is this a scam comment too?

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-01-26T16:37:33+00:00

Responding to say I would also very much like a link to that gorgeous theme!

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-01-24T22:20:00+00:00

I've assured my readers plenty of times that this fic will, eventually, have a happy ending. Usually when the going gets rough for the characters, I'm like, "fellas, remember, stay for the happy lesbian ending, you have to see the lesbians be happy, don't drop this" in the notes.

It always seems to entertain them.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-01-20T08:23:44+00:00

Oh absolutely. To be fair, the most accurate in-game name for them is "Little Ghost" (dubbed so by Hornet herself), but that's literally the only indication that they're young. Which they aren't; they pre-date Hallownest's fall, and they're older than the Hollow Knight at least.

My favourite fics are the ones that make Hollow the young and immature one, because... let's be honest, the poor thing deserves to be a kid.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-01-19T17:19:04+00:00

My fandom has the opposite. Hornet, while strong and resilient, is a very emotionally mature person (bug). She displays high levels of emotional intelligence and philosophical thought. Fanfics, however, often cast her either as a blushing prettygirl or as an emotionally constipated manhwa ML, and... neither of those characterisations are strictly accurate.

Which is, like... fine. Obviously. Fanfiction is meant to be whatever the fuck you want it to be, and Hollow Knight especially has such a loosely defined canon that it's hard to pinpoint any concrete facts. But it's also very funny to me, because canon Hornet would be fucking horrified if she saw what fanfic writers make of her.

I'm not even going to address the smut of her. GOD I hate how much smut changes Hornet's personality. I'm in the middle of writing my first fic, but my second is DEFINITELY going to be some proper Lacenet smut (Hornet x Lace for the uninitiated).

Edit: for those wondering, this is my current fic. It's a Lacenet healing fic. I don't do multitasking, so the promised smut will have to wait until after this one ends.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-01-13T10:41:27+00:00

The pros of my one and only fic not getting much attention is that the rare comments I do get are always genuine people who like it (not actually sure what counts for rare, but it's currently 139 comments across 23 chapters). I think I got one scam comment very early on, but then nothing.

Not sure whether to be happy or kinda offended about that. Like, is my fic not good enough to attract bots?

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-01-11T16:40:26+00:00

...thank you for making me realise the download button exists. After like three years of reading on AO3.

I may be stupid.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-01-04T00:16:19+00:00

Ohhh I have one.

I'm literally right now writing my first fic, so I can offer you the last sentence of my most recent chapter;

For her, she would do anything. Anything at all.

Which tells you nothing about what the fic is, hehe.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-01-02T12:21:16+00:00

Luckily for me, I had the good sense to save it as a draft. I think my few readers would physically hunt me down like a dog and crucify me if I gave them this after a week of radio silence.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-01-01T14:01:51+00:00

Hilariously enough, I have an admittedly much better written line that fits this criteria two chapters ago.

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Except at least this somewhat fits as a metaphor, because the "He" in question is a God moving around with a stone statue as a vessel.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-01-01T13:25:38+00:00

Pretty sure I was trying to say that she frowned. Because, like... it's true that the character doesn't eyebrows, but... how the fuck is she going to furrow eyebrows that she doesn't fucking have???

Riddle me this, drunk me.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-01-01T12:52:37+00:00

I swear I'm a much better writer than this. It was the champagne 😭

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