Got My Brother To Watch FMAB And Then Made A Shitpost For Him Because This Is The Burden Anyone Who Watches

happy late bday biolizard, killed me like 20 times but who can be mad at that face

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.”

Have the thing I made for Halloween last year

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

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

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!

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

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 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)

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