made a new header for my tumblr! this time with some of my favorite dc characters ;)
Flowey will remember this decision
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The screams were deafening. Loud enough to drown out the blaring ringing feedback from the microphone.
The very same microphone that was now grotesquely smashed into Skye Riley’s face, the entire right half covered in blood and other unidentifiable flesh.
As the puddle of blood continued to grow around the now completely still pop star, the entire crowd abruptly surged backwards, as if just beginning to come out of a trance.
And then the true panic began.
It was a free for all, and every single person in the auditorium was scrambling, dashing, and dragging their ways past each other and through the sea of terrified concert goers in an attempt to escape the horrifying scene that had played out before them.
Not everyone was darting for the exits, however. There were still several people (whether it be the morbidly curious, or the devastated family and friends of Skye) that had stayed behind and were now instead rushing towards the stage towards the dead pop singer.
Elizabeth rushed forwards, her daughter’s name in her mouth as she screamed, immediately hopping over the small divider fence and immediately moving to climb up onto the stage where her child had been standing only moments ago. Back when all of her blood was still inside her body.
Elizabeth tore through the small crowd of security guards, police officers, a few concerned concert goers, backup dancers and a few friends of Skye’s.
“Move!!! Jesus MOVE!!” She screamed at them, her voice breaking as she approached her daughter’s still form.
Finally, after what felt like ages, the crowd parted enough that Elizabeth could rush through, and was immediately taken aback once she reached her.
Skye’s face (smeared with still-warm blood) was drawn in a tight smile, her one remaining eye completely empty.
Elizabeth froze, feeling as though her heart had just been shattered, ripped apart into tiny pieces, and she felt her breath catch in her throat.
Before she could stop herself, she keeled over and vomited on the now bloodstained stage.
A strong, tough figure rushed to her side, kneeling beside her as the crowd closed once again, pushing Elizabeth to the outskirts. Several people were frantically calling 911, requesting for aid and medical attention.
Elizabeth knew better.
Her daughter, no matter how much she wanted her to be alive, was not there anymore.
She gagged again, and she felt a hand lightly touch her back, before a pair of arms tugged her to her feet and embraced her.
When had she started crying? She found she couldn’t tell.
And who was screaming like that?? Oh wait. That was also her.
Her hands found their way around the strong figure’s torso, hands latching onto the back of their shirt and squeezing.
The night moved like a blur.
One moment, there was a crowd on the stage, and she was in the middle of it, then she was sprinting out after a group of paramedics who were frantically trying to pack Skye’s wounds, injecting her with adrenaline, and performing CPR on her body. Elizabeth knew that it was a futile and hopeless attempt. Skye was gone, and she found that she could quite literally not process that thought.
The last thing she had said to her daughter was encouragement to smile. To get out there on the stage and have fun, relax, perform. Sing her heart out, and dance, and enjoy her life and her success.
A sudden realization dawned on Elizabeth as she was frantically climbing into the passenger seat of the escort vehicle.
Skye had begged her to not have to perform.
She had said she wasn’t ready. That she was scared and that she felt like she was going crazy.
And how did she react??
She had called her daughter a selfish spoiled brat.
Her heart twisted painfully in her chest, another gut wrenching sob tearing its way from her throat as the van pulled away, quickly moving to catch up to the ambulance that carried her daughter.
“The sirens are still on,” the driver was saying in a panicked voice. “They only keep the lights and sirens on if there is a chance at survival. If they had declared her dead, the sirens would be off.”
“My baby…” she found herself sobbing, leaning into the arms of that same strong figure that she had held her moments ago on the stage. “My beautiful girl…” Glancing up with watery tear filled eyes, she found that it was Darius who was embracing her still.
She couldn’t make herself care enough to stop crying.
——•——-
A few yards away, within the ambulance that was still barreling its way through traffic on the way to the hospital, was a group of paramedics, all frantically trying to regain a pulse within the now flatlining pop star.
The woman on the table was small, much shorter than most, and inherently beautiful. All of them could see and knew it, but there was just something… off. About the way her face looked. Something about that horrible smile that had been stuck to the star’s face since she had struck herself with the microphone.
One paramedic clipped open the girl’s outfit, exposing the upper half of her chest. Another two were carefully and delicately removing the microphone from her face, and then trying to pack the wound full of antiseptic and gauze.
The third was preparing the defibrillators to shock life back into the lifeless girl.
“Hands off, everyone back!!!” The paramedic yelled, and immediately, everyone stepped away from her. “Clear!” He shouted, pressing the machines against her chest and causing her entire body to jolt with the electrical current. The flatline tone continued.
Everyone held their breath. This was it. If she didn’t regain a heartbeat after the third shock to the heart, she would be pronounced dead.
“Clear!!” The paramedic shouted once again, pressing the defibrillators back against her skin and causing her body to jump once again with the shock. The flatline droned on.
Two paramedics grabbed each others hands, squeezing them tightly.
“Come on now dammit!!” The paramedic shouted, charging the defibrillators one final time. “Clear!!” The man yelled, his voice brimming with desperation as he pressed the machines against her skin again. She convulsed once again, and the flatline continued.
Everyone went silent, everyone’s hearts heavy with the realization that there was no saving Skye Riley.
The famous pop star was dead. She was officially dead.
Everyone lowered their heads, two of the paramedics even allowing a few tears to stream down their cheeks.
“…Call it,” the lead paramedic said, and another looked down at his watch.
“Time of death: 7:24 pm, Octob-“
*beep.*
Everyone silenced immediately, all eyes flickering up to the heart monitor.
*beep.*
Another small beep echoed in the silent ambulance.
*beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.*
The machine let out a few small uneven beeps before finally regaining a rhythm once again, and slowly but surely picking up speed.
Every paramedic was silent before they all turned their eyes back towards each other, relief etched into all of their expressions.
“Oh Jesus Christ, it’s a miracle,” one of them mumbled with a soft laugh.
Turning Picrews into characters, cot'd! Based on this delightful one by Urgonic:
[Picrew Link]
love when writers are like “this character is SOOOO tormented. they are undiagnosable. no one could possibly understand them. they’re just so disturbed and impossible to label. they’re a mystery. no one will ever quite comprehend what goes on in their mind” whole time the cunts just autistic
“When God sends me to hell, I want him to hesitate” vs. “I have ascended to Heaven to take on the Kingdom of God” fight
I wanna start doing backgrounds like this again
Aaaa i really hope you'll be able to get in there. Vgen is such a cool website and I also want to get on there because this is genuinely such an amazing thing for artists
Hi! I usually just post fanart here and only ever ramble through the tags, but this is important for me, so please read
TL; DR is that I need this post to reach 100 likes and 5 unique comments in order to be accepted into VGen. Here's the full explanation:
I've been drawing seriously for about 9 years now (here are some examples)
For all this time, I've only ever done commissions to people I've known personally, but after all this time I feel like I've gotten to the level where I feel confident about beginning to try to work with this and go after my dreams
After some researching I found out about VGen - a site design to help both artists find clients and to help people to not end up scammed by fakers. I found it great, but issue is that getting in VGen as an artist can be hard. I'm not friends with anyone who's in so I cant ask for a code directly, I tried the contest but it didn't work out and I don't want to have to rely purely on luck - this is where you come in!
Another way of being approved is sending in a post with the tag and having it reach 100 likes and 5 unique comments. I don't like asking for engagement, but Tumblr is the platform I've done the most numbers on and I feel like this is easier than spending months trying to win at the contest
Any reblog or like genuinely means the world to me and it only takes a few moments of your time. Alternatively, if you're in VGen and have a spare code, I'd be eternally grateful if you were so kind to share it
If this doesnt work, I'll probably just keep adding the tag to my next posts until something eventually gets there. Regardless, if you read this far, thank you
In case you were curious, this is how I looked getting a mcdonalds ice cream cone
NO CCAUSE WHY IS THIS FUNNIER THAN THE ORGINAL POST
Humans are weird
Sleep. Sleep is honestly so strange. Sometimes I go to bed at a reasonable time, like 11pm. But then there are other times where I got to bed at 5am. Why do we do this? The struggles most of us have with sleep is unreal. But then even if I try to go to sleep I'm left with my thoughts, and I don't know if that's worse.
Alien: Human Kevin, you told me a human needs 8 hours of sleep a night.
Human: I'm aware
Alien: So why haven't you moved in 24 hours?
Human, drinking it's 15th cup of coffee: next question-
WHY WONT YOU LOOK AT ME.