fandomhigh | Show and Tell, Tuesday, Period Two

Okay, Sparkle was looking mildly disgruntled when he showed up for class today. He'd messaged the students asking them to think of some music to share this week. That part had gone just fine. But no matter how many times he tried to rehearse his lecture for today, it came out sounding... flat. Not terribly enthusiastic. And for a guy who used enthusiasm as a cover for a lot of things he'd rather not talk about, the island's shenanigans today left him feeling weirdly naked.

"So, uh, today we're sharing music," he said, trying to make up for his near deadpan with a wry smile. "Some song that's really meant a lot to us, or something we heard a lot when we were kids, or that we wrote ourselves, or just something you heard on the radio and thought was fun. Like, I brought in Hello, Dolly, because-- ah, shit. I just made a lot of memories to that song, for better or worse."

While drunk. And crying on some old woman's floor. Details.

"But also because I just shamelessly love musicals. They're fun, and theatre folks just get... things."

This was really hard without the ability to put emphasis on anything, for the record.

"Here, look, I'll just play the song, it's the Carol Channing version because she did it first, though there have been a bunch of great versions since, and then you guys can go."

Hopefully Carol wouldn't come out of the speaker sounding flat, too.

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"Nice," Sparkle said, wishing that he could actually sound like he approved, instead of saying that all deadpan-like. "That'd be a good one for doing anything really high-energy, I bet. Something you need to keep up a good tempo for, yourself."

"I know, right?" That should have come across as way more excited. There was something pretty unsettling about such a flat delivery considering how intense Ringo's expression was.

Yeah, Sparkle even shifted his weight a bit in discomfort at that one.

"So, most of the music you listen to is up-tempo? Do you have a lot of metal in reserve?"

He was going for 'curious' and coming off as 'mildly bored.'

"Oh, yeah. Metal, some rock, a lot of pop, too." Ringo wasn't a big music person for the sake of music, but she really loved to have music when she was out riding. And since she rode basically all the time, that meant she had a lot of music.

Which was why she (usually) got pretty excited about it.

"You have varied tastes, then," Sparkle replied, nodding. "Not a bad way to be; there's a lot of awesome stuff out there."

Not that you'd know it from Sparkle's tone, granted.

"I like to think so."

Sorry, Sparkle. She wasn't trying to sound sarcastic about it.

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