Bot's Squibbles

I love Transformers, ROTTMNT, bugs, and colors so bright they make your eyes hurt. 21+

[ladyothelakes]

The Night Shepard

A little comic from last spring I made that hasn’t really had a home anywhere.

I liked the idea of immortality leading to a reverence for life and the world around it, rather than nihilism and wanton destruction. It was also a comforting thought that if immortal beings walked among us, they could see the future of our hope become a reality someday… so it felt relevant again.

[diseases-for-center-control]

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[diseases-for-center-control]

HELL YES UNTREATED STANDING WATER

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[diseases-for-center-control]

GROW MY CHILDREN

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[diseases-for-center-control]

YES

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[diseases-for-center-control]

My children have invented a new mosquito-borne illness of Crash Your App

[sistersorrow]

Reblog to give your mutual's browser Digital Dengue Fever

[astercontrol]

Reblogging to give you Malwaria

[bots-squibbles]

For my love of bugs I must reblog!

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

sad limp shakra baby, very loved, very powerful

[backbreak]

I sure hope you're not sick of this au yet, cuz I sure as hell am not.

Anyway, more Prince Ghost.

Here we have Ghost in their everyday finery, and their courtly attire. As one can probably tell, their court outfit was based loosely off of the White Lady in Red Memory.

How PG learned abyssal shriek. Also known as "they got lost for the fifth time".

(And sprite silliness)

[bots-squibbles]

Aight this is cute af.

I need to reblog those ocs I like at some point too

[oakishly]

Model of Hornet's bellhome from Hollow Knight: Silksong. Fully detailed, with complete interior.

This will be a very long one, so I'll put it under a cut.

I've already done a post that details most of the exterior in more detail; I've touched it up a bit and added the chimneys since then. Look at that post for a closer look at it.

But now it's finally time for the interior.

There's a "canon" part, the main one, which houses everything that you see in the game. The part on the right is the side that you don't see, so it was up to my imagination to decide what to put there. I ended up making a detailed tool workshop.

Let's look at the main part first:

(It doesn't show terribly well, but there's a miniature Silkfly in the desk's lantern. Same for the workshop lamp.)

The shelves in the back have all eight mementos on display. I didn't want to make them in the relative scale they have in the game art, since that would mean having them be half the size of Hornet's whole body, which is silly. So they're a bit smaller, and arranged with a variety of other domestic odds and ends, which are also modeled off of what you see in-game.

The bed doesn't look like it has any sort of sheets or anything in the game, more like a big framed cushion with a built-in pillow. So that's what I made.

It's stuffed with wool, so it's soft.

Now for the other part. When thinking of what to put there, the main idea I had was some place where Hornet could not only store but work on all of her tools. The desk looks more like it's for reading and writing than anything else, and we see no shelves for her to keep tools she's not actively using, so why not a full workshop?

I only ended up crafting around forty per cent of the total tools, and meant to do more, notably some throwing pin variants and Sting Shards. They were awkward to make in larger number, though, so I took up that space with other ones. May yet make them someday, who knows. I invite you, though, to see how many tools you can make out from this selection here.

(There are a few odds and ends thrown in as well, partly to add to the feeling of home-clutter and partly as support for some tools, like the Silkshot and Curveclaw, that don't stand up well by themselves. Presentation is important here.)

Some spots on the walls felt a little barren without anything on them, so I made a couple things to hang up. Given Hornet's penchant for mapping out areas (and adding colorful identifying details here and there on the area selection view), I figured that she might make a simpler one to hang up in her house, so I made one to go above the tools:

And here's the active crafting area. I made a Cogfly schematic for that area, both because it filled up some empty space and just because I thought it was cool.

(Was surprisingly frustrating to get a picture of it that wasn't covered in glare from my lamp. Still a bit bright.)

That bit's the real center of that side of the bellhome, if you ask me. Coglflies overall have a certain je-ne-sais-quoi to them, so I wanted to put a little extra emphasis on their spot in the bellhome.

The last element is the lights. If you've so far been thinking, "Huh, those work all right, but they're a little... plain, and it's a shame they don't light up", you'd be thinking the same as me. I wanted to go with electrics at first, but found nothing for the string lights that was small enough while at the same time being okay to look at or at least able to be modified appropriately. So I ended up using glowing paint. Each one of the string lights is made of a tiny ball that I dipped in the stuff before stringing up, and the bath has many coats of it underneath the surface of the "water" and wool. It's hard to get pictures of, and this is the best I managed. Not very strong, but it's better than nothing.

This doesn't do the effect full justice, so I'll likely take a short video showing it off and put it in another post. This gives you the sense of it, though.

...And that brings me to the photo limit anyway, so that's it for the bellhome. This took me around seven weeks of work (though it would have been less without school), and I'm very glad to have finally finished it. If you want to see some elements of it by themselves, I've got some "sneak peek" posts a little further down on my blog, where you'll also find some of the many characters I've made. (Here's a post with all of them listed as well.) I could do much better a second time around, and who knows, I may end up making other bellhomes/dioramas or similar things in the future. Whatever the case, goodness knows I'm not going to stop making things of this genre anytime soon.

May you enjoy looking at this. I did! And still do.

[bots-squibbles]

!!!!!

[jimbotron3000]

More BW doodles I forgor to post here smh

[bots-squibbles]

Aw HELL YEAH

[aldecaver]

Somebody to blame

[bots-squibbles]

YOOOOOO

[its-jooby]

I've been thinking of Shakra's tribe and their craft-skills lately so I decided to make some members for it

You can see information about them and the skills they chose under the cut

[lenaskzorel]

mira shares a little bts from her photoshoot on her story 🤭😆

[boopie1002]

Moms kiss <3

[bots-squibbles]

🥺💕🥺💕🥺

[bitsbug]

I love my the bacteriophages

[oakishly]

Early days in the Hive

I actually made the mini Hornet on a whim when this idea came to my mind while working on the Vespa. So- why not?

I've seen it's a pretty common headcannon to think that this is how Hornet came to like fluffy things. I share in this.

Vespa miniature

Baby Hornet miniature

[corrodedparadox]

Something’s wrong with my dog I think it’s gay

[pocketdogs]

hey guys check out this fish i found on the sidewalk

[the-jojo-show123123]

Why Trobio would beat The Radiance.

Minor spoilers for silksong and major spoilers for hollow knight ahead.

I know I sound crazy, a God getting beaten by some guy in drag, but stay with me here.

Part 1: how strong is the knight?

For this hypothetical, we'll use one of Hornets masks as the measurement, trust me, this will make sense later.

Until a little bit before the start of silksong, hornet is about as strong as she is when maxxed out. You can google the story on your own time for an explanation. Assuming that hornet didn't get stronger between the games, we can say that during the fight, hornet has 10 masks, and that she's left with one at the end of the fight.

It takes 45 nail hits to defeat hornet, so we can see how much damage the knight does.

9 masks divided by 45 hits means that each hit dealt a pitiful 0.2 masks.

The knight does one fifth of a mask.

Let that sink in.

Part 2: How strong is trobbio?

This is simple. Trobbio deals 2 masks. Thats ten times the knights damage. Along with being much more mobile, popping around the stage in seconds. Trobbio is stronger than the one successful vessel.

Part 3:How strong is The Radiance?

The knight kills the Radiance in about 81 hits. Running the simple 81×0.2 gets you a small 16 masks. Yes, litteral God is less than double the strength of hornet.

Part 4: tying it together.

Trobbio deals 2 masks out of the 16 the radiance has in one hit. That means he kills the radiance in a total of 8 hits. As previously mentioned, he is way more agile than the knight, and has ranged attacks like the smokebomb which also deals 2. The radiance is getting reduced to a bottle of SunnyD after barely 10 seconds. Hes gone. Hes dead. The only thing holding trobbio back from beating the radiance is a lack of dreamnail.

[oakishly]

Tiny Shakra, as promised. Poshanka!

She's made of wire, epoxy putty, copious amounts of thread, and paper for the bag. Painted with acrylics, and about nine centimeters tall.

This one was very fun to make, and I'm quite pleased with the result. Lots more fun to make than my tiny Hornet, also pictured below. Wouldn't be complete without some maps as well, of course, so I made her a few. (Bonus points if you can recognize all of them.)

(Please ignore the fact that the maps are bigger than Hornet herself. Listen, I'll make a bigger Hornet later or something.)

I screwed up a little with the joint between her tail-abdomen and abdomen-abdomen, so she has what we're calling a bandage there, but whatever. (I don't know, maybe she got more than she bargained for in a scuffle with a Grand Reed or something.) Also broke and had to repair a couple joints while making it because the wire is thin. I could do better on a second run.

This one is great, though, and I'm very happy with it. Hope it pleases Tumblr as well.

(Here's the post of the Hornet herself)

[kayzean]

Not the fixation I thought would rise ahaha from the dead in the year 2025. Welcome back ROTTMNT. Fuck. How I've missed you

Plz don't repost to other socials thanks!