The Hollow Knight, Bretta, Nightmare King Grimm

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

It will always be 0

Days since @dropout-ninja and I objectified my monster deuteragonist: 0

You would, @grollow​. You would.

My Sad Bois

(Snippet note: The problem is that all but one of my hollow knight fics just goes into this as their master doc because I am too lazy to make multiple docs, so. Alas. Deprived of file names for the bugs for...10 wips, oneshot and multichap.)

Babe and the +1

Hi bird brain, why am I being held hostage

rip rewind

sad naughty spider dads

whoever wants to do this, have funnnn, wip file names always give life

@basilbellona​ @rainbow-scarab​ share if you are comfortable!

Tagged by @sydmarch

RULES: post the names of the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

-bark bark

-whatcha wearin

-OUR milk

-copoverse

Tagging @proteus-no and @saturno-sol

No mind to think

No will to break

Ur the hollow knight

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

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)

My favorite map and everyone’s least favorite cereal to eat

Have the thing I made for Halloween last year

Yesterday was apparently the day to draw terrible womens @calowlmitygoddess

Anyway here are the very serious arts I did for @grollow /@ashyronfire’s Red Sky

Bonus very serious art

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