#tmbs

[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????)

[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.

[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!

[magic-swords-art]

mr benedict’s very secret team er, the mysterious benedict society!

some bonus S.Q.’s. gave him a tooth gap for no real reason…it just felt cute and fitting :)

[tenmillionthfirefly]

[mvshortcut]

Martina Crowe is literally the og hater. You will never be as iconic of a hater as her. She is so committed to hating that she stopped the narrative at a climatic moment while our heroes our captured to list all of the things she hates, categorized in order of how much she hates them and with reasons, for a full two pages. Have you ever stopped the narrative at a climatic moment to list all the things YOU hate in order? No? That's because Martina Crowe is the GOAT at hating. In the Olympics of hating she takes the gold every time. Her competitors aren't even on the podium. You can try to be a hater but you're just embarrassing yourself. Give up <3

[fandom-queen-13]

ALRIGHT, WHO'S IN THE TMBS FAMDOM, REBLOG TO SOUND OFF I WANT TO SEE HOW MANY OF US THERE ARE

[bucketsandraincoats]

sticky's not on any of the book spines :(

[ysabellious]

a late night show!kate wetherall doodle :)

[cptnwynnie]

Sticky, and Milligan, and the stars

[nobodysdaydreams]

I love how in The Mysterious Benedict Society they have the tech for a brain sweeping and mind control, but everyone, including Curtain, is still out here using landline phones.

If Curtain wanted to be rich and powerful, all he had to do was make an iPhone, but nope. Not enough drama involved in that.

[tmbsincorrectquotes]

after discussing a plan Kate: Does anyone have any questions? Sticky: Is this legal? Kate: Does anyone have any relevant questions?

[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. ]

[dragoncookies]

(spoilers)

can we just talk about how hardcore the second book is?

I mean, ALL the books are crazy, but it’s been four years since I last reread tmbs and I remember glazing over the second book, because usually in a series the second book is just like build up and filler for the third one (with the first book having all the magic a first book usually had)

but this series? I aged 58 years reading the second book, and I was disgustingly addicted to it the whole time I read it. I truly thought it was the end for our protagonists. Usually you can see how they might turn a bad situation around, but it just looked straight hopeless when everyone ran out to the beach in hopes that help had come and there was just nothing there. And then, when the Shortcut appeared from seemingly out of nowhere, I cried real tears of joy. I know it’s a kids series and sometimes kids series can be deep, but these kids have to be straight traumatized by their experience in that book. They were pushed to their absolute extremes physically, psychologically and emotionally. From being stuck on the ship in one small confined room while traveling across oceans to a place they had never been before, solving all the riddles, keeping watch during that dark night trying to stay awake with the fear of death and being captured hanging over them, being tied up in that giant room with the ten men ready to torture them, then being captured by Curtain and BEING tortured (shocked), then having to run and carry Mr. Benedict until their hands were bleeding and they were beyond their physical limits, and THEN after seeing their LAST CHANCE for making it off that hellish island not be there having their hopes let down….if I were them, I’d probably just go insane. Its shocking because the whole series is so breezy light, but the actual content, once you think about, isn’t so light at all.

Every character was developed so deliciously. Reynie went from being smart and good at riddles, to being a conniving plotter, who could be a supervillain in his own right. Kate almost bombed a ship full of her worst enemies (willingly), but then found some insane inner strength and decided NOT to. Sticky went through an ego-struggle arc and then, after being the group scaredy cat, suddenly became THE MAN in their darkest hour when they all had to carry that stretcher down the mountain and had nothing left to give (and it almost broke my heart when Reynie narrated it saying smt like “maybe we’re all gonna die but at least I get to witness Sticky in his prime 😌). And Constance? Well. She’s Constance, but her mind reading is sick, and I like the relationship dynamic that grew between her and Reynie in this book.

there was so much inner turmoil from Reynie, and the whole “there’s no good-hearted people in this world” belief he struggled with, resulting him question which Benedict twin he himself was more like, was just so scrumptious. He’s the perfect person to narrate the series, and that becomes clear during this book. Finger lickingly good stuff. And we can’t forget Sticky knocking Constance off the watch tower when a ten-man appeared from the darkness. That made me chortle. Or Kate regurgitating McCracken’s key so they could all escape. She’s just so different.

There are just so many good moments in that book. It’s really truly quite the adventure.

[magic-swords-art]

Kate and her puns doodles

[ragecndybars]

I think what really gets me the most about Reynie is how his consideration for others and great regard for fairness and justice is so central to his character. Like, obviously this shows itself in ways like him helping Rhonda even though she would be his competition for the test, refusing to cheat on said test because it wouldn't be fair to the other kids, etc., but specifically what kills me is that he figures out the solution to the maze because, when he's considering whether the color of the arrows is important, he thinks, "But that wouldn't be fair, because a colorblind kid wouldn't be able to tell," and that's what leads him to remember Rhonda saying they could do it with their eyes closed. He solves the puzzle because he thinks of one solution, then instantly thinks, "Well, if that were the solution, it'd be a bad puzzle because it wouldn't give everyone an honest shot." Anyway I love Reynie so much it's unreal