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fandomhigh2015-01-30 12:55 am
furnaceface) wrote in fandomhigh2015-01-30 12:55 am
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Powers, Identity, and The World; Embracing the Real You - Friday, Period One
//Right, then.// Did Jono look a little bit awkward standing at the front of the class alone? Not much, thank goodness. This was hardly his first stint alone in front of a pack of students, after all. Hell, he was even properly wrapped up all over again, and leaning back against his desk as per usual, surveying the students in the room before he kicked into today's lecture. //You lucky lot get to deal with just me this week, so I'm going to try something a little different. Last week, we talked a bit about perspective, about how you present yourself and how people's perceptions of you are different from your own. This week, we're going to have a slightly more practical discussion about the same.//
He shrugged his shoulders. Practical discussions were far more his cup of tea than the sharing-and-caring sort, or at least he'd insist that was the case. Not that it had ever stopped him from having a good, long heart-to-heart in the past, of course.
//This week, we're going to try to place some sort of order of importance on those perspectives we talked about last week. There are some situations where, while your own self-perception is still important, it's going to be the perspective of others that most strongly shapes the decisions you make, and how you present yourself. You saw me without my wrappings on last week, for example. I'm certain that for a good many of you, that was the first time. More often than not, even while I'm at home alone, I keep that mess of fire covered as a force of habit. Still, there are some situations where I don't. Making a point to a room full of teenagers is apparently one of them. Screaming, man-eating eels are roaming the island? That'd be another. Everyone has a different line they'll draw before they'll do something that blatantly challenges the way the world might perceive them. For me, it's generally either during an emergency, or when I want to prove a point.//
He gave his fingers a thoughtful drum against the table.
//Not all of us want the world to see us the way we see ourselves. Not just when it comes to powers, but when it comes to personalities, or dearly-held beliefs. Sometimes we choose to keep our heads down and hide who and what we are out of necessity, to keep ourselves alive, to keep ourselves safe. Perhaps what others see is the product of a gross prejudice on their part, and there are those out there who would mistake a head held high as proof of a threat, or a bowed head and a peaceful attitude as a sign of weakness. When does it benefit us to challenge those perceptions? When is it best for us to accept what other people expect us to be and to live up to it? What about the other option, where we act to be something completely different from both expectation and our own self-image? Surely there's a time and a place for all of these things. So… let's hear a little bit about where you think those lines ought to be drawn, today. When is it best to live up to society's expectations? And to be yourself? What might prompt you to do neither, to set yourself apart from what people think you are and to do something that surprises even you? They're all situations we're bound to face in one capacity or another throughout our lives. Let's talk about that.//
In case you'd been under the illusion that this was somehow not going to become a personal discussion class. Poor things.
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He shrugged his shoulders. Practical discussions were far more his cup of tea than the sharing-and-caring sort, or at least he'd insist that was the case. Not that it had ever stopped him from having a good, long heart-to-heart in the past, of course.
//This week, we're going to try to place some sort of order of importance on those perspectives we talked about last week. There are some situations where, while your own self-perception is still important, it's going to be the perspective of others that most strongly shapes the decisions you make, and how you present yourself. You saw me without my wrappings on last week, for example. I'm certain that for a good many of you, that was the first time. More often than not, even while I'm at home alone, I keep that mess of fire covered as a force of habit. Still, there are some situations where I don't. Making a point to a room full of teenagers is apparently one of them. Screaming, man-eating eels are roaming the island? That'd be another. Everyone has a different line they'll draw before they'll do something that blatantly challenges the way the world might perceive them. For me, it's generally either during an emergency, or when I want to prove a point.//
He gave his fingers a thoughtful drum against the table.
//Not all of us want the world to see us the way we see ourselves. Not just when it comes to powers, but when it comes to personalities, or dearly-held beliefs. Sometimes we choose to keep our heads down and hide who and what we are out of necessity, to keep ourselves alive, to keep ourselves safe. Perhaps what others see is the product of a gross prejudice on their part, and there are those out there who would mistake a head held high as proof of a threat, or a bowed head and a peaceful attitude as a sign of weakness. When does it benefit us to challenge those perceptions? When is it best for us to accept what other people expect us to be and to live up to it? What about the other option, where we act to be something completely different from both expectation and our own self-image? Surely there's a time and a place for all of these things. So… let's hear a little bit about where you think those lines ought to be drawn, today. When is it best to live up to society's expectations? And to be yourself? What might prompt you to do neither, to set yourself apart from what people think you are and to do something that surprises even you? They're all situations we're bound to face in one capacity or another throughout our lives. Let's talk about that.//
In case you'd been under the illusion that this was somehow not going to become a personal discussion class. Poor things.
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Given that everyone else was likely not at their brightest and cheeriest, either, it was probably easy to guess why.
Talk to Jono
[OOC: Ish. I get no internet access while at work now, so all pings will be answered when I get home tonight.]
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Also, I backed the Exploding Kittens game on Kickstarter and I'm sitting here in muted awe as I await the NSFW full game that they've expanded one of their booster packs to as a stretch goal.
Which probably isn't much of a surprise to anybody.
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* a cold
** about time
*** emerged from bed