I Am Also Forever Going To Agree That It’s Hysterical That You’ve Been Out Here Hissing Through Teeth

do you understand my vision

2014, 2024, I get two nickels

The Hollow Knight, Bretta, Nightmare King Grimm

One of these is solely because I want to see you admit your favorite ship on main, I cannot stop myself

I think I need to not attempt ask games because I am too talkative and make long ass posts help

The Hollow Knight: What was the saddest part of the game for you? Which ending is the most sad to you?

All of it

But seriously, so many moments. I’ll throw the Nosk Den out as one, alongside the Abyss. A lot of the settings give feels, like the empty basin. The White Palace’s everything always makes me feel Emotions. A lot of the ghosts make me sad. MARMU. Agh. 

Which ending isn’t sad? That said, I am going to go with Sealed Siblings as the worst feeling ending. It feels like the one that has the most damage caused and the least hope. Dream No More is a ‘good’ ending, though, but it gives many sad feelings (just of a different nature than the long scream of SS/THK ending)

Bretta: Favorite Hollow Knight ship? Favorite fanfic?

Why you do this

I have so many ships, because I’m the type of person to read what looks like a crackship and if it’s written with crunch then now I’m shipping it (hi grimmnet). It doesn’t take much and I don’t tend to have notps, my personality is a continuous shrug (me out here sometimes reading pale nightmare and causing you unknowing psychic indigestion) 

Grollow was my first HK ship and I’d probably call it my favorite. I also really like Pale King/White Lady. Some of the more cursed ships I favor are Pale King/Radiance (or PK/Radi/WL) and Radiance/The Hollow Knight, exceptionally messy and toxic. There you go, Ashe, get me on main saying it all. 

All of yours are the answer XD (I mean it). From Eyes to W&G/Red Sky to Butterfly, sorry not sorry. Other favorites are Soul of God, Form of Moth by @basilbellona, which has been my favorite HK fic since April 2022, and In Defiance of Time (and associated oneshots) by @ganondorf--apologist. 

Now for a list of absolutely random things I’ve got in my bookmarks, which are excluding the multiple HK fics I have open but am still reading. I’m going to make too long a post just because I always want fics to get more love. Some of my other non-Ashyr favorites from bookmarks (no specific order and genre) are: Captivated, Until Dawn Shall Break, Not Too Late for Second Chances, Hold The Future With Silver Hands, Camouflage of Great Renown, It’s All Well Above Wonder Anyway, The Clock Stopped Ticking Forever Ago, Pale Revival, A Tribe Betrayed, Void Given Focus, Workshop Safety, To Reclaim A Dream, To Love A Lamprey, Moving Onward, Will Terribly, If You Will At All, I Swore I’d Have No More Knights In Shining Armor, We’re So Close But So Distant

Someday I’ll have even more to recommend when I finish reading the fics open in my tags (hi Tori fics, hello)

Nightmare King Grimm: Which boss battle was the most intense for you? The most satisfying to defeat?

What if I said Nightmare King Grimm

Each one I came across the first time I played faskfsdaf. I’m going to go with Absolute Radiance just because I remember the noises I was making on stream when I accidentally beat her in P5 the first time. But in terms of my favorite boss fight/the one I’m most satisfied about my skills in, I’ll go with the cliche of the NKG fight XD My one skill in this game is being able to absolutely bully the man and kill him hitless before the best part of his song plays. I put all my irl XP points into getting good at him. Other favorite fights are Sisters of Battle, and probably Pure Vessel even though they are gatekeeping me so hard in my all bindings P4 run and so I cry.

Shit my bad

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45389710

FUCKIN NICE

A fanart for @ashyronfire for their fic We Are Like The Living Dead. Why does Hollow have a snoot? Who knows. Not me the artist.

(The spiritual successor to this one:)

Got my brother to watch FMAB and then made a shitpost for him because this is the burden anyone who watches anything with me must bear

I am sorryyyy, I don’t know how to help when I don’t know what went on in my brain to make things anyways

They just Happen??

That specific entry though came because I had the arc theme of ‘small lies’ ‘not lies’ them basically trying to do ye ol therapy tips of say something a bunch of times until it has replaced the initial negative thought process. So I just used what their struggles at that point in the fic were in terms of coming to accept that they might have interests and preferences and whatnot, because they weren’t in a place where their actual pov knew that but their entries could ‘lie’

Luckily for them, Zote was there to teach them that they do indeed prefer some people over others rather than being purely empty with No Opinions. Hats off to Zote. The true hero of the story.

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)

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

In honor of its last chapter going up today, I’ll use the fic banner Ashyr gave me and make a rare tumblr post.

Fic is found here:

And is a longfic multichap following the Hollow Knight post the Delicate Flower ending. It’s the usual recovery, THK survives story with a seasoning of healing, gender exploration, side adventures with Grimmchild, tea time with Grimm, and a dash more Zote than was intended

Thank you for the banner Ashe!

Batman would get to share the joy with ibimm Ghost that is having godseeker following you around constantly wanting attention

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

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