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cat on a catwalk

huh

I never caught that

catwalks

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the short version is that CC's arrival (specifically her Berserker virus) caused Solarflare's other selves to wake up earlier, forcing Shade to speed up his plans

this would explain SO MUCH, like it would explain:

- how the entire thing happened in only a week (the plan had to be rushed)

- why no god powers were used(not enough time to fully connect to the Memory Path)

- why the squad even succeeded in the first place (the plan has never had to be rushed before + lack of god powers)

- and even the role of CC and (most) of her powers (Arceus decided to take a risk after the penultimate Solarflare told him how hopeless the situation is)

- hell it would explain how Solarflare connected to Fluffy so quickly (it ain't just the chocys, bro got a +500% friendship buff from his other selves)

though im tryna check to make sure this actually works within the timeline

really hoping it does I want my girl CC to have some respect at last :(

wait

holy frog

wait I think I might have just found a way to cleanly fit almost all of CC into the travel arc and make it at least decent

in fact I'm pretty sure I found a way to make that entire arc make sense

wait holy frog this is huge

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har har very funny I want my money back

happy valentines day jessa nation

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what is it with me and finding something amazing only a few days/weeks before it ends/go on a hiatus

anyway good luck with life, take care of yourself, and continue to SHAW your way to your goals :)

Drawing Hornet everyday until Silksong comes out - Day 731.

Well, after two long years of posting, I’m finally taking a break.

Thank you guys for everything for the past two years. It’s genuinely been so fun making daily doodles. But all good things must come to an end eventually. I’m tired.

What are the plans moving forward?

read below the cut if you’d like to know!!

Taking a break:

Life in general has been really rough lately. Tons of family drama, personal medical issues making it impossible to function some days, and my childhood dog recently passed away a few days after Christmas last year. So it was a real challenge to “keep up appearances” if you know what I mean.

I’ve said this plenty of times in the past already, however I’ll repeat it since there’s surprisingly a lot more new people that have followed since then. I’m taking a whole month off from posting entirely. So I won’t be active on Silksongeveryday until about March 14th. Why? Hopefully it’s obvious but posting daily content for two years straight really does something to you. I’ve grown tired of this blog just a little bit, and I feel stepping away from it for a month will help me reconnect. I still love the game and its community, and I’d hate for my disinterest in a single blog to ruin that. If a month long break could fix that then so be it.

I’m also taking a somewhat indefinite break from daily doodles. I WILL still be posting doodles occasionally every once in a while after I come back from my month long break. However I won’t be doing daily doodles.

So no daily doodles ever again?

There is only one condition that has to be met for me to return to daily doodles.

A Silksong release date is announced.

Which is…let’s face it, a release date might not happen any time soon. 6 years of near radio silence from TC? I’m not expecting much, especially not in a month.

But WHEN a release date is announced I’ll definitely return to daily doodles and do a sort of daily “countdown” until Silksong is officially out.

Will doodle requests still be open?

Yes! Even if I will no longer be doing daily posts I will still occasionally post every once in a while with doodles! So if there’s a specific doodle you’d like to request and you have an extra $1 hanging around, hornet doodle requests are open on my ko-fi!!

What about the current projects that were happening on Silksongeveryday?

I’m still working on them! Just as mentioned before, a lot of stuff happened irl so it’s kind of on the back burner.

For the Hornet Journal Series: I plan to post the remaining entries after I come back from my month long break. Whether I work on them during that month long break totally depends on how I’m feeling. But there may be a likely chance I work on a few here and there on my own time! But regardless, I do plan to finish this project. So no worries!

For Hornet’s Strange adventures: I know it’s been ages since this particular project finished on the blog. Development for the free game is slow going since I’m working on this project entirely by myself with a game engine I’ve never used before. Progress is being made but it’s unfortunately slow thanks for irl conflicts. But, just like the journal series, I do plan to finish this project so I promise it won’t be abandoned!! I just need a break first lol.

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I think that’s all I have to say?? But if anyone has any questions, asks are always open and I’m more than happy to answer just about anything!

Thanks again for the wonderful experience, it’s been an amazing journey with you guys <3

See you all in a month!!

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yeah I'm pretty darn sure I not only just made CC extremely relevant to the plot, but also resolved a lot of my personal gripes with the Travel arc

uh

i think I should reread ES just to make sure it works

wait

holy frog

wait I think I might have just found a way to cleanly fit almost all of CC into the travel arc and make it at least decent

in fact I'm pretty sure I found a way to make that entire arc make sense

wait holy frog this is huge

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wait

holy frog

wait I think I might have just found a way to cleanly fit almost all of CC into the travel arc and make it at least decent

in fact I'm pretty sure I found a way to make that entire arc make sense

wait holy frog this is huge

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take a break, kids.

you deserve it after 2 (+ however many more it's been since skong) years.

Drawing Hornet everyday until Silksong comes out - Day 730

pillow fort!

(happy two years!)

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I found humans are space orcsblr.

I have always liked Humans are Space Orcs. It is funny.

But so many posts are like

Alien: *notices weird thing about human* Alien: *asks about it* Human: *responds as if normal activity* Alien: wtf

And I just can’t help but unsuspend the universal translator disbelief. Like, yeah, it’s easy to say you could change one sound to another so that aliens who physically couldn’t make human language sounds can still communicate, but consider:

Aliens who can’t make noises at all.

Aliens who can’t see so sign language isn’t a thing.

Aliens with no sense of touch so even haptics are impossible.

Imagine aliens who communicate by smell (something that happens on earth with some animals) or taste. Aliens who sense different kinds of radiation and communicate that way. Imagine humans are completely incompatible with alien species because we don’t have the organ that senses gamma rays. Like, we take ears for granted because everything on earth can hear (if not disabled). But in the void of space, there is no sound—what if no one is listening, not because they’re not there or because they don’t care, but because we’re talking at a blind person in ASL?

There are so many cool options for communication for aliens—temperature, pressure, microwaves, electric signals, you name it. Like, imagine a species that communicated by the physical sensation of wind.

And, like, you might think, “how could an alien communicate in radiation? There’s radiation all around and we don’t sense it. Plus, there’s so much of it, there’d be no way to tell it apart from natural radiation!” But then consider. We communicate in vibrations of fluids. There’s vibrations all around, and we can sense them all—yet we still manage to pick out human sounds from nonhuman sounds, and distinguish between!

Imagine in head.

Alien, learning how use a sound interpreting machine, being excited with being able to identify a human sound from a mess of nonhuman sounds. Then, realizing that not only can we do this effortlessly, we can tell one human’s sounds apart from another, even if we’ve barely met them. We can make patterns of this incomprehensible gibberish, much in the same way our alien can determine which of their friend’s protons are being reamalgamated.

Then.

Humans have their own unique “voice” in other alien languages, much in the same way aliens would still make sounds just from moving around. Or reactions we didn’t even know we had because we can’t sense them, like alien purrs they couldn’t tell they were making because they don’t have ears.

Just something to think about.

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either our littl guy here is actually that little or the bubble is made out of bricks lmao

Proper balance takes practice!

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rue.

honestly it's a shame that there aren't more of rue in this world.

rue oneshor doodles before i sleep,,,,

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need a Tumblr gimmick blog to tell me what the song referenced is

🎻🐈🎶 Commission for @/starjam87 on Twitter!

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Me when it's time to fight crime (the first one not the second)

Triple Self Portrait

Parody of Norman Rockwell's Triple Self Portrait.

Yes, I know it's not really a self portrait because I am not Niko OneShot.

I've always liked this piece but never got around to making a parody of it until now. I don't think I managed to capture the humour & spirit of Rockwell's work but I still had fun! I wanted to mirror the narrative in the original where the painted bespectacled Rockwell was intended to be looking at the viewer, Rockwell himself, to use as reference for the canvas painting, but Niko looking at the "camera" worked for a different thematic reason because of the fourth-wall-breaking nature of OneShot. Happy accident!

I also didn't capture some of the funny details like the drink glass almost tipping over on the chair and the cigarette burning in the trash bin, and that is because Niko is a very safe and cautious child and would never leave things in such a condition.

The little mini paintings are a few characters from games that nightmargin cited as inspirations when creating OneShot, to match what was there in Rockwell's painting. Top to bottom: White Face from imscared, Madotsuki from Yume Nikki, Irisu from irisu Syndrome, and Embodiment of Spirit from Ib. Madotsuki is supposed to be in the pose of the Mona Lisa and Irisu the pose of Girl with a Pearl Earring, though I'm not sure how well that comes across, lol. (The leftmost drawing is just a poor rendition of the canvas portrait in Rockwell's original).

Did you read this far? Thanks! Have a progress gif and an alt with a portrait Niko who thinks it's time to fight crime.

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the internet is smol

so I saw @earthykinous' Cubone hero and I have been converted; their way of drawing cubone eyes is so peak

Please check out their work if you haven't - their art is lovely!!

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building up to something

a fort obviously what else do you think it could be

Drawing Hornet everyday until Silksong comes out - Day 726

another pilllow!?

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sleep

Drawing Hornet everyday until Silksong comes out - Day 725

blanket

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half naught half naive

k

New personality test, tag your nature according to your taste in flavors

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critter

JOLTIK OC because theyre silly and cute

Small and fierce goober, mystery dungeon inspired :]