Me: "Damn people are REALLY BAD at knowing when to tag their eyestrain art/images...either that or they just don't care about photosenitive epileptic people like me. I feel really sad now."
Person: "But Allison, what if they just don't know or understand what qualifies as eyestrain and what doesn't?"
Me: "You know what? That could be a factor...While it is always better to be safe rather than sorry (so YES people should always tag eyestrain even if they're unsure if it "counts" or not) maybe you've got a point?"
Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)
PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!
Full eyestrain AF page link
"But Allison! How were you able to screenshot that example if you're so sensitive to eyestrain?"
I dimmed the HELL out of my computer screen and looked away while taking the screenshot and did the same when putting it into this post, that's how lol. BUT YEAH ANYWAYS!!! Once again:
PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)
✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈
Because I just see so many drawings of hornet and her siblings loving each other, and it’s awesome!
But did we just forget she kills a vessel in front of ghost, and shows no remorse? Btw, a vessel that she knows most likely has emotions because she knows her sibling (Hollow) has emotions because it failed keeping the Radiance at bay
Also a vessel whose only crime was to have the instinct to keep the Randiance within it, which if it did it would free Hollow
Maybe it was a mercy kill? So it didn’t have to suffer like Hollow
Idk, my headcanon is that her mind can’t comprehend the fact the she cares about her siblings with the fact that she’s benefiting of the suffering of one of them (and does nothing until Ghost gets there to prevent that) and that’s she’s killed at least one of them before
(I also have to take into account her character development before and after silksong, because she goes from being very cold and uncaring to helping everyone she comes across for mostly no reason)
But please tell me your thoughts, I need to know what people think of this
Really cool comic! I just want to add my own theory about a couple things
First of, are we sure Hornet fully knows that Hollow and the vessels are people with emotions and wills?
Assuming she was at the palace and interacted with Hollow, the Pale King or the White Lady would probably tell her to treat them lile any other kingsmould. Even if they were sure it was empty and would stay empty, it'd be best for Hornet not to get attached. Fast forward to when Hollow is sealed and the infection breaks out of them, proving that they aren't empty. If Hornet asked the White Lady, she'd say it was "tarnished by an idea instilled" aka it was born empty, but that was ruined by expectations, or parental love or whatever else.
And then there is fucking GREENPATH VESSEL
I swear I'm not trying to say Hornet is a perfect little angel who never killed anyone, but the more I think about it the more I dont believe she killed that specific vessel. And its all because that vessel was killed with their own nail. Could Hornet have disarmed it and then killed it, sure, but we didn't see that and we need to at least consider that it could have killed itself. If it did then why? I had no idea until I replayed Hornet's fight and saw the cutscene after it
You know, the one where the dreamers talk to you and discuss what to do about you, and then they like, blast you with dream essence but you get up like nothing happened and go on your merry way? That cutscene. Whats so weird about it you ask?
Oh I dont know, maybe the fact they're commanding the vessel to "return to it's darkness" aka the abyss?? Granted it's not that imperative of a phrasing, but it's not a suggestion either. Maybe the dream essence was a way to force that command onto the vessel and Ghost was able to withstand it, while greenpath vessel didn't have enough will and, well, returned to the darkness. What convinces me the most is that if this isnt what the dreamers were trying to do, then that cutscene doesn't serve any purpose, especially knocking out ghost.
I think Hornet saw that happen, saw the mothwing cloak on the vessel, and when ghost came to hallownest she decided to lure them (because we aren't stalking her like she says, she makes sure to wait for us to follow her) to the location of the vessel's corpse because a. It's a good intimidation, b. It makes for a fine arena and c. If the dreamers could do that again, they could test ghost as well.
I forgot to jot down Sec stuff from the Russian run, so-
Back to ,,how is it THAT LONG-" slavic crisis. (To be fair, this name stumped me too when I attempted translation.)
Indeed, homie refers to itself with a 'he', too, it wasn't just Twelfth thing. ,,Страж" is a masculine word, though, so I presume that's why. I, too, refer to Sec with a he when speaking about it in slovak and I assure I don't think of it any less as a toaster. (Cuz the word Sentinel is masculine, I don't... actually translate it into slovak in casual speech. Fucking. ,,Druhý sentinel" comes out of me unironically. Slovak reading rules and all.)
I've looked through the dictionary I'm using and looked into the word definitions of the ,,sentinel", refered to some of my previous thoughts about how its name would be translated in slovak- because there's multiple words to describe the function, similarly to English (sentinel, guard, guardian, sentry...)
I find it it neat that страж is used specifically, more so as what vibe it delivers to me as a slovak speaker more than the russian word by itself. Because in slovak, this word can have at least three forms - Stráž (what's written in russian), Strážnik or Strážca.
And all of these? Different vibes, different sparks for imagination of the function's look.
Strážnik prompts me to think of someone more regular- like a bouncer or someone overseeing points of entrances like in the national art gallery.
Strážca is more for those British soldiers guarding the palace, someone stern looking, serious.
Stráž is... feels more medieval? More graceful and mythical. It can be used as a word for the action, than just a name of the post- držať stráž means keeping guard. It's what is said when speaking about guardian angels (anjeli strážny) - Držia nad tebou stráž... They stay vigilant/protective over you. (Funnily enough, in Slovak this word is a feminine one.)
In Russian, interestingly, the word also seems to refer to imprisoning someone? As in ,,put [someone] under watch". Don't have that in slovak...
I find it Very interesting that Sec here gets the informal form of speaking treatement. To be fair, when the dishwasher scares the shit out of me at 3 am with its demonic screeching, I don't give it the grace of politeness either, but you know. This is Hornet. She's got actual class unlike me. (And Sentinel's whole deal commands respect unlike Alexa or something. I'd formal Sec.)
So far the only people Hornet informal'd was either Sherma (case of the baby), people she did not fucking like (understandable disrespect) and this guy for some reason.
I dunno what he did.
Once again. Deceived by homonyms.
I thought she said ,,during your dream" and I was about to coo, then I translate it, turns out it's canonically compliant ,,sleep".
While we are at homonyms-
[funny that it puts "o" in front of the name, that's a cute addition]
Охотница в красном definitely means Huntress in red and all, but my slovak ass hears ,,Woman of good will(/kindness/willingness to help) in beauty" so I'm gonna hold on to that misinterpretation while kicking my feet.
Interesting here is that it uses informal form in the last sentence there. I think that's a mistake though, because Sec refers to Hornet with the formal form later.
Uuuu (the word used to refer to the other Sentinels here). The slovak translations are comrade, buddy(/mate) and friend (kamarát and priateľ mean the same thing, they just denote closeness- priateľ is someone who you'd trust with your life no matter what, kamarát is more casual). Below is, crassly translated, together-fighter and brother in weapon.
The russian word itself uses the word for brother. With the Co meaning togetherness. In slavic languages we've got prefixes that change the main word slightly, adding context within space or state or relationship (in this case).
For example, in slovak - druh and súdruh are essentially the same, bearing the meaning of comrade in the context, but the sú- prefix implies larger closeness - ,,we go together" sort of closeness. Hard to translate it into english in a simple convenient manner.
In the needolin dialgoue the others are refered to as uhhh...... relatives? Kin? I'm assuming it's similar to rodený which is like... belonging to something by birth. So kin I guess.
Yeah, here's the formal form used (the вы in the second sentence). Also, it still says "this sentinel" which is nice. Can't really judge the sentence structure, though.
And instead of her will, Russian Sec tests Hornet's spirit.
,,This sentinel allowed a mistake to happen. He is ready to accept Your judgement/verdict."
What the hell are You stuttering for, Hornet. (A mistake, dialogue written as if it's Sec speaking not Net 😔 Has happened once before with Lumble.)
,,It gives the sense, that he was conceptualized not as much as an obedient instrument, but as an attempt at creation of something truly alive."
...I swear there's a conncetion between the Sentinels' creation and the silken children.
ALSO I'VE BEAT SETH AT FLEA DODGE ON MY MAIN AT LAST!!!!
Finally. 80 hours and 38 minutes later, I've got everything. Mementos AND the rest of the Sentinel order.
Now it's truly only the steel soul stuff left.
Anyway.
I sure hope everyone who doesn't want potential Silksong spoilers has the right tags blocked because here is my guesses and theories and so on and so forth on who the weavers are! Like, more specifically who's who, kinda thing. Yeah. Here you go;
areudirty
discoholicmusic
pixelskylines
romaincrisis
gummygunk
vaporwave
