Fanart For This Radi Fic Of All Time By @basilbellona, It Is Glorious And Scrumptious And Mortal, Dumpster-diving,

this was drawn with references, but i'm really proud of her hair so you all get to see it

princess novastella vox stellavis, or nova demasi

Here, for the viewing pleasure: the pale families

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

In honor of finally making @ashyronfire the grimmcut for IBIMM they petitioned for back in September, have the art I tried to make for the nightgown king himself

Hive Knight, The Dreamers, The Radiance~?

Thank you for the ask, I made my answers too long :D

Hive Knight: Are there any bosses you wish were friends instead of foes?

I feel like I’d say most of them XD 

The one coming to mind the most while writing this up is probably actually the False Knight. It’s a tutorial battle and seems straightforward enough early game, but finding the two brothers and hearing the final thoughts just makes me feel bad for killing him every time I replay the game. 

(I have a slightly similar reaction to the Pale Lurker fight, just because it feels so needless just to grab a key for a high percentage run, so Pale Lurker can be the second option here.)

The Dreamers: Who’s your favorite Dreamer? Why?

Hmmmm, I’ll go with Herrah on account of emotional damage. I love all the Dreamers and am always wanting to see more fic of the three of them together. But individually, Herrah was the first Dreamer I killed and just standing there killing her while nothing happened caused said emotional damage first before the other two got a chance. There’s something more sad about killing her than the others, to boot. Lurien and Monomon don’t seem to have many people close to them (Monomon has Quirrel, Lurien had PK?? and/or the butler guy that Grimmchild is always murdering). Lurien’s got no one alive/uninfected left. Monomon is trying to get the three of them killed. Meanwhile, Herrah had a lot of people genuinely loyal to her, plus Hornet. The difference between her and Monomon is that while both have someone alive that cares about them, Monomon is the only Dreamer to be advocating for the Dreamer’s seals removal. Herrah is still in the ‘seals cannot be undone/our duty holds’ mentality and maintains that mentality presumably because she’s trying to protect Hornet (the dreamnail dialogue about her doing everything ‘for her’). She just tends to always be the one I feel the most bad about killing. 

But also she’s a favorite because of how much potential political drama was going on between her and PK and the Mantis Tribe, and I have fun writing/reading that 

The Radiance: What memory from this game will stick with you the most?

So many…The Hollow Knight stabbing themself, the Abyss cutscene, Broken Vessel’s everything. Or walking through the dream tent towards the Nightmare King fight, looking at the veins with increasing nerves until the title card shows up and panic starts, or the ‘challenge’ the sun moment. Even just walking into Kingdom’s Edge the first time around. 

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)

For @grollow’s latest W&G chapter, this very quick sketch of two old men being right and wrong and smackable tbh

Brats

(Spoilers under the cut? If I managed the cut right?)

(I did not do it right)

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!

You would, @grollow​. You would.

My Sad Bois

(Snippet note: The problem is that all but one of my hollow knight fics just goes into this as their master doc because I am too lazy to make multiple docs, so. Alas. Deprived of file names for the bugs for...10 wips, oneshot and multichap.)

Babe and the +1

Hi bird brain, why am I being held hostage

rip rewind

sad naughty spider dads

whoever wants to do this, have funnnn, wip file names always give life

@basilbellona​ @rainbow-scarab​ share if you are comfortable!

Tagged by @sydmarch

RULES: post the names of the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

-bark bark

-whatcha wearin

-OUR milk

-copoverse

Tagging @proteus-no and @saturno-sol

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