fandomhigh | So You Want to Make a TV Show- 2nd Period- Class #12

Having ~~handwavily~~ sent an E-mail to the class telling them to meet in the Danger Shop today, the place was set up much like a television studio. A real one, not just something Dana had thrown together in her classroom.

"Okay," said Dana when class began. "'The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry.' You've probably heard it, and it's true. You can plan an plan and plan something, and at the last second, it's guaranteed to go wrong. For this, we blame a guy named Murphy, and his stupid Law: whatever can go wrong, will. Or sometimes we blame Thespis. Don't ask. And what do you do when something goes wrong? You deal with it," she said. "When you're working in an environment like this, you can't have something bad happen and shrug and go 'oh well.' It might require a super quick fix. Do you cover for it, do you acknowledge the mistake, do you smile and nod and pretend it never happened? Tehe truth is, there is no right answer. You just have to know how to roll with the punches and go with it somehow, because you just have to get through it and then it's over and you can laugh about it later, or go out for a lot of drinks later if it was really bad. I didn't just say that to a high school class and anyone who says I did is lying.

"Today you're going to get a scenario. You may be the director, you may be an anchor, it'll depend on each one. You're right at showtime, and you have to solve the problem. Just show me what you do to get out of it," she said. "Now get to it."

[And a note, class, please check out this post for info on next week's class.]

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Dinah headdesked, then pounded her head, and wrote back:

Open relationship! I checked! He told me so, but I checked! Then a moment to add: I know it's a little weird. That's his planet, though.

Turtle tried not to wince at the sudden headdesking, because that would just draw attention to them.

Open relationship, his planet. Doesn't matter. Still leg-humping, drooling, whatever. Guess it's cool if you're into it, too, but I wouldn't compromise my own feelings for someone else's. Not to assume on your feelings, of course. If you're cool with that, that's your prerogative.

Yes. Turtle was very, very....opinionated about this topic.

OOooooo. Ooo!

Not compromising! Just trying to figure it out! Haven't done this before!

And wow, did Dinah regret writing that two seconds after giving it to Turtle.

The look that flashed across Turtle's face was almost murderous, like the rolled-up newspaper from last night had just been upgraded to a crowbar with the leverage part facing forward.

Good rule of thumb, her response advised, figure things out before you do them, not jump headfirst into things and just hope you're okay with it.

Dinah's head went down on the desk again, although Turtle could probably see the neon-red blush had intensified.

She scribbled over what she'd written before so no one else could read it, and wrote down: AM. Working on it. Nothing more 'til I know. After a minute, she wrote: Alice is fine, really. She's okay with all this.

Because yeah, Alice was the one to worry about.

If you're working on it, Turtle wrote back, realizing that hiding the fact that they were passing notes was now impossible, since her anger was clearly written all over her face, her anger and her annoyance over how girls could be SO STUPID, then you're not okay with it. And who cares if Alice is? Good for her. Hope she's really happy with compromising herself just because a guy has a killer smile and eyes that make your insides go all mushy like oatmeal. But, like I said, if you are, too, good for you, that's your choice, I guess.

And that one had Dinah ripping up the note into pieces, and then shoving it into her purse to burn later, not looking at Turtle, facing like a stoplight.

And Turtle tried to let that held breath out very slowly and subtly. She wasn't going to feel bad, especially since Dinah getting to the point of ripping up the note was a pretty good sign that Turtle was probably right and Dinah was just being stubborn and a stupid girl.

She started it anyway.

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