#she was saying this between songs at her concerts...this was pre ripping up pictures of the pope

[cinemaocd]

Oh this is really good post because it is adding some nuance to something that has gotten really oversimplified.

I might be able to add a little more nuance:

I grew up in an ag region in the U.S. so a lot of what was going on was familiar to me when I lived in Ireland in the 1990s, but there were some surprising differences.

First of all Ireland if is very rural and it was not unusual to see people using tractors as transportation and even horse drawn carts. I lived in Dublin and there were still farmers bringing produce into Moore Street market by horse and cart in the mid 90s. So yeah getting food from one place to another was difficult in the 1840s. The only rail lines ran between Dublin and Waterford in the south and Limerick in the South west, that left all of the north and northwest with slow coach roads. It would take days to cross the country with supplies. Famine relief in the worst effected areas would be a logistical nightmare.

In Donegal I once hitched a ride on a farmer's tractor from a hiking trail on Sliabh Liag that was miles from any town and at a really quite high elevation. The farmer was planting potatoes up there! I was shocked. I had no idea they grew at that elevation. (Potatoes are a genetic engineering marvel that grow in almost every conceivable environment depending on the species etc.). This is land that I venture no one in the U.S. would be bothering to farm. It's just too inaccessible and the conditions too difficult for moving your product to market. The soil is also rocky af. The old joke about why there are so many walls in County Mayo is that it was because they were clearing the fields and needed someplace to put all the rocks.

But if you are eating what you grow (i.e. potatoes) it's fine and there is even some advantage in the inaccessibility as it is a lot of work to raid your garden.

If you are growing oats, wheat, barley as your rent on some bottom land, you have no means of processing that stuff into food. You can't just eat a handful of raw oats. You need mills. Now mills were not everywhere around the Irish landscape. They were near towns and would be owned and run by the same people that were landlords. It took capital to build and run them and poor subsistence farmers did not have capital. So they really had no choice but to give over their rent crops because fat lot of good it would do to keep them and try to eat them, and then as OP says, you'd get evicted and starve anyway after you lost your house and possessions.

When you visit rural Ireland you see in every town and every village markers for mass graves from the famine. It was everywhere and so disastrous that historians do not have an accurate death toll because so many were buried so hastily.

Like all famine, the Irish Famine was man made. And there is no question that the numbers killed would qualify at it as a genocide. That only leaves "intent" and there is plenty of evidence for that too. That there was never a stated policy by the British government to wipe out the Irish at the nearest opportunity seems like kind of a formality to me...

Can I be extremely pedantic for 1 moment and say that I hate this post even though it's technically not completely incorrect because it completely ignores. like. everything. about the things in pre famine ireland which led to the famine in favour of making it seem like this was something which just happened with nothing on either side which led to it. also it sounds like it was written by john mitchel

[sandu-zidian]

Blabbing about this Musician!au I started last summer that has now also turned into a marching band!au because I got sad and nostalgic because despite how shitty it could be, marching band defined my high school life and social life and I couldn’t had asked for anything else.

I also don’t have every single prequel character (because this au is surrounding the prequel characters) in Star Wars smacked into here, and I gave up halfway through a couple of months ago in terms of brainstorming. Anyways, this is hella long so check everything out under the line if you’d like! don’t want to spam everyone with something that’s like, 4 pages long

Now, you might be asking. What instruments are these characters playing, or what are they doing in marching band? well, boy oh boy do I have some lore for you.

Anakin Skywalker: alright lets start of with the “Chosen One”. Now, I gotta say. He’s got some intense brass vibes, specifically high brass. But I don’t know. He didn’t really mesh well. And given his natural talent with the Force in canon, I thought that Anakin would be a sort of prodigy. And we all know the two instruments associated with that: the piano and violin. He’s more of a piano dude, so here we go! piano prodigy Anakin Skywalker. He also gives mad drumline vibes, and I can see him as either the lead snare, setting the tempo, or the main quad player. He’s brash, slightly obnoxious, but damn is he fucking good at what he does.

Obi-Wan Kenobi: I literally started this AU on the idea that Obi-Wan would play the cello. One of the defining quotes for him is that fucking “infinite sadness” quote. And we all know that cellos play some of the saddest pieces out there. (see: Elgar cello concerto) However, I can’t see him as a marching band dude. He doesn’t really give off color guard vibes (since that’s where most non-band people go to) so I have him as the resident student helper who everyone tolerates because he brings ice cream after band camp.

Ahsoka Tano: Ahsoka is a flute player. As a flute player, I have intimate knowledge on this. She’s like the chill flute player who’s competitive enough to keep her position as principal, but is also chill enough to not have a big ego that butts heads with everyone. She also gives mad color guard vibes. Also speaking about that from personal experience (am I lowkey projecting my own experiences on her? you didn’t hear that from me). She seems like the type to love swing flags and sabre, and is 100% captain by senior year.

I have Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka as siblings in this AU because I say so. Qui-Gon is around here somewhere as the resident hippie dad who lowkey smokes pot and will support his children while giving a big ‘fuck you’ to Dooku. 

Yoda’s also in here somewhere, and I love the idea that he’s an old Chinese/Asian man who refuses to speak english and will only do so with the most backwards grammar so his grandchild (Qui-Gon) and great-grandchildren (the trio) are forced to speak Mandarin/Cantonese to him (pick your poison). He just spends his days cutting up fruit and also might pull out his erhu if everyone asks nice enough. (I want to say he was a Peking Opera musician, but immigrated during Mao’s reign after he lost opportunities during the cultural revolution)

So, I know that it doesn’t make sense for a family to have 3 sets of twins and one triplet set, but fuck that I do what I want.

Cody Fett: okay so, Cody 100% plays the french horn. I don’t know, he just, he does. He’s got that air of sophistication because he can play the hardest brass instrument, but at the same time, he’s incredibly good at it and is matter-of-fact about it. He also would be the mello section leader (I was playing with the idea of drum major, but for now, leaving him as a section leader for now). He’s a bit uptight to be a low brass player, but cool enough to still be associated with the general brass group.

Rex Fett: I got Rex and Cody as the eldest Fett twins. Rex feels like a string player, so I have him on violin. I can see him be very hardworking and practicing diligently to the point where he easily sweeps through to concertmaster in high school and the local youth orchestra. He also gives of mad drum major vibes. I can see him copying music, handing out drill charts, and hauling the met around. Also, just think about Rex doing a fancy ass salute at competitions. Yes.

Next round of twins lets gooo

Jesse Fett: You could say Jesse has brass vibes. I see him as a reed person though. In concert band, he’s on clarinet. I used to think clarinets were as stuck up as us flutes but no they’re literally balls of chaotic energy ready to be unleashed. Just imagine Jesse blaming everything on his reed. I see him as the guy who switches to saxophone for marching band, though. He’s got the energy of the clarinet and the saxophone harnessed. Also, wouldn’t be surprised if he knows how to play the sousa.

Kix Fett: Y’know, when I originally made this AU, I had Kix as a musician as well. I’m gonna scratch that. He’s going to medical school, or at least, he’s planning to. He’s on the pre-med track and is dying in organic chemistry and wishes there weren’t so many pre-requisites. However, in high school, he definitely played the oboe. Of course Kix chose one of the hardest instruments to play. Also, just imagine him trying to make his own reeds. I don’t see him as a guy who’s in marching band. He’ll come to competitions and maybe football games if he’s bullied into it. Kix is the guy who’s classes are all AP and he’s dying inside.

Next round of twins yeet:

Fives Fett: shit, I forgot I gave them all real names. If I remember correctly, Fives is Frank. Anyways, trumpet vibes. Need I say more? He’s on the trumpet in marching band as well and he’s the dude who’s obsessed with DCI and always tries to play as high as he possibly can and absolutely demolishes his chops. I would say he’s section leader as well. He also hangs with the drumline at the back of the bus and always plays meme songs on blast and sends weird pictures to people’s phone via open airdrop.

Echo Fett: I think his birth name is Ethan??? I’m spitting thoughts not checking my old documents. Anyways. Echo feels like a string person. Specifically, low strings. So, he plays the bass. Upright bass. Whatever. You get what I mean. He sleeps in the case after school and hates hauling it everywhere. He was in marching band as a mello player (the easiest brass instrument to pick up for the activity so) but he was in a car crash that left him paralyzed from the hip down, and had to quit to recover. He never stopped playing, and found ways to adjust. (I do not know how exactly this would work, since I’m able bodied and also don’t play the bass, but I know he’d at least have a stool to sit on in order to lean his body on. let me know if you have other ideas i’d love to hear them!)

Finally, we got the triplets:

Dogma Fett: Dogma plays the bassoon. He’s a low reed kinda guy and between the bari sax, bass clarinet, and bassoon, he fits the last one the best. He and Kix moan over making reeds and he’s on the quieter side. He just vibes and plays all the low notes and has fun whenever he’s got some moving part. I see Dogma as someone who is only casually into marching band. He uses Jesse’s old student clarinet as his instrument and he’s always on time, knows his sets, and his technique is on point. He always finds himself roped into his brothers’ shenanigans though.

Tup Fett: Tup plays the harp. I like to think he met Shaak Ti (we’ll get to her in a bit) when he was young, and she was playing with an orchestra. He met her backstage and she offered to give him lessons. Tup’s not really a part of high school orchestra but sometimes he’ll be brought in. He’s more involved with solo work and the youth orchestra more than anything. Tup’s another on where I don’t think he’d be into marching band. Though I can see him being in winter guard as the dude who just shows up and is lowkey rip and therefore is a hunk on the rifle. His technique’s good but they’ve never been able to saddle him into fall guard.

Hardcase Fett: (i’ve given up on remembering the birth names so i’m just gonna not) Hardcase is 100% low brass vibes. He can’t be anything but a low brass. I see him as a tuba player. He’s chill, laid back, but also reliable for being the foundation of the band sound. He plays the sousaphone in marching band and always blasts either Seven Nation Army or some other popular show tune right after rehearsals. Hardcase also can play the bari sax and no one knows when he learned how to. 

OKAY we’re done with the Fett’s! Jango and Boba are in here somewhere but honestly I don’t have enough brainpower to come up with what their roles are. Jango’s gonna be a good dad though. Maybe he was a musician and that’s why most of his kids are going into music. Or maybe he’s just a supportive father. Boba’s the youngest though, that’s for sure. And he’s a little shit. Don’t know if he plays an instrument (probably) or what it might be.

Now lets get into some other characters! There’s a lot. And I wasn’t even halfway done with the characters I wanted to include. What the hell was I on last summer?

Padmé Amidala: Padmé is a flute player who quit after freshman year of high school and started taking music production and music theory classes. She loved it so much that she decided that composing was her jam. Now, she’s highly successful and often works with well known pianist, Anakin Skywalker, on piano concertos. Also, she may or may not be dating said pianists but you didn’t hear that from me.

Satine Kryze: twosetters don’t shit on me but Satine feels like she’d play the viola. She and Obi-Obi-Wan definitely dated in high school but after a year broke up on mutual terms and are just good friends now. A lot of people feel like she’d have been a better political science/international studies major than a music major but she’s good so no one complains (until she gets into a fighting match with someone and wins smugly)

Bo-Katan Kryze: shes Satine’s younger sister and is a mad athlete. She doesn’t play any instruments but she’s deeply active and is on scholarship for college, on the pre-med track with Kix. She’s very scary and most people are too intimidated by her to approach.

Plo Koon: I originally had him as an asian man, but I can see Native American as well. He plays the euphonium and he’s just a sweet man. He helps out a lot with private lessons at local high schools and is often brought in to help with low brass during marching band.

Wolffe Koon: Wolffe and Gregor (get to him in a bit) were both adopted by Plo when their parents died when they were very young. Plo was their godfather and he took them in like they were his own. They’re cousins to the Fett brothers (though don’t ask me how I have no idea). Wolffe is an engineer and works close to home.

Gregor Koon: Gregor is Wolffe’s younger brother and had a short stint of musical interest in middle school but quit after he entered high school. Gregor was in a serious car crash during college that left him amnesiac for a year before some of his memories returned. He now owns a restaurant and sticks close to home. Wolffe often comes around to check up on him because his brain injury still impacts his current life in small physical and emotional dips

Kit Fisto: Kit gives off mad trombone vibes and it’s mostly because he seems incredibly laid back. He’s one of those brass players who’s just a nice guy and while jokes around, never got pulled into jokes as a student.

Shaak Ti: like I said above, Shaak Ti is most definitely a harpist. She has that ethereal quality I think is common in harpists. She’s a tall Indian woman and she loves her job! She’s a private lesson teacher and instructor at the conservatory on top of her job in the orchestra since she’s not called in often to play. She loves all her students and gives good hugs.

Mace Windu: Mace is the director of the Jedi Symphony, the orchestra which almost everyone is involved with. He is a bass player and he likes his more classical pieces over contemporary music. He’s good friends with Yoda and sometimes the old troll has to wack some sense into Windu and have him take on newer pieces. Windu 100% gives off unhinged director vibes because mistakes and lazy musicians definitely don’t end after high school/college is over.

Quinlan Vos: this lil shithead definitely is the obnoxious, slightly arrogant, but kind of deserving of that, percussionist. He loves his snare drum and is also in the drumline. He’s the same age as Obi-Wan and the two are close friends. Quinlan is definitely slightly unhinged and is always at the back of the bus causing havoc after competitions. He’s the guy that I (OP) hate but also can’t help but respect cuz yeah he’s annoying but at least he’s good.

Aayla Secura: Aayla is Quinn’s half-sister, and plays the French horn. Again, like Cody, she’s got this air of professionalism that I associate with French horn players and like, we gotta represent the girls in brass somehow. She just fits it really nicely.

I feel like now is the time to list who’s still in conservatory and who isn’t: Obi-Wan, Anakin, Rex, Cody, Jesse, Quinlan, Padmé, and Satine are all recent graduates. Ahsoka, Aayla, Fives, Echo, Tup, Dogma, and Hardcase are still in conservatory (at varying years of course). Kix and Bo are entering med school/frantically applying and banging their heads cuz MCATs. Wolffe and Gregor are older and have been in the field for quite some time now. Plo, Kit, Shaak, and Mace are all faculty/seasoned professionals.

Somehow, I was gonna bring in The Skiratas (with proper research cuz I know very little about them), Dooku, Ventress, the Oppress siblings, rest of Domino Squad, Cut Lawquene, the other CCs, and more. I designated a page out of my sketchbook for this and my oh my the flow chart was hella confusing. How I thought I was gonna handle that in the summer before my first year of college, I have no idea. Maybe I’ll brainstorm more in the future but for now, this is all I have :]]]

Also excuse some of my slightly unhinged language I started writing this a few days ago while slightly unfocused and tired and stressed so my language is a product of that

[softforcal]

5sosOpener!Y/N

summary: you’re is the opener for 5sos and they’re all kinda in love with you

4300 words, issa long one fam

-you’re an rising performer and they saw you live once while creating their new album and all fell in love with your voice on the spot

-they convince management that they want you as their opener because you’re amazing

-when your management approaches you about it, of course you say yes and soon after that you’re following all of 5sos on insta and they’re following you

-they want to get to know you pre tour to see if you’re chill, it will be easier to tour together if you’re all buds

-so you go meet up with them at Cal’s house and spend the whole day getting to know each other

-they’re all super cool and you find yourselves all laughing and chilling next to the pool having a great time

-they show you some of their new songs and you all end up having an impromptu singing and dancing party

-yeah, its going to be a great tour

-you have to leave and they all offer to drive you home but you have it covered

-as soon as you’re gone they’re all just like “wow.” “yeah, she’s an angel.”

-they make a group chat with you in it and you all talk a bunch before the tour starts

-meeting up with them whenever you can

-Ashton convinces you to go to yoga

-you go walk Cal’s dog with him

-Michael getting you to create fortnite so you can play with him and Luke

-the first day of tour arrives and you show up to the airport only to be sneak attacked by Ashton who was totally waiting for you, he’d really want you to feel included and welcome

-getting to the plane and you go to sit by yourself but then Michael just comes and sits next to you and smiley, and he’s like “are you ready for tour?!” and he’s just a ray of absolute sunshine

-they all kind of take turns sitting next to you because the flight is so long

-you end up falling asleep on Luke’s shoulder and they’re all just like “oh my god she’s so cute.”

-Luke doesn't let anyone wake you

-usually the opener would travel in a different van and tour bus but they really want to ‘include’ you so you end up being in their van most of the time and you sleep on the other tour bus but you’re in their bus most of the time

-your first show you go out there and you have an amazing set, as you get off the stage the guys all pull you into a huge hug to tell you how amazing you were

-getting to watch them preform and they are brilliant

-hanging out after the concert in a back stage room laughing and talking about the tour

-singing with them

-going over their note changes with them

-can you imagine singing with Calum and Luke and they both just adore your voice

-Michael trying to teach you how to play guitar if you don’t know how to already

-Cal trying to teach you to play bass

-And Ashton letting you dick around with his drums

-going out after concerts to look at the city

-you always get cold and one of them always ends up giving you their jacket

-or one of them offers to hug you to keep you warm

-Michael gives the best fucking hugs but Cal is a close second

-its because Michael is a lil squish okay!?! don’t fight me on this

-all of you taking pictures of each other and being able to freely post them because you’re their opener and its the cutest thing ever

-everyone speculating that you might be dating one of them

-taking cheeky photos where you’re kissing one of their cheeks or their kissing yours and everyone flips out

-spending entire bus rides in their bus goofing off and laughing and having a great time

-when you leave to go to your own bus for the night they spend at least an house usually talking about the cute things you did while with them 

-one night you’re in the chill area with them watching a movie and you fall asleep cuddled against Calum

-none of them want to move to wake you up so they all sleep there

-waking up next to these four guys, you all having moved at some time during the night and you’re just a cuddle blob

-pre concert rituals together with huge group hugs

-helping Luke put glitter on before a show because “more glitter!”

-sometimes they bring you on stage to sing with them as an encore 

-you and Luke just have such vocal chemistry

-”and can we give it up for our angel and opening act, Y/N!”

-so many hugs

-group dogpiles after the show 

-you all write songs together and bounce ideas off of each other

-harmonizing together

-tapping out beats together

-running around cities and usually one of them grabs your hand and starts running and then you’re all running around looking at stuff

-Cal and Ashton are huge fans of carrying you when you get tired

-getting shipped with all of them

-the five of you looking at the ship names and laughing then picking favourites

-so every guys favourite ship name is their own name with yours? what a fucking coincidence eh?

-they all ask your favourite ship name and you’re just like...... “uhhhhhh....”

-refusing to choose

-it would honestly be such a mess because it’s not like you don’t know they’re into you but its hard to choose because they’re all hella

-but you choose, and i can get into each choice later if ya’ll want but for now imma continue with poly!

Continue reading for Poly!5sos

or Luke Con’t, Cal Con’t, Ash Con’t, Michael Con’t

-so they’re all talking about it one night and Michael is just like “we can’t all date her.” and Ashton’s like “i mean... we could....” and they all just kinda look at each other like....

-after that they all do a bunch of research on polyamory which is tough because they all have to hide their phones every time you’re around

-”so i have this friend and she’s in a relationship with two guys, i think it’s called” “Polyamory.” you finish for Ashton and he grins “yeah, what do you think about that?” “i mean as long as they’re all happy and they’ve discussed it, i don’t see an issue.”

-after you leave that night they all huddle to talk about your reaction to it and they all agree that you seemed open to it, or at least, not against it

-the next show you have, you absolutely kill it and the guys are all watching from the side and Michael just says “holy shit. i think i fucking love her.”

-they’re all just like “oh shit.” cuz they’re all kinda feeling that way

-”okay, we do this tonight. we tell her tonight.” 

-after the show they all come into a back room where you’re just hanging out. Ashton sits on one side of you, Luke on the other while Michael and Calum hang back and lean against the wall watching

-”hey guys, great show!” “Y/N we need to tell you something.” “Yikes Ash, you’re giving me your serious face.” “we all like you.”

-there’s a bit of silence and then the whole thing makes sense, “ohhhh, thats why you wanted to talk about polyamory.” they all just kinda stare at you and you’re like “wait, so you all want to date me?”

-”i mean, we could just give it a shot, see how it goes.” “yeah, you could end it any time you want.” “we wont let it affect our professional relationship.”

-”okay, we can give it a try.”

-group hug but this time its sweeter

-group deciding what you want to do for the night. i mean, sometimes after concerts you all go clubbing but sometimes you all end up chilling on the tour bus, or on nights when you have hotels you sometimes all go to one of their rooms and watch movies on demand

-thank god this night you all have a hotel so you head there and decide to go to Ash and Cal’s room to watch movies

-pushing the huge beds together so you can all fit

-”Y/N you get to choose the movie.” “really? you mean all i had to do to choose was agree to date you guys? would have done this ages ago!”

-its a big cuddle pile

-but there’s no easy way for you to cuddle all of them

-Ash immediately pulls you next to him, Luke curls up on your other side with his head on your shoulder while Calum and Michael are kinda just like ‘well now what’ Michael flails himself onto the bed and gets between your legs, using your entire body as a pillow, now its just Calum standing there so he chooses to be next to Ashton but you reach out your hand and place it on his chest, his hand going over yours

-falling asleep when the movie ends 

-you wake up first in the middle of all your boys, and they are, your boys 

-Ashton and Calum wake up soon after and the three of you go to another room to hang out and order breakfast while Luke and Michael get more sleep (feel like those two need some good snoozing time)

-you still haven’t actually kissed any of them, you’re less than 24 hours into the whole dating them thing but still, you figure you should have kissed at least one of them by now

-the room service comes, Ashton deals with it at the door and when he comes back in with the food you go up behind him and wrap your arms around his waist, it makes him giggle and he turns in your arms so you’re pressed against his chest and he’s looking down at you and you just do it

-you tip toe and kiss him. one of his hands immediately goes to cup your face 

-when you pull away from Ashton, Calum is grinning, “shoulda known all it would take to get that first kiss would be some food.”

-you and Ashton laughing as you go over to where Calum is sitting on the couch and you straddle him, pressing your lips to his next while Ashton sets up breakfast

-the smell brings a sleepy Luke and Michael into the room and Michael sighs, “shoulda known it would be Cal to get the first kiss.”

-”actually it was me, won my way in with food.” Ashton grins

-”you gonna give me some sugar too or what?” Michael teases as you get off Cal to greet your sleepy boys

-you grab Michael’s face and kiss him next, his hands wrap around you and give your ass a squeeze, causing everyone to laugh as you pull away grinning

-before Luke can feel left out you go on your tip toes to kiss him too

-when you pull away his eyes are still closed only to flutter open to look at you with a grin

-and just like that you’ve kissed all of them, ripped off the bandaid, just went for it, and it actually feels kinda normal?

-having breakfast together and then all of you go to the bus for your drive to the next city

-if you thought they fought about having your attention before? you’re into a whole new level now

-and there’s never enough room for all of you so usually you gotta choose two and then give your attention to the other two later

-its just a huge group of friends and also some hard core make out sessions, what’s not to love?

-at the next city, Calum and Ashton really want to explore but Luke and Michael are still exhausted nuggets who need some chill time before the show so you go out with Cal and Ash

-Ash always had his arm over your shoulders even when you weren’t ‘dating’  and now Cal grabs your hand as the three of you walk down the street

-it begins to rain and you end up in some hole in the wall diner, the three of you shoved into one side of a booth so that they can both be touching you

-Cal’s beautiful tattoo covered hand on your thigh while Ash’s arm is still over your shoulders 

-Cal begins to kiss you first and then Ash goes for your neck and before you know it you’re that triad thats being way too sexual in public

-running through the city, Ashton pulling you pulling Cal, back to the arena and they go to get ready

-you bump into Michael and Luke who both look amazing and Michael just gets behind you, arms wrapping around your waist as his head goes to your shoulder and Luke comes and pulls you to his chest. a Muke sandwich. please. 

-”guys, i gotta change and get ready.” “i’m down to help you take your clothes off.” “Michael!”

-finding yourself in a change room and Michael makes the whole clothes off process dirty but Luke actually helps you put your stage outfit on and is actually such a lovely giant baby about it

-Cal finding you three in your change room and he just laughs because Michael is struggling to take off your pants while Luke is insisting that you need them on for stage

-your first preconcert ritual as a poly group where they all want to be the last to kiss you before you go on stage and end up having a tournament of rock paper scissors to see who wins the honour

-Luke wins and his glitter gets all over your face but you can’t fix it before going on stage

-going through your set and being super aware that the guys are all watching from backstage takes it to a new level

-it just fits. and there’s already so much love. you’re already so comfortable with all of them and you all just fit together

-you gotta go on the bus after the concert and you’re about to head to your own bus when Cal stops you, “nah, sleep with me tonight.” 

-you cuddle up next to Calum on the small tour bus bed but the five of you are all still talking to each other

-”shhh, she’s asleep.” “aw is she doing that cute thing with her face where-” “where she sleeps? yeah. she’s sleeping. that’s the face.”

-tour continues, on nights where you’re on the bus you switch between their beds and cuddle until you fall asleep

-you’re with at least one of them most of the time which is pretty cool

-you Luke and Calum spend lots of time singing together

-Ashton and Michael join in on the singing if they’re around

-Ashton’s the one who wants to go explore cities with you, usually Luke or Calum will join, Michael does sometimes but not too often

-Luke and Calum are cuddle-bugs and they always want to be touching you or cuddling you or pulling you into their arms

-Michael (this dirty boy) turns everything dirty and he loves to have his face buried into your neck

-Michael and Ashton will tickle the shit out of you 

-but Luke and Cal will protect you from Michael and Ashton during tickle fights so it’s pretty even odds, unless you join in and then Ashton will run away and leave Michael to be tickled

-when Cal and Luke aren't around the only way to stop Michael and Ashton from tickling you is to kiss them, this always gets Michael to stop tickling you, Ashton’s not so easy but he always gives in

-and thats how you end up having Mashton for the first time probably. in a hotel room, supposed to be meeting others in a bit and then they decide to tickle you and you kiss Michael to stop and he just groans, falling onto the bed next to you and pulling you on top of him. Ashton stops and watches for a bit before joining in and just like that, Mashton is your first triad sexual experience but damn

-cuz they both kinky, dirty, hella gorgeous men. 

-Michael is super into dirty talk and Ashton just rifs off of him because they are power doms

-the three of you dont get to chill after because ya’ll gotta run and meet the others so you’re all tossing clothes at each other and hurrying to button everything up before running out the door

-Luke and Calum both totally know what happened when they see the three of you

-i’m just going to get into it fam. here we go with all the triads in alphabetical order <3

-Cake: sometimes these two just need a quiet, relaxing night. this is definitely the triad for that. they’re such sweeties and they both just cherish the shit out of you. we’re talking sex where you’re all exhausted but just want some loving. lots of kissing and groans and clenching your eyes shut. i’m going to say a lot of spooning just because

-Cashton: my dream team. the rhythm section. these boys keep a fast, brutal pace that makes it hard to walk the next day. they are pretty dirty and they’re both doms (but Ash takes over most of the time as the real power dom) they are all hands, groping, and groaning. “say my name princess.” either overstimulation or orgasm denial. these two will find any place available to fuck. the most into public stuff. pre and post concert sex while in the arena building is huge for these two.

-Lashton: this pairing happening the first time when Luke walks in on you and Ashton pre concert and Luke’s already so pumped for the concert he’s just like “fuck it” and joins. Luke is at his roughest when he’s with Ashton because you’re super into it with Ashton so he tries it too. these two golden boys are different but Ashton goes a bit slower, they reach a happy medium.

-Mashton: so we’re talking dirty and kinky, like super kinky. Michael likes toys and Ashton is the only one who will truly embrace the use of the toys. Like Ash is confident in his ability to make you cum until you’re shaking without toys but he’s down to use the toys because Michael is a toy genius and it always makes it better for all of you. they take turns on who does what and they actually share control? this is I think probably the best equal dom situation. also actually you know what, i still think Cashton is huge on public sex but Mashton is also super down to fuck wherever and whenever you want. 

-Malum: i man, i’m super down for all of these pairings but this one is pretty hella in its own right too. they’re constantly laughing at each other. this one is kinda crazy because they can be going hard dom one moment and then laughing their asses off the next. i actually love this triad because of this. its goofy and fun and no pressure, ya’ll can just do whatever you want, there’s no competition or trying to see who can make you cum more or egging each other on to be more dom or more rough. it’s just Michael and Calum being Malum and it’s glorious.

-Muke: these sleepy honeys. morning sex is huge for these cuddle-bugs. i feel like with Ashton and Calum, Michael can be as kinky as he wants but with Luke, its more chill. Michael is always horny so when you’re cuddling with these two it usually heads the sexual way. lots of grinding and groaning and rubbing, just a fuck ton of foreplay. so much foreplay. these two just work really well together

-yeah being on tour makes it really hard to find time for sex so its usually quickies at the venue or hotel sex or morning sex before a long bus ride

-they all just want to be touching you all the time

-the first time you have all of them at once is kinda wild and a bit clunky because there’s a lot of patience involved when five people are trying to do the do but Ashton gets kinda fed up with it and takes the wheel as the main power dom who tells everyone what to do

-Luke is down to do what Ash says but Cal and Michael take some convincing

-so yeah, three doms and a medium would be a fun time

-getting pampered like a motherfucker

-so you’re their opener and everyone knows that you’re close with the band

-but there starts to be more and more pics of you holding Calum’s hand, or Ashton’s arm over your shoulders, or Luke giving you piggy backs or Michael hugging you and people are making hella detailed conspiracy theories on which of them you’re actually dating

-i’ve said this before but the more the touching becomes less PG the more fans notice

-”Luke you have to stop kissing me before i go on stage, fans are noticing the glitter on both of us.”

-you’d think that the first actual picture of one of them kissing you would be with Ashton because he doesn’t give two shits but it ends up being Luke. this pretty boy gets too excited about kissing you as you come off stage and he doesn’t realize he’s standing just a bit too close to the stage and that he’s in the line of view of a few fans

-none of you notice it until after the concert when Ash just starts laughing and shows a blurry picture but its obviously you and Luke and the fan caption is “I KNEW THE GLITTER MATCHED!”

-your ship name begins to trend everywhere and it’s just like oh shit

-imagine the headlines though. “Lead singer Luke Hemmings caught in the act with his opener.” “Luke Hemmings kisses new girlfriend, unaware of cameras.” “Luke’s the one! on stage kiss confirms 5sos singer and his new opener beau” “5sos fans call it again, Hemmings is dating his opener.” “Y/N L/N cozies up to her singer beau as she gets off stage at 5sos concert.”

-you all decide just to not contradict the headings and just roll with it, at least you and Luke can be seen in public being cute now

-but boy does it make the others jealous. Luke being the only one who’s able to kiss you in public is not sharing.

-they all deal with it... until you and Cal are out one night and it’s dark and you think no one’s around and his arm slips over your shoulders and he kisses your cheek  and boom, the next day the headings are: “Calum and Luke fighting over the same girl.” “5sos Opener Y/N L/N, the new Yoko?” “Calum Hood spotted having a tender moment with Luke Hemmings girlfriend.” “trouble in paradise for 5sos?”

-people are getting kinda savage about the whole Luke and Calum mess and it’s taking everything for your guys not to stand up for you online because they are protective as shit over you

-”how are we even going to break the news to everyone about this?”

-yeah this is a big fucking deal. like could you imagine? 

-they want to hide you and keep the shit from hitting the fan but with Luke and Calum already having pictures with you they can’t stop it anymore

-Michael is the one to just go “fuck this.” and he posts a picture

-it’s the five of you, in your pre-concert huddle

-his caption is just a bunch of hearts

-Ashton follows suit, posting a picture of the five of you all trying to fit on a couch, his caption: “this tour is special, its taught me about love, acceptance and commitment, and most importantly, that these three things are not set by society but by those experiencing them. we’re happy, what else matters?”

-Luke posts a picture of the five of you walking down a cobblestone street, his caption: “can you feel the love.”

-Calum is last, he’s not super into posts about his private life but he finds a picture of the five of you on stage from a concert where they invited you to sing Lie to Me with Luke, his caption: “family <3″

-people are so fucking confused. 

-you finally post a picture of you on the couch laying on all of them, captioned “my boys.”

-this picture did not help at all. peeps still be confused af

-like i’ve written some poly 5sos where it’s not an AU and its always been kinda tough because imagine how the fandom would react but poly!5sos with all of them x reader? this would be a shit storm

-of course any interview they have this is the main topic of discussion. finally Ashton breaks and is just like “i have a word of the day... and that word is Polyamory. look it up. thank you next.”

-finally being able to go out in public and do more than just hand holding without worrying

-and now when you’re on stage and your set is finishing sometimes they’ll come out and do a duet with you

-like they all secretly practice the shit out of one of your songs so they can surprise you on stage by doing a duet with you 

-i mean, its crazy and wild but there’s so much love

-they all want to write music about you

-yeah so this is like the perfect life and holy fuck i want it

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17 Artists Share the Films That Influenced Them Most

The right kind of film can stick with you for years, like a half-remembered dream. I’m still haunted by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema (1968), even though I’d be at a loss to lucidly describe its plot. (I vaguely recall a strapping Terence Stamp, who may or may not utter a word during the entire film, and who spends most of its duration seducing every single member of a nuclear family, from daughter to father).

What were some of the feature films that had a similarly impactful, unnerving, or productive influence on contemporary artists working in the medium, I wondered? We asked 17 talents to open up about the moving pictures that left a lasting mark on them, from disaster documentaries to 1970s action flicks and Swedish psychodramas.

Pauline Curnier Jardin

The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)

Photo by John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images.

Visitors to the latest Venice Biennale likely encountered Jardin’s immersive installation, resembling a psychedelic cave, in which she showcased a very unconventional take on a Catholic saint’s life. (I previously described it as “an exercise in high camp, one that includes a sort of psychedelic nude ballet and a didactic explanation of racial divisions that uses ice cream as a defining metaphor.”)

Her most compelling cinematic memory also involves a female saint. “My passion for the persona of Joan of Arc started when I symbolically made the decision to become an artist,” Jardin recalls. “I was making ‘performed movies,’ a form of expanded cinema where I was told the story of a movie on stage, performing some scenes myself and presenting others that I had previously shot, with the whole thing looking like a live editing session.

“For one of the first, I took Joan of Arc as my protagonist and as the subject through which I could dialogue with the world. When I found out that Dreyer’s masterpiece addresses a lot of my questions about Joan of Arc, but also about art in general, I decided to write my master’s thesis about this film. For Dreyer, the central question is the supernatural power of faith. In all of his works, he shows and represents that passion is determined by a particular relation to the flesh and to the body, but also by a mystical engagement with the world.

“This film is my inner sanctum. It had a magical function in my life. It operated like a kaleidoscope for me, and it taught me that masterpieces can be created out of radical oppositions: formal ones, but also philosophical and political oppositions. It taught me that a film could be sacred poetry. It’s a film cult and a cult film, a film of faces and masks, a skin-film, a totally grotesque and entirely profound movie. The Passion of Joan of Arc doesn’t end with its main subject burned. It contains a fire that will burn anyone already burning inside.”

Samuel T. Adams

The Corridor, Sharunas Bartas (1995)

Painter Adams runs a D.I.Y. screening series out of his studio. In 2017, he focused “exclusively on 16mm masterpieces” from the likes of Antonioni, Resnais, and Bresson. “About four years ago, enticed by the cinema of Béla Tarr, I started digging into Eastern European cinema,” he says, “and The Corridor was the film that ripped the lid off the rabbit hole.

“Shot in harsh black and white, entirely void of dialogue but with constant buzzing and humming on its eclectic, oozing soundtrack, the film traverses an apartment complex somewhere in freshly independent Vilnius, Lithuania. Bartas’s expression of ‘freedom’ is quite grim: The inhabitants seem to be emotionless ghosts, neither content nor dissatisfied, aimless, as if objects or meager furniture themselves, and it’s clear they’re not going anywhere anytime soon.

“Occasionally something happens: Bed sheets are set aflame, a gun is fired out a window, a girl is pushed into a giant puddle repeatedly by two thugs—but essentially time is frozen. The corridor that connects these disheveled humans is a void, the corridor of a forgotten post-Soviet armpit. While this surely sounds quite bleak, and it is, this film is moving-image poetry, purely experiential, a feast for the eyes and ears, no words necessary.”

Trevor Paglen

Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)

Paglen’s next project, facilitated by the Nevada Museum of Art and titled Orbital Reflector, is a satellite that would hover above the earth, a high-tech sculpture in the sky. The artist has previously sent an intensely durable, image-based time-capsule into space. So it’s no surprise that his most notable cinematic memories take place beyond the limits of our home planet.

“Tarkovsky’s classic sci-fi film presents a distinctly ‘un-American�� vision of a journey to the cosmos,” he says. “In American mythology, space is an extension of the frontier–you go to space and plant some flags and build a colony and do some mining. It’s Nevada all over again. Solaris, based on Stanisław Lem’s literary masterpiece, is emblematic of a completely different imagination.

“Russian attitudes towards the cosmos have been strongly shaped by the work of Nikolai Fedorov, a 19th-century philosopher of what he called the ‘Common Task.’ Fedorov believed that all human activities should be organized in the service of a higher purpose. One: We should make ourselves immortal. Two: We should resurrect every human who’s ever lived. To accomplish this ‘Common Task,’ Fedorov understood that we would have to develop spaceflight. First, we’d have to go to space to collect the particles of our ancestors’ bodies that had evaporated from Earth so that we could bring them back for reconstitution.

“Solaris is very much in this tradition. As the cosmonauts encounter the alien world, there are no colonies or flags or mining; instead they encounter an eerie and deeply alien landscape that is constituted of their own distorted memories and ancestries. A journey into the cosmos is a journey into one’s own self.”

Larissa Sansour

Persona, Ingmar Bergman (1966)

Swedish actress Bibi Andersson and Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann on the set of Persona, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images.

Palestinian filmmaker Sansour uses sci-fi tropes to explore the intricacies of our current world; her work is currently included in “Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction,” on view at the Barbican in London through September 1st. “Ingmar Bergman was always a major inspiration,” she says. “Persona, from 1966, has influenced my own work. The film is a masterclass in acting, screenwriting, and direction, stretching filmmaking to its limits.

“The hauntingly captivating dialogue between two women, one of whom has ceased to speak, creates a psychological horror, magnified by intense close-ups, minimalist set decor, and often motionless choreography. As intimate secrets are exposed, and the personal identities of the two women slowly begin to merge, the insanity at the core of the film becomes violent and almost unbearable to witness. The abrupt cuts from stylized studio and location shots to archival footage, with images of the crucifixion and the slaughtering of a lamb, further demonstrate Bergman’s experimental conviction and confidence.”

Nina Katchadourian

Touching the Void, Kevin MacDonald (2003)

This September, a survey of the artist’s career will open at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, including a great deal of inventive photographic and video work made in a very impromptu “studio”: onboard airlines during domestic or international trips. She cites this 2003 documentary as being especially important to her. “As an extension of my long-standing obsession with true shipwreck accounts, I’ve also gotten interested in mountaineering disaster stories,” Katchadourian explains.

“Even though it’s narrated by the survivors themselves, this unforgettable film is one of the most nerve-wracking I’ve ever seen. As the story goes on, you can’t believe things can get worse—and they always do. There are some terrible mistakes: After falling off a cliff in a storm, roped together, the guy on the upper part of the rope eventually cuts the rope because he decides the guy on the lower part of the rope must be dead. He isn’t. Without revealing too much, I’ll disclose that one of the most mundane things imaginable ends up saving his life: a pop song that he hates and just can’t get out of his head. I find a lot of hope in the idea that something deeply annoying could come along in a different context and be life-saving.”

Stanya Kahn

Pink Floyd: The Wall, Alan Parker (1982)

From the campy, semi-improvised apocalyptic narrative Don’t Go Back to Sleep to Stand in the Stream, a moving film-essay on view at MoMA PS1 through September 4th, Kahn has defied labels and expectations. When asked to select a movie that had a particular impact on her life, she found herself torn between eclectic options. “Enter the Dragon, which scarred me for life after seeing it too young at age six?” she pondered.

“The Marx Brothers oeuvre that I watched in all-day marathons to beat the summer heat as a kid? Paper Moon? Young Frankenstein? The Harder They Come? Yellow Submarine? Richard Pryor’s Live in Concert with my mom at age 11? Liquid Sky at 15? Pasolini’s Oedipus Rex? Holy Mountain? Every Cassavetes film? Killer of Sheep? Born in Flames? Naked Spaces: Living is Round? Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, or Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles? The Right Way? Crystal Voyager? Pain & Gain?”

Finally, after a “panic of picking,” Kahn made a decision. “Last week, in a spontaneous pop-culture education moment on a long car ride with my 12-year-old, I played the entire record of Pink Floyd’s The Wall. He prefers Young Thug, but listened intently. I hadn’t heard the album since probably 1983. I first saw the movie at age 13, on opening night and (stupidly) on my first acid trip. Pre-dating popular music videos, but post-The Who’s Tommy, The Wall’s editing and sound design make seamless shifts between live-action and animation, between the images formed in our minds from listening to the music and the images onscreen.

“Full of existential crises—namely those that stem from the blurring of socio-political terror (for example, the rise of fascism) with personal anxiety and depression—The Wall might hold up as a perfect rock film for youth living in the nightmare of Trump times.”

Olaf Breuning

Assault on Precinct 13,  John Carpenter (1976)

Known for absurdist cartoons, over-the-top faux-travel videos, and elaborately staged photographic tableaux, Breuning fondly recalls discovering this action-flick about besieged cops decades ago in his native Switzerland. “I was around 20, and had come home late at night and turned on the TV after a wonderfully boring country-disco night,” he says. “It was playing the scene in Assault on Precinct 13, where criminal intruders were shooting the windows of the police station. And the sound! Carpenter has a very good, unique use of sound. I just stared at this scene. Over the next few months I became addicted to his movies.”

Gregor Hildebrandt

Bonjour Tristesse, Otto Preminger (1958)

Still from Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse. Image courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art.

This German artist’s mixed-media paintings and sculptures often allude to music, using its physical remnants (cassette tape, cut vinyl records) as a medium. But he’s long been influenced by cinema, as well. “I had a profound experience when I watched this Otto Preminger film,” Hildebrandt says. “Juliette Gréco is singing the song ‘Bonjour Tristesse,’ while Jean Seberg dances–first with an admirer, and then with her father. At the end of the scene, which was initially in black and white, the film zooms into the colorful past. The voice-over thoughts of Seberg’s character overlap Gréco’s song.

“It is, for me, a perfect excerpt from the film, where several things come together in peculiar synergy. This scene was a pivotal moment for my paper works, in which I complement an image with a fragment of soundtrack. In a similar way to the admirer in the film, who can’t hear his dancing partner’s thoughts, the beholder doesn’t have access to the song present in my work.”

Julieta Aranda

Dead Man’s Letters, Konstantin Lopushansky (1986)

“This is a fairly obscure post-apocalyptic Russian science fiction film,” says Mexico City-born Aranda, an artist who develops nuanced multimedia installations and collaborative projects like the e-flux video rental program. “I watched it when I was 13 years old, at the bequest of my geography teacher at the time. This was a man to whom I gave a lot of headache–not only am I terrible at geography (because I lack a sense of orientation), but at the time I was the epitome of a problematic student. So off to the movies I went….and a different teenager walked out of the movie theater.

“I was already interested in science-fiction as a literary genre, and had thought about becoming a writer, but after this film, I decided to become a filmmaker. Clearly I am not a filmmaker now, so something happened along the way, but that is a different story. At least for the next dozen years, the memory of this film was a guiding light for me. I took pains to track a downloadable copy of it, and was afraid to watch it, as I was worried about realizing that one of my foundational works was nothing more than a coming-of-age piece (anybody that has re-read Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf in their thirties knows what I am talking about). But that fear was unfounded; the film is superb.”

Baseera Khan

Girl’s Trip, Malcolm D. Lee (2017)

For a show early in 2017 at Participant Inc. in New York, Khan presented multimedia works that explored gender and Islam, and staged a performance in which she struggled to ascend a climbing wall whose handholds were body-casts of her limbs. Her choice for a salient and influential film was rather surprising: a 2017 comedy featuring Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Tiffany Haddish on a journey to New Orleans. She itemized her responses to the film as follows (Artsy isn’t responsible for any spoilers):

“Note #1: I bootlegged a copy with a laugh-track and live theater commentary.

Note #2: Grapefruits, need I say more?

Note #3: I’m wondering about the dynamics of four as a comedy routine. Aren’t there four people in a barbershop quartet?

Note #4: This film resolved itself in the patrilineal status quo, but broke said status quo with moments of real, totally believable comedic circumstance: women that risk performing against their beauty and power to reach a collective balance.

Note #5: Pee showers and ziplines in New Orleans—an example of the unexpected.

Note #6: Sister-solidarity by way of opposing teams of sisterhood fighting for the loyalty of the same man.…This is an example of what we as a creative legacy of writers, artists, and musicians have to keep pushing against, until industries allow for more meaningful narrative twists-and-turns that bend toward feminist intersectionality.”

Shana Moulton

Twin Peaks (television series), David Lynch (1990–91)

Moulton’s video art mixes lo-fi effects with fantasy and absurdity to stir unexpected emotions. She says that “although there were some films that had a massive impact, nothing was as life-changing” for her as the original Twin Peaks television series, which debuted in 1990 (followed by a film in 1992, and a Showtime reboot earlier this year).

“Growing up in a small town near Yosemite National Park, I’d had zero exposure to any contemporary art or experimental film, unless you count Fantasia or Escape to Witch Mountain. Twin Peaks aired when I was around 13 and it was the first thing to, in the words of David Foster Wallace, ‘ring my psychic cherries.’ It was my first mature contact with the sublime, and my first obsession. I expressed that obsession by scrapbooking all Twin Peaks magazine articles, collecting all associated merchandise, imagining Laura Palmer was my best friend, and making a home-video reenactment of the Black Lodge scene from the final episode. I played both Laura and BOB and directed my cousins and my little brother in the other roles. Making that home video planted the seed for my own Whispering Pines.”

Cécile B. Evans

It’s All About Love, Thomas Vinterberg (2003)

Joaquin Phoenix and Claire Danes in It’s All About Love. Photo by Sundance/WireImage.

“This is a wonderfully terrible movie that introduced me to my favorite genre of cinema: the unbridled follow-up film, a genre exclusively populated by men,” says Evans, whose own eclectic work has dabbled with artificial intelligence, dance performances modeled on those of North Korean performers, and a digital reanimation of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. “A director follows up on their first wildly successful film—which in Vinterberg’s case was Festen—and is suddenly gifted with budget, actors, an army of visual effects, and unrelenting support to live their genius.

“In It’s All About Love, the result is unsettling and unhinged. The film is set in the future, where Claire Danes is a Polish figure skater who is divorcing Joaquin Phoenix. She wants to retire but suspects she is being cloned, and needs Joaquin’s help. Adding to their sense of urgency, people keep dropping dead from ‘not enough love,’ and Joaquin’s brother, played by Sean Penn, has escaped to an airplane that is permanently in flight, where everyone seems to have eschewed the smoking ban.

“As a sidebar, the whole country of Uganda seems to be losing gravity, its people saying self-conscious things like ‘We’re not angels. We’re ordinary people.’ That’s just the set up. At some point in production, Vinterberg called Ingmar Bergman and asked him to help finish the film. He declined. The studio tried to bill it as sci-fi apocalyptic but Vinterberg insisted that it’s merely ‘a dream.’ It was an utter flop, and one of the best worst films about the human condition. It’s changed the way I approach my own projects and I sometimes re-watch it when I’m nervous about an idea.”

Those curious about the influence of this big-budget disaster on Evans’s own work can find her this fall at the Ural Industrial Biennal; the 7th Moscow Biennale; or the Museum Leuven, where she has a solo up through November 19th.

Tomáš Rafa

The Shop On Main Street, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos (1965)

This Slovakian artist’s powerful “New Nationalisms” (which remains on view at MoMA PS1 in New York through September 10th) presents a series of visceral documentary films tracking, among other things, the resurgence of right-wing and populist movements around the globe. When asked to suggest a movie that has inspired him, he chose this 1965 feature that the Criterion Collection dubbed a “scathing exploration of one cowardly man’s complicity in the horrors of a totalitarian regime.”

“This film had a strong influence on me,” Rafa explains. “It showed how xenophobia and fear manipulated people against the Jews during World War II, in the (first) Slovak Republic. Unfortunately, we’re witnessing a very similar attitude these days against refugees and minorities—the Roma people—in Central Europe. I’m afraid history is repeating itself.”

Sanford Biggers

Network, Sidney Lumet (1976)

Working across media, Biggers has wrought new meaning out of quilts, African iconography, and pop culture figures like Fat Albert (whom he appropriated in the form of a massive inflatable sculpture). He looks to Network, a classic drama about the world of broadcast journalism, as a “film that becomes more relevant every few years, as contemporary society echoes its satirical descent. I frequently think of the absurdity of the movie’s premise when it was released in 1976—yet how prescient it was in foreseeing televangelism, the meta-celebrity of reality TV, and the news media as a corporate and political distraction-strategy.”

Guido van der Werve

Big River Man, John Maringouin (2009)

Photo by John Maringouin. Courtesy of Lightshow Creative.

The art world is rarely seen as a bastion of physical fitness, but this Dutch artist is an exception; a 2011 performance work in New York involved him leading a 30-mile run. He cites a 2009 documentary about an epic-minded athlete as a personal favorite film.

“It’s about a Slovenian swimmer, Martin Strel, who made it his mission to swim all the big rivers in the world,” van der Werve says. “He swam the Mississippi, the Danube, and the Yangtze. The last and longest one left was the Amazon. This documentary is about him swimming that river.

“I’m not a big fan of artificial narratives in movies. To me, watching Strel swimming through beautiful nature and observing everybody involved—his relatives and guides—really moved me. They were all just there, participating in the action, because it was their sport, mission, or job; nobody was in the movie for a fake reason. The film is quite dramatic but also very funny, which in the end creates a great balance. As a performance artist who is interested in feature films that exist for a reason other than entertainment, this movie did everything right.”

Jesper Just

Un Chant d’Amour, Jean Genet (1950)

“This is a peculiarity, the only film from renowned French writer Jean Genet,” says Just, a Danish artist whose own films occasionally and adopt or subvert the tropes of mainstream cinema. “Set in a French prison, the film depicts an unorthodox homoerotic love triangle between a voyeuristic prison guard, an older Algerian prisoner and a young prisoner, without any of the three ever fully consummating their desires. One scene in particular, in which the men express their desires alone, from either side of a wall, influenced my 2013 piece Intercourses. Whereas Genet stripped his film of sound, sound became imperative in my piece to help create a sense of space and orientation, but this same longing—in which an architectural structure becomes a character, an insurmountable obstacle or conduit for repressed homosexual desire—was extremely influential to me.”

Marc Hundley

Strangers in Good Company, Cynthia Scott (1990)

“Except for one actress, everyone in the all-female cast is a non-professional, using their real name,” explains Hundley, whose romantic, earnest work often alludes to pop and folk music favorites, from the Smiths to Joni Mitchell. “This film has everything, except men!” The New York Times approvingly referred to Strangers in Good Company as a “gentle Canadian film” that “feels less like a drama than a vacation, and an outstandingly tranquil vacation at that.”

—Scott Indrisek

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People You Probably Saw This Past Green Key

By Snoop Lioness

Lingerie Dancer

Body parts! Skin! Positive body images! Naked people! Is this hyper-sexual? Is this hyper-asexual? Is this something you’re not even thinking about because you want to strip down too just because it’s so fucking hot? Only you can say.

Tackiez Crowd

Partially KDE ’17s feeling sentimental about their last Tackiez. Mostly ’20s.

Cutter Attendee

Can’t say. Doesn’t remember. By deduction, must be someone who is a self-proclaimed degenerate. Later, you’ll find them miraculously rallying, booting upstairs in some frat, or snugly asleep in their bed at 9 pm.

Fancy Champagne Crew

People who enjoy getting dressed up, taking pictures, and drinking champagne. You always think that it will be as fun as a formal, but then get there and remember that there is little overlap between the people who enjoy getting dressed up, taking pictures, and drinking champagne and the people who actually make formals fun. Peep them on the most facetimey Facebook photo album about 2 weeks from now.

Pop Punk Crowd

Similar to the people seen at Tackiez the previous night (overeager ’20s, not sentimental KDE ’17s) wearing similar colors. They all sing along to songs people have on their exercise playlists but skip over while exercising.

RTRTs Attendee

Wild conglomeration of Cutter Attendees in odd costumes who miraculously managed to rally, Fancy Champagne Crew members who realized Champagne isn’t as fun as a formal and left to seek out adventure, and Pop Punk Crowd ’20s who mill around underfoot after getting kicked out of Pop Punk pre-tails. Outfits, while outwardly drastically diverse, are equally drenched in sweat and spilled alcohol.

Block Party Girl

Either skipped class to start drinking, went to class and started drinking there, or raced home in a frenzy from class to rip some shots before heading back out. No matter how her alcohol consumption began, she will leave Block Party with a collection of happy, wholesome pictures of herself smiling in the sunshine with her romper- and sundress-clad friends (unless she got too drunk to take nice pictures, in which case she’ll sit and stew as her friends edit their Instagram posts before simply resolving to get something good at Lawn Party).

Friend’s Visitor

You may forget his name as soon as he says it, but you will remember to avoid hitting your friend up for pong, since you aren’t trying to spend your Green Key watching a visitor learn how to serve. He will keep his friend from getting laid this weekend, but he himself will Tinder furiously.

Cheat Codes

Remixed that one Sex song of his that you already knew and had been excited to sing along to. It didn’t need to be remixed. It was already a remix. Slightly meta, very extra.

Concert Drunk

Someone pushes you. You push back. He turns around and for a second you expect him to either start a fight or make some obnoxious comment, but instead you are met with glazed-over eyes and a bamboozled expression that indicates that he will wet his bed as soon as some unfortunate good-samaritan “friend” drags him home and tucks him in.

Studious Student

Spent Green Key cooped up working in some grim spot in the library (that’s redundant, though — all spots in the library are grim during Greek Key). You didn’t see her in real life (unless you were droco-ing and caught a glimpse of her bustling around, backpack on and Foco-to-go container in hand) but rather in a sad snapchat story or finsta post you checked in the morning while recovering from your hangover.

Lawn Party Girl

Looking for something to do between her escapades at Pine brunch, TDX Pig Roast, and the KDE concert. Taking advantage of this new day, new darty mentality as a second chance to take the perfect sundress and romper pictures that she failed to get at Block Party.

Sunday Friend

A complete stranger who you swear you have never before laid eyes on hits you with that “Heyyyyy!” and hug on Sunday morning. Bonus points if she pulls her friend(s) over and says, “remember [your name here] and how WILD she was this weekend?” Given the nature of the commencement of your relationship, you realize you will likely never get to a bonding point in which you admit you do not remember meeting her; thus, you just play along and act as enthusiastic about your weekend and friendship together as she does.