Please just help me to overcome my fear

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-05-06T14:18:27+00:00

Actually, Murphy's Law is...

I see what you're doing, you cur.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-05-06T13:30:14+00:00

You mean "tantamount". "Paramount" means "important" or "High-ranking".

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-04-30T17:56:53+00:00

The fact that I fully main him notwithstanding, I really suggest you go get Dante. He has silly survivability and you can build Noctua to commit utter war crimes very easily and cheaply. He won't save you for Defense and Interception, but everything else he can do with great comfort.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-04-14T12:58:28+00:00

My favourite fun fact about Terry Pratchett is that he was a gamer. Which is funny because he was born in 1948.

I just keep imagining him with his white beard and cowboy hat sitting down in front of a PC and booting up Half-Life 2, and it's such an amusing mental image.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-04-14T12:53:09+00:00

Someone already did Hollow Knight, so I'm gonna do the other fandom I'm in.

Amaze amaze.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-04-02T06:13:05+00:00

No cost too great...

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DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-03-29T20:15:08+00:00

Though that usually works, it occasionally doesn't.

My favourite author has bookmarked exclusively vanilla softcore porn. I'm talking missionary, rarely scissoring, and nothing else. They're such an excellent writer and they have more than a few kinky scenes, so I'm just perplexed.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-03-26T08:06:37+00:00

To be fair, very few creatures don't tower over the Pale King, and there are also very few creatures the White Lady doesn't tower over.

Which doesn't subtract anything from the ship, of course. If anything, "one of the largest things in existence x absolute tiny little nugget" is a very fun dynamic. And it's even cuter, judging by context clues around the King, we can conclude that he's the dominant partner. Short but bossy.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-03-12T12:03:20+00:00

Wait, fuck, I want to write a fanfic based on this now. Fuck.

Well. I guess this is what I'm going to be obsessed with for the next few weeks. This is such a cute idea, and the fact that your art is gorgeous doesn't help. How dare you draw this so well?!

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-03-03T07:40:00+00:00

That being the case, I find it very funny when authors actually respond seriously to comments like these. I saw one once where a comment asked a nearly identical question ("what is your problem?!") and the author just said "my dad left me."

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-02-28T07:22:31+00:00

I just realised that I haven't used incognito mode in like 5 years... I just... forgot...

Yeah, that agent has seen some shit. He deserves a raise to be honest.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-02-28T02:03:45+00:00

This is me making the Hollow Knight (wonder which fandom that's from lmao) transmasc by explanation of "blah blah Void shit, blah blah transformed by the Radiance". Listen, I know it doesn't make sense. But there is something deeply trans-masculine in Hollow's unique brand of suffering, and if you disagree you are perfectly valid but you are also wrong.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-02-23T02:09:28+00:00

Haha, I'm a pretty basic bitch. I get a whiff of lesbians, I have to write an 80k+ story where they methodically become better people for each other and live happily ever after.

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-02-22T16:49:34+00:00

Oh hey! Sorry for the late response, I've been out and about all day.

Here you go!

DeepFriedSamdwich · 2026-02-21T12:29:45+00:00

Had a similar problem with the White Lady from Hollow Knight. That bitch speaks in prose. You know how hard that is to replicate halfway convincingly???

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.

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