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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 20m

Q: Who has the sharpest claws? [ #flameshadowart | OC: Pluto, Spinch, Jaundice ]

Pluto, a small, snake-like dragon with fins and stubby legs excitedly shouts, "Me! Mine! My claws draw blood!" He holds up one of his little hands with its kind of sharp claws.

Zooming out, Pluto stands proudly and radiates a smug aura. He's tiny compared to the cat-like creature, Spinch, to his left and the canine-like creature, Jaundice, to his right. Spinch squints two of its three eyes and covers the mouth on its neck as it holds in laughter. Jaundice looks skeptically down his long nose at the little dragon.

Jaundice sits and looks smarmily at the camera. He holds out a paw with sharp, curved claws at the end of each digit. He says, "What a stupid fish. It's me." Parenthetical text adds, "(he can make his claws atomically thin with magic. it takes great focus and isn't something he actually wants to do)"

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 23h

slubberlugs are cute actually [ #flameshadowart #silksong | Conductor Ballador, Trobbio, Grand Gourmand, Yago, Hardbone Hopper, Slubberlug ]

a page of pen sketches. Conductor Ballador sits alone with his life support silk; he shakily hums his melody, interrupted by a cough and ending with a sigh. Conductor Ballador stands and looks unamused while Trobbio sits on one of his shoulders. Ballador says, "Remove yourself from this mantle." while Trobbio recites his third soliloquy. There's a cute, happy, slimy, squishy slubberlug. There's a hardbone hopper standing on some bumpy ground. A smaller sketch of a sleeping hopper is in the right corner of the page. On the bottom row, a Yago charges through the air with their spear. With great disgust, Trobbio holds a slubberlug that seems content and drips on the floor. Two more Yagos, one in a neutral aerial pose and the other lying down on their belly napping. Finally, the Grand Gourmand munches on a slubberlug and says Yum yum!

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

mourning, traveling, burrowing, prancing [ #flameshadowart #silksong | squatcraw juror, furm, pilgrim bellbearer, palestag ]

a pen sketch page. a squatcraw juror holds out a wing-like cloak and discovers a furm hanging from within; the furm's bell helmet is on the ground nearby. below, a pilgrim bellbearer laughs at a furm wearing a much too small bell as a hat. below, a pilgrim bellbearer shouts "eek!" and tosses multiple bells at a stoic squatcraw juror. taking up most of the right half of the page are two sketches of palestag, one of it lying down among plants and another of it prancing/leaping gracefully. below those sketches is a furm lying under a shallow, dented bell. filling up space throughout the page are some simpler sketches of the palestag, craw, and pilgrim. finally, there's a sketch of a furm dancing on its legs with text next to it saying, "get furm'd lol"

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i was sketching some halloween icon concepts for a friend and decided to sketch some Florences too [ #flameshadowart #silksongoc | Florence ]

a rough sketch of Florence the butcher with a wide smile and wide eyes focused on the viewer. she's holding up a knife in one hand and reaching closer with the other.

a bust of Florence with her head tilted downward and looking up at the viewer with a playful but sinister grin. there are blood splatters on her apron.

a sketch of Florence mostly as a silhouette with her eyes and smile standing out. she's in a cartoony "i'm gonna getcha" pose with her arms out and fingers splayed. there are knives in a loose halo around her. her shadow is cast forward

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what the heck is up with the hk wiki right now? yeah i sure do love white backdrop and no formatting or images...

screenshot of the hardbone hopper wiki page which is mostly blank white space with text left justified. no normal wiki UI, no images, etc.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

she's so fun [ #flameshadowart #silksongoc | Florence, Atreus (belongs to Little) ]

two pen sketches with accompanying dialogue screenshots added. Florence holds a knife while grinning playfully and saying, "hey, I've never had a wasp moth before~" Atreus, a wasp moth, reacts with alarm, buzzing his wings and spiking his neck fluff. He shouts, "Absolutely not!"
Next, the added text reads, "She sighs in disappointment. 'You don't even want to pretend to misunderstand? You could've said, "What, in bed?" and then we could've laughed as I started to gut you." The art reflects this, with Florence resting her cheek in a hand and looking despondent. A thought bubble next to her depicts her starting to cut Atreus's chest. They both have emoji-like faces depicting laughter.

a sketch of Florence wearing an apron made of denim. It's outlined in blue and has a pocket on the breast. She tucks her thumbs into the sides of the apron and grins at the viewer. She asks, "Ya like my japron?"

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

blue, green, and FIYAH [ #flameshadowart #silksong | Mister Mushroom, Alchemist Zylotol, brushflit, wisp ]

a page of pen sketches of some silksong bugs, featuring mister mushroom, alchemist zylotol, brushflits, and wisps. On the left, Mister Mushroom and some brushflits hang out in a mossy, mushroomy area while a couple more brushflits fly off in the background. Alchemist Zylotol faces the viewer, holds up his hand, and says, "Have you considered... BLUE." Below is a sketch of Zylotol crouching on the ground while being harassed by firy wisps that have emerged from a nearby lantern. in the upper right corner of the page, mister mushroom flies off with some brushflits accompanying him. in the spaces between these main sketches are some smaller ones: mister mushroom looking deflated, his cap on the ground and his nose sticking out; some simplified brushflits; and zylotol pushing up his glasses and saying "erm.. actually-"

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

conchs, cogs, and chaos [ #flameshadowart #silksong | vaultborn, karak gor, conchfly, pokenabbin, cogwork choirbug, cogwork underfly ]

a pen sketch page of silksong bugs. the most prominent scene is of a karak gor sitting and holding in their arms an old, scarred poknabbin that's sleeping. on the karak gor's back are several conchflies- one with a cracked cone and another with a deformed cone- and on one knee is another, smaller poknabbin. there's a conchfly climbing up the gor's other knee, plus another poknabbin hovering nearby and watching. above and to the left is a cogwork choirbug standing atop a cogwork underfly that seems unenthused to have a passenger on its head. to the right is a small doodle of a karak gor with several vaultborn clinging to his arms and back; they all seems to be enjoying this interaction. there's a poorly depicted two-sequence sketch of a vaultborn landing on a flying conchfly, and then the conchfly starts to spin which makes the vaultborn look like a smear frame. The rest of the page is filled with vaultborn harassing cogwork bugs: two vaultborn perch on the shoulders of a distressed cogwork choirbug. a vaultborn stands on the heads of the other two; another vaultborn perches on the tip of that one's crest. this uppermost bug focuses on a fleeing cogwork underfly. in the background, another vaultborn flies off with an underfly in their claws. two other vaultborn work together to take down yet another underfly.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

clang, cower, clash [ #flameshadowart #silksong | smokerock sifter, scared pilgrim, phantom, bell eater ]

a page of pen sketches of some silksong bugs. on the top row are some smokerock sifters: one looking determined and holding up some sand or perhaps smokerock dust, another with a sturdier build and thicker arms standing at attention, and the final two up to shenanigans with one using their cymbal as a helmet for the other to bounce off with their own cymbal held like a sled. below and to the left is scared pilgrim, an NPC encountered at the First Shrine in the citadel. they sit on a round pillow and look tired and dejected. below is a sketch of Phantom but instead of fraying skirt bits sticking out of their hips, they've got what looks like fluffy pants. Finally, taking up about half the page is a scene of Phantom facing off against the Bell Eater who looms while bells scatter and fall around them.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

bone bottom <3 [ #flameshadowart #silksong | flick, quiet pilgrim, horned pilgrim ]

a pen sketched scene of bone bottom and some pilgrims from silksong. quiet pilgrim sits on a flat stone and stares into the cracked orb with silkflies (which replicates campfire vibes). neraby, flick the fixer chats amiably with a boxy shaped, horned pilgrim. in the foreground is the shadowed head of another pilgrim walking past. in the background are some huts and the double clothesline with rags hanging from the ropes.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

it says it's sowwy and it won't snap you up again <3

a pen doodle of a muckroach sitting cutely and blepping. it's wagging its tail and there are hearts around it

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark [ #flameshadowart #silksong | Muckroach, Seth, Zaza, Flea ]

a page of pen sketches of silksong bugs. mostly muckroaches, but also Seth, Zaza, and a flea. i played around with the muckroach designs a bit, giving one longer legs and two others short legs, giving some stubby snouts, two an overbite, and one a beaked snout. seth is betting one muckroach who is halfway in his lap. another muckroach is curled up and sleeping. there's also a sketch of seth lying on the ground with his hands behind his head. a sketch of seth hugging a flea. and finally, a sketch of seth and zaza looking at something.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i happen to have just the sketch for this~

a doodle of Florence with her eyes closed, cozy while wrapped in a very fluffy cloak of flea fur

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

meet Florence the Butcher! seek her out if you're interested in cooking a meal high in protein and low in ethical quandaries ;) [ #flameshadowart #silksongoc | Florence ]

a pen sketch of a hollow knight silksong oc inspired by the roachserver enemy. this character, Florence, wears a bandana on her head and a leather apron. her wings are cut and stitched up in places, and she has wide eyes and a mischievous smile. she's got her elbows on the counter and a string of sausage links before her. there are some more sausage links hanging behind her.

a pen sketched comic of Florence the butcher and a wasp moth named Atreus. Florence gestures at a plate of meatballs and says, "Can I interest you in some fleatballs?"
Atreus, looking confused, replies, "'Fleatballs'? Is that like... fake meat balls?"
Florence smiles. "Nope!"
Atreus puzzles, "Then what does..." He pauses. Horror registers on his face while a PNG of a hollow knight flea is superimposed over the page. He utters a simple, horrified, "oh."
While Florence pops a flea meatball into her mouth, Atreus runs off, making an "urp" sound like he's about to throw up.

some digital sketches of Florence - one bust, two half-bodies, and one full body - showing off her expressiveness and playfulness. She has sparse stubble on her round chin and cheeks, and her left antenna is notched at the tip. In the first sketch, she looks thoughtfully to the side with a finger to her chin while she grins cutely. In the next sketch, she squints directly at the viewer looking very unamused. "Why." is written above her head. In the third sketch, she appears to be telling a story with embellishments, holding her hands in front of her to communicate further. The final sketch is of her cheerily working on a hanging carcass; she's spinning a knife in one hand while she whistles or sings (indicated by some music notes over her head), and she has one foot in the air as if she's doing a little jig.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

smash, steal, stew, snuggle [ #flameshadowart #silksong | roachserver, savage beastfly, choir clapper, roachcatcher, moss mother, penitent, freshfly ]

a page of pen sketches of silksong bugs. the largest sketch is a choir clapper smashing their mallet down on the head of a savage beastfly and driving it into the ground. above, a roachserver holding a mossgrub egg flees from the moss mother in hot pursuit. a roachcatcher and a roachserver sit on the edge of a platform on their break; the catcher is smoking and the server is leaning forward and they both look exhausted. a roachcatcher rides a savage beastfly like a bull. a moss mother naps while around her are some mossgrubs, mossflies, and leafy eggs. below, a small sketch of a choir clapper laughs while a roachserver attempts to lift the clapper's mallet; the server is putting forth a lot of effort and making no progress. below, a roachserver rests an elbow on the thick collar of a sitting penitent. the server, while gesturing with their large knife, says, "Isn't that collar heavy? I can help you get that off~" The penitent hesitantly mumbles. "uh- uhm?" Along the lower portion of the page are a bunch of silly doodles: A roachserver slowly drags a large net full of freshflies while thinking, "these fat babies are gonna taste so good. There are two roachcatchers, one less petite than the default and the other looks like a squashed circle- short but wide with tiny wings sticking up. there's a tall penitent, a regular penitent flopped over sleeping, another penitent sleeping but there's a freshfly lying on their head, and a roach server flopped over sleeping. additionally, there are a couple extra freshflies filling up spaces between other sketches.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

styling, singing, and screaming this page marks the halfway point of my prompt list :) [ #flameshadowart #silksong | Crust King Khann, Pinmaster Plinney, Karaka, Craggler, Ductsucker, Curvesickle Skarr, Crust Crawler, Xero ]

a page of pen sketches of silksong bugs. in the top left corner, crust king khann dabs and shoots a giant spike of coral behind him at the same time. a couple karakas and a crust crawler watch from the background. top right is a large craggler hanging from the ceiling, waving its arms and spitting some acid. there's a chibi pinmaster plinney to the right. bottom right of the page is a large ductsucker chasing a terrified plinney. above is a lumpy ductsucker covered in its mossy cloak and staring with wet eyes. khann tries on a pair of sunglasses that accommodate all four of his eyes and looks at his face in a handheld mirror; plinney happily holds another pair of sunglasses while spectating. the mottled skarr that upgrades the curveclaw to a curvesickle is in a jumping pose with arms back and a curvesickle in each claw, reminiscent of skarrsinger karmelita's pose. a boggled karaka stares down at a crust crawler whose coral growths are wide and unruly. a craggler and the curvesickle skarr stick out of holes in the ground and sing with each other. a two-panel comic referencing a zine shows young xero look up at Khann with large eyes and ask, "daddy..?" The next panel shows Khann squinting in insult and confusion as he exclaims, "Do I LOOK like-"

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the brothers [ #flameshadowart #hollowknight | Paintmaster Sheo, Nailmaster Oro, Nailmaster Mato ]

a simple doodle of paintmaster sheo sitting and looking mildly confused. there's a poorly drawn gay pride flag with a question mark next to it.

nailmaster oro sits and leans forward. he glares at the viewer and asks, "why."

nailmaster mato stands and faces the viewer. he looks somewhat distressed

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

everyone on this page has chosen violence. yes, including that sleeping skarrwing; it is dreaming of eating your face. [ #flameshadowart #silksong | skull tyrant, plasmidas, reed, verdanir, skarrwing ]

pen sketch page of some silksong enemies. taking up about half the page are a plasmidas in the crown of a skull tyrant; the tyrant rampages and causes rocks to fall while the plasmidas drools and spits globs of lifeblood. to the right is a reed flying and staring at the viewer while lifting their pin. below and between is a verdanir lifting its claws in preparation to strike. in the spaces between these larger sketches are smaller ones: a simplified version of reed, plasmidas, skull tyrant, skarrwing, and verdanir; a sleeping skarrwing, two flying skarrwings, a cluster of skarrwings flying at a reed who throws their pin at the swarm; a verdanir swiping at a skull tyrant; a skull tyrant roaring; and a plasmidas ensconced in the ceiling and spitting a glob of lifeblood.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

a couple of them have stuck around through the years :) [ #flameshadowart | OCs: Fornax, Jaundice ]

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

WIP to show how my sketch pages sometimes look before i get too far along

a picture of the same sketch page but before it was complete - it has a rough sketch of the guardfly and the underpoke looking tired, and a rough sketch of the unravelled in the bottom half of the page.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Friendship ended with CITADEL [ #flameshadowart #silksong | Guardfly, Underpoke, The Unravelled ]

a page of pen sketches of silksong bugs. there are guardflies, underpokes, and the unravelled. the top half of the page is taken up by many sketches of the guardflies and underpokes, some interacting: a guardfly tiredly stands guard among the weeds and fluffy plants at the edge of mount fay. an underpoke keeps a guardfly with damaged wings from falling by hooking their weapons together. an underpoke and guardfly clasp hands and look toward the viewer - this is both a sign of solidarity and a reference to the "friendship ended with mudasir" meme, a buff guardfly, a tall hunched underpoke, a guardfly with a comically long neck, a guardfly spitting a glob of saliva, an underpoke flying with poke tool readied, an underpoke sitting tiredly surrounded by sooty air. to fill up some space, there's also a silly unravelled "standing" tall on long strands of silk to.
on the bottom half of the page is a single illustration of the unravelled facing the viewer and being threatening. its body of silk spread out and reach to the sides and forward. there are corpses and injector spears being lifted and carried along with the motion. the conductor's tattered cloak flares out, and loose strings of silk flail in the air around and behind the conductor's body.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

squash and swipe, creep and crush [ #flameshadowart #silksong | yumama, pharlid, drapemite, kratt, bell beast, stilkin ]

pen sketch page of silksong bugs. the giant lumpy jellyfish, yumama, has a pharlid crawling on its dome. another pharlid climbs a wall on the left side of the page. a pharlid swipes at a drapemite which startles. kratt stands around enjoying something. there are a mini bell beast and yumama to either side of him filling up space. another drapemite is below. bell beast takes up about a third of the page on the right side and it glares down at a startled kratt. there are two stilkin filling up the space above bell beast.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There is nothing left in that place for them. [ #flameshadowart #silksongoc | Ensconce ]

tumblr ask from virtueexecutor: "Doing this for the ask: Ensconce, what stops you from stealing from the Citadel if anything? I'm sure there isn't a lot of people in there who would actually stop you if you move fast enough....aside from maybe the spikes."
A loose,white-lined sketch that has been painted under in dark brown-greys. ensconce writhes in the foreground and covers their head with a look of distress. behind them looms The Citadel. They mutter, "no... no.. no no no no no no... I'm not going back there ever."

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

She didn't realize what the cost of surviving the attack would be. [ #flameshadowart #hollowknightoc | Willow, Jeq the vessel (belongs to @piospiderfangs.bsky.social ) ]

tumblr ask from Midnight197: "Who or what was the Intruder that made Willow get in contact with Void? And how she's doing after the Hive has fallen to the Infection?"
A colored sketch of Willow the hive soldier, scarred with void, looking pained and contemplative. Behind her is an impression of a vessel character with asymmetrical, curving horns and splatters of void all around it. Willow says, "I don't know... It had a pale head, and it flung black stuff all over the place. I was just trying to protect the Hive from intruders..."

a rough painted scene of the inside of the hive, golden and brown, with various hive bees flying around. Willow walks along a bridge over a chasm; the golden hues of the hive do not touch her - she is more desaturated and cut off. She says as voice-over, "It was very lonely... I couldn't connect with my sisters anymore. Even if... Even if they were sick, it felt bad to not be included. So, I left."

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

meals and maps, burning and burrowing [ #flameshadowart #silksong | Crull and Benjin, Disgraced Chef Lugoli, Shakra, Flintstone Flyer, Mortician, Memoria, Gromling ]

a page of pen sketches of silksong bugs. benjin sitting on crull's head. simplified drawings of crull, benjin, tacks, and a muckroach with its guts coming out. crull and benjin about to swipe a muckroach from the counter while Lugoli's back is turned. lugoli holding a wriggling gromling by the tail. a flintstone flyer standing and waving at the viewer. a flintstone flyer chucking a chunk of flintstone while a memoria lobs a voltvessel. a memoria singing nicely while a gromling leaps from the ground and sings back with jagged notes. a mortician standing around and making grandpa noises. a simplified mortician flopped on the floor. a mortician with a shortened body scampering like jimothy the raccoon. finally, to the right side stands Shakra glancing over her shoulder to look threateningly at the viewer. And in the space beside and below, another shakra with ridiculously long limbs stands and looks down at hornet who looks up with discomfort.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

@midnight197.bsky.social asked: "Question to Mossy Fool! What brought you to the Colosseum in the first Place?" [ #flameshadowart #silksongoc | Mossy Fool ]

a sketch of mossy fool, a moss knight wearing some shielded fool armor, stands with one foot on a slain foe. his nail is also planted in the corpse. he stands heroically and says, "Oh, that's simple! I heard this was a good place to fight."

a halfbody sketch where he looks to the side and acts like he knows he's saying something awkward. He says, "And uh... You don't get punished for killing, which is also nice."

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"So, what'll it be?" "... 'n if cooked bugs ain't your thing, we've got some ingredients 'round back that're still kickin'" [ #flameshadowart #silksong | Disgraced Chef Lugoli ]

a digital sketch of Lugoli leaning on a counter that has multiple food items atop it. They have a casually confident perhaps smug smile, and while one arm rests on the counter, the other is on their hip, that hand holding their signature large ladle. The foods from left to right: A platter of a whole memoria dribbled in sauce and surrounded by round balls of food; a sushi plate of muckmaggots; a bowl of soup with a craw's beak and body sticking out of the surface; a large dish with a collection of small animal bugs cooked together with chunks of plant matter. In the background, are the vague shapes of a body hung up, a large jar with shapes inside, and a pot bubbling.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

guards and greed and leafy things [ #flameshadowart #silksong | last claw, covetous pilgrim, mossmir, fertid, flapping fertid, leaf glider, muckmaggot ]

pen sketches of silksong enemies. a last claw in mid-flight is about to swing their carved mandible club down like a bat. another last claw stands guard. a mossmir flies above one on the ground. a fertid starts to climb atop another fertid. there are leaf gliders and flapping fertids filling up space. a mossmir dives down. a small covetous pilgrim does jump-rope with a string of rosaries. Finally, a covetous pilgrim looks miserable as they walk out of a pool of muckmaggot water. they are dripping and covered in muckmaggots.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

keepers and captives and critters [ #flameshadowart #silksong | skrill, imoba, gahlia, First Sinner, roachkeeper, Eva ]

pen sketch page of silksong bugs. there are three skrill in different shapes - neutral, stretched out, and scrunched up. a skrill rides an imoba. two other imoba fly around on the page nearby. there are a few first sinner sketches - one of her standing threateningly with some blades conjured behind her, one of her skittering, and a chibi one with silk strands waving around her. two sketches of gahlia, one with the petals closed and another with the "head" shooting out toward the skittering first sinner. on the bottom are three roachkeepers - two standing menacingly with giant chains at the ready and a third chibi. finally, there's eva in her container that looks like a jukebox. there's also her sylphsong helm symbol to the side.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Anon asked what Cici would do if she found a stash of thousands of rosaries. [ #flameshadowart #silksongoc | Cici ] (1/2)

Cici, a silk snipper, enters a room that's filled with rosaries. Red beads hanging on strings from the ceiling, peeking out of lumpy sacks, lying in a dish, and a few scattered on the floor. She looks around with a stunned expression. She says, "What's with this curtain over here? Wh.. Whoa."

She holds a necklace of pearl rosaries. She looks stunned, disbelieving, and there are tears at the corners of her eyes. She mutters,"Holy shit?? I have never held this much money at once in my entire life... Th... these are so pretty."

Some time passes, and now Cici kneels on the floor, slouching forward, still looking somewhat dazed. The pearl rosary necklace is in front of her, and the bags and chest and strings of rosaries are all around her. She thinks, "I could leave... I could just go... Nobody ever... Nobody would..."

The same scene as above, only now some tapping noises coming closer interrupt Cici's thoughts. She twists to face the drawn curtains.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Another tumblr ask, this time for one of my favorite HK characters :) [ #flameshadowart #hollowknightoc | Mossy Fool ]

Tumblr ask from tiger-lily-55555: "Hello! I have a question for Mossy Fool: What's a typical day like in the Colosseum for you? Any favourite pass times for between Trials? Wishing you luck in your next fight!"
Mossy Fool waves happily and says, "Hello! I don't fight every day, but that's usually what people mean when they ask me stuff like this so..."
Following are three smaller sketches showing the cycle of the day. First is Mossy facing off against a hulking beetle-like fighter. His voiceover starts, "On a fight day, I fight." The next scene is him sitting in a hot spring pool with a sturdy fool next to him. He's chatting happily while the sturdy fool covers their face and looks very annoyed. The voiceover continues. "And then after that, I heal and hang out with my fellow fighters." A final scene shows him slicing at a stuffed dummy. The voiceover concludes, "And then if I can, I'll do some training to end the day."

A sketch where we're looking over Mossy's shoulder down at the ground where he's laid out his shield, helmet, nail, and a pot of green paint plus a paintbrush. There is ash on the ground around these items. He says, "I like to paint when I'm not fighting! It helps calm me down and feel closer to Unn. My priority is to make sure Unn's symbol on my shield and the rootscript on my helm are restored. Sometimes someone will hang out with me while I do this, but I'm usually alone. I think a lot of the other fools don't like me much... ... I'd be kinda lonely here if I didn't have Unn."

a simpler sketch of him facing the viewer and making a heart shape with his fingers. Screenshotted text reads, "Wishing you luck in your next fight!" to which Mossy responds, "Thank you! I hope you enjoy watching it."

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

gouache practice [ #flameshadowart #hollowknight | brumm, carefree melody, kingsoul ]

a textured paper with some simple gouache paintings. on the left are two charms from hollow knight - carefree melody and kingsoul - and on the right is brumm holding up his torch and looking at the fire

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

flight, freeze, fight, and fish [ #flameshadowart #silksong | kakri, steelspine kai, worried pilgrim, skarrgard, second sentinel ]

pen sketch page of silksong bugs. kakri and a steelspine kai fly near some coral stalactites. worried pilgrim sits at the first shrine and recounts being saved from a voided bug by second sentinel. a skarrgard calmly sits within a school of floating steelspine kai.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

the frog and the fly [ #flameshadowart #silksong | groal the great, scabfly ]

pen sketches of groal the great and scabflies filling the page. some are fairly neutral drawings of the bugs while there are also a bunch of silly ones. groal looking bored and then yawning, a scabfly with a impractically long scarf, groal blepping, groal stretched to have a sausage-like body to fill up space, and groal sticking their tongue out to catch a fly much like a frog would

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

BEHOLD, HODGEPODGE scrap yarn crochet bead lizard, yahooooooo! [ #flameshadowart #crochet | pattern in reply]

two pictures of a pony bead lizard, but instead of small plastic beads, it's all crocheted yarn. the beads are blue, teal, dull purple, orange, white, and magenta. the "string" that's holding the beads together is a strip of yarn that's pale brown and peach. The first picture shows the lizard hanging from the back of a chair and resting its front half on the seat. the second picture shows a pale-skinned arm holding the lizard up so we have a better view of its head with its arms sticking out.

a picture of the lizard lying on a dark, marbled countertop

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

an oil beetle joins the blue beetle wall (i ran out of the lighter yarn before i finished and nearly ran out of the blue thread too hahaa) [ #flameshadowart #filetcrochet | both patterns by TheCrochetedCocoon www.etsy.com/shop/TheCroc... ]

filet crochet of an oil beetle. the lower third is done in blue yarn while the upper two thirds are lighter blue

the oil beetle crochet piece is now pinned on a navy blue wall next to a stag beetle filet crochet. there's also a colorful plague doctor mask atop a lampshade next to the beetles.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There was still an aspect of stumbling... [ #flameshadowart #silksongoc | Trickle, Ensconce ]

Tumblr ask from joshay98 asks: "So how did Trickle stumble upon Ensconce in the first place? Must've gotten pretty lost."
Trickle looks bemused. He says, "N-no? I knew exactly where I was going. M-mostly... I asked around a-and explored a lot and eventually found the signs that I-I knew to look for!"

a silent scene of Trickle standing before the mouth of a cave with a portion of Ensconce's body leading into or out of the cave. He calls out into the tunnel to announce his presence. Little does he know that Ensconce's head end is looming above him, arms out and body bent in readiness to spring forward and grab the silverfish trespasser.

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🔥 Flame 🔥 @flame-shadow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

people on tumblr are critiquing Ensconce's favorite rock. rude!

three tags from different reblogs. they read as follows:
"cute but also uhhh"
"grows out of Uranium you say? *quick wikipedia search* ah. Well let's hope that puzzle box has proper shielding."
"URANIUM" plus three fire emojis

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