fandomhigh | Journalism: Thursday, Period 4, Final

"It's your final, you know what you're doing. If you don't know what you're doing, I have something picked out just for you. Your deadline is at the end of the class period, write on whatever subject you chose. Claire, you chose photography. Give me your photos and go on your next photo assignment: Students taking their finals. And look at this, we have a room full of people for you to pester with a camera!" Jonah grinned.

"This is your final lesson in this class. When you're on a tight deadline there are going to be all kinds of distractions. Maybe it's your family, maybe you're writing on a train, maybe it's somebody trying to kill you because they didn't like what you wrote, maybe it's a menace who enjoys trying to annoy you for no good reason! In this case it's a photographer taking pictures of you. (Claire, use flash.) Figure out how to deal with it and get to work!"

[OOC: Remember, if I get a couple people who actually write their articles, I'll be putting together a Journalism Class Newspaper. Handwaving is absolutely acceptable, but please give me a headline and the topic of your article.

A couple students have permission to try to disrupt the other students who are working so hard. Beware!]

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Buffy actually didn't know what a Commentary really was, so she'd done what she could without, you know, looking it up at all.

The Undead, Fandom, and You
by Buffy Summers

Fandom seems to have some Issues. Anyone who hasn't noticed that needs a brain transplant, or new eyes, or something. The biggest issue seems to be dangerous things rising up and trying to kill people. (This is really a problem anywhere, but you tend to hear way more about it here, unlike some other paces that just repress repress repress.)

While there aren't many invasions going on these days, my understanding is that there used to be. Except these were invasions of things like dinosaurs, which is something you can't really guard against because it's dinosaurs. I mean, come on. Still, you have to be at least a little prepared just in case, or at least figure out what it is you need to do in a crisis, so this way if you suddenly see that your boyfriend/sibling/bff just turned into a zombie, it will be more automatic to act rather than standing there wibbling and getting you head eaten.

Research is always good. We have a really good library (NOT THAT ANYONE EVER GOES, but whatever) and there are books on everything and there's also Special Collections in case that's not enough. A couple friends of mine would say things like research is where the action's at. They lie like dogs.

The action is in killing things, which you should totally do. But only if you know what you're doing, because if you don't, you're going to get killed instead, and I'm not taking responsibility for your stupidity. Just remember that there are many kinds of vampires, demons, etc. etc. and make sure you're killing them the right way, because it sucks to find out you're fighting unkillable vampires in the middle of trying to kill them.

Finally, if you don't know what you're doing, STAY THE HELL INDOORS. GOD.

There was no ending, but Buffy felt she'd made more than enough comments.

Journalism: Thursday, Period 4, Final

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