#bleedingspeaks

BEING BILINGUAL IS LIKE HAVING TWO BRAINS SORTA

A MORE ACCURATE EXAMPLE ARE THESE (yes these have happened to me):

"it's...God, what's the word...Numero uno, Numero uno in English, God, what is it?" (angry muttering sounds)

*to a teacher (my greatest regret)*"¿Puedo ir al baño, señor?" "...What?" "I...Jesus, what is it in English? The...ay, dios mío, no recuerdo el nombre..." *teacher has a general look of confusion* (note: this is NOT an 'oh noooo it's hard to switch back' it's a 'i can't think of the words in english so i'ma say them in spanish')

THINK OF IT LIKE AN ALTERNATE FORM OF COMMUNICATION IF IT HELPS

YOU CAN USE BOTH CONSCIOUSLY, WHICHEVER ONE YOU WERE RAISED ON IS USUALLY YOUR MAIN ONE THO (or if you were raised on both then you're special :>)

if you're writing from a bilingual character's pov:

they can use words from their other language in their narration? and they should know what they mean?

i find that it helps to incorporate some sort of "oh shit I can't think of it in my regular language" piece in there at least once because it honestly make sthe character more relatable to actual bilingual people and therefore more likable

ironstrange (my personal favourite):

okay so stephen can portal, right?

and he used to be a surgeon

so he can name bones

so what if he just like

randomly appears behind tony, touches his spine or neck, and murmurs the bone names softly in tony’s ear

tony’s driven insane by it, so much so that whenever he hears the whoosh of a portal opening, he blushes and shivers

(going to the sanctum with stephen was torture for the man and pure delight for the sorcerers)

stevextony (stony, my second favourite)

carrying.

all the carrying around.

steve picks up tony at random times.

doesn’t matter where he is, doesn’t matter who he’s with.

just “let’s go, tones”.

tony complains if they’re around people…but strangely enough melts into steve once they’re alone

steve asks for consent a lot, always wanting to make sure that tony’s okay with it.

ironwinter (tonyxbucky):

tony’s more playful here.

because when bucky gets tired of tony mouthing off?

oh, lord, he gets fierce

one time, tony was making snarky comments to bucky in front of the other avengers

bucky waited until tony had gone to the bathroom to get up

as soon as tony tried to leave the bathroom, bucky pounced on him

he got tony back into the bathroom, closing&locking the door and then proceeding to pin tony up against it

when they got out, half an hour later, tony was a lot more subdued…

science boyfriends (tonyxbruce):

(actually didn’t know this existed until i googled it, so here goes?)

bruce got the hulk back under control, yes…

but he tends to show up a bit more whenever he and tony are alone.

picking him up with one hand, pressing up against him, pushing him down into the bedsheets…yeah, tony’s really submissive with him

because if he’s not?

bruce always puts him back in his place

if he’s more hulkish, he’ll do it right then and there

if he’s more bruceish, though…that’s when tony is really scared

last time, bruce brewed a special batch of tea that made tony INCREDIBLY sensitive…for weeks.

bruce has had no problems with tony since.

thunderiron (thorxtony):

thor’s always using his hammer to keep tony down

trying to get up from bed too early? hammer on the chest.

trying to run from him to avoid kisses? hammer’s gonna spin out of his hand and shove tony back towards him.

if he’s in his iron man suit, wrestling with thor? thor’s gonna get this boy’s wrists above his head and place the hammer on them. boom. incapacitated.

thor also doesn’t quite understand humans yet, so when he finds out just how red tony turns when flustered…

touches on his neck in the middle of meetings makes tony stutter

touches on his back on the couch makes tony blush furiously

if they’re alone, tony will whine softly…if they’re around other people, tony has to cover his mouth to muffle himself.

starkquill (tonyxpeter!) (peter quill, not peter parker):

SARCASM.

all the sarcasm!

and dirty jokes are quill’s main attack

tony’s under the impression that both of them are equal in this relationship, but quill likes to remind him who belongs to who every now and again

rocket starts teasing tony a lot (“got any new marks?” “sore, pretty boy?” “i can get a wheelchair if you need one after last night!”) and tony just glares at him

of course, quill always comes up behind him while rocket’s teasing and discreetly brushes tony’s shirt collar to the side to reveal so many bruises and love bites that tony’s skin is practically one giant mark