#AND IN THE END

[speciouspessimism]

crazy over how the raven cycle is as much about gansey’s quest to find a dead king as it’s about his quest to find a dead son, the Ronan Lynch that died with his father

[marril96]

Criminal Minds 1.01 | Extreme Aggressor / 15.10 | And in the End

[ronanceautistic]

I am obsessed with how many insane Ruby Sunday conspiracies there were on this blog and yet not a single one of them was correct. She’s a monster, she’s the doctors daughter, she’s Sutekh’s daughter, she’s a tv show character, she’s the human embodiment of storytelling.

And then in the end she’s literally just Some Guy. That’s so fucking funny.

[saltyloafy]

madoka magica teaches us to never lose hope even in the face of absolute and definite failure bc there is nothing worse than succumbing to despair. it teaches us that there is always a way out and that the only way to truly overcome overwhelming fear is by continuing to shine through it. there is always a way out if you just keep believing that there is one

[meymey-draws]

I IGNORE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS CANON ONE FOR THE SAKE OF MY MENTAL HEALTH😐😐😐

Like they had everthing on the battle mode, and yet, they decided to put her with the Panda......

I just hope that Mr Overload doesn't have a canon ship in a while, or so I'll lose my mind(actually, most of the VS I consider it a canon ship, I just want that mostly have a official name lmao)

[harrisongslimited]

George Picture of the Day 5-29-24

We'll never say good night.

Thank you Fred Astaire55.

[50shadesofpattinson]

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

[thatlonelycactus]

Quick reminder that Crowley was the first being to ever love in the universe whilst Aziraphale was the first being to fall in love.

Which is so heartbreaking on so many levels (imo)

[giggly-squiggily]

Ok ok, you said Uzui is the only hashira who hasn’t lost it during a pedicure right??? In one of the asks you answered I think privately. …

I think he would lose it during one of those fish pedicure thingies. He just seems like the kind of person that if he’s a little tipsy he wouldn’t be able to hold back, yk???? Anyway, there was my rant 🫡

*slaps both hands onto table ala Phoenix Wright* YESH! Oh my god I love that??? Tengen is completely fine during normal pedicures and mostly sober; I think it's all the running- gives him enough callouses to numb the tickles kjaerjkaejkrjek

But fish??? FISH??? God help him- he's done for kjlarjkeakrjejk

I like to think it's when he goes to the spa with his wives; they've got the new fish thing happening and Suma's all: "Let's try it!" and Tengen's thinking to himself "Oh this would be cute, seeing my wives' reaction!" So he agrees despite Makio and Hinatsuru's uncertainty. He reassures them it'd be fine and all that good stuff so they head in- get some drinks, dressed in robes yada yada yada.

Tengen lasted about 0.002 seconds before immediately breaking down into giggles. He was not PREPARED! His plan? Backfired- whether they were feeling as ticklish as he was he couldn't tell, he was too busy fighting for his life as the little buggers did their thing akjrkjeajkrejkjk He's got a booming laugh but not loud enough to scare off the fishes! It takes everything in him not to pull his feet out and run akjrkjaerkjaejkjke

By the end of it, Suma's giddy, Makio's mildy embarrassed but mostly giggly and Hinatsuru's gently chiding him about trying to show off, but Tengen feels pretty great all around cause his wives are happy- and that makes all the ticklishness worth it.

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

It's wild how Kamala Harris's "crazy left-wing" down-payment support for first time buyers policy is literally existing government policy here in Ireland, brought in by our centre-right neoliberal political party. I've said it many times, but a lot of mainstream Democrats would be well at home in Fine Gael and that's not a compliment.

[uponthenormandy]

reading nexus uprising really made me a huge sloane fan. i will kill anyone and everyone for you

[chill4234]

Man I love Omori and Steven Universe, on tge first watch/playthrough it’s all fun and games but on the second time around you see that foreshadowing is everywhere and it feels like being stabbed. No other piece of media does it like them.

[lillybearrie]

Icarus is selfish and vain,They are jealous and they are hotheaded. These things they know to be true and yet they don't turn around the don't say anything they just let it happen

Because above all that they were before and all they are now

They have a duty

They have a job

And when it's done they'll go home

...some part of them had still hoped that he would have been waiting for them tho

Even to he'd more likely be dead...

Now that's a certainty

[lover-of-skellies]

naw it‘s cool i am justvery silly rn

Pfft, I gotcha 👌

For future reference (if it's needed at all, idk), I'm an English speaker. I know a few individual words in German, French, Spanish, and Japanese, but in no way shape or form am I fluent in any of it

I took a French class for 4 years, and I had to stop because it got too advanced for me. My brain didn't have enough wrinkles to store all that information, I guess 🤷‍♀️

[melit0n]

EUCLID ANALYSIS.

Part one -> Title and meaning

Part two -> Line by line analysis part one

Part three -> Line by line analysis part two

Part four -> Musical/instrumental notes

Part five -> The Night in Sleep Token

Part six -> You're already here!

So, after all this, we have to come to some sort of conclusion about our points. One main and obvious conclusion can be made about exactly what Euclid is about; change. Overall, Euclid holds a constant theme of change and acceptance, both pushed through callbacks to previous songs and through general lyricism.

As stated in the post previous to this one, TMBTE, as an album, is about the turmoil of accepting change, therefore making Euclid the cap of acceptance of the passing of time, that Vessel needs to change and has changed and that’s okay.

However, we still have a few theories to talk about.

Euclid can be perceived as being a form of symmetry; a parallel that Vessel lays his life on because it brings all of the produced albums, all of his stories, together. It is symmetric because it reflects Vessel’s past, rotates what once was into something new, translates Vessel’s pain and what Sleep has to say into something manageable and combines past songs to create something that isn’t as different as we believe it to be from said songs.

Even so, Euclid could also be Vessel, which I don’t feel the need to explain since I’ve already linked the post the idea comes from, but I’ll do it again here.

Furthermore, Euclid could also be the replacement for Vessel in the future. As I stated in the first of these series of posts, the album art literally depicts a copy of Vessel, the same but different, holding the severed head of his era two’s mask. Euclid is about change, so, who’s to say the change isn’t Sleep having a new mouthpiece?

All in all, Euclid is about the past, present and probably, the future, which is most likely why I’ve been drawn to it so much. I talk about myself much more on this blog than I do in real life, so, it’s probably known to my followers that my greatest fear is the passage of time and change, which is why I’ve been so interested in this song. It depicts the thing that I have been afraid of for most of my life as ethereal and good. Inevitable, but comforting.

I think that would be the best sum up for the topic of this song; inevitable, but comforting.

So, you may now be asking ‘Mel, what do you think Euclid is about? You’ve talked about these different theories, not given much reason why you think so but still, and what Euclid could be, so what do you think?’

With full honesty? I am completely unsure. I have listened to this song over and over again since when it came out in May, 8 full months, had it consume my waking and dreaming thoughts, sat down and wrote all this and I still don’t fully know. Euclid is, in my perception of it, all of these things. Euclid could be Vessel’s past name or the vessel that will replace him. Euclid could be symmetry itself! Euclid could be all three of these things and more that I haven’t been able to decipher.

However, what I can say, is that Euclid is most definitely a eulogy, a reprise and a thank you. I view it as a love letter of sorts to all of Sleep Token’s past music (the albums One and Two included). In @todaysemotionalsupportsong own words: it’s an open door, a new beginning. It feels like sunshine streaming through trees finally blooming and like everything will be okay.

The reason why I believe Euclid to be a thank you to us as a collective, other than what I have already said, is because of the general nature of Sleep Token. Vessel, in all his anonymity, can sing his tunes to the void and you, who are there in the gloom visiting the past or sat there believing you are alone, mistake the words for your own and mould them to your own experiences. That is the gift Vessel is giving us, that is why Euclid is a thank you.

I apologise if this is not the conclusion any of you reading came here for, because I physically cannot give you enough solid evidence to confirm nor deny any of these theories. When I write literature essays, I always have something to go on; context clues from the author’s life or something confirmed by someone far past my era to base my ideas on, but with this? I have my thoughts and the people on my Tumblr dash. I have no way to source potential context to support my statements because I don’t have a clue who Vessel is and, in the nicest way possible, I don’t care to know either. Outside of lore speculations, I can’t give you much other than stating and analysing the obvious, which is the whole point of Sleep Token. They are here to deliver a message, be mouthpieces for suffering and joy, nothing more, as derogatory as that sounds.

Despite this, I hope whoever has read through eight months of the inner workings of my mind trying to dissect this song has found entertainment, or perhaps clarity through it. Thank you, reader, for even sitting down and reading these posts.

Worship.

[batwynn]

Sending love today, in particular, to my bipolar friends. I know it’s hard. I know you struggle, and I know how often people don’t understand you. I can’t promise everyone will, but I can promise that you can be loved. You are loved.