A Strip Club On The Mainland | Wednesday Early Evening

[arsenicmauls]

On the outside, the club looked pretty seedy, and it was hard to tell whether the small number of cars in the parking lot was a good sign or a bad one. For at least a few of the cars already there - including a limousine with tinted windows and a very sad-looking sports car that still had half of a JUST MARRIED sign affixed to its rear bumper -- it was probably good, but for any Fandom students looking for a positive strip club experience, it was a little harder to tell.

At the door, there was a bouncer checking IDs (or fake IDs, as the case almost universally was with this crowd), and inside... well, inside was a strip club. There was a stage, there were dancers (of multiple genders, even!), there was a breakfast buffet that looked like it served bacon, and there was a bar. And there was glitter. Lots and lots of glitter.

The night was young, the bouncer was easily fooled, and The Silver Glitter Club was open. Enjoy, Fandomites. Or at least try not to pick up any diseases.

[[open for business! feel free to have tagged along whether or not you were part of I Never; i'm deliberately not specifying whose idea this was and how people were notified, 'cuz it definitely was not gert's, so handwave away.]]

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Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

"Well, of course you'd say that," Gert teased. "Junior prom queen."

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I skipped that dance, actually," Jessica said. "But the other dances were more than traumatic enough from a glitter point of view."

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

"Not a place to try to read books, got it," Gert noted, surveying her own book with some disappointment. "This poor paperback is screwed forever."

Oh well. It wasn't her favorite book in the world anyway.

"So, how're you liking the grossness?"

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"It's somehow uncomfortable in ways I couldn't even imagine," Jessica said. "I think I may just not be a strip club kind of girl."

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

"If it helps, you've got company," Gert offered. "No one besides the guys and that black-haired girl over there really look that comfortable here. Which kind of makes me wonder how long we're all gonna tough it out before we call it a night, 'cause this sucks."

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"No, that would cost extra," Jessica said. "Well, that's going to be my most inappropriate joke of the night, I hope."

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

Inappropriate or not, it was funny. Gert snorted.

"Also, since the sucking seems to be mostly affecting us and not other members of our party, pretty sure there'd be some complaints."

There, now she'd been inappropriate too!

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Well, I didn't think you'd go farther than I just did," Jessica noted. "Turns out, you can surprise me. Good to know."

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

"Yeah," Gert said, looking thoughtful. "...You know when you make a bad joke and then the shame kinda sets in?"

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I don't have that much shame when it comes to bad jokes, so not really," Jessica said.

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

"Lucky." Sigh. Gert had bad joke shame. She had it so much.

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"You have your ability to read through distraction, I have the ability to joke almost constantly and with no internal repercussions. We each have our own special little skills," Jessica noted.

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

Huh. "Next time someone asks me what powers I have, I'm saying that," Gert decided. "It's a better answer than 'none, so go ask someone else,' don't you think?"

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I approve. After all, not every mutant power has to be useful for superheroing," Jessica said. "Some can just be interesting quirks."

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

"Yeah, there's gotta be mutants who can just, I don't know, change their hair color back and forth, or spell words really well," Gert said, nodding. "Reading despite being in a glitterfied atmosphere can't be any less legit than that."

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I may not be a biologist specializing in enhanced physiologies yet, but if I had certificates for 'probably a legit mutant,' I'd put your name on one," Jessica said.

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

"Thanks," Gert said sincerely. Or partly sincerely. There was some degree of sincerity. "Same to you, for your lack of bad joke shame. But I'd add on the certificate that you don't have to go to mutant school to learn to control your powers or anything. Bad joke shame shouldn't be universally required."

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

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"If this counted, forget mutant school. I'd be starting my own Brotherhood," Jessica said. Apparently Gert was from a place that still had mutant school. She was going to go with it rather than explain that people died A LOT in her world. "Call it a Jesterhood, really."

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

"I'm adding another power to your list," Gert announced. "Really fast improvisation of plans you aren't actually gonna do. Have you ever thought of doing improv?"

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"All the world is my improv stage, and all the men and women are shouting out prompts," Jessica said.

Specifically, the streets of New York when there's crime was her stage, but it wasn't hard for her to extrapolate.

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

"So yes," Gert filled in jokingly. "I can tell because of the pretentious dialogue. No offense."

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine with it. It's Shakespeare you're offending, and he's a little too dead to care much anyway," Jessica said.

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

"Eh, I've already offended him a lot this month," Gert said. "He should be used to it from me by now, since the only Shakespeare production I've agreed to go to in years was an ASL one where I couldn't understand a word of it."

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

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"If you wanted to cheat, you could have listened to an audio book version to help you out," Jessica mused.

Re: Watch the Dancing/Talk Amongst Yourselves

[arsenicmauls]

"Oh, I definitely didn't want to cheat," Gert clarified quickly. "The goal was to get as little out of it as possible. So I succeeded."