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fandomhigh2006-07-19 11:12 pm
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Monologuing, Dialoguing, and Out-Quipping the Bad Guy (Workshop #2), Main Campfire, Thursday morning
"Ah, so I see you managed to find your way here. Didn't know you could find your way out of your cabins without a hand-drawn map and a sherpa. We'd better get started, unless I'm moving too quickly for you. Then again, most garden-variety snails are moving too quickly for you lot."
Ivanova grinned.
"Today's lesson, if you knuckleheads haven't realised, is insults. An insult can range from crude 'yo momma' jibes to the artfully constructed and magnificently delivered poison barbs of Shakespeare. He's not just for crusty academics - the man knew how to cut. Insults can be any length - good insults can be a single word, a phrase, a sentence. Hell, a paragraph if you can keep the attention long enough."
She stood and began to pace almost absently, gesturing with one hand as she talked. "Insults are very tricky things. What may be emotionally devastating for one person can be laughable for another. You have to properly gauge the mood of both yourself and the person whom you are insulting. For example, my older brother Ganya was called 'Jewboy' while walking down the street with a group of his friends one summer, and came home laughing about it." She shrugged. "He was called 'Jewboy' by one of his fellow recruits six months later in the heat of an argument and was almost dishonourably discharged for his behaviour.
"Which brings me to my next point. Topics. A working knowledge of your opponent is best, but a simple visual once-over will do in a pinch. The basic insults are on," she ticked them off on her fingers, "Parentage, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical deformities. In some cases, diseases or conditions can also work.
"And now comes the part of class than can be fun if you let it be fun." Ivanova looked serious. "Each and every one of you is not to take a word that is said from this point on seriously. I want no fights or I will beat your skull in myself, understood?" With a glare around, she relented. "Alright, pair up, one insult at a time, don't talk over each other, try to make each other cry. Before you get started or if you need a break from each other, I'm right here."
[[OCD'sa-comin' up. Time to unleash your inner schoolyard bullies. I'll be around intermittantly until around 7EST tomorrow, if you need me for something specific ping me on AIM. I know there's 13 of you, but River's out so it all works. I think. Have fun!]]
Ivanova grinned.
"Today's lesson, if you knuckleheads haven't realised, is insults. An insult can range from crude 'yo momma' jibes to the artfully constructed and magnificently delivered poison barbs of Shakespeare. He's not just for crusty academics - the man knew how to cut. Insults can be any length - good insults can be a single word, a phrase, a sentence. Hell, a paragraph if you can keep the attention long enough."
She stood and began to pace almost absently, gesturing with one hand as she talked. "Insults are very tricky things. What may be emotionally devastating for one person can be laughable for another. You have to properly gauge the mood of both yourself and the person whom you are insulting. For example, my older brother Ganya was called 'Jewboy' while walking down the street with a group of his friends one summer, and came home laughing about it." She shrugged. "He was called 'Jewboy' by one of his fellow recruits six months later in the heat of an argument and was almost dishonourably discharged for his behaviour.
"Which brings me to my next point. Topics. A working knowledge of your opponent is best, but a simple visual once-over will do in a pinch. The basic insults are on," she ticked them off on her fingers, "Parentage, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical deformities. In some cases, diseases or conditions can also work.
"And now comes the part of class than can be fun if you let it be fun." Ivanova looked serious. "Each and every one of you is not to take a word that is said from this point on seriously. I want no fights or I will beat your skull in myself, understood?" With a glare around, she relented. "Alright, pair up, one insult at a time, don't talk over each other, try to make each other cry. Before you get started or if you need a break from each other, I'm right here."
[[OCD's
Re: Insult Ivanova
Re: Insult Ivanova
He coughed.
"You call that a hairstyle? I've pried prettier looking things out of a dead man's pockets! And I wouldn't let my cat pinch your petty excuse for a lack of rear! And given my cat's evil pouncy tendancies and the fact that I suspect she's a lesbian cat, that's saying something!"
Re: Insult Ivanova
She turned back to him, grinning. "Much better, Pip, even if you lost your rhythm a little at the end there. Although maybe more effective if it had been your cat's idea for the lack of pinching rather than your own."