A Fanart For @ashyronfire For Their Fic We Are Like The Living Dead. Why Does Hollow Have A Snoot? Who

In honor of finally making @ashyronfire the grimmcut for IBIMM they petitioned for back in September, have the art I tried to make for the nightgown king himself

I am a broken man for it

(Go read W&G. Go read it. The most fic of our generation. I’m completely empty now that’s there’s no further chapters left to come.)

Everyone congratulate @dropout-ninja; they survived the end of W&G and now I have to write pantheons as my part of the deal lfksdkgknjds

Bullying works, because here I am posting for @ashyronfire. I have so much art for the fic verse set in/after It’s Burned In My Mind and the subsequent bonus stories. Here’s a set from the latest oneshot (as of this date):

Both the sketches and colored versions were done in hyper speed without care for quality. I am primarily a maker of shitpost art so What Quality, never heard of it

Sketches:

And this bonus, because Ashyr said Ghost deserves to sit on the table no matter their size

Hollow Knight ask meme: Mantis Lords, Broken Vessel, White Lady

Mantis Lords: Which NPC would you like to fight with as a team?

HMMMmm. Hard pick. What if I said Ogrim. What then. 

Hornet also seems like a fun cinematic choice, considering how momentous her singular fast teamwork moment is for the Dream No More ending. If I picked Tiso, it’d be like babysitting but hey maybe he’d survive. The nailmasters would be fun visibly (and chaos logistically because they are Big and I would be so distracted by three of them sharing the screen with me). 

(Am I allowed to pick Hollow? I want to pick Hollow for every answer.)

Broken Vessel: Which character would you bring back to life, if you could?

(Am I allowed to pick Hollow XD)

For any ending they die in, Hollow. I’m biased. What can I say. If I wanted to feel less guilty as a player, then those like Myla or the False Knight. 

There is a part of me that straight up says the Radiance though just so she can be punted around, I’m not even gonna lie. (She would make an excellent squeaky toy. Rubber chicken noises.)

White Lady: Do you have any theories about the Higher Beings in Hallownest?

Not as many as you XD

I like to play with the higher beings, so my lore for them is a bit fluid and pieces change fic by fic. They are some of the most fun of the characters/historical characters of that world, and making theories is really very fun. Most of them are probably about PK. To no one’s surprise lol. Trying to pick a specific one and I feel like it'd make the post too long, help. I have a lot of half finished thoughts regarding Hallownest's higher beings/PK and the Fury of the Fallen lore tablet/corpse thing, that someday perhaps I will actually figure out. I'm rooting for you to make a theory about that weird lore tablet/corpse/charm

Got my brother to watch FMAB and then made a shitpost for him because this is the burden anyone who watches anything with me must bear

Yesterday was apparently the day to draw terrible womens @calowlmitygoddess

Anyway here are the very serious arts I did for @grollow /@ashyronfire’s Red Sky

Bonus very serious art

Weird Questions for Writers (because writers are weird)

1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

6. What is your darkest fear about writing?

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?

16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

20. If a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious WIP in exactly the way you've always imagined it — which would you choose? You can’t have both sorry, life’s a bitch

21. Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not?

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up?

31. Write a short love letter to your readers.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

33. Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice...what do you Know?

37. If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

Hollow Knight Ask Meme!

Ghost: Why did you decide to play Hollow Knight?

Shade: Did you make many mistakes in your first playthrough? Did you regret some of the choices you made?

Hornet: Favorite boss battle? Most difficult boss?

The Hollow Knight: What was the saddest part of the game for you? Which ending is the most sad to you?

Quirrel: What was your favorite thing to discover for the first time?

Elder Bug: Do you stop to talk to all the NPCs? Who is your favorite?

Iselda: Favorite shopkeeper?

Cornifer: Favorite area in Hallownest?

Bretta: Favorite Hollow Knight ship? Favorite fanfic?

Zote: Least favorite character? Or which unpopular character do you like?

Tiso: Which NPC would you most like to fight? Why?

The Last Stag: What area of the game do you visit the most?

Confessor Jiji: Do you think you die more or less often than the average player?

Steel Soul Jinn: Have you attempted Steel Soul Mode?

Salubra: Favorite charms or charm set?

Grub: Did you free all the grubs?

Grubfather: What did you think of the reward?

Myla: What’s your favorite song from the soundtrack?

Cloth: Which character would you fight to protect?

Seer: Favorite ghost in Hallownest? Did you harvest any of them for their Essence?

Snail Shaman: Favorite spell to use?

The Hunter: Favorite/least favorite enemy you encounter? What is your favorite journal entry?

The Grey Mourner: Who would you give a delicate flower to, if you could?

Mask Maker: Favorite character design in the game?

Relic Seeker Lemm: Favorite piece of lore? Favorite theory?

Sly: What’s the most Geo you’ve lost at once?

Nailmaster Mato: Which Nailmaster did you meet first? Do you have a favorite?

Nailmaster Oro: What’s you favorite Nail Art to use?

Nailmaster Sheo: Have you played a game like Hollow Knight before? Has this game inspired you in any way?

Nailsmith: Did you earn the Pure Nail? And then did you kill or spare the Nailsmith?

Vengefly King: Do you save or abandon Zote?

Gruz Mother: Were there bosses that you beat the first try?

False Knight: First enemy to you ever died to?

Uumuu: What makes a a boss battle fun for you? What makes it frustrating?

Mantis Lords: Which NPC would you like to fight with as a team?

Traitor Lord: Did you deliver the delicate flower to the grave of the Traitors’ Child?

Crystal Guardian: Favorite bench location? Which one was hardest to find?

Watcher Knights: What bosses stopped you from progressing the longest?

Soul Master: What part of the game do you find most dark or mysterious?

Flukemarm: Who’s the sexiest character in the game?

Dung Defender: Who is your favorite Great Knight?

Hive Knight: Are there any bosses you wish were friends instead of foes?

Broken Vessel: Which character would you bring back to life, if you could?

Nosk: What part of the game scared or shocked you the first time you experienced it? Anything surprise you?

God Tamer: Have you won the Colosseum of Fools? If not, which part is most difficult for you?

The Collector: How obsessed are you with this game?

Markoth: Favorite warrior dreamer battle?

Grey Prince Zote: Favorite boss variant?

The Dreamers: Who’s your favorite Dreamer? Why?

The Pale King: Do you think the Pale King was evil? Why or why not?

White Lady: Do you have any theories about the Higher Beings in Hallownest?

The Radiance: What memory from this game will stick with you the most?

Grimm: Do you like the Grimmchild charm? Use it often?

Brumm: Did you banish the Grimm Troupe? Why?

Divine: Did you get all the unbreakable charms?

Nightmare King Grimm: Which boss battle was the most intense for you? The most satisfying to defeat?

Pure Vessel: What game achievement are you most proud of?

Godseeker: How far have you made it in Godhome?

Lord of Shades: Have you earned all the endings? Which one do you think is the best?

Since @ashyronfire says I don’t share enough of the shitposts I make for their very-not-shitty fics, here. Have two from their Living Dead verse

Spoilers (??Sort of??) below.

I like music too much, how am I supposed to pick five 😭

Grabbed random ones from my recent youtube history uhh

• Absolution - The Pretty Reckless - first tpr song handed to me by Marfacat who called it a Tarn song and ho boy it really is with my interpretation by now. It a banger

• Seven Devils - Florence + The Machine - Grimm song Grimm song Grimm song (thank you @grollow )

• The Moon Will Sing - Crane Wives - because twas my 2023 theme song and I must honor such

• Genesis Ch. 1 V.32 - The Alan Parsons Project - i am a simp

• Heart Heart Head - Meg Myers - cello is my beloved gimme that spooky cello I need it

Anything from all these artists, allll of them, I love (APP got a bunch of albums from the 70s to present, if that strikes anyone’s fancy)

@grollow @astorichan @calowlmitygoddess @basilbellona @lastifka @void-rainbow

✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️

1. “World of Your Own” Wonka 2023

2. “Drama” by Aespa

3. “Permission to Dance” by BTS

4. “Feather” by Sabrina Carpenter

5. “Super Shy” by NewJeans

What about you? @beautifulfigment

No pressure tags:

@wallwriterstuff @gh0stsp1d34r @thebearer @little-miss-dilf-lover @bunniesbearsandhobbitadventures @sunflowersteves @mrsmaeharrington