#arjen

[henk-heijmans]

Polar bear climbing down a cliff to hunt Brunnich's Guillemot chicks, Alkefjellet, Norway, 2013 - by Arjen Drost (1976 - 2023), Dutch

[daveysbones]

I don't think I'll ever reach peak like this again, Ayreonblr

[avoyagetoarcturus]

The moment Ayreon's "Transitus" passed the Bechdel Test 🥲 Lavinia (Amanda Somerville) meets the Angel of Death (Simone Simons) from their song "Your Story Is Over!" 😇🔥🔮

For Folktale Week on Instagram: Day 1 "Mist," day 2 "Gate," and day 4 "Trail" ☠️

[metamorphic-stranger]

What I love about Ayreon is that you can make a venn diagram between it and any other piece of media and there will be always be something there in the middle, and it's never going to be something normal

[ay-miphae]

"noo snow you can't turn Ayreon into a marketable sticker"

me, turning Ayreon into a marketable sticker:

[starsirrah]

And here it is! The Ayreontasia 2024 Inktober Master List!💖🌙🎃✨

All prompts were submitted by friends, mutuals, and Ayreontasia fans! And the AMAZING lineart was drawn by the wonderful @docma-crm and colored by me! ^-^💖✨

Anyone is welcome to join in and participate, and you can do as many or as few prompts as you wish! And if you want to do just Avantasia or just do Ayreon, that's fine too!

Come on in, join the fun, and we'll see you in October!🎃💖✨

Wordless art below the cut:

[stormylewirmy]

So uh Lost in the New Real am I right?

[lightineventide]

01011001 theory

The most fascinating thing in the flipbook of the 01011001 CD for me are definitely the symbols which represent the characters. It can be said that they are the Forever's names (similar to Forever Of The Stars - if they use hieroglyphics instead of letters, his name could be written down as a star symbol). The meaning behind some of them is obvious - Steve Lee's character - ☯️, is a mediator, sort of a diplomat, a balanced viewpoint, and Anneke's heart hints her character's desire to help others (Comatose). But why the hell does Daniel Gildenlöw have a ®️?!

Well, it just hit me - if it doesn't have a direct connection to the idea of trademarks (which it most probably doesn't), it can be just a fancy way of writing the letter R. And what does R symbolise in Mathematics? Real numbers.

Daniel's character is the realist.

Just like Jorn's and Floor's are the idealists.

@ay-miphae Remember our conversation on the matter? What do you think about this idea? :D

[thommi-tomate]

Top players with the most assists by Thomas

Robert Lewandowski

Playing together : 343 matches

Assists: 64

Mario Gomez

Playing together: 206 matches

Assists: 26

Arjen Robben

Playing together: 281 matches

Assists: 20

Serge Gnabry

Playing together: 240 matches

Assists: 15

Mario Götze

Playing together: 160 matches

Assists: 13

Franck Ribery

Playing together: 322 matches

Assists: 12

Jamal Musiala

Playing together: 165 matches

Assists: 11

Leon Goretzka

Playing together: 224 matches

Assists: 10

Leroy Sané

Playing together: 193 matches

Assists: 7

[emotionally-charged-arson]

Web of Lies 🔌

Ohuhu alcohol markers, Copic fineliners and white Gelly Roll pen on Canson marker paper

My absolute favorite visual from the 01 shows was Simone and the boxy 2000s computer they wheeled onto the stage for this song. I’ve been wanting to do art of it for a while.

[digitalclowns]

Hello, today I bring you Ayreon memes for your enjoyment

Last one was made by @daveysbones !!!

Enjoy you guys

[age-of-shadows]

old one but I feel like ayreonblr had to see.

[x--daughters-of-darkness--x]

Arjen Lucassen & Simone Simons (2024)

[frogfrogfrogfrogoose]

can i get the whole gang to say hi 👀👀

[instantcaramel]

Have we considered Jan and Richard were put together so much cause of Robben and Ribery (which is not meant to imply it makes them less gay) but the physical violence and Dutch-French bestie vibes… also Robben being from Groningen

Like is Janchard the hot guy version of Robbery?!

[ay-miphae]

More Pointless Ayreon Statistics.txt

chat i don't know how to preface this one. i'm just obsessed with Ayreon and with pointless data collection

instead of alt text because that would be very verbose i have decided why not link the same spreadsheet but on Google Sheets, this time with a bit more conditional formatting. everybody enjoy (none of the formulas transferred over though)

Basically I went through the entirety of the Source with the object of thinking "huh I wonder how long each character appears for and if it bears any significance" so the part of the table highlighted in green is the length of each character's appearance (in seconds) per song.

At the bottom of the green section is the total number of seconds each character appears, the total number of songs they appear on, average time per song (the green and yellow row), and then overall percentage.

To the right I wanted to see how many characters appeared on each song, and it's not an exact measure but the percentage of the song that is and isn't vocals (% instrumental is the yellow and green column)

Also the pie chart just graphs the length of each character's appearance.

Random observations here:

Dream Dissolves is the most instrumental by far (makes sense) followed by the most vocal (Deathcry). Tbf Deathcry has a lot of shared choruses and I forgot to account for that (like when multiple characters are singing at the same time). also might be worth redoing this data now that I'm much more familiar with when and for how long each character appears. (this consisted of me sitting in front of Excel with a stopwatch for multiple hours yes)

TH-1 only appears on 7 songs (average is close to 9, like pretty consistently) but when he does he sings a lot. Particularly his binary string and Everybody Dies and March of the Machines.

The ones who appear on more than 9 songs are Captain, Biologist, and Diplomat, so do with that what you will

Why does Astro get far less time per song than everybody else please do my boy some justice

Prophet is halfway done with his vocals by the end of Sea of Machines it's like he just dips for the last three chronicles lmao

Surprisingly the character who shows up the most is Diplomat! I wonder why that is, maybe he's just the closest to an everyman on the album so it makes sense that we're seeing a lot of events from his perspective?

Then Captain and TH-1. It tracks tbh

Chemist in the top 4 is a surprise, then again a lot of his vocals are like slow melodic segments. OL and Bio next don't surprise me either

Preacher at the bottom but we knew that, feeling ripped off that Astro has a whole minute less than Prophet

I keep trying to edit in the detail that "Hansi sings more on Wheel of Time than on this entire album and I thought y'all should know that" but it keeps getting deleted randomly. Tumblr does not want y'all to know that ??

Ok ignore the red tags on these and the name I gave the graph, I was just writing notes to myself to remind myself of who was singing what. 01 has significantly more characters who aren't part of the core council of Forever

I don't have a lot to say on this one, same format and everything. Comatose, Waking Dreams, and River of Time are the most instrumental, Connect the Dots is the most vocal.

Same thing as before, I didn't factor in shared vocals and such except for Sixth Extinction because otherwise it would have been at like 108% vocal I don't think that's possible

PX is just barely on this album lmao. In terms of Forevers, this album is generally a LOT more even with the exception of 𓅛 taking over the whole album (he does... seem like the most central Forever) and ☾ who only appears on two songs (I included Sixth Extinction though) </3 Considering that the Forevers are a hivemind and there's much less character distinctions. A bit surprised that ☯ and R are close to the bottom but the difference isn't that huge...