Yesterday Was Apparently The Day To Draw Terrible Womens @calowlmitygoddess

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

I am a broken man for it

(Go read W&G. Go read it. The most fic of our generation. I’m completely empty now that’s there’s no further chapters left to come.)

Everyone congratulate @dropout-ninja; they survived the end of W&G and now I have to write pantheons as my part of the deal lfksdkgknjds

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. 

Like that's the whole fic it's based off XD

Shade lord ghost stuffs pk into the lighthouse "jar" and takes him along for a ride.

Okay but you can't say that and not drop a link

Fineeeeeee but mostly because I love the little banner you made for it, @ashyronfire

It grew harder and harder to hope the little ghost of Hallownest was any emptier than their birth-cursed kin had been. So how was she meant to hope it could supplant the vessel?

Characters: Hornet centric, the Knight, and an ensemble

This starts by following along canon, before diverging into AU territory. Mostly inspired by one of Hornet’s lines in-game and the imagery of her going tink tink off the Radiance’s head

It likely will become a series with a few Hornet oneshots as companion pieces (those planned are one of her and the White Lady, her as a child in the White Palace pre-angst, and one post-epilogue of Transcend.

Read more?

hey. 

hey.

hollow knight people.

read this hornet fic.

flora won’t share their works here without them basically being done and/or me screaming like a feral animal, so i’m going to just drop this in an attempt to pspsps people.

because this is really really exciting to me and has me face-smashing myself at ao3 like “i need updates to breathe” while frothing at the mouth.

(i’m normal, i swear.)

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:)

This comment will always live in my head rent free. Sometimes you just gotta summon a demon clown with a cowbell to fix the problems you caused. Behold the handmade gif created to honor it

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.”

More fanart for @grollow/@ashyronfire’s Red Sky

My Bloodborne experience so far

Can't have shit with inflation in this economy