Their Arm Was Stuck Halfheartedly Lifted. Their Hand Had Meant To Cup A Tiny Face. What Lay In Front

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

How many have you read?

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

as soon as i saw Hollow Knight in your bio i was so wishing my brother had a tumblr. he has been talking about Silk Song for so long, he loves Hollow Knight, he draws the characters, and i think he has plushies. they definitely live in his head rent free, too!! thanks for making me smile!!

Aww. Your brother has good taste, it's such a fun game and the art style means the characters are also a lot of fun to draw so I relate to his pasttime- and I've got a few HK plushies myself, I almost wonder if we've got some of the same ones. We've got to collect something while waiting for the elusive Silksong lol.

It was really neat to hear from one of my favorite fanfic authors, and I just saw the news yesterday about Cataclysm while rereading one on ao3. I'm hoping to get the chance for a free day to sit down and read the novel soon, but wanted to say right now congratulations on the recent publication!!

Hollow Knight ask meme: Mantis Lords, Broken Vessel, White Lady

Mantis Lords: Which NPC would you like to fight with as a team?

HMMMmm. Hard pick. What if I said Ogrim. What then. 

Hornet also seems like a fun cinematic choice, considering how momentous her singular fast teamwork moment is for the Dream No More ending. If I picked Tiso, it’d be like babysitting but hey maybe he’d survive. The nailmasters would be fun visibly (and chaos logistically because they are Big and I would be so distracted by three of them sharing the screen with me). 

(Am I allowed to pick Hollow? I want to pick Hollow for every answer.)

Broken Vessel: Which character would you bring back to life, if you could?

(Am I allowed to pick Hollow XD)

For any ending they die in, Hollow. I’m biased. What can I say. If I wanted to feel less guilty as a player, then those like Myla or the False Knight. 

There is a part of me that straight up says the Radiance though just so she can be punted around, I’m not even gonna lie. (She would make an excellent squeaky toy. Rubber chicken noises.)

White Lady: Do you have any theories about the Higher Beings in Hallownest?

Not as many as you XD

I like to play with the higher beings, so my lore for them is a bit fluid and pieces change fic by fic. They are some of the most fun of the characters/historical characters of that world, and making theories is really very fun. Most of them are probably about PK. To no one’s surprise lol. Trying to pick a specific one and I feel like it'd make the post too long, help. I have a lot of half finished thoughts regarding Hallownest's higher beings/PK and the Fury of the Fallen lore tablet/corpse thing, that someday perhaps I will actually figure out. I'm rooting for you to make a theory about that weird lore tablet/corpse/charm

Part 2 of Trimmed White Lady

I like music too much, how am I supposed to pick five 😭

Grabbed random ones from my recent youtube history uhh

• Absolution - The Pretty Reckless - first tpr song handed to me by Marfacat who called it a Tarn song and ho boy it really is with my interpretation by now. It a banger

• Seven Devils - Florence + The Machine - Grimm song Grimm song Grimm song (thank you @grollow )

• The Moon Will Sing - Crane Wives - because twas my 2023 theme song and I must honor such

• Genesis Ch. 1 V.32 - The Alan Parsons Project - i am a simp

• Heart Heart Head - Meg Myers - cello is my beloved gimme that spooky cello I need it

Anything from all these artists, allll of them, I love (APP got a bunch of albums from the 70s to present, if that strikes anyone’s fancy)

@grollow @astorichan @calowlmitygoddess @basilbellona @lastifka @void-rainbow

✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️

1. “World of Your Own” Wonka 2023

2. “Drama” by Aespa

3. “Permission to Dance” by BTS

4. “Feather” by Sabrina Carpenter

5. “Super Shy” by NewJeans

What about you? @beautifulfigment

No pressure tags:

@wallwriterstuff @gh0stsp1d34r @thebearer @little-miss-dilf-lover @bunniesbearsandhobbitadventures @sunflowersteves @mrsmaeharrington

Fanart for this Radi fic of all time by @basilbellona, it is glorious and scrumptious and mortal, dumpster-diving, tiara stealing, absolute fiend Möth delights me

Like that's the whole fic it's based off XD

Shade lord ghost stuffs pk into the lighthouse "jar" and takes him along for a ride.

Okay but you can't say that and not drop a link

Speedpainting practice. A paraphrased drawing of this chapter from a finished HK longfic of mine.

I have finally learned my lesson to not handwrite the text on the art vs adding it after

You would, @grollow​. You would.

My Sad Bois

(Snippet note: The problem is that all but one of my hollow knight fics just goes into this as their master doc because I am too lazy to make multiple docs, so. Alas. Deprived of file names for the bugs for...10 wips, oneshot and multichap.)

Babe and the +1

Hi bird brain, why am I being held hostage

rip rewind

sad naughty spider dads

whoever wants to do this, have funnnn, wip file names always give life

@basilbellona​ @rainbow-scarab​ share if you are comfortable!

Tagged by @sydmarch

RULES: post the names of the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

-bark bark

-whatcha wearin

-OUR milk

-copoverse

Tagging @proteus-no and @saturno-sol

🙃

Look I’m just saying you are an even better writer of PK for eliciting the reactions to those spoilers from me the neighborhood PK enjoyer

This is praise

Take your praise and my redacted reactions and feed on them like the vampire you are

i was rereading my favourite W&G chapters, wich are the ones with PK and Hollow and i still think is so amusing that you didnt even liked PK that much and yet you write him so perfectly, literally histerical

SHRIEKS

To be fair, he's SOMEWHAT grown on me, and the worse the fandom butchers his characterization (which is unfortunately common in on ao3 x.x), the more I feel compelled to defend him. There's a few authors I know who do him justice (Ruthlesslistener, Dropout, to name a couple), but for the most part a lot of people do not seem to understand that he is so fucking nuanced and that he was in a lose-lose situation.

DGMW I still wanna stuff him through the shredder because I love Hollow-- but I need the world to understand that PK is not this cackling thoughtless emotionless evil person. He's a person who was in a situation that had no good outcome, and was just trying to do the best he could for the majority, while fully recognizing the evils of his own actions.

Nuance! Layers!

Let him be an onion!

And let me stuff that onion in the blender a few times!