Stan Lee Believed In Being Good To Your Fellow Man Above All Else.

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.

Ooooh epic girlies (mostly on TikTok) I am BEGGING you to learn the mythology because no. No no no Circe and Calypso are not girlboss. No you do not want to ship the with Odysseus.

Girl I am begging you. Do not call original Odysseus a cheater I am still saying it. Don’t go down this bath girl. Hold my hand and we will read the myths together so you understand

"Only write to progress the storyline"

Complete and utter blasphemy. I will be writing entire chapters on the lore of why a character has died hair or why they only talk a certain way, and it will have absolutely nothing to do with the overarching plot. Because who needs the dark and creepy murderous Fae cult when you could read about GAY!!! :] :] :]

writing advice that doesn't work for you

my fellow writers, what is a piece of writing advice that never did it for you?

I go first: "don't edit, rewrite".

Does tumblr know about the animation union yaoi yet

this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.

Reblog this if it’s okay to DM you and shoot the friendship shot.

You’re telling me they broke up David and Tommy. Offscreen. David and Tommy. Thinkfast. The couple that went canon BECAUSE people shipped them so much. Those two? Okay. So you DON’T want me to buy this comic. Got it. No problem 👌👌👌👌👌 im gonna scream and bite and kill istg

You're right, cap, you're right

My friend just said 'my moral compass has a magnet in front of it' and I just thought that was absolutely hilarious 🤣

Especially because I had just said she had 'the emotional constitution of a bland soggy noodle' 🤣😅😎