glowsferatu: thought, rude (As We Arm For Combat)
ᴘsychopomp 💀 ([personal profile] glowsferatu) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2014-10-13 03:06 pm

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[ kanaya's in the garage again, but the door's open, sunlight pouring through it. she's in a green tank and black leggings, a bandanna tying back her hair, various paint splotches on her arms hinting at what she's busying herself with today. on her workbench is a brush and easel, all of the colors monochrome and drab.

unlike her previous addresses, she's already put out her cigarette rather than in the middle of it. that should cut down on unwanted lectures. though the content of her message may bring them in an entirely different form.
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You see, this is something I will never quite understand. Here we are, sitting at the brink of war, and all anyone can talk about is voting rights. Very typically American of you. [ not that some of the people loudest about it are even american. but america, democracy, she tends to conflate the two. ] The question shouldn't be why unsettled imPorts can't vote, but why can the registered? I am a registered imPort, but I'm not an American citizen, I'm not even a citizen of Earth! Merely a resident.

Think about this, we are temporary immigrants to this world. When more permanent refugees come to live here on escaping their native lands, they have long, complicated processes to undergo before they are allowed the benefits of citizenry. Should any of us be given better treatment of those? Should I be allowed to make decisions that may affect this nation's future when these are not allowed it, when I may not even be here to experience the full consequences of those decisions? I don't think I should, neither do I think any of you should. Wherever you have come from, we are all of us aliens to this world. That isn't something we should be forgetting. You should get used to the fact that you don't belong, like some of us have always known.

I'd much rather our attention be directed to the blockade threatening Alaska. The rest of this is little more than a distraction.

But if distraction is what you're after, as the world must continue should it not abruptly end, we are all aware of the season upon us. Ghastly ghouls are all about these days. So, should we not have all died by the time Halloween is upon us, perhaps you might join us monsters at the Devil's Nest in Maurtia Falls to celebrate.

[ she gets up to move the camera, and it shifts as she holds it, spinning around to face the wall. stretched out across it is a massive sheet of paper, painted simply in grey brick, only half dingy. she's still detailing. on the floor are a few paint cans and rollers. ]

I'm working on the decor now.

Drinks are 10% off, should you arrive in costume, and there will be a drinking contest with a $100 prize, for those who pay the $10 entry fee. But just imagine how much you may potentially get from that $10, even if you shouldn't win!

[ she turns the camera back around, in a sort of awkward selfie angle. ] Our hours will be 3pm to 6am, so come early and stay all night, as you please. We hope to see you there on the 31st.

Good luck in the meantime.
brushoff: (evil cocaine what?)

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[personal profile] brushoff 2014-10-13 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
How can I come up with a costume on this short a notice?! That's hardly fair!

[ Leave it to Dorian to completely skim over all the important bits of Kanaya's speech. ]
brushoff: (super skeptical bout that)

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[personal profile] brushoff 2014-10-13 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but I was- [ arrested ] preoccupied! How can I come up with a costume this fast?
brushoff: (yeah perhaps NOT)

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[personal profile] brushoff 2014-10-13 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
A Halloween ago, I went to a Halloween party as Adam Ant. As you can take a guess, Frollo sounds a little bit too boring for my taste.

Besides, I don't really know that much about Disney films.
aggressiveapathy: (Default)

[personal profile] aggressiveapathy 2014-10-13 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
But my opinion is the only one that matters.

And I'll be there. Do we get to murder people again?

[because there ain't no party like a troll party]
brushoff: (teeny tiny smile!)

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[personal profile] brushoff 2014-10-13 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
If we're going Disney themed, he is one of the most colorful characters. Why the hell not.
kinesia: (u n s u r e)

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[personal profile] kinesia 2014-10-13 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ This person says a lot of things. A good lot of it is over Grey's head (especially the parts about Halloween, devils, and exactly where Alaska is), but she's got a strange point of view. All he's heard for so many years is people talking about how they needed more rights. How they should have the right to choose, how they deserved more than what they had. How nothing about their lives was fair.

Here she is, saying she deserves less than she has. Who does that?
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you dont want to choose who is in charge ?
nitidus: (Default)

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[personal profile] nitidus 2014-10-13 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Do I win if I only drink soft drinks?
ferroustigmata: (neutral (true neutral))

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[personal profile] ferroustigmata 2014-10-13 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
The concept of democracy has been part of the self-absorbed identity of the United States of America ever since it had thirteen colonies to its name. The effectiveness of such policies was never reliable enough in the first place to start complaining about hypocrisy now.
ferroustigmata: (angry (neutral))

[personal profile] ferroustigmata 2014-10-13 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Even the illusion that a single vote matters is enough to satiate their hunger for supposed importance.

You're in a better position to complain than I am, at least, though the false dichotomy of McCarthyism cares not to spare the opinions of third parties. Freedom of speech is only another entitled illusion, after all.

kinesia: (j u d g i n g)

[personal profile] kinesia 2014-10-13 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That's...a lot of green text, how did she do that? He wants to do that.

He'll maybe ask her later, once he's parsed what she's actually saying.
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then

what must be ?


[ She must have an idea of what she wants the ones in charge to do, if they're not doing it already. ]
brushoff: (let's talk about BOOKS.)

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[personal profile] brushoff 2014-10-13 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
In that case, time to find someone to pair costumes with.
dragony: (e - i just came here for cake)

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[personal profile] dragony 2014-10-13 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She could comment on most topics presented, but it's weird enough to agree with Kanaya in the first place to make it weirder by voicing it. So instead: ]

What's the decor theme?

[ should she be judgin ]
brushoff: (you're trying to use merlin caps)

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[personal profile] brushoff 2014-10-14 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
I simply worry that I'll find myself short on partners. One I'm sure already has something planned and I can't imagine the other would dress up for Halloween.

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