#The Mysterious Benedict Society

[your-fave-is-forklift-certified]

Milligan Wetherall from The Mysterious Benedict Society is Forklift Certified!

[floorboardchompingfridays]

Some Advice For People Leaving Comments on Fanfics:

“I liked your fic”

Nice, but basic and easy to overlook

Doesn’t compel the author to do anything other than take the compliment

Sounds like you might be a bot (ew)

“I am going to eat your floorboards!”

Unique and attention grabbing

Makes me second guess whether I should have bought that insurance

Sounds like you might be a termite (how did a termite learn to type????)

[tenmillionthfirefly]

[the-wise-mans-fear]

A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Mysterious Benedict Society, and the Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch were like superwholock for weird little autistic kids who liked to make up secret codes and write messages in invisible ink

[s-che]

Parasitic Games

So I've been rewatching Gravity Falls, right? And reading the Book of Bill, of course. And also playing a lot of Cultist Simulator? Which is a weird one but also a very specific combination of vibes.

Anyway I blacked out and finally wrote a twin pair of journaling games, A CALAMITOUS COINCIDENCE and THE ALCHEMIST. I wrote them in my dark basement research center (apartment) while remembering only occasionally to fulfill my obligations to the outside world (still going to work, I guess) while attempting to string together the clues and assemble, at last, my magnum opus (get them on the actual page, or screen I guess).

Anyway, let's do some normal ad copy.

Calamitous Coincidence is based on stories of lonely investigators, clever children, and inescapable tragedy (like A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Mysterious Benedict Society, and Gravity Falls) while The Alchemist lets you jump right in to bullshit esoteric thinking inspired by absolute freaks like John Dee and Aleister Crowley (or Cultist Simulator and Susanna Clarke's Piranesi, which are the reasons I actually wrote it).

I'm really putting that religion degree to good work, huh?

Both games give you the tools you need to figure out who you are in the world, what you're looking for, and where you think you'll find it -- neither give you the answers you're looking for. You'll have to find those yourself.

Both games are prototypes, currently available on Patreon for anyone paying $3 or more. As always with my patreon stuff, I extremely, extremely encourage you to sign up for a month, download the stuff you're interested interested in, and then cancel. It still means a lot.

Both games have been setting my brain on fire for the last month and a half, and I'm glad to get them out into the world (even if they are still a little broken).

I hope you like them:)

[kaleb-is-definitely-sane]

Trenton Lee Stewart was like: Neurodivegence is a superpower. Fuck capitalism. Killing people is wrong when there are alternatives. Immigrants are heroes. Women are awesome. Black people are freaking gorgeous. People are good at heart.

And then turned that into a book series. And succeeded.

[hoperays-song]

The funniest trope I’ve ever seen is found family, but it turns out said found family is insane and has way more questionable morals than the original family.

[gertstarlight]

south asian sapphics in media <3

[fandom-queen-13]

rank the fanfic websites (part 1)

PLEASE REBLOG THIS, I WANT A LARGER AUDIENCE

[wintersgalaxies]

Look, say what you will about kids books being silly or whatever, but genuinely one of the most important lessons I’ve learned and used in academics is the concept of “use the test to take the test” from The Mysterious Benedict Society.

There’s a scene in the beginning of that book with an intentionally wildly difficult test for the kids, but the trick of the test is that the answers are “hidden” in different questions (the answer for one question is in the introduction/description of another question).

Now, I haven’t had any trick tests like that, but the principle absolutely works in normal tests. Every single time I am not sure of an answer, I go through the rest of the test to see if there are any other questions that hold hints that I can (at least try to) logic out the answer to the initial question. This is why I always double-check my answers.

I am in university and I am pretty sure that extra time to compare information between questions just saved me a couple of points. It sure has countless times in the past.

Thank you reading! thank you lessons from kid’s books! thank you Mysterious Benedict Society!

[lotsofsq]

THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY!!!!!!

i’ll be posting most of my stuff chronologically so enjoy my journey

[ID copies from alt text: four headshots of the four society members: reynie is smiling calmly, his hair is sweeping left over his forehead. he is wearing a green sweater vest with a line of little sprouts on it over a button down. sticky has a nervous expression, he is fully bald. he is wearing a blue sweater over a button down. constance looks peeved and has wispy blonde hair with red hair clips. she is wearing a red coat over a yellow shirt. kate is excited and winking, her gold blonde hair is in a high ponytail. she is in a red and white striped t-shirt. all 4 have emphasized lines around them in their respective colors: reynie has green flowers, sticky has blue sweat beads, constance has red jagged lines, and kate has yellow radial lines around her. ]

[myfairkatiecat]

TMBS POST FOR FANDOM FIGHT EVENT!

@crumpetsandbiscuits organized this little event hehe

SO HELLO

REBLOG IF YOU LIKE THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY

Also reblog if you DON’T like the mysterious Benedict society, because it’s an awesome story and therefore deserves a reblog anyway

Don’t reblog more than three times as per the rules but. Do put a little reblog on this post. Because the mysterious Benedict society is sooooo fun and deserves to win!

[caffeinsanity]

Fiction concepts that hit different to the point where literally everything I’ve been obsessed with had at least one and no that isn’t even an exaggeration:

What if there was a fucked up seaside town

What if there was an extremely fancy restaurant/hotel/club but oh wait it’s fucked up actually

What if there was a prestigious school but wait, you guessed it, it’s kinda fucked up

What if there was a theme park/carnival/circus but HOLY SHIT WHAT WAS THAT THAT WAS FUCKED UP

What if you went to a party and something *really* fucked up happened

What if you died and went to the afterlife and instead of it being a fair system of judgement it’s corrupt and fucked up

What if there was a place and it seemed enticing but now you can’t leave and philosophical questions are being raised about the balance between pleasure and living a meaningful life

What if there was a horrifically uncanny dream sequence that gives you chills and you have literally no idea why

What if you were plagued and haunted by the presence of a strange other world accessible from your home

What if the boundaries between reality and fiction were dangerously blurred

[sapphiccyranodebergerac]

rereading the mysterious benedict society as an adult is very interesting. the book is lowkey a very poignant callout of authoritarian fear mongering.

like what strikes me most is the use of fear as a driver for control, the whisperer assuaging fears in order to get the kids to submit to it and then messages gaining control over the public by creating “the emergency” and then solving it for them.

also the “free market drill” is such an excellent callout of the paradox of late stage capitalism. like:

“The free market must always be completely free. The free market must be controlled in certain cases. The free market must be free enough to control its freedom in certain cases. The free market must have enough control to free itself in certain cases.”

i read that at 11 and was like “silly nonsense word salad” and now at 19 i’m like… fuck.

although considering how neurodivergent that book series is, it doesn’t surprise me that it’s also a tad socialist.

[mycatisholdingmehostage398]

Hii everyone! This is my second post on tumblr. I haven’t posted anything for a while cuz I’ve been busy, but for the past 2 weeks I was working on these drawing of S.Q. And I worked up the courage to post it. Hope everyone likes it.