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There was a noticeable lack of notes, props, or projectors in the classroom today. There where however, various boxes and bowls of candy.

"Good morning and welcome to our final class in this subject," Bond said. "Given that when all is said and dones we've barely even scratched the surface of all the complexities of human sexuality over the last few weeks, rather than have some kind of exam or test, instead we'll be having a rather more relaxed class today, where you can ask me any questions you might still have, or else discuss anything you've learnt with your fellow classmates. Or simply enjoy the sweets."

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There were multiple stacks of handouts this week, that couldn't be good.

"Good morning, and apologies for last week's absence," Bond said by way of greeting. "However the break means we'll be covering last week's intended class as well as this week's, so let's get started shall we?"

The long and short of it. )

[ooc: links are NSFW]

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When Bond's students arrived today, they would have found a note up on the whiteboard.

Class cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Enjoy your free period.


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There were no handouts this week, there was however a projector set up.

"Considering the weekend, I thought it might be best to have a film day," Bond said after greeting them. "The film we'll be watching is fictional, but deals with real world themes relevant to the class, and while it's a comedy certain elements are not as much of an exaggeration as one might hope."

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There were yet more handouts, this week. Also a table covered in what looked suspiciously like props.

"Good morning, class," Bond began when they'd finished arriving. Don't be silly. )

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Today, in addition to the question box and index cards, Bond had handouts. Once his students had arrived, he began.

"Good morning, now given last weeks introductions, I feel that we should probably start at the beginning...a very good place to start. )

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Bond was having class within a perfectly normal classroom today, albeit one with small piles of index cards placed on all the desks. Once his students had arrived he began.

Let's talk about s-e-x )

[ooc: let's just assume it's going to be vaguely NWS at best]

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"All right, it's finals day," Drake said, gleefully rubbing his hands together. "Oh, relax, this is easy. All I want you to do is tell me a love story. It can be epic, it can be tragic, it can be comedic, but make it a true one. And then tell me what Hollywood would do to the story if they made it into a movie. Got it? Go. Oh, and for bonus points, tell me your favorite quote about love."
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Drake had boxes of tissues scattered about the classroom today. No reason.

"We've gone over a lot of romantic -- or not so romantic -- types of love in this class," he said, "but I wanted to touch on one other type of love before the end of the semester. And that's the love of family and friends. You find that type of love in all sorts of movies, especially when heroes are goaded into action to protect their family, or when mother makes a sacrifice to save her child, or when friends are there to take care of one another. I've got two examples for you today, and they're both on the tearjerker side.

"Beaches is a movie about long friendship, specifically between Hillary Whitney and CC Bloom. They meet as children on the beach, and their friendship carries on through their lives as they go to school and begin careers and relationships. The have a period of estrangement but eventually reunite and realize that their feud could have been avoided by honesty and an appreciation of each other's qualities. Hillary is diagnosed with viral cardiomyopathy and at first takes it out on CC, but CC does everything she can to make Hillary's last days comfortable. After her friend's death, CC raises Hillary's daughter, Victoria, and tells her story after story about her mother to keep her memory alive.

"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is about a successful young woman, Siddalee, who had an unhappy childhood. Comments about this make it into a magazine article, which her mother, Viviane, reads and becomes offended and wants nothing to do with her daughter anymore. Viviane's friends, the other members of the 'Ya-Ya Sisterhood' of the title, visit Siddalee and kidnap her so they can tell her the story of her mother's life and give some context to the painful memories of her childhood. In the end, Siddalee is able to understand and forgive her mother, leading to the restoration of their relationship.

"So do you think any type of love is stronger? Romantic, family, friends? Do you think there are any qualities, such as forgiveness, that come easier to a romantic or a non-romantic love?"
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Drake was dressed in leather for this class again, but happily -- or maybe sadly in Emmett's case -- it wasn't the tight leather pants, it was a black leather jacket. He also had his hair slicked back with enough grease to potentially be declared a hazard to nature if he went to the beach to go swimming.

"Many of you are probably familiar with meta for the movie Grease," Drake said. "But if not, the story goes like this: in the '50s, leather-wearing greaser boy meets prim and proper nice girl, boy spends summer romancing girl, but when it's time to go back to school, boy fears he won't be considered cool for having a non-slutty girlfriend. Boy tries to be more straight-laced and fails miserably, so girl decides perming her hair, smoking, and dressing in leather will get her the boy. And indeed it does.

"A lot of people love this movie, but what's the message here? That you have to change for love? How do you feel about that? On the one hand, if love inspires you to be a better person, good for you. But on the other, what about being true to yourself? Would you completely change who you are to win the love of someone? Why or why not?"
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Drake had an evil-looking raven perched on his shoulder during the lecture today. No, not Raven. A raven. If it were an evil-looking Raven, that would be awkward, in more ways than one.

"All right, we're going to do something a little different today," Drake said, "and give you cynics a chance to rewrite a classic love story, or you romantics to make it actually be romantic. I'm sure most of you know the story of Sleeping Beauty, most likely the Disney version." He snapped his fingers to conjure his projector to play the clips as he talked.

"So, once upon a time, newborn princess Aurora is having her christening. Her parents invited the local fairies, but failed to include Maleficent, because with a name like that, they figured she'd be a downer. So Malefie is pissed and curses the princess so that she will die on her sixteenth birthday after pricking her finger on a spinning wheel, because I guess she figured death by splinter would be pretty painful. One of the other fairies is able to soften the curse to just 'fall asleep' until awaken by the kiss of her true love, but they can't stop it from coming true. Prince Phillip, meanwhile, had met Aurora in the woods and got the major hots for her, so he's off to slay the dragon Malefie turns herself into and gives Aurora a smooch to wake her up. And they live happily ever after. I know, I know, they knew each other for all of ten minutes and it's True Love? Not very realistic. So that's where you come in.

"How would you rewrite this story?" Drake finished. "Go wild, change anything you want, but keep at least some aspect of it so that you can recognize the source material." He fully expected someone to pull an Ann Rice and make it porn. And if Dan didn't somehow involve Lady Gaga, he'd be so disappointed.
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How Kennedy ended up at the front of the classroom with Drake today she had no idea, but she was going with it, thumbs hooked in her jacket pockets and a put-upon, skeptical look working full-time while she listened to him talk.

"Like last week's lesbians, gay men suffered through stereotypes and being a token character in movies," Drake began. "Gay men went from Evil to Guaranteed to Die of AIDS to Ultra Effeminate Wacky Sidekick. Fortunately, some movies started to take these stereotypes and shake them up, and these days the minute you have two male characters on screen someone starts writing slash about them. Shh, don't tell Arthur about all those stories about him and Lancelot. It's what happens when you get Clive Owen and Ioan Gruffudd together in a movie. ROWR."

"You're kidding, right?" Kennedy interjected. "Man, that is so unfair. The guys get all the attention. And the Academy Awards, like Brokeback Mountain, which I've never seen but it's all about, like, gay cowboys. 'cause that's the best atmosphere ever to be gay in, right? Anyway, it's kind of a downer, so there's this thirty-second version done with bunnies. Yeah." She held her hands up and made a 'back to you' gesture at Drake.

He picked up, "Then there's Latter Days. We have Christian, who, speaking of King Arthur, looks a heck of a lot like the reincarnation of Arthur I know only only with less evil facial hair. He's a waiter by day, partier by night. And we have Elder Aaron, Mormon missionary by day and...Mormon missionary by night. Christian makes a bet with his friends that he can seduce one of the Mormons who just moved in next door and soon realizes that Aaron is very deep in the closet. Aaron is resistant to Christian due to his religious beliefs and because he doesn't like Christian's casual sex ways, but eventually they share a kiss. Unfortunately, Aaron's fellow Mormons walk in on them, and Aaron gets sent home to Utah. Christian realizes he has genuine feelings for Aaron and chases after him NSFW, and the two of them spend the night together, though Aaron leaves to face the church over his actions. He gets excommunicated, rejected by his family, and attempts suicide. After that he's locked up and forced to undergo shock therapy to 'cure' him. Christian, meanwhile, tries to track Aaron down, but Aaron's mother tells him that Aaron killed himself. Late one night at the treatment facility, Aaron sees a music video by Christian's roommate about Christian and Aaron's relationship. This prompts him to leave the facility and return to LA to find Christian. They have a tearful reunion and then a happy Thanksgiving dinner with their friends."

"Well, at least you picked one with a happy ending that time," Kennedy informed him, starting up the video clips and going back to her seat.
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How Kennedy ended up at the front of the classroom with Drake today she had no idea, but she was going with it, thumbs hooked in her jacket pockets and a put-upon, skeptical look working full-time while she listened to him talk.

"Like last week's lesbians, gay men suffered through stereotypes and being a token character in movies," Drake began. "Gay men went from Evil to Guaranteed to Die of AIDS to Ultra Effeminate Wacky Sidekick. Fortunately, some movies started to take these stereotypes and shake them up, and these days the minute you have two male characters on screen someone starts writing slash about them. Shh, don't tell Arthur about all those stories about him and Lancelot. It's what happens when you get Clive Owen and Ioan Gruffudd together in a movie. ROWR."

"You're kidding, right?" Kennedy interjected. "Man, that is so unfair. The guys get all the attention. And the Academy Awards, like Brokeback Mountain, which I've never seen but it's all about, like, gay cowboys. 'cause that's the best atmosphere ever to be gay in, right? Anyway, it's kind of a downer, so there's this thirty-second version done with bunnies. Yeah." She held her hands up and made a 'back to you' gesture at Drake.

He picked up, "Then there's Latter Days. We have Christian, who, speaking of King Arthur, looks a heck of a lot like the reincarnation of Arthur I know only only with less evil facial hair. He's a waiter by day, partier by night. And we have Elder Aaron, Mormon missionary by day and...Mormon missionary by night. Christian makes a bet with his friends that he can seduce one of the Mormons who just moved in next door and soon realizes that Aaron is very deep in the closet. Aaron is resistant to Christian due to his religious beliefs and because he doesn't like Christian's casual sex ways, but eventually they share a kiss. Unfortunately, Aaron's fellow Mormons walk in on them, and Aaron gets sent home to Utah. Christian realizes he has genuine feelings for Aaron and chases after him NSFW, and the two of them spend the night together, though Aaron leaves to face the church over his actions. He gets excommunicated, rejected by his family, and attempts suicide. After that he's locked up and forced to undergo shock therapy to 'cure' him. Christian, meanwhile, tries to track Aaron down, but Aaron's mother tells him that Aaron killed himself. Late one night at the treatment facility, Aaron sees a music video by Christian's roommate about Christian and Aaron's relationship. This prompts him to leave the facility and return to LA to find Christian. They have a tearful reunion and then a happy Thanksgiving dinner with their friends."

"Well, at least you picked one with a happy ending that time," Kennedy informed him, starting up the video clips and going back to her seat.
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"All right, kiddies," Drake started the class, "the next two classes are going to deal with same-sex love. Emmett, you'll get your turn next week. If this is going to bother any of you, you're excused, you can leave now and not be marked down for skipping class." Not that he marked anyone down for skipping, and he really hoped no one was going to leave.

"So, sapphic love. There's this thing called 'The Dead/Evil Lesbian Cliché,' so named because for awhile there, any time a lesbian appeared in a film, they invariably turned out to be either evil or they got killed off. Or sometimes both. They could never find happiness and were generally portrayed as bad seeds or weak and unstable because being gay was supposed to be bad. Hence, if you were a lesbian, you were doomed. Or if you were 'lucky'" -- that was complete with air quotes -- "the healing power of the penis would fix you right up.

"Fortunately, there are movies now telling that cliché to go screw. First, there's Bound, which is a neo-noir crime thriller that just happens to be about lesbians. Violet is in a relationship with Caesar, who is involved with the mafia, and Corky is the ex-con renovating the apartment next door. Violet is immediately attracted to Corky, and since she's tired of the violence and brutality of the life of a mafia moll, she asks Corky for help in making a new life for herself. So Corky and Violet plan to seen $2 million worth of mafia money and set up Caesar to take the fall. Things don't exactly end up going as planned, and Violet shoots Caesar to stop him from killing Corky, and our two lesbians ride off into the sunset together.

"The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love is more of a romantic comedy. It's the story of two very different high school girls, Randy and Evie, who meet and fall in love. They have to struggle with disapproving family and friends, different social statuses, grades, and worries about intolerance. The movie ends with Randy and Evie kissing and hugging in the open motel room doorway while everyone they know argues about them in the background.

"While cinematic portrayals will never make everyone happy," Drake finished up, "being a lesbian in a movie or TV show doesn't automatically mean you're going to be evil or die anymore. Fortunately, you'll find a lot more realistic roles, or even parts where the character isn't defined primarily by their sexuality. It's just one of any number of facets to their life and personality. And that's a trend Hollywood should be proud of. Love is love, and same-sex or not has nothing to do with it."
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Drake...may have had a personal interest in the lecture for today.

"Today we're going to talk about how the course of true love doesn't always run smoothly," he said as class began. "Often because of...the jackass, someone who stands in the way of love until you get a bulldozer and mow him or her down. For an example, here's Clash of the Titans." He snapped his fingers to start playing some clips.

"OK, so the king of Argos, Acrisius, learns of a prophecy that he'll die if his daughter, Danaë, has a son. So he locks her up rather than teaching her the finer points of birth control. Despite this, she catches Zeus's eye, and he drops into her lap in a shower of gold and knocks her up, because the Greek gods have really kinky sex games." He paused. "I'm not sure if Aphrodite will agree or disagree with that, actually.

"So Acrisius decides to off his daughter and her newborn son, which pisses off Zeus, who orders Poseidon to...wait for it, wait for it...RELEASE THE KRAKEN. Argos gets destroyed, and Danaë and baby Perseus end up safely in Seriphos. But that's just the beginning of the story. So there's this jackass, Calibos, who likes to hunt and kill animals, including those sacred to Zeus. Calibos didn't study his history so he apparently doesn't realize that pissing off Zeus is a bad plan, but instead of getting Kraken on his ass, Zeus turns Calibos into a monster. But Calibos's mom is a goddess, Thetis, who gets upset because her son was supposed to marry the Princess Andromeda, so she decrees if Calibos can't marry her, no man shall. She sets up a bunch of tests to deter anyone from winning Andromeda's hand, but a grown-up Perseus manages to pass all of them because he totes has the hots for Andromeda and the gods on his side. Fortunately, Andromeda likes Persesus, too, but their marriage gets interrupted when Andie's mom, Cassiopeia, compares her beauty to Thetis herself. See cranky gods, above. So now Perseus has to do a bunch more stuff to be able to save Andromeda from THE KRAKEN. And along the way he has to deal with Calibos, who is all grr argh Andromeda is mine, never mind that she thinks he's a jackass. And hero that he is, Perseus kicks Calibos's ass and saves the princess.

"So what's the point of this lecture? Sometimes a jackass will stand in the way of love, but you can't let them stop you. They're going to throw obstacles in your path, like wealth and power and social status and icebergs, but love is worth fighting for, and don't let the bastards get you down. Love who you want, and don't let anyone tell you differently, unless they've filed a restraining order, and then you might want to reconsider."
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There was a shower in the front of the classroom. No, don't ask why. Just accept that Drake was stepping out of it with a towel wrapped around his waist. "Hello, ladies," he said in a deep and manly voice. "Look at your man. Now back to me. Now back at your man. Now back to me. Sadly, he isn't me. But if he stopped using lady-scented bodywash and switched to Old Spice, he could smell like he's me.

"Look down," Drake continued. "Back up." The shower vanished and Drake was standing on a boat. A shirt dropped around his shoulders, the towel dropped, thankfully revealing he was in a white pair of pants. "Where are you? You're on a boat with the man your man could smell like. What's in your hand? Back at me. I have it. It's an oyster with two tickets to that thing you love." And indeed, in Drake's hand, he held a large oyster with a pair of tickets. "Look again. The tickets are now diamonds!" The oyster vanished, replaced by diamonds flowing out of Drake's hand.

"Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I'm on a horse." And, indeed, the boat was gone, and Drake was astride a mighty white horse.

Was it a gremlin bite? Maybe, but with Drake, who knew? He snapped his fingers, conjuring the projector, which began to play clips from a movie. "Look at the movie. Now back to me. Sometimes people settle for something that isn't love, because they can't see that love is right in front of them, like in this movie, The Wedding Singer. Look at Robbie. Now back to me. Robbie switched to Old Spice, but Julia was engaged to Glenn, who used a lady-scented bodywash. Glenn is a jackass, but Robbie thinks Julia loves him, and he doesn't think he's good enough for her anyway. But she doesn't really love him, because he doesn't smell like me. But Robbie does, and this gives him the confidence to serenade Julia and win her love, because anything is possible when you smell like Old Spice. Billy Idol gets it. Do you?"
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"Today we'll be looking at love and deception," Drake said. "In movies, deception is often played for laughs. Take, for example, the movie meta for Never Been Kissed. Twenty-five year old wanna-be reporter Josie was a loser in high school, but sees a chance to have a do-over when she is assigned to pretend to be a high school student and write a story about the students. While she's there, she falls for her English teacher, who thinks she's just 17, and he's not too happy when he finds out the truth. And in meta for 10 Things I Hate About You, the lead character finds out that the guy she's falling in love with was hired by her sister's would-be suitor, because said sister was not allowed to date until her older sister did. This one's an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare. Willy and me, we go way back.

"Anyway," Drake went on, "both movies end with the lovers reunited, and all is forgiven. But do you think it's possible that someone can deceive another about who they are and cause them pain, yet still have a happy ending?"
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Drake had on extremely tight leather pants for today's class. They were so tight you could tell what religion he was, if demons had religion. When the class had settled in, he snapped his fingers to start some clips rolling.

"Today we're going to talk about the Power of Luuuuuuuuurve," Drake began. "In the movie Krull, the evil Beast with a capital B and his equally evil army invade the planet Krull. Two rival kingdoms decided to form an alliance by marrying their children in the hopes that their combined forces can defeat the Beast. Fortunately, Prince Colwyn and Princess Lyssa seem down with idea, which is good because arranged marriages can be so awkward. Anyway, during the wedding ceremony, the Beast attacks, kills lots of people, and kidnaps Lyssa.

"Of course, Colywn wasn't going to stand for that, so he gathers up the usual band of misfits and hunts down the Beast. There's fighting and people dying and Colwyn finds Lyssa. He fights the Beast but isn't having much luck. Xena would totally do a better job with that Glaive. Lyssa comes to the realization that the power of their Luuuuuuuuurve can destroy the Beast, and she starts to finish the interrupted marriage ceremony. So they say their vows and Colwyn destroys the Beast and they all escape the Beast's fortress and live happily ever after."

"So what do you think?" Drake finished. "Can love defeat evil? Or is that just a fantasy?"
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Drake was playing some somewhat creepy music when the students arrived for class. "Today we're going to take a trip to the dark side," he said. "No, don't go running for the nearest witch with a vanquish potion, I'm talking about obsessive love. I've got two examples for you today."

A snap of his fingers, and the projector started rolling. "In meta for Sleeping with the Enemy," Drake began, "Laura is married to an abusive, controlling, possessive husband. So she fakes her own death and runs away to start a new life. Of course, psycho hubby hunts her down. He beats up her new boyfriend and tells Laura that he loves her, he can't live without her, and he won't let her live without him. But Laura's built up a spine in the meantime, and she grabs a gun and blows the psycho away.

"Now, in Fatal Attraction," Drake continued, "the sexes get reversed. Dan cheats on his wife with Alex while his wife and daughter are out of town. When wifey comes back, Dan cuts things off. But Alex doesn't want to let go. She makes a suicide attempt and then starts stalking Dan and spying on his family. She even boils the pet bunny. Eventually she decides to kill Beth, Dan's wife, seeing her as the obstacle between her and Dan's love. Dan attempts to drown her and then Beth blows her away."

Drake stopped the clips and turned his attention back to the class. "Alex claimed to love Dan, and Laura's husband said he loved her. Was that really love? What would you do if you were caught up in those circumstances? And why do teenage girls sometimes think sparkly controlling, suffocating engine-stealing boys are so dreamy?"
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Drake was grinning as he started the class today. He'd had a date with a goddess last night, after all, so he had reason to be in a good mood. "Last week was love and death," he said, "so how about something a little more lighthearted this week? Love conquers all. You know the story. Boy meets girl, boy kidnaps girl, boy and girl obviously have the major hots for each other but instead act like they hate each other, boy loses girl, boy finds girl, girl loses boy, girl finds boy, boy loses girl, and the two angels trying to bring them together resort to bloodshed and violence to make them live happily ever after." Drake paused. "Okay, maybe I exaggerate the lightheartedness."

He snapped his fingers and started some clips playing on the projector. "In meta for A Life Less Ordinary, two angels are ordered to bring together Robert Lewis and Celine Naville. If they fail, they'll be banished back to Earth, because all the divorces and unhappy marriages are ruining their record of uniting couples in eternal bliss, and god is a bitch of a boss.

"So, Robert is a janitor and a hopeless dreamer," Drake went on. "Celine is a spoiled rich girl. Robert works as a janitor for Celine's father, and when he's fired and replaced by a machine, he flips out and demands his job back from Celine's father at gunpoint. He ends up taking Celine hostage -- by her doing, because she's bored and wants attention. Celine tries to guide Robert in the art of kidnapping while they bicker and fight and have an obligatory musical number. The two angels pursue them, disguised as bounty hunters, and come up with the brilliant plan of putting Robert and Celine in constant jeopardy to try to get them to fall in love.

"In the end," Drake concluded, "Robert and Celine do fall in love, and the angels' jobs are saved, though a minor miracle is needed to get everyone through it alive. So what do you think? Can love conquer all? Do you think Robert and Celine would've fallen in love without the divine influence? Do the angels pushing them together make their love any less real?"
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"Last week we talked about happily ever after," Drake began when the students had all settled in. "But that's not always how it ends up. People die -- but that doesn't mean their love is gone. It lives on, and sometimes it can be powerful enough to bring a soul back from the dead to protect his or her love or avenge a death or complete some sort of unfinished business related to the loved one."

He snapped his fingers and started the projector, showing scenes from the movies Ghost (including the ending) and The Crow, which was a good bit darker than the first example. "So in meta for Ghost," Drake said, "the late great Patrick Swayze gets himself shot and dies. Quicker than you can say 'Carol Anne, don't go into the light!' he runs from the afterlife and sticks around to watch Demi Moore in the shower. Then he figures out his best friend set him up and now Demi's life is in danger. Once he kills his former buddy and is sure that Demi will be safe, he is able to pass on.

"Now, meta for The Crow has a somewhat similar story, but a lot more violent," Drake went on. "Eric and Shelly are brutally killed on the eve of their wedding. One year later, Eric crawls out of his grave and hunts down the people responsible for his and Shelly's murders. When they're all dead, Shelly's spirit appears to him and leads him into the afterlife."

Drake showed a few more clips, then finished up the lecture. "One of the characters in The Crow says, 'A building gets torched. All that is left is ashes. I used to think that was true about everything: families, friends, feelings. But now I know that sometimes, if love proves real, two people who are meant to be together -- nothing can keep them apart.' Do you believe this? Do you think if something were to happen to you and your love, you could come back from the dead to try to make things right? Could you accept a happy peaceful afterlife if you knew your love was in danger?"
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Drake was deeply engrossed in a book when the students began to arrive to class. Behind him, a piece of chalk was moving by itself on the blackboard, writing out a pair of quotes: "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while" and "I know that a life without love is no life at all."

"And they all lived happily ever after," Drake said after a moment, closing his book. "Most of you have probably heard those words; they're commonly used to end fairy tales and movies inspired by them." He snapped his fingers, and an old-style film projector appeared. "For example, meta for Ever After and The Princess Bride." The projector began to play clips from both the movies.

After the clips had finished, Drake addressed the class again. "So, do you think happily ever after can happen in real life, or is it just a fairy tale? Oh, and Fiona, since you missed the first class, you're my second TA. Surprise!"
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Drake walked into class with his own personal soundtrack, bopping his head to the music. "What is love?" he said, addressing the class when the music ended. "That's a good question. Love is a many splendored thing1. Love bites, love bleeds, it's bringin' me to my knees2. Love stinks3. In the dead of night, love bites4. Love is like oxygen: you get too much, you get too high, not enough and you're gonna die5. Love is friendship set on fire6. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness7. Love is hard to get, impossible to hold, straight and narrow, like a burning fuse8. Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars any heart9. Love is like war: easy to begin but hard to end6. Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away10. Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired11. Love is a state of grace, transcending time and space12. Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile13. Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear14. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend15. Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own16. Light of the world, shine on me, love is the answer17. Love is like a snowmobile flying over the frozen tundra that suddenly flips, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come18."

Drake settled on the edge of his desk. "Love comes in all shapes and sizes, and in this class, we're going to look at some types of love that Hollywood is awfully fond of. There's obsessive love, tragic love, vengeful love, unrequited love, courtly love, destructive love, tough love, the love that dare not speak its name, and happily ever after love, just for example."

He looked around the class. "Some of you I recognize, but for those of you who are new, I'm Drake Dèmon, Fandom High's Demon-in-Residence. You can call me Drake, or Oh Captain My Captain, or even Hey You. Now tell me your names, class, and reason you're taking this class. And whether you are in love or have been in love. And, since I'm still working on the syllabus, let me know if there's a particular flavor of love you want to see covered."


1 Frank Sinatra. 2 Def Leppard. 3 J. Geils Band. 4 Judas Priest. 5 Sweet. 6 Anonymous. 7 Oliver Wendell Holmes. 8 Alannah Myles. 9 Nazareth. 10 Dorothy Parker. 11 Mark Twain. 12 Britney Spears (shut up). 13 Franklin P. Jones. 14 John Lennon. 15 Martin Luther King, Jr. 16 Robert Heinlein. 17 England Dan and John Ford Coley. 18 Matt Groening

Fandom High RPG



About the Game

---       Master Game Index
---       IC Community Tags
---       Thinking of Joining?
---       Application Information
---       Existing Character Directory

In-Character Comms

School and Grounds
---       Fandom High School
---       Staff Lounge
---       TA Lounge
---       Student Dorms

Around the Island
---       Fandom Town
---       Fandom Clinic

Communications
---       Radio News Recaps
---       Student Newspaper
---       IC Social Media Posts

Off-Island Travel
---       FH Trips

Once Upon a Time...
---       FH Wishverse AU


Out-of-Character Comms

---       Main OOC Comm
---       Plot Development
---       OOC-but-IC Fun





Disclaimer

Fandom High is a not-for-profit text-based game/group writing exercise, featuring fictional characters and settings from a variety of creators, used without permission but for entertainment purposes only.

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