Myn’s Place

It's June and if you've been around for a while, you know what that means: it's almost Fest time! Whether you've been here for a while or you only just found the Cafe, we encourage you to SIGN UP for this year’s 007 Fest, which is the same format as last year, but with a fun new premise. Sign-ups are between June 1-15; you can join after that if you email us, but onboarding may take a little longer. See this post for details!

Discord refresh

If you're a regular on the discord, there will be some changes soon in response to your survey responses so far. Our plan is to change a few things before Fest craziness hits, and then more of the changes will come afterwards.

Saturday Cafe: June 13th and 27th

Come join us in the fandom Slack or Discord as we write, draw, sprint, plot, brainstorm, cheerlead, and generally have a good time trying to get things done together. If you’d like an invite to either platform, go ahead and message one of the mods.

Short Fic Readalong, Saturdays at 9pm ET

Join us in the Discord while we read a fic together. We're currently reading the doubling pot by Mlle_Heloise

We’d love to see you there. You are welcome to listen if you don’t or can’t read aloud!     When: Saturdays at 9pm eastern/6pm Pacific. Where: We’ll be reading on discord in the readalongs channel. (Invite to discord here)

We will likely finish this story mid-June and then transition to short stories for the rest of June and all of July. Stay tuned for an update on that!

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

Weekly events:

WIP Wednesday: You can post an excerpt of your WIP on our post or make your own post and mention the @mi6-cafe. Either way it’s a fun way to show people what you’re working on, Bond fandom or otherwise.

Weekend movies: Bond movies are by womble every Sunday at 8am Pacific time, and Kitten-Kin has been treating us to movies that have a connection to Bond in some way on Saturdays at 9am Pacific time. Join us in Discord to watch one of the Bond movies. Keep an eye on the watch party calendar linked below for updates.

Want to host your own event in the Discord or elsewhere? Let us know about it so we can add it to the calendars!

Calendars

What is 007 Fest?

007 Fest is an annual month-long celebration in July of all things Bond!

The primary goals of 007 Fest is to create anything and everything relating to James Bond and to celebrate the fandom community. We will have prompts, activities, and hangouts in Discord to chill with other members of the fandom from around the world. 

This year, the storyline we are following is the MI6 leadership’s attempt to run some internal team bonding activities in a four-week event they are calling The A.N.E.M.O.N.E. Games. Each week will feature a different theme—Respect, Creativity, Courage, and Integrity—and have activities planned by different MI6 branches. With so many irons in the fire, the chances of it going smoothly are minimal. 

This is where you all come in! As various members of the MI6 staff or even outside consultants, you’re being roped into helping plan and execute activities, and prove that MI6 does actually have some sense of teamwork despite the usual chaos.

Each week in July, we will ask you to set personal goals for yourself. The overall goal completion rate in the Fest participant population will determine how well The A.N.E.M.O.N.E. Games go in the story. A little chaos isn’t awful, but by helping each other complete goals by the end of the month, M might be convinced that everyone deserves a raise.

For more info on 007 Fest, check out our collection of wordpress pages, but be aware that some of the pages are still 2025-specific.

I don’t write or art! Can I still participate?

Absolutely! If you want, you can only make social goals—hosting or joining watch parties or Discord chats, for example. 

We also have fun immersive goals/scavenger hunt activities that don’t involve writing or arting.

And if you want to make a “hold my beer” level of goal, we also offer prompt tables and other challenges!

You can also participate without goals during certain weeks or the whole month if you want! 007 Fest is as chill or as high-key as you want to make it.

How can I sign up?

Sign-ups will be open June 1st through June 15th! Just fill out the form and we’ll contact you around June 18th with more information. If you’d like to sign up after the 18th, you can, it will just take the mods a little longer to get you plugged in.

What’s new this year?

If you are returning to Fest, check out the updates here: https://mi6cafe.wordpress.com/007-fest/whats-new-for-fest/

"Married?" Bond scoffed. "Can he not be my useless son or something?"

Q made an offended noise. "Useless, really? Could you not be my recently divorced disaster of a father?"

"Department budgets only stretch to a one bed," Moneypenny continued dryly. "And more importantly the mark's husband-"

"Can we not just send someone to seduce him?" Bond cut in impatiently. Hell, he'd do it himself if it really came down to it. He wasn't above ruining someone's marriage in the name of getting what was required.

"-Is a couples therapist." Moneypenny finished.

"Ah." Bond said, suddenly this ridiculous set up was starting to make an annoying sort of sense.

Q laughed darkly. "And we're to be the couple made of — how do people put it — more red flags than a communist rally?"

Bond cocked his head at Q and raised one eyebrow in lieu of a question.

"Married extremely quickly, absolutely nothing in common, concerningly large age gap." Q listed off on his fingers. He turned and locked eyes with Bond. "One struggling with his masculinity and sexuality."

"I think you'll find I'm perfectly content with my masculinity, thankyou."

Q shot him a withering look.

"And there's a beautiful example of you bickering like an old married couple already." Moneypenny smiled smugly.

Moneypenny gives them each other's files and tells them to brush up on both their backstories but both of them independently go "No?? The cover will work much better if neither of us know anything about the other."

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Well, Brennan, everything. 

I love the way they just pop into your head as you're in the shower. 

I love how, at night, my dreams tell stories. 

And when my mom is talking to me on the phone and I zone out and tell my own story while she's telling me a boring story,

I love that. 

I love all of it. 

And that's why I'm here today-

“A Fragment out of Time”, published in 1974. Kirk / Spock. page 1 page 2

Skyfall (2026), a role-reversal AU for @mi6-cafe Moodboard March

New to the job, a battle-worn Naval Commander turned Quartermaster meets his match in the fresh-faced double-oh who's as deadly with a keyboard as he is with a gun. When the Quartermaster's past catches up with him, a cat-and-mouse chase sees them head north, where it takes their unique blend of skills and wits to not meet their ends at Skyfall.

[Interior. The National Gallery. A dark-haired man sits facing The Fighting Temeraire. An older man joins him without invitation]

What do you see?

Well. It always makes me feel a bit melancholy. Grand old war ship, being ignominiously hauled away to scrap... The inevitability of time, don't you think? And you, what do you see?

A bloody big ship.

[The younger man gives a polite nod and shifts to leave]

Excuse me.

007. I'm your new Quartermaster.

You must be joking.

Why, because I'm not wearing a lab coat?

Because you're wearing a pocket square.

My sartorial choices are hardly relevant.

Your competence is.

Youth is no guarantee of innovation.

And age is no guarantee of efficiency.

[They face off, assessing. The Quartermaster eventually lifts a brow and needlessly straightens his cuff]

I'll hazard I've done more damage in my pyjamas before my first cup of coffee a hundred times over than what you and your laptop have done in your first year in the field.

Oh, so why do you need me?

Quite often, a trigger has to be pulled. But it's a brave new world, and sometimes the old ways aren't the best.

Sometimes executing a script is as effective as executing a target. It's easier to tell which when you're not in pyjamas.

[Both men finally smile, intrigued and perhaps having enjoyed the exchange more than they ought to have done, and they shake hands]

Q.

This is AMAZING, and so poignant. Beautifully done!

44/45th Project, 62nd & 63rd books bound, 2026 Binderary Books #3 & #4 The Marketplace - Crossover tales by @kryptaria & @bootsnblossoms Completed: February 11, 2026 Size: Folios. [263 pages, 84,499 words] [424 pages, 135,395 words]

A two book series - first covers an alternate meeting between Q and Bond, while the second includes the events of Skyfall and ends up as a OT3 with Bond, Q, and 007.