#quriosity

This was my first start-to-finish bind! Someone on the Renegade server very generously offered me the typeset, but I realized if I didn't typeset this one myself I would probably never take the plunge and learn Affinity. So, here it is, an absolutely Basic Bitch typeset but I love it. Details after the cut.

Some new things were done - I made my first quarto and first cut-out. I bound Sigh No More by @dhampir72 - which was an exercise in persistence (and frustration).

Statistics:

20,231 words || 84 pages

Body text: Liberation Serif, 9 point

Accents: Lemon Milk

I was inspired by the themes of the fic - about loneliness and welcome homes and the setting of the fic partly taking place in planes and airports, and wanted to make a cutout reminiscent of a plane window. the fic ends on such a bittersweet, pensive note that i tried to emulate that in the bind.

However, i was stymied so many times by the frigging cutout- the bind was so cursed because i tore the cut out so many times. i don't have a colour printer and was forced to make two trips to do my printing on a colour printer. i used handmade (and by that, i mean by me) marbled paper that I made in a marbling class as my endpapers. they don't necessarily match, but i love the non-pareil pattern and i so badly wanted to use it.

I also used french double core endbands - matching the insert's colours - had some good fun with it - though i have been very rusty and don't quite remember the steps for endbands. I also used some lovely duo elster supplied by @pleasantboatpress when we did a bind trade, we also traded bookcloth and resources and i love this colour of duo!

Chapters: 33/33 Fandom: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Movies), James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: Q (James Bond), James Bond, Alec Trevelyan, Eve Moneypenny, Male M (James Bond), Bill Tanner, R (James Bond) Additional Tags: Slow Build, Post-Skyfall, Drama, Action/Adventure, Romance, Feels, I Promise Never to Leave a Work Unfinished, Happy Ending, Friends to Lovers, It Takes a While but Things Do Get Smutty, Not Gonna Tag Every Sex Act Just Trust Me There's Plenty, 00Q - Freeform, hover text translation, Slow Burn Series: Part 1 of Quriosity Verse Summary:

COMPLETE! Bond finds himself increasingly curious about his enigmatic Quartermaster.

Excerpt:

"Your prior hotel is no longer secure, I will direct you to a new location. Your luggage has already been transferred. A field agent and medic from the Diréction Générale de la Sécurité d'État will be waiting at the side entrance. I have cleared them both personally." In contrast to his crisp dry English, Q's pronunciation of the French words was fluid and flawless, the throaty tone of the fricatives sending a surprising jolt of awareness straight to Bond's cock — all the more remarkable given his degree of blood loss.

"You're wasted on Q-branch, you have the voice for a phone-sex call-in line." The words slipped out of Bond's mouth without forethought, although he had plenty of time to think in the sudden pause that came afterward and stretched on for endless moments. Bond hadn't realized until now how Q was always there, with an immediate reply. In all their banter Q had never before been at a loss for words. Ever.

Bookmarker's Notes:

How much do I love this fic? So much I read it twice in a row almost a year ago + have kept a number of scenes from it inside my All Time Faves vault. Come meet James who early on crosses one of Q's boundaries + cannot figure out why what he's done is a problem. Then when he does, he wants to go all Double-O on some people when really what Q needs is the emotional safety James chooses to provide him. 

It's a delight to watch this Q + James begin a friendship which grows into more with some design parameters James is more than happy to work within. There are many sexy times which are deliciously erotic + creative. Witnessing James' emotional growth throughout the story is a whole other layer of enjoyment. 

So, every photo I had hosted to Shutterfly (and even more anciently in tinypic) is no longer working in AO3 embedded images, so I'm trying to dig up old artwork and repost here so I can update the links. I think I'm near the end, but feel free to blog the tag #pic fix if it's bugging you!

If you're curious, these are from: Quriosity by dr_girlfriend

Bond finds himself increasingly curious about his enigmatic Quartermaster.

Excerpt:

"Your prior hotel is no longer secure, I will direct you to a new location. Your luggage has already been transferred. A field agent and medic from the Diréction Générale de la Sécurité d'État will be waiting at the side entrance. I have cleared them both personally." In contrast to his crisp dry English, Q's pronunciation of the French words was fluid and flawless, the throaty tone of the fricatives sending a surprising jolt of awareness straight to Bond's cock — all the more remarkable given his degree of blood loss.

"You're wasted on Q-branch, you have the voice for a phone-sex call-in line." The words slipped out of Bond's mouth without forethought, although he had plenty of time to think in the sudden pause that came afterward and stretched on for endless moments. Bond hadn't realized until now how Q was always there, with an immediate reply. In all their banter Q had never before been at a loss for words. Ever. and its sequel: The Bloody Office by dr_girlfriend

“What is it, Q?” He could hear the sudden hyperawareness in Bond’s voice.