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  1. Rec 20

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    Field work is not glamorous. Nor is it, unless you're of a certain temperament, fun. It sounds on paper like the kind of thing that would make a marvelous action thriller movie, or perhaps a good novel.

    Well, in a novel one can dispense with stakeouts and endless waiting in a few sentences, in a movie, with a short montage. But there's no way around that in real life.

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    20 Feb 2018

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    Bucky has two options: be refrozen for an indefinite amount of time until someone can pry Hydra's hooks out of his brain. Or, go to space and see if they can do any better.

    He goes to space. It turns out there's someone there who knows a thing or two about messing with peoples' heads.

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    17 Feb 2018

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    A bird alights on Thor’s shoulder and pecks his cheek twice, hard enough to make him wince.

    “What are you doing?” it warbles in his ear.

    “Wondering what my brother is doing up at this hour, little bird,” Thor replies. “Will you go ask him for me?”

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    16 Feb 2018

  4. Rec 92

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    It started when they were boys. Thor was fifteen and Loki was, well, somewhere right around there.

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    10 Feb 2018

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    Bond rolls forward, although his usual liquidly graceful movements are stiff from his injuries. Q doesn’t startle, too used to Bond’s antics over months of travelling together, although his breath does hitch when Bond sweeps his fingers under Q's glasses, brushing lightly against the dark bruises Q knows are still there.

    "Think of this as a vacation,” Bond says. “You haven't stopped at all since we left London."

    "A vacation," Q says incredulously. "With the scorching sun and questionable water and unreliable food supplies and a heightened chance of tropical water-borne diseases, and all my equipment sunk in the ocean."

    “With the briny air and an abundance of wild and sea life and limitless possibilities," Bond counters, "without alerts or surveillance or the need to stare at a glowing screen for hours on end.”

     

    (Post-Spectre mission fic, where the mission is to survive being stranded on a desert island, and shutting down Spectre's operations is a critical but secondary objective reserved for after they get off the island.

    But when did MI6's missions ever run according to plan?)

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    08 Feb 2018

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    Q thinks he can't imagine anything worse than three days at a conference with James Bond as his bodyguard. Bond thinks that's showing a lack of imagination. He may be right.

    Or, the one where Q has a long-standing arrangement, Bond condescends to croissants and tablecloths, unresolved issues abound, and then actual serious stuff happens. Post-Spectre.

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    08 Feb 2018

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    Hela did not ask for company in her sealed-up world, but evidently Odin is economical in containment strategies for his misbegotten children.

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    27 Jan 2018

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    No one understands what it's like growing up rich and yet more alone than anyone should be able to stand - except for people who grew up just like you, that is. In which Tony Stark goes to Oxford University and meets people and makes enemies and makes friends and changes people's minds and falls in love - amongst other tales of mishap and adventure.

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    27 Jan 2018

  9. Rec 41

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    After the death of her first husband, Molly had wanted to get as far away from Florida as she could afford to go. Mountains and the scent of pine trees called her north, as well as the promise of being alone for a little while. They had led a quiet life in Maine, and when the man in the plaid shirt and fishing waders approached, her first instinct was to tell him to go away.
     
    But then he smiled.

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    Molly Graham receives a package, months after Will's disappearance and assumed demise. A sad moody little piece, and my entry from the Radiance Anthology.

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    27 Jan 2018

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    The series where Loki and Steve Rogers start orbiting each other, and it gradually turns into a thing, and then into another kind of thing. Or, the author's long and complicated method of making Steve/Loki make sense as a pairing, and then exploring how it would work.

    Spoiler alert: a lot of the time, it doesn't.

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    27 Jan 2018

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    Q is not cut out for field work, and he's using that as his excuse for kissing Secret Agent 007 - the first time, anyway. All subsequent times are completely out of his control.

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    07 Jan 2018

  12. Public Bookmark 55

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    An ongoing series of non-chronological drabbles set within a reality where Thor and Loki are dorm-mates at college. Hijinks ensue, so you know it's gonna be good. Warnings for each story are at the beginning of their respective chapter.

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    06 Dec 2017

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    06 Dec 2017

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    Things go very differently on the ill-suited venture to Jotunheim when the Frost Giants notice something about one of the invaders. But their decision to "rescue" what they assume must be a kidnapped Jotun has many unexpected and far-spanning consequences...especially for Loki himself.

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    03 Dec 2017

  15. Rec 7

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    Stories don't end, they just become another story.

    Danny Holt moves on, remembers, heals - and in the process, buries himself as well.

    It's never as dark as all of that though.

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    27 Nov 2017

  16. Rec 77

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    A year ago if anyone had ever told James Bond he'd be spending his days hunting down magical threats with a scrawny young mage, he would have declared them mad. Yet here he is, covered in goblin innards and not much caring save for the fact that it'll probably take forever to wash off.

    A Historical Fantasy AU in which James Bond is a knight under Lady M of the North and has a job of locating and extinguishing magical threats with his partner, Q, who just wants James to stop stealing his inventions before they're finished.

     

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    26 Nov 2017

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    For weeks, Q has no idea who the man with a permanent bed in MI6 Medical is.

    Well. More that he doesn’t quite understand the significance of Alistair Turner, why MI6 decides to keep him within headquarters instead of transporting him to another facility, one more suited to caring for a coma patient.

    Then M gives Q orders to find a program created by a certain MI6 cryptanalyst, a program now in the Security Service’s possession, with strictly worded instructions to scour it from existence.

    And Q understands.

     

    A London Spy/James Bond crossover where Q and Danny are entirely separate people and they lead their lives as they did in the series and the movies. The key here is that Alex works for Bond and Q's MI6 - the one portrayed in Spectre and headed by M(allory).

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    25 Nov 2017

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    “Am I sacked?”

    M doesn’t bother answering James’ attempt at humor but instead continues in his point. “Since your return from the Skyfall operation, which was over a year ago I might add, you have not taken one day of leave, no holiday of which I'm aware. You haven’t rested the requisite 48 hour period between mission and report.”

    James takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly.

    “You are not a young man,” M says plainly. “Everyone, even James Bond, needs time to let wounds heal, both physical and mental. Pushing yourself is going to get you or someone else killed eventually.”

    “So not another mission then?” James asks and moves to stand.

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    Or, James Bond is forced to take a few days off, runs into Q at a kebab shop, starts playing World of Warcraft, and takes a trip to Witney to meet Q's family (for reasons of national security, of course).

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    04 Nov 2017

  19. Rec 97

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    The measure of Q's affection can be determined by the gifts he makes for people.

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    20 Oct 2017

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    [set post-movie; SPOILERS]
    “I think Bond’s trying to be your friend,” Eve tells him.

    “…well,” Q says slowly, “this is a new and disturbing development.”

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    11 Oct 2017

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