My wife and I have a little game we play called "Speaking From Ignorance."
To play Speaking From Ignorance, all you need is a phone with a voice recorder, and another person who knows considerably more or considerably less about a topic than you do. The topic can be anything: from "how to bake a quiche" to "what happens in the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies" to "who is Florence Pugh" to "how does the traveling salesman problem work." All that matters is that one of you has a firm grasp on the material, and one of you absolutely the fuck does not.
Then the person who knows about the topic turns on the recorder, and says to the person who knows barely anything: "Hey - tell me everything you think you know about [X]."
The speaker is then not allowed to ask any questions. Nor is the expert allowed to volunteer any information. The expert is allowed to pipe up with a faintly incredulous "Oh--really? Do you--do you think so?" from time to time, but for the most part, the expert's job is just to sit there and make encouraging sounds while the speaker digs their own grave.
This is never not funny.
The reason you record it is because, very often, the first thing the speaker wants to do after finishing the recording is find out how you actually make a quiche, or whatever. Then you both get to go back and listen to how wrong they were.
We have a small library now of Speaking From Ignorance recordings, and I'm going to be listening to them until I'm eighty.
Bucky, head hung in shame: I need my arm recalibrated
Tony, sighing: and how did you fuck it up this time?
Bucky: *nods in the direction of Peter, in a corner of the lab, in his blue light sensitivity lenses and a Columbia hoodie, tinkering away on something and bobbing his head to whatever’s on his headphones
Tony: this is the third time you’ve dicked your arm up fucking Peter, you know that right? That’s excessive.
Bucky: wrong this is the third time I’ve fucked my arm up fucking Peter that you’ve found out about. Usually he can fix it himself
Tony: Jesus tits ever consider, I dunno, just being a little gentler? Little more relaxed? Lay off the wall sex for a bit?
Bucky: absolutely not I’m trying to keep him around
"omg spideypool!" "aww spideytorch" "venom is literally a crazy ex gf"
"moonie"
james buchanan barnes they can NEVERRRR make me hate you.
Peter trying his best to be sexy and seductive but Tony just finds it adorable and gives him cuddles and kisses. The boy is simply too cute and innocent.
“I’m trying to seduce you,” Peter pouts.
Tony smiles and kisses Peter’s hair, cuddling him tightly and speaking into his soft curls. “I’m seduced.”
“How?”
“You’ve got me wrapped around your little finger, you know that?”
Peter groans. “I want my mouth wrapped around your… you-know,” he mumbles shyly against Tony’s chest, blushing.
Tony laughs softly. “My what?”
“You know, Mr Stark.”
“If you can’t even say it how are you going to seduce me?”
“I thought you were already seduced?”
“By your cuteness,” Tony says softly, kissing Peter’s hair again.
Peter sighs but can’t help smiling. Maybe he’s not entirely ready for sex yet and that’s why he’s not “sexy” or “seductive”, but at least Tony doesn’t seem to mind right now. In fact, he seems to love Peter the way he is, and Peter can’t really ask for anything more.
I love fics where people (the general public) assume Pepper doesn’t like Peter on account of him being much younger and married to her ex husband and co parenting her daughter when in reality in my heart of hearts I know this is their relationship. They gang up on Tony. They have tea sessions. Tony is horrified of them being in the same room together because he knows they will be exchanging intel. Peter loves her daughter and so Pepper loves Peter. It’s very simple. Peter is free child care. Peter keeps Tony out of stupid shit, because Tony’s just a little afraid of Peter like he is of her. They’re a very healthy functional coparenting unit.
i don't believe i ever posted this on here,,,, this was before LoF was even a concept and it was still just an au between me and alighterwood,,,, baby boy,,,,
I love, love, LOVE it when I can tell a fic author has integrated their specialized knowledge in a fic. I was reading a fic that at some point included the character going to visit an art therapist, and it's so clear that the author is an art therapist themself, and the details included are just immaculate and I love it. I've previously read about a character doing fencing for no other reason than the author clearly wanting to write a sport they understood. A character being given a hyperfixation on bugs just so the author can infodump themselves.
I eat it up every time, it brings such a smile to my face
26yo, Brazilian. Back to this site after years, still getting the hang of it and feeling old. (I multiship; It may not be of your liking.) She/Her 🩷💜🩵
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