AN: Essentially because I think that there's no way Bozer could blog about his life with Mac in canon (because of security concerns), this is set in the Just Another Patriotic Guy universe. However, almost all of these little snippets can stand alone (and could fit into canon pre-1.12, Screwdriver, except for the aforementioned security concerns), so there is no need to actually read Just Another Patriotic Guy. Also, this is completely and utterly different in tone from Just Another Patriotic Guy- this entire story is fluffy humour and silliness. There is literally not a single drop of angst or whump or hurt/comfort or reference to any of the dark/sad happenings in Just Another Patriotic Guy.
All you need to know about this universe for this story is that the Phoenix Foundation is actually a think-tank, and it is located in Washington D.C instead of LA. Mac, Jack, Riley and Thornton all work for the Phoenix. Bozer is still a cook/filmmaker. He and Mac live together in an apartment in D.C. Also, as this universe was created before 1.12, Screwdriver, and it's also a universe in which they're not secret agents, no-one is a traitor and Nikki is simply Mac's ex-girlfriend.
Some chapters make more reference than that to Just Another Patriotic Guy; I will mark those chapters in ANs at the beginning of them. (In fact, I'll just mark all the chapters- whether they can standalone or not, whether they are obviously in this AU, whether they could fit into canon pre-Screwdriver when you ignore the security concerns- I'll mark those as canon-compliant.)
This one is standalone, canon-compliant. For readers of Just Another Patriotic Guy, this is set just after You Can Move a Mountain.
Movie-Magician-n-Waffle-Wizard:
I got home from a LONG, LONG shift today, to find that in my absence, my roomie's gone on a Science!bender. (He does that sometimes. It's not as bad as, say, the MCU's Science Bros, I mean, he hasn't created a homicidal AI…yet…but they can get a little intense.)
He watches a lot of YouTube videos, and he reads a lot of books and other things on the internet. Sometimes, he can get a little caught up in them. Or, well, lots more than a little, really.
This time, he spent my entire eight-hour shift (and it's a Saturday, by the way, so this was how he spent his Saturday- I love my bro, but he's got a weird concept of a good time) watching a series of YouTube videos relating to something to do with FARMING (!?) and then doing some experiments. (He used the potatoes that I was planning to make into rosti for dinner so we're going to be ordering in some takeout instead. TBH he might have done that on purpose- not that he doesn't love my cooking!- because this morning he said he was craving Thai food…)
I'm not entirely sure what he was doing exactly, because when I got home, he was asleep on the couch and still is (I have to go get him off it once I've finished this post, since it's got terrible lumbar support), and I had a glance at his laptop (hence knowing about the six or so hours of YouTube) and his notes. All I can make out (his handwriting is awful when he's on one of these benders) is Green Revolution, superdwarf, harvest index, increased leaf area ratio, OsNAS2 rice, biofortification, deoxymugineic acid and constitutive promoters. Science Side of Tumblr- help me out! Is my roomie pulling an Ultron, or is it all going to be okay? (If it helps, it might have something to do with The Martian? He loves that book and since the movie's coming out soon, it's been on his mind…)
#science side of tumblr #my roomie is weird #but I love him #science!bender #farming #potatoes #the martian #my roomie is watney #IMHO
