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PV probably knows by now. No help to their grimm.

No help from him at all

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

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

We’ve concluded that Ibimm WL and W&G PK shouldn’t meet because they might elope

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

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

I'd love to ask about Chains Hollow aaaaaa I love them. Maybe something about how you wrote their relationship with their father. Which. I guess is a lot since it's throughout the fic. Maybe near the end if you want it more specific (like, with the void) but I'd take any part.

Chains Hollow, my beloved. They were my first introduction to writing for the Hollow Knight fandom and out of the options, they were likely the best character I could've picked. THK/PV remain the character that comes to me the easiest, I love writing them. Chains Hollow in particular was fun to write because of how their pov itself evolved, along with their personality. Their view of the world and of themself was the highlight of writing the fic, including their relationship with their father. They started the fic with him on an absolute pedestal and they would attempt not to think about him at all, because they thought they couldn't deserve to. I set out from the start wanting their perspective on him and that relationship as a whole to change, so while it started at that, their view of him gradually came down from that 'can do no wrong' status. It was always a tricky part of the story to write, I'll say that- I wanted them to move forward and still address their past, to end in a state that they can call themself by a title without shame and express their own personhood instead of feeling like that was something to apologize to him for, but the fact that it was all posthumous would've made it tricky to start with. Adding in the ambiguity of the void chapters was part of Chains that I actually struggled so hard in publishing (Ashyr can vouch, I spent chapters 57-58 whining behind the scenes) because there is a line between closure and clinging to your ghosts. In general, writing their relationship got to evolve from them trying not to think about him at all, idealizing him, remembering his more 'human' moments, feeling guilty and responsible for his death, to seeing more of the world and questioning why Hornet treats the subject of their father the way she does, to eventually being the one with more of the independence and lead, almost a role swap. They never stopped loving him, but they weren't going to have loving him mean suffocating their own self anymore. It was one thing to write them expressing that to characters that didn't know anything about their role as THK (the Dirtmouth gang), or those who would've been outside of that (Grimm), but another to write them feeling self assured enough to express it all to PK's visage

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

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)

Fanfic Writers: Director’s Cut

Reblog this if you want readers to come into your ask box and ask for the “director’s commentary” on a particular story, section of a story, or set of lines. 

Or, send in a ⭐star⭐  to have the author select a section they’ve been dying to talk about!

@basilbellona thank you for this, I was obligated to then make something unholy

Turned her right side around!

POV u do a white palace 3 am challenge that oMG they said not to do AloNe! Not Clickbait

🙃

Look I’m just saying you are an even better writer of PK for eliciting the reactions to those spoilers from me the neighborhood PK enjoyer

This is praise

Take your praise and my redacted reactions and feed on them like the vampire you are

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!

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!

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

Since @ashyronfire says I don’t share enough of the shitposts I make for their very-not-shitty fics, here. Have two from their Living Dead verse

Spoilers (??Sort of??) below.

Totally definitely very accurate sneak peek at the upcoming Take Two arc.

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

My favorite part is that none of the reblogs have even been me. I’m innocent. Just sitting in my corner doing nothing while you get to see into gay robot hell because of everyone else.

Every time one of the people I follow reblogs Transformers (which I have no opinions on), I feel @dropout-ninja‘s power grow exponentially. Stop sending them more power they are already too strong and I cannot defeat them as it is. I’m respawning at the Stake over and over and my build is not optimized for this.

Art™️

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:)

Part 2 of Trimmed White Lady

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

Trimmed White Lady pt 1

@ashyronfire’s Witch owns my heart completely, so I will plug them with the shitposts I drew for their latest oneshot

They deserve all the trams they could ever want

And

Petition to give Witch more trams

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

The @dropout-ninja​ and Ashe premier W&G experience 

Bullying works, because here I am posting for @ashyronfire. I have so much art for the fic verse set in/after It’s Burned In My Mind and the subsequent bonus stories. Here’s a set from the latest oneshot (as of this date):

Both the sketches and colored versions were done in hyper speed without care for quality. I am primarily a maker of shitpost art so What Quality, never heard of it

Sketches:

And this bonus, because Ashyr said Ghost deserves to sit on the table no matter their size

Soul of God, Form of Moth Chapter 14: Who's Boss

By BasilBread (that'd be me!)

Rating: T

Characters: The Radiance, Xero, minor original HK character, the Pale King (Hollow Knight)

Current Fic Word Count: 62,609

Chapter Summary: After settling into a new "safehouse", the former god of light finds herself in a demeaning position and at odds with the lady of the house.

Author's Notes: Reader's discretion is advised for extreme snootiness (and inherent classism) as well as bullying.

Although Radi is the protagonist, she's still not a nice person! It's a long way to go on the road to any sort of redemption.

(If you like villain protagonists and haven't seen this fic, following this POV might satisfy that craving!)

I crave Hollow and White Lady interactions and @dropout-ninja 's Take Two absolutely delivers as always, this scene in particular stuck to my brain like bubblegum

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.)

Happy fic completion, @dropout-ninja !!! Chains (found on AO3) is such a comforting read, despite all the angst. Or, especially because of it and the healing involved! And it does such a fantastic job of exploring all the implications of THK's imprisonment and upbringing, who is such a lovely, determined focal character to root for. I cannot recommend this fic enough to Hollow Knight enjoyers.

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!