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[a-s-levynn]

Remember if you unblocked your sleep token spoilers tags, today is a real good day to turn them back on before everything starts rolling out tomorrow!

[a-s-levynn]

You are so wonderful, and you don't even know it.🥹

I genuinely don't know how to respond. I appreciate the sentiment i truly do, but trust me, you are the wonderful one. You all are the wonderful ones, not little old me. I'm not being humble, i'm not being self-deprecating, but i probably wouldn't be here if not for you. Not in the dramatic way, but i mean i would not be drawing, i would not be in the fandom, i would just sitting in my room alone even more. So when i say that i owe you a lot, i mean it.

[a-s-levynn]

"A sacred guardian" A Series of Small Offerings - IV/1 - day33

[a-s-levynn]

Are you.. planning to do what i think you are planning to do? Because if yes, sign me the fuck up as the most excited person on the planet at this very moment. For real. And don't you dare say you are not an artist. You already made art.

artist /ˈɑːtɪst/ noun noun: artist; plural noun: artists 1. a person who creates paintings or drawings as a profession or hobby.

May i direct your attention to the OR A HOBBY part? You are an artist my friend, either you like it or not.

A Series of Small Offerings

or a Sleep Token prompt list based on lyrics

A 4 part art challenge that can be an extensive several weeks long endeavour or you can pick and choose the part(s) that interest you the most.

Big or small, wonky or beyond artistic, just a scribble or a masterpiece; drawing, sculpture, drabble, full on fanfic or even a piece of music? Everything has a place here so long you enjoy creating it. No offering is too small to be a worthy one. 🫶🏻

Pick one (or even both) of the lines from the given song. Take it as literal or abstract as an inspiration as you feel fitting and let the creativity flow.

Worship. 🙏🏻

(edited version with Shelter added, a line switched for TMBTE, corrected Blood Sport lyrics)

PART I - ONE, TWO and the singles

Thread the Needle

You turn the lights down / Come on and find out or Just look at where we're lying / An invisible space

2. Fields of Elation

The daylight recedes in unison, this room / Buries the hours like death, in motion or And nobody else can pull me out / And the fields of elation, quiet and loamy

3. When the Bough Breaks

We could stay suspended / Even when the bough breaks or You don't really love, you just hate to be alone

4. Calcutta

I sweat and I ache for / Your eyes and the way you breathe or Melting skywards more than silence broken / I'm whole again for just a moment

5. Nazareth

Building you a kingdom / Dripping from the open mouth, [I'll show you] or Manifest pain at the core of pleasure / I'll see you when the wrath comes around

6. Jerico

Tread, ancient water salt / Like I sink, down like precious stones or My hands are not worthy

7. Jaws

The whites of your eyes burn / From across the room or Caged and always provoked / By prey left unattended

8. The Way That You Were

To tear that knife from what once / Would have been dead fingers or And you will no longer / Stand between collapsing walls

PART II - Sundowning

The Night Does Not Belong To God

The whites of your eyes / Turn black in the lowlight in turning divine or And the night comes down like heaven

2. The Offering

And you are a garden, entwined with all / You are the silence on sacred shores or So take a bite, I want to know

3. Levitate

And we imitate a story of perfect days / A ballad we fabricate or Will you levitate / Up where my love doesn't matter?

4. Dark Signs

And where we met, there must have been dark signs / Omens in your skies or And I hate who I have become (I might break and bend to my basic need to be loved and close to somebody)

5. Higher

And we are exhausted by all this pretending / We just can't resist the violence or When you're alone / I am granting you more than / The debt that I owe

6. Take Aim

And it sends me shivers / How you love like weapons kill or Call, won't you call out my name? / Like a curse on this world?

7. Give

I'll tear the fibre from the filament / I'll be the limit of your light again or Want to give you all that I can give / All my darkest impulses

8. Gods

No more teeth to bite with / No more smiling faces i am alone again or Like fire from the heavens / Tearing me asunder beside you

9. Sugar

We still know how to feed / We still know how to bleed or Let me wrap the chains / Addicted to the pain, oh

10. Say That You Will

Is that a glint in your eye? / Is that a blade in your palm? or In this light you are mine

11. Drag Me Under

And I know the gods will abandon the heavens just to find us or Hold me beneath the surface (And I know the angels tonight are as lost for words)

12. Blood Sport

Even if the sky cracks in mourning / And the heavens just won't open up for me or Tangled with what I never said / You say it doesn't matter

13. Shelter

When it rains, you don't take shelter / You don't take signs from God or And as you become part of my waking rituals, I can tell / You gather up all of my demons

PART III - This Place Will Become Your Tomb

Atlantic

Crumble like a temple built from future daughters / To wasteland when the oceans recede or So flood me like Atlantic, weather me to nothing / Wash away the blood on my hands

2. Hypnosis

Lift, oh, lift me out / Of my own skin or Split my skin, no / Just make me bleed

3. Mine

We balance fire in the earth we walk / Will never stop me reaching forth or With colors over all the wasted years / Eternity will bring you near

4. Like That

New weapons to snap those final strings / Just to watch me fall back or Push down into membranes and layers / Creating a slow dissection

5. The Love You Want

Too many swallowed keys / Will make you bleed internally someday, oh or Now keep the freakshow talk / To a careful minimum

6. Fall For Me

In a city of ice there are burning cathedrals / Turning the skies into glass or And I feel like I'm losing touch with what I am again / And slowly I remember why I cannot pretend

7. Alkaline

It's too late for me now, I am altered / There is something beneath or I see in a different light / The objects of my desire

8. Distraction

'Cause I am broken into fractions / Oh, and I am driven to distraction or Something much more than I could ask for

9. Descending

Create, release or My love withers and chokes in perfect awe

10. Telomeres

And we go beyond the farthest reaches / Where the light bends and wraps beneath us or Through death / My arms are open

11. High Water

When the mouth of infinity / Buries its teeth in me or Wash me clean again before I pull myself beneath the waves

12. Missing Limbs

The blessings rain on battles in the heaven's arms or 'Cause it still makes my blood run cold / To remember what I did before

PART IV - Take Me Back To Eden

Chokehold

A sacred guardian or Even if I can't sleep / Oh, and though we act out of our holy duty to be constantly awake

2. The Summoning

A taste of the divine or Take me past the edge / I want to see the other side

3. Granite

Between the second hand smoke and the glass on the street or Never mind the death threats / Parting at the door

4. Aqua Regia

Following a bloodtrail, frothing at the maw or Between the pain and the way you look / I'm stuck in a time where the mountains shook

5. Vore

You have become the voice in my head or Will we remain stuck in the throat of gods? / Will the pain stop if we go deeper?

6. Ascensionism

Your reflection, your bitter deception / Setting you free or With one eye on the door, other eye on a rail / Other, other eye following a scarlet trail

7. Are You Really Okay?

I was trying to hold back the darkness or But I, I don't believe you when you tell me you are fine

8. The Apparition

I wake up to a suicide frenzy / Loaded dreams still leave me empty or Just let me go or take me with you

9. DYWTYLM

Do you pull at the chains? / Or do you push into constant aching? or Do you ever believe / That we can turn into different people?

10. Rain

Refracted in light, reflected in sound or And I know, I know, I am what I am / The mouth of the wolf, the eyes of the lamb

11. Take Me Back To Eden

We dive through crystal waters, perfect oceans / But no one told me not to breathe or I'm a waking hell and the gods grow tired / Reset my patient violence along both lines of a pathway higher

12. Euclid

The night belongs to you / This bough has broken through or The whites of your eyes / Turn black in the low light

Thank you so much if you took any part of this on or just read through it.

Never forget, that the most important thing is that no matter what,

Worship 🙏🏻

[a-s-levynn]

I'm not denying that i'm likeable to a degree, people yell at me for that enough, i can see you all's tags. I'm just protesting the idea of me being "cool" or "amazing" or any of that. Cuz i'm not. I use the raccoon analogy specifically for that reason. Because those rubbishdwellers are likeable fuckups but still nothing special. I love them but probably because i never had to have spend considerable amounts of time alongside them. 🤷🏻😂

You are so talented and kind and cool and we are damn lucky to be sharing space with you!!! 🌻

Oh no, you got it backwards. I am the lucky one, to be accepted into this little corner of the fandom, for this long now, and on top, have the absolute privilege to be able to call many of you friend. The honour is mine. 🫶🏻

And sadly, i'm still not cool. I am a lot of things, but cool i ain't. Not even a smidge.

[a-s-levynn]

It finally happend!

Ever since i printed the first batch of tiny stickers, i carried at least one of them in my phonecase, for the chance of someone stopping me if i'm wearing merch or my pin on my bag gets noticed.

This very morning, while i was unassumingly riding the escalator out of the metro, trying to fight off the lack of sleep, the person behind me poked me with the "i don't really ever do this, but i love your pin."

I was my usual awkward self, but i am still one tiny sticker shorter, and hopefully made someone's day a bit more fun.

😭🫶🏻

[a-s-levynn]

dripping like gold on a ruin of a soul

[a-s-levynn]

❤️ I admire your work -- ahem, play -- ahem, art -- so much ⚘️ it's so exciting to see your trying out different styles and experimenting with technique and evolving so beautifully 🌱 I hope this isn't too effusive. You get affirmation from a lot of people so I know my appreciation is just a drop in the bucket. 🌥 But I guess I think you might like to see it anyway. 😃

Generally i don't get that much feedback, beyond the one or two drawings that made some rounds, but it's okay. As long as a few people leave a nice tag or two i'm happy. The less poetic way of saying it is, that like anyone else who makes stuff and puts it out there, i'm a whore for any sort of positive feedback and validation. And the truth is somewhere on a sliding scale between the two, depending on the day.

So yes, i immensely appreciate people going above and beyond to let me know they do enjoy what i have to offer to the fandom. What i'm trying to say is, that thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to reach out! It genuinely means a whole lot more than i could ever express.

[a-s-levynn]

dripping like gold on a ruin of a soul

[a-s-levynn]

damned gold... why do i had to put it there as an option, why do i have to hate myself so much (╯'□')╯︵ ┻━┻

This could be fun, gimme a colour for a possible future drawing

[a-s-levynn]

Status: ✨️ BALD ✨️

For the bald Ves enjoyers, specifically

You know what. I find digital drawing kinda therapeutic in a weird way. Sure you can correct a pencil drawing but there is so much room for error with that. Erase too much and the paper thins out. There is no limits on re-try digitally. So i guess the digital thing might end up to be the alternative when i'm tired and stressed out. Just to do whatever? Because i have not wasted neither paper nor pencil even if i mess it up or don't end up liking it.

I don't know, i'm still figuring it out. But what i'm sure of is that i still prefer pencil and paper at the end of the day. I just sometimes need a break and not to care.

[a-s-levynn]

This could be fun, gimme a colour for a possible future drawing

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Reminder:

Anything that's not drawings related goes to: @a-s-levynn-sparebrain

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just a random sketch from quite some time ago

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And we are exhausted by all this pretending, we just can't resist the violence

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work in progress