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fandomhigh2012-12-07 08:24 am
furnaceface) wrote in fandomhigh2012-12-07 08:24 am
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Living on the Outskirts, Friday, Period 2
Jono had been a little out of the loop this week, so hopefully everyone would forgive him for looking just a touch bewildered as he took in the various greyscale faces around his classroom.
"Fandom," he muttered under his breath before shaking his head and pressing on with his lecture. He was going to make it happen, whether his students looked like they were ready for a sock hop or not. "I'd like to start today's class off by apologizing for my behaviour last week. As I... hope some of you are aware, it wasn't exactly a good week for me."
What with all of the being on fire and whatnot.
"To put it bluntly, I was a fatalistic, pessimistic, antisocial idiot. And while I can't entirely attest to how many of those factors have changed, I can tell you that cutting yourself off from life as thoroughly as I did out of some kind of bitter vendetta against my own sodding self is... bloody stupid. Which isn't to say that you ought to start clasping hands with every stranger you meet and offering them kisses in th'street or anything."
The hippie movement was a decade coming for most of his students, after all.
"Just... exercise caution with who you choose to trust, how thoroughly, and why. Falling in with the first person to take an interest in you might lead to some good times in the immediate future, but how well do you know that person, really? Or their motives? Being used and thrown out again hurts a hell of a lot more than hanging back and not letting it happen, but that's a revelation you won't have until after you're standing alone in the middle of a dark alleyway, what's left of your reputation a joke smeared through tabloids all across Britian, suddenly homeless and watching Sugar naffin' Kane drive off in her fancy car after informing you that you were the hideous mutant curiosity that helped her boost her failing career."
That was not an oddly specific example. Shut up.
"I... don't actually have horrible experiences with every person I meet," he added, just a touch awkwardly, as he realized he'd been ranting. "But I'll be saving my carpe diem lecture for next week. This week... maybe just... talk about that one time that someone failed to exercise caution when they should have." He gave the students in his room a critical sort of glance. "Or pass love notes, or whatever it is you're prone to doing under this particular weirdness."
Fandom.
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"Fandom," he muttered under his breath before shaking his head and pressing on with his lecture. He was going to make it happen, whether his students looked like they were ready for a sock hop or not. "I'd like to start today's class off by apologizing for my behaviour last week. As I... hope some of you are aware, it wasn't exactly a good week for me."
What with all of the being on fire and whatnot.
"To put it bluntly, I was a fatalistic, pessimistic, antisocial idiot. And while I can't entirely attest to how many of those factors have changed, I can tell you that cutting yourself off from life as thoroughly as I did out of some kind of bitter vendetta against my own sodding self is... bloody stupid. Which isn't to say that you ought to start clasping hands with every stranger you meet and offering them kisses in th'street or anything."
The hippie movement was a decade coming for most of his students, after all.
"Just... exercise caution with who you choose to trust, how thoroughly, and why. Falling in with the first person to take an interest in you might lead to some good times in the immediate future, but how well do you know that person, really? Or their motives? Being used and thrown out again hurts a hell of a lot more than hanging back and not letting it happen, but that's a revelation you won't have until after you're standing alone in the middle of a dark alleyway, what's left of your reputation a joke smeared through tabloids all across Britian, suddenly homeless and watching Sugar naffin' Kane drive off in her fancy car after informing you that you were the hideous mutant curiosity that helped her boost her failing career."
That was not an oddly specific example. Shut up.
"I... don't actually have horrible experiences with every person I meet," he added, just a touch awkwardly, as he realized he'd been ranting. "But I'll be saving my carpe diem lecture for next week. This week... maybe just... talk about that one time that someone failed to exercise caution when they should have." He gave the students in his room a critical sort of glance. "Or pass love notes, or whatever it is you're prone to doing under this particular weirdness."
Fandom.
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