#fuck zote

[possuminatrench]

More memes, let's goooo

#hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #fuck zote #hk #hollow knight crack #hollow knight ghost #hollow knight meme #hollow knight seer #hk seer #seer #you must not fail #love the silly old lady #she's high all the time #we all know that

[shentheauthor]

THE WHITE LADY (pre-infection edition. Idk if I’m gonna do post-infection or not).

#hollow knight #hollow knight gijinka #the white lady #hollow knight white lady #hollow knight root #i love her so much #I love all of them so much #except zote #fuck zote

[bluegekk0]

hornet’s design for the au (featuring the little bitch boy)

she has successfully beaten the dress allegations, and now has a cool cloak with a sweater thingy underneath. what happened to the old one? idk i guess it got ripped or something. or maybe she got sick of zote saying it’s a dress, that would be in character for her

#hollow knight #hollow knight au #feral pk au #hk hornet #hk zote #zote got fucking obliterated (finally) #gekko.art

[ratcandy]

anyone want to see some extreme self-indulgence

cogr extension where zot goes to therapy for 1 million years and ends up better accepting his noskliness .but since he's of course attached to the Zote identity, he doesn't want to completely scrap it.

so. compromise

#hey guys watch this *gets influenced by my own therapy #clamart #cogr #zote #this design is purely for fun and for me to fuck around . whether it's canon to actual cogr plot or not is Not Important

[notthesaint]

Reading ratcandy's COGR fanfic again for the 3rd time makes me want to drench him with spolied milk even more 🧡

#my art #guys please read cogr. its so good #fucking good soup #hollow knight #hollow knight art #hollow knight fanart #zote #hk zote #tag to lure clam in my den -> #cogr #>:) #forgot to tag little ghost? #little ghost #< kinda

[deepseamissing]

I LOVE BUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#hornet hk #hk hornet #hk quirrel #hollow knight #the hollow knight #little ghost #the knight #pale king #zote #ZOTE BOAT #hive knight #FUCK HIVE KNIGHT I HATE YOU!!!! #nosk #hk thk #thk #hollow knight thk #littl e sketches.... #small... sketches #i love quirrel sm i could never draw him that well before tho #but i like this one this is good #ily quirrel teehee

[waffled-iron]

for you, @ask-the-dark-queen. 18 days late

this was a very lovely suggestion ty. sorry for no caption on the first gif i had no ideas

i took a sip of the pale king water too and it tasted like buzzsaws water. if i die due to the pk water i will have lived a fulfilling life

bonus photo under cut nyehehehe

they are ready to die.

#is this my legacy now. is this what i will be doing for the rest of time. #shits kinda lit ngl #i didnt sip or bite the boiled zote/zote water bc it wouldve been salty as fuck. i added a full ass spoon of salt dude #hollow knight #hollow knight pale king #hk pale king #pale king #hollow knight shitpost #hollow knight meme #shitpost #shitpost gif #meme #meme gif #my gifs #the pale king #hk pk #hollow knight pk

[fuckmarrykillpolls]

#zote the mighty #hollow knight #fuck marry kill #polls

[zoteboateveryday]

Drawing Zote every day until we get Zoteboat: Day 143

hehehehheheheheheheehehheheheh

#this is like my second family guy post FUCK #hk zote #zoteboateveryday #zote #hk fanart #hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #hollow knight zote #zote hollow knight #zote the mighty #family guy #peter griffin

[polaraffect]

i really wish you could name achievement showcases on steam because i really want one that looks something like this

#damien.txt #sdkjfghsdjs it would be fun #in case you're wondering what the achievements are: #1) baldur's gate 3: dark urge take over the netherbrain and destroy the world #2) hollow knight: leave zote to die (<- worst on this list tbh ifykyk) #3) pentiment - get matilda executed (no spoilers but unbelievably she does NOT deserve that. like i felt incredibly fucked up doing it) #4) A Date With Death - kill your flower. this one isnt that bad lol just a fun little insert #5) DRAMAtical murder - get the clear bad end. (😳) #6) slay the princess - kill/get killed by the burned grey. (many betrayals involved in this one) #7) DRAMAtical murder - get the virus/trip bad? end (😳😳😳) #sdfjghskdf most of these are not actually that bad and if i cared to look thru my achievements more i could probably find better replacemen #but fr i wish this was a steam feature. would be very cool.

[possuminatrench]

Just some little guys

#hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #hk #hollow knight ghost #hollow knight hornet #fuck zote #the hollow knight #thk #hollow knight thk #hollow knight lace #hk hornet #hk hollow #hk ghost #hk lace

[shandzii]

I had no idea you were interested in hollow knight!?!?

I had the brainrots over that game a few years back

#NKG no hits was one of my most gamer moment ever #never got to complete the pantheon tho *cries* #fucking Zote #I was also so close to speedrunning it under 3 hours but Watcher Knights (derogatory) #but yeah this game has a special place in my heart KJHSKGJSDG #Silksong gonna drag me back fr fr

[goodmode]

do u have any headcanons about hk characters and spellwork (who can use what, what's possible and what isn't, whatever) :V?

take all this with a pinch of salt as i am typing from my phone in the back of a van and i am very sleepy

anyone could learn to spellcast with Soul! in the same way anyone could become an astrophysicist. most people do not.

the Soul Sanctum, and the Pale King's use of Soul spellwork, was considered highly innovative. mostly spellcasting is something only a few people can do/bother learning, but in Hallownest the King encourages it and the Soul Sanctum is dedicated to honing the craft, which makes Hallownest weirdly ahead of the game compared to a lot of places. soul scholars were kind of like the educated elite. but also wizards. people talked

you could simplify and say you have two main schools of thought: the scientific approach (Soul Sanctum, Pale King) and the spiritual approach (Snail Shamans, Moth Tribe). the two ways of thinking are not mutually exclusive and often overlap though. both can be used to great effect

there are bugs out there who have done crazy high level things like the Soul Sanctum in less scientifically-themed contexts, definitely. this tier of fanatical spell meddling is rareish though

Soul is the word many bugs use for the life force inside all living things. and yeah, basically! it's not exactly your sense of self though that's different

Soul and Void are effectively infinite. harnessing Soul to cast spells involves channelling it through certain means and generally you only have certain limited reserves to draw from at a time (see Soul Vessels for example)

Soul Master and the rest of the scholars were fixated on surpassing that limit. kind of a "what if humans used 100% of their brain" situation

if you actually found a way to use all of one bug's Soul at once it would be like splitting the atom - incredible amounts of energy released at once, even from an average bug who isn't a spell user in the first place. Mistakes and Follies collapsed into themselves long before they got anywhere near that level. it's basically just not sustainable or doable. (soul master voice: but is it)

spellwork is also kind of like using a certain muscle a lot. if you cast a lot of spells it'll get easier for you. if you're inherently a gifted type who has a lot of potential for spellwork, but never use it or pursue it, you'll still be pretty bad at it and get tired quickly compared to someone with no inherent ability who practices every day

Void is basically like its own version of Soul. the two are different but if you scanned a Void being and found no traces of Soul that doesn't mean they're soulless, it means they have their own version. you're looking at it. it's Void

the average bug does not contain any traces of Void by nature and thus spellwork with Void is rare and very poorly understood. those ancient bugs who worshipped the Void however would have had some in their system. how? don't ask questions you don't want answers to

once upon a time, all Void is/was, in all traces across the world, part of one unit. once in the dawn of time etc etc. the world has changed since but it's fundamentally all the same to itself.

spellwork with Void is essentially using Soul to bind and command some Void to do what you want it to do. this is why shade spell upgrades cost Soul, it's the Soul making it do that thing.

mess around with Void too much if you're a bug and it will do very strange things to the body. it stains shell, it leaks from the joints and the eyes, it puts strange thoughts in your head. Soul is easier, safer, and better understood, and also isn't partly echoing with its own collective sentience.

not that this kind of thing deters a Snail Shaman. pretty sure if a Snail Shaman was given half the chance they'd learn to spellcast with anything. magnets. active plutonium. whatever. mind your business

if you know how to see Soul inside a body, and concentrate, living things generally appear as opaque glowing white cutouts. the Soul inside a living creature is saturated to the point of looking like a white shape in space. you can't see this usually because their body is in the way and it's sort of, tied into their cells or whatever

you can use spellwork to do pretty much anything, if you're clever. the sky is the limit. flashy stuff like attack spells, subtle stuff like enhancing your senses or letting yourself see things not usually visible to the eye, defying gravity, Whatever. almost anything you can think of. the main barrier is that it's difficult and taxing. the average bug doesn't bother

oh god i haven't even done Dream. okay a short rundown: Dream is different again. it's about the self, about thoughts, about the conscious and subconscious, about the mind. you don't so much spellcast with Dream as just kind of... manipulate and explore what's around you. connect with others. influence, sometimes. mostly understand. it's not technically spellcasting though and this post is getting long so i'll leave it there for now sdffgjk

#gmask #thethrillof #also because i'm me: yeah lemm probably could. he certainly doesnt think so though #elderbug could but he wouldnt. god fucking Forbid zote ever tried #hollow knight

[ratcandy]

being a zote liker is so HARD majority of the fandom hates him and the rest find the weirdest ways to mischaracterize him or similarly never talk about him because the majority exists and will EAT you for it

#clamtalk #zote #also yes there are people that mischaracterize zote. idk how. but i've sure seen it #he would NOT fucking say that etc. #THERE IS NOT ENOUGH!!!!!!!! ZOTE CONTENT FOR ME!!!!!!! AUARUHUAGhHHh!!!!!!!! #every now and then I weakly check the zote tag on ao3 and SIGH because if he IS in something he's just like. a background character #WHERE ARE MY ZOTE CENTRIC FICS!!!!!! OUTSIDE OF MY OWN!!!!!! #Why must I be burdened not only with having to make the content I want to see but ALSO having ALL THE RIGHT OPINIONS. #RRAGHHHH ok. i'm normal now.

[waffled-iron]

why do I even like this character he’s a bitch

#why couldn’t I be normal and obsess over quirrel or hornet or something #no. zote. that’s all I get. #fucking ZOTE. him #I have an affinity for bitchy loser characters #hollow knight

[confinesofmy]

btw you know that post that's like romanticisation is the key to happiness? or whatever? if you struggle with executing that for yourself you can go on tiktok and look up whatever you're going through and find endless videos of other people dressing it up and making it look #aesthetic and it's amazing how much it'll make you feel better.

#i looked up how to wash clothes by hand today and didn't actually learn any new strats but it did make me feel so much more like a person #thank you young black american woman living in a suburban home washing clothes in a sterilite tote in her bathtub #thank you mexican woman washing clothes on a rooftop with a bucket a washboard and some zote #thank you disabled woman living in an apartment who can't drive herself to the laundromat or rely on others all the time #and a big fuck you to big laundry for making it seem like $500 isn't a large investment in a machine that automates this process #that isn't even that hard to begin with #i hope to return to fully automated washing soon but there's nothing wrong with washing clothes the way millions of people do every day #adam talks too much