#ive been working on this for 9 hours

[unreone]

GORETOBER 2023

Day 3: Contortion

CONTAINS -> BODY HORROR, WEIRD LIMB ANGLES

The crowd is murmuring amongst themselves when the overhead lights begin to dim, signifying the show will start soon. The volume of the chatters gradually hush down, save for a couple of voices seated at the front row.

"Have you heard? Mime's been learning a new trick for tonight's show."

"Yea, 'course I did. Everyone's been hyping it up. I do wonder what that is..."

As if on cue, walking to the center stage is the purple deer himself. Critters couldn't suppress their cheers and applause. How could they? Posters and word of mouth made it seem that tonight's circus act is gonna be the night they won't forget!

Something... is off though. It's not the fact that he doesn't seem to have any props with him. He is a mime after all, pretending to use invisible stuffs is his talent. No, that's not it. Despite the excited exclamations of the crowd, Mime is non-reactive. The way he brings this unsettling air, walking forwards with that unfocused stare. His silence had never been this eerie and infectious until this very moment.

Tension rises as Mime takes his time to walk to that singular spotlight saved for him and only him.

Odd. He simply stands and smile to the crowd. The silently freaking out crowd.

"Is this a joke?"

One of them blurted out, unable to bare the scraping tension. This is followed by a collective variance of chuckling. Although the laughters spent are expected to alleviate the unease, the atmosphere that the deer have established remained stiff and cold.

... okay, his stillness have gone far too long that it is starting to feel silly. Maybe this is a joke. The new act for tonight is... no act! Mime seems to have done everything already to entertain them so the newest thing he could do is simply nothing.

But just as the audience begin to accept this and calm down, a bone-chilling snap echoes through the air, causing a collective gasp from the crowd. Mime's body contorts into a particularly gruesome shape. The crowd is stunned into silence, with some even gasping or screaming.

As the audience sits in awestruck silence, Mime's body contorts and twists into seemingly impossible positions, his long limbs bending and twisting in unnatural ways. The cracks and pops of his bones echo in the silent hall, but the crowd remains utterly transfixed, unable to look away from the hypnotic display of contortionism.

A few disturbed souls manage to stammer out some words of disbelief.

"T-THOSE AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BEND!"

"WHAT KIND OF ANGLE EVEN IS THAT-!?"

"SHOULD I CALL AN AMBULANCE???"

Violently, he bends backwards, his hind legs and arms folding into knots that would break any normal deer. Screams shatter the deafening barrier. Audiences collectively wince seeing his head rotates mechanically to the full range of his neck.

Squeamish. Revolted. Sickish. and Restless.

These words barely convey the intensity of their feelings seeing the erratic movement of Mime.

Mime pauses and turns to face the crowd with a terrifying grin. His eyes gleam in the darkness, filled with a cunning glint unlike anything they've ever seen before.

After an uneasy silence, Mime suddenly stops moving altogether, leaving the audience in a state of panic. The crowd begins to push and shove each other, struggling to get away from the scene.

As they make their way out of the chamber, the audience is met with a chilling realization: that smile made this night something they will never forget.

[jadecantcreate]

some drawings of my favorite guys!!!! i just think theyre neat. love to observe their shenanigans

[yeetushaitus]

been feeling kinda constrained by my normal art recently so i did a silly color palette thing and just tried to have fun w it would do another one but its 4 in the morning lmao

[artificialac1d]

octimber 5 next few will be oscar special looks as well hehe

[cuiizhu]

meme redraws after a long break again? its more likely than u think

[spaghett-onaplate]

depression is really weird actually wdym i spent 2.5 years of my life in bed

[orcelito]

Hey I'm graduating college in may and I just kinda realized that I'll be Done Done with school after that. Not fake-done like I was graduating high school, where I'd have to go to college at the start of the fall. And not fake-done like I was in any of my semesters I took off.

Done Done. As in I accomplished my degree, and I won't ever have to go back to school if I don't want to. What a beautiful, beautiful thought.

[pawbeanies]

You shouldn't have to work a 9-5 poor puppy, you should be tied up naked to a lamp post or bench by a collar and leash in the park for strangers to pet and use during their work breaks as stress relief, you should be a public recreational toy put on display for everyone's enjoyment, awwww poor thing

awa. awawawawa. covering my face with my sleeves unFAIR to send this during the work day wtf ... mean ................ waaaah

[theloveinc]

[smute]

currently experiencing another "if you dont take a break your body will take it for you" moment. it was 35°C/95°F in my room last night when i went to bed and i was feeling very nauseous and headachey. i must've had like 5 liters of water yesterday with zero exercise which is insane, and so today i woke up at noon feeling like a complete zombie. i had thee wildest dreams and tbh i'm 75% sure i had a near death experience as well lmao

[appleslices]

@plusque i dont know how to explain but sometimes i can just do super long shifts no problem…. its usually dinner nights bc thats when i close the building so i mean i have to stay thru the whole dinner service plus like. since my workplace is a private club we dont really like rush people out at “closing time”…. like i still would prefer NOT to do 10/11 hour shifts but idk sometimes i can do them no problem like not even be super tired or cranky….like tomorrow we have a lot of events and special fiesta theme dinner night…so i’ll get there at noon and then we’re closing up and depending on how many people show up/when they show up for dinner it’ll probably be close to 10 hours tomorrow 🤐

[akascow]

getting home at 11 and having to 'wake up' at 730 because some toyota group of 100 people decided to book a private an hour before we open 🧍🏻‍♀️

[copiousamountsofcopia]

gonna go ahead and post the wip in case i never finish it ;.;

alts

[poughkeepsies]

I'm gonna have to pull an all-nighter tonight which means I'm gonna be extra unhinged when the episode airs tomorrow

[batemanofficial]

i neeeeed to get my sleep schedule in order it's so out of whack rn and with the time change it's kicking my ass

[oflgtfol]

ok so i hate writing intelligent posts abt malevolent bc im scared of posting theories that are stupid and wrong but like. im feeling that the eponymous fallen star of the order of the fallen star. is john. like this is a cult not about the king in yellow like that in season 1, but instead about the “fallen star” that fragmented off the king. Augh