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[ruthlesslistener]

I don't know much about the other games so 1 and 13, Hollow Knight please if you would?

the character everyone gets wrong

-The Big Three all qualify for this one- The Pale King, the Radiance, and the White Lady. I've already gone over this problem a million times already, but Radi and WL both suffer the issue of 'this is a female character so she's a motherly woman who did nothing wrong in her entire life and only did what she did bc she was hurt by the Evil Men' or 'this is a female character so she's a coldhearted bitch who's mean to all my favs for no reason', while PK either gets the 'rich straight white male ceo' disease or the 'hes so babygirl he did nothing wrong because he feels bad about it uwu' disorder. it makes me want to tear my hair out.

13. worst blorboficiation

-I'm biased here ofc but it's a tossup between PK and the Hollow Knight. Hollow had this big issue in the fandom where they were treated as a poor sad baby with zero flaws whatsoever who could do nothing wrong (infantilization of trauma victims, essentially) while PK....do I really need to point it out. I hated how the fandom viewed him when I first joined but him being blorbofied really isn't much better

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[officerjennie]

20,21 and 36?

20. preferred place to write (i.e., in a note book, on your laptop, sketchpad, post-it notes, etc.)?

It changes every now and then if I’m honest. When I lived within very close walking distance to a park, I loved to take my notebook out to the park benches and write longhand outside. Actually I would still really love writing outside if my laptop wasn’t crap and had to be constantly connected to an outlet xD During the winter, for a while, my favorite was sitting at my kotatsu with the heater on and writing there. Right now, I prefer sitting at my desktop with the window right next to it open. I love being outside and writing but I’m a fast typer, so I get more done if I’m at the computer.

21. obsession from childhood?

Ooof, testing my very poor memory. Does this mean just an obsession from then, or one I still have? I’ll go with one I still have: I collect cat things. Like. Anything with a cat on it, I have to have. The impulse buying has gone down immensely over the years but I still have quite a bit of cat stuff lying around. My dream home would be just xD obnoxious and tacky, with literally every appliance in it being cat themed, all of the towels and everything else being that way too. I have no shame and it shows.

36. what is the first meme you remember ever seeing?

This is...very tough xD because I didn’t have internet access as quickly or as freely as a lot of my peers did. And also my memory is very very bad, have I mentioned that before? So I honestly have no idea. But I do remember, like, before memes and shit...there were those random websites where people would submit like “FML” stuff or whatever, and people would upvote or downvote it - there were several different sites like that, for good and bad things, and then for random fill in the blank stuff too. I feel like that sort of thing fueled what would become meme culture, or was at least my introduction to that sort of culture.

Weird and random asks

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[ruthlesslistener]

What are your headcanons about lurien/pk/wl? And how did the process of Lurien and Monomon becoming sort of uncle / aunt to Hornet look like?

(oh my god I’ve had this ask in my inbox for so long but just never had the time to get to it jsdfhgbsjd)

For the aunt/uncle thing with Lurien and Herrah, my hc is that it actually stems from a cultural misunderstanding! In Hallownest, it’s common for two bugs with similar rank to refer to each other as ‘brother/sister’ in serious conversations to show goodwill, bc Hallownest’s population is so diverse that it puts a high symbolic meaning to the phrase instead of it being literal, like with colonies. Deepnest doesn’t have this, however, so Herrah saw Monomon and Lurien calling each other brother and sister in polite, formal settings, so she told Hornet to call them aunt/uncle to try to foster that goodwill to her daughter, kinda like how (in Persian families at least) friends of your parents are referred to as aunt/uncle even if they’re not related to you. This isn’t something that happens in Hallownest, really, but it ended up being like that up until the Sealing with babby Hornet bc she lacked extended family on both sides anyways, so Lurien and Monomon couldn’t help but play along out of sympathy to her, because she had neither family nor friends growing up. 

As for my headcanons on lurien/pk/wl, I feel like it’s sort of a ‘two friends share a husband’ dynamic if anything? I def. think that Lurien crushing on PK was an accident that ended up into a big serious mess of feelings bc PK’s just his type, so for a good long while he avoided WL out of a mix of shame and guilt for falling for her husband. The thing with WL tho is that as a rooted goddess of life, part of her whole holy deal is to nurture connections and communities (because WHOOOAAA BOY FUNGI AND PLANTS ARE OFTEN SUPER DEPENDANT ON MYCELLIUM AND ROOT COMMUNAL SUPPORT), so it didn’t take her long to catch up on the fact that Lurien was a.) invested in PK, and b.) felt bad about it, which wouldn’t do. My hc is that she was sort of the catalyst for them getting together (or at least talking about his feelings) bc Lurien, as PK’s ‘mortal eye’, needs some serious synchronization with his god to act effectively as Hallownest’s equivalent to a divine priest. In a countermanner to the whole Dryya thing too, I think that she saw Lurien as someone that PK needed to keep him from overworking himself when she was too busy to stop him, so preserving their relationship was paramount for PK’s health as well as Lurien’s, which was why she did the whole gentle nudges to get them to notice each other’s courting displays as well as getting them to actually TALK about their feelings instead of letting them fly overhead entirely or being hellbent on taking them to the grave. 

Lurien and WL’s friendship wouldn’t be on the same level as PK and Lurien’s, bc PK and Lurien are two depressed repressed artistic introverts that click together by nature, but I do feel like she’d gain quite a bit of enjoyment coaxing Lurien out of his shell, bc that’s the most rewarding aspect of bug socialization for her (there’s a reason why PK and Dryya are her mates lmao, both have hard exteriors with soft interiors). Lurien doesn’t do the whole ‘cold, hard, impassive outer shell’ sort of thing like PK and Dryya, but he does have a mysterious, withdrawn, ‘I shall do what I must for the safety of the kingdom’ sort of mask that he puts on to blend into the background of conversations, which hides the fact that he’s actually pretty damn lonely and anxious and softhearted under all of it. WL is,,,not soft at all, but she’s one of those creatures that tries really damn hard to be gentle, so I think that she would be fascinated by him and would quite enjoy talking to him about certain things and coaxing him out of his shell, esp. on manners like her husband, whom she likes to boast about. PK and WL are two sides of the same coin, divinely speaking, so it’s also a boost to Lurien to understand her and be friendly with her when channeling PK, bc no matter how devoted he is to him, that shit’s still hard af to do yo. I also think like he acts as a mortal translator of sorts for the two gods so they’re kinda like the Political Trio, where WL deals with the social and agricultural aspects of the kingdom while PK and Lurien focus on rules and infrastructure. I can def. see Lurien smoothing out the misunderstandings between the gods and more sneaky nobles of the court and him and PK falling asleep in their tea on nights full of paperwork while WL hums softly and focuses on the sway of her roots through the kingdom, trying to lull them into a deep enough sleep for them to be tucked against her side. 

I def. think that their dynamic would be like a pair of dragons adopting a human scholar into their mix after said human scholar falls in love with one of them, if that makes sense? Kinda like, PK and WL are one unit but Lurien is leagues below them in power so they both collectively go ‘oh this one is cute, he’s ours now thanks :)’. Lurien’s gay as a fuckin’ rainbow so he’s only really romantically and sexually active with PK, but bc WL holds PK’s heart and trust, he entrusts her to look after Lurien, too, and she’s quite fond of him bc he keeps her husband in line on top of being his favoured devout. It’s like a mutualistic relationship but poly

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