silksong spoilers!

mostly talking to myself • they/she/he • 25 y.o. • main @starringmoon • I am really passionate about those damn bugs

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perhaps i was too ambitious when i planned all those details 🫩

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she exhaust on my organ til i cross stitch

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i laughed out loud at lace's review on the latest yasg chapter lmao 😭😭😭

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YASG UPDATED BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT EVER

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The two little cartographers, yo!!

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the concept of the hunter from hollow knight being a transmasc weaver

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whats your opinion on the "at the end of silksong hornet becomes lace's new mother 😜" take that I see a lot, ESPECIALLY on the reddit and youtube side of the fandom. I personally hate it like a lot but what do you think? i know it's prolly not your thing but i wanna see your thoughts on it.

I generally try to ignore people i disagree with/dislike online. People can do what they like yknow and its not the worst thing ive seen. that being said.

i quite frankly think it goes against specifically lace's entire character arc. lace does not want a mother. it could in fact be argued that act 3 of silksong occurs at all because lace had a mother in the first place. i also really hate the other headcanon that tends to be tied into the mother/daughter thing, which is that lace is unable to mentally age beyond a child because she was spun that way. at the very least, if gms was actually in some way stunting lace's mental development (which... ok), hornet would fix that shit quick. its a common thing i see - "lace was spun to be a child" (both for this and the 'lace is a child argument) but like.... can't she be unspun? respun? can she never be more than what her mother intended for her to be? <- this right here, to me, is one of the major themes of silksong - being who you want to be, making your own fate, becoming someone who stands for something. arguing against lace being able to become something more than 'her mother's child' defeats the entire point of silksong and hornet's story arc, which was to push back against the expectations given to her and do things as she wanted. why would lace not reflect that as well?

And this is my opinion, but I think theres a sort of constant infantilization of lace, even in lacenet itself, especially in relation to hornet (despite the evidence of her and hornet being "children" being virtually the same). shes portrayed as somewhat weak and helpless. i've heard her actions in silksong be called akin to "a child throwing a tantrum" which is just such an unbelievable dismissal of her entire life. its like - oh she doesnt know what shes doing. shes just a child. <- this actually pisses me off the most about so many arguments about lace, is that so often they strip her of her autonomy and do exactly what sent her over the deep end with her own mother

i really dont mind if it people dont ship lacenet, its def whatever, but i do very much feel that people in fandom are misogynistic to degrees they dont even realize. i mentioned the francesca/michaela controversy a while ago, but many more fandoms i have been in where lesbian ships are derided in similar ways so that people have excuses not to ship them and they can feel good about not have lesbian ships. god i genuinely saw an argument against mizisua (alnstg) where someone was saying they cant be together bc they knew each other as children. hello. what. i will see people online talk about how annoying it is that people are 'still talking about' hornet and lace (not as a couple just in general) and its like!!!! hello!!!! the main characters of the game you played????

anyways - i also think 'hornet is laces new mother' is just an insanely bizarre take. i didnt talk about it much, but i do think it takes away from hornet too, shoving her into a mother role. although i dont think hornet is opposed to the role, i dont think her first attempt at it is going to be lace because lace would genuinely try to kill her for the aforementioned reasons. i also dont think thats something she's actively looking for. why on earth would she mother another immortal. they're the same age.

anyways they probably think they're being antithetical to shipping when they do this, but found family is such a classic fandom troupe like girl why u acting superior about the fact you think they dont want to eat each other pussy. i think its like... fine. im not going to go out of my way to like... comment on posts where they're depicted in a familial relationship (unlike what they do to lacenet content.....) but i genuinely think that headcanoning hornet and lace as mother and daughter is more fandom-esque than shipping them.

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they seem to be enjoying themselves

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I sometimes go to the exhaust organ and get so sad after seeing all the empty silk spools and phantom's mask i have to turn off my switch

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i can't do lacenet as madohomu cause they're literally kyosaya

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i am playing hyper light drifter for the first time and why do these trees look like they have a man who will offer me an egg

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i am not good at doing sketchbooks because i have no sense of attachment so if i slightly dislike something i make, i rip the page out. don't want to see it

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the other day when my friend finished deltarune i asked him to tell me something to draw. without hesitation, he said PIPPINS. after i was almost finished he asked for it to be "the green one", which is why he looks normal in this

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i am going through lacenet withdrawals

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everytime someone depicts Lace as a weak damsel in distress, a fairy dies

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thinking about how the only way to get out of the abyss is silk soar and how hornet and lace probably had to embrace again to get out after the sotv ending

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Something of Lace and Hornet that I think it’s not often talked about is that from Lace’s perspective Hornet is not just perfect and all what she could have been but is not, but she also sees Hornet’s optimism as innocent, naive and pointless.

People immediately clock that at the beginning Hornet sees Lace as cocky, immature and nonsensical; but people tend not to think in how Hornet looks from Lace’s perspective (because we play as Hornet probably).

Yes, a lot of her treatment against Hornet seems to be mere slander, but she really thinks that Hornet is amusing and she deeply underestimates her. Or, she overestimates GMS, whatever you want to look at it.

She has seen (or knows about) ages of other bugs failing, the weavers with all their powers, runes and weapons couldn’t do anything. Some conductors that were against her… destroyed like conductor Romino with “Pharloom’s folly”.

Why a girl that appears out of nowhere with just a red cloak and a few tools would change that? With powers that also the weavers had, with the addition of the power of the Wyrm. The least she could do was to cause a chaos, and Lace was completely ready to let it happen, and let everything go (including herself) if that meant something changing, anything else happening. She was ready to let whatever happen, if that meant spite or enrage GMS.

But… achieving freedom and a opportunity to start over in a liberated world? Having the possibility of being truly free? Not even a chance.

Hahahhaa! Spider. Spider. What a marvellous specimen you are! You fight and fight, heedless as the world crumbles around you. Pharloom and her bugs will be crushed to dust, and still you'll be vainly swinging your blade.

So, the fact that she goes out from the void, sees Hornet and laughs acquires a whole different meaning if you think about it in that way.

It’s interesting that a lot of people interpret something different from Lace’s laughter in sister of the void, and honestly I still have no clue what she’s feeling since previously she didn’t even thought that what happened was remotely possible.