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250610 - hoseok's instagram story

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“WE ARE BACK” 🥹

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After listening to Even in Arcadia, too many times to count and still counting, I have like many, started a deep dive for clues and lore. In my travels scouring the interent, I decided I should probably figure out what the heck Arcadia was in the first place. What does it reference? And I came across this.

Now first couple of reference no biggie nothing crazy but that last one right there caught my eye. That phrase/concept right right there fit the bill. And I was like "ah that's where "Even In Arcadia" comes from" and the album follows the meaning too. And left it at that......until like into the late night (read early morning) I'm discussing with a friend the album and lyricism and lore. I explain what I found to her and half way into my explanation, it clicks and I'm like holy shit.

The concept "Et in Arcadia ego" translates "Even in arcadia I am" but the album just says Even in Arcadia, the song just says Even in Arcadia. Never once does sleep token complete that concept/phrase per say....until I realized that the last song inifinte baths the last song on the album (that we know of), the last 2 words are "I am".....completing not only the album but the concept/phrase: "Et in Arcadia ego"..... Even in arcadia, I am.

My mind is blown.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

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@switchbladesaintsart is an amazing artist

after 9 months ive finally finished this painting omfg

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GUYS THE TITLE ON THE COUNTER CHANGED! It's not "gather, germany" anymore. WHAT DO YOU MEAN A SIDE QUEST?????

WHAT'S ON JUNE 7TH?????

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WE HAVE NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!

There is a code in the German website with a phone number and when you call that number then you get this message:

Thank you anon :)

I recorded the message if someone wants to hear it.

According to twitter the morse code spells out: endurance and end / end...

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happy iisday. have a compilation.

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has anyone named the fucking thing yet?

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this is fine.

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Metal Hammer magazine May 2025

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They just can't stop winning 🥹

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The passwords from day II of the German sidequest have changed:

House Veridian - Bad Body -> Tomb

Feathered Host - Bad Baddie -> Eden

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Just noticing that the Even in Arcadia tour announcement has a unique character in it, the AR in Arcadia...

You know what that looks like? An alchemical symbol, 🜇... for aqua regia.

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II Drum Cam - The Offering, St. Louis 2024

The Offering live from St Louis, MO 2024. 📷: adamrosssi 🎚️: jwaudioproductions

Originally shared May 21 2024 to II's [IG]

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got so into the puzzles this week i started learning HTML and making an ARG for my friends and im having a great time

now im just sat here waiting for them to Find Things :3

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"The Battle Continues..."

We all know and love the intro to The Night Does Not Belong To God and by now I'm sure we all know that it gets used again at the end of Euclid but did you notice it at the beginning of Infinite Baths?

By now I'm sure you have heard the idea that everything from TNDNBTG to Euclid is the cycle we hear about, it has ended therefore we have Even in Arcadia. I disagree with this idea, instead I think the cycle is much more complicated than we realize. Each album is seemingly the cycle repeating, each time we have a slightly altered version because though this is a repeating cycle, it's nearly impossible for it to always stay exactly the same every single time. What does this have to do with the intro of TNDNBTG? Well each time we hear that intro we are straying from the cycle in some way. This isn't the restarting of the cycle, it's a realization that the cycle must end.

We can tell from quite a few of the songs within Even in Arcadia that the cycle is altered and he is starting to break from it. Plenty of songs have this split between seemingly loving then hating someone, Infinite Baths is one of these songs. Within this we hear that someone is both keeping him in motion while he also says he is never going back pushing this idea that though we seem to have broken from this cycle, we haven't. Infinite Baths is a push in the right direction, distancing oneself from the cycle and gaining independence while clearly still being stuck in this cycle to some extent. This is why we hear 'the cycle must end' instead of something more along the lines of 'the cycle has ended' or why we hear 'the house must endure' and not 'the house has endured.'

So if the cycle hasn't ended, this battle hasn't ended. If a battle doesn't end, it must continue. I don't think this post about the battle continuing is to tell us the double album theory is correct or we are getting 2 more songs to complete the album. This album is a step towards breaking the cycle, so why wouldn't something random such as the number of songs break the streak of 12 song albums we had before? We also have to realize how many fans thought the singles were the end of the band. Emergence has lines about being close to the end, Caramel is about struggling with fame, and Damocles is about a fear of being no one after all this work rising to fame, none of which seem to push for the continuation of this band. To further stir up some publicity and push all the fears of this being the last album we have to rest, we get the cryptic post about the battle continuing confirming, this is not the end.

This idea popped into my head and gnawed at my brain until I couldn't take it any longer and 20 minutes later we have this. Apologies for my absence, College killed me for a second. Despite that, I do have Even in Arcadia on loop and have since it released. Provider seems to have consumed my entire brain and is holding it hostage.

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millions of songs in the world, but yours is my favourite

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