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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?
aojona: (we're trapped in a cliche)

[personal profile] aojona 2016-12-19 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
It's fine. It's okay...

[ Pablo lets her hang off him, one hand on her shoulder while the other tries to grapple for and into his bag. He doesn't think he has any water in there, though... but maybe juice or some kind of packaged food. Or--

Feeling around blindly, he manages to find a banana and carefully tries to pull it out without jostling Sarissa too much. It's from that day, at least, so it's not too bruised or otherwise inedible.
]


You should maybe try to eat something. Or drink some water? I can get you some water.
coppelganger: (senses)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-19 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, she does that a lot.
coppelganger: (pow pow)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-19 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Metaphorical, yeah. A total bitch, no.
aojona: (165)

[personal profile] aojona 2016-12-19 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Uh-- surprises you?

[ That's generous. ]
aojona: (not to sound cosmic but)

[personal profile] aojona 2016-12-19 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ A COGENT POINT. ]

What do you think makes someone one or the other?
coppelganger: (let's go crazy)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-19 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, i get it. don't worry about it. just make sure she doesn't do anything stupid.

[ It would be easy to be curt with him if he wasn't so nice. ]
coppelganger: (reputation)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-19 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
i meant she gets drunk and talks about art a lot, but sure, let's go with that.
aojona: (297)

[personal profile] aojona 2016-12-19 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Uh oh, what qualifies as "stupid"... well, he'll wing it. ]

I'll do my best. Do you want me to tell her anything?
aojona: I eat lots of bread already and I’m tired of fighting. (I decided to go join the birds)

[personal profile] aojona 2016-12-19 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, right. Duh. Sorry.

[ He taps his temple idly, as if compelling himself to focus better on following the conversation. ]

She definitely has more to say about it than I do. Did she go to art college or something? Uh-- like, I never actually studied art that much, I don't feel like it has to be really complicated. Though I didn't know Frida Kahlo ever used gold lacquer.
coppelganger: (no more surprises)

[personal profile] coppelganger 2016-12-20 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
nope. i think we've said everything we needed to say.
notsheepish: (DOUBLE mistaken identity.)

[personal profile] notsheepish 2016-12-20 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Ah...

[Ruby diplomatically chooses to neither agree nor disagree.]

You okay?
notsheepish: (Even racists are on the internet.)

[personal profile] notsheepish 2016-12-20 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'd hope it's at least simpler than it sounds when I hear most people talk about it.
aojona: (do you even KNOW gianni versace?)

[personal profile] aojona 2016-12-20 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. [ He won't pry; it's not his business. ] Good luck, I really hope it works out.
hardedged: (snow white did right)

[personal profile] hardedged 2016-12-20 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
A pleasure.

[ the dry way she says it, however, suggests otherwise. ]

So, you two are — what, friends?
hardedged: (I don't wanna sit still)

[personal profile] hardedged 2016-12-20 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Right. [ so. much. skepticism. ] That's it. You've lost posting privileges.

[ first the crapass anonymous post after she died, and now this. ]
slightlyoffchilt: (Eschew.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-12-20 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
You associate specific art with the people you care about.

[All talk of lamb was out the window; Chilton had a different species of meat to sink his teeth into.]

As an expression of value? You recognize art as a higher form, perhaps the pinnacle of what humanity has to offer. And so naturally, those who have made an impression upon you, they have parallels drawn.

[Tigritsa. Cosima.]

Ah.

[And Chilton, in a rare display of compassion (or perhaps fear of isolating Sarissa) makes private this conversation from hereon out.]

I meant no offense to those you love, Sarissa. I simply did not see the metaphor before now.
hardedged: (from where we stand)

[personal profile] hardedged 2016-12-20 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. I'll leave that job to your babysitter.
hardedged: (and trophy wives)

[personal profile] hardedged 2016-12-20 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Sure. Whatever.

[ you know it's bad when jessica jones is lecturing you. ]
aojona: (LOOKS FUCKIN BOMB.COM.ORG.CO.UK)

[personal profile] aojona 2016-12-20 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah -- well, I think it is. Mostly it's just, you know... someone's history, and whatever they were feeling when they made it... uh, it being whatever the art is.

Then there's how it makes other people feel, but um, I don't think anyone should have to understand art a certain way to respond to it. Or to create it. [ He gestures vaguely. ] Just like we don't have to completely understand people to um... appreciate them?
slightlyoffchilt: (Cabotin.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-12-20 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
In a word? Vision.
aojona: (107)

[personal profile] aojona 2016-12-20 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Uh... yeah, I guess so. [ A beat. ] I mean, yeah. We are.

[ Pablo still has to get used to thinking of people who willingly spend time with him as "friends," obvious or not. So, if she's getting at anything else... he doesn't notice. ]

You too? Um, how do you guys know each other?
hardedged: (but then he wanna)

[personal profile] hardedged 2016-12-20 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the advice, Einstein.

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