fhplotterywheel | Brainstorming Time!

They can be broad and sweeping! Or just not very specific.

Okay, so starting this by admitting that I have nooooo idea how this would or should work. But with radio now being broadcast over the school's PA system in homeroom, I was thinking it might be fun to actually have homeroom. If nothing else, skipping homeroom was an important part of my high school experience.

With radio being posted that way, people are starting to ping back into the broadcasts with IC reactions again because student are ICly hearing it again, at least on days when they have classes. But reactions tagged into the radio kind of exist in a vacuum; threads don't (can't?) happen there. Except, with the idea that people hearing this over the PA system, some of these reactions should be happening where other people can see them and possibly interact with them. If Karla's trying to facepalm herself into a coma over something radio says, I think it might be good to have one place for Alex to be able to mock her and Emma to try to get the gossip and Raven be concerned about how she's feeling. It might even make it easier for characters who don't really know each other well to get threads going, because if I put up a room post of Karla facepalming over radio, odds are only her friends will stop by, but if she's doing in homeroom anyone can see or comment. And it's one convenient place for any student who wants to react, rather than having IC-reaction threads spread over the comms, leading to someone brooding on the roof and someone feeling smug in their room, and someone else throwing a tantrum on the beach or something.

Of course, homeroom wouldn't have to be limited to radio-reaction pings, it's just what gave me the idea.

But something like this would take a lot of shuffling and organizing, which is why I've got it here in general ideas. I admit; it might not be feasible. It might end up like the study hall posts and the cafeteria, which don't get a lot of use. We'd have to figure out how it would be run and organized. One big homeroom for all the students who have classes that day? One post, with OCD for each class? Should it get posted every day by a volunteer teacher, or only get posted when someone wants a homeroom post?

So, yeah. That's my (really long) idea. I don't know if it's a workable idea or if it's even a good one, but I figured tossing it out here was the best way to see if it sinks or swims.

Ooh, I like this idea! It gives people the opportunity to gossip and pass notes and other stuff like that.

The only objection I have is that it's limited to kids who have class that day. What if it was like, an obligatory homeroom for everyone kind of thing? Almost like a headcount, because our students tend to scoot off-island, get kidnapped, etc. It would give our kids who don't have classes that day something to bitch about, and would still embrace the pseudo-college atmosphere at FH that we already have, with kids showing up in pajamas, etc.

Plus, and I'm spitballing here as someone who's run plots that rely on people noticing that someone's gone/been gone too long -- it's a spot for people to see their friends and notice the absence of their friends. And for the sake of not interfering with those plots I mention, it could also handwavily be something where, like, the admins only notice if you're gone if you want them to? I don't know, I'm sort of just running all over this idea. :D

Please run all over this idea! Turn it into a racetrack, I dun care. Honestly, when I first envisioned it, I was thinking of four teachers posting homeroom every weekday with people pinging in. I wasn't sure if people would be happy with having their kids have to ping in even when they don't have class (and that idea seemed a little excessive anyway), so I tried to figure out other, more laid-back options.

That being said, I do think it'll be handy for noticing when people are missing. And skipping too many homerooms might be an excellent reason to get a detention.

...Not that I ever did. La.

I love, love, love the showing-up-in-pajamas idea. George would bring a pillow and nap.

I also love the idea of two people showing up and trying not to look like they were coming from the same room or wearing the same clothes they had on last night hmmm what walk of shame don't know what you're talking about ...

Question! Would participating in homeroom be opt-in? I happen to love the idea, especially if I can pop mine in to react to things or not, as the case may be, but I would kind of hope that we could handwave furiously that ours were there or not.

I don't mind it being mandatory IC, but if I had to tag in to each post with mine OOC each time, it'd feel like a chore.

If we're handwaving, people could even note OOC something about "Bob isn't here" for the necessary plot reactions.

... I need to remember to switch to Rinoa's account for OOC commenting. Too many of George's icons look bitchy. (Which is great IC but not so hot OOC ...)

See? Way less bitchy. Vast improvement.

I think it shouldn't be mandatory, because we have classes for that? Though if someone wanted to get in trouble for skipping homeroom, that's one thing, but I don't think it should get to the point where it feels like a chore.

Maybe something like, "All students are assumed to be present unless it is noted otherwise?" So if Karla's off on a plot or George makes a post about how she was feeling lazy and blew off homeroom or slept till noon or something, or someone just posted to the OOC to say "Bob's not in today," then people can make mention of it or a teacher could decide to enforce the rules or something, but other than that, it's assumed that everyone is handwavily there?

RIGHT. I am in no way, shape or form trying to give us something we HAVE to ping into, because omg I barely keep up with classes as it is! But it's totes expected that your character is there unless specified otherwise, because it's an ICly mandatory thing. Hopefully that makes some sense.

WHAT IS WITH EVERYONE ASSUMING BOB(BY) WOULDN'T SHOW UP TO HOMEROOM.

GOD, YOU GUYS ;)

So, having no idea if this has been tried/talked about/debated, but what if there was a general community center that offered mini-classes townies and students could take. There could be, say, a four week class on pottery or stained glass or knitting or public speaking or self-defense. Maybe a guest lecture series or artist talks? An opportunity for those townies who might have some skills to share but would die trying to stretch it out into a full semester of classes...

Specifically.

For just one of Fandom's weird days, I was thinking soapbox day. Basically, at any point in a conversation, people would find themselves standing on a soapbox and giving a mini-lecture on something important to them: the rights of Animals, fezzes are cool, down with the mutant registration act, selling kids into slavery is bad, the importance of ~~being earnest~~ fashion, blue is the best color ever.

It doesn't have to be the same subject every time and it doesn't have to be a serious topic. Anything that someone feels strongly about can earn them a soapbox moment, and then they step off of it and feel rather silly. Or maybe proud to have made their point. Or maybe they ignore it. Whatevs.

Do you honestly want to tempt me to have Faramir give a mini-lecture? I can't get him to be concise without Fandom's interference! *g*

You can always have him fall off the soapbox, mid-lecture? Of course, I think Faramir's adorable, so I'd probably end up reading the whole thing anyway.

Short answer: Yes!

*shakes fist*

One day, he's going to get mobbed by teal deer.

Unless the teal deer decides he's their prophet and follows him everywhere.

Oh god, now I want to do that...

Mwhaha!

Since I've brought in the Good Captain here, I've been eyeing the upcoming club fair and just been thinking...

Junior Achievers (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/50959.html) 2.0

Any one interested?

Being a semi-newbie, I'm not sure if anything like this has been done here before, but I was thinking of fun ways to torment students and I came up with this:

So, a lot of high schools do career placement tests just for fun, and I was thinking, what if Fandom had one of those? Only of course, being Fandom, the results would get all mixed up and everyone would get registered for workshops on careers that they most emphatically did not want. And the teachers and townies (and visiting alums, if they wanted?) would run the workshops, and they'd be all filled with baffled students who are all grouchy and "I wanted the opposite of this." So you have, say, Wesley in a workshop for florists, or Kennedy in a kindergarten teacher workshop, and stuff like that. Not that any career placement tests would tell you that you should be a florist. ~~'Cause florists are crazy.~~

So anyway, you have these confused and grouchy kids running around during Career Week, and then there could be some sort of practical exam that they would all do horribly on? I didn't really think out a resolution to this. Fail, self.

Edited 2011-01-12 20:49 (UTC)

We've had career day before (including bringing in NPC characters among the teachers and townies) but never a paperwork mixup where people ended up in the wrong workshops! That sounds hilarious.

Ah. Gotcha. Thanks!

Oh man, I love this idea.

Thanks! I know it's kind of vague, so if you have any suggestions, lay 'em on me.

I wish I did, but my brain is kind of fail right now as my bed is making googly eyes at me. I just know I find it shiny!

It'd depend heavily on which characters could be convinced to teach a workshop, so it'd require some organisation upfront so you know in what direction to push your character.

Which isn't very helpful, but I'm not stuck with an image of groundskeeper Willie or principal Skinner giving workshops.

/fail

Gotcha. Alrighty, thanks!

Now, time to figure out how to run a plot...

Would 'career in evil' be an option? Because I have a character that I am thinking of apping as a townie that could run a great workshop on that, either as a townie or (if I don't get off my ass and app for a while) as an NPC guest.

You could always make an OOC post to solicit an interest check -- find out what teachers/townies/NPCs would be willing to host workshops, and go from there? (If you're allowing NPCs, which I think would be awesome.)

Um, totally, evilness would be an option. Hee.

Yeah, NPCs would be awesome too! And definitely for the interest check. Hmm, I've never run a plot before. Could be fun. :D

You could run it like one of the conventions we've had here -- MercCon, RockCon, CopCon, and so forth? I don't know if you were around for any of those.

I don't see your AIM posted -- hit me up at rikkutastic or fond of vowels? I've run one of those before and I probably still have links to all of it :)

Aaagh, I don't have AIM, tragically.

I'll root through the old plottery tags to get a sense of what that kind of thing entails, but maybe wanna email me some of your wisdom on the subject? :) watcherwesley at gmail dot com. Please and thank you!

Somewhere there's a Dinah Lance shaking a fist at you. As well as some girl in Boston, I'm betting. *hugs Miss Vida*

Anyway! I kind of love this idea too. It would be a great way for visiting alums to teach a very quick thing and move on. The Parker in my head wants to teach How To Manage a Rock Band, for instance.

Florists, groundskeeper, monk, chef, supervillain, stockbroker, evil stockbroker...

I was batting this around with someone-- as a weekend AU plot, having people turn into characters they used to play. Non-alumi (or alumni? Would that be fun?) was what I was thinking of, as a way to bring back dropped characters for one or two days and then move on.

Since we allow AU's where a characters is played by the same actor or voice actor, or have an even more tenuous connection, do you think this would work?

Personally, there are a few dropped characters I would love to bring back to the island for a day or two, just to see how they would react in the current climate or give them a chance to react to some of the changes or bump into other dropped characters from their time here...

Very neat idea.

I love this idea, actually. I would totally get behind that.

I always think of these as the freebie box in my college dorm laundry room for some reason.

Yeah, yeah, it's an OOC post. We like not ending the world, remember?

I bet it was Nic. *nods* Sounds like her.

HEY. WHAT DID I DO NOW?

Nagged Shanie about this. Yup, pretty sure it was you.

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