some kinda freak show

Title: Whiteout
Fandom: Hollow Knight
Characters: Hornet, Shakra
Relationships: Hornet/Shakra
Rating: Gen
Length: ~2.5k
Summary: Shakra gravely miscalculates the difficulties in summiting Mount Fay. Stranded and freezing, certain death awaits until rescue comes in the form of a trusted ally.
Status: Complete
Notes: Finally, some femslash. I really like Shawkra as a pairing and I'm glad I wrote for it.

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Well. My February was quite busy. I, impulsively decided to do a month long prompt challenge for the first time in... forever? So I ended up writing 21k words of 28 prompts for 2026's Febuwhump. And now I'm somewhat perplexed on how to actually... post it on here. I need to fuck around with HTML to see if I can do... multiple layers of cuts. If I can do that, it'll be simple. If I can't, I'll probably split it into 4 posts, with each post having 7 prompts on it? I dunno. What an interesting problem to find myself having, ahah.

Title: A Brief Respite
Fandom: Hollow Knight
Characters: Hornet, White Lady
Relationships: Hornet & White Lady
Rating: Teen
Length: ~3.1k
Summary: After crossing blades with a particularly promising Vessel, an injured Hornet converses with the self-exiled Queen of Hallownest.
Status: Complete
Notes: I initially wanted this to be some freak shit, but it turned out to be pretty nice and wholesome instead. Such is life.

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I will not lie, I've been playing a metric fuckload of video games in the past six months or so. The first big beast I've been tackling is The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-, which, to anyone who knows even a slight thing about that game, is probably aware of how massive it is. Like, I'm 170 hours in and only have 38 out of the 100 total endings massive. Have I been the most efficient player? Absolutely not. I leave the game running and watch specific cutscenes over and over even though I've already seen them before. But I've been enjoying myself a lot and in ways I wasn't expecting to with this thing. It is so. So much. But I doubt any other piece of art like or will ever exist ever again.

Anyhow, I picked up Hollow Knight: Silksong as a sort of side game to play in between Hundred Line sessions. And now I'm at 90 hours of playtime and getting the last little bits needed for a true 100% save file. It has also taken over my brain a little bit. I forgot how much I enjoyed the original Hollow Knight back in the day and luckily my proficiency seems to have carried onto Silksong. I'm by no means perfect at the game, but I felt myself improve massively as my time with the game continued and it was very satisfying. I'm unsure if I'll attempt to get the speedrun/permadeath mode achievements, but I can see myself going either way. This game was totally worth the 7 year wait.

And... yeah. That's basically what I've been doing for the past six straight months. University is still university and I'm very very slowly still picking at Wheel of Time, but beyond a couple movies and TV shows watched I've been in a video game lockdown.