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.
something terrible is happening within my psyche rn as i realize this song fits with this goddamn chap
they DO have REPUTATIONS ooooohhhhh my goddddddd my shaylaasssssss 😭😭😭😭😭
so bye i'm gonna go finish crying to this now
y'all alr know the dron tag hates to see me coming [steeples hands for a transaction] but here i am again with a new chapter !!
here's ch3 in screenshots bc i can't promise it's all comedy this time:
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powering thru a filler chapter rn (for inspiral), so here are some small funny bits released from fic-jail bc they made me laugh as i wrote
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so real, sometimes i think abt the bizarre workings of the magical system in the hp universe and barely resist the urge to start writing abt chemistry to justify all the nonsensical rules . .
like holy shit just make them kiss and share traumas with e/o they don't need to have an academic debate rn bc someone cast an aguamenti
i need to read more academic articles to make my yaoi more insane
ch4 of inspiral is up!!
yes the chapter title is a shitty pun😌 now, onwards!
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remembered this one school project i did on Lathe of Heaven so here
in memorium of this baddie (george orr):
the og malewife imo
my dumbass clicked on this tag, ecstatic, and then had the audacity to act surprised when it was just an influx of drarry fics.
idk what i was expecting🧍🏻♀️
i'm. i'm writing my fic, rn, bc, it hasn't been done before. that's like. the whole point.
it's cool. drarry's cool, i like it, i'm just not in the mood for it rn
we've seen harry rebuilding draco up from a low point (in fics). do i think he'd acc be any good at it? no. do i think he would contain the level of obsession within him (for draco, for him specifically) that draco would require for it to not be seen as pity? also no. do i think harry is emotionally intelligent/astute enough to accurately clock & juggle both their strong + controversial emotions during this process so this doesn't end in blows? . . . could be debated, however brute-forcing past it is his entire emotional m.o., so.
anyways read my fic ig and stan dron for clear skin i'm gonna go be a clown somewhere else
wish this was how it worked so bad but i read somewhere once "good fanfic is a love/hate letter to canon" and now all my fics are inexorably linked to and cant be read without knowledge of the source material🤷♀️🤷♀️ copyright who im referencing exact scenes from the 17th chap of the 6th book rn as a pivotal plot pt
Begging people to stop with the "wow that's so cool you wrote such a long story! Now you just gotta change the names and publish it as an original fiction" do not. That's not how this works.
verisimilous on ao3 ➳ they call me the CDC the way i run the Collaborative Delulu Center
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