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Sorry to disturb you, but the discord link to TFS is invalid, I think it’s expired 😭 Could you renew it? I just finished your comic (which is amazing, by the way) and I wanted to join the server

I thought that the link was set to never expire, but maybe Discord lied and links expire after a year or so, who knows ^^'

Anyway, have another here. Hoping that it works this time!

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The Fifth Save is now 2 years old!

Hey guys! It's been... a while. But I've been working in the background quite a lot, and today is the day when I finally share it all with you! Last year's birthday present was the Discord server. What does it get this time?

First off: A Website!

This website is hosted on Github and contains the entirety of the comic so far— both the old version and the reboot version! Each page will show the reboot version by default, but you can switch back and forth between versions thanks to the godtuner buttons. Left one is the preboot, right one is the reboot, and the lit up godtuner shows which version is being shown.

Additionally, the website has a different layout depending on the size of your screen, which means that you should be able to read comfortably on both computer, phone, tablet and any other device. If you find issues of any kind, please let me know! I tried to think of all cases, but I am not flawless, after all.

It is of note that the reboot pages are of quite high quality. It's great for a good read, but it can also cause loading issues... I'll try to think of a better way to implement them asap in order to find the right balance between quality and reasonable loading times.

On top of the Github website, I am also considering hosting TFS on ComicFury. Depending on how it works out, it is possible that ComicFury may replace the Github website altogether! It all depends on whether or not I am able to keep the switch between preboot and reboot versions there too, of if ComicFury can't implement it.

Second: The story will officially continue once again!

If you take a look at the Github website, you will soon notice that from pages 01_05 onwards, unfinished pages will be shown. This is unfortunate, but this is also planned— hoping that despite their unfinished state, they can still be pleasant enough to read.

As you might have noticed, the comic has not advanced in a while. The original plan was to complete the reboot and catch up entirely with the preboot (aka the moment when Cornifer met Tiso) before continuing the story... But, once again: working on the reboot has taken a LOT more time than I had anticipated.

So, starting from today... We have a new plan.

The idea behind publishing the reboot's unfinished pages is so that the reboot can be read in its entirety, up to the very moment when the preboot had left off. The reboot version's plot and comic layout is now officially set in stone in its near-entirety (I unfortunately did not have enough time to completely finish it all for today, but hopefully I'll be done with that within just a few more days ^^'), which means that I technically met the conditions I set for myself in order to continue the story.

The reboot version's story has caught up with the preboot. This means that the story can now continue.

I will more or less alternate between finishing the reboot earlier pages, and actually continuing the story; that way, the reboot won't be left in an unfinished state forever, but since the story is fully present and readable by all, the story can also continue where it left off.

And lastly: The asks need some new rules.

I used to have a "policy" to integrate your asks in the comic exactly as they were sent, typos and grammar mistakes included. But the latest asks have become incredibly long, and as a result, both hard to include in the comic, and annoying to read; not to mention that, as a reminder, I now have nearly 150 asks to take care of.

Therefore, I'll have to sometimes (read: often) rewrite your asks for the sake of better storytelling. If you want your asks to be included as they are, then make sure to keep your asks as short and to the point as possible.

Unfortunately, it also means that I probably won't be able to integrate every single ask I have received. I will, however, keep every single one exactly as it was sent to me, and keep them available somewhere else. Your asks will never be abandoned to the void, even if they don't make it to the comic.

And that's it! I hope that's good enough as news, and I hope the comic will be able to progress more smoothly from now on.

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One day left

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What about grimm

The ritual hasn't started, so... He and his Troupe simply aren't here yet.

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I just realised we are literal pop up adds to the radiance lol.

Pretty much lmao

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THE FIFTH SAVE: PAGES 35-42

START ~ PREVIOUS ~ NEXT (Old Version)

TFS now has a Discord server! Click here to join :D

Welcome to The Fifth Save, a Hollow Knight Randomizer run where multiple mods are in use, and hilarity ensues.

Back to the first version?

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THE FIFTH SAVE: PAGES 29-34

START ~ PREVIOUS ~ NEXT

TFS now has a Discord server! Click here to join :D

Welcome to The Fifth Save, a Hollow Knight Randomizer run where multiple mods are in use, and hilarity ensues.

Back to the first version?

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(to the author of the comic: I really like how you portray Tiso)

Hi, thank you! I'm doing my best to stay as true to the game when it comes to character portrayal; there's bound to be changes and personal interpretations (or, um, complete character overhauls sometimes? *glances at Radiance*) due to the fact that we really know so little about them in canon, but I'm glad you guys have been enjoying what I've been going with ^^

Mini-update regarding the comic btw: I'm sorry it's taking so long, these days it's hard for me to just find time to draw at all... But there's 3 pages left to finish for the next update. One is almost finished (just some shading left), one has its lineart on the way (I just need to draw the lineart for one panel, the rest is done for both lineart and flat colors) and shouldn't take too long either, and the last one is the one still stuck on the sketch step.

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TO UKRAINIAN FRIENDS

If you are looking for an emergency exit from Ukraine, Poland will open EIGHT safety points on the border with Ukraine (you will get warm food, medical help and from there you will be guided to safety) in two of our voivodeships: lubelskie and podkarpackie. It is confirmed by the Polish Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Paweł Szefernaker.

SOURCES:

https://www.rp.pl/konflikty-zbrojne/art35748991-szefernaker-na-granicy-z-ukraina-powstaja-punkty-recepcyjne-dla-uchodzcow

https://www.wprost.pl/polityka/10633681/polska-reaguje-na-agresje-rosji-na-ukraine-powstana-punkty-dla-uchodzcow.html

I've marked those voivodeships on the map!

Please share because it can save lives!!!!!!

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THE FIFTH SAVE: PAGES 23-28

START ~ PREVIOUS ~ NEXT

TFS now has a Discord server! Click here to join :D

Welcome to The Fifth Save, a Hollow Knight Randomizer run where multiple mods are in use, and hilarity ensues.

Back to the first version?

Hey! So, um, disclaimer here: Since I have had so little time to draw, and thus to practice drawing during the past few months... I lost a lot of confidence in my skills. With that and the fact that the Stag is so hard to draw... Well, let's say that all instances of the Stag here have been at least partially traced from the game's sprites. I'm sorry, but that was the only way I could get through this part at all...

I guess I can always use the excuse here that the Stag, right now, pretty much is stuck in his videogame role and dialogue, and so having all his postures straight up identical to those of the game is logical, and having them traced from the game's content kinda makes for a kinda sorta clever meta joke? But still, that's still not a cool thing to do :( It's bad enough that the backgrounds are straight up photoshopped screenshots and game assets.

To give you some more reassuring news though, this week-end has been a lot better and I have high hopes that I'll be feeling a bit better from now on. I can't make any promises because PhD work can stack up pretty fast, but no matter what... I really want to post more often.

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Oh my gosh I am so sorry for forgetting to reblog this! It's adorable, thank you so much! <3

This was made last night! I hope you like it. @lutiaskokopelli

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Just in case you forget this exists.

It exists.

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Woooooo yeaaah baby Yeaaaaaaah senpai noticed me wooooo Alright so since you were able to satisfy my compulsive need for shit post I feel obligated to inform you about how the bottle rocket propelled chair went.

Now I was able to get great photos and videos on this event however I am not allowed to post them on the internet due to my respecting of my friends privacy. One of my friends has stated that they don’t like having their name and photos spread on the internet and thus I will not spread any photos, videos, and names due to my respect of his privacy.

Now after over two months of getting supplies through either our previous stock or buying, we performed three “experiments.” We settled on two of us out of the four to be the riders and the riders were me and my friend “Josh” due to us having the lightest weights out of all of us

The first one I tested and it was to see if we could even do this with a reasonable amount of bottle rockets, which was a no. It took us like 20 bottles to get the chair to move at a reasonable pace.

Next we wanted to achieve maximum forward speed and we were able to duck tape 30 rockets on the chair before the started to sag. “Josh” tested this one and it ended with him slamming into a wall

And lastly was the final one, the one we all wanted to see the most. We wanted to see how fast we could make the chair spin. For this test we would use a simple pillow dummy because no one wanted to touch the chair when it started to get going.

We were able to somehow tape the rest of our stock of rockets on. I don’t know how but we were able to strap on a whopping 60 rockets all crammed and lined up together on this one chair. Now we made a mistake on this test. You see we knew that if we simply left the chair as is it, would turn towards us and the spinning ball of death would come flying at us. So we used up all the rest of our duck tape taping the damm chair to the ground.

Now this left us a problem, we had no duck tape only some painters tape which we had to use to hold the rockets and dummy in place. What we didn’t realize at the time was that painters tape is far weaker than duck tape. So we started up the rockets and the chair began to SPIN which then led to the painters tape tearing apart. Which in our case led to CHUNKS of the rocket pods flying of mid spin, where we would discover that we didn’t fully sync up the 60 rockets and most of the chunks had fresh and ready rockets ready to scare the everloving shit out of us by flying all over the place.

So no shit there we were desperately ducking and hiding as we were constantly being barraged by these shitty plastic soda bottles when suddenly the painters tape of the dummy tears and the poor dummy is sent FLYING in a random direction.

So needlessly to say, that’s was my tale, and as I sit here rubbing down my bruised shoulder I have once again seen this blog and have noticed your response. I have once again have come to humbly ask for your aid. May We get an image of the hollow knight cast in a similar situation, with little ghost, hollow, and hornet ducking and dodging in panic as the chair keeps spinning and dispensing death rockets. And with that I humbly wish you a nice day.

In all seriousness, I hope you and your friends are alright! I felt like it was too late to stop you anyway, but it did sound like quite the dangerous idea if you don’t know what you’re doing (which I assume you guys did at least, since you took a lot of time to get prepared). Anyway, I hope you guys had fun!

(Aso, Lutias from today here: Sorry that this post stayed stuck in limbo for literal months xD It was finished and all, I guess I just... forgot to post it. Whoops.)

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Hey, so, uh... Hi! Happy new year! Two weeks late, but close enough?

So... Yay! I'm back! Sorta? Yeah, nah, I probably will still remain as a hermit for a bit longer. I just got to realize how long it's been already and that I really should let you know, so you don't get too worried and all...

I won't go into details unless you want me to, but:

Nothing really bad happened (as in, nothing bad happened if Covid and all that stuff don't count), I'm just extremely busy, busier than always, and I'm still trying to catch up on my endless to-do list.

I haven't had the time to draw in a very long time, and so the comic hasn't progressed too much... Well, at least, it can be said that I only have like 3 completed pages ready for now, and the rest is around 70 pages that are at their "basic sketch" step. It's far from nothing, but it's still work I can't post because of how early in their WIP stage it is.

... I also may be guilty of a bit of a Genshin Impact addiction, which also ate up at some of my free time. And I drew at least one or two sketches of my Genshin Impact characters in the Hollow Knight style. That second part didn't take up much of my time, but... yeah I plead guilty I'm sorry I just love that game

All in all, the past few months flew by faster than I could ever imagine, and I'm still shocked at how long it's been. PhD doesn't leave you with much time to contemplate your life, haha.

So... Yeah, basically, I've been taking a healthy break from social media, and that's why I was that unresponsive. I kept Discord because that's the only place I get to be social apart from my lab and family, but that was it.

As I'm looking through my drafts and inbox, I've found multiple things... I've been reminded that the last things I posted were shitpost drawings instead of the comic, and as a result I've been getting a few messages asking for me to draw more random shitpost. I'm, uh, not sure I'll go through those, at least definitely not all of them. Comic is priority #1 by far. There's this one post I found in my drafts, in which I had started to respond to one such "shitpost request", so I guess I'll post it now despite the fact that I wrote it months ago; but that'll be the last requested shitpost from me in a very long time.

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The Anon's original message: Hello Jesus is coming soon! I'm telling you because I think your very cool and I dont know what craziness will go down at the end of the world, all I know Is that in the bible it says it doesn't matter if you dont believe that the son of God is coming because either way HE'S COMING and I'd want you to be safe if the end is tomorrow. I'd want you to be safe in heaven with God and his son Jesus. Stay safe and I love your comics!

(So, um, if you aren't the original Anon who sent this: feel free to completely ignore this post if you're not interested, and I'm sorry for leaving this in your dashboard.)

First off, thank you for your kindness, really! But... it's a bit awkward, to be honest ^^' I would've preferred answering privately if I could, but since you're anonymous, that is impossible. I hope you don't mind if I answer like this instead of the usual way... It's just that I'd rather keep this blog politics and religion free. I am catholic and thus I do share your faith, but I also believe that this is irrelevant.

It's probably a matter of personal opinion, but I believe that if you truly want to help others through preaching, then the best way to "preach" is by simply living according to what you believe, and nothing more. Don't tell or even imply to others that this is The Way to Live, unless they are explicitly looking for guidance on their faith and asked you for it.

I'm catholic because I believe in God and Agape ("""platonic love""", sorta). Love should be shared for its own sake, not for the sake of "If I do this, I will go to Heaven / won't go to Hell." If you preach to non-believers the way you do, there are two main outcomes (aside from them blatantly ignoring you): they will think that you are preaching the latter and think of you as a hypocrite; or they might turn to religion indeed, but for the wrong reasons. Both of these outcomes are a great way to turn these people away from the love you want to share.

By being genuinely kind to others without mentioning religion unless prompted, people around you might be just a tad happier; and perhaps inspired to some extent by your actions: inspired to push just a little further for today and do that one thing they've been postponing for days; inspired to call their grandma and tell her they love her; inspired simply to do little things that spread small but sincere love: love of yourself, of your family and friends, of humanity. Even if faith in a God itself doesn't touch them, these little acts of love and positivity are already a huge step. It seems to me that restoring faith in humanity is a far bigger priority than bringing faith in a God: after all, you can't hope to reach the latter without having some of the former.

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Would the knight do stuff like swimming in acid with (or without) isma’s tear? Just because he can come back to life at benches?

I'm not sure whether you mean the Knight/Ghost or the Player, but in both cases that's a no. Dying is not a pleasant experience, even if there might be the perk of respawning unharmed behind it.