tolbyccian answered:

LMFAO this is sooo sweet, this ask makes me feel like i was given a free coupon.

i think a lot about the adorable potential for any of them team up and get passionate about something, to the other’s detriment. i think we all have a decent idea of what tim and sasha’s or jon and martin’s brand of back and forth look like, but play in these sandboxes with me real quick:

back in research, tim sitting with his cheek resting on his palm listening to sasha and jon get incredibly heated about corporate academia conspiracy theories (it was fun when it sounded like office gossip but they lost tim somewhere between “accreditation loopholes” and “audit fraud”) just hearts in his eyes like “you are both so much fucking nerdier than i ever anticipated, god bless.”

a week later shift this to sasha quietly eating her lunch and watching jon and tim realize that between jons upbringing and tims illustrious history in publishing that their personal libraries overlap a lot, and worse than that, they are both recovering uni theater kids. it takes a full fifteen minutes of listening to them get increasingly loud about their emily brontë opinions for sasha to realize they aren’t arguing, just very aggressively agreeing with each other. “this is an adorable side of you both, but i cannot stress how little i consented to be in this book club” “sash, you don’t underSTAND–” “and i sure dont want to!” this in particular reaches a nuclear level of loud with martin included.

and jumping off of that, imagine tim and martin with the time and space to just unload their feelings about pop culture classic films with reckless abandon while jon and sasha open their third wine bottle in misery. martin tries, bless his heart, to include them but it back fires dramatically when jon and sasha answer “what’s your favorite western?” with “holes” and “high school musical 2″ respectively and then lean back to let martin and tim explode