#christopher larkin

[harpsona]

Happy Silksong to all who celebrate 🪡

[m--bloop]

A Very Natural Thing dir. Christopher Larkin (1974)

[queenofthewildbeasts]

No I don’t want to listen to the song for the ten-thousandth time, I want to inject it into my veins Like A DRUG.

[hollow-knight-hope]

Can we talk about how beautiful the soundtrack already sounds for Silksong? It literally sounds like magic to me. Christopher Larkin has been COOKING

Which is good because I actually SUCK at games and will be listening to every boss theme on loop while my ass is handed to me repeatedly by various violent insects

[st-whalefall]

So, there’s a reason I called it Schrödinger's Dies iræ.

I’m of two minds on this: I almost, almost, hear the Dies iræ in Choral Chambers but it lifts towards the end instead of the established lower note progression of the true Dies iræ.

It’s there and it’s not.

And that’s really interesting for this particular track because of what function the Citadel as a whole, and the Choral Chambers in specific, serve in the story Silksong tells. I think the Dies iræ is not in the Choral Chambers track for the same reason it’s not in the Underworks track: “For Pharloom eternal, a bug who serves must never die.”

[ID: Terminus Ventrica Station quote: Due to unacceptably high injury and unsanctioned deaths, Ventrica travel shall henceforth be denied to all. For Pharloom eternal, a bug who serves must never die.]

Dies iræ is not present in either of these musical compositions (Underworks + Choral Chambers) because death is forbidden in order for the machine of the Citadel to perpetuate itself.

And at the same time, the Dies iræ IS present in the Choral Chambers—with a twist—because undeath pervades the Citadel in its entirety through the Haunting.

Is Dies iræ there and not there in the Choral Chambers because it’s an obfuscation of the presence of death?

A tiny, white lie?

[ID: A quote from Sherma’s Act 2 dialogue in Songclave: Do not judge me a doubter! The Citadel is a holy place indeed, resplendent and vast beyond my wildest hopes! But yet... the grand halls ache with silence, and I see suffering in the shadows wherever I peer too deeply. Fear, and pain... why were these things allowed into our paradise? Have my brothers and sisters not yet earned their holy reward?]

Christopher Larkin, I just want to talk.

[haphazardbooks]

it is AMAZING being able to play most any hollow knight ost on piano

I mean, Christopher Larkin continually COOKS and finding good piano arrangements is pretty easy

but the ost that's most fun to play is reflection

apparently a large portion of people who play hollow knight don't actually know what reflection is??? like they hear it, and the recognize it, but they don't know where they've heard it before or what they recognize it from

and I play that thing everywhere, so both friends and random strangers always go '??? I know this??? what??? is it resting grounds or smth?'

it's so freaking fun

[a-grim-thin-hope]

current tumblr silksong experience be like. silksong spoilers tag is BLOCKED and yet i am suffering so bad and i just want to know if other people are getting ragebaited as hard as i am in *insert area/boss.* surely if i click on the "see spoilers" button i will not actually see spoilers :)

the humble lore drop of folly and poor self control:

[alannacouture]

My t100 cast editing is officially out of control. (I also haven’t slept in 5 days, so I’m going to blame that.) Anyway…enjoy! 💖🥰🤷‍♀️💝