#magicians for sport is such a gay mission

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[thenonbinarydetective]

For the Hardy Boys Anniversary I thought I'd share some of my favorite absolutely ridiculous moment from the books and if you have any of your own, feel free to add on.

Is this another book facts thing?

Let's call it a Book Facts Anniversary Special!

Starting off strong with the Hardy Boys have BEEN TO SPACE

THEY SOLVED A MYSTERY IN SPACE

THEY'RE ASTRODETECTIVE

INTERSTELLAR INVESTIGATORS

Frank also threatened to leave a guy in space while they were fighting outside the shuttle.

In another book, Frank and Joe are looking for their friend whose family is in witness protection and had to go into hiding because the criminals are after them again. They're being helped by two FBI agents

That is until one of the FBI agents is ATTACKED BY A BEAR and both have to leave so he can get medical attention. Obviously, leaving the two teenage boys in charge of getting the family to safety. How do those FBI agents explain leaving two children in charge of this mission? This shouldn't even work in fiction

Later in the same book, the criminals that were chasing the family get killed in a rock slide and they just don't acknowledge it. They drop their friend off, go home and discover that their father can cook. They watched two men die like it was nothing

This ridiculous moment is medical and I'm not sure if I'm more annoyed at Frank or at Fenton with this one.

Fenton gets stabbed in a dirty shack on the beach and instead of taking him to the hospital, Frank and Joe decide to take care of it themselves. Which would be fine, if Frank didn’t use water from a rusty pump to clean the wound. He boils it, but still,,, They're in Bayport when this happens. They don't need frontier medicine.

Moving on to Joe getting stung by 45 hornets and promptly passing out from the pain as well as the venom.

As someone who was stung by an entire nest of hornets as a child, the didn't happen to me. I was confused about the legitimacy of this medical issue. I've decided that I was stronger as an 8 year old than Joe Hardy as a 17 year old.

Also while that happened, Frank got his leg cut open by a piece of shrapnel from an explosion about a mile away from that.

Although Joe later call their dad to tell him everything's under control. Fenton and I both know his sons are absolute disaster magnets like him.

I made this joke awhile ago, but still I can't believe that there is a book that implies the boys are psychic and may have been using their abilities the entire series and then it's never addressed again.

Also I'm 90% certain that their psychic friend Colin is gay and flirting with Frank.

And the Frank flirts with him back, because there is no other way describe the part where he pins him (Colin) to a wall.

Speaking of guys flirting. There are so many moments that come off gayer than intended. Guys basically flirt with them all the time and they have responded positively.

This isn't the most ridiculous, but this is just my way of wanting to talk about how they sometimes describe Captain America AKA Ned Nickerson in Super Mysteries.

They talk about how handsome, muscular, and charming he is and I know they meant it as a jealousy thing cause they wanted Nancy,,,but sometimes I'm not sure which they really wanted.

Frank running out their room to chase a bad guy in his underwear,,,this didn't happen in their home though. No this happened in a hotel,,,,in Germany.

Joe chases down a bad guy while eating ice cream

Randomly becoming volunteer firefighters for one book

Frank being held hostage with the President of the United States for a ransom of a billion dollars

and who was holding them hostage, you might ask? A magician. A magician was holding the president and Frank Hardy hostage for a ransom of a billion dollars

They also later entered an extreme sports competition with the president's son.

Speaking of competitions, Joe once joined a stunt competition with professional stuntman to protect his friend and also because he's an Aries™

but found professional stuntwork (such as jumping out of plans and driving runaway eighteen wheelers) too tame compared to what he usually does.

Not specifically about them, but I find it a little morbidly funny that their friend Biff Hooper nearly died over football. Technically there was more to it, but when you boil it down, he was nearly murdered over football.

It's ridiculous how big Frank's tiddies are on this cover.

Frank and Joe literally tie a man to his own homemade electric chair and threaten to shock him if he doesn’t give them information. They’re lying this entire threat, but oh my god that’s messed up

That one time Frank literally pushed an EMT that was taking care of an injured Joe so that he could do it instead. OMG Frank curb your overprotectiveness for five minutes so the trained medical professional could do their job

There is honestly so much more and I love these boys so much, but I think I need to cut it off here

[rcris123]

I went through all your tags sorry XD and when did arthur said if he was a single dad he'd raise a kid like his mom raises him? And what makes you think that Arthur is probably bi? (Nothing bad really I probably don't notice how he acts around men and women) also I love your works and the fic you wrote;^;

First of all thank you so much for liking my works! It means a lot to me! ;w;!

Second those are all my interpretations of Arthur; he never explicitly said he’d raise his son like a mom would, or that he’s bi, and you don’t have to agree with them one bit, but here’s why I think this:

1. For the mom thing. Arthur loved his mother, a lot. He keeps her picture by the bedside, framed and he has a flower in a little glass container next to it to always remind him of her. And in the mission Good, honest snake oil, when replaying I fully expected him to lie by saying: Oh my wife’s sick or something, but instead he says

which means he still thinks about her a lot, and the way she died. Maybe it’s not that deep, but Arthur strikes me as a sentimental person who still is hung up on people and events and I think someone made a post about that some time ago.

Arthur also despises his father, or at least the way his father dragged him into the outlaw life.

So I think, Arthur as a parent wouldn’t want to be his father, in any capacity, and since he has very fond memories of his mom he might try to behave with the child the same way Beatrice did with him; he thinks his mom was a good parents and that’s what I believe he’d try to be too.

Besides Arthur’s canonly really good with children: Jack fishing mission, of Fishers and Men

2. On the bisexuality/feelings towards men/queerness thing.  Well Arthur’s implied as being atypical a LOT, and especially in the romance department. I don’t have that mission recorded because I don’t like Micah missions - but in the sidemission in Chapter 4, robbing a stagecoach with Micah, Micah says something along the lines of: “you don’t get women Morgan”, and I think that’s not just an insult.

I think we can all agree Arthur treats women with respect, unlike some of his peers, and he’s gentle and considerate with them, doesn’t invade their personal space and doesn’t ask insensitive questions: look no further than the deluxe bath dialogue differences between Arthur and John. Arthur talks about memories, asks the woman about family, likes, their life outside their job. He liked Eliza, he liked Mary - he still likes Mary, he calls women beautiful when he’s tipsy.

But there’s also no shortage of instances where people thought Arthur is queer. From the lady in Saint Denis who offers Arthur a match and when he refuses, says the equivalent of: aha so you’re gay, to Emmett Granger who calls him effeminate no matter what, despite Arthur looking like a mountain of a man and knowing him for 0.2 seconds.

To this interaction I had in Saint Denis. To Micah calling him sweetheart

And on the way of interacting Arthur is very gentle and maybe even tender with a few men, including Charles and Albert Mason. There’s also this, that’s surprisingly affectionate in movement from Magicians for Sport.