#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

[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.

[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...

[ky-the-squiddy]

Every so often I come across people going on about 'queer is a bad word, I'm not a terf but we shouldn't use that word in community/academic/etc settings, don't call me queer' and just

Okay

You're not queer

I won't call you that, no one should call you that, and anyone that does is being an asshole regardless of their identity or minority status. It doesn't matter what reasoning you have behind not wanting to be labelled as queer, what trauma you may or may not have, what you've identified as in the past and present, and whether or not your preference just comes to not liking the vibe of the word for entirely inscrutible reasons. No one has any right to pry.

If you say you're not queer, then you're not queer, and that's okay.

It just also means that if I, a queer person, talk about the queer community, then I'm not referring to you. If an academic refers to queer history and queer texts written by queer people about other queer people, they're also not talking about you. If a corporation starts using 'queer' in their ads then they can eat shit because fuck 'em, they have no fucking right to use our words when they aren't and have never been one of us, but if a well-meaning ally uses 'queer' as a one-syllable shorthand for LGBTQIA+ in a verbal conversation, then there's no reason for you to get any more annoyed at them as you would if they used the word 'gay' instead.

You have every single right to be labelled or not labelled as you like, and I will stand behind you all the way. If someone is trying to shove 'queer' on you when you really don't want it? Then I will happily, metaphorically, deck them in the face for you. We are still family, whatever you choose to call yourself, and it's important that we stick together.

But

If you aren't queer, and you get frustrated when you see queer people talking about the queer community, take a deep breath, and consider:

They aren't talking about you

[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!)

[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.

[ingydar-phan]

Ughh ok this discourse is done pissing my off. If you’re allistic and you have any thoughts about allistic people making autism jokes I’m smashing u with hammers. If u think publically claiming allism and then misusing terms for disabled people is funny I’m smashing u with hammers. If ur one of my mutuals who dmed me thanking me for my input or just a silent mutual who agrees w me, im kissing u all over ur face. Ik this is silly and harsh and not real but im irritated. Im right and if u disagree pls just stay out.

[hypermascbishounen]

There's a deep irony in Berserk being so admired by people who really really hate what Berserk is about on an emotional level, but especially when writers want to take influence from it. Because Berserk is very strong thematically, and someone who can't acknowledge subtext is going to whiff on emulating anything good.

[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 👀

[vessel-token]

guys oh my god i have been so DEAD but aside from that,

does anyone else use sleep token to just…… unwind?

i’ve been working closing shifts a lot since i carpool with a friend of mine and we share the same hours, and the boys always come in clutch for me on the late nightssss 😭

for instance, my boyfriend picked me up from work yesterday and it was a DRAINING ASS SHIFT, so i begged him ahead of time to listen to sleep token with me on the way home (which he agreed to very quickly)

i put on vore since he’s more of a metal head himself and i knew that song would be more up his alley, but also just because it always feels so so great to scream along with vessel

maybe i’m too emotionally attached to the band, but i swear, getting to listen to them genuinely makes me feel less stressed and upset. there’s just something about the emotions that vessel pours into the vocals that makes singing with him feel infinitely better

i dunno if any of this made sense or if this ramble was even coherent, but yeah!! fucking love those funky british guys

[thisvisionofmyspirit]

You have to be particularly stupid to listen to Sleep Token's music, understand Vessel's lyrics, and think you can spread their real identities all over the internet without endangering their ability to make said music. I mean. Can you really listen to any of their songs, hear Vessel cry on stage almost every night, and think "yeah, unveiling their identities won't prevent them from performing in any way, their masks are clearly not crucial to their art"? Respect their wish to remain anonymous or kiss them goodbye. Dumbass.