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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

Speedpainting practice. A paraphrased drawing of this chapter from a finished HK longfic of mine.

I have finally learned my lesson to not handwrite the text on the art vs adding it after

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. 

While trying to sketch for Ibimm, I accidentally used the pruning clippers on White Lady. Oops

Trimmed White Lady pt 1

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

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.

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

Friends brought up this concept in chat and then we ran a fucking marathon with it

PK/Radi Arranged Marriage Regency AU

The elopement Realized

So my pals dropout-ninja and ashyronfire had a riveting thread about two of their Hollow Knight fanfic universes interacting (here), and I couldn't Not make art for this crossover: the Post-Divorce Multiuniverse Eloping of IBMM WL and W&G PK

TLDR: angst, angst, angst, fluff/humor and the mixing of two families of the same people except the parents have gone through bug divorces with their universe's spouse

Also, go read their fics, "White & Gray" and "It's Burned in My Mind". They're really fantastic, guys

Art of @grollow and @arsonistmoth's ocs for @ashyronfire's Red Sky. (Tumblr eats quality, hate)