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Working at the funeral home taught III three things. The dead stay quiet - the living don't. And never get involved in the business of either. Too bad he's always sucked at that last part. Especially when his neighbor hosts loud nightly 'therapy sessions' with someone new each time, while the missing persons board down the hall keeps getting more crowded
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24 Dec 2025
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Sleep Token Creative Guild Spooky Week Day 7 + Angstober 31st: "Torture" and "Close the Door"
The whole set had been hard — too much heat, lights pointed just far enough into the stage to nail them in the face every cue, wrong pacing in the second half thanks to the mic screaming feedback partway through, half of their pedals shorting out before the encore. But they had all powered through like they always did. III especially, sweat-slicked and grinning like he had something to prove, even if his chords sounded on the edge of too harsh, and his smile was just slightly too sharp.
IV hadn’t seen him since.
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- Part 7 of Angstober 2025
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04 Nov 2025
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He'd long since learned to ignore others' expectations. But sometimes III caught himself wishing others would finally see what was so obvious to him. If only to make the stupid questions stop.
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31 Oct 2025
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The band news their new fourth, but are having no luck.
Fortunately for them (but unfortunately for Vessel) Sleep decides to help speed up the process.
On the other side of the town, IV is very surprised to hear the sounds of a little black cat wailing outside his apartment.
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22 Oct 2025
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one day, i'll carry you home by jobrker (johannabarkers)
Fandoms: Sweeney Todd - Sondheim/Wheeler, Sweeney Todd (2007)
09 Dec 2025
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To everyone's shock, the prison riots worked. Phillip Turpin is arrested and Benjamin is free after over fifteen years of a false charge. He begins taking back his life, beginning with his daughter. However, the word "father" tastes like poison in Johanna's mouth after what her guardian did her to and a flighty girl always has her wings outstretched.
Or: Benjamin gets his daughter back, but he's used to being the parent of an infant. Not a traumatized teenager.
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02 Sep 2025
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14 Aug 2025
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It was easy, sometimes, to forget that Vessel wasn’t entirely human.
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11 Aug 2025
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Hi mates,
Couldn’t figure out a way to tell you all at the same time. Wish I had better news and wish it wasn’t over email.
V passed away last night.
Gimme a call.
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Three friends, split apart by time and distance, come back together after the untimely death of a friend. But nothing is what it seems, and nothing lasts forever.
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27 Jul 2025
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Scents are a strange thing.
Most alphas treat them as a signal of “one of us” or “outsider,” vague markers of emotions, lingering traces of someone else’s touch. But IV is different. He has always had an insanely sharp sense of smell, bordering on something indecent, perhaps even frightening.
And now, years later, this ability made him who he was—the one who sensed even the slightest shifts.
And it had never bothered him.
Until today.
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23 Jul 2025
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IV has been what the media calls "big" his entire life. He's been made fun of, taunted, put down, you name it. He's tried for so long to shed his extra weight.
He's been with the band for a while now, has settled in well as both band-mate and roommate. Things are going great! He's happy for the others and their relationship. He's happy to be their supportive friend, knows he doesn't stand a chance. But maybe, if he can get himself in shape, they'd see something in him, too? Maybe if he takes things a little further, works out a little more and eats a little less, he'll have more success.
The others notice his changing habits and are more than a little concerned.
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22 Jul 2025
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Three has never gone into heat. Not in all the years he’s lived with his pack, not even after learning how to trust them. But one night, it hits him all at once: panic, instinct, and a need he doesn’t know how to hold. He thinks he’s home alone. He thinks he can ride it out in silence. But Vessel stayed home.
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Vessel lovingly and very sweetly helps Three through his first heat by fucking him through it just how he likes it.
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18 Jul 2025
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“But you aren’t an omega."
“I wasn’t before I went to sleep,” Vessel agrees. “But I think I might be, now.”
II runs his hand through his cropped hair to avoid reaching past the bedframe dividing him from Vessel. He desperately attempts to avoid why he feels like the space between them is a barrier he isn’t allowed to cross without permission, when a few days ago he wouldn’t have thought twice about sitting down beside Vessel, no matter the questionable state of his sheets.
“Ves, are you implying that you think you were bitched by a dream?”
It sounds even more ridiculous out loud.
“No,” Vessel denies, shifting in a way that makes his sheets drag eye-catchingly across the sweat pearling on his defined waist. He laughs without humor when he says, “I think it was more like I was bitched by a god.”
When divine intervention causes what is supposed to be the first night of Vessel's rut to become the start of his first ever heat, II is determined to give his boyfriend everything he needs. He only fears that, as a beta, he won't be able to deliver.
The universe finds fit to give him a means to rise to the occasion.
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- Part 1 of Receive Verse (A/B/O AU)
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15 Jul 2025
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Wake up. Take your meds like a good boy. Sit in front of the TV. Don’t do anything to hurt yourself. Eat your meals. Go to therapy. Go to sleep. Wake up. Take your meds like a good boy. Sit in front of the TV. Don’t do anything to hurt yourself.
And yet- Today was different.
There was a new patient on the ward.
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The story of how Sleep Token are formed. Vessel meets II when they are patients in a psychiatric hospital, both men dealing with their own inner demons. They discover a shared love of music, slowly starting to develop feelings for each other as they go through music therapy together and their friendship starts to blossom into something more. Matters are complicated by Vessel's past relationship trauma and car crash, II's OCD and eating disorder, and the not so insignificant detail of being confined to a psychiatric ward.
This work uses completely fictionalised identities for Vessel and II, and they are referred to by their fictionalised names throughout, as it is set pre-Sleep Token (circa 2015).
There is now a companion playlist
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24 Jun 2025
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IV lives a quiet, forgettable life – the kind of person people overlook in a crowd, in conversation, even in memory. He’s always chalked it up to anxiety, introversion, maybe just bad luck. But when he stumbles across a cryptic online ad inviting virgins to a one-night-only vampire club, something in him answers.
He doesn’t expect the club to be real. He definitely doesn’t expect the vampires to be real.
Vessel, II, and III aren’t just seductive and strange – they can see him, truly see him, even when no one else can. And as IV is pulled into their world of blood, power, and dark intimacy, he realises the truth: the reason people have always looked past him isn’t just psychological.
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Vessel, II, and III have waited centuries in the dark for their final puzzle piece – IV. If they happen to find him because he stumbled over a ‘lose your virginity to a vampire’ ad? Well, that’s just what we call comedic timing.Bookmarked by ragsofskinandspine
18 Jun 2025
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“Well? Spill.”
“Uhm. Fuck, don’t tell Sam. Or anyone. Promise me.”
“The fuck you talkin’ bout – go on. Promise.”
"Might’ve cut him a teeny tiny line that ended up not being as teeny tiny as promised.”There's Vessel the character: elegant (other than while attempting to dance), strong, something close to a deity, transformative. And then there's Vessel the man who is anything but the presented facade. When there's ambiguity between the two personas, III can finally learn who their friend really is.
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18 Jun 2025
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Disquietude:
a state of uneasiness or anxiety.
"such passages reflect a sense of disquietude, of alienation even"Bookmarked by ragsofskinandspine
18 Jun 2025
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There is one particular thing Vessel loves the most about his husbands. Of course, he loves everything about them. There's just something about the way they call him sweet names, or the way they tell him about the adventures of their respective days. He finds comfort in their voices, which is ironic since millions of worshippers find comfort in his. One of the only things that helps Vessel relax after a troubling day is hearing one (or all of them) speak. III is happy to oblige.
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18 Jun 2025
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Fantasies of any kind are rarely kept secret between them, not when it's so much fun to see them play out in reality instead. Which makes it so odd, to see III fall silent or straight-out deny something he has an obvious interest in.
What is even odder, though, is how much it bothers Vessel, for some reason.
(You can take the cat ears off the boy... or however that saying goes.)
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18 Jun 2025
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“Before I hit send on this,” III says, mostly to II, “I’m not on any of my band accounts and what I say in this chat will not be linked back to Sleep Token.”
“Does that mean you’re going to say something out of pocket?” says IV.
III shoots him a wicked little grin. “Yes, very.”
On the screen, Tori lets out an excited yelp. “Oh my god, look in the chat - hi, long time listener, first time caller. Then in all caps, OP OF THAT THREAD IS MY DOM.”or: II's discussion of how perfect his Darling Boys are winds up on III's favorite lifestyle podcast.
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18 Jun 2025
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He had asked him once, and Vessel had looked embarrassed. He simply replied that he didn't really know. That ever since he'd arrived in the manor, he'd always been in this very supermarket. Never another. That he knew every item's place down to the last centimeter and that the place was big enough that he could easily run away from employees or other customers if he felt they were staring at him too intently.
Or, Vessel and II go grocery shopping but things don't really go as planned.
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18 Jun 2025