#token rants

[hilacopter]

JEWISH CONVERTS (YES THOSE IN PROGRESS ALSO) AREN'T "racefaking jewish" YOU STUPID FUCKING ASSHOLES

[moth-nocturna]

dumping south park sketches lol

[stonedstargazer666]

More pics anyone??? Of course credit to the original owners

Gods they have been feeding us so well this tour

[ashthewaterghoul]

I will NEVER understand the people who romanticise ‘Blood Sport’.

For starters those people clearly have no reading comprehension because how THE FUCK do you hear the lyrics “I made loving you a blood sport, I can’t win” and go “oh yes, perfect for my relationship playlist! Let’s walk down the aisle to it!”

And, Vessel spends the last 30 seconds of that song CRYING INTO THE MICROPHONE. How the HELL can you romanticise a song that is obviously about some extremely painful time in the singer’s life???

This is something I think about a lot bc every time I listen to ‘Blood Sport’ I have to stop what I’m doing when I hear Vessel crying. It’s OBVIOUSLY not a positive song, like loads of Sleep Token’s songs.

I severely question the intelligence of those who romanticise the songs that CLEARLY are not meant to be about positive and healthy relationships.

[sleepanonymous]

My good friend who runs @thesleeptokenarchive uncovered this footage from Sleep Token performing Fields of Elation at their first Ritual in London on October 23, 2017. It literally made me sob yesterday while I was in a Team's work meeting 🖤 (I actually cried so much yesterday from all the new old things 👀)

Another good friend had been digging and found confirmation from the Black Heart venue and several social media comments that the July 2017 Ritual was canceled. I feel like I need to rewrite the entirety of the first half of that lore post I made last year 😅 I have so much more information now.

[nevertoforgive]

Okay so like not to be crazy and parasocial but do yall ever get so proud of vessel (rlly all of st) because like sometimes I watch the old videos of them and it's just so obvious how much they've grown as musicians and people. obvi I don't know what's going on in their lives but they (Vessel esp) just seem so much happier and healthier now and it makes me so fuckin happy and proud bc I fully believe they deserve the whole world and theyve changed so many peoples lives for the better I'm just so happy they're getting to be happy and successful too.

[anxious-chaos-art]

The worst part is that I was like.

Actively enjoying coloring too.

That never happens

WHYYY

Digital artists I am SO SORRY FOR EVER BEING APATHETIC TO YOUR STRUGGLES

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DRAW THIS LADY DIGITALLY BETWEEN CLASSES AND IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A FUN LITTLE PROJECT FOR A FRIEND AND I WAS SUPPOSED TO PRACTICE COLORING AND I WAS GONNA SHOW YOU GUYS HER WHEN SHE WAS DONE BUT THE WILL OF GOD WAS AGAINST HER IG AUGHHHHH

SHE CRASHED TWICE

TWICE!!!!

AND BOTH TIMES IT DESTROYED MY DRAWINGS OF HER!!!!

[brujahinaskirt]

look i love john marston once and true i really do but listen if i were ms. abigail roberts

i would have shacked up with arthur so fucking fast after john ditched me his lil possum-man head would have been spinning on his neck way out in whatever hole he was hiding from the smoking ashes of my broken heart in. "stand by your man?" "give him space?" "take a chance that love exists?" no. i would not. i would have simply turned around and brought The Big Hoss to stable with EXTREME marston-negative malice. i know i know, arthur is sooo loyal he wouldn't leave dutch but yes he fucking would. we are not talking about some copypasta y/n buckle bunny here with no distinguishing features. this is ABIGAIL FUCKING ROBERTS. are you telling me if abigail "The Best Person Alive" (Arthur Morgan, "Abigail You're the Best" speech, 1899) roberts walked up to this babytalking Fatherhood And Other Dreams-addicted wifeless Wifeguy with a cooing toddler stuck under her arm and said "arthur you're jack's daddy now. arthur he's soooo small arthur. he's the size of a single grapefruit. arthur we have to protect your microscopic pea-sized incredibly tiny son" he would not have said Yes Maam and split that camp like the ass crack in a pair of Forever 21 jeans. i'm sorry to this woman but if i were Miss Thang the Van der Linde Princess Herself I would never have waited on a man (J*HN M*RSTON) to come crawling back to me. wait for what?????? i would have waltzed up to that sad sagging open concept tent, outstretched my gleaming ex girlfriend eagle talon and snatched mr I'm-a-Lonesome-Cowboy by his barely concealed raging domesticity stiffy and we would have blown that fucking outfit in two shakes and a holler. i would have ZOOMED onto that orhter-mahrrgahn-shaped gravy train at such fucking velocity you would not believe it. dump ME like a rusted can of peaches. oh no no no. could NOT be me. me and MY peaches would have been out of that whole marston sitchuation and making nice with big brother on a little homestead somewhere at mach 1 (one vindictive bitch) speed. leave me with a fucking baby sleeping on the grass. kiss my outlaw ass. not if I'M ABIGAIL FUCKING ROBERTS. john would have come stumbling back a year later dragging his jaw behind him like "huh??? wuut??? MY BABYCAKE IS WHERE??? WITH WHO" and the revelation that the bad bitch he tossed out with his toenail clippings was now eating bon bons or whatever on his brother's knee in callyfornya would car compact john's world into the size of a soup can. but i wouldn't bat one pretty eyelash about it because i would be spending my enormous devoted husband's train robbing funds on exotic fruits and fancy $15 token mugs and other dumb shit. john fucking god damned linguini legs marston. break my goddamn heart?? bet. arthur knows how abigail takes her coffee. jack would not even know who tf john marston is.

[alkaline-wtr]

I love Sleep Token. I love Sleep Token. I love Sleep Token. I love Sleep Token. I love Sleep Token. I love Sleep Token. I love Sleep Token. I love Sleep Token. I love Sleep Token. I love Sleep Token. I love Sleep Token. I love Sleep Token. I love Sleep Token.

[tonguetyd]

Very cute thing from Boston that I did not get a video of (and I don’t think anyone has that I’ve seen) but at the end of Euclid somebody had art (?) they were trying to get up to him. And adamross photo king is over in the pit trying to. You know. Do his job taking photos. And iv frantically reached out to Adam like “ADAAAAAAM!!!! ADAM ADAM THEY HAVE PRESENT!!! PLEASE GET PRESENT FOR IVY YOU KNOW I LOVE PRESENT FOR IVY!!”

And Adam did of course get the package and pass it on up to iv who was on stage WAY longer than he should’ve been with all that, but idk it was just very sweet to watch that happen. He’s just a little guy.

[crazypsychonerdstuff]

The height difference between these two...

They are so adorable...

I love them...

[cads-the-cat]

Another day, another round of ST fans on TikTok making me livid (I'm not saying all fans on tiktok but there is a specific crowd that needs to get a fucking reality check - y'all know which ones). This time, it's the marks on Vessel's arms, once again, and people speculating about them and whether they are scars or not. Just don't?? What/why/how etc is not our fucking business so just stfu

Look, I hate being this aggressive and negative, but as I have said many times before: there are boundaries and this is overstepping (and no, the fact that he is famous does not mean these boundaries do not exist!)

[acallfromolympus]

I’ve been part of many fandoms over the years and I’ve personally never seen so many people go out of their way to be mean to fans of a band just bc they don’t like the band than I have since I’ve been a Sleep Token fan. Idk about all of you, but when I don’t like a band I just ignore it and I would NEVER even think of being mean to someone for liking that band.

I see a lot of people thinking that ST is overhyped or lame or whatever. As for the overhyped comment, it’s just called a band having a lot of fans who are passionate. A lot of people can’t seem to grasp the concept that you can dislike something and still be a decent person. I never really feel the need to defend ST because they’re so good that their work speaks for itself and if you don’t like them, then I feel bad for you lol but it is what it is.

Sorry for the messy rambling but it gets kind of annoying constantly hearing people talk shit about fans for simply liking ST when it’s just a matter of taste. You like what you like and I like what I like.

If you don’t like ST, then maybe don’t interact with their fans lol. It’ll just make more ST stuff show up on your feed.

[diamondkat]

Regarding Alastor being redeemed, I have been seeing some posts regarding how it can happen that trigger an instant ick reaction from me. I have taken time to think about why I keep having such a strongly negative reaction to it. The first thing I took into consideration is that I really do not want my current favourite bad boy to become good. I am first and foremost a villain fan and his becoming good has a high chance of ruining the character for me. This means that there is a chance that I would dislike any theory that ends with Alastor redeemed. A lot of time you see people making arguments for why a ship or character should not be liked when the real reason is they personally don't like it and the reasons are merely support. I try to make sure I am aware of my personal bias.

Regardless of my personal bias, I have decided that there is one particular theory regarding how Alastor can be redeemed that I hate from the bottom of my heart. It is the theory where Alastor after being humiliated, degraded and losing everything including his pride has no choice but to accept Charlie's care and change for the better. Sometimes it involves betraying the hotel first, but generally involves him being unable to deal with the challenges that he faces. I am sure how this works in the minds of those who like this theory makes perfect sense. He can no longer rely on himself, he sees that he isn't capable of anything and now has no choice but to become what Charle wants him to be. I hate it so much. I have kept turning it over in my mind and I think I have figured out all the reasons why separate from my bias.

First, suffering doesn't make people better. It just doesn't. The theory seems to require enough suffering to rewrite Alastor's personality and make him Charlie's puppet. It also reminds me of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The story of how the proud woman was broken down to make her obedient. She might be "better" but it also felt to me like she died and became a puppet. He would be "redeemed" but that wouldn't be Alastor. It would just be something that looks like him. I just feel like fans of Alastor who like this theory don't realise that he would lose everything that pulled them to him in the first place if this happened. Some could not deal with him being less energetic in the main show than the pilot due to him being bored. How would they deal with what would essentially be a hollow creature wearing his face trying to become good because there is nothing left in him?

Second, with a proud character you can't brute force them into letting people in. Part of the idea of the theory is that after he is humiliated and suffers in front of them, he will drop his smile and be forced to let others in. That doesn't make sense to me. We have already seen in S1E8, how Alastor deals with things not going his way. He holds onto what little control he has by refusing to drop his smile and holding onto his pride while going through a breakdown. The best way to get someone like Alastor as far as I am concerned is to deal with him the same way you would deal with a wild animal. Slowly lower their guard. I think Charlie is already doing that whether Alastor knows it or not. Besides, pride is an important part of the character. Pride is part of what drew me to the character in the first place. The kind of pride that makes a person think it is okay to say, "If I wanted to hurt anyone here I would have done so already" in front of the Princess of Hell, is part of what drew me to Alastor. If he lost it, the character would likely immediately lose all appeal to me. So, there is some personal bias there.

It would make sense to me if the theory was more about Alastor learning that he can rely on others and doesn't have to depend solely on himself which leads to him opening up and letting others in. However, the theory leans very heavily into suffering as a way to make him a better person and a complete erasure of everything that makes up the character through suffering to make him into someone who wants and is worthy of redemption. That's fine for fanfiction but I hope it never becomes canon.

[sleepanonymous]

Conspiracy theory time? Because it was just brought to my attention that III's pick he tossed to the crowd had a wolf head on it. TMBTE Moon + "The mouth of the wolf, the eyes of the lamb" + LAMBS graphic novel code + Vessel having more fur in his costume + the wolf pick????? This can't be a coincidence 👀

[blanchebees]

Not sure this is for me, i just can't bring myself to like this new look, good for them if they like it but yeah.

It's so out of nowhere that i am so confused.