shall i compare thee to a horrid snake

they/them || 18+ || blog contains spoilers || a total mess,which this blog will reflect

[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

is this secret history

[huyandere]

couldn't decide to draw riyo with short or long hair so i drew both

[withdreamsofhereafter]

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree

[dig-my-earth]

carbon chains

[rainworld-name-verifier]

carbon chains is a valid iterator name, also cool tree

[barpsy-abaub]

Lhykhis the Whispering Web, Phoenix Lord of the Warp Spiders

[romiiarts]

bodies retrieved (inspired by x)

[peachebo]

one purpose

[nictanova]

[capricoopla]

Idk I might make a full thing one day

[glivs]

secret santa gift for a friend, who asked for a silly slugcat

[valtsv]

reading bad media takes online will never compare to the exquisite torture that is trying to have a conversation about basic literary analysis with your own family members

[valtsv]

discussing media with people online: can you please put down the greek mythology for a second and actually read the text in front of you

discussing media with your parents:

[cryptotheism]

Computer show me breast and boob upon this Christmas night

I wish to crank my Christmas hog 'ere holiday despite

the cranking hour growing late, and Santa on his way

The zeitgeist-erotique this year must see no such delay

So deck will I my halls and jerk till holy Christmas morn

enmeshed in baudrillardic throes of finest Christmas porn

[cryptotheism]

To the tune of "God rest ye merry gentlemen"

[senblades]

Hope, the luxury and folly of immortal things

[pompous-old-windbag]

Silksong Theory: Hornet inherited her father's power of foresight

1. In Hollow Knight, Wyrms (like the Pale King) can see the future.

2. Whenever Hornet (or the Vessel) "dies," they are startled awake on a bench.

3. This "death" never happened, it was a premonition of what COULD happen, glimpsed when the player stopped to rest.

4. This is the in-universe explanation for why benches act like save points, and why Hornet is so fearless.

[measlyfurball13]

YOU. PREV. YOU'RE ONTO SOMETHING.

[minart-was-taken]

Now this is epic

[chipper-smol]

Hornet tries to DM

she does a great job but everyone else sucks

[candor-creator]

"haha yeah, i'm not nearly as worldbuildy-theorizy with hk. i mean, it's pretty fleshed out as is, haha!

anyways in all official artworks ghost is holding their nail in their left hand, plus the art of broken vessel shows their nail sheathed in a way that implies they would retrieve it with their left, AND the hollow knight, while lacking a left hand, DOES cast spells with their left and summon void tendrils with their left as PV, both more complicated feats than fencing. now the thing about this is that handedness is genetic, which, given that every living vessel is left handed, implies that the odds are HEAVILY skewed, meaning that PK is likely either left handed or ambidextrous himself. now the INTERESTING thing about this is that we KNOW that it's not just PK contributing to this genetic trait - because, as it turns out, HORNET is RIGHT HANDED, meaning that Herrah is a rightie and that the White Lady is a leftie. I personally like ambidextrous PK because of symbolism in writing - OH and that reminds me, speaking of genetics, we can also determine based on the similarity of the body structure between Hornet and THK- where are you going come back"

[candor-creator]

GUYS ITS TWO IN THE MORNING AND ALSO MY BIRTHDAY I DIDNT THINK THIS THROUGH

ALRIGHT the plan was to add visual aids by drawing them tomorrow but instead I am going to try and verbalize this and grab any images I need for this

so there's this silksong image that shows hornet's hip. bear with me here

okay? its pointy. like, it sweeps up instead of down, making a sharp shape instead of a round shape. bear with me.

there happens to be another character with the same hip shape

and they happen to be related

In Conclusion: the pale king's hips look like that. tadaaaa

[sharliexth]

to me it is so, so important that the Pale King loves. That the Pale King loved. That we don’t forget that it wasn’t just the Hollow Knight that turned to look to him, but the Pale King who turned to look to the Hollow Knight. His one surviving child.

it is so important to me that he has canonical powers of foresight. Meaning the Hollow Knight’s downfall was at best inevitable and at worst the result of constant denial. Or perhaps, his powers weren’t all that far in the future at all, which begs the question: how late was it until he realized all his efforts were futile?

A universe where the Pale King did not care for his children I find dull. Uninteresting. The story becomes a heartless king who does heartless things. Bland. Expected. I find it so much more compelling to imagine that the Pale King did care. After all, how much could it really mean that there’s “no cost too great” if what he committed cost nothing to him?

I think the guilt of his sealed children ate away at him, much as he tried to keep his mind off of them.

I think he loved the Hollow Knight, much as he tried to make his heart hollow and likewise theirs.

I think as much as he tried, when even the Hollow Knight failed, he fled. The guilt of his children, of the Hollow Knight, of failing his subjects was too great.

The Pale King is noble, wise, selfless. The Pale King is prideful, in denial, cowardly. He is many things but he definitely loved. At least I choose to believe so