In Honor Of Its Last Chapter Going Up Today, I’ll Use The Fic Banner Ashyr Gave Me And Make A Rare

You thought it would be IBIMM I asked about, or the star, but it is not. No, I need to know what was going through your headspace with Chains' journal entries. You see, they are my actual favorite part of Chains, because I struggle to write journal entries and make them feel like journal entries. But this one:

‘Entry 47

This is a small lie: I do not mind the pushing of the Teacher’s assistant because I understand it.

This is perhaps a little bigger than a small lie.

I can not understand it. He thinks I have begun to. I lie. […] ’

From Chapter 23 (24 on ao3) plays in my head often. I do not think you know how much this fucked me up when I read it because we weren't talking about it, but I've never forgotten it and I've wanted to do a diary-style fic for AGES because of this. Help me. Tell me how you made this so damn good. (The whole entry, I just didn't wanna quote the whole thing back at you when its a little on the long side.)

I have a feeling a lot of my director’s cut reveals would just be me shrugging and saying idk where x came from??

Because I think that’s. That’s just the majority of my writing. And in terms of coming across the idea of journal entries, I honestly have no clue what spawned that

But the journal entries were one of the few random things I wrote down before even starting on outlining or chapter 1, along with some other random scenes/sentences/dialogue (THK’s scene with the Troupe Master when he’s leaving for the first time, the first White Lady scene, things like that). I think there were actually a few og journals that the fic wove off of that ended up being changed/deleted. I knew Myla’s song would get to be an entry, the entry you mentioned up there was written pretty early on, basically I knew that I wanted to have the entries show their writing style and discomfort in calling themself an ‘I’ and how that evolved and progressed over the story. The entries and gender subplot were basically the backbones that the rest of Chains spawned on. So fun fact! We wouldn’t have it if not for the journal entries subplot. Even if THK was screaming over their ‘homework’ for a good half of the fic

(As a side note, about by the 20s of chapters, a friend had convinced me to use the sort-of maybe-PK arc from the end and I had the image of them just dumping giant stacks of journals in front of him to go “read”, and so I kept that in mind for all the entries that got to take place for the next 40ish chapters)

Their arm was stuck halfheartedly lifted. Their hand had meant to cup a tiny face. What lay in front of them now was hardly tiny. Each eye was as large as they... It was so large that they could not see any part of its form but that head. Void curled back from it, as though fluid had been suspended in time, in place. Focused. Aware.

Art for a moment out of @dropout-ninja‘s fic that has not left my brain since I read it. It’s a lovely story and a beautiful scene which I very much enjoyed painting. Cheers :)

I am also forever going to agree that it’s hysterical that you’ve been out here hissing through teeth for months about hating PK while writing him incredibly well

Though I also continuing to posit that being a PK appreciator heavily involves wanting to drop kick him into the sun, so liking him does not make him immune to going into the shredder. In he must go.

i was rereading my favourite W&G chapters, wich are the ones with PK and Hollow and i still think is so amusing that you didnt even liked PK that much and yet you write him so perfectly, literally histerical

SHRIEKS

To be fair, he's SOMEWHAT grown on me, and the worse the fandom butchers his characterization (which is unfortunately common in on ao3 x.x), the more I feel compelled to defend him. There's a few authors I know who do him justice (Ruthlesslistener, Dropout, to name a couple), but for the most part a lot of people do not seem to understand that he is so fucking nuanced and that he was in a lose-lose situation.

DGMW I still wanna stuff him through the shredder because I love Hollow-- but I need the world to understand that PK is not this cackling thoughtless emotionless evil person. He's a person who was in a situation that had no good outcome, and was just trying to do the best he could for the majority, while fully recognizing the evils of his own actions.

Nuance! Layers!

Let him be an onion!

And let me stuff that onion in the blender a few times!

Hollow knight fandom, forgive me

Early PK meeting with established Hallownest higher beings:

That’s how it went down in canon, yeah?

YOU GUYS I’M NEVER GOING TO SHUT UP ABOUT IBIMM GRIMM. 

And @ratatosk777 was nice enough to take a commission from me to bring him to life. They’re not as active on Tumblr as they are on Twitter, so they gave me permission to share this here!

Happy birthday early to @dropout-ninja​, thanks for writing a fanfic that I think about constantly. 

Nightmare King Grimm from It’s Burned In My Mind, as depicted by ratatosk777 

“Ashes cool and embers fade, but what is dreamed will not decay.”

Yes! Yes! The letterbox claims its victim

I like music too much, how am I supposed to pick five 😭

Grabbed random ones from my recent youtube history uhh

• Absolution - The Pretty Reckless - first tpr song handed to me by Marfacat who called it a Tarn song and ho boy it really is with my interpretation by now. It a banger

• Seven Devils - Florence + The Machine - Grimm song Grimm song Grimm song (thank you @grollow )

• The Moon Will Sing - Crane Wives - because twas my 2023 theme song and I must honor such

• Genesis Ch. 1 V.32 - The Alan Parsons Project - i am a simp

• Heart Heart Head - Meg Myers - cello is my beloved gimme that spooky cello I need it

Anything from all these artists, allll of them, I love (APP got a bunch of albums from the 70s to present, if that strikes anyone’s fancy)

@grollow @astorichan @calowlmitygoddess @basilbellona @lastifka @void-rainbow

✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️

1. “World of Your Own” Wonka 2023

2. “Drama” by Aespa

3. “Permission to Dance” by BTS

4. “Feather” by Sabrina Carpenter

5. “Super Shy” by NewJeans

What about you? @beautifulfigment

No pressure tags:

@wallwriterstuff @gh0stsp1d34r @thebearer @little-miss-dilf-lover @bunniesbearsandhobbitadventures @sunflowersteves @mrsmaeharrington

Fanart for this Radi fic of all time by @basilbellona, it is glorious and scrumptious and mortal, dumpster-diving, tiara stealing, absolute fiend Möth delights me

Unkillable mines?

Invincible shields that cannot be damaged from the front?

You think you’re safe?

Think again