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[webstoriess]

Desperate for Silksong News, Hollow Knight Fans Threaten to “Sacrifice” Their Own Forum

In the world of gaming, anticipation can be a double-edged sword. The excitement of a forthcoming title can build a sense of community and camaraderie among fans. However, when the wait becomes too long, that anticipation can turn into frustration. This is precisely the situation unfolding in the community of Hollow Knight: Silksong. Image credit: Team Cherry The Long Wait Announced in 2019,…

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[bubba-draws]

draw suggest: hollow and grimm exchanging gifts~

This was supposed to be one (1) drawing but I may have gotten a little insane

#is this cringe?? ooc?? idk it's self indulgent and it's all that matters #also sorry if dialogue sounds a little weird i got it in the brink of sleep depravation and ran with it #also i love how everyone loved the ibuprofen thk post i feel seen #grollow fans this is for you #grollow #grimmhollow #hollow knight #grimm #troupe master grimm #pure vessel #bubba doods #btw i drew all of this on my phone instead of my pc bc the worms in my brain were telling me to get it done as fast as possible #also if ur reading the tags hi i love u here's some of my hcs for thk #they use sign language and Morse code to communicate #they also have a difficulty to accept gifts and owning stuff in general bc they tried to really hard to grow detached of things #emotional and material things #its a long process but grimm is there for them #elderbug

[crystal-wingeddragon-spikes]

Kindly Isma, is one of The Great Five Knight bosses which can be fought in Pale Court fan DLC.

Krita. 8th August 2023

Isma is a curious fighter. Her attacks are not aggressive. They cover great range, but are very slow. However, she makes her battle more complicate by spawning Fool Eaters and Gulkas, two very common Green path/Queen's Garden enemies, and restricting my movement with thorny plants.

Normally, I consider bosses with minion fight (Grey Prince Zote) to be cheap and infuriating, but these minions do not move, making them more of an extra attacks and traps rather than the extra enemies.

Her move set works wonderfully with her minions. She progressively raises the difficulty, without using any new attacks. First, she uses Fool Eaters to create danger on the ground, while the Gulka make sure staying in the air or walls is not safe either. Then, she slowly closes her arena in while spawning 2 invincible Gulkas to keep the pressure on me even if she is not attacking, also making sure healing is nigh impossible. In her final phase, the wall surrounding me are covered in spikes, eliminating my option to wall jump and be a source of damage to me.

Isma's fight feel mostly fair, except for a few moments that Gulka's shots do not despawn when she is changing phase.

I had a displeasure, of suffering her fight for over a week, then achieve my first win defeating on my last health, only to be hit by Gulka's bullet, turning my victory into a bitter draw.

I finally defeat her by entering her second phase with full health, as I give up any hope of healing with 2 bullet chasing me down. Freeing up 3 notches from Quick Focus, I put on Dream Shield, and with the intention to end the hard part of the fight as soon as possible, Unbreakable Strength, Shaman Stone, Thorn of Agony and Grub Song (I can't use Nail art well). I won the fight with 4 mask left, took me almost 4 minutes.

Mighty Hegemol fight that I was worried about turns out a lot easier than I anticipated. I just need to nail bounce on his head once and hop to the side.

Now I head that Mystic Z'mere is even harder. I do not know if I am string enough.

#hollow knight #hollow knight pale court #fan dlc #hollow knight mod #modding community #illustration #splash art #kindly isma #plant #wdragon work #artists on tumblr #finished #krita

[yurious-george]

For those of you who don’t know anything about Hollow Knight or its upcoming sequel, Silksong, there is some drama of astronomical potential that is going to be hilarious to see how it shakes out.

Three things. First, as you may already know, Hollow Knight is one of those hardcore games that attracts a certain type of cishet “gamer guy”: I’m sure you know the type. They can be more or less overtly bigoted, but either way, they’re all kind of That Guy. Second, Princess Hornet is one of the major characters in Hollow Knight, and the player character in Silksong. Third, every character in the Hollow Knight world is a bug, and aren’t depicted as having sexually dysmorphic traits that humans have: there are no insects with tits in this game, despite being bipedal and anthropomorphic. (Despite that, Hornet is frequently drawn with tits anyway, because the aforementioned demographic is outrageously horny for her. This is important later.)

In Silksong, Hornet is strongly implied to have a rival/deuteragonist, Lace! Not much is known about Lace, except she’s described as sadistic and set up as Hornet’s rival. And gamer dudebros hate her.

Maybe not full on hate, but they don’t like her. “Too mean and dislikable,” if memory serves. If I had to guess, they’re subconsciously picking up on the subtext and being homophobic about it: Hornet is the waifu of many a gamer bro, and between the subtext and Lace’s implied importance in the narrative/sadism/independence/backhandedness, Lace does not have a lot of love in that half of the community.

(As for the other half of the community, the player character of Hollow Knight is canonically agender. There are two canon gay couples within the game, and while not required, completing their side quests is essential to 100%ing the game. Despite being a couple of Cishet Male Gamers themselves, the Hollow Knight team is gracefully supportive of the LGBT+ community, and much of the fan base is LGBTQ+!)

But back to Lace: Lace and her subtext. Lace has insane amounts of wedding and romantic subtext despite only having 2 trailers and a demo’s worth of content. Off the top of my head:

association with white & gold, particularly white roses

Lots of church imagery, especially an emphasis on ringing bells

Lace’s and Hornet’s VAs are both Japanese, and Lace is straight up wearing a Japanese wedding garment while dressed head to toe in white

Visual design and presentation wise, Lace is framed as an equal and opposite to Hornet. Lace is likely to play the rival-won-over role that Hornet had in Hollow Knight, to the point of leaving the arena the same way as Hornet when her first fight ends

Calls Hornet delicious when first introduced. Then says she likes her when Hornet tells her to fuck off

Strongly implied to have saved Hornet in the opening trailer

And, last but certainly not least: the original Silksong announcement, with Lace’s introduction, came out on February 14th.

And that’s just off the top of my head!

I don’t want to get my hopes up, much less expect anything and get disappointed, but in my heart I am hoping gamer bros take the BIGGEST L when Silksong comes out. I hope Lace is complex and engaging and still sadistic. I hope Lace is the Vriska of Silksong. I hope Lace and Hornet have so much subtext it’s practically text. I hope the good end is locked behind a lesbian wedding.

I don’t hope for that last one specifically, but just imagine. Go on, pair off the one character that cishet male fans go “hhhurngh… female character” and draw with massive balloon tits to the character they hate the most. Do it. I believe in you

But seriously: The main character of the most wishlisted game on Steam confirmed in a wlw relationship, effectively alienating half or more than half of the fan base. Hollow Knight: Silksong has the potential to be the funniest lesbian W in the universe and I cannot wait to see how it all goes down.

#hollow knight #silksong #hollow knight silksong #hk silksong #this is Cassandra #hashtag lacenet sweep #long post #lacenet #like korrasami “’we popping the BIGGEST bottles when makorra happens tomorrow”’ w #the 100 crowd

[dynared]

I'm so glad someone else brought up how insular IDW felt, I thought I was insane for thinking along the lines of a similar thing. To me IDW1 felt like a continuity made by the fandom for the fandom, and despite some of its great writing decisions it often felt flat and hollow in a lot of important aspects. The lack of communication between writers and failure to maintain basic narrative and thematic cohesion as well as characterization reminded me a lot of in-fandom arguments over interpretations and headcanons

It took on too much and stretched itself thin resulting in sidelined characters, bastardized character dynamics/relationships or forgotten plots. People praised IDW1's lore and worldbuilding but personally I don't think there was much of it at all and very little of it was to a good enough standard when you consider how long IDW held the licence. It told us a lot and yet nothing at all, which would have been a genius move had it at all been intentional– something I often found myself saying in relation to IDW1 and content inspired by it, which was around post 2010-ish give or take probably

Like I said, I firmly believe that IDW was essentially made by fandom, for fandom, but a very, very narrow cross-section of such. James Roberts, who was arguably the architect for most of it, was a fanfic writer and someone who wanted to make elements of his fanfics canon. Many of the writers were buddy-buddy with TFWiki moderators and the dingus behind Shortpacked, oftentimes parroting their opinions, which was that if you didn't like what they were making, you were a chud or a creep that wanted the entire brand to be Kiss Players. Especially as romance became more and more of a focus on the series, the idea was not "This is boring, I want to see robots punching each other and blowing things up", but "I don't want to see this because it's gay", which is a far easier position to defend. Even when they lost the license, Kit Harrison of IDW insinuated that the complaints were all homophobic in nature.

As an aside, while I think Kiss Players was terrible, it was literally nothing but a side-story manga and some collector's toys. That would be like me saying all the Western-created Transformers media is garbage because of The Car Wash of Doom, Afterdeath, that scene in Age of Extinction where the guy spells out the Romeo and Juliet Law in detail, the complete waste of Sir Anthony Hopkins that was The Last Knight, The Rebirth, numerous parts of Cyberverse, the WFC Trilogy, etc.

Anyway, because the audience was so narrow, it made sense that the audience that it did cultivate was so passionate about the material, but Greek to any audience outside of it, resulting in low sales and general dismissal from a casual audience. Any similarities to how fanfic is written, especially fanfic that has an active follower community and people addressing the work in progress, were purposeful, because that was the world that the writers came from, and the world that they were used to.

And then there were the attempts to integrate those ideas into shows, as shown by WFC not getting a sequel because Netflix said no, as well as Cyberverse and now Earthspark toys rotting on shelves in your local Ollies or Lot Less.

My conclusion remains the same. IDW was overly insular, fanfic-style writing, for people who liked that, and they could not care one iota about anyone outside of that little circle. Especially if you were a fan of super robots, humans that weren't complete jerks, or the mystic elements of the Transformers mythos. And this is why now even Duke's miniseries pretty much outsells anything that IDW published. (To be fair, Duke's miniseries is pretty good).

#transformers #transformers idw #idw publishing #skybound #transformers skybound #energon universe

[eldritch-elrics]

what IS your thesis about? from the list of items im kinda imagining it's something about different communication styles relating to conveying information? (something something gaylor theory and TJLC as conspiracy vs a more authoritative but absurd documentary style with pannenkoek vs fanfiction making fans confuse canon with fanon vs reddit memes as some kind of "you're normal for thinking this"?) like that is an absurdly wide range of Things. what is he cooking ‼️

hehehe omg i did not expect to get multiple asks about this! paging @scatteredcloud and @the-rad-paramecium , who also asked about it.

my thesis is about the 2022 "nier church incident" wherein a user on the nier automata subreddit started posting extremely-credible videos claiming he'd found a new secret area in the game that no one had discovered before, and the fanbase went absolutely insane. i argue that the incident provides an interesting window into a possible religious studies framework for looking at video game secret seeking as a quasi-religious act of communal orientation and meaning-making

it's very fun to read your speculations about how all the stuff i mentioned could fit into it! unfortunately, most of that stuff is just mentioned in 1-2 sentences; the meat of the fun stuff is mostly related to nier automata, shadow of the colossus, or The Bible.

but, as requested, here is how all the silly things fit:

i use pannenkoek's video as an example of fans pushing the boundaries of games to create new mysteries that weren't intended by the developers. this is specifically in my section about how/why video game mysteries affect people emotionally!

gaylor theory & the johnlock conspiracy are both examples of (non-game) fanbases doing theorycrafting. fnaf/matpat is an example of video game fandom theorycrafting. all of these get like, a sentence each in the project

"hollow knight fanfiction" is because i use the hk fic "stag beetles and broken legs" as an example of fans writing fanfic based on fanfic (in the section where i talk about canon-building)

"kirby lore controversies" is also from the part where i talk about canon-building. specifically, i have a whole paragraph about how hard it often is to tell what video game "canon" is, and use kirby as an example of that

sorry there's actually only one reddit meme! the other one is a twitter meme. anyway, the reddit meme is this:

finally, random other fact: probably the funniest social media post ive had to cite is this one

like, it's extremely funny to have a bibliography that sometimes looks like this:

(please ignore the weird capitalization idk why zotero does that)

#i don't think i'll be able to like post this anywhere when it's done but i can probably send people copies #so if you wanna read it dm me and we can sort something out! #my post #academia #fandom #i'm making this unrebloggable just on the offchance that i get a lot of interested readers #i don't wanna be like 'well you can read it if you ask privately and also don't spread it around' #i'm pretty sure that's the policy? i shall ask about this... #asks

[spearslug-box]

Ermm... Intro post???.....

- to start it off, refer to me as box/boxgore mainly, but feel free to refer to me as sait, or spearslug/spear!!

- I don't like saying my age so... No age for you! But have my birthday!; January 30

- I am a furry and apart of the LBGTQ+ community

- some of the things I like r... GUDETAMA. CINNAMOROLL. MARUMARU. GLOOMY BEAR. MIKU. DRAGON PILO T. POKEMON. SQUISHMALLOWS. Ahem anyway also Rain world(obv), journey, abzû, hollow Knight.. some other things

- I like to draw and animate sometimes... Mainly my OCS, and my rw infection au that I'm (while writing this.) Still working on!

- Feel free to ask me anything about anything! Especially the AU and my OCS :)

- and ermm.. Some funfacts are that I keep about like 10(or more?.. I'll have to count again) pets, I keep cactuses and succulents, im learning russian, spanish, german and japanese, and that I have a small cult around like two of my ocs!!!

Find my other socials + comms here: https://boxgore.carrd.co/ !!

DNI: proshipper, racist, transphobic, zoophile, dream fan, homophobic, fatphobic, or just anything hatred PLEASEEE😔

Notes: offensive jokes r fine about those, I make them just PLEASE make sure people can tell it is one..... And feel free to repost, use as emojis, or use as pfps. My art. Just PLEASE CREDIT ME!!, just by one of my socials plsk....

#oc #art #character design #oc art #original character #rain world #rainworld #slugcat #rainworld infection au #furry character #sfw furry #lbgtqia #pokemon #gloomy bear #gudetama #cinnamoroll #ummmmm #idk man #fandom #intro post #introduction #pinned intro #blog intro

[ruthlesslistener]

It's been so long, but I just want to get this off my chest cause what you dis really messed me up to this day.

Being accused of being a pedophile over headcanoning that a small creature whose form is that of a mysterious goo is an adult really ruined my experience with the Hollow Knight community and myself. I saw Ghost as a little sanrio character cause as an Asian who grew up in an Asian country, I was surrounded by little mascot characters whose height did not tell their age at all. You were one of my fave fic writers out there before all this, so seeing you sprout how people like me who have different headcanons are someone dangerous really messed me up as a survivor of abuse. I'm not telling you this to harass you like what your followers may insist cause last I checked they coddled you so much during this time, I'm telling you this cause you ruined one of my special interests with your redtagging. I hope you are happy. I think you pretty much rekindled one of my triggers too: Seeing popular fanfic writers redtag and harass others over headcanons.

Gonna block you again, but I'm just going to say this once: please be kind to others and remember that shit like this isn't enough to say someone is a predator. It just creates and breeds harassment and a person like you with thousands of followers should know better and be more responsible.

Anon, I truly am sorry that my reaction had such a profoundly negative effect on you. That was not my intention and I am genuinely distressed that I caused you such upset. If it helps, this experience actually did greatly sour my experience with the fandom as well, because I did not intend to have that effect and I did not want that effect. I was very, very tempted to simply delete my blog and start all over again specifically to erase any sort of concept of 'authority' that I might have in the fandom space, because the simple thought that someone might take my personal opinions and use them as an excuse to harass others just because I write fanfiction in my free time nearly gave me a panic attack. This isn't to draw the attention off of the fact that I hurt you- this is to drive home the fact that I am not in this fandom to be popular and there is nothing that I say that should be treated as word of god or used to harass others. I should not have that sort of power. Nor do I want it. It honestly makes my skin crawl and if I could wipe my name from everyone's minds while also leaving my work out there for others to find, then I would.

However, I never thought that you specifically were a pedophile, and I was in the wrong to say something that could be constructed as such. I spoke without thinking and without understanding that there was that headcanon beyond unsavory characters in the first place, my interactions with which greatly tarnished my perception of the headcanon because I didn't know any better. Genuinely- I went and asked the people I know in discord (who were likely most of those fans that 'coddled' me), and they told me I was wrong and all the ways that I was wrong, which gave me a big 'oh shit' moment. That's why I shifted my argument to simply explaining why I didn't like it- because yeah, I still fucking don't, but to me it's about as impactful as if someone likes pie vs cake. This shit, at the end of the day, isn't real. It's pixels on a screen and drawing on paper. When I spoke about how it left a bad taste in my mouth and how I had poor experiences with it in the past, that was about a personal bias and experience talking about a broad concept, not anyone specifically. Just because I considered it a red flag due to prior experiences, as stated, does not mean that it is a certainty of danger. I do not at all think that ones fictional preferences are honest indicators of the type of people they are in real life, just indicators that they're people I wouldn't get along with.

(fuckin hell, I'm fucking riddled with red flags myself- just look at my propensity for gore and tragedy and dark, violent media. That's as much of a red flag as what I was talking about before, but I can't handle the imagery of the other for reasons I can't explain other than irrational brain stuff. I also fully expect other people to look at the shit I'm into with disgust and mistrust and to block me on sight- there's plenty of people I've never interacted with who've done that already. Can't blame them for that.)

As for the thing about Ghost being similar to Asian mascots- I genuinely had no idea that was even a thing. I understand that I am biased in this regard. I was raised in a western country who has very different means of telling stories than eastern ones, and not only that, I also grew up in a very closeted-in all forms of the world-household. I didn't have any access to media other than what my local library had until I was around 11, and that was pretty much limited to fanfiction and googling all the shit that my parents banned from me. So I made zero connection to the sort of cutesy mascots in Asian cultures and Ghost until you brought that point up just now. My apologies again on that one, it's genuinely a blind spot on my part and had I known that before I certainly would have taken that into account.

However- and I'm also saying this as someone who has also encountered abuse (though admittedly a very different kind, so I cannot understand nor will pretend to understand that I know how you feel): please also understand that there will be many instances in your life where people trigger you by accident, and they have no idea that they did so until you point it out. This does not mean that they were deliberately trying to harm you. In this case, I was not at all trying to target you specifically- I don't even know you. I had no idea that what I said was an honest-to-god trigger because the whole time I was operating under the assumption that I was talking about something being 'fucking gross' the same way that lasagna is fucking gross, not as in 'I think everyone who thinks this way are genuinely dangerous people'. That's also why I responded so defensively, and why people who knew what I meant came to defend me- because from my perspective, I was talking casually, and then was getting angry replies back about something I did not mean, which felt like I was having words being put into my mouth. And that is a trigger for me as well. Which made it an even bigger fucking mess.

(There is also- and I will now fully admit to this now bc fuck I'm tired of fucking around with these goddamn arbitrary social media rules- a desire to keep antis off my back by playing up my disgust and vitrol to the subject. I've been at the center of their harassment and nearly lost friends bc of people labeling me a proshipper, so I figured the safe way to deal with it is to simply overflaunt a preexisting disgust response so that people don't attack me or accuse me of being something I'm not again.)

I triggered you. I did not know that, but that is not an excuse. You, however, also triggered me, which made the whole mess even worse. Let me explain- I grew up as an autistic child in a highly confrontational household, with a parent who would either deliberately set up scenarios that I would fail at or look for reasons to get angry at so he could blow up at me, yelling abuse and sometimes resorting to physical violence. Because I was the eldest who was supposed to be 'responsible' and 'a good role model' to my younger siblings, this meant that I was second in line for him to take out his anger on. He put words in my mouth and implications I did not mean all the time just so that he wouldn't feel bad later about backing me into a corner, destroying my possessions, and threatening to kill my pets if he did not outright hit me (which he only ever held back on because he was afraid of someone finding the marks and him being taken to jail). Me crying or apologizing only ever made him angrier, but getting angry and aggressive in return made it blow over quicker. So did trying to explain myself, because it at least let me verbally work over that the response I got was irrational. That was why I responded so defensively when I got put into a similar situation here, which is something that I somewhat regret but also do not entirely feel terrible about because how the fuck else was I supposed to respond when I kept explaining myself and you did not listen to me.

We're both human. Humans are messy and flawed. I am not someone that you should look up to or hold on a pedestal in any way because of this, nor should anyone else- I'm literally just a 23 year old guy who's obsessed enough with a story to write stories based on it in my free time, not some sage or king or god. I did not call you a pedophile personally for thinking that a fuckload of pixels I thought was a child wasn't, and when I was explaining why I don't like it, I was explaining my personal bias, not some tried-and-true gospel of divining the true meaning of fiction over something that is- as we just proved- incredibly difficult to discuss due to how subjective it is. I still maintain that my discomfort is very real and that it has a genuine basis in my own experiences, but that doesn't mean that it's valid or any more morally pure than yours. At the end of the day, it's not real, and the actual reason why I dragged this whole dilemma on for so long was because of the nature of the discussion itself throwing up all my self-defense actions rather than anything else. If I knew that it was a genuine trigger instead of fandom wank, and if I stopped getting asks in the first place, then I would have shut the fuck up a long time ago.

Def. recommend keeping me blocked, because while I certainly wouldn't mind reconciliation of a sort, I also think that our triggers overlap and that's not something that either of us should have to deal with. And I'm not talking about the Ghost headcanon either, because I no longer have that shitty knee-jerk reaction of 'oh god another cringe porn artist' to it, and- believe it or not!- have friends who are into completely different interpretations and ships and the like that I personally really dislike that I am also completely chill with because its my irrational meat brain that's the problem. I'm talking about the fact that when you're triggered, you get defensive and start jumping to conclusions (not unfounded ones btw) that unfortunately triggers my own defensive responses because jumping to conclusions is a stupid-niche trigger for me in turn. Shit's not good for either of us and I think you'd be way better off without me in your life.

And again, I really am very sorry that you thought I called you a pedophile. As I have said before, that was not my intention, and I have never believed that. I also will straight-up fight anyone who takes my irrational kneejerk dislike reaction and uses it to attack you, because that was ALSO not what I intended in the slightest and the thought of someone using my inability to shut up about my special interests as a means of 'word-of-god-ing' my likes and dislikes into fandom wank makes me want to hurl.

#i never even got proper socialization into my FUCKING LATE TEEN YEARS there is NO WAY that any of the shit i say should be followed blindly #like im not shitting on myself here and trying to play the victim im just being reasonable. im young and stupid #which means that i should be treated as such #anon #reply #also also. still kinda gritting my teeth at the concept of being 'coddled' when both of us were being fucking irrational as hell #lets face it #i was a goddamn ass but you also kept repeatedly ignoring what i had to say #and if i had to guess those werent my followers who were 'coddling me' those were just my discord friends #who saw i was having panic attacks over this and wanted to be nice #i dont hate you anon but im not going to lie and say that this isnt a two-way hurt because you did hurt me just as much as i hurt you #and neither of us were in the right but that doesnt mean it didnt happen either

[doodlepede]

the fandom loves making art for the Hollow knight about their trauma... the way they were lifted from the rubble of a thousand thousand of their siblings dead bodies, equally as worthy as themselves, who got to love and be loved by their parents, groomed to be the martyr for all bugkind, to contain a god within their head and inside their body and restrain her and all her malice for all eternity, sealed away in isolation in the pitch blackness, knowing that the only way to do their duty was to unperson themselves the way they should have been born. Everything they felt, they should not have felt. Everything they thought, they should not have thought. Everything they wished to say, they never could. Forever.

we be relating to that.

but if we are going to treat the Hollow knight with that amount of love and care for the way the lore would actually affect a person... I feel as though we, the fandom community, do not spare near enough thought for Ghost.

Ghost, abandoned among their countless siblings to die alone together at the bottom of the world, who could only peer up at the faint light of their father choosing someone else over them, who faced hoards of mindless bugs unceasing, trained warriors unyielding, a memory unrelenting, a goddess unforgiving, who died over and over and over again, just to reach Hollow and rescue them and all the survivors of Hallownest.

idk i just feel like theres a lot to work with there that is sorely underutilized among fan creators

#hollow knight

[microwavingtoniii]

What if

Rule 34 artists in the hollow knight community

Stopped drawing incest

To stop turning people away from the fandom

So more people are willing to play the game and interact with fans

Sound like a good idea

#also because incest is bad #hollow knight

[thelador-s-mclargehuge]

Prologue

(The Hastag for these is #HKR-BTS)

So I’ve been thinking about how I’m gonna start doing a Behind The Scenes for Hollow Knight Resurrected And, while I’ve put a ton of theming in the series. I think there’s one theme that really permeates the whole thing. This theme kinda came about by accident… but it’s the least surprising thing in the world that it’s all over these videos, because it’s how the videos came to be at all: Never let anyone tell you that rage and spite cannot create something beautiful. Especially if the thing you’re raging against is “The Way Things Are.” People will try to tell you it is dishonorable to fight against the dark to reach the end of the tunnel. Fight them too. They put the tunnel there. And that light at the end doesn’t just exist in front of you, it’s above you, and if the walls and ceiling of the tunnel cease to exist, that light would shine on you, and all the people you love, where you stand.

But of course the thing I was spiting at the time was the Youtube Algorithm, so if that up there resonated with you, sorry about that kick in the balls lol.

Anyway that’s no secret. That’s how I announced I was gonna be making Hollow Knight videos again! But it ultimately starts with the idea I had for Whenever Silksong came out was a more narrative focused series than my Hollow Knight one, and maybe a little longer running because the only content youtube would recommend to anyone from our channel was the Hollow Knight videos despite the overall praise that they got. They just didn’t get as many immediate views.

But I had an idea of the character I wanted hornet to be. That’s why she’s the best characterized bug early on. And if I ever do end up doing that Silksong series, not a lot of that will have changed. My original idea for Hornet is still very much who she is currently in HKR, I’ve just delved a little deeper. I liked to play a wide swath of games. I’ve never liked to stick to one for very long, and if I was gonna stick to one, it was probably going to be something like Path of Exile. But Hollow Knight is a game that’s good as hell. But I kind of resented youtube for Pigeonholing me into being a Hollow Knight Youtuber. But, it was getting to the point where the channel was just slowly wasting. And, well, Silksong did not come out. And the things that gave us the big views were the Hollow Knight videos. This was on top of me having a pretty bad year. A couple of my family members got very sick from cancer, My dad had mostly decided to remove himself from my life, and I’d gotten into a car crash. So, Fuck it. New Hollow Knight series.

Now having my friends do voice acting was kind of a new idea. And ultimately, just a really good one. I’d had them do some quotes on some of my video essays. But voice acting characters was something I’d just started having them do. The first one was the video directly preceding the Hollow Knight ones. A Dyson Sphere Simulator video about building a giant penis! It was a lot of fun and taking that route into Hollowest was ultimately the best possible way to go! The original idea was to make it a prologue to what the Silksong videos were going to be. Just kind of a short jaunt through Hollownest where I spent one episode per area. And then after every video, put a little advertisement for my other videos to maybe get people to watch those, and then maybe youtube would start recommending them, and then I become un-pigeonholed.

And to be clear. The thing I said in the announcement video where I pointed out it was not the fault of anyone who watched my videos that they didn’t get big. Still true. Youtube Fucked me. Not my fans. I’ve been incredibly lucky on youtube honestly! The very worst comments I’ve gotten have been along the lines of “Broo you’re still doing Hollow Knight stuff? Booring” And contrasting with the best comments that have been close to “this series changed my life” The community I’ve grown and the fans I’ve gotten have always surprised me as being fantastically supportive and wonderful. I might have the most positive comments section in all of youtube! But that means there’s no controversy, so there’s no hatewatching. Youtube would much prefer some toxicity. The only sin the Graveyard Media fans have committed is being way to chill.

But if you’re wondering why I haven’t stopped, even though it didn’t work to stop the channels decline, it’s the same reason that it didn’t become a simple one episode per zone series. Because the more I did, the more I fell in love with what I was making. And the more I wanted to nurture it and make it into something I was proud of. If it was gonna be the youtube channels Last Hurrah, I wanted to make is such a hurrah that it will be worthy of remembrance! (Can’t even keep myself from the LOTR bullshit in this lmao)

And I’m proud of what I’ve done on it. And all the best stuff is still to come. I’ve saved most of it for the final episode. And I’m gonna try and get that done too! Because if I can keep going after all I’ve been through, god will need to come down from heaven with a gun and shoot me in the head if he wants me to stop!

#HKR-BTS #hollow knight #Youtube #content creation #behind the scenes #silksong

[savvyminnow]

Savvy’s Writing Intro Post!

Hi! I’m Savvy (she/her). I am an autistic aroace author. My other blog is @elritze, which you may have seen lurking in writeblr before.

I’m currently writing The Glass Lament, the first book in a high fantasy series. The main characters are autistic and queer with themes of identity and self-acceptance.

More about me: I love reading and video games! I’m a big fan of Hollow Knight, Hermitcraft, The Locked Tomb… lots of things. I just finished reading Piranesi and The Spear Cuts Through Water, which both changed my brain chemistry. Right now I’m reading The Murderbot Diaries and playing Hades.

In the future, you can find more about my WIP under the tag #The Glass Lament. Here's a blurb for it:

Zara never wanted to fight. Not until the Nemesi, whose fanatic regime tried to conquer Lopenya a century ago, return without warning and burn her village. Her oath of vengeance drives her away from her people to join the Guards of Lopenya, but before she can reach the front lines, her patrol receives a mysterious new order.

Now, against her wishes, Zara finds herself escorting a Dracai'seng – one of the last of a legendary race – across the kingdom on a fateful mission. Along the way, she will face hungry spirits and winged bandits, and discover secrets about Lopenya, the Dracai’seng, the war with the Nemesi… and perhaps even herself.

Anyway, I've been around on Tumblr for a while but haven't interacted much with the writing community. Time to change that!

#writeblr #writing #writers on tumblr #The Glass Lament #writeblr intro

[deathrattleofablasphemousorator]

INTRO POST —

Toki! Welcome to my trans and evil maze. I primarily go by Yrsa , but you can also call me Dei

They/them and it/its pronouns, please alternate. Don’t use gendered terms on me [dude, bro, girl, etc. even if your intent is to use them in a gender neutral way.] I’m a transneutral femme but don’t really use that as a label, queer as a gender but not necessarily genderqueer, and a polyamorous aromantic allosexual. My pronouns page is here.

I’m the co-host of a system, this is my personal blog. You might recognize our main blog over at @dropitdoeeyes (that’s also what i’ll be following from.) I’m the symptom holder for a lot of shit I may or may not get into

Send me asks! I love talking to people. I’ll probably draw you a little something too, as a treat

I don’t have a DNI since I find them really useless, I’ll block you if you’re a troll, if you reblog untagged unreality, or if you reblog shit like "ooh reblog this or you're a horrible evil person" . Terfs explode.

Some interests of mine —

Linguistics are my current special interest, and I’m learning toki pona [I don’t know it very well and can barely hold a conversation, but it’s been going smoothly!]

Also really into math, theatre tech, video essays on obscure topics, and TTRPGS [It’s been way too long since I’ve been a gm and I need to fix that.] Some viddy games I’m really into are Disco Elysium, Hollow Knight, Portal, and Subnautica. Big fan of weird gross horror games too [e.g. How Fish is Made] please do let me know if you have any recommendations.

I’m kind of a furry? I’m not active in the community and I don’t really consider myself one even though I am by definition. I enjoy anthro animals very much and may post some of my art if I’m in the mood.

I listen to a lot of music, but if you were to ask I’d say I mostly listen to goth, deathrock, glitchy music, breakcore, and folk. Big fan of Christ vs. Warhol, Femtanyl, Rosegarden Funeral Party, The Reverent Marigold, Nox Novacula, Vision Video, Tears for the Dying, Patricia Taxxon, and Black Dresses.

Tag guide —

[Under the cut since this is getting long]

Most recent edit : 4/27/24

#dei dreams — text posts by yours truly

#dei rambles — long or otherwise rambly posts that don’t mean much of anything

#dei doodles — art by yours truly! probably won’t post much of it but it’s worth having

#reblog — posts not by yours truly. will not tag this one reliably my condolences

#undescribed — posts containing images/videos without a description

#video games — posts about video games, either me rambling about my own playthroughs or reblogging something else related

#language — linguistics posts

#queerness — posts about queerness

#people — people being human

#angels — angels

#tech — pretty computers :3

I’ll be adding more tags as I go along, but for now, this is about it. I probably won’t reliably tag many triggers, I’ll try my best, but do be wary about that. Flashing lights and eyestrain will always be tagged

#dei dreams #dei rambles #pinned post #intro post

[humblenovice2022]

As Fandom continues to drive away editors and readers with their numerous ads, the Koei Tecmo Wiki has decided to migrate away from the site and go independent. The move happened for some time, though it wouldn't have been possible without the intervention of certain fans who were rightfully concerned about the content being stuck in Fandom's grasp. The wiki was fortunately able to migrate before the company decided to tighten its forking policy in an attempt to discourage users from leaving.

Truth be told, the greatest obstacle to moving away from Fandom is competing with them over search engine optimization (SEO) which means the independent wiki will constantly struggle getting more attention in search engines like Google or Bing. Nonetheless, ardent fans are willing to risk that if it means they can gain independence and give readers a better experience using their wikis.

It's not just the Koei Tecmo Wiki that has moved away from Fandom. Other wiki communities like the Zelda Wiki, the Hollow Knight Wiki, the Shin Megami Tensei Wiki, and the Toontown Rewritten Wiki have all departed from the company in order to make a stand for both themselves and their respective fan base.

#atelier series #dead or alive #dynasty warriors #fandom #fandom wiki #fandom.com #forking #games #gaming #koei #koei wiki #koei tecmo #koei tecmo wiki #ninja gaiden #samurai warriors #tecmo #video games #warriors orochi #wiki #wikis #wikia

[kozykricket]

random urge to make a long as heck post about matpat

im gonna say though if your take is simply “i just miss when they did more The Science Of and applying real world logic to games” then. yeah honestly fair take/criticism. but this post isnt really about that. its clearly not as sensationizable but yknow im seeing more of that type pop up from other yters

anyway

tldr of this is i like his goofy cherrypicked headcanons esp for games without actual deep lore, but i do think its bad when he chooses games like hollow knight or deltarune, games with actual deep lore and stuff to theorize on, and takes his wacky spin on things, as it feels disrespectful

unless its very very clear that its a joke theory, like theres no way he thought sans was ness, it was just a fun little headcanon of his

anyway, long version

whenever people call out matpat for being insane with his theories im like

no yeah they are weird.

i think its just… theyre moreso just wacky what if scenarios than actual lore analysis

and as someone who spends time reading and watching actual like, lore theory videos and story analyses? i respect what matpat does because its a unique niche. sure, it may not be fitting to call them theories, but at this point i feel like a Game Theory is distinct from a theory about a game

like, i think matpat is a good case study for how you can cherry pick evidence to support like, any claim, if you try hard enough

i think like. sure, back then he had more videos of actually predicting what s games story was, but even then theyd occasionally get wacky

and the prominence of stuff like “mario is a psychopath! ash is dead!” has only gotten bigger

so as a massive undertale lore nut…

do i hate sans is ness? no. because i dont look at it like i look at actual ut theories. if i want utdr theories i go to like, andrew cunningham or jarujaru.

heck i really really disagree with his take on minecrafts lore but i also respect that he does it, because minecraft was kinda made for thinking up your own stories and explanations

are they often insane? yes. is that whats entertaining? to many, yes

i dont fault him, in short. its a niche market and someone has to do it. someone had to make a video on why peachette means the toads are like, replacing peach and making a new queen bee of sorts. banger.

i think its just when he chooses games that DO have actual serious lore communities and tries to make an actual lore video on them that its bad. thats when it fails. (see hollow knight)

but for mario? ofc i wanna hear his funny thoughts

in terms of fnaf, i think his crazy mind with bonkers ideas just meshed really well with the nonsensical lore of fnaf

in conclusion, i dont watch him much but i dont reaaally agree with hate on him, even if i can understand absolutely malding after hearing him try to make a serious theory about a game you love (so sorry hollow knignt fans)

in terms of him as a person? having watched markipliers powerwash pals video with him, he seems like a nice guy. also definitely past any sort of edgy phase

not that i idolize him tho tbh

[axollyon]

me (axo) (adri) (axollyon)

hii now that im actually getting some traction on this account i feel that i should introduce myself for real!

my website with links to all my stuff: https://axollyon.com/

i'm adri! or axo, or my full legal internet name axollyon, or whatevs. i'm 22 years old, agender, and use they/them pronouns. i make mods for games, and i've been doing this for about a decade at this point! i've been around a lot of modding spheres, and i have like 60 thousand cumulative downloads on steam workshop mods i've made for various games, so there's a good possibility you've heard of me if you've played them.

since 2020 though, i've been primarily focused on romhacking mario 64! i've made tools and smaller minihacks, and contributed a level to the highest rated sm64 hack of all time at the time of writing (serene fusion). the big thing i've done in this community though is running an organization called mario jams, which is like game jams but for romhacks. a ton of fun mods by other people exist because of this, which i'm really grateful for!

of course, modding isn't the only thing i'm interested in! eventually i want to get into making my own games. eventually. i also am a big fan of d&d and tabletop gaming, and have quite a few characters that i'll post on here from time to time. my favorite game of all time is probably tied between hollow knight and mother 3, but i also love outer wilds and rain world.

also as you can easily tell i really like axolotls lol. lemme set the record straight that i've been obsessed with them and centered my online identity around them for also about a decade. they put them in minecraft because of me and made them into annoying marketable plushies you see in malls because of me. i promise, trust me :>

some stuff i've made:

#introduction #modding #game development