I'd Love To Ask About Chains Hollow Aaaaaa I Love Them. Maybe Something About How You Wrote Their Relationship

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

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1 year ago

Hollow Knight ask meme: Mantis Lords, Broken Vessel, White Lady

Mantis Lords: Which NPC would you like to fight with as a team?

HMMMmm. Hard pick. What if I said Ogrim. What then. 

Hornet also seems like a fun cinematic choice, considering how momentous her singular fast teamwork moment is for the Dream No More ending. If I picked Tiso, it’d be like babysitting but hey maybe he’d survive. The nailmasters would be fun visibly (and chaos logistically because they are Big and I would be so distracted by three of them sharing the screen with me). 

(Am I allowed to pick Hollow? I want to pick Hollow for every answer.)

Broken Vessel: Which character would you bring back to life, if you could?

(Am I allowed to pick Hollow XD)

For any ending they die in, Hollow. I’m biased. What can I say. If I wanted to feel less guilty as a player, then those like Myla or the False Knight. 

There is a part of me that straight up says the Radiance though just so she can be punted around, I’m not even gonna lie. (She would make an excellent squeaky toy. Rubber chicken noises.)

White Lady: Do you have any theories about the Higher Beings in Hallownest?

Not as many as you XD

I like to play with the higher beings, so my lore for them is a bit fluid and pieces change fic by fic. They are some of the most fun of the characters/historical characters of that world, and making theories is really very fun. Most of them are probably about PK. To no one’s surprise lol. Trying to pick a specific one and I feel like it'd make the post too long, help. I have a lot of half finished thoughts regarding Hallownest's higher beings/PK and the Fury of the Fallen lore tablet/corpse thing, that someday perhaps I will actually figure out. I'm rooting for you to make a theory about that weird lore tablet/corpse/charm


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2 years ago

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


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2 years ago

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.


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2 years ago

Quick thing I did the other day for @grollow​‘s Living Dead. Spoilers for the latest update!

Quick Thing I Did The Other Day For @grollow​‘s Living Dead. Spoilers For The Latest Update!

except no, actually, the true version is here

Quick Thing I Did The Other Day For @grollow​‘s Living Dead. Spoilers For The Latest Update!

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2 years ago

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 

YOU GUYS I’M NEVER GOING TO SHUT UP ABOUT IBIMM GRIMM. 

“Ashes cool and embers fade, but what is dreamed will not decay.”


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1 year ago

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

How many have you read?

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo


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2 years ago

Have the thing I made for Halloween last year


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2 years ago

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.

Since @ashyronfire Says I Don’t Share Enough Of The Shitposts I Make For Their Very-not-shitty Fics,
Since @ashyronfire Says I Don’t Share Enough Of The Shitposts I Make For Their Very-not-shitty Fics,

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3 years ago
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Where I mainly write about robot aliens or depressed bugs with amateur writing skills. 


(I’m not active in posting on tumblr or ff.net, but I’m active on AO3)


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Transformers and Hollow Knight live in my head rent free and teamed up to beat me with a pool noodle the last time I tried to confront them about paying.Finally has seen Shrek

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