#qbj8

Item #16: Create a logo for your team.

[Co-written by @spiritofcamelot​ and @azure7539arts​]

Q is awful at hunting. And that’s fine. He is valued for his smarts. One of the things he creates is new pigments for paint. This is used both for clothes and for painting the walls of their cave.

Bond gets his knack for hunting after discovering that he rather likes sharp things (because sharp things are useful). It takes a while, but eventually, he sort of realizes that searching for sharp objects all the time once the older ones grow blunt is time consuming. And it takes another while for him to figure out that he can sharpen his clutter of random rocks and bones to finer points than anything he can find out in nature. This is when he starts to become really good at hunting (or, at least, he can deliver more damage than previously now.)

Em is an elder of the tribe. She rules with a long walking (or whacking) stick always in her grasp. She is small but fierce, her sharp teeth easily tearing the meat the hunters brought back. Despite her age and gender, she is in charge of the hunters and often advises them when the water will fall from the sky and they should stay home or when the hunting is good. It’s uncanny, but she always seems to know which watering hole the largest animals will be at.

Eve is the occasional trouble-maker (not that Em approves, but at least she’s not half as bad as Bond) because she doesn’t like to conform and has no intention to do so any time in the future. Sometimes, she’s with Q, watching and sometimes helping him with the pigment finding and mixing. Other times, she’ll help out wherever she can—picking food and gather and hunting. It’s the hunting that used to get her into trouble, but after one particularly vicious fight with some foolish male (which she didn’t start, mind) and her subsequent victory, they don’t tend to bother her anymore.

Boothroyd was injured when he was a younger hunter. He walks with a limp. But like Q, he is good at improvising things so he has a crutch that helps him walk without as much pain. He spends a lot of his time carefully sharpening tools, the methodical shick, shick of the stone providing a backdrop to the stories he tells the kids. Q helps him by making shadows with his hands on the cave walls to help tell the stories.

Tanner mostly doesn’t like hunting. He can do it, and he’s methodical enough that he can achieve his objective well, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that he likes doing it. What he likes is to just help Em out with organizing hunting parties (who gets to be on it, and who needs more rest), gathering parties (where they should be picking fruits up next), and how best to migrate to a better location once the surrounding areas have stopped providing them with sufficient materials. Q, Eve, and he work well together because he appreciates Eve’s mischief, Q’s creativity, and their sense of humor combined. (Bond thinks he’s not really part of the group, but Tanner knows better, considering that Bond is, more likely than not, around whenever he’s home resting after a hunt.)

Generally, their tribe gets along well, and other tribes leave them alone. But there is always one dissenter. Silva has always bickered with everyone, and finally he goes and joins the Janus tribe instead. The one tribe that hunts them. But Em reminds everyone that they were better and fear would not destroy them.

Name: Linorien, Overlord, @spiritofcamelot

Designation; QB-J8

Division: fic, art, calligraphy, recipe videos, I dunno anyone wanna dare me to make something?

Personal goal: write things <500 words and complete 2 prompt tables

Timezone: Eastern US. 

Hey minions, welcome back to our basement lab. This is my third year doing the fest and I am super excited. My main tip for newcomers is to make lots of headcanons and comment on everything. Even a reblog with some notes in the tags counts for comment points. I had a blast planning this fest as one of your Cafe mods and I am so excited to see all the things you create. 

Items denoted by * indicate that it was posted to accord with a theme day Items denoted by ** indicate it was to fill an anon prompt

Stories

Postcards

Secrets, Spots, and Spies* (trans character day)

My Younger Self

Control (or lack thereof)* (Agent Day)

Sunshine State of Mind*  (Polyamory Day)

And Another thing

Loosing Never Felt So Much like Winning

Naval Echoes

Lies and Bonds go Hand in Hand

AU Prompt Table

It Takes Two to Tango

Oracle of Bastet**

Under the Sink**

Captain of the Sea

Alley Cat of London

Royal Request

Final Hour

Overheard

Classic Bond Prompt Table

Impracticalities of a Volcano Lair, and one concession**

Captain of the Sea

Roll of the Dice

Alley Cat of London

Overheard

Escapades in Retirement

Beyond the Job Description**

Trope Prompt Table

It Takes Two to Tango

Digital Legends* ** (Q Branch Day)

The Piña Colada Chat**

Secretary!Q and Quartermaster!Eve headcanon* (Reverse Tropes Day)

Royal Request

Overheard

One Bed, Two Girls, Three Days of Unrestrained Fun

My Love is like a Wine Dark Sea

Collab Prompt Table

Trapped, But Mostly Troubled

Roll of the Dice

Looking Back

T-I-Double-Oh-Seven**

My Love is like a Wine Dark Sea

It Started with an Egg

Magical Connection

Art

Wai Lin* (Characters of Colour Day)

Moneypenny* (Moneypenny Monday)

Pussy Galore* (Classic Bond Day)

Tracy

Goldfinger moodboard* (Villain Day)

Cover art

Digital Legends cover

Trapped, But Mostly Troubled cover

The Pina Colada Chat cover

Oracle of Bastet cover

Final Hour cover

Scavenger Hunt items

#7 - Five fics of Bond being saved by a competent woman

#8 - create a code (No one has solved it yet!)

#9 - solve a code

#22 - Updating fanlore page

#30 - Minion Buddy

#33 - Recruitment poster for your team

#35 - Pirate Wedding invite

#37 - Making Lap's earl grey and lemon cookies

#42 - Agent Maple

#43 - Secondary mug

#44 - Witch's Hazel

#51 - cake for a character* (Food Day)

#54 - complete a Bond themed crossword

#59 - Design a mug

#70 - Bond film themed menu

Other

cake for a character headcanon

Skyfall Radio headcanon

Casino Royale boat headcanon

Felix on the Fourth

M's Cupcakes headcanon and recipe

Miraculous MI6 headcanons part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8* (AU Day)

Singing the Bond Sea Shanty by Iambid

Scav Hunt #43

This is Q’s mug for the bad days. The long missions. The day when the error in the code makes no fucking sense.

(Mug courtesy of, of course, the Onion: https://store.theonion.com/products/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-mug)

You’ll find them all under #Title Puzzle or the fics posted in July,

The first letter of each has been scrambled, but don’t cry.

I’ll give you a hint, a missing piece, a coded letter U.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: James Bond (Craig movies), James Bond - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Kincade (James Bond) Additional Tags: Movie: Skyfall (2012) Series: Part 30 of 007 Fest 2020

Time passed slower in old age. Perhaps that was why Kincade wasn’t surprised to see James Bond when he’d read his obituary just a few months before. It hadn’t been the first obituary for James and he had doubted it would be the last. 

But whoever had control of his accounts had less faith. They’d sold the old lodge prematurely. 

Especially considering the destruction that was left in James’s wake. Kincade told the new owners he had been out of town that day. 

He also hadn’t been surprised at James’s skill with a gun. He just wanted to see what lie he spun. It was refreshing that he didn’t say anything. He’d known James had entered the Navy and made Commander. With the education and old blood he had, he should’ve made admiral. So obviously he’d changed careers. And it wasn’t surprising that he’d followed in his mother’s shoes. Spycraft was in his blood. 

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: James Bond (Craig movies), James Bond - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond), M | Gareth Mallory Series: Part 29 of 007 Fest 2020

When James Bond walked into the office Tuesday morning, he was stopped by the double-oh secretary. 

“James?” Loela called as he walked past her door. He paused and walked in. “There’ll be an email for you but you have a meeting with some higher ups tomorrow afternoon that you cannot miss. I was instructed to make sure you knew.”

Strange. He didn’t usually get summoned to meetings unless there was a mission coming up and even then it was usually a meeting with Tanner and some staff from the Intelligence branch. “Know anything about the meeting?” he asked. 

“Only that it coincides with an official visit from the First Sea Lord. But that’s only office gossip.”

“You know I love your office gossip.”

“No, you love the Japanese sweets I keep in my desk drawer.” 

Bond laughed. “You figured me out. What’s on offer today?”

She leaned down and spun the dials to unlock her drawer. “You’re lucky, I got a new box from my friend today.” She lifted out a small bowl. “We’ve got mochi puffs, strawberry kit kats, candied yuzu peels.”

Bond grabbed one of each and continued to his office. He opened his email and saw the message Loela was referring to. 

He whistled low. It really was the higher ups. The First Sea Lord, the Chief of Staff Information Warfare, and the Flag Officer of Maritime Reserves. Not to mention M, and Q. The email did not contain any information on the purpose of the meeting, just a note that it would be in a private club room of Blades and dinner would be provided. His stomach rumbled in anticipation. He’d missed the renewal period this year due to a mission and was not currently a member. He missed the lobster and steak dinners.