Ooo yes okay! It’s been a while since I reread the series so apologies if some of these are incompatible with canon or are included in canon lol
AUTISM.
He refuses to eat fish on principle. When anyone else eats fish around him, he’s convinced they’re making fun of/insulting him.
He’s slightly weary of Saladin for the same reason.
Sure, he wears black to blend in and be drama queen. But also because he can own like twenty copies of the exact same piece of clothing so he knows it’s comfortable and he doesn’t have to waste time deciding what to wear.
He’s definitely forged at least one Janus painting and they still haven’t noticed.
He thinks it’s funny to pretend to be a helpless old man and/or confused American tourist to get out of complicated situations
Fiske and McIntyre would play chess and other strategy games while Fiske got filled in on Grace and her grandchildren.
His music tastes have been heavily influenced by Nellie. Dan finds it hilarious to see Fiske, dead to the world, with wired white earbuds tethered to Nellie’s hand-me-down past-generation iPod (it’s stained with spots of chipped nail polish and a sharpie-scribbled skull). He tells no one that he actually enjoys garage band punk.
He regularly painted Hope and her family, but would always burn the works as soon as they were completed so he didn’t put his loved ones at risk.
In the same vein, he now has an art studio in the mansion full of paintings of Dan, Amy, Nellie, and the rest of the people he loves; as well as landscapes of his travels.
He has mailed Beatrice varieties of smelly fish on more than one occasion. You know, since she must love fish so much.
Nellie tried to teach him to bake… let’s just say it wasn’t his calling. Something about Dan thinking the Vesper’s were burning down the mansion again, fire departments were called- it’s all a bit of a blur.
I think that’s all I’ve got for now, hope these are fun! I’ll rb this if I think of any more as I reread
Books 1-10 of the 39 Clues! Check it out! I worked hard on this little project, and it's not the end! I already plan to read the sequel series, Cahills Vs Vespers, as well as other nostalgic book series I read growing up.
I was originally inspired to make this series because I hadn't seen anyone cover the entire book series, although Controlled Chaos did 2 great videos on the first 2 books I highly recommend! Links below:
I will not rest until the rest of MASHblr is as insane about the 80’s office AU ads as I am
So I wanted to compile the ads so I could just post one video and not like a whole YouTube playlist, but I quickly found out that there are SO MANY MASH IBM ads! So I decided to leave out ones that weren’t office related and were more ‘Alan Alda puts on a bunch of different hats’ and ‘Jamie Farr repeatedly tries and fails to enter a building’ and I actually had to cut one ad of Alan and some kids in a classroom that I wanted to put in cuz I think it’s cute.
But anyway, I am always gnawing at the bars of my enclosure thinking of the universe these ads take place in. Like, who flooded the office? Did Trapper ever get to go to Hawaii? Where’s BJ? (JK he’s at a gay picnic)
I feel like there’s a rich vein here and us weirdos, sickos, and perverts need to buckle down and really dig into the potential for office shenanigans.
Jennifer is a wrestling fan because of them and I'm kissing her about it rn
@punkeropercyjackson (I know I'm the only one in our group that's a real wrestling fan but I know you love Jennifer and POC love so here. Oh also Sami and Kevin are Canadian, Becky's Irish, Drew's Scottish, and Asuka is Japanese 😃)
Nonetheless, McIntyre explains, “intractable problems, both of situation and personality, make for juicy drama. You go to watch people going through things that you can’t imagine going through.” In All’s Well (“famously the play where you don’t like anyone”), the biggest stumbling block is a moral one – Helena, the heroine, beds her crush Bertram by convincing him he’s having sex with someone else. “The idea of a bed trick is ethically questionable,” McIntyre protests. “It’s essentially a sexual assault: Bertram can’t consent because he doesn’t know who he’s sleeping with. But the play has no problem with the bed trick. The play thinks it’s fine; it even cheers her on.”
She refuses to skate over this “appalling” moment. “When the world of the play contains this poisonous central act, I cannot excuse it to the audience. It’s a play about incredibly flawed people who do awful things to each other, and this is the worst of many.”