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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.

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Feeling rough lately.

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i??????? sksjsbzvsvshdhsbdb

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Yeah I don't think even the average conservative voter can defend this one. This is just plain disconnected from reality.

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do you want to see the best trail cam photo ever

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finally watching this stupid show

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I'm a fandom oldie and a strong proponent of "ship and let ship", and I defend everyone else's right to ship what they love... But I think that gives people the idea that I like, automatically love every single ship??? Or every single trope?

I don't though!

There are a lot of fandom tropes that are on my "absolutely fuck no" list. There are a lot of irk kinks that are also on my "nope absolutely not" list, too. Personally, this is healthy. I'm able to look at something and go "Yep, I hate it, but it's not harming anyone, so continue to do as you please."

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a non-selective plan for the resurgence of fic commissions

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the circus was in town that day 🤡

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i remember one time i went to a con and i saw like fifty dave cosplayers and this was before i read homestuck so i was like “who is the douche in the shades?” and seven daves turned and looked at me at the same time this was my first experience with homestuck i was scared shitless

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Vampire mermaids! Vampire mermaids!

I imagine a very glamorous lamprey.

I'm sorry to all the new followers who are going to discover that I can't take anything seriously, even a cool horror concept like underwater vampires, and I mostly draw goofy characters making silly faces