#but i havent hashed everything out yet SO . LMAO

[giftplane]

puts ur funny little time loopers in the animal paint game

[flecks-of-stardust]

Here is my obligatory food ask: What are the dreamless crew's favorite foods?

this is going under a spoiler cut as well because spoilers for. a few characters

i am beginning to realize theres virtually nothing i can say without giving out spoilers,

the dreamless crew is actually fucking Massive, with at least 20 characters at this point (and possibly more to come as plot gets slowly hashed out. sigh), so im just going to focus on a main few characters that appear a lot and/or have a big role in the plot. otherwise this post is going to take forever, and also dip into worldbuilding i havent done yet sdfkjgkjs

currently i dont think the vessels really have a sense of taste? its an unfortunate side effect of being part void; void really just dissolves stuff like how acid would, and theres not a lot of avenues to actually obtain taste from that. what taste they do have is very muted compared to what most bugs experience. they do however retain texture! so when the vessels eat (they dont require food, so they dont usually do it) they most likely eat it for texture reasons. i actually havent thought much about what foods the vessels would like, but if i had to pull something out of my ass right now id say that ghost has a taste for fruits, lheki generally likes mushrooms and other types of fungi, glimmer likes the lichen that grows around Where The Light Falls, and orchid... orchid’s picky. they dont really like anything sjkfjgs they’ll eat honey though!

hornet shares that trait with orchid. i dont think she’d readily admit this, but she really likes the honey based treats from the hive. theres probably a special tea that vespa makes a lot that’s her favorite, but i dont know what its called or what the ingredients are. hornet would also enjoy a lot of arcleomen food, which consists of a lot of cured meats. she is a spider after all kkjsjk

quirrel’s a little generic, but he really likes boofly stew. (im gonna pretend that the bugs in dreamless/hollow knight have evolved to be able to eat meat and not have to rely on plants, especially since hallownest itself seems rather plant-poor.) hallownest born and raised doesnt go away that easily, even with all the other places hes been to. im pretty sure one of my other posts talked a little about boofly meat, which ill link in a bit, but the tldr of that is that booflies are really rich in flavor even without many seasonings, and the meat is always tender and juicy. nigh impossible to fuck up cooking booflies too, so quirrel’s had it a lot of ways and enjoyed them all. he probably also tried his hand at cooking it himself, but i dont know how often that would have happened. he would also have secondary likes of cuisine from other areas, but i am Not doing that much worldbuilding <3

i have no idea what monomon likes. shes. i mean shes a jellyfish. even the way she eats is weird compared to bugs; i had to google how jellyfish eat really quickly sfkjghjks and shes also been to a lot of other places??? id say she doesnt have a specific favorite food, but she enjoys most of everything. and also stuff that most people Wouldnt like, because its pretty like her to enjoy eating mawlek meat when most hallownestian bugs think its gross lmao. i know she does enjoy wine though, so theres that?

and then theres the seer, who’s called navath in dreamless. i have not done any worldbuilding on cuisine in Where The Light Falls at all, rip. i honestly dont even know what the moths eat yet. i know she drinks a lot of tea though, so im gonna go with that. she likes tea. skfgkjskj

id worldbuild on this more right now but if i dont get chapter three up soon im going to implode, so cuisine worldbuilding has to wait

[crazy-hand-official]

on hole

ok so this posts been a long time a comin’ but i finally feel like im drunk enough to talk about (and never shut the fuck up about) one of my favorite bands... Hole

hole’s music has meant a lot to me since i picked up Live Through This at some boring ass used cd store that also happened to sell erotic fantasy novels about good fathers. but anyway. holes music is for women with bad fathers. women who are kind of fucked up and angry about it, too. women who have trauma and scars and are kinda gross. women who were wronged but somehow by the grace of god empowered in the face of their horrible experiences. 

or at least it feels like that, dont it?

that was the main appeal of hole to me, anyway. i fell in love with this album around the second or third listen through. i was like, damn, shes pissed. it was so refreshing to hear a woman just screaming out her frustrations. how cathartic must it have been to be able to not only get it out, but also be taken somewhat seriously? of course hole never got the recognition they deserved. im of the unpopular opinion that they were waayyyy better than nirvana. without sounding kinda sappy... you know what fuck it im not apologizing to any of u. hole totally made me embrace womanhood. it influenced my own, much beloved way to just exist. 

but also i guess i just really love tunes. 

ps im not here for the courtney killed kurt debate lmfao!!

ok so heres the part where i write my onions about their four studio albums 

Pretty On the Inside

their first album and admittedly, my least favorite (that doesnt say much because i still really enjoy it). its sound is much more abrasive. love employs her most guttural screams in this one, but ill get to that. to its credit, its the most experimental but many interpret it as amateur guitar screeches and song bits just hashed together. and maybe theyre right! but what band doesnt have that not-quite-there-yet first album? its an unrefined, beautiful mess. A song title or two is spelled wrong. Garbadge man is one that comes to mind. and for some reason, its just... fitting. its an artistic mistake left in and its so dumb but thats the fun in it! thats the punk in it! they dont give a fuck so why should you? this album is a messy bitch. 

track im gonna nut about: mrs. jones

this song is apparently about a back alley abortion, and its just as brutal. love is screaming, just guttural sounds and expletives and nauseating lyrics. when i first heard it, i was absolutely entranced in the atrocity of it all. shes sweating, panting. i will follow you down the sick drain

other favorite tracks: teenage whore, good sister bad sister, pretty on the inside

Live Through This

their most popular album also happens to be my favorite! the start of it all...

i havent shut up about this album since day one because i just like it so much! she refines her skills and just comes out with a successful album that ties an array of horrible themes and wraps them up in a pretty pink bow. its soft aesthetic covers the dark, sickening themes that make the album. rape, anorexia, self harm, self hatred, violence, abuse... the list goes on. someone i one knew asked me why women with bipolar disorder and bpd love hole so much and i had to bite my tongue but to be brutally honest we probably like it because love had the nuts to scream about taboo themes that are so hurtfully common in our lives. just like how the depressed rally behind the smiths. oh that and the musics awesome. but anyway, the cover is a beauty queen the moment shes crowned. its supposed to represent someone who has fought, clawed, and fucked her way to the top. but look! shes the queen! shes the beauty queen! everyone will finally love her and treat her with respect! and all she had to do was sell her soul. all she had to do was get abused over and over to the point of breakdown. but she made it, didnt she? i mean, look how pretty the crown is!

favorite track im not gonna shut up about: i think i would die

im gonna be super lazy and just copy and paste what i wrote up one time when i talked about this song before:

wait nevermind i cant search for my post through my tag because tumblr is broken. something about breastmilk? ill update once i find it lmao. 

other favorite tracks: violet, softer softest, miss world

Celebrity Skin 

i dont have as many onions on this one. supposedly, love didnt want this album to become ‘the widow album’, but theres a song or two about kurt’s death snuck in there. this albums loud, but not nearly as angry as the first two. in fact, when shes not singing catchy pop tunes about how jaded she is, shes being sincere and heartfelt. all in all, its a fantastic album and my second favorite that hole has to offer. 

favorite track of the album: heaven tonight

ive heard two stories about what this songs supposedly about. on one hand, people say its about two lovers. the girl wants to lose her virginity to the guy, so she drives (recklessly) to his house and dies in an accident. she’ll never grow old, she’ll go to heaven tonight. on the other hand, i heard that love just wanted a fun song to sing to her daughter, frances bean. either way, it makes me want to dance. so idk if its about teenagers fucking or about a little girl who just needed a song, but its cool.

other favorite tracks: awful, celebrity skin, reasons to be beautiful

Nobody’s Daughter

years later, hole released their final album. when i first heard it, i was disappointed. the first track was great, but then.... i noticed her voice had deteriorated significantly due to her smoking and other vocal abuse. and i thought, damn, i really wish she released this when she was younger. she sounds normal when she screams, but i guess to compensate when singing softer parts, she does this kind of weird weird thing when enunciating that... ok i cant pinpoint or describe what exactly it is but it kinda sucks. ‘honey’ is the only hole song that i dont like very much, and its the best song to use as an example when trying to explain how her voice got all fucked. now, we cant all be bowie (whose singing voice only got better after years of smoking). but still. 

anyways, i listened to the album again, and i mean really listened to it. and actually! the smoker voice is the beauty of it! its a woman who is past jaded and past giving fucks about anyone or anything. its songs from a woman of experience. and she still sounds badass! her voice is so rough, she sounds like she could still fuck anyone up. its exciting. 

favorite track to get all sappy about: letter to god

i really found an appreciation for this song. this is a song about someone who cant be saved. and isnt that fucked up? youre so bad, so hated by all of those around you, but no one can hate you as much as yourself. and you try everything to pick yourself up but just nothing works. and everyone has their two cents in what they think will help you. but youve tried every med in the book and youve tried this and that and the other thing, and you come to the conclusion that you just cant be saved. youre drowning. so what do you do? you turn to god, a supernatural all-mighty being. but shit, i hope he can help you. because if he doesnt, fucking nothing ever will. so go write him that letter.

  i never wanted to be the person you see

other favorite tracks: nobodys daughter, skinny little bitch

and thats what i have to say about that!