fandomhigh | Civics, Friday, September 1, 2017

"One more day," Tony said as class began. "You made it through the first week of the semester with, hopefully, minimal damage. I'm Tony Stark, you can call me Tony if you want. And this--" He paused, glancing over at his teaching partner.

"I'm Steve Rogers. Please don't call me Steve. It's strange."

TONY.

"This is civics class--the study of our government, which will hopefully lead to greater understanding of how it works. Or doesn't, depending."

Welcome to class where your teachers vented about the current political situation going on off the island. It was fun. Sort of.

Tony tried very hard to look cheerful as he added, "If you are new to this place or come from a different time, planet, or governmental system, we will be focusing on the version of democracy practiced within the United States we currently reside in. This timeline. This awful, awful timeline."

"But if it's not your real one, it's an excellent case study in what not to do," Steve said, trying to be optimistic. "Today's going to be the last time you'll have to do introductions, we promise."

"Until next semester. Sorry." Tony was not sorry at all. "But we'll let you off easy because it's Friday and you've been through enough. Tell us your name and your experience with government and we'll do something both political and crafty."

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"Stop Acting Like Clods," Summer read it aloud, considered it, nodded her head, and then laughed.

"Perfect! It's so, like, versatile! That's smart, like totally smart. I'm going to totally make a catch-all one, too. I think....I think it'll say You are being so totally lame right now. What do you think? Too, like, wordy?"

Peridot considered that.

"You could see if it all fits," she hedged. She'd never done this before, and still wasn't entirely clear on the point of all of this, but that seemed reasonable at the very least. "And make another one if it doesn't."

"I could totally, like, edit out the right now," Summer reasoned, although she knew she could calculate it perfectly, thank you very much. "Or just write LAME, but that seems, like, kind of offensive? To people who are, like, totally lame? So I think I'll just totally make one that says BOGUS in big letters."

Peridot managed to follow... maybe half of that.

"Bogus," she echoed, thoughtfully. "How very succinct."

That was actually said with a note of approval, for what it was worth.

Summer nodded, preening slightly at the subtle approval. "Succinct. Like, totally."

She uncapped another marker to get to work before adding, "Oooh, and the other side is just going to say 'NO.'"

"Even more to the point," Peridot replied, impressed. "I can think of so many uses for that one."

So many.

"I'll totally, like, let you borrow it whenever you, like, totally like to use it," Summer said happily. "As long as you, like, totally don't mind that it's gonna be, like, smothered in glitter."

"Will the glitter help it get the point across?"

Because that was the important thing, here.

"If there's, like, anything I've totally learned from this place," said Summer, "it's that, like, glitter..."

And she stopped there, tilting her head. "Actually, I'm, like, not totally sure what purpose the glitter is, like, supposed to serve? But it, like, works?"

"It definitely... glitters."

Which, Peridot supposed, was the point.

"And gets into everything."

Possibly also the point?

"To..." C'mon, programming, get to work, you could do this. "...like, totally remind you of all the good times you totally had with the glitter."

Oooh, she liked that.

"... But why would you include that on a big sign that says no? Are you protesting good times?"

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