#The Hive

[swiffin]

Worms…

[ID: Magnus archives fan art, Jonathan sims is in the foreground holding a handful of worms, he appears horrified, the creatures swarm the image and create most of the background.. Some of them bury themselves into Jon. Timothy stoker is in the background, trying to fend off the worms with a fire extinguisher, he is facing away from the viewer. The lighting is dark but there is a bright yellow light lighting up Jonathan sims face and a dimmer blue light backlighting Timothy stoker. End ID]

#tma #art #the magnus archives #artists on tumblr #jon sims #digital art #jonathan sims #tma fanart #worms #timothy stoker #tim stoker #the hive #jane prentiss #tw worms #the corruption #swiffin

[beels-burger-babe]

Heatwave Drabble

MC: God, how is it so fucking hot down here? Solomon: It's the Devildom. What did you expect? MC: I dunno! Maybe an ice tundra or some normal boring weather not a melt your skin off heatwave! Solomon: There's not much I can do to help you there, MC. What would you want- *Spots Simeon and Luke grooming their wings in the other room. Glances at each other* *10 minutes later* Simeon: You know, this isn't at all the appropriate use for our wings. MC: *Sighs, happily getting fanned by massive angel wings and being given an ice coffee from Luke* Does that mean you're going to stop? *Pouts* It's fine if you do. It's just- I've felt like I was dying all day and your wings is the only way I've been able to cool down. Luke: *Immediately falls for it* Don't worry MC! We're not going any where! Faster Simeon! Simeon: *Sighs and picks up speed* Solomon: *Cackles and cheers his glass against MC's* You, my friend are a diabolical genius. MC: I try.

#the hive #obey me #obey me shall we date #omswd #obey me dateables #obey me angels #obey me luke #obey me simeon #obey me solomon #om luke #om simeon #om solomon #obey me mc #obey me main character #gn mc #gender neutral main character #heatwave #obey me drabble #drabble #obey me fic #omswd fic #om fic #obey me shall we date fic #headcanon #obey me headcanon

[cloudysunflowr]

Tw: creepy, blood, b&e

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What Aiden saw the night he lost his eye

Bonus!

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#cloudyart #trapped neighborhood au #the hive #merge wally #welcome home au #au #art #digital art #drawing

[linterteatime]

My piece for @hkhallowzine ! My old computer really wanted to perish while making this but I didn't allow it ❤️

#hollow knight #hallowzine #the knight #ghost #hk #the hive #fanart #my art #That old computer has been replaced somewhat recently btw #I had saved up some money last year because my old one was starting to be slow at literally everything #now it's so slow it's unusable #anyways #this zine was fun! I don't draw detailed-ish backgrounds very often so it was cool to make one for something like this #artists on tumblr

[scribonia-art]

My part of this year's Crimson Days event hosted by @d2artevents ; an exchange piece created for @flowers-of-io.

Savathûn and a member of her retinue sharing a quiet moment somewhere in the clouds 🧡

#d2valentines2024 #destiny 2 #savathun #savathûn #lucent hive #lightbearer wizard #fluff #fanart #crimson days #the hive

[passiunclepaltry]

guys i think there’s a wasps nest in her attic

#doodles #the magnus archives #tma #tma spoilers #tma podcast #jane prentiss #the hive #the magnus archive fanart #artists on tumblr #girlies whos dreams are crawling and manylegged who are consumed by that which loves them who are a home to precious thousands who- #my art #tw trypophobia #tw insects #cw trypophobia #cw insects

[bas1c-lup1ne-ur0logy-66]

Tiktok is great sometimes look what I made

#tma #the magnus archives #the magnus pod #tma jon #jon sims #tma martin #jonathan sims #fanart #martin blackwood #jane prentiss #the hive #the corruption #tma jmart #jmart #jmart fanart #jonmartin

[marvelmaniac715]

Hello, have you considered joining a collective hive mind recently? We sing musical numbers and have fun times together. Why, just look at this friendly bunch!

They’re reaching out to YOU! Don’t be shy, join us and die today! You have no other choice.

#team starkid #starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #the hatchetfield series #the guy who didn't like musicals #tgwdlm #the hive #lords in black #the lords in black #pokey #pokotho

[nynehells]

SISTER VENGEANCE

Eris is finally done, 8 months after Season of the Witch 😅 Anyway commissions are open @ nyne.art

#art #destiny 2 #eris #eris morn #season of the witch #hive god eris #the hive #hive god of vengeance #destiny fanart #destiny the game

[spiderlaria]

My human Savathun designs from over on twitter!

#i remembered this account exists i swear #destiny 2 art #destiny 2 fanart #the hive #destiny 2 the hive #savathûn #destiny 2 #destiny art

[sketchmatters]

Oryx, the Taken King!

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 art #oryx the taken king #the hive #fan art #video games #illustration #monster #my art #sketchmatters art #sketchmatters art tag

[beels-burger-babe]

Dia Claus - Christmas Crack

So hear me out. Diavolo finding out about Christmas after MC returns to the human world and pulling a Jack Skellington.

Man fully dresses up like Santa, gathers as many "presents" aka normal Devildom items that can and will kill or harm a mortal being, and appears at MC's house.

He will go down their chimney. And if they don't have a chimney, then he is going to magic one into existence because he has to be the best Santa, MC, you don't understand.

Meanwhile, MC is just trying to get some sleep before the craziness of Christmas day and they start hearing some CRAZY loud clanging on their roof and in their house and- holy fucking shit. Are they getting robbed?

They come down as Dia is eating the cookies they left out and gawking at the ornaments like, well, a child on Christmas.

Unfortunately, they round the corner at the same time Dia does, and since MC is wasn't going to just face an intruder unarmed, Dia ends up on the ground shouting with pepper spray in his eyes.

As an apology, he and the others get invited over in the morning for a proper Christmas breakfast and Dia is through the roof (though not literally this time.)

#the hive #obey me #obey me shall we date #omswd #obey me diavolo #obey me dia #omswd diavolo #omswd dia #obey me dateables #omswd dateables #obey me headcanons #omswd headcanons #obey me fic #omswd fic #christmas #crack #omswd crack #obey me crack #santa claus

[cloudysunflowr]

Trapped Neighborhood Refs

Finally finished them! Changed their designs and heights a bit but they’re done~!

I’m also releasing the story on my discord and will be making vids every now and then~ But the fleshed out story will be there. Reminder I intend it to be a rather a short story ^^

#trapped neighborhood au #cloudyart #welcome home #wally darling #welcome home oc #aiden acreage #wendy weathervane #julie joyful #howdy pillar #barnaby b beagle #sally starlet #drawing #art #digital art #oc #frank frankly #eddie dear #welcome home au #merged wally #the hive

[tonythr]

Floating platforms in Hollow Knight are weird, lore-wise

Soooo I haven't seen anyone actually talk about this, but those things just keep *bugging* me.

These things.

Why did Team Cherry put these particular platforms in the background?

Ok, there are numerous floating platforms in this game, of course, because the player needs them to traverse big spacey rooms vertically. They're not even an issue lore-wise, because their existence can be explained by them being attached to the fourth wall, which is what the player looks at the Knight through. It's basically a game construct that we are not supposed to think about as a part of the suspension of disbelief.

BUT THOSE THINGS are not attached to any wall! They're just. Floating. There. In the air. Without any support. And THEIR existence can't be explained by the game wanting to provide the player some convenience. The Knight can't interact with them, we never see anyone else use them or even acknowledge them, so they MUST be something that TC put there for lore reasons, as a part of that beautiful thing that we call environmental storytelling... Right?

That or they just put them there without really thinking about the implications that this anomaly creates. But that's a boring and very unlikely explanation, so I'm just going to discuss what that might mean for the game's lore, assuming they're put there intentionally.

So, I have several thoughts on why those platforms might exist as a part of the in-game universe.

First theory. Hallownest is literally frozen in time

Ok, so this is probably the most obvious one. Throughout the game we see some evidence of the Kingdom being literally put on hold with the intention to keep it alive indefinitely.

This is pretty much what is implied in the tablet in the Pale King's workshop - that PK was trying to literally pause Time itself, so that the inevitable Dawn would never Break.

(Quite an interesting theme, actually - the idea of avoiding the inevitable not by trying to actually avoid letting it happen, but by delaying it by an infinite amount of time. It deserves its own post, really)

So, with Time itself being literally frozen, it's pretty safe to assume that this is exactly the reason as to why some parts of the Kingdom are literally stuck in one place, right? I mean, it's pretty much a trope to have floating rocks and buildings in a place that is stuck in some kind of time stasis. I'd say this is a pretty solid assumption, but when we actually look at some of the other parts of Hallownest we see that it's pretty lively for a place that is frozen in time. The rain is pouring, the stalactites are falling, all those machines in the Crystal Peak are still working...

Some of that stuff can actually be explained by either the Radiance's influence or the Knight's movement. The Infection is presented as the inevitable force of change that resurrects everything and moves it towards Light. The air thickens, the bugs arise from the dead, the Infection takes over the Crossroads, the Moss cultists get turned into mush, and so on. Meanwhile, other creatures possessing a Will are also capable of bringing change to this land. The Knight constantly breaks things, forces the ground to crumble beneath its feet, and overall just brings destruction to Hallownest, bringing the world closer to its natural end. It's no wonder that the stalactites start falling conveniently right as the Knight passes underneath them.

BUT there are still many things that can't be explained so easily. Like, if the Kingdom is supposed to be frozen in time, then why is the rain still pouring? Why is the Wyrm's ash still falling at the Kingdom's Edge? Why is the sand still falling from the ceiling? Why do larger things seem to be fixed in place, while smaller things are seemingly unaffected by the Kingdom's stasis?

That and the fact that at no point we see these floating platforms being acknowledged by the game's lore in any way other than those two places makes me think that this theory is probably incorrect, unlike the next one.

Second theory. Those two particular places are just that special.

The only two places where we actually see floating platforms being a part of the background (if I'm not missing any) are located near some of the most mysterious places in the whole game.

First, we have the ones that are located near the Colosseum of Fools. To be honest, even the interactable platforms there just seem useless, as some of them don't even protect us from the Bellflies. They all look like some kind of decoration (alongside with those strange thin pillars with circles on top of each) leading us along the road towards the corpse of a huge beast which the Colosseum is located inside. What even is this creature? Is it a higher being? Is it a Wyrm (don't mossbag me, he's wrong about those things being its claws because we see a third one in the foreground lying aside from the main structure, detached from the body)? Is the Lord Fool its reincarnation? Is it connected to the Ancient Civilization? How are there so many warriors there? Why does it still thrive after everything that happened to Hallownest? There are so many questions about that place left unanswered that I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the magic of the Colosseum actually affects time and/or space around it, making it possible for the floating platforms to exist.

Second (and this is the most important one), we have the platforms that are located inside and outside the Hive. As far as I know, this is the only place in the whole game that has this many floating platforms located in the background.

This basically confirms that this is absolutely NOT a coincidence and is a part of the intentional in-game lore. The whole place is floating!

The Hive seems to be in its own kind of stasis, probably due to its isolation. Vespa says that going against nature is a folly, so this anomaly is probably something... natural.

And you know where else floating things are a natural occurrence?

The Dream Realm.

So, the Hive and the Dream Realm are both places that are tied to the Light, which is a kind of force or energy that can alter reality and even create new realities, which are not necessarily bound by the usual laws of space and time. The Hive is not located in the Dream Realm, and it's safe to say that it's not some kind of in-between-the-worlds situation like with the Lifeblood Core, so the stuff that's going on there is less crazy than what we see in the Dream Realm, but it is also the only material place that is connected so heavily to the Light, so it is safe to assume that the anomaly that lets the platforms float is directly connected to that mysterious force.

The only thing that I can't understand is how the Light in those places connects to the Colosseum of Fools. It's not a well-lit area, and even inside the arena the only source of light is just regular fire. Could it be that this mysterious force is not defined by the Light itself, but by something more... incomprehensible?

I wonder what that force even is. The Radiance is definitely not the only source of it, and we know we're gonna see some really shiny stuff in Silksong. I personally hope for more platform lore.

#hollow knight #hollow knight lore #hollow knight theory #Hallownest #the hive #the dream realm #colosseum of fools #the radiance #silksong

[plasmometer]

melakheth - on help

#destiny 2 #destiny game #destiny #art #destiny 2 art #destiny the game #melakheth #hive destiny #the hive #destiny oc #plasmdraws

[fujifingerz]

Just sword logic things~

#destiny 2 #destiny #oryx #the taken king #oryx the taken king #crota #nokris #Ir Anuk #Ir Halak #Akka #the Hive