A Professor
June 11, 2020 1:23 PM
Charity Sign Ups by A Professor
One morning, a post appeared on the bulletin board in Cascade Hall. Clearly a professor had had feelings about the way that students might best organize themselves and gone so far as to give them a place to do it. The fact that it was written in several languages might have been a clue, but it certainly didn't limit it to only one or another professor, so there was no saying for sure.In any case, the poster had large text at the top and space for students to leave their names in grouped order below. Since students could help with more than one charity or cause if they wanted to and that would be up to groups themselves to figure out, there was plenty of space for many students in each cluster, and space for organizers to include information at the top of each section. Posted in English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Greek, the poster read:
Please use this space to list the charity or cause you will be working with for the fair so that other students may sign up. Please also include whether you already have staff sponsorship or whether you still need someone. If you are interested in participating, leave your name in the relevant section.
Happy fundraising!
OOC: Organizers, please make sure you still host a meeting elsewhere for students to talk about what they want to do! Signing up here is meant for ease of organization and to help people know what's going on with whom, where, and what, but does not satisfy the need to actually talk it out IC. You'll need to sign up here OR post a meeting.
For more information, see here.
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Theo Spurn
June 12, 2020 5:52 AM
Yay werewolves, go werewolves by Theo Spurn
Charity! Charity was nice and it was a good thing to do good. Sometimes you got fuzzy clothes out of it if you shopped at Good Will, which Theo did a lot.He had not paid much attention to the Headmaster’s speech at the Opening Feast because Stanley had been there and Anya (and Wally too, but he had been further away and Wally was rarely a distraction anyway). He could not remember whether he had said anything more than this thing was going to exist but hey, here it was existing, so that proved him right. If that was what he had said. He may have been more informative.
Anyway, they were writing down charities that they liked supporting, and Theo didn’t really remember what happened with that information, but he knew what he liked and supported so he gave it a column on the list. Maybe the one with the most people signed up got a donation or something? That seemed a bit unfair though because it shouldn’t be a competition. All charities were nice and deserved supporting.
He added his own favourite, along with his details.
Ly-CAN (werewolf stuff) - it had longer more proper words to describe itself, but they did werewolf stuff, so werewolf stuff was a good enough description as far as Theo was concerned. Theo Spurn, Pecari 2nd year.
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Theo Spurn
July 07, 2020 4:26 AM
...go werewolves? by Theo Spurn
It had been… a period of time since Theo had put his sign up sheet up. Probably ages. He had done it, been excited, promptly forgotten about it, and now was back. It seemed like he wasn’t the only one who had forgotten about it cos there were several of his friends' names that were still missing. That was okay. Theo had no doubt that they would all support him because that’s what friends did. Just sometimes getting around to writing things down was hard.He had meant to check whether he was allowed to do other booths so he could sign his name for other people’s too, and he had got as far as doing that (he couldn’t now remember who he’d asked but he was sure they’d said doing up to three was fine and they’d seemed like they knew what they were talking about). So, that meant he should choose two more because all of these were good things, and he wasn’t sure whether it mattered who had the most signatures (whether they… won?) but it would be nice to help others. He still hadn’t checked what ‘staff sponsor’ meant or what he’d actually agreed to do here, but that was a detail for later.
Before he could choose some other charities to support though, he saw a familiar dark head coming into the hall.
“Hey Josie!” he yelled from the sign up sheets, “Hey Josie, come sign my list!”
(OOC have tried to make it vague in case other people want to say they signed up promptly but just didn’t get around to posting about it yet. You’re all welcome to come! YAY WEREWOLVES).
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Josephine Clyde
July 07, 2020 5:11 AM
Going, going, gone by Josephine Clyde
Food. She needed food. Maybe a cookie too, but if Josie didn’t eat something right now then she was going to start gnawing on her arm. The Cascade Hall had literally never felt further than in this moment. She’d almost made it when she heard Theo’s never-sad voice call her name. No, so close. She eyed the welcoming doors of the hall and turned to look at her friend. He seemed to be standing in front of that sign up sheet on the bulletin board. The one for the Charity Fair.“Theo, hi, I’m actually going to get a snack. Oh, and I already signed up for something, sorry. I’ll come to your stand at the fair though.”
Her body moved towards the food before her brain told her that she’d been a bit rude. That wasn’t nice. Theo is a friend and rejection is never nice, but that was extra unkind. She turned back around to apologize when she caught a few of the words on the sign up sheet. Actually, Josie ignored the hungry protest happening in her stomach to take a closer look at Theo’s paper. Ly-CAN? Werewolf stuff? There were werewolves in the— She cut herself off. There were dragons and unicorns, werewolves weren’t that much of a stretch if she compared them.
“Sorry, I’m kind of impatient when I’m hungry. Your booth sounds cool! I don’t know anything about werewolves though, so I don’t think I’d be really helpful. You should probably find someone who knows more about magic and stuff.”
Satisfied with her answer Josie nodded, smiled and listened to the grumbling in her tummy as she continued her journey to the great and powerful Cascade Hall.
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Going, going, gone
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Theo Spurn
July 07, 2020 6:32 AM
Going with! by Theo Spurn
Josie was there! Then not there. Then back. Then off she went again. Sort of like a yo-yo, only back and forth instead of up and down, and Josie shaped. Jo-Yo!“That’s okay,” Theo said to basically everything she had said. There had been a lot of it, but it had all been okay. “You can still sign mine. Signing more than one is allowed. I’m gonna sign some others too,” he might have said ‘look, see!’ and added his name to the nearest list to show her but he had followed when she’d stepped away from the board.
“We can snack first,” he agreed, following her to the Aladren table.
“It’s a list,” he corrected, when she said ‘booth.’ But that wasn’t the important part. “I don’t think you need to know about werewolves to sign it you just… have to want to sign it,” he shrugged. “I don’t think there’s gonna be a quiz,” maybe there would be a quiz! That would be funny. But there probably wasn’t. It seemed like that wouldn’t go with whatever this was. “And you know enough,” he assured her, “Remember, we had that class last year about not being a jerk? Back when Professor Marsh’s face was softer? He taught us the not-being-a-jerk class and werewolves were in,” he pointed out. Professor Marsh had actually declared the class to be about classification but given the very pointed way he had stuck ‘veelas’ up in the same category as humans and made them Really Look At It, Theo had got the subtext. That probably meant it had actually been… text, as he normally wasn’t very good at subtext.
“Ooh, pudding cups!” he grinned as his preferred snack appeared in front of him.
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Going with!
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Anya Delachene
July 07, 2020 6:16 PM
I'm here for you, Theo! by Anya Delachene
Anya hadn't hesitated to sign up for Dorian's group, but she was holding off on her next two because she wanted to see all her options before she made her final choices. Also, she wasn't sure she really wanted to max out the three she was allowed to join, because she did have other things she liked to do, and she wanted to give whatever she joined enough focus that she wasn't missing meetings (here's looking at you, Jasmine) because she was overextended and doing too much.So a day after the deadline that all booths had to be identified, she looked over the list and considered what was up there. There weren't any causes she was particularly passionate about other than that Ellie and her uncles should be treated right, but a lot of them had merit.
In the end, though, her decision for what her second and final charity would be had less to do with what was being promoted as who was doing the promoting. Theo was one of her very best friends, and she wasn't going to make him do this without her support.
Anya Delachene, 3rd Year
At this point, she thought that would be all the charities she needed to formally join. The rest could just count on her patronage with some of Mom and Dad's money come fair time.
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I'm here for you, Theo!
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Josephine Clyde
July 08, 2020 8:05 PM
I think I should just go away by Josephine Clyde
A list? She hadn’t been surprised when Theo had followed her into hall, but she hadn’t expected him to continue talking about the werewolf thing. So, it wasn’t going to be at the charity fair? No booth? But then that didn’t make sense. Maybe they were still in the planning stages? She remembered how not so full of names the paper had been and realized maybe there weren’t a lot of sign ups. The LGBTQIA+ meeting was just something she’d shown up to, no writing her name on a little paper. There might be other people like her then, ones that just showed up to the meeting unannounced and unexpected. Yeah, Theo was popular and well-liked for sure. He must have other people.“I remember the class, but honest I don’t know a thing about werewolves. I didn’t even know there were any until right now!”
Half of an egg salad sandwich appeared on the plate in front of her and she attacked it. Wonderful, amazing, spectacular and satisfying she sighed happily about halfway through it. A plate of brownies showed up next. Two kinds: one dotted with colorful M&M’s and the other with a swirly black and white top. Hmmmm. Cheesecake brownies or extra chocolaty goodness? Both. Josie moved both beautiful brownies to her plate and tore the corner off of the cheesecake one. It was just what she needed.
Feeling decidedly more human Josie looked back at Theo and his pudding cup. It didn’t seem like anything had been firmly decided yet with his charity fair thing. Which made sense too since it was Theo. Maybe it would be okay if she joined? For now, it was just her name on a list. She didn’t anything, but that was how the LGBTQIA+ meeting had gone and this year was about trying lots of new things.
She toyed with an M&M, “Theo, are you sure you want me to help? I mean, I’m not going to be really useful for magic stuff.”
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Theo Spurn
July 09, 2020 11:34 PM
I don't think so by Theo Spurn
“Werewolves are people,” Theo said simply as he sat next to Josie, “Three days out of the month, they get sick and they turn into something else, but the rest of the time they’re just people. And other people use those three days as an excuse to be really mean to them and it’s not okay.”Josie seemed worried that she wouldn’t be much help because of not knowing about magical stuff. Theo shrugged this off. For starters, he didn’t know what they were doing yet, but more importantly, Josie was not useless, she was a friend.
“You’re good at lots of things,” he promised her. “You always help me out in class,” he pointed out. Josie had mad skills like ‘listening to most instructions’ and ‘remembering what they were’ which were bound to come in handy in a lot of situations. “Plus it’s doing things together!” Probably. At the moment that thing was just making a list, but it mattered to Theo that all his friends’ names were on it. “You’re good at that,” he added with a smile. Josie was always fun to hang out with.
“Ly-CAN are nice. They can probably teach you more about werewolves if you want to know. They have lots of leaflets but also fun days. They’re nice people,” he smiled enthusiastically.
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Josephine Clyde
July 24, 2020 12:35 AM
I guess I CAN too then... by Josephine Clyde
Josie bit back a smile at Theo’s reassurances. He probably wasn’t even trying to reassure her, but it made her feel much better. If she thought of werewolves as people who were sick for a few days then maybe she could help. But Theo’s last remark made her pause. Was Ly-CAN real? She’d just assumed that it was something Theo made up. His poster just said “werewolf stuff” on it. Or maybe other people had joined? Possibly, she couldn’t remember if there had been any new names attached to today’s paper. At Theo's praise the brownie went down with a bit of a fight…a lot of a fight.A glass of milk appeared in front of her and she drank it greedily. It was the perfect thing to wash down her brownie, not that it had gotten stuck in her throat or anything. Nope, not at all. She swallowed the milk and slapped her chest a few times. Choking was not on her list of things to do at Sonora. Once the brownie fiasco had passed Josie looked back at Theo with a somewhat sheepish grin.
“I’ll sign up for your werewolf stuff thing. So is Ly-CAN a real organization? Has anyone else signed up?”
She wondered if anyone she knew might have also joined. These events were great places to meet new people and experience new things. She just needed to look at it like that. New experiences and new friends. If she did that then it would make swallowing things easier. Josie glanced at the plate of brownies in front of her. Literally.
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I guess I CAN too then...
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