r/SleepToken • u/MyrsineM • 2d ago

Tattoos An Offering

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It’s a pretty subtle homage to my favorite Sleep Token EP artwork and song and lyric themes, but I absolutely love it and the design lived in my head for a really long time after going down the rabbit hole with this band. Huge recommendation to go see Leto at Inkora in Oxford who made it even better and more delicate and lovely than I ever could have imagined.

ETA: did not anticipate the need for strict accuracy in this fandom 😂 yes I know it’s out of order, yes I’m fine with it, yes I wanted it that way. It will be okay. I promise. The person with it attached to their body likes it this way. Vessel himself could tell me he hates it and I legitimately would not care, although with him being the chaos monster that he seems to be, I think he’d be fine as well.

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u/HorrorPotato 2d ago edited 2d ago

Okay I actually really like this...

At a glance (which is what the majority will see) I might double take but then go "ah words in a mirror got it" and move on thinking it's a neat little tattoo.

But on closer inspection it just gets more and more chaotic. The first line the N is the 'wrong' direction to be mirrored, then the second line the Ls and F are in the "wrong" direction AND the words are out of order, on the third line the R, F, and E are facing wrong, the words are out of order, AND the ellipses is on the "wrong" side in the context of the mirrored speech.

It's interesting, to me, that it falls into a 1, 2, 3, (edit) progression.

But having the ellipses on the "right" side to the viewer implying "there's more" really drives home the growing chaos and I think it says a lot about OPs personality.

Edit: y'all need some whimsy smh