2nd Floor Common Room, Tuesday Afternoon After Classes

[endsthegame]

They were everywhere.

When Ender had saved the first green... thing from falling out of the window that morning, it hadn't seemed like much of a problem. The second one... well, that got him thinking.

By the third he just wished they'd stop following him.

By the fifth... he was sitting down in the common room, a book of common fairy tales in hand. Reading aloud, as a matter of fact, because so far that seemed like the only strategy that actually got them to shut up. He wasn't sure if they were even actually listening, but at least they weren't talking to him.

Some days, Fandom made him very, very tired.

[[ open! ]]

Outside the Dorms; Tuesday [ 04/17 ].

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it would take a lot more than the threat of losing funding to allow Britta Perry to be able to take this sort of fascist regime to take over, even if only for a week. She regarded the uniforms with complete disgust, seeing them as nothing more than symbols of conformity and the loss of individuality for the mindless monotony demanded by the Man to ensure that no one had their own brain, personality, or even fashion sense. This was not going to stand. Oh, no. Not while Britta Perry had anything to say about it.

The smoke bomb had been a failure, but Britta was sure that this protest would be more effective...and more important. Uniforms! Ha!

Needless to say, Britta was not wearing her uniform. In fact, her uniforms were piled up in front of her on the ground.

"We will not be confined to the strict and starchy guidelines of uniformity!" she called from the front of the dorms. "We are not clones, but human beings! We are not factory made cogs to fit into your machine, but people! Down with your pre-fabricated attempts to make us all mindless blank slates to serve the one percent! This is America, not Communist China! This is the Land of the Free, not the Land of 50-50 Cotton-Poly blend! I reject your pathetic attempts to make us conform and substitute it with anarchy of my own! Behold!" She held up her lighter in triumph. "This is what I have to think about your fascist dress code!"

And this was where she was supposed to ignite the lighter and set the flame to the uniforms and send them up in a glorious blaze of revolution, but her thumb seemed unable to spark the flint. "Damn it!" she said, giving the lighter a shake and trying it again, to no avail. "Why isn't it working?"


[[ stop her. please. ]]

Second Floor Common Room; Tuesday Evening [ 04/17 ].

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

Butters Stotch was dealing with some very sad news.

No, it had nothing to do with the guests and benefactors. It didn't even have anything to do with Britta Perry still screaming outside in the lawn, nor what she had handwavily and horribly done in response to him telling her she should stop. No, it had nothing to do with anything on Fandom Island today, but rather what was going on in other places.

Butters had the remote poised in his hand, frowning at the report on one of those celebrity news shows. He supposed it made sense that, if she was alive in this world, then he was probably still alive, too, but that didn't negate the fact that it was still upsetting, bizarre, and hard to believe. "Now, how can Kanye West be dating Kim Kardashian?" he murmured with consternation to himself. "I thought he was a gay fish..."

Very disturbing news, indeed.

[[ open common room is open. OH this canon. Link is canon, and therefor you should assume it's NSFW and special ]]