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ѕarιѕѕa "noт тoday, ѕaтan" тнeron ([personal profile] magnitudes) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2016-12-17 02:45 pm

006. ( video. )

( Ah, it’s a heartwarming holiday scene, viewers. Sarissa, lounging on a couch, somehow inexplicably still with severe tank top tanlines despite a) it being winter and b) her wearing a tank top, which surely should theoretically make the tanlines less apparent. Not today, apparently. It reads “Sorry for the thing I said when I was hungry,” but perhaps “Sorry for what I’m about to say now I’m drunk” would be more fitting. She’s got a neon curly straw sticking out of a bottle of bourbon, and a cocktail umbrella tucked behind her ear, and appears to be wearing tropical board shorts. It’s just that kind of day. Or night. Whatever.

Sitting next to her is Pablo, who is wearing a striped cardigan, black shorts, and fiddling with his bangs and a straightening iron until he notices that Sarissa is recording. He frees his hair and sets the iron aside, picking up instead his own drink of choice (non-alcoholic; it's a capri-sun pouch) so he can more easily listen. )


Okay, but like. Okay, no, sorry, but if you think about any of the stuff that all of us across all our bloody worlds have gotta have in common, it’s art, yeah? Like— creativity. Art and poems and music, the expression of everything that makes us who we are given some kinda solid shape. Whether its colours or melodies or whatever form we gotta grab and twist about, it’s expressions of the world and how we understand it, right? It’s a way to know that we’re not going out of our bloody minds, because there’s thing element that we can understand and connect with, and it links us to other people. It’s why people got all fired up about the Spice Girls, a while back.

( That isn’t actually what happened, Sarissa, but sure. Go with that. ) And Pablo here, he’s an artist. Makes the world make sense with colours. Everything is colours and— and texture. It’s stories all layered up and up, kind of like people. We’re all hundreds of thousands of stories all layered together and then laid out.

What? Oh, uh...

( Pablo seems to not know what to say about that, given his silence, though if he feels put on the spot it doesn't show on his face. He starts to shake his head, but then instead opts to say: )

Right. Well you know, I don't know if it even has to exactly make sense, if like... we can still look at it and feel something, because either somehow we do understand it, on the level of like... uh... ( He gestures circularly over his head, glancing in Sarissa's direction for a moment but then upward. How to say it? ) You know, intuitively, even if we don't know why, or what anything really means. Or we don't understand but try to, or-- sometimes people don't want to. It all depends. But, uh-- yeah, it's still a little bit of everything and everyone we've ever known, too. Like stories.

( He stops talking and looks back over at Sarissa. )

Or a jigsaw puzzle. Or, uh— there’s this art, in Japan? Kint— ah, shit. Kintsuko...roi? It’s um, it’s like the to do with change and journeys and things gathering more meaning. I guess. I mean technically it’s about repairing broken stuff with gold lacquer, but it’s like an extra layer? Like a new addition to the story. Somethings not less perfect for being broken, and it doesn’t lose something. It gains it? I don’t know, make that a metaphor, if you wanna. People and art fit together. ( She grins, a bit ridiculously. ) And if they don’t, we can glue ‘em together with gold lacquer. It could get very Klimpt. Or Kahlo.

( Sarissa frowns, then, as she delicately sips her bourbon. ) Does anyone else do that? Like finding ways to express the way they understand things more tangibly? Like an enigma machine for your thoughts?
slightlyoffchilt: (Excogitate.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-12-17 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes our reality becomes messier, and more cluttered, before we have all the pieces to force clarity.

[Sounds Suspiciously Like Bullshitting.]
slightlyoffchilt: (Spatiate.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-12-17 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
No. I have restrictive dietary requirements.

[A statement that only applies to meat.]
slightlyoffchilt: (Iconoclast.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-12-17 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I cannot consume anything remotely delightful anymore, unless you're counting all the alcohol.

[You shouldn't consume that much alcohol if you have only one kidney and 80% of your intestines left, but Chilton doesn't care for gastrointestinal logic.]

So I would fit in the artist category. A starving artist, in fact.

[He chuckled AT HIMSELF. At his own joke.]

You'd be an artist too, right? Independent thinker. Unorthodox.
coppelganger: (sound of silver)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-18 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a long pause while Sarah mouths "What the fuck?" ]

no, it's about ruby.
coppelganger: (cheapskates)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-18 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
mate, what the hell is your problem with her?
notsheepish: (Kind of like we're in bed together.)

[personal profile] notsheepish 2016-12-18 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
No, I'm... genuinely asking here. Is it supposed to be both? How does that work exactly?
coppelganger: (clampdown)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-18 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
good thing i'm the one dating her and not you then, innit?
coppelganger: (losing my edge)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-18 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
i was going to tell you, just couldn't find a good time.
slightlyoffchilt: (Inquiry.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-12-18 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, plot twist: very few people are art. And those who think they are might more likely be audience members! [This is when he would turn and wink at Dorian, if that were possible in this moment.] The role of artist is more widespread, and far more volatile, and the fact that we are questioning this in this moment has already reframed the conversation -- and the parameters to the definition.

[Pretentious for pretension's sake.]

Which makes those who are art... Highly impressionable?

[Will Graham comes to mind. And he might have made that a snarky name-drop, had not Sarissa implicitly invited Chilton to A Thing.]

-- Oh, well. [Caught off-guard and folded into shades of sudden bashfulness.] How much are we talking? Lamb, I presume?
coppelganger: (48 hours)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-18 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
I thought you might like that.
coppelganger: (parts of speech)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-18 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
the night of your party. didn't tell you cos i knew you'd act like a spoiled little twat about it. god forbid everything not be about you for five minutes.

why don't you go fuck off and shut up about shit you've got NO IDEA about. don't talk about paul. don't talk about beth. you didn't know them, you'll never know them. fuck you.
pummelgranite: (but her pocket eatin cheesecake)

[personal profile] pummelgranite 2016-12-18 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ What was that last one? ]


'scuse me?
pummelgranite: (more than a superstar)

Re: VIDEO.

[personal profile] pummelgranite 2016-12-18 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sure, there's not a lot of topics she likes to waste air on, but this is one of them. ]

If you weren't passionate about it, wouldn't be worth putting the work in to create it.
notsheepish: (No happy little trees?)

[personal profile] notsheepish 2016-12-18 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
[It takes her another few seconds to respond as she tries to make sense of Sarissa's words. This may become something of a pattern.]

...yeah, okay. I guess I'm just more of an action words person than an imagery one.

Stories are kind of a big deal where I come from. [A face and a small chuckle like she's just made a pithy, possibly self-deprecating inside joke with no one.] Ones with a lot going on and maybe not a lot of time to sit down and smell the metaphors.

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