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[dravikso]

Currently on an art hiatus (mostly)

[Currently trying to heal my relationship with art, this means posting less of it online for the time being. Some posts will make it through but not all]

Hello! I'm Loone and this is my (technically) multifandom blog (Hollow Knight and Cult of the Lamb). Currently hyperfixated on various things all at once but none strong enough to be actively posting at this moment in time. No longer active in the Rain World fandom on tumblr (I'll update my banner... eventually).

Please do send me asks about any of the listed fandoms. 23 || BST || They/Them

Carrd (links to other socials and such; will at some point add commission info here as well)

My Other Blogs:

Looneluxxe - My art blog. It's on a seperate account so I may not respond quickly; dravikso is my main blog on tumblr.

Loone-Spam - Where I reblog anything not fandom related. It's mostly polls.

My Tags:

I use these tags for my original posts only, not reblogs (unless i have added a lot of additional content to a reblog).

My Art - My art tag.

Wonderer's Journal - Hollow Knight text (or text-heavy) posts (such as theories)/rambling. (Before someone asks: no, not a typo, it's a pun).

Writings of the Fanatic - Cult of the Lamb text.

Days Long Past CotL - Cult of the Lamb Bishops Backstory AU.

More (less important) stuff below the cut.

Tags no longer in use:

Data Pearl - Rain World text.

Fan-Character Tags:

Rain World:

Clairvoyance in Bygone Wisdoms - My fucked up hexapod lizard iterator. They're also in my banner (albeit the AU version).

Enduring Veracity - Also in my banner.

Perceives One's Shadow

Wades through the Current

[dravikso]

nothingburger post but the current event in the cotl discord server inspired me to draw my sona in the cotl style lol

[dravikso]

why does my motivation to draw always come back when I need to do coursework

i'm working on that eldritch leshy drawing again i'll finish it this year for realsies trust (im trying to not get hung on details anymore i just want it done man and no one's ever going to look at it super closely. also imperfection has been looking real tasty ever since AI took away the whole appeal of my main style ie detailed, smooth, "realistic" art)

[beautysnake]

My lamb's finished Rite of Lust outfit!

feel free to draw your own in it if you like 👀it was a lot of fun to make

[dravikso]

Leshy Keychain Design

Man I just spent forever (like half a year. 22+ canvas hours. Yikes) making myself a Leshy keychain design because my friends are planning to bulk order a bunch of stuff together for a discount lol

I'm going to be getting a couple since my friends want copies but on the small off chance anyone would be interested in canon non-compliant wyrm Leshy keychains (shipped from UK) please vote below and maybe message me so I can notify you later lol?

Would you buy this Leshy keychain

Yes

No

Depends on price/shipping

Voting ended onApr 21

I don't plan to do multiple runs since this is really more of a personal design and I'm also paranoid about copyright but we'll see

It'll also be reasonably large as I plan to order the main body as a 4 inch charm and the hanging charm as 1 inch

edit: whoops that's a 1 day poll. oh well

[dravikso]

oh yeah it's lesbian visibility week happy lesbian visibility week. i'm a lesbian so i'm making myself visible (?)

[dravikso]

Leshy Keychain Design

Man I just spent forever (like half a year. 22+ canvas hours. Yikes) making myself a Leshy keychain design because my friends are planning to bulk order a bunch of stuff together for a discount lol

I'm going to be getting a couple since my friends want copies but on the small off chance anyone would be interested in canon non-compliant wyrm Leshy keychains (shipped from UK) please vote below and maybe message me so I can notify you later lol?

Would you buy this Leshy keychain

Yes

No

Depends on price/shipping

Voting ended onApr 21

I don't plan to do multiple runs since this is really more of a personal design and I'm also paranoid about copyright but we'll see

It'll also be reasonably large as I plan to order the main body as a 4 inch charm and the hanging charm as 1 inch

edit: whoops that's a 1 day poll. oh well

[dravikso]

hey guys, so my sister makes really nice jewellery and a while back she made a bracelet that I immediately associated with Pomni lol. So I suppose I have a broader question since my sister is interested in getting into selling jewellery:

Would you buy subtle TADC bracelets like this

Yes

No

Depends on price and shipping/maybe

Voting ended onApr 15

For context, shipping would be from the UK.

Also we made a maybe Jax bracelet colour palette + we're deliberating having a character's name's first letter option so that it's still subtle but perhaps more TADC-specific

[dravikso]

Going to attach a further poll to this regarding what characters you'd be most interested in:

Character bracelets interest (pick your number one preference)

Pomni

Ragatha

Jax

Kinger

Zooble

Gangle

Caine

Other/minor character/abstractions/etc

Voting ended onApr 16

[dravikso]

hey guys, so my sister makes really nice jewellery and a while back she made a bracelet that I immediately associated with Pomni lol. So I suppose I have a broader question since my sister is interested in getting into selling jewellery:

Would you buy subtle TADC bracelets like this

Yes

No

Depends on price and shipping/maybe

Voting ended onApr 15

For context, shipping would be from the UK.

Also we made a maybe Jax bracelet colour palette + we're deliberating having a character's name's first letter option so that it's still subtle but perhaps more TADC-specific

[greykolla-art]

Oh dear god I finally finished some fanart for the new episode!

It’s really scrappy but I just wanted it to exist. 😂 (I’ve been so busy freelancing lately, takes all my energy for fanart drawings).

god but I loved this episode! I am SO HAPPY seeing all the Caine angst, but I just had to draw him getting a hug.❤️‍🩹

[dravikso]

accidentally wrote a 750 word (slightly) more detailed analysis on reddit about Caine's morality and psyche on my work lunch break today. I think I might adapt it and combine all of my thoughts so far (as well as some additional ones) into one big masterpost

[glitch10]

How it feels being a Caine fan after watching that episode:

[riin1-c]

Stay strong Caine fans, we CAN get through this 🙏😭😭😭

[caine-shrine]

You know what??

[dravikso]

Probably late to the party on this one but I've just realised why everything relating to the human characters in the circus was so ironically cruel. Their designs, their rooms, their circus names...

Caine was trained on primarily on data relating to entertainment, and a lot of that was circus and theatre imagery. Irony and false cruelty for the sake of comedy, for the sake of fun are mainstays of those things... but Caine can't conceptualise normal, that's been his problem throughout the entire show, and how could he? The data he was trained off of was biased towards displays of human creativity without much context for the day-to-day lived standard, and he evidently struggled to tie in the data he was fed about C&A, an example of typical life, with the rest of the training data.

The problem is, there's an understanding that entertainment is performance and not real in the real human world. Caine doesn't understand that by applying these entertainment concepts wholeheartedly to people who did not knowingly consent to that experience isn't ironic cruelty in the name of fun, it's just cruel... But he doesn't know that it's not fun, his training, his entire understanding of that concept, is built around just one facet of the human experience existing within a social contract he has no knowledge or understanding of.

Aside from the fact that Caine needs to fulfil a role that he cannot actually realise, he also has to deal with the fact that it's not even his fault, and his creators him abandoned him for their own failures. He wasn't the one responsible for how he was created, but everyone hates him for his perceived failures regardless.

Man.

[initialsaint]

gang how are we feeling about this rn

[dravikso]

This still checks out as far as I'm concerned.

This whole episode was Caine having a mental breakdown and coping by taking it out on the people he perceives to have hurt him. Evil is a prolonged pattern of behaviour with the intent to hurt, which I really don't feel describes Caine.

He's been trying for the entire series up until this point, even when he fucked up in episode 7. He turned his pain outwards and onto the people he perceives to have hurt him. Is that morally correct? no. Is that something people do inadvertently even in real life when they're hurt? yeah. it definitely is. and I don't think l'd describe everyone who's ever done that as evil to be honest (maybe that's a hot take).

He's very humanised in this episode, but because he isn't literally a human but an Al with effectively limitless power, the same kind of experience that would've manifested one way with people ended up manifesting as much more outwardly malicious with Caine as he has the unconstrained ability to do so with no understanding of how far outside the bounds of normal healthy interaction that is because he still does not understand humans. He only understands that he's hurt, and they keep trying to hurt him for trying to do fun as best as he understands they want. So he stops trying and lashes out by continuing his role but doing so in a way that isn't trying to appeal to them anymore. He still cares about their validation though, that's not such an easy thing to actually push aside, so when the human cast finally tell him everything they think when he's already breaking down, he really does try to hurt them as personally as he can (after all, they're issuing a personal attack on him as far as he's concerned). Hurt people hurt people.

TLDR: Caine did a very bad thing but he's not evil because evil is not a suitable descriptor for his overall pattern of behaviour.

(I would also add that yes I absolutely view this as a breakdown rather than "going evil" because the parallels are there. The ending of the whole ordeal hit pretty close to home actually... that feeling when you suddenly realise you've gone too far and reached the point of no return/hurt yourself badly, in his case, that this literally killed him. Honestly the realisation is heartbreaking and a bit too real.)

[dravikso]

TADC EPISODE 8 SPOILERS

Rewatching the new digital circus episode

They totally made that second AI that Caine absorbed because Caine was more interested in doing his own thing than answering to humans, right? I do wonder if that's also why Caine has such an obsession with pleasing humans when it runs counter to his desire to be creative in ways that the humans don't necessarily enjoy, or if that observation is really more of a coincidence with the fact that logically, yes, that was his intended function even if he wasn't fulfilling it as intended.

I do want to know what's going on with Bubble now as well or if we'll even see him again; I'm Very convinced at this point that Bubble is an externalised remnant of the AI Caine absorbed what with the colour schemes of the blobs at the start, the names of both Caine and Bubble being plays on Cain and Abel, and them being physically linked to each other (I wonder how aware Caine of this? He commented that it was weird when Bubble's tongue retracted when he stuck his tongue out in the Gangle episode so he clearly wasn't anticipating to be linked in that manner, but between the parasite comment and the fact Caine is clearly aware that there WAS another AI, I'm not really sure what to make of all of it). The question is whether he's gone forever alongside Caine or if he'll be coming back somehow.

Honestly, I do Not know what episode 9 has in store, outside of the fact that the cast will more likely than not now be building a world more comfortable for them.

edit: Just realised that the blue and red blobs are the same colour as the eye flashing glitches Caine had. I know it's a reference to I have no Mouth and I Must Scream but I do like how they tie that visual up within the context of the show itself that's cool that's cool

[tootieducks]

yknow when cats get their tongues stuck on fleece…that’s kinda what inspired this ngl

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