Light It Up

An incredibly short story inspired by the Major Lazer — Light It Up music video, with a specific focus on 1:49–1:51. Exploring translating multimedia to a text format.

Imagine, if you will, a rave. But not just any rave. The biggest rave in the solar system.

Here humanoids from all walks of life come together with the most impressive costumes, the strongest psychedelic substances, and the most mediocre of dance moves to let loose and party for days on end. EDM music is constantly blaring, and brilliant colors refract off of the soundwaves themselves creating physics-defying feats of optical beauty.

Among these legendary festivities, one dancer stands out. His costume is much less impressive than the amorphous human shapes made entirely of multicolored string or the dancing figures sculpted from a rainbow of sand that periodically dissolve and reform, but still, he stands out.

This dancer is noteworthy for looking like a large collection of sentient lizard fecal matter.

Lizard poop, for those who are unfamiliar, is distinctive for a few reasons. Firstly, it has a strong and unique scent. Secondly, it is mostly the most repulsive shave of brown, with black and white bits here and there. This dancer shares all of these characteristics.

After only a few seconds of dancing, he appears to notice this himself, and collapse back into a non-sentient glob of lizard excrement.