Journalism Class - Friday October 7

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Muttering quietly beneath his breath, Spider is leaning against his desk, cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth and an old book in his hands. "All right, class. You've talked about the four basics of most stories guaranteed to grab someone's attention - heroes, villians, beauty and ugliness." He held up the book. "Today we're going to take a very basic story from this book of Fairy Tales, and discuss what it might have been like with any one, or all four, of those traits reversed beneath the obvious surface. Treat the story as a whitewash of very different events or one side of a much darker story."

"I've chosen two stories and there are copies of each on my desk. Take them, familiarize yourself with the stories, and discuss. If you have a favorite story that is also in this book," he raised it again, "you may use that instead, but be sure to make copies of the story so that those students unfamiliar with the world from which it was drawn can debate and follow along."

The two print-outs consist of the older, darker version of Cindarella (complete with maimings and eye gougings) and Rapunzel (again with the eye gougings and this time with Teen Pregnancy (tm)!.

"This assignment is worth double credit, particularly if either start a debate on the nature of one of our four topics in context, or manage a good revision of the chosen story itself. You may be as literal or metaphorical as you like." Spider glanced around. "Please try to keep off-topic chatter to a bare minimum today."


((OOC: Pardon the player as they are very, very sleepy, but the point of all this is, more or less, to put a 'spin' on the existing story so that the 'facts' support the change in status from beautiful/ugly - hero/villian.))

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory grabs the handouts, and scans them.

"You know, fairy tales started out as cautionary tales to young women. They're almost entirely metaphorical, and most of the ugly themes that we've edited out were put there to keep ladies pure," she says to no one in particular.

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty sneaks into the classroom with what appears to be a sandwich made of two pieces of bread surrounding pixie stix sugar and crushed Captain Crunch cereal. He hands her the sandwich and flares his nostrils.

"Thought you'd like an early start."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

She snorts, and gingerly pokes the sandwich.

"Um. Thank you?"


[ooc: I was going to wait until later to break out the actual Ally Sheedy icons, because Rory's scheduled for the dunk tank later and OMG her costume/outfit can't get wet!!]

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"What's the matter Gilmore? Not hungry?"

[OOC:No worries. Marty's mun is just bored out of his mind at work. Angela's around someplace. When are we starting the whole double date shindig. Thought of a way to get you out of eating the sandwich. See ya at the dunk tank]

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Big breakfast," she says, patting her flat stomach. "Very full."

[ooc: I figured Angela and Rory would probably have some pre-HC girly helping-each-other-get-ready stuff, and then the guys could pick them up from that locations whenever. Since Logan made reservations, I'm guessing there's a particular time we're shooting for, but you'll have to ask Logan's mun.]

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Pinged him.]