#dare rambles

Bet!

Okay, so I absolutely see where you're coming from with Ivy possibly also having touch as his love language, and I can absolutely see that argument being made for all of them. But I'm gonna expand on this post a bit and show you why I think it's actually gift giving.

Once again, not my photos, credit to original owners <3

Fan gifts

So like I pointed out in my previous post, IV is the one most likely to pick up/use a fan gift. He's constantly taking things from the crowd or picking up tossed things (I repeat, don't throw shit on stage.) And I don't think it's a coincidence that even when III or Ves are the ones to pick things up and wear it, it's probably going to end up with IV anyway. He loves receiving those little presents and the others make sure he gets them

Even when he's not supposed to be taking things he ends up with little presents, as we see in these pixels when he picked up this cat ear headband on his way off the stage after it was known that they weren't supposed to accept anything this time.

Signs

Talking about this point because I feel like he would see a sign someone made as a form of gift because even if it's not something he can hold or keep with him, someone still took their time and energy to make it in hopes he'd see it and that's really sweet. If he sees one that catches his eye he almost always points it out and creates a special little moment with the person holding it. Now this one is a little hard to get photo evidence of, but off the top of my head I believe Tank (@/watertankafternoon) [if you see this I just didn't wanna tag you completely unprompted 😅] has talked about their moment with him during Euclid in Budapest and I believe did find a video that someone managed to get of the moment, and you can find many other stories like that about Ivy specifically. Yeah, the others have pointed out signs and things but IV always finds time to make a special little moment about it.

Giving

So this might be my shakiest point because it's kinda hard to give things to each other on stage. Like I said, it seems like when trading around fan gifts, IV seems to be on the receiving end usually, and if he hands it to someone else it tends to happen during backstage intermissions. However, what happened last night in London with the Christmas crackers seems to be possibly my strongest evidence for the claim. When III started bringing them out, just walking up and opening them with people, I know I saw clips of him doing it with IV and the Espera but I'm not sure how often he actually pulled them out, but he lost every time and was getting more and more disappointed with it. Up until Rain, when IV was the one who approached him with a cracker I'm fairly certain was rigged in III's favor. You can tell he's barely holding onto the end. He could tell III was getting agitated with not winning and gave him one he couldn't lose. He makes his little gifts count.

Holy Shit! Somehow I was lucky to snag tickets today! I queued up for both days and the deal was whichever day I got into the fastest would be the one. Day 1 won. I was like number 4,783 or about that (definitely 4,700 something) and only had to wait about 15 minutes. Got in and started hunting. The battle was bad, but not as bad as it could have been. Not perfect seats, but I have an aisle seat and that is what's most important to me.

Two hand a half months. That's what I got to prepare for this one. I can't believe this happening. I'm so flippin' excited.

Specifically on their first - and for a while only - cover being Hey Ya!. Literally about 1 line in the song and how that one line might carry enough weight to have been the reason behind it's choosing.

Sleep Token is full of themes of love. Both in the relationship sense and love of the self (or lack thereof but that's not the point rn.) But more than that, it's a lot of themes of failed love. People who flew too close to the sun and got burned as a result. Who kept going knowing they were getting hurt.

We know Vessel is still trying to deal with the fallout of whatever happened to him, and while it's clear he fully admits to not being completely blameless, that he has guilt about what happened and how it ended, it seems as though a part of him still holds onto the love that used to be there. It still exists and it has nowhere to go and I think that's the part that he truly doesn't know how to deal with.

All of this alongside their whole thing they've been saying since the start. "Nothing lasts forever". Things change, everything has to end at some point, it's just a matter of how and when.

The paint left a stain on his hands that he scrubs raw over and over but can't seem to remove.

If what they say is

"Nothing is forever"

Like using moots as an example:

I think of Tonee and immediately I'm picturing a sunset, obviously, and very specifically the chorus of Hozier's "Work Song" (do not ask me why, I genuinely don't know why it's those lyrics specifically, it just Is™)

But if I think "Tonee AND Drift" it's literally just this image exactly: