Fanfic Writers: Director’s Cut

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.)

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

this is a friend of mine's fault

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

Trimmed White Lady pt 1

For @grollow’s latest W&G chapter, this very quick sketch of two old men being right and wrong and smackable tbh

Brats

(Spoilers under the cut? If I managed the cut right?)

(I did not do it right)

Part 2 of Trimmed White Lady

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

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!)

The Hollow Knight, Bretta, Nightmare King Grimm

One of these is solely because I want to see you admit your favorite ship on main, I cannot stop myself

I think I need to not attempt ask games because I am too talkative and make long ass posts help

The Hollow Knight: What was the saddest part of the game for you? Which ending is the most sad to you?

All of it

But seriously, so many moments. I’ll throw the Nosk Den out as one, alongside the Abyss. A lot of the settings give feels, like the empty basin. The White Palace’s everything always makes me feel Emotions. A lot of the ghosts make me sad. MARMU. Agh. 

Which ending isn’t sad? That said, I am going to go with Sealed Siblings as the worst feeling ending. It feels like the one that has the most damage caused and the least hope. Dream No More is a ‘good’ ending, though, but it gives many sad feelings (just of a different nature than the long scream of SS/THK ending)

Bretta: Favorite Hollow Knight ship? Favorite fanfic?

Why you do this

I have so many ships, because I’m the type of person to read what looks like a crackship and if it’s written with crunch then now I’m shipping it (hi grimmnet). It doesn’t take much and I don’t tend to have notps, my personality is a continuous shrug (me out here sometimes reading pale nightmare and causing you unknowing psychic indigestion) 

Grollow was my first HK ship and I’d probably call it my favorite. I also really like Pale King/White Lady. Some of the more cursed ships I favor are Pale King/Radiance (or PK/Radi/WL) and Radiance/The Hollow Knight, exceptionally messy and toxic. There you go, Ashe, get me on main saying it all. 

All of yours are the answer XD (I mean it). From Eyes to W&G/Red Sky to Butterfly, sorry not sorry. Other favorites are Soul of God, Form of Moth by @basilbellona, which has been my favorite HK fic since April 2022, and In Defiance of Time (and associated oneshots) by @ganondorf--apologist. 

Now for a list of absolutely random things I’ve got in my bookmarks, which are excluding the multiple HK fics I have open but am still reading. I’m going to make too long a post just because I always want fics to get more love. Some of my other non-Ashyr favorites from bookmarks (no specific order and genre) are: Captivated, Until Dawn Shall Break, Not Too Late for Second Chances, Hold The Future With Silver Hands, Camouflage of Great Renown, It’s All Well Above Wonder Anyway, The Clock Stopped Ticking Forever Ago, Pale Revival, A Tribe Betrayed, Void Given Focus, Workshop Safety, To Reclaim A Dream, To Love A Lamprey, Moving Onward, Will Terribly, If You Will At All, I Swore I’d Have No More Knights In Shining Armor, We’re So Close But So Distant

Someday I’ll have even more to recommend when I finish reading the fics open in my tags (hi Tori fics, hello)

Nightmare King Grimm: Which boss battle was the most intense for you? The most satisfying to defeat?

What if I said Nightmare King Grimm

Each one I came across the first time I played faskfsdaf. I’m going to go with Absolute Radiance just because I remember the noises I was making on stream when I accidentally beat her in P5 the first time. But in terms of my favorite boss fight/the one I’m most satisfied about my skills in, I’ll go with the cliche of the NKG fight XD My one skill in this game is being able to absolutely bully the man and kill him hitless before the best part of his song plays. I put all my irl XP points into getting good at him. Other favorite fights are Sisters of Battle, and probably Pure Vessel even though they are gatekeeping me so hard in my all bindings P4 run and so I cry.