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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

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)

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

There should be more Ender Lilies art out there, so here’s my part Final boss art! So spoilers under the line

me when we did not go take ibuprofen together

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

this was drawn with references, but i'm really proud of her hair so you all get to see it

princess novastella vox stellavis, or nova demasi

@grollow demands I post this XD

Tea and snacks in moss blanket fort with @grollow @dropout-ninja @basilbellona

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

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