Fashion! Releasing Your Inner Superhero, etc. [Thursday, May 21, 1st period]

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"Today we will begin the most important part of your costumes!" Edna announced as she wheeled in a hanging rack full of spandex body suits. Oh, you lucky people, you. (Don't ask how that last one snuck in there. It had been a Very Terrible Costume Concept.) "Measurements!"

She ignored any horrified looks or attempts to hide under tables. "Ms. Davis, my assistant," she nodded at Brooke, "and I will be measuring you so that the costumes you create for yourselves will fit! While you are waiting, come up with two preliminary concepts for your ensemble--include your logo from last week on one of them--and then ask a fellow student to critique!"

She made shooing motions. "Go! Scatter! Create!" She pointed at one student at random. "Except you. You get to wear Spandex first, darling."

Comments

Re: Create!

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Hunh." Put like that, maybe it wasn't so impossible? "If you just had it as a life goal, maybe... yeah. I guess you could do it. Somehow." Dinah looked meditative, intrigued by the idea. "Would you go into medicine? Or maybe politics, make sure that nothing like that was allowed?"

Re: Create!

[17andinfected.livejournal.com]

Shilo frowned. "I'm not really interested in either of those fields... but I guess when you put it like that, those are the options I have to choose."

Just what the world needed. Another Doctor Wallace.

Re: Create!

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"There's always publicity, and reporting on the truth, too... or music if you want to inspire people," Dinah said, since Shilo looked a little bummed about that. "Look at Bono. And Sting. And lots of others. They get their message out."

Re: Create!

[17andinfected.livejournal.com]

Oh, but did that get Shilo's attention. "Sing? And governments would take me seriously with the politics thing?" she asked, looking a teeny bit more hopeful.

Re: Create!

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Protest songs are this huge, time-honored thing--" Dinah realized, maybe not so much where Shilo was from, if the governments were blackmailing singers. "You know who you need to talk to? Either Alice, or my friend Priestly. They both know lots more about music than I do, and Priestly's really into the political side of it." Mostly. He aspired to be. "Or check it out in the library, I bet they've got a zillion articles-- oo, LiveAid. Farm Aid. All these concert benefits to raise money and political awareness." Dinah nodded hard. "Is that what you really want to do? Sing?"

Re: Create!

[17andinfected.livejournal.com]

"Well, I mean, I like music and I'll sing along to it, but I don't know if I have a good voice or anything, and even if I did I couldn't guarantee I'd make it as a singer, let alone be popular enough to have people be willing to support my message-"

BREATHE, Shilo. And stop making excuses.

Re: Create!

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"So that's a 'yes' I'm hearing?" Dinah guessed, smiling wider. "Dude, that's what school is for. To learn all that. Not everyone becomes a superstar at seventeen. You can be here and figure it out, and then go out and do it right."

Re: Create!

[17andinfected.livejournal.com]

Shilo finally stopped talking. "You... mean that?"

Re: Create!

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Welllll...." Dinah cajoled. "I'd have a better idea, if I could hear you sing." She looked around, and lowered her voice. "It doesn't have to be loud. Just a few bars?"

Re: Create!

[17andinfected.livejournal.com]

"Oh nonononononononono." Shilo raised her hands towards Dinah as if she could shield herself from the very idea of singing in public. Especially since she was still carrying a torch for Arthur someone in the room. "Not here. Er. Meet me in FDR tonight, and I will. But not in class. Please."

Re: Create!

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah grinned. "Sure. Why not?" Then pointed at her. "But if you want to be a singer, you'll have to do it sometime."

Re: Create!

[17andinfected.livejournal.com]

"I know. But not yet." Shilo sighed. "For now, my roommates and you will be enough of an audience."

[I'm going to do the post right now.]

Re: Create!

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Cool! I'll bring popcorn."


[*bops off to post to be audience!*]