#tour guide questions

[your-turn-to-role]

im always impressed with how well matt manages to get a vibe across in words because ank'harel is at least the fourth or fifth time i've seen a place in tlovm and gone yeah that's exactly what it's looked like in my head for years

[specialagentartemis]

pro tip though: asking tour interpreters at a historical museum about ghosts is, 9 times out of 10, a fantastic way to get them to dislike you

[fictionadventurer]

A Biltmore Christmas may be the first Hallmark movie to drive me to fanfic.

[zzyzxtourguide]

I did it. I found the most trivial question I could ever ask you guys

FABLEHAVEN POP QUIZ

impossible edition

Get this wrong and it will only be even more trivial (if that’s possible at this point)

Get it right and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I am the stress of this fandom

[mer-se]

cousin it in her element 🏰

[iamthepulta]

One of our tour guides in Rome was fucking incredible. Just an overall nerdy dude who loved Roman history and was thrilled to talk about it non-stop for 8 hours and also chill enough I would hang out and talk archeology afterhours over tea for another 5. Tried to find him online so in case I ever go back to Italy I can do it again but alas I cannot find.

[directorofwulin]

So I am at work and my phone rings, my phone is set to silence on everything but work, so I answer. Hey, can you come in to work Amanda called out again. Me, I would love too BUT I am already here? I am preparing the class for a field trip today. ( I am a tutor at a gifted kids school--were going to Williamsburg today on a field trip the kids are going to see how ice-cream is made, and visit gettysburg as this is what history is covering this week. )

[lowbrowcomicinterludes]

*leans too closely into the mic*

Anson Mount cohosts a podcast.

https://thewellpod.com/

@tsuntsunfangirl @turniptitaness @ilsawasanacrobat @i-wanna-be-in-england @zorped

[thelasttime]

also i feel so bad for all the college seniors going through the decision process right now - it’s a very stressful and possibly painful time but you guys will all get through it and i truly truly believe that you end up where you need to go !!!!

[jaewul]

Thinking about the eastern European teenage boys I had on my tour yesterday, one with a wolf (?) mask on his head and the other with a Naruto sweater, who asked to most interesting questions and translated half of my tour to their mother

Most interesting clients I ever had, and I'm still not computing the fact that they knew about the Hanseatic league

[sassmill]

I want to go HOME

[fictionadventurer]

All the tour groups in Springfield should be very proud of me for how well I refrained from sharing all my fascinating Lincoln facts.

[sparklehoard]

Im predicting another morning of particularly strong kindness to me from my aunties after today in a group I answered a tour question correctly and my mother screeched out no at me and then there was a pause followed by the tour guide going actually youre correct.

[angstandhappiness]

NEAT

In your professional opinion, did Bruce Wayne do ballet growing up?

it’s not my personal imagining of Bruce, but that doesn’t make it wrong! it’s a lovely image, and it would be a very cute interest for him and Cass to have in common :)

things that I think Bruce was into as a youth:

very elaborate scavenger hunts or “treasure hunts” around the sprawling grounds of Wayne Manor or (very closely supervised, obviously) in the city. Martha and Thomas used to spend weeks plotting those out for him (they had as much fun setting them up as Bruce did solving them), and after their passing Alfred always arranged one for birthdays.

games revolving around puzzles, riddles, codes, etc, in general. I’m thinking of things like Mastermind; Bruce ate that up and would make Alfred play with him for hours. I cannot begin to explain how elated he was when he found out Duke was also into that kind of thing and finally had a child to geek out about riddles with. 

climbing on goddamn anything. Alfred tried to curb this into something productive, like indoor rock climbing walls, and Bruce went along with that because he liked it well enough, but he would also like. just pop up on the roof sometimes and give Alfred a heart attack.

I think this post got lost when my old blog got deleted, but I have this headcanon that by his late teens when Bruce was Weird but not Batman Weird yet he would occasionally cause a minor scandal by rappelling down the side of Wayne Enterprises HQ because nobody could technically stop him.

also: Alfred comes to alert an adult Bruce that a recently adopted Dick is scaling the side of the manor; Bruce wanders outside and watches for a bit before informing Dick that there are several faster routes and he’s being REALLY inefficient about this. Alfred is horrified. 

he went through a long, LONG phase of being almost obsessively interested in old fashioned magicians’ tricks and sleight of hand maneuvers. you’ve never seen a ten year old so intently focused on palming coins and shuffling cards. that gradually led to his interest in slightly less cutesy things, like escape artistry and picking locks. for awhile Alfred couldn’t walk across the manor without almost tripping over Bruce trying to pick the lock of a room he’d locked himself out of.

when he was in college Alfred purchased him a series of lessons with famed stage magician Zatara as a birthday present, thinking it would be some harmless nostalgic fun. turns out the man does real fucking magic and he and his daughter shamelessly encouraged Bruce’s burgeoning thoughts of vigilantism; go figure. 

he got into swords and swordfighting as a preteen, probably starting with fencing lessons and working his way up from there. it was never his most serious hobby, but that’s extremely relative - Bruce devoted an almost uncanny level of dedication and study to all his interests, even as a kid. he let that one fall by the side around the time he went to college, but he still has a pretty good collection of swords sitting around (which Damian is delighted to discover).

thanks to Thomas, Bruce was REALLY into old timey radio plays and police procedurals and swashbuckling adventure movies as a kid. I don’t have a ton more to say about that, I just think it would explain a lot about who Bruce grew up to be as a person. 

also on top of his “steady” interests Bruce would, on a fairly weekly basis, develop of a fervent interest in seemingly random and unconnected subjects and require Alfred take him to the library to check out every book he could on the subject. carnivorous plants, the Knights Templar, the history of circuses, Egyptian mythology, ghost stories - you name it, Bruce has a phase for it. 

[iamthepulta]

Our tour guide around Rome today was a historian, and one of the most fantastic people I've been able to meet on the trip and enthusiastic about history and his research. So much fun to walk around with! My pictures are all a bit meh imo. But I'll post some a bit later.

[imaginefear]

CLARA ( @ravenbraved ) asked ❛ how often do people literally die laughing? ❜

" A LOT more than you'd THINK actually ! And I'm not even responsible for it half the time. Usually it's something like the EXERTION of intense laughter triggering a heart attack or interacting with a preexisting condition and causing heart failure. "

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