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It's my 7 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

oh my god.

#7 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone #it's really been that long jfc

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guys…

#get him #give him to me

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take me to bed. by. cozier

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my friend sent me a tiktok of a joe rogan interview with kanye west. i couldn't tell when it was released, but it very obviously wasn't a recent video. in it, kanye basically spoke about how modern media rewrites true meanings behind black history and all we get are terrible reminders during black history month. and it got me thinking- maybe a little too much because i started tearing up, but out of frustration. why are we only told, over and over and over, about the god awful experiences of black people? not that these should be forgotten, but we are more than our trials and tribulations. for me personally, it's at the point where i can't pass any history class because all we talk about is slavery. literally.

i had a lab last year and it was just slavery and policing. for the whole semester. i only attended about four classes before i gave up to keep my sanity intact. i don't know if i can sit through another lecture talking about the torture my ancestors and people went through. i don't want to hear about the dehumanization of those who look like me anymore. we are so much more than our awful history. there truly is beauty to our culture, but it gets brushed under the rug and i hate that. i hate that other people can only think of black history as slavery and civil rights movements. i hate that black families continue to lose older traditions simply due to a lack of knowledge. i hate that our black kids can't also hear about our beauty in school. again, i don't want us (or anyone) to disregard the tragedies and i understand how said tragedies brought us where we are. but here's the thing: i know that. my brothers and parents know that. my cousins and friends already innately understand that. but not everyone truly grasps that. ESPECIALLY in places like texas. you think little tony, with his racist grandparents and tired parents, can grasp that without proper schooling?

what i'm trying to say is, school curriculums could do a whole lot of good by humanizing us. stop depicting us as battered and bruised tools. we are more than the awful situations we were forced into. imagine what progress could be made if non-black students were able to also see us as "people in an awful situation, trying their damnedest to have the best human experience possible" instead of just "people in a constant fight against societies, trying to gain respect". both are true, but with the addition of the former we don't seem like these tragic oddities.

sorry for ranting. i don't want this to seem like i'm angry, and i don't want anger to be the focus. i'm just frustrated. i want my history to stop being viewed as an exhibit. i know there's been a ton of shocking events, but we have even more cool shit. if only that was the focus. imagine that 💜

#black history month #black history matters #do better #i want better #we can be better

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i JUST started listening to sleep token and went to the tag only to find you there, please tell me more about this band?? collective?? i need more

You got it buddy! One order of a full Sleep Token beginner primer, coming up!

Sleep Token are a rock? metal? genre blending collective based out of England, tho nobody's 100% sure of where the members are from because they are also a masked and anonymous project. Their style of music varies greatly from album to album and song to song. From soft ballads, to electronic music, to indie, to progressive / prog metal, to post-rock / post-metal, and now with their newest singles, a definite shift into heavier sounds with roots in djent and -core genre elements like breakdowns and scream vocals, let's just say they are very diverse and there are not many bands that sound the same out there. Their blending is pretty unique, and imo will prove to be genre-defining in the coming years. They are signed to Spinefarm records and they're touring as we speak in Europe.

They formed in 2016 and self-released their first EP called One that same year. Their second EP aptly called Two was released in 2017 on Basick. They currently have two full length albums out on Spinefarm, 2019's Sundowning and 2021's This Place Will Become Your Tomb, which are the crux of the material you wanna look into. I always advise that you listen to the whole albums front to back because artists plan these tracklists deliberately, so we owe it to them to consume their output the way they intended us to, but! I also realize nowadays nobody does that because of Spotify and streaming, unfortunately, so: for Sundowning, I'd recommend Sugar as a first track because it touches on both the soft and harsh sides of the album beautifully; and for TPWBYT I'd say start with Alkaline (bonus points for a delicious video to get you into their visual side too). On January 6th and 7th 2023, they released two new songs to showcase their new sound, Chokehold and The Summoning. These two singles seem to be the optimal path currently to get into the band. There are rumors of a new album called Take Me Back To Eden to be released this year, there's a tracklist floating around online though we don't know if its legit, and there are also rumors for new singles coming out, at the time of writing this, tomorrow and in two days, on the 19th and 20th of January 2023. There's also a recording of an acoustic show called From The Room Below floating online, with new takes on their previous songs and a few choice covers like Billie Eilish's When The Party's Over, surprising crossovers that are emotional experiences.

Now, visually and in theme, you'll notice the band has a storyline of sorts. The lore of Sleep Token is this: the band was formed after an ancient deity called Sleep (a reductive name that doesn't encompass the deity's nature at all, but its true name cannot be spoken in any human tongue) revealed itself to the singer, Vessel, in his sleep. Sleep appears to be a powerful force worshiped in ancient civilizations, that gave them the blessing of dreams and the curse of nightmares. Since this apparition, Vessel's life purpose has been to worship and make offerings to Sleep via music. The members of the band are all called vessels, we can infer vessels for Sleep. The singer is Vessel I, but the fandom's moved to just calling him Vessel. The other members are just called by their numbers. II is on drums, III is on bass, IV is on guitar. They're all vessels. They wear masks to hide their identities, with what seems to be full body black paint and some variety of stage costumes including hooded coats and capes and now apparently full pauldrons and void wizard staves.

You'll come across some specific lingo when encountering Sleep Token content or in the fandom. These terms mostly come from their official social media so they use them themselves, it's not fan made. "Worship" is the tagline, kinda like "Nema" is with Ghost. You'll see fans telling each other that all the time. To Worship is to take part in enjoying the band in any way you can: listening to the music, watching videos, streaming their stuff, spreading the word, going to shows, buying merch, etc. Sleep Token's shows are called Rituals, like Ghost's. Pictures and videos are referred to as Sacred Moments, or Sacred Moments in Time. The bands they tour with are called Brethren. Sleep Token's songs are called Offerings. Because they are written as a means to Worship the Sleep deity. Offerings can also be in the form of instrument playthroughs, videos, etc. What the band produces. When you listened to new material or acquire merch, you also Consume. A note on their anonymity to finish: while there are rumors about who the band members are, nothing's confirmed and the band's explicit wish is to maintain this anonymity, so it fundamental to respect those wishes and not try to dig. They value art for art, they let the music speak for itself, and they explicitely wish for their music to be detached from who they are as people. Let's leave the magic in place both for them and for us!

Welcome to the fold! Worship!

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this is my oldest acc and looking back on it makes me wanna smile yet gag

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Guess who got a Wacom Intuos for Christmas?!

#wacom intuos #christmas #digital art

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I dearly wish that people would view their bodies as they view flowers…

Veins everywhere?

gorgeous~

Skin patches? Birthmarks?

hella rad~

Scars? Stretch marks?

beautiful~

Freckles? Moles? Acne scars?

heckie yeah~

Large? Curvy?

lovely~

Small? Thin?

charming~

Missing a few pieces?

handsome as ever~

Feel like you just look weird?

you’re fantastic looking~

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I'm so done with them....My emo heart can't take this

#mcr #mcrx #emo #92316

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MCR POSTED A TWEET ON TWITTER AND I'M SO CONFUSED

#mcr #mcr mychemicalro #Twitter #tweet #september #9-23-16

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Explain nature to me please

#nature #lizard #ants #death

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Part one and two of twenty one pilots gender bent. Now I just have to decide whether I want to paint it or use colored pencils

#twenty one pilots #gender bender #sketch #drawing

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Peeps, we would all appreciate it if you use the correct pronouns. If you don't know which one to use, just ask. It'll be better than using the incorrect pronoun.

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You wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before, and that, my love, is bravery.

(via tullipsink)

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