Speedpainting Practice. A Paraphrased Drawing Of This Chapter From A Finished HK Longfic Of Mine.

Get me on the fanclub couch

I was encouraged to post this. This is a "Red Sky At Dawn" (by @ashyronfire /@grollow ) specific meme. I'm calling myself out as an Atlas fanclub member

Sorry Grimm, we love you and your main character POV, but Atlas has that moxie

(Atlas and Nightshade belong to arsonistmoth !)

Edit: I TAGGED THE WRONG PERSON BEFORE, MY BAD

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

Obligatory second ask breaking my previous rule: WHERE DID "What is dreamed will not decay" COME FROM IT HAUNTS ME I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

Lmaoo I will always be a mixture of entertained and the awkwardly-looking-away gif at your favorite Nightgown King line. See, IBIMM spawned out of a few of Grimm’s lines. Quite a few of said lines took place in the epilogue and I was so proud of them that, in the same first five minutes that I’d come up with the story, I decided to go for its weird ending instead of clear cut ending just so I could include his epilogue lines.

“Ashes cool and embers fade, but what is dreamed will not decay”? It was not one of those lines

I wrote the last like six chapters in a haze, rushing to get it done, and there was a gap in the epilogue that needed something, right after PK’s “remember me” line. So I threw something up there, finished the chapter, came back and looked and that line and went ://// It’s fine, I guess. It rhymes enough. I thought it was a little clunky and disruptive to the chapter flow, but my writing process is mostly me being too lazy to revise anything so I threw the epilogue to the wind without a second glance

And then you decided it was the best line and I have never gotten over it

oh boy I get to feel embarrassed about being incredibly transparent, not the mortifying ordeal of repeat themes being seen

uhhhh

Dialogue or introspection and nothing else- self explanatory XD I have a dialogue problem. Things are emotion driven, or thought driven, and then action is driven by interactions, and the rest is a walking simulator in nondescript anywhere-land. The only thing that could be added are action scenes, because I go from never describing anything environmental or tactile to taking pages on a fight like it’s a DBZ saga

Anger issues- I have a tendency to give my main protagonists anger problems that steer their plot or come up often in introspection, ho boy. Often if they have a foil antagonist, they’d be guilty of this too. I’ve got too many povs that are just angry hurt people with bad coping skills. There’ll be plots based out of the consequences of actions, but there’s also just the aspect of having some empathy for them; you don’t have to forgive them, but you can see where they’re coming from and see that they’re people too. (I also just have an easier time writing what I am familiar with, and I’m familiar with rejection, bitterness, lashing out, and other unpleasantries as an angry person myself lol)

Fall from grace/dethroned power figures/gods/etc- happens to protagonists and antagonists in my sandbox often and I'm sure they hate it

intense (homo)erotic enemies/rivals dynamics- listen…there’s no excuse Half of the time I don’t even intend to set out for this to happen but it does anyway. I blame being a Transformers fan. So many hate boners and murder soulmates and homoerotic enemies ahoy therein. Will they kill each other from being stuck in a box together too long? Will they decide to see their familiarities and improve as people together? Will they make out? Who knows

Weird sadomasochistic vibes going on in the POV (especially in fight scenes)- this comes up whenever the above theme comes up and I have no escape. Fight scenes and memories of all the reasons you hate a dude aren’t supposed to sound so horny, and yet. And yet. You know what, I'll blame transformers for this one too.

mercy/cruel mercy- I have this habit of preferring characters to live, because character death means I can’t play with them anymore outside of the instances where it serves to impact another character/the setting in important ways. Since I was a kid, I’ve liked seeing themes of what ramifications would/do come from a character being spared, and its twist side of cruel mercy, whether because it’s the best option out of all bad options (stares at you, Wakfu season 2 and what horrors you did to my little child brain) or it’s a protag/antag deciding sparing an antag/protag is the worse fate and they’re feeling vindictive. 

Nonhuman characters and inhuman povs- I feel like most of the fandoms I’ve ever been in have few to no humans, and either that influences how I want to see more aliens/constructs/monsters in og works or I gravitate to those fandoms first, but either way, chances are high there will be aliens, monsters, androids, artificial constructs, fantasy races, or eldritch creatures playing large roles in anything I make. I really love playing around with povs from these types of characters and just trying to keep inhuman povs inhuman but also explore how that would look. I’m not sure I’m really able to explain it but let’s just say I’m the type of writer to look at a one-off character like Armus in Star Trek TNG and then spend over a year of notetaking going ‘but what would that existence be like’. Happy to report that someone told me I managed to make a comprehensible but very non-human alien narrator (in a Godzilla fic lmao).

Becoming more than what you were built for- tied to my above use of constructs or nonhuman forces, because a lot of times their stories involve having been created to be a tool/weapon for a single purpose and then, after either rebelling against that or having the environment remove that purpose, the slow journey to figuring out who they are, what they believe, and how they’re more valuable than they’d originally be able to think. Also goes for 'human' characters becoming their own person outside of whatever destiny they've been told they're supposed to have.

Found family- I just Like It. Happens in almost any of my fics and (eventually) happens in my og stuff too (or if not, it happened and then broke apart and the theme is instead how the hurt of betrayal/broken found family is just as valid as its counterpart tropes)

IMMORTALITY AS A HORROR CONCEPT- haha my beloved, thank you again wakfu for cursing me with the horrors

I'll tag @inthegloomglow @void-rainbow @ganondorf--apologist @loveandscience @darksidekelz if any of you wanna play too

Thumbprint challenge

I was tagged by the lovely @willtheweaver

Rules: look back on your works, both past and present, finished and unfinished. What are five to ten narrative elements or tropes that continuously pop up in your work? Give a list of these things!

OMG this one his hard, but I'll try.

Self-worth issues: most of my characters have to realize their own worth throughout the story

Love doesn't fix your problems but it gives you the strength to fix them yourself - that's it, that's what my stories are about and always will be

Supportive characters - I don't like my heroes to exist in a vacuum, they are always surrounded by people that support them and that they care about

Lovers coming from different backgrounds - I have yet to find true enemies to lovers but my MCs always come from the opposite end of a scale

Dreams and nightmares - meaningful (prophetic?) dreams or nightmares occur in all my works. I don't have a rational reason for that, maybe it's my own messy relationship with sleep 😄

Gentle tag for: @astorichan, @ramwritblr, @sunset-a-story, @satohqbanana, @sarandipitywrites

Art for @grollow’s Red Sky At Morning’s chapter 31 (32 on ao3). Fae+Red Sky Fae design below to @aidaita

Like all tumblr art it seems, gotta click for the actual full version

No essence version, and the original sketch version (because Ashyr liked it) below

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!

Quirrel, Elderbug, Myla? :3

Quirrel: What was your favorite thing to discover for the first time?

Every new map, I swear. I feel like I actually really got a thrill out of entering Crystal Peaks for the first time, even though it proceeded to be my least favorite map platforming-wise until I got better at gameplay. Same goes for the City and for Kingdom’s Edge (my beloved? For some reason?)

Or maybe my favorite thing to discover for the first time was just the stag station in Deepnest so I could stop my new player sobbing trip down there.

Elderbug: Do you stop to talk to all the NPCs? Who is your favorite?

I do. I must. It simply would be illegal if I didn’t. Unless I’m doing a speedrun and then the brain has decided it is illegal for me to talk to Elderbug so he gets run past and left to make his sad noise. Guilt. 

Quirrel is a good dude, he let me sit on a bench with him. I love Cornifer so maybe it’s him. I was half convinced he was actually a higher being in my first playthrough because he was just so unstoppable, up until Deepnest. I’m tempted to say Divine just because she’s unhinged.

Myla: What’s your favorite song from the soundtrack?

NO

NO I CAN’T DO THIS ONE

(maniac who has gotten the sheet music now for every song in the soundtrack except for two so far)

I guess White Palace. I guess. If I had to pick. But agh. I’m also partial to Pale Court but after much time going back and forth on it, I think the og White Palace OST beats it. Combat music wise, Sealed Vessel is the song of all time, but Broken Vessel and Nightmare King are responsible for pushing me into buying the game.

Hollow Knight ask meme: Mantis Lords, Broken Vessel, White Lady

Mantis Lords: Which NPC would you like to fight with as a team?

HMMMmm. Hard pick. What if I said Ogrim. What then. 

Hornet also seems like a fun cinematic choice, considering how momentous her singular fast teamwork moment is for the Dream No More ending. If I picked Tiso, it’d be like babysitting but hey maybe he’d survive. The nailmasters would be fun visibly (and chaos logistically because they are Big and I would be so distracted by three of them sharing the screen with me). 

(Am I allowed to pick Hollow? I want to pick Hollow for every answer.)

Broken Vessel: Which character would you bring back to life, if you could?

(Am I allowed to pick Hollow XD)

For any ending they die in, Hollow. I’m biased. What can I say. If I wanted to feel less guilty as a player, then those like Myla or the False Knight. 

There is a part of me that straight up says the Radiance though just so she can be punted around, I’m not even gonna lie. (She would make an excellent squeaky toy. Rubber chicken noises.)

White Lady: Do you have any theories about the Higher Beings in Hallownest?

Not as many as you XD

I like to play with the higher beings, so my lore for them is a bit fluid and pieces change fic by fic. They are some of the most fun of the characters/historical characters of that world, and making theories is really very fun. Most of them are probably about PK. To no one’s surprise lol. Trying to pick a specific one and I feel like it'd make the post too long, help. I have a lot of half finished thoughts regarding Hallownest's higher beings/PK and the Fury of the Fallen lore tablet/corpse thing, that someday perhaps I will actually figure out. I'm rooting for you to make a theory about that weird lore tablet/corpse/charm

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.”

Oh damn, this is a fun question

Ibimm PV would indeed think batman is the role model of the century. Don’t question them.

(They’d also be jealous that W&G Hollow has a PK who didn’t get mortal beamed though, but they wouldn’t mention it)

Ibimm Hornet would probably get depressed at W&G Hollow and PV both, for a multitude of reasons. PV would probably be the big reason

White Lady would have a complete crisis because there’s only so much denial of emotions one can have

Not the least of which because of finding out what W&G WL did (actually in large part because of finding that out)

Ibimm BV would probably think all of the siblings in w&g were Neat. Their BV got to have more plot. And a big nail. And a fun version of Ghost. They and Witch would also see W&G PV having good posture and wonder why theirs won’t

They’d all like baby Ghost let’s be real

Ibimm Ghost would find the stories about w&g Grimm very entertaining

I feel like the PKs would just. Avoid each other. Not make eye contact. Unless one of those PK’s happens to be a baby at the time and then @ashyronfire would have to decide how W&G PK feels about watching baby wyrm play minecraft in a sandbox

Godseeker would just be there to make everything awkward because she still technically lives with the ibimm Pale Family

Pitch more, Ashe, this is hilarious to me

I wonder what would happen if the timelines of IBIMM and W&G collided and both pale famillies met

I have it on good authority that IBIMM PV would hero worship W&G Hollow. @dropout-ninja, opinions? lmao