Arts & Crafts, Friday

[imafuturist]

There weren't any popsicle sticks this week, but there were a variety of buckets, white t-shirts, and rubberbands. And yes, somehow glitter too. They had stopped asking why and just given in to the crafting STD.

"It's time to try out tie-dying! Which I want to say is a throw-back to a throw-back fashionwise, but I'm not the expert here," Tony said.

"Don't look at me," Steve laughed, holding his hands up. "I've been reliably told that I should not be allowed to pick out my own clothes."

Because plaid and pleated khakis were crimes, Steve.

"Today we're going to dye some shirts," he added. "We have a few we've acquired from Dean Skywalker's Wednesday games if you are looking to start with something with a color already--" or to have some therapy via destroying those shirts, "--but tie dye works best on white."

"You use the rubberbands to create spots where the dye doesn't reach by twisting up the fabric and cinching it to create patterns. There are also gloves because no one needs to leave here with bright pink hands," Tony said quickly. "Please use the gloves."

Steve ruefully held up his blue-tinged fingers. "Please," he echoed. "Now pick out your shirts and then I'll demonstrate some tying techniques."

And hopefully your shirts won't turn out weird and brown.

How to Make a Radchaai Entertainment, Friday

[1000yearstoolate]

"Good morning, everyone!" said Amaya with her very standard take-charge greeting, because she sometimes forgot what it was like to have a co-teacher who would actually contribute her own weight sometimes. "And welcome back! Hopefully, you've had some more time to think about your characters and develop them a little bit more, because today? We're going to figure out how they go together and we want you to start putting together a plot!"

Which had been previously researched and discussed by the teachers during a very professional meeting that was absolutely not a date, Nina, who wasn't even in this class but Amaya was still a bit incredulous about the insinuation, even if she'd rather die than acknowledge that there had been a insinuation, much less incredulousness about that insinuation.

...ahem. Anyway.

"A plot can obviously be about many different things," Seivarden continued. "But some subjects are less suitable for a Radchaai entertainment. We don't want it to be dull, or about all those boring things in life that no one cares about."

Like skel farming.

"We should have action, drama, romance, but how do you accomplish this with your characters?"

"We're of course," Amaya added, "here to help guide you," from terrible ideas, "towards what might work best, but this week will be a lot like last week, where it's all a bit of brainstorming and coming together to get this thing really rolling!"