Sing for me. Dance for me.

Fires of your imaginary Hell...
Burn strong in the Hearts of those who hate.
Fires in which...I don't believe.
The supposed good, I cannot find,
So lost will remain the bad as well.
But I am being grouped together with it?
Why? Just because I am not 'good'
Doesn't mean that I am 'bad'.

However...Over the days...
I find myself embracing the Fires.
They are so warm...So filled with light.
Like my old candle...
My personal burning Flame,
Which was so cruelly put out,
Leaving me Cold and in the Dark.

Maybe...Just this once,
I could try to join the Fire.
Just for a little while...
I'll experience what had been so repulsing about me.
Don't yell at me for it.
Please, you pushed me here in the first place.
Ye who fear what ye cannot control.
Well, fear me now.
I have embraced this nature
Which was forced upon me.

So dance now, My Minions!
Ye who are faithful, and stay in your place.
Sing now, My Slaves!
Ye who are loyal, and accept your fate.
Let us cause earthly tremors,
And shake the ground with our many numbers.
We will strike fear into the Hearts of our Enemies.
We will pay back those who have wronged us.

Sing for me, My Angels!
Show me what you are!
Dance for me, My Knights!
Hold nothing back!
Set yourselves free.
This is a celebration!
Rattle your rusted chains in the face of your captors.
Rattle them in mockery.
Make them know what they are missing!

Lift up you head, My Pet.
Hold it up high.
Keep your chin up, My Love...
And keep it that way.
Worry not, Your Dove is here.
Look at how strong I am!
Look at my new Sword.
I am no longer defenseless.
Lets us commence with this celebration.
Its our turn, now...

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This.......took......SO LONG....and SO MUCH EFFORT. Its not funny....DDDDDDDDX And I thought of so many good things to say with it too, so the writing bit was hard. ;____; But I DID IT! My GIANT HUGE experiment is FEENEESHED~ DONE. OVER. FINITO. YES~!! I am pleased to no end. ^-^ 2000x3000 pixels original size. Over 200 layers of individual shape/shade/texture layers. All textures used were made from photographs taken by your truly~ All the figures were made with the pen tool. The shading on the central figure is a kind of gradient shading i tried. Make a shape with the pen tool, then erase at an edge of it with a really big soft brush. Here's the kicker: Each person in that mosh pit of a gathering site is a sort of representative of either a real person or a character of mine (or Kori's, I put one of hers in there for giggles) that I want to pay tribute to. (anyone who can identify even just ONE OF THEM gets a cookie~)
I decided to go all out on the Hellish kinda setting...what prompted me to do so? I'm not telling. You MIGHT get a clue if you read the bits above in this description VERY closely and carefully. People I know irl, same thing. Kori will probably get it best though...(Don't worry, a LOT of that is old thoughts), but I was thinking about things several days ago, and decided to start drawing something about it, and see where it would take me. And, well......here it is.


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