#st lore

[its-always-sunny-in-city17]

Often wrong's got a broken heart,

Can't even tell his boys apart

[hypnotise-the-vessel]

And ANOTHER thought, I’ve often seen how people consider TPWBYT to be the album where Vessel is most lost and caught up in the throes of ‘sleep’ or this figure he is infatuated with. And I absolutely can see it. You see it with ‘hypnosis’ and with ‘the love that you want’ and ‘fall for me.’ He is desperate and longing for a place. For love. For attention. He is LITERALLY drowning in these emotions. Which I think is painful as hell, of course. But it’s so interesting. Since he references ‘in my nightmares of the ocean’ in EIA. Like??? He is scared of that time. And that past. He is traumatized by it. Holy SHIT. I know it’s small, but I just love when details like that are included and I know so many people have seen this and probably talked about it. But man, I just had to say how much I adore it.

[holleighgolightly]

Henry and Will have the same birthday

would be funny as hell if Henry changed everyone's memories of Wills birthday to be March 22 because he wanted to be twinsies Henry: "You and I are the same" Will: "No tf we aint" Henry: *changes everyone memories of Wills birthday* "As I was SAYING"

[cloudemojisworld]

[object-of-my-desire]

What's your favorite part of Sleep Token's lore and why?

Oh gosh that’s hard.. I’d have to say Vessels mask. The way it’s evolved over time, like he’s trying to escape in the way, the way the bottom looks like dripping blood.

It’s such an interesting yet intricate detail and solidifies that although they’re there to make offerings to SLEEP, something within him might still be trying to escape.

The fact that it’s eating its way out, hence why it’s around the mouth, the excessive mentions to vore type subjects in the discography.

Alternatively it’s a reference to how the deity, how Sleep gave him his voice, hence why only his mouth is free.

[allmyandroids]

Data uploads Lore's concious into a fucking tamagotchi

[an-alien-writes]

Brent Spiner

The vaguest most subtle spoilers up ahead

(when I use the term Brent Spiner I'm using it to mean the chareters he plays in star trek as a collective term)

Brent Spiner is the docter of the star trek universe.

The Docter is one person who regenarates into many faces.

Brent Spiner is one face who regenenarates into many people.

Brent spiner isn't the type of person who has his fingers in all the pies, he's the type of person that the pies were grown on his fingers.

[pigeonleap]

YOUR FANCLANS ARE SO COOL!!!! i cant wait to see more of them omg! could you share some more on the clairvoyants/prophets and their pilgrimages up the mountain? :o also, did you have anywhere specific in colorado in mind when mapping? it looks gorgeous! and i love the landmark names omg, how'd you come up with those? sorry for all the questions im just very excited about these guys!

YAY thank you so much that means a ton! you're enabling my infodumping I'm about to write 1500 words (serious). Don't ever worry about asking too many ST questions it's all i think about.

Here's a MSPAINT doodle of the girls. hope nothing bad ever happens to them

easy questions first!

ST's set in the northern Colorado Rockies where they border the Great Plains. Somewhere unpopulated in the northern Front Range!

Landmark names are usually named after past leaders/healers/deputies of the Clans, who I just made up on the spot (except I have a Blizzard playthrough on Clangen so I used some of those leaders and important cats.) To come up with a lot of the names I researched local fauna. Colorado has a LOT of elk and a lot of large carnivores! Summer Thunder has a storm motif (did you know) so a lot of the place names have to do with that

I'm going to go ahead and put the Clairvoyant/Prophet stuff under a cut because I write headcanons as I go and it gets so lengthy lol.

SORRY IN ADVANCE. this is like 3/4 just for me so i can put it in my document

Clairvoyants are the cats who would have "a strong connection to StarClan" in canon text. StarClan (usually called the Stars in-universe) are not an explicit thing or confirmed. There is something spiritual going on, but it's a lot more like a Primal Force than it is "My Dead Aunt Says Hello To Me In My Dreams." The technical name for cats who are tuned in to this spirituality is "Clairvoyants", though it's an ambiguous label and not something that ever puts cats into a group. Most cats aren't clairvoyant or are to a very low degree (this works since level of clairvoyance in any universe doesn't affect how much you believe in a higher power).

Prophets, a role found only in StormClan, are kind of like canon Medicine Cats except I separated the role into its composite Prophet and Healer. Some cats are both, in which case they'll call themselves whichever one makes more sense - usually Prophet because it's rarer and so it can feel closer to your identity. A Prophet is sort of like how Ancient Greek Oracles were. They are rare and usually have a medium to extremely high level of Clairvoyance. (ex. Leafpool, Goosefeather.) Their role, like medcats, is to speak as the Stars' voice and share wisdom with the Clan. The Stars do not "give prophecies" in the literal sense that they do in canon - cats interpret things how they will, like we would in real life. It's easy to think of an omen or prophecy if you want to hear one.

Storm cats just take it really seriously because they REALLY love the Stars. They have a higher genetic predisposition of Clairvoyants, so they have become really connected to spirituality and piety. They believe in fate and destiny and will use the Stars to justify any achievement. Naming ceremonies often go like "You are so lucky to be blessed by the Stars with such amazing jumping skills - your new name will be Pigeonleap." (Maybe Pigeonleap just got really good at jumping because he trained for his entire apprenticeship. It doesn't matter. It's the Stars.)

Pilgrimages, which I may start calling something cool (like the Prophet's Ascent maybe?) are taken by aspiring Prophets when they want to prove their connection to the Stars. Prophets are usually apprenticed to someone who is also Clairvoyant/a Prophet or a Healer if there isn't one. When they reach the end of their apprenticeship they are sent to hike Cloud's Tooth via Thunder Ridge/Lightning Point. Usually their mentor will follow them as far as the path from the Ridge up to Lightning Point (I'm thinking this is like a day's hike), but the mentor in most cases has already done the hike and is not interested in doing it again.

Cloud's Tooth is tall (probably around 9-11,000ft???) and not too forgiving. Cats are sent when the weather is predicted to be good, but anyone who's been to the Rockies knows that can change in about five minutes. The Clans are crepuscular in my universe like regular cats, so, in the interest of safety, cats usually just try to hike the mountain during the day. It can be 7-9 hours to the summit. They spend the night at the top and the Stars speak to them (whatever that means for the particular cat.) No one else except Prophets hikes this mountain, not even people - it's rocky, without water in most places, and very windy. And slick when wet. And worse when snowy. And you'll notice all the surrounding landmarks have something to do with storms.

That being said - a cat who makes it up and down again is pretty much guaranteed the Prophet role. Otherwise, they probably just fell to Stardom down a scree slope.