Because I've received some complaints about this--
In To Bind Our Echoes, Hollow's pronouns are they/them, which was a conscious decision to both maintain their NB identity while separating themself from their upbringing, wherein it/its pronouns were actively used to dehumanize them.
The only gendered term that the comic uses for Hollow is "auntie," mostly because English doesn't have a gender neutral version of aunt/uncle; however Hollow is quite charmed to be adopted as somebody's aunt (nb).
Ghost's pronouns are it/they (singular)/they (plural). Hornet refers to them using they/them because she's mentally pairing them with Hollow, and as of Silksong, they/them is the most common pronoun she uses for nb folks. The residents of Dirtmouth also use they/them, but characters like the White Lady (Chapter 6) and the Mask Maker (in an upcoming chapter) use it/its.
I (the author) personally switch between they/them and it/its for Ghost, but tend to stick to the former for consistency.
Like The Office, but every single moment gets just a little more unhinged and the season finale is a Rube Goldberg setup that has the rewatch value being noticing every part of the Rube Goldberg finale put into place each episode.
There's an open pit in the middle of our office plan that drops down into a bunch of very sharp spikes that kill you instantly. This is bad. People keep falling in there and dying. Someone put a sign up, the other day, all bright yellow so you can't miss it, that says "Beware!!! Spikes!!!"
The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it's their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they're walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn't be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.
We ended up removing the sign. Probably for the better. Still... for a while there it looked like it might have worked...
Nobody has ever been capable of writing a scathingly harsh and well formulated satire about the perils of modern capitalism, that doesn't just get immediately one-upped by some random food service worker talking about their actual week.
Preview for Chapter 10 of my Silksong Fancomic: Yet another homecoming.
Time for the Deepnest Fieldtrip! Honestly Midwife has very little actual relevance to this story, but I love her so much so she essentially gets an entire page to herself.
Additional panel previews will be available on Patreon as part of the $1 Tier, with sketches and full page previews as part of the $5 tier.
To Bind Our Echoes That We May Be Whole: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] [ Chapter 4] [Chapter 5] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7] [Chapter 8] [Chapter 9]
For Nanny Danny and Tiny Terror Tim, has Tim ever been kidnapped (or attempted kidnapped) on Danny's watch, either tracking his gremlin charge down for his BatStalking hobby, or when trying to stalk the Waynes in their everyday lives?
Many had attempted to kidnap Tim, but all had failed. The Drakes had originally hired him because Danny had a perfect record as a bodyguard for hire, and he had not once let Tim get taken. The only real issue he has is when Tim manages to sneak away. At first the boy was bad at it, but the longer he spent with Danny, the better he got.
Tim eventually succeeds in getting out into Gotham to watch Batman and Robin again, but this time he's much better at being undetected. This leads to Danny running through the streets of Gotham, searching for his ward. It becomes a commonplace event to see Nanny Danny running around and accidentally encountering trouble while searching for Tim. He always wins because he's just as trained as Batman, but it still surprises everyone who witnesses it.
Tim starts to consider this normal, so he doesn't see anything wrong with it. He even brings Danny's scarf and gloves when he heads out because he knows the nanny forgets to grab them when he realizes Tim has vanished from his room.
I'm apparently so consistently aroace that a friend of mine uses me as a measurement for whether or not something counts as "romantic," based on when I stop understanding what he's talking about.
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
Script for Ch10 has been drafted. Time to start editing...
In the meanwhile, anybody got recommendations for other HK comics? I'm mostly aware of what's on this site, but even there haven't been watching closely for anything new.
The apocalypse has come and gone, and against all odds, Pharloom remains standing. The time has come for Hornet to return to Hallownest, accompanied by friends and allies: Shakra hopes to explore the mythical land beyond the wastes, and properly lay to rest a member of her own tribe; Lace fears unraveling without the aid of a Weaver, while contending with the immensity of a future free of her mother’s threads; and the Green Prince lives only only to spite the Citadel, passively seeking a more honorable end than might be found in the rubble of his homeland.
Meanwhile, Hornet returns from Pharloom with magic and knowledge that might aid in the slow recovery of Hallownest and Deepnest–and perhaps offer the chance to call home the sibling she once thought lost to her forever.
Chapter 9: Trust Treads the Line Between Wisdom and Folly
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We're just gonna... detour away from whatever conversation the Green Prince is having with the Mantis Lord. Don't worry, it's a secret tool that'll help us later. Instead, we get a conversation between Hornet and Vise about the distance between gods and mortals.
My beta readers were MVPs this chapter (and every chapter). I just wholesale cribbed how @sandflakedraws portrays playing a harp in their webcomic, The Touch of Sunlight. And if you're wondering what's going on with Hollow's cloak in the flashback sequences, snowleopardferret made a diagram over on Bluesky about proper vessel care and husbandry.
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Hollow Knight Fanart Masterpost
Transcript:
Page 1
Vise: ...Auntie? Do you think me a fool?
Hornet: At times. But I consider it one of your better qualities.
Hornet: .... *sigh*
Hornet: You wish to know why I did not speak for myself against the Prince's accusations. Had you witnessed the devastation wrought upon his lands, I doubt you would be so quick to come to my defense.
Vise: ...but you--
Hornet: Your personal affection for I and my kin blinds you to our imminence.
Hornet: You think us benign... benevolent even.. you may even be correct.
Hornet: However.
Page 2
Hornet: As a prospective leader of this tribe, it is imperative you never forget--
Vise: !?
Vise: !!!
Hornet: A god's blessing is oft indistinguishable from its curse.
Vise: !!!
SFX: snap snap snap
Vise: ....
Vise: ...though a fool in full I may seem, I have met with ill intent throughout my life, and know well the tenor of spite...
Page 3
Vise: My confidence is not so easily won.
Vise: I give my trust not to some great and mighty god...
Vise: But to the warrior who willingly sacrificed body and mind to stay a plague...
Vise: ...and to the sister who wept...
Vise: ...and toiled...
Vise: ...to see them whole.
Vise: You proffered kindness to an orphaned traitor's child...
Vise: Do you deny it now?
Hornet: ...no.
Vise: Then I shall gladly risk playing the fool, to keep your wisdom and council, Auntie.
Vise: A final question, if I may be so bold--
Page 4
Vise: The Lady... Is she truly so terrible?
Hornet: ....
Hornet: ...she is a being both ancient and alien, whose survival oft necessitates indifference or cruelty.
Hornet: But in equal parts has sure sought to reject that nature. Imperfectly... Tragically... Time and time again... she chooses to love.
Page 5
Lace: To what do I owe this audience, your majesty?
The White Lady: There is no occasion...
The White Lady: ...merely surprise to find you apart from your friends.
Lace: My companion is skilled in song and scrivening, but unlike some... I find no entertainment watching ink dry... so I sought to create my own.
Lace: I fear this serenity will leave dull both I and my pin.
The White Lady: It would be a shame to blunt such keenness, when for so long my Gardens have felt the loss of their protector.
Lace: There were none to assume the mantle of Hollow the Knight?
The White Lady: No.
The White Lady: ....
The White Lady: they were never mine.
Page 6
The White Lady: I speak of Dryya of the Five... one of the Great Knights of that Kingdom Gone.
The White Lady: Fierce and wise was she... though with your skill, I could see you her apprentice, if not her peer.
The White Lady: ....
The White Lady: ...you intend to accompany the Gendered Child to Deepnest, do you not?
The White Lady: I would urge caution. Danger lurks beyond my verge--
Lace: Please. Spare me your condescension.
Lace: Do you issue the spider such inane warnings? Or is this concern exclusive to one such as I?
Lace: I was spun to life in the Weavers' Cradle-- I will not shrink from whatever poor imitation exists in these lands.
I've noted before that my favorite punchline on Tumblr is "hang on, gotta look something up/okay that's funny."
Let me explain why:
It is a way to say "I don't get it" without blaming the joke or the teller.
It is a tacit admission of ignorance without shame or judgement.
It assumes responsibility for acquiring the knowledge the respondent doesn't already have.
It cues other people who Don't Get It to do the look-up themselves, allowing them to get that full impact of Getting It without derailing the post with explanations.
It gives subsequent readers, whether or not THEY got the joke, a little frisson of good feelings when they realize that someone else is now In On The Joke.
It not only makes the original joke funnier, it gets funnier the more often it's used.
To add 1 more, it’s also a great subversion of usual expectations, since it’s commonly held that if you need to take time to explain the joke it’s ruined because the comedic moment has passed. Finding the joke funny post-explanation turns this around and also affirms that, with context, the joke fucking slaps, whether or not the timing is consistent. Plus it’s got the joy of learning in there!!!
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