Sex And Candy, Wednesday, Second Period

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

Cindy had left a note on the classroom door telling the students to head up to the Danger Shop. As the students arrived, they would see that it had been programmed to look like a beautiful garden. A closer examination would show that everything in the garden was edible--more than simply edible, even. Much of it was candy. Spun-sugar flowers decorated the path. The bark of the trees might be made of candied peppermint, or peanut brittle, or simple chocolate. Even the 'dirt' was made of crumbled cookie pieces, with gummy worms burrowing through. Colorful rocks were little pieces of hard candy and the weeping willow dangled branches of thin caramel over the path. The apple tree was growing candy apples, of every different variety, and the tiny lemon tree gushed lemonade when the bark was cut.

Today, class was held in a garden full of moddable candy and treats.

A really sharp observer might notice that there was no sign of Cindy.

[Please wait for OCD up]

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Re: 15 Minutes Later...

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"I'm Ramona," she said when it was her turn, casting a very light wave with one hand. "I'm...I guess I'm gonna be a senior. My favorite fairy tale was always that one about the swans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Swans), where the brothers all get turned into birds and their sister has to rescue them." She paused with a slight shrug, adding, "There just doesn't seem to be a ton of girl power in fairy tales. That one has the woman doing the saving. Even if it's kinda ruined by the witchcraft element and how she's voiceless and all."

Re: 15 Minutes Later...

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

"You bring up an excellent point and one we're going to talk about later," Cindy said. "While there are a lot of fairy tales that feature girls and young women, they don't always have a lot of agency and most of their power derives from being pretty and obedient. Of course, product of their time and all that, which is why a lot of modern authors have taken to updating them to give us more powerful female characters."

In other words, good choice, Ramona.

"Do you enjoy reading? I have a number of titles I can recommend if you're interested."

Re: 15 Minutes Later...

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"I do," Ramona said carefully, raising a brow. "I mean, I read a lot of stuff with ladies doing their own thing now, but updated fairy tales sound interesting."

Re: 15 Minutes Later...

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

Cindy listed off a few titles in the collections of updated fairy stories that she knew of. They contained more sex and violence than a teacher recommending books to a high school student probably should, but the administration was letting her teach a class with Sex in the title that was not followed by the word Education. She was pretty sure she was in the clear.

"If the library doesn't have a copy, I can loan you the first few." What? Cindy enjoyed keeping tabs on how the Mundy's reimagined fairy tales. It was kind of hilarious. "Without turning this into some kind of assignment or anything."