“My best work from this period is backstage where he’s bursting through the door after a show, lying down exhausted, sweating. Linda told me that he’d never let anyone photograph him like that. You only get that access if they like you and don’t mind you or your camera being there.” — Harry Benson
Okay i'm in my feels now!! I mean I Have Been the entire day, watching New's concert but-
I've been following NuNew and ZNN for almost two entire years now and I've seen them both grow as artists, people, and in their relationship with the fans and how much and what they choose to share with us. If you don't follow them at all or not much, this might not hit you the same way as it did me but let me try to explain.
P'Zee is the type of person who constantly seems on the verge of yelling out his feelings because he can't contain them. He's mostly the one who's slowly been spilling small details of their private relationship to fans and the public, almost soft launching, really.
I will never move on from the closing scene & last kiss scene in Cutie Pie because P'Zee suggested it himself, he really wanted a scene to publicly show affection and express love:
So today, when I heard him say he's been wanting to do this for a long time and I saw New get nervous, I immediately got the same brand of nervous that I always get when coming out to people. I don't know if it's just me who felt like this was momentous but here it is in full, translations by me below the clip:
Z: Well... one thing that I've been wanting to do for a long time.
NN: Hm?
Z: That [I've? we've?] never done anywhere before, that you said is giving encouragement and expressing love. I also think that's what it is.
NN: Do what?
Z: And I'm a person who has to ask first, like, [I] can't just go right in.
NN: ...
Z: 🫴 Can [I] (sniff) kiss [you]? *NN starts crying here 🥺* 🫂 Hm? Just now you said you wouldn't cry. [You] did so well! 🫂 Mh! 💋 [You] did so well! (×2) (keeps comforting and praising him softly) Why are you crying? Hm? Tissues-
NN: Crying again...
Z: Crying again.
NN: Why am [I] such a crybaby!
Z: [I] don't see it being a big deal. ... Isn't he talented, everyone?
🗣: He is!
Z: Please be his encouragement as I am as well! Today you did it. You did- in my opinion, you've achieved such a success. And you should be happy for yourself. [I] believe that everyone is super happy for you, as well.
NN: Thank you.
Z: This time I won't be stealing the tissues. (referring to day1 lol)
mentally, i am still here.... after my last match i came out here and into the light was playing and it was soo over for me sdlkfh
some grand fest pics i took under the cut :]
the whole thing was so cool and i would break up my turfwar matches with picture sessions lmao im really glad i got to play this
how if feels to finally make peace with the fact that i’ll never go to a will wood concert even when im no longer a minor (there will never be any europe dates as it’ll be too complicated for him to get a passport due to his criminal record)
We're entering the last weekend of the Teeth of God tour and I'm not ready 😢 Almost 2 months of being fed new Sleep Token content nonstop and I know I'm gonna go through withdrawals come June.
I will say this one more thing about this: I do not believe the other try guys (or even many people at 2nd try) knew Ned was cheating before they found out sometime earlier this month. Not because I have some blind faith in the other guys to be good ppl (imagine saying ‘‘he would never’‘ when someone you might have said that about literally just did smth horrible), but because:
- knowing he is cheating and hiding it/keeping him on would be an absolutely ridiculously stupid thing to do and I think they’re smarter than that. Because with how well known they are, that’s a ticking time bomb until someone will snap an incriminating picture in public and if it then comes out you’ve known and protected him? That’s your image of wholesome, good guys absolutely destroyed.
- all the claims that they did know for months or years, that i’ve seen came from random twitter or reddit accounts or were even entirely anonymous. That’s not evidence. That’s some random person saying some random shit
- they were already cutting him out of videos before the video was leaked. Meaning they were already preparing to cut ties with him regardless of whether the fact he was cheating came out or not so ‘‘oh they just have to fire him now bc it got out’‘ doesn’t really make sense.
- if him cheating was somehow an ‘‘open secret that the entire company knew’‘ it wouldn’t stay secret long. Nothing ever does if a lot of people know about it . You ever try to plan a surprise party for someone without someone tattling? This is this except tattling would seem like the more moral option to many ppl and make it even more likely that someone tells so again hiding it in that case is just a stupid strategy even with NDAs (bc your employee could leave instead of signing said nda or they could just hide their tracks well while leaking smth)
Now I will believe that they quite possibly weren’t planning on telling the public why they got rid of Ned, both to protect Ariel and others from harrassment and to protect their own image - any dirt on Ned also harms them bc if one of the wholesome good guys isn’t actually all that, maybe the others aren’t either. If the video wasn’t leaked I imagine they’d have been vague or said it was for personal reasons or whatever, but they still would have seperated from Ned.
I also think like.... listen, you can know your friend has flaws and maybe sometimes flirts too much when he’s drunk or sometimes says inappropriate shit and you can forgive him that and still be friends with him and try to push him in a better direction, you can do all that and never suspect he might be cheating. Because there’s a big jump from one to the other and we always see the best in the people we love. It’s easy to say in retrospect that it was obvious but shit like this is never obvious. You don’t suspect your friends of being capable of that stuff unless it’s pushed right in your face
sitting here staring jaw dropped at the wall bc. how do these concerts keep getting more insane how did we just have them play 7 minutes in heaven for the second time ever, just one yesterday for the first time in 9 years, travie mccoy on stage for stereo hearts AND cupids chokehold, enter sandman instead of crazy train and then. live debut of i am my own muse. and then 27 AGAIN for a third time as a second 8 ball???? what the fuck ever
post-canon au. kyrie begins singing again to support her family, dante joins in on the fun (i will die on this hill of dante being the musically gifted twin: he’s a producer of art while vergil is a consumer of art). they’re unsurprisingly popular, at least in fortuna, and are able to get some live concerts every now and again. nero always attends kyrie’s concerts to support her (and dante, though he wouldn’t want to admit that). vergil also always attends, at first because of dante pestering him, and then because he genuinely enjoys their music despite it not being his genre. i also chopped off kyrie’s hair to match nero.