#also I bet they fuck nast about it
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OH LAWD
CW: (speculative) suicide/self murder, demonstration of incredibly unhealthy relationships, gore allegories, and also just straight up gore
Thinking about soap completely trusting ghost
And like- fuck it's so unhealthy but also it's putting an image in my head that's actually got me fucked up rn
Imagining ghost handing soap a gun, looking directly into soap's eyes and asking him to kill himself. And soap does it, no hesitation, just BAM.
Or rather C L I C K
And FUCK imagine the gun was unloaded because it will only ever be unloaded around Johnny. But that's not the point is it? No the point is that soap... soap didn't care. Soap thought ghost told him to kill himself and he did, he would have. Had the gun only been loaded. Had simon not taken precaution to make sure it had been unloaded. Had simon done it in the spur of the moment.
And isn't that great? Isn't that amazing? Isn't that absolutely bone-chillingly terrifying?
Fuck
Soap would let ghost tear a chunk out of his throat, and as long as ghost looked him in the eyes as said he loved him, said he deserved it. Soap would cup his cheek, and smile, and choke out "I love you. Of course I did, you love me." Through the blood that floods into his mouth and lungs and down his esophagus and into his stomach. Because soap bleeds for ghost.
Ghost needs only to ask and soap would tear open his own stomach and let his guts spill on bloodsoaked, battle-stained ground.
Ghost is a man blinded by blood, leading an even blind-er man through death
Part 2 anyone? Stay tuned, I'll link it :)
#also I bet they fuck nast about it#I'm making an executive decision to say#divinity kink#because ghost is - for lack of a better word - soap's God#I've been listening to the crane wives again#imagine ghost will kill soap and still he will kneel before ghost like a child of god seeing the glowing christ#and he will bow his head and ask for a forgiveness unneeded#simon ghost riley#john soap mactavish#soapghost#ghostsoap#call of duty#cod#cod mw2#el rambles#ghost is unwell in the head#soap is also unwell in the head
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i have finished reboot & i am sad
it's bittersweet—i mean, it was time to be finished with it; i've been watching it literally over the course of the pandemic. but enough! all things must end, even the arduously dragged-out conclusion of a whacked-out chinese tomb raiding drama featuring poisonous gas, hordes of insects, zombies, hand crabs, flying carnivorous clams, and "coffin dew," which like all the rest of those things does not exist.
ruminations and pictures and spoilers behind the cut!
1. so why is this xie yuchen the most boring xie yuchen out of all of them? i don't even know this actor's name because i never bothered learning it. also when the hell did he become a doctor and do sketchy operations on people without anaesthesia? he's wearing pink, he's rich, he has the same name; but there the resemblance ends. this is not the xiao hua we know and love. where is my bitchy swishy opera-singing organized crime boss? no wonder there's no chemistry between him and xiazi; this guy barely has a pulse. sorry to this man. nice sweater, tho.
2. i was trying to prove that pangzi says "that's not your xiaoge" (which he doesn't, those are bad subtitles; he just says "that's not xiaoge") and instead captured this adorable picture of drunk bai haotian. xiao bai gets a bad rap—mao xiaotong is adorable and sweet and honestly kinda hot when she's not trapped in a bowl haircut and overalls. i appreciate that wu xie, busily dying of lungs, doesn't have time or patience to explain to her why he's not available, but zhu yilong plays it wisely straight down the middle, face impassive. ship it or don't, he seems to be saying; i don't care, it's not up to me anyway—the viewer can read it however they want. (but wu xie does manhandle her on more than one occasion and that's also kinda hot.)
3. admittedly liu sang is very very pretty but i still don't want him in my pingxie, like mint in my chocolate chip ice cream. no thank you please. i have always considered myself a multishipper, a live-and-let-live fan; but this fandom has taught me i'm monogamous and i guess there's nothing i can do about that. still. look at liu chang's beautiful features. he made me care about jinx beyond just his function as a whump magnet, and that's an achievement. someday maybe his ouxiang will give him the hug he deserves.
4. speaking of beautiful just look at these total idiots. i'm going to miss their stupid faces. xiaoge drinking water, so he can be sober enough to take his drunk husband home and put him to bed. wu xie so plastered that i have inadvertently captured the one (1) image of the most beautiful man in the world making a derp face.
BONUS: whatever this beautiful cranky bitchy "doctor" has going on. which definitely involves feelings he still has for wu xie, after what happened in germany. (you know what happened in germany.)
and that's it, that's a wrap. in the meantime zhu yilong has been in cannes being absolutely heart-stoppingly fucking divine, and i will bet you a hundred flying carnivorous clams that the next time he's there, his film will be in competition. the condé nast cover story didn't hurt. with each entrée he cements his reputation and, more importantly, protects himself from the increasingly nasty sweeps of china "cleaning up" c-ent. i honestly don't know what there is to clean up anymore; there's almost nothing left. immortality and the live-action of tgcf not being released; justice in the dark just abandoned not even halfway through. this doesn't end well.
at least as far as lost tomb goes, though, i've decided i'm proceeding backwards—so next i'm watching sand sea/sha hai, because i want to spend time with mob widow wu xie (qin hao has won me over via gifset) and ji chen's xiazi. until then, pouring one out for li jiale and chuchu. and wu erjing i guess. 干杯!
#reunion: the sound of the providence#tltr#dmbj#xie yuchen#bai haotian#liu chang#liu sang#mao xiaotong#z1l#don't get me wrong i adore c-ent#i just feel protective of it#maternal if you will#i want to cradle it close to me and glare at anyone who would hurt it#huo daofu
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Find Your "Alt + Esc" at this DIY Art Heaven
If Nike hadn't already snagged the motto, "Just Do It" would be the slogan of No Vacancy II, a one-weekend-only DIY art pop-up organized by indie art mag/curatorial team Alt + Esc.
Rather than relying on sponsors or art sales to fund spaces for artists to show their work, founders Alison Sirico and Irina V. Makarova take the financial risk upon themselves. They max out their credit cards to secure cheap space and try to break even by throwing parties every night their pop-up exists. This time around, the self-funded show brought hundreds of art enthusiasts and partygoers to pre-war building-turned-studio space Studio 929 in Bushwick. Dozens of players in art world subcultures got to show their work free of the bottom line, and visitors got to see it free of charge.
Photo by Charlie Rubin
The venue was a four-story walk up, with No Vacancy II dominating the top two floors. Curators, including Ballast Projects founder and VICE Design Director Adam Mignanelli, and Baltimore-based Platform Gallery director Lydia Pettit, brought small enclaves of art to each of the 12 rooms on the third floor. One room was devoted to digital apparitions by James Moore, Peter Burr, and Mark Fingerhut. Another featured abstract screen prints and a virtual reality slideshow about color theory and politics. There was a recording of Michael Potvin scrolling through Instagram, James Clar's projection-mapped light switch, cake-like sculptures by Cali Moore, photography by frequent Creators collaborator Charlie Rubin, and digital manipulations by Mark Dorf.
The selfie star of the lot is Emergency Contacts, a room-swallowing installation by two artists Pettit brought up from Baltimore, Phaan Howng and Eliott Doughtie. They covered an entire room with contrasting rainbow and black-and-white wallpaper, peppered with surreal furniture and decorations that match the color scheme. "I wanted to do an exhibition of both of their work because they both transform space, and I wanted to do something really memorable," Petitt told Creators. "Also they're best friends. Even though they're two distinct artists, they bleed into each other because their union is so strong."
Emergency Contacts by Phaan Howng and Eliott Doughtie. Photo by the author
Calli Moore, 3 Tetons (Chandelier), 2017
Charlie Rubin, Working it Out, 2015. Inkjet Print, 13x19" Edition 1/3 +2AP
Alt + Esc was founded by Alison Sirico and Irina V. Makarova. Sirico is a veteran organizer at The Silent Barn, and helped curate Death By Audio's signing off gallery show, Death By Art. Makarova is a curator and journalist who has written for art publications including Creators. Together they've been publishing a monthly digital magazine since May 2016, featuring interviews with emerging artists that often become their first in-depth profile. In June they began curating events at small galleries and DIY spaces, including the first No Vacancy, which launched the bi-annual print edition of Alt + Esc. In less than a year they've worked with artists ranging from MSHR and Molly Soda to Alfredo Salazar-Caro and Peter Burr, and drawn on that growing pool for their curatorial process. "These are all artists we have interviewed, friends or friends of friends," Makarova explained to Creators.
Permanent New York City gallery spaces, which must to sell art to pay towering monthly rent prices, tend to show work that does well on the market. Some are even abolishing their public spaces to sell exclusively online or by appointment. No Vacancy II is part of a movement of low-budget groups helping make space for artists who aren't a safe bet for the remaining physical galleries. "It's important to have physical spaces because you lose information when transferring images online," explained Makarova. "You lose the conversation and the narrative, which is equally important for the artist and the viewer. Not all work can be photographed, and there are artists who make work specifically for that reason."
Peter Burr
A panel on Saturday, moderated by Creators Editor-in-Chief Marina Garcia-Vasquez, addressed the form and function of these spaces. The 90-minute discussion brought together Spring/Break Art Fair founders Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori, Satellite Art Fair's Brian Andrew Whitely, as well as Mignanelli, Makarova, and Sirico. The six panelists discussed not only how they're able to find spaces for art in New York City—hint: get drunk with landlords and don't be afraid of credit card debt—but also why it's important for people to take those risks.
Kelly and Gori's eight-years-running Spring/Break Art Fair is a juggernaut in this DIY world. They specialize in finding empty spaces for large groups of artists to show their work, each year pulling off a fair that rivals the concurrent Armory Show in art world buzz. Last month they packed 120 artists into the former Condé Nast office space at 4 Times Square. The year before, they occupied a run-down section of the Moynihan Station US Post Office adjacent to Penn Station.
The first Spring/Break was in a church, which donated its space while New York City was still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis. Kelly, who spent years as an art fair fixer before teaming up with Gori, explained, "Sales weren't our priority with the show, but then sales started happening.We learned we could be a resource for artists and curators who aren't dealers, and actually make a business providing important services. We could basically be the gallery, so the artists don't have to deal with tax liability and everything that goes into actually making sales." Alt + Esc is now at a similar developmental stage as Spring/Break was then, with similar goals.
Mark Dorf, Untitled 28, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Postmasters Gallery
Hein Koh, Little Twin Stars (Hugging), 2016
During the panel the conversation turned to the personal worth of risky and demanding DIY events. The cost isn't just monetary, but personal—Makarova and Sirico were maintaining afterparties until at least 4 AM every night No Vacancy II was open. As Mori says, "Freedom is a blessing and a curse. Freedom means you can do whatever you want. It also means that anything you do, if you fuck yourself over it's your own bad." With their freedom, Makarova and Sirico put on a show that never would have happened otherwise, and there are more on the way. Makarova said Alt + Esc is just getting started. "We are on the lookout for real estate, definitely more large-scale exhibitions in new spaces. A Home Depot would be great."
Check out more pictures from No Vacancy II below.
L: Adam Mignanelli, R: Hein Koh
Peter Burr. Video by the author
Sophia Narrett. Photo by Oren Shoham
James Moore. Photo by the author
Keep up to date with Alt + Esc on the official website.
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