosie-focused sequel! This will be my head canon ❤️
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New job, new truck, new fiancée... John Watson, former storm chaser, has settled into a comfortable new life.
There's only one problem: John's already married. And the the divorce papers he's been sending to his former partner, Sherlock Holmes, keep going missing. So with his fiancée Mary by his side, John reluctantly makes a trip to see him in the hopes of finalizing their divorce once and for all.
But John arrives in the midst of a very active storm season, and Sherlock very clearly hasn’t let go of the past. Against his better judgement, John finds himself talked into riding along after one last storm.
Twister AU!
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16 Dec 2022
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Men lightning found alive by GwynDuLac, WeCouldPretend
Fandoms: James Bond (Craig Movies)
22 Nov 2021
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Bond and Safin come face to face, and realize that they have perhaps misjudged each other - and the whole situation.
Or, the one where Bond was right to not trust Madeleine, but fortunately he has other people looking out for him.
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After landing in LA, Arthur and Eames go for drinks and have a very proper, super professional post-job debrief.
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christmas isn't christmas (until it happens in your heart and/or people are suitably traumatised) by skylights
Fandoms: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies)
03 Jan 2014
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Because Alec is a slippery bastard, he’s gone by the time Q is done playing Holiday-Conscious Branch Manager with Mallory and Q doesn’t have anyone within his immediate vicinity that he can yell at without feeling guilty.
Which means, of course, he ends up calling Bond.
“Not a good time, Q,” Bond says the moment he picks up and Q checks himself for a second, wondering if Bond has somehow gotten himself embroiled in some matter of international security since they last saw each other at breakfast. “And if this is about Alec, I really don’t want to talk about it at the moment.”
“Well tough, because that’s precisely why I’m calling.”
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06 Apr 2022
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you'll be the death of me by skylights for Kru
Fandoms: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies)
20 Jul 2015
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"Please," says Q loftily even as he turns at the sound of the front door opening, a rain-bedraggled couple already heading for a table not too far from Bond's. "As flattered as I am to hear that you're already anticipating another cup, you shouldn't presume so much, Mr. Bond. Cyanide is expensive these days, you know, and on the contrary, I actually have it on good authority that our coffee is good enough to die for, if not to die from."
(Or the one where Death owns a coffeeshop on the corner and Bond has been cultivating the surprisingly useful habit of Not Dying. A love story, of sorts.)