Creative Thinking, Monday, Period Three

[jedigrammarians]

"None of you got kidnapped this weekend, so good job there," Aphra greeted the class, having cleared the low, low bar of actually showing up this week. "So we're gonna do belated introductions, because apparently it looks bad if I call you all 'hey, you'."

"Anyway the class is creative thinking, so I want you to give me some creative introductions. Feel free to interpret that brief broadly."

The Multiverse is F'ed, Y'all - Tuesday, Second Period [01/14].

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Well."

Class that week (and most weeks, unless Summer specifically informed them otherwise) was being held in the Danger Shop, and they were all gathered there on your basic ass Suburbia USA street, with Summer regarding them, arms crossed over her chest, looking maybe slightly peeved.

"Leave it to Fandom," she continued, "to shove it my face when I finally get around to doing a class like this and trying to one-up me with the nonsense from last week. I mean, it was so bad that, like, none of the newbs had it in them to stick around. Which, I mean, okay, cool, I get it, whatever, if you've got that option, might as well go for it because it'd be a little worrisome if you were kidnapped by an mythological cryptic and tossed into a volcano and your first thoughts was, 'Mmm, yes, that. More please!' But since you've all been here for at least a semester, if not more, you kind of know what you're getting into around this place, which makes my job a little more challenging, since I had to go and claim that I'd show you all some pretty F'ed up things, even by Fandom standards.

"That said," she continued, with a but of a put-upon sigh, "last week was pretty F'ed up, so I thought we'd go fairly light this week. And possibly thematic. In Fandom, we get kidnapping Krampus. In my pre-Fandom holiday excitement, I got..." She pushed the button on the remote and gestured toward the sky, where there was now a giant old man with a scraggly beard and a dirty-ass Santa suit on floating in the sky. "This. Also, side note, when this happened, this dude was actually naked the whole time, but we've all had a rough start to the semester, and none of us need that.

"Anyway, yes, this is a giant homeless man floating above my town dressed up as Santa. This actually happened, I can't make this stuff up. Why is there a giant homeless man dressed up as Santa floating above this simulation of my town? Good question, and the answer is because my grampa built a theme park inside of him. And that...." Summer pushed another button and a transport ship of a sort showed up beside her and she gestured to it, "...is what we'll be doing today. So climb aboard, everyone. Your light days in this class involve theme parks inside of giant floating homeless dudes. Buckle up!"

[[ and please to be wait for the ocd is up! Finally. God, why do I do this to myself? ANYWAY ENJOY. ]]

Teamwork & Leadership Skills, January 14, 2020

[imafuturist]

Today's Leadership class was actually meeting, so that was progress. It was set up like a conference room, complete with white board and a projector for a Powerpoint presentation.

No one let Steve start the Powerpoint presentation.

"One of the most important points of leadership and teamwork," Steve said, "is to look back at previous events and discuss what we, as a group, did well, and where we could improve. Now last week gave us a real world example that we can all learn from, which was...handy."

And traumatizing, but "and now we all learn to emotionally regulate Big Feelings" was nowhere on the Avengers' post-mission checklist, unfortunately.

That was for your own, individual storylines.

"Things like praising people for creative thinking while also being a little concerned about how creative it was," Tony said, making a face.

"I think Dean Skywalker may have covered some of that in his class," Steve said, nodding, "but there are ideas that are a bit too out of the box."

Like demon seduction. "So. Let's start with introductions and then some self-analysis. What do you think you did however handwavily well last week? Where could you, personally, have improved? And what, as a group, are we good at?"

Killing creepy toys was definitely becoming a specialty, for instance.

"Bonus question: what do you think makes a good leader?" Tony added. "From your experience."