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Hey out there, Luceti. Are we all more or less ourselves again? Pretty sure we are, uh... here's hoping.

Considering how crazy things have been lately, Teddy and I were talking, and we think it'd be a good time to run this. We all need a break. So courtesy of the LGBTQQA Club - um, I'm tentatively calling it "Alliance", for the sake of minimizing all the abbreviations, better name possibly pending - I'm happy to introduce: Luceti's first-ever (I think) Speed Dating.

If you don't know what speed dating is, it's pretty much exactly how it sounds. The idea is we'd all get together, pair up, you'd talk to someone you might not have talked to before for about ten minutes, and then afterwards decide how you liked it and if you want to see them again. First impressions count for a lot, and sometimes that's all it takes to find your true love or your new best friend.

We're going to run it next weekend - Saturday afternoon, we figure is a good time - and sign-ups are starting now so we'll have time to pair everyone up. Anyone can participate, not just club members or people in the LGBT spectrum, and you're not obligated to do anything if you don't like it. So why not give it a shot? ...And we'll have cookies. Teddy's making them and the recipe looks amazing. Anyone else want to bring some food and stuff? We can have a table for contributions...

Um, anyway. I'll be over by the plaza today, and on the journal network, too, if you've got any questions or if you want to sign up.

[The above message is also written out (albeit less informally). And there's a table with posters and some forms in the plaza, near the school, all day. Billy's just hanging out and drawing the passerbys while he waits, if anyone wants to chat him up about it in person.]

((ooc sign-ups here!))

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[Well, he definitely does have that...]

I'm not screening by appearance, but there's definitely some good-looking guys signing up. I think we've got that covered.

Great. I'll look forward to seeing my prospects, then.

Don't forget to tell your friends about it! Get as many people signed up as you can. You're officially being recruited for PR!

I'll get everyone in the house involved that I can. If I can't, I'm sure Ikki can. She's very persuasive.

Oh god, she really is. She gets us doing kindergarten crafts in art club and still manages to make it fun somehow. It's kind of uncanny.

She hasn't dragged me into the art club yet, but it's probably only a matter of time. At least I know my doom is coming.

[So dramatic, Korra.]

You may as well submit to your fate. As far as they go, it's not a bad fate.

You say that now, but you've never seen me try and be artistic before.

Well, generally nobody starts out as an expert at it. Unless they're some kind of prodigy.

Art club isn't just for artists, it's for aspiring artists, too. Or people who just want to have fun with it, that happens too.

I think I'll stick with fighting.

[ ... ]

She didn't put you up to this, did she?

Shockingly, we don't get commissions for recruitment.

But if she did, what would you do about it?

[Nyah nyah nyah]

I'm not afraid to pull out the Avatar card.

Is that like the ultimate trump or something? For your world, anyway.

Yep. Except it doesn't work on everyone. [ Cough, Lin Beifong, cough. ] Just most people.

I guess it really is impossible to please everyone.

It's a burden one must bear as the spirit of the world.

[ She makes it sound like such a struggle. ]

You bear it with grace.

[He may be a little sarcastic now.]

What can I say? I'm the most graceful person I know.

[ She's definitely sarcastic now. ]

Well. I expect you to come out of the speed dating with lots of prospects, being so... prestigious.

Don't worry. You won't be disappointed.

Glad to hear it, since this whole thing is kind of your fault to begin with.

Hey, I'll happily take the blame, provided all goes according to plan.

I figured as much. See you there, then!

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