#like specifically about the hollow knight

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's the 6 month anniversary of this blog! Check out these cool bugs I found.

(EDIT: Check out this amazing fanart by thecornermushroom!)

Part 2 - Part 3

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #hollow knight #mdzs au #mdzs hollow knight AU #way too many characters to tag #'OP why?' Listen... It was either this or a Homestuck crossover. Which is still on the table btw. I've put thought into it. #Speaking of putting thought into things...I have put two full asses of effort into this. So I'm gonna talk about it in the tags. #I mapped all the major sects to hallownest clans and drew *way* more than just the characters shown here #More pertinently not shown are the Nies - Who are beetles! #The mantis clan has a lot of crossover with the Nies given the lore but I Love Mantis Wangji and you cant take him away from me. #wwx was a moth solely for his ties to Baoshen sanren (nearly forgotten sect & nearly forgotten clan) #but (HOLLOW KNIGHT SPOILERS) the ties to her radiance and the infection made for some very fun parallels #YLLZ moth 100% is puppeting husks around #JGS is a pale king expy becuase...you know....lots of children... #it also gives me a great excuse to explain wwx's soul taking mxy's body. #Still have lots and lots to say but I'm already running late! More funny - less specific to a very small population - comics to morrow! #This was more or less a style study and I learned a lot! #Thank you all for an awesome 6 months B*) You guys have pushed my way more out of my shell (pun intented) than I would- #-have ever gone had I just hidden away like I usually do. Thanks for all the support even with silly things like this <3

[ssomepersonn]

many thoughts about these guys

#hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #hk ghost #hornet hk #the hollow knight #the knight #nailmaster mato #i have a lot of thoughts about the sealed siblings and how they would necessarily grow #this is way way in the future since theres no way theyre not at least semi immortal #and hell some of my now making this post some of my takes changed but i have many thoughts about how theyd look how long itd take them to #be comfortable enough to settle and grow and accept all the shit thats happened and will happen #etc etc #feel free to pester me about specifics if ur curious ig i dont wanna write an essay in the tags sdjksd #enjoy my little goobers #side note all three of them like dirt and digging its good for worms and trees #sits in the dirt not unlike a tree and basking in the sun seems like a wonderful thing to do #but also playing in the mud and kicking puddles too #yea #my art

[peridots-pixiwolf]

[Start ID. A three-circle venn diagram with Gabriel from Ultrakill, the Lonely Wizard from Inscryption, and the Hollow Knight from the game of the same name. Between Gabriel and Lonely is the text "guys will see a character with vague biology, say 'is anyone gonna buggify that' and not wait for an answer". Between Lonely and Hollow is the text "void beings placed in solitary confinement by a superior they admired with the intention of keeping them there forever". Between Hollow and Gabriel is the text "existed only to be a tool for their god. just wants to be perfect. never allowed to be a person". In the center between all three is just the word "trauma". End ID

having Thoughts

#peridots-nonsense #gabriel ultrakill #ultrakill #lonely wizard inscryption #inscryption #hollow hk #hollow knight #...need a doodle tag actually. is this art??? #know i said i'd stop tagging it like this just yesterday but #peridots-art #this is a little rushed because i'm trying to post it at 4:20 my time because it would be awesome. #...i don't smoke i just get really excited about having a specific number to obsess over and it's funny #inspired by the tags on a gabriel post and my own personal thoughts about these dudes. #think that should be all. it's the time now #alright came back after. technogender's tags on a nov 5th post by feyfeather #hit a comma for the second time but not revising it the post was about gabe but it really reminded me of thk... #*feathers plural. as for the lw-focused sides i've been thinking about their parallels with hollow for a good while actually #and the last one's literally just. i like to give gabe/pyro (under suit)/lonely insect-like anatomy. what are you gonna do about it #that's ACTUALLY all. goodbye tag-wanderer. hope this is. inchresting #OH right also if you see the disproportionate amount of attention given to gabriel's doodle no you don't #1.5 HOURS LATER REALIZED I MADE A TYPO GRRR HISS #you did NOT SEE IT #I DO NOT MAKE TYPOS HERE. BUILT DIFFERENT.

[catallarii]

random art dump from uhh lets see... 2022

#hollow knight #kind of #livly island #wls #wonderland showtime #proseka #prsk #i should really really write my handle on all the art in case people download them and forget about me but im honestly too tired to #bother right now #anyway livly island's a fun game please do check it out #rather niche and community's small #but i know yall like those incredibly specific niche content that no one has ever heard of #catallarii

[maddieandangel]

Had a weird Hollow Knight-related dream a couple days ago, so I decided to draw a major scene I remembered from it dgsgshf

More context will be in the tags, for those interested!

#hollow knight #little ghost #hk ghost #the knight #hk hornet #hornet #alright. as of writing these tags it's been a week since the original dream so! let's see what i remember dgsgsgf #i was playing a game. which was a sequel to hollow knight ((Not silksong though)) #there was some new sort of divine infection in hallownest and hornet had asked ghost to investigate it. they ended the last one after all! #the red glowy spike gate thingy is what you jumped into to enter the 'infected' areas #though it actually led directly to a hub world type of place. which was kinda like an expanded base for the grimm troupe? #more like an entire lair instead of a camp. also some greek gods were there for some reason lmao. they had their own special rooms too #so sidenote but- new headcanon that there are grimm troupe members named ares athena artemis &... venus lmao. not aphrodite for some reason #also monomon was there?? i think??? except she was cooking????? she had a sidequest to deliver something to someone though i dunno hdgfhdgh #i remember going back to the grimm troupe lair a couple times throughout my 'playthrough' #anyway. the 'infection' this time around was more of a glitchy physical corruption thing? rather than a mind corruption. #though there were still aggressive enemies to fight. but i remember getting a map from cornifer early on and he was. probably infected #i think part of his body was covered in electricity or something? so he wasn't fully visible? but he was still acting normally #there was also a moth who was the seer but then later wasn't the seer (but was still the same moth) dghgdhf. i delivered stuff to her #that glowing white wall thing in the drawing was like a one-way gate. you could only cross it from the other side and ghost came from there #i guess things looped back up somehow i dunno ghdgfhgf #anyway. ghost's red eyes. those are significant! those happened while i was walking through a corridor. it had pools of shallow water #(shallow enough to just walk through) and also creatures that were lightseeds but red.the implication was that they were full of Blood lmao #and as i went along killing them--as one does--as i walked through the hall. they started turning the water red too #there was also narration about this as it was happening ashdgsf. specifically the narrator said the water turned red before it actually did #ghost's eyes slowly turned red too. but aside from that they were fine! since. they're the player character and the player is perfectly fin #BUT. when they encountered hornet again. she thought they were infected. and that she lost the only family she had left </3 #she didn't attack though. instead she just jumped into the red spike gate without a word. decided to try to fix everything herself #but eventually you'd encounter her again down below and she'd fight you. didn't actually get to that in the dream though #aand i'm out of tags </3 i wanted to talk about what i'd do to make this make more sense as an au or something now that i'm awake but. :c

[ria-starstruck]

#1 palewatcher hater (me)

hollow knight gijinka designs from @foileadeux!

#we had a silly goofy conversation about this (was not silly. was not goofy.) specifically how pk and lurien would say goodbye #like would pk break down in front of lurien? would he not show any emotion until actual lurien leaves? #and ofc lurien knows either way :] #anyway #hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #hollow knight gijinka

[flecks-of-stardust]

[id in alt text]

this totally didn't take me six months to finish 👍for two hours of additional work. you could Never tell what was just added. Never. :'D

but huzzah! the big baby is finally done! they're like... half my size. maybe. the length of my torso at least, which makes them fun to cuddle and difficult to transport. i feel like i should have made their neck thicker probably? because right now if i pick them up without supporting their head, their neck folds in half. but they're very top heavy either way, sooo.

their cloak was an interesting exercise. it's fully knitted, which was a first for me, and honestly it was pretty damn irritating. it's hard enough with crochet hooks, but it's even worse with knitting needles. everything is really tight and i can barely work a stitch. i made it work, but boy. i am not doing that ever again. you can't really see it from this angle, but there's also a lot of weird floats and holes in their cloak where the stitches were split across needles and so there was weird tension. i can't fix it anymore, so they're here to stay. it's not a huge deal, it's probably appropriate for how their cloak would look anyway, but bleh.

overall though? i like having them around. baby real :)

#seriously i had the first horn nub made but i never attached it because it looked weird then #and then i just. never. kept doing it #for no real reason other than the fact they were basically done already #but now they're done!! #hollow knight #the hollow knight #pure vessel #holly #my art #crochet shenanigans #knit mischief #id in alt text #i crocheted them over winter break. in december 2022. #they took up like half of one side of a suitcase LMAO #i think i specifically didn't sew their horns on for that express reason #so i could actually bring them back home without having to stress about how to pack the rest of my suitcase

[automatonknight]

misc stuff. and all 👍

#art #fanart #eyestrain #bright colors #i'm not a star trek fan but Igamer is so data is here ^__^ #i have very complicated feelings about that data portrait btw. i like it but it also looks bad but it also doesnt #that minos one was supposed to be to dead man's party (oingo boingo) but it ended up not looking ho #oops. how i wanted it to so i abandoned it #more specifically the line i had in mind was leave your body and soul at the door<bc you fight both minos' soul and body. get it #and the hollow knight guys are just here becuse they're funny. i don't know anything about hk YET!! but i'm in the process of watching #a playthrough. wish me luck etc etc #anyways erm. to whoever is reading the tags hi. here's a little treat for you (wall of text)

[monotone-artist]

Your ask bar said show your ocs, I have several. This is ronin (I made a lore post on my thing if you wanna know more lol) I’ll show more if you want I don’t want to be a bother

HELLO ronin is a very neat little guy so i decided to do a quick doodle of him :] anyway yeah that's perfectly fine, i'm always happy 100% time of the always forever and ever to hear about people's ocs!!!

[id: a digital sketch in red hues of a hollow knight vessel oc, ronin. he has a cracked mask and tall horns, one of which is metallic. he's wearing a metal collar, a long cloak that spills onto the floor, and has a nail strapped to his back. he's idly standing with his head tilted. end id]

#also i read the post for him #lil warrior :0 he just wants to protect his siblings.......... #hollow knight #monotoneart #ask #ocshowcase #also following tags arent directed toward u specifically but just for everybody in general: #about the show ur ocs ask thing. yeah i...... dont rlly say it as often as i should auguhdush #but it's very true #can be just a random spur of the moment thing and u wanna tell Somebody. an indepth lore thing. whatevs #if u have like 10 ocs u wanna show off but are worried about spamming me. DONT WORRY ABOUT IT #this kinda thing'll be tagged 'ocshowcase' if anyone would rather avoid that though :thumbsup: #it doesnt have to be hollow knight either. it can be Whatever !! #also it's not 100% ill draw them if u do show me. it just depends if i feel like drawing. ;v;

[sailforvalinor]

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#I just realized that I have not provided an update about the Boy recently #we’ve been talking pretty consistently since the date(?) and that’s been good? #he’s made no romantic overtures or anything which I suppose could be because he’s waiting until I’m not in another country #which is perfectly fine with me #I just don’t know if I like him or not or if he’s just easy to talk to or if I’m trying to delude myself into thinking I like him because I #want a boyfriend or if I’m being really really silly and just need to stop freaking out! #like I prayed about this boy and then he asked me out like I feel like that makes it pretty obvious I should at least see where this goes #but I’m scared 😅 #also did I mention that we became friends as kids because of professor Layton? no joke #I was playing unwound future and he came up and introduced himself and asked what I was playing and we played right up to the end of it #together—and then when I saw him again I didn’t figure he’d remember (I was nine and he was eight) but he ended up going ‘hey you remember #that game we played together as kids? professor Layton? did you hear it’s getting a sequel?’ #like not only did he remember that but he remembered the game BY NAME and even remembered one specific puzzle we were stuck on for ages #(it’s that one elevator puzzle near the end if any of you were curious) #anyway he’s trying to convince me to play hollow knight and I will attempt to oblige (although this is not my normal style of game lol)

[spidergirl-fibula]

why did people celebrate mickey mouse entering the public domain and then turn around and act like using pokémon designs in some boring survival game is a crime against art

#i gotta bitch about this somewhere sorry #this is what always gets to me about the conversations around crediting artists #because so often the argument against stealing credit turns into a pro-copyright argument #and like. yeah i guess artists should have protections over how their art is used #but against corporations. NOT the other way around #this goes for “smaller artists” too i dont care if some random game stole assets from hollow knight do you think thatll hurt team cherry #this is about a specific post i saw im trying to avoid starting some stupid debate ok #stealing art is cool and based and if you ask permission you should be put down like a dog if you give credit youre going straight to hell

[abyssembraced]

They awoke to the cold yet comforting surface of the bench, having been defeated in battle once more.

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...Was it okay for them to dislike someone just because of who their friends are?

#((this post is dedicated specifically to lurien btw fuck you and your watcher knights)) #((DHDSGFHSGDS)) #((i've been replaying hollow knight and was going for the ''beat the game in under five hours'' achievement)) #((and uh. fighting the watcher knights while underequipped is Not Fun!!)) #((i had like. five health. one nail upgrade (9 damage i think?). shade soul. and desolate dive. ...and shaman stone)) #((thank god for shade soul and desolate dive but i had been wishing i had grabbed descending dark as well)) #((speedrunners do that shit first try with less equipment and i have No Idea how dhdhshfhfhshs)) #((i beat both the watcher knights and hollow and got the achievement yesterday so i'm mostly over it now)) #((but i thought it'd be fun to still make a post about it even if it's late dgdsgshf)) #🪲 ghost ic #.🪲 #🪲 verse | during the infection

[devotedlystrangewizard]

i am so lost all of the time

#this is about hollow knight specifically but honestly. also in life. god bless #i only have like an hour and a half in it so far and i have no idea where im going ever its amazing

[the-fandom-crossroads]

Folks talking about Game Devs dropping Unity or how it won't hurt small indie devs with under 200,000. Are missing the point.

Some of these Unity games can't change to another engine because they have years of code piled on top of each other at this point. aka POKEMON GO. They'd basically have to rebuild the game from scratch.

Not to mention Unity is mostly used by phone app games or Indie's that are lucky enough to get picked up by console. Indie games on Mobile easily pass 200,000 downloads. Temple Run 1 and 2 are in Unity, Crossy Road, Angry birds 1 and 2, and Hearthstone. All of these past 200,000 downloads years ago but aren't bringing in money now except hearthstone.

The Developers will do what happened to the first Angry birds app. They'll take it down, build it in a new engine for "HD", and add a shit ton of micro transactions. We are about to lose countless original versions of the OG pre lootbox mobile games.

We are also about to lose some of the biggest Indie games of the last decade. Among Us, Plague Inc., 7 Days to die, the original Slenderman game and it's sequel, I am Bread, Ori and the Blind Forest, Dream Daddy, Overcooked 1 & 2, Pathfinder online, Cup Head, Bendy and the Ink Machine, Oxygen Not Included, Bloons Tower Defense 6, Beat Saber, Subnautica, The Stanley Parable, Untitled Goose Game, Power Washing Simulator, Fall Guys, Inscryption, Phasmophobia

And the big one FUCKING HOLLOW KNIGHT. Silk song has already been pushed back out of this year specifically because it's being made by a team of like 3 people. It is so close to being finished and now they are being told they have to start over from scratch basically. Hollow Knight got over 200,000 downloads from being on playstation and was eventually put on Playstations subscription service. Every cent they made from hollow knight has gone back into making silk song. Which might now be delayed by multiple years and oh they are going to have to use some of that funds to pay unity now. Or find a way to get out of a contract with playstation. Because folks will keep downloading Hollow Knight for free and Unity will send the Hollow Knight team the bill.

oh and there's one more teeny tiny game made in Unity that you guys might not want to suddenly disappear. One with almost 3 years of monthly code updates, one with 139 million downloads to date, and 4.8 million monthly users.

Genshin. Guys Genshin Impact is made completely in Unity and that's not a game that can have it's code just copy and pasted to another engine.

#unity #genshin impact #genshin #indie games #pokemon go #hollow knight #bendy and the ink machine #bloons td 6 #the stanley parable #untitled goose game #angry birds #hearthstone #pathfinder #dream daddy #among us #phasmophobia #i don't even know what to tag #just google unity games #and understand it is literally thousands of games #from the last decade #douglitheories

[drmazel]

I don't wanna be at work I wanna be a bug :(

#this is specifically about me wanting to go home and play hollow knight #but i feel like people will find this relatable regardless of context

[hubristicassholefight]

Swordswoman showdown FINALS

Hornet (Hollow Knight) vs Xena (Xena: Warrior Princess)

(Better here in a "preferred character" sense, not "who would win in a fight")

Propaganda below cut

Hornet

Technically its not a sword but she wields a needle in a setting where swords do not exist and she wields it in an exceedingly swordlike fashion so. She counts; Girlboss demigoddess spider lady. She's been protecting an entire kingdom for longer than many of the other characters have been alive. She systematically kills her siblings for being too weak. She's simply the best.

#im pretty sure hornet can beat like. anyone in a fight.#have you ever fought hornet#its so fucking hard getting past her every time i play hk i go literally insane.

#i remember getting stuck on the first hornet fight on mt first play through and bring likr#''omg the boss fights in this are so hard!!!''#like what. you're not even half way through what are you talking about#you can't even DASH honey. you don't know what's diffcult or not in this game.

So, SPOILERS

but I feel like the "she systematically kills her siblings" part needs a little clarification. See, one of her siblings was used as a living prison for an angry god and that uh. Didn't work out for the sibling in question or anyone else.

This account is itself heavily abbreviated but it's likely that any other sibling Hornet encounters will be trying to take over as the god's new prison. She appears to challenge any sibling she sees to battle, in order to test their resolve against herself and her needle - would they actually have a chance against that god?

We never actually see her kill any siblings, but she does quite pointedly tell one of them that (to paraphrase) "My needle is lethal and I would feel no sadness in a weakling's demise."

Feels like a relevant quote. In any case, if they can't beat Hornet, it seems like her needle would be a far more merciful end than what the god would grant.

Anyway, a bit of additional material for @swordswomanshowdown :

As is the case for any cool swordswoman, it's not just her sword that's lethal, it's her with it. And Hornet's needle was custom made for her - the creators have said that, while other needles exist, hers was made specifically for her to wield, and its construction allows her to use her spider silk better in combat.

And another thing that I think makes her a good swordswoman: she's actually pretty thoughtful about how she uses it. There's a least one instance where she tries to warn someone off before fighting them! At the same time, when she does fight, she seems to enjoy it - during her boss battles, you can hear her laugh sometimes, as if exhiliarated. She's really got it all, as a swordswoman!!!

#HORNET SWEEP CMON PLEEEEEEASE#shes gay. shes the only sibling with a gender. shes a spider named HORNET. look like croissant. whats not to like

Xena

Warrior Princess

She wields a sword and chakram. Just had to submit a biconic swordswoman.

i love her. she made me gay as a kid. Anyway, her weapon of choice is her sword, she is obviously very good with it

#unfortunately i have to choose and i have to choose xena#a) utena had no warcry. b) xena fought gods. c) xena has kickass goofy comic book combat which is my favorite

xena didn’t just fight gods. she fucked up a girl’s life so bad that she (calisto) devoted her entire being to destroying everything that xena loved that ended up with calisto becoming a god in order to destroy xena, which didnt work because xena entombed her in lava. and then when xena and gabrielle encountered calisto in the (christian) afterlife (different from the greek one which they also fought her in), calisto dragged gabrielle to hell so xena became an archangel in order to save gabrielle and then sacrificed herself in order to undo all the harm that she did in calisto’s life and then when not!jesus (played by timothy omundson) revives xena and gabrielle, calisto impregnates xena with the reincarnation of calisto’s soul in order to end the cycle of hate. xena doesnt just fight gods. she creates and destroys them

#this isnt even mentioning her fighting julius ceasar several times#telling brutus that caesar is not his friend#xena and gabrielle’s souls reincarnating across centuries in order to kick ass and fall in love all over again#or the time xena became a god but tbh that ep is kinda ‘uhhhhh…..’ even if they did hire a consultant for it

#I think everyone here knows to vote for Xena. I think a couple people here might have some propaganda for Xena saved already#everyone remember that Xena/Gabrielle is CANON and that's a pretty big deal also#(does anyone have that Xena Loves Trans People interview around because that would also make good propaganda)

I love Xena ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️

#hornet #hollow knight #xena #xena: warrior princess #swordswoman showdown #poll #official #round 6 #finals