#the vessel of knowledge

[fromshadowstostars]

9: The Vessel of Knowledge, (From Shadows to Stars Series), FE3H [M] - IN PROGRESS

Byleth’s unbeating heart burned in her chest as though it were scorching a hole in her lungs. It made her feel light-headed again. She pressed her hands against her breasts as they ached in her corset. Then, looking down at her hands, she realised she was shaking. She hadn’t stopped all day, and she knew why. Nader. Claude had expressed concerns that Nader might know about them before he had walked in on them that morning, mid-embrace, and judging by the bitterness Byleth spied in the general’s eyes, he had, indeed, known; Nader’s cold stare also revealed how much he wished he had been wrong.

Byleth feels uneasy for several reasons. Her ongoing sickness and reluctance to find the cause of her malady are one, Nader finding out the truth about her and Claude's adulterous relationship, causing a strain in their dynamic, is another.

While unwilling to confront the former, Byleth quickly decides she must address the latter and she'll do it in the only way she knows how -- by inviting Nader to tea.

Chapter 1 is up. Read on AO3 or Scarlettpeony Writes.

[bisaster-energy]

thinking about her (''you know what I like about him is that he's sarcastic but thoughtful and appreciative too" "now what is that supposed to mean" "okay okay the roAD ROAD dude watch the road")

[cybertron-after-dark]

Being constantly surrounded by the presence of a loving God sounds great until you realize you never know when his freaky fuckin eyes are gonna show up to check on you.

And man. They do it a LOT.

[reksink]

Furred Attempts at One's Self

[shuuenka]

It's been awhile, couple hundred of years.

Give or take.

It's not that bad, Cyno.

Just a bit of ache. A bit of yearning.

Ah, and missing you for all of the eternal life I was cursed with.

Selfish desires of the heart that was once moved.

[maydays-medbay]

My sketches from the magma @dimorphodon-x hosted! I had so much fun watching everyone make their art! I'd definitely be down to do something like this again, a thousand times over! (Also, Pike is the hollow knight vessel character! I made him recently, and I might talk about him when I get more info about him fleshed out :>)

[cheepoi-has-a-blog]

I was really interested in how many shapes of vessel heads there are canonically in Hollow Knight, so I did some research (aka my looking intensely at the abyss and the wiki)

anyway as far as I can see, there’s 17 shapes!

oh and Grimmchild is here too

EDIT: I forgot the Greenpath vessel and I feel very bad cause I love them

EDIT 2: THERE’S 2 MORE FROM NOSK’S LAIR I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT OH MY GOD.

I will draw these guys in I promise

EDIT 3: okay I am almost certain I got them all Also here are all the reference pics I used:

[taintedtowers]

DOATKTOBER DAY 27 - THE VESSEL / THE PUPPET burrning questiomn??1??

[proletariatramen]

It just hit me a full 18 years later that part of why Kyouya probably does so shitty in the morning is because uh. Duh. Hypotension will do that to ya.

From this hypotensive POTSy… I feel ya buddy

[catboy-cabin]

sleeptober day 6 - pyre

my, my, those eyes like fire / i'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre

this didn't turn out the way that i wanted it to but you know what. i don't hate it. it does make me think of fnaf 3 tho and idk how i feel about that

[buttercupart]

* there seems to have been a miscommunication

[asmallcafethatslove]

I got a job yay 🎉 but I start next week and I feel so so nervous 😭 I’m having flashbacks from my previous job since it’s under the same industry but like I feel like puking everytime I think of it

[tidesfate]

Shout out to The Creature

[moonchild-in-blue]

I'm gonna be meta for a little bit, but huge shout out to George Lever (Sleep Token's previous producer).

Like, don't get me wrong, I love Carl Bown (he's worked with soo many of my favourite bands and killed it), and I love that Vessel himself got involved in the producing process of TMBTE. The album is amazing, everything sounds extremely clean and professional, and very, very concise.

But George Lever? That guy has a way with music that just... It's very innate. I think One was self-produced (although I'm not entirely sure), but everything else apart from TMBTE was produced by him - and you can tell.

There's this very raw and organic feeling to his work that I think it's quite rare to find nowadays. Especially the drums - I really wish he could've been the one mixing it for the last album because man, he just gets it.

When I first listened to Eden, I remember thinking "man, this drummer is insane". But then I went all the way back to One and slowly made my way to TPWBYT and ket me tell you, Jaws' drum line left me flabbergasted. I know that George and ii have been friends/working together for quite a while prior to ST, so maybe that's one reason why. But they just work so well together, everything sounds so clear and crisp, it feels almost impossible.

This is not to discredit the amazing, fenomenal work done on TMBTE - there's a reason why it's my favourite album and why it gained the traction it did - nor to downplay ii's insane skills (as if one could ever do that, he's just that good). But George's work with ST is just so, so brilliant, and I really needed to put it out there.

It's been a while since I've checked in on him, but it seems he's a bit inactive nowadays? Idk. Whatever the reason why he's no longer working with them, or why he's a bit mia (or was for a while), I wish him all the best, and I'm just so thankful for all his hard work.

[aaron-is-comatose]

Oh my God .. I just found out that The Night Does Not Belong to God is a 4 / 4 disguised as a 3 / 4, I hope people can understand what I mean </3

It sounds like a waltz even though it's a 4 / 4 count OUGH I might love sleep token a lil more

[florshedworf]

also reminder that the vessels have no gender 👍 these are developer notes you cannot tell me it’s up to interpretation 👍👍