The Real World: Avengers Tower

unpretty:

Interviewer: So what’s it like living with Tony?

Bruce: When I moved in, he insisted on funding all of my research. Except, you know, ever since The Incident, all my work’s been theoretical. It’s not actually that expensive. I’ve started just spending all the extra on fruit pies, just to see if he was keeping track. He isn’t. There are a lot of unused rooms in this building, and at least three of them are stacked floor to ceiling with fruit pies. He hasn’t said a word.

Natasha: It turned out Pepper and I both speak French. Tony doesn’t. Now, whenever he walks in, we just start whispering in French and giggling. Half the time we’re just exchanging recipes. He pretends not to be eavesdropping, but the other day I caught him asking JARVIS what ‘des oeufs’ meant.

Clint: I bought this big bag of little plastic flies, right? And whenever he’s not paying attention, I throw them into his drink. Half the time he doesn’t even notice and just drinks the damn things, but the other half? He starts checking all the house filtration systems, the exterminators, the works. He can’t figure out where all these flies are coming from. He’s fumigated three times in the last month.

Thor: I attempted to provide assistance with a project, but Stark assured me that it was ‘very technical’, and that I would not understand the intricacies. I can see why he would think so, as I am a mere Prince of Asgard, taught such basic engineering when I was a child and his ancestors could not yet walk. It has been five weeks, and he still has not corrected the misaligned condenser coil causing the problem.

Steve: I don’t know what Howard taught that kid, but he seems to be under the impression that homosexuality was invented in 2000. He keeps leaving magazines and pictures lying around like the sight of two men holding hands is going to give me a heart attack. I don’t have the heart to tell him about the Greeks.

Interviewer: So how are things in Avengers Tower?

Tony: How are things? I have no idea. I really don’t. There’s some kind of insect infestation in the vents and I think a spy is trying to seduce my girlfriend into moving to France. I tried to prank Captain America with gay porn, but him and Thor just started trying to reverse-engineer workout routines. The other day I went into one of the spare rooms, and I found some kind of one-armed sex hobo sitting on a throne of empty fruit pie boxes. I just walked out and closed the door. I don’t even wanna know.


Tags:

#Avengers #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

tree-whispering:

beep beep

 

mimibon:

What is that!

 

nge:

mim its a lighting bug or whatever they light up

 

mimibon:

WHAAAAAAT THATS SO COOL HOW DOES HE  DO THAT! ITS JUST A BUG BUT IT LIGHTS UP

 

somuchawkwerd:

lol it had never even occurred to my that there were parts of this planet where lightning bugs are not indigenous

 

miss-freeman:

I AM SO JEALOUS I WANT TINY LITTLE BUG LANTERNS

 

angelicfallacy:

It’s so weird to read people calling Fireflies, “Lightning Bugs”.

 

arcanelegacy:

Ah, regional differences in language. Lightning Bugs, fireflies… (Google also tells me that they are sometimes called “Moon Bugs”, “Fire Devils”, or, my new personal favorite, “Golden Sparklers”)

I used to have a lantern-shaped bug cage as a child. Many summer evenings I’d go out and see how many I could catch for my lantern-cage, before letting them all go at the end of the hunt. They’re so easy to catch, you know. They fly slowly, and they don’t try to flee from you.

Damn, I miss fireflies.


Tags:

#fireflies #my childhood #our home and cherished land #is not cherished by fireflies #(at least we have dandelions)

slepaulica:

feliscorvus:

ajax-daughter-of-telamon:

Scary bugs hiding in fruit is a thing that worried me a lot as a child, because my family had a grapevine and my mom told me once that I had to be careful it I was going to pick any of the grapes and eat them, BECAUSE THERE COULD BE BEES IN THEM.

Yeah, guess who never picked another grape ever again, LOL.

I am generally compelled to cut strawberries in half before eating them, given that I did actually find a worm of some sort living in the middle of one a few years ago!

i have to look for holes in cherries, because if there are little holes in them there are little worms in them too.

It’s always been the possibility of moldy/rotting fruit that worried me (though I do check down the middle of raspberries for bugs), but I think I’ll have to start cutting strawberries open.


Tags:

#bugs #bees #food #worms #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia #and while slightly annoyed at having a new reason for manifestation of this #is mostly glad not to have found out about wormy strawberries the hard way


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anshinwrites:

inkblotoftheday:

Inkblot of the Day #58

Instructions: Tell me what you see.

(Guest-blot of younger brother’s girlfriend, Natalie)

-Enjoy

Warning: military/guns/firearms

I see two soldiers sitting back to back with their guns raised and explosions in the sky, as if they’ve each just shot something down.

(By the way, does anyone want/need a warning for these inkblot things in general?  I don’t know if they might be problematic for anyone, like…other than sometimes the descriptions could be, but if the inkblots themselves are problematic or have the potential to be, tell me and I’ll start tagging ‘em with a warning for TS.)

I see your point, but (having made sure to give it a look before reading your post) I think it’s two dragonflies and a spider.


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#inkblot