#↳ narrative ( fitz )

[medievalthymes]

one of my favourite underrated moments is when beloved tells fitz how bee is their love-child and fitz is trying to rack his brain for when he had sex with the fool. LIKE, rote is a romcom actually

[autism-swagger]

Three sides of the same coin.

[Agents of SHIELD (2013-2020) // Leah Raeder, Unteachable // Bastille, Two Evils // dcvina-claires, tumblr // Richard Siken, You Are Jeff // Sarah Kane, Blasted // desnos, tumblr // Hera Lindsay Bird, Mirror Traps]

[ahoyimlosingmymind]

justice for fitz!

correct.

[justaasexual]

you ever read a series and immediately dislike a character and the get into the fandom and read some character meta and realize you only hated them bc you related with them and then they did what you were told not to do?

yeah, couldn’t be me

[commandercoriandersalamander]

two dudes... sitting in a hot tub stone wolf... souls mingled into one complete being but they're not gay

[bookwyrminspiration]

We need your sage counsel in these trying times (abscourse)

Gather round, everyone. Fintan has no ass and Keefe has no abs.

Do the characters say he has abs? Yes, as Katie showed here. Can we trust what these characters (Keefe and Sophie) say? No.

As I demonstrated here, we cannot trust Sophie's recollections. Especially since they relate to Keefe, and she has a history of bias towards him. We also cannot trust Keefe, who was attempting to distract Sophie while injured. He already has a history of jokes and exaggeration, and this instance exacerbates that, meaning he cannot be taken at face value (especially since he's talking to his crush).

Also, I think the intention of him having abs is to contribute to his supposed hotness/love interest appeal, and I don't think abs necessary to be hot or appealing. In fact, I find their use to this purpose quite bland and overused.

Therefore, Keefe is absless.

[the-way-astray]

Heyyy any chance you could make a post explaining why you don't like dex? :33

sure! @unaside i believe you also wanted to know

it's actually very similar to the reasons i dislike keefe. when he's jealous of fitz, he tends to humiliate sophie over it, he's whiny, in general i despise characters/people in real life that immediately start off a friendship with an expectation of romance tied to it at some point, i despise the sodex kiss scene and prefer to pretend it didn't happen (though that was mostly sophie's fault), and just like keefe he acts ridiculously possessive over sophie. he's incredibly immature for his age, just like keefe (gagging at fitz, volunteering sophie to be in a very intimate position with him without her permission, tearing down sophie and fitz's relationship, etc.) and i find that he just in general has no personality besides being vaguely bitchy sometimes, and that gets resolved by the fourth book. basically, he's someone i would steer very clear of in real life. i dislike his character immensely and found him unbearable to deal with as i read the story.

however. having said all of that. as i said in this post, i can't argue that dex is a poorly written character as i could with keefe, because the difference here is that the narrative makes all of the above out to be flaws and punishes dex for them or develops him accordingly. the jealousy towards fitz and subsequent sophitz bashing? villainized throughout the series and eventually resolved. his crush on sophie which results in him treating her poorly and expecting her to cater to it? developed out of when sophie rejects him and therefore proves his beliefs about her wrong (and you notice he gets way more chill about her relationship to fitz later on). the immature behavior slowly grinds to a halt and by legacy era it's basically gone. so i can't argue that his flaws aren't developed from or villainized, just because i found them annoying (which is what you're supposed to feel). his entire arc is about learning to become less jealous of fitz and to get over his crush on sophie/stop treating her badly because of it.

the only thing is that this arc is resolved in like nightfall era, meaning that for the latter half of the series, he's not in it as much, leading to movements such as the dexvolution or the begging to make dex more relevant again. which i don't agree with, i think the fact that his arc has basically ended means he would eat up a lot of time that could go to something better if he was in the story more (which i think i touched on in the post linked above). but again, i say that as someone who is biased when it comes to him; as i've already said, i don't really like him.

this is very much a case of "i dislike a fictional person" more so than it is a case of "i dislike a character". and i think it's really important to make the difference clear. do i like dex? no. but i do think he's a well-written character. it's just that his flaws and general personality and arc don't gel with me (i hate the "guy learns not to be a incel" arc on principle, it's tiring for me, but that's entirely personal preference), but shannon did write it well, for what it's worth.

now if only she could do the same with keefe (which for me, is a case of "i hate a character" not a case of "i hate a fictional person").

tldr: dex is a trope i really don't like, however shannon executed that trope well, making it so that i can't argue that he's a poorly written character, but i still hate him as a person.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

scifi mystery set in a nearish future

follows a woman who works as the human translator for the cultural attaché of an alien embassy, the telepathic process of which causes drunkenness

she isn’t the best but doesn’t really have any other job prospect, and when tragedy strikes she has to figure out who the murderer is - since she’s the only suspect (and doesn’t remember what happened, because of the aforementioned drunkenness) - and is sent down a wild rabbit hole of online conspiracy theories from xenophobic humans

bi MC, no romance

[spectrum-color]

One of the most frustrating things for me in Tawny Man (and honestly beyond) is how Fitz acts like he was victimized by Burrich in him marrying Molly and raising Nettle as part of their family.

He refuses to acknowledge that it is primarily his own fault, because he refused to accept their marriage or let Molly exist in his life as anything other than his idealized mommy-wife, so he let them believe that he was dead until he had no choice. He also won’t pin any blame on Molly because he doesn’t want to risk the fantasy of his dream girl who will fix all of his problems and replace what he lost when he was abandoned to the Farseers as they live happily ever after in a pastoral nuclear family. That leaves Burrich as the villain who stole his family from him, because that allows him to deflect the consequences of his own choices onto a more convenient target (it also means he doesn’t have to really think about the way Burrichs attempts to instill shame and fear over his Wit were abusive because he can redirect the anger he feels over it toward a safer topic.) Burrich was the closest thing Fitz ever had to a father but he doesn’t even bother to mourn him when he dies because he’s too busy relentlessly pursuing his widow against her wishes in an attempt to relive his adolescence.

It is all very believable and true to Fitz’s character (he is often a victim, but he also leans on that as a crutch so he doesn’t have to take responsibility or own up to his decisions,) but oh my god it is so so annoying.

[shadowuserannie]

Me: I have to study. I have so much homework I've procrastinated.

*reads the Keefe infantilizing Sophie argument post by @the-way-astray*

Me: well shit. Well fuck HOW CAN I NOT WRITE NOW-

[autism-swagger]

*shaking you by the shoulders* DO YOU GET IT?? DO YOU UNDERSTAND????

[ahoyimlosingmymind]

fitz vacker would be a phenomenal and complex character if he was in any other world than the lost cities.

bro has 'I live in a dystopia' main character rage from circa 2014. stuck in a 'but violence is never justified' world.

He's built for YA, he's stuck in middle grade. He's been placed in the wrong genre.

he wouldn't get nearly as much hate for his anger if the setting was like- the hunger games or something. take away the 'no violence' aspect of the elves (which would also make the neverseen even more dangerous) for a minute, look at Fitz's actions and his character in relation to the keeper plot... is... he really that crazy now?

also i should clarify, this is not about his feelings on matchmaking, but his inclination towards violence, the willingness to kill in self defense or defense of others.

[sailforvalinor]

Okay so one of my favorite things about Fitzsimmons in AOS is that Fitz, the man of science, is absolutely, explicitly convinced that he and Simmons are doomed by the narrative. The universe doesn’t want us together. We’re cursed. And though she doesn’t believe him at first, things keep happening and they get pulled apart over and over again, and in time logical, analytical Simmons can’t help but agree. We’re cursed.

But then we get these moments in S4, 5, and 6, when Simmons is at her lowest, at her most hopeless and nihilistic, where Daisy takes her by the shoulders and reminds her of the truth—you and Fitz were meant to be together. It says so much that Daisy, who is associated with so much relational instability, is the one who recognizes their relationship as a constant and grounds her in this, and illustrates so plainly that Fitzsimmons are the backbone of the entire team. The health of their relationship is the glue that holds the team together.

And that’s when they realize—it’s not important that the universe keeps tearing them apart, it’s that they always find their way back to each other again. And that’s when you see this steady determination come over the both of them. No more destiny, no more doom—only their faith in their commitment that they will always find each other in the dark. They are Orpheus and Eurydice, thrown over and over again into the darkness and forced to blindly lead each other out—but they always make it out.

They go to war with the narrative and they win. Insane

[oliversrarebooks]

I want to bite Fitz so bad it actually hurts. The man is just delicious, the way he's snarky even under the influence of vampire magic, I'm sure he'd be so so entertaining should I promise not to touch his mind if he only stays still during the bite without any hypnosis... I low-key hope his instincts kick in in the last moment and I have to grab him by the neck and hair as he bolts, then I sigh good naturedly; I'm sure he did his best to control himself. I assure him that I'm not really holding it against him, but he did break his promise and so our arrangement is over. So, Fitz! A new offer for you! If you look directly into my eyes, letting me hypnotize you, this'll go nice and easy and I'll let you sleep it off in my arms (and perhaps let you go if I feel generous). If you don't take that offer, I will just force your face up and your eyes open until you let me in completely, thus making yourself completely hopeless. And then, who knows what might happen? So, which one will it be? (Fitz doesn't know it but I'm just playing with him, I would never hurt such a sweet, clever man. He is cute when scared though(sorry this turned to be low-key RP, got carried away, no need to play along if you don't wanna))

TW: hypnosis, blood drinking

Fitz isn't too keen on this no hypnosis plan. It's not that he wants vampires to compromise his mind, of course, but the idea of being bitten without being fully out of it seems unpleasant, to say the least. Painful. He's never liked pain.

So he stays still as you draw nearer, the fear growing in his eyes, until you bare your fangs and lean towards his neck and he flinches away. "Sorry, sir," he says. "You see, I'm not really the staying still type, especially when things like pain and being eaten are in play. It seems that you have no choice but to hypnotize me to behave, sir. Shameful, I know."

He feels like he shouldn't be so relieved when you offer to let him look in your eyes and be hypnotized to sleep. Out of all of his bad options, this certainly seems the least bad. He succumbs easily as he always does, his eyes growing distant and drowsy as soon as you begin hypnotizing him. He relaxes against your shoulder, offering no resistance and making only a small cry as you sink your fangs into his flesh. He's sound asleep before you even finish.

[jewishdainix]

I wondered how the abdicated king would have felt to know that his only son was defter with an axe than with a sword, and more inclined to use poison than either of those.

Still haunting the narrative, I see

[phonydiaries]

I FUCKING. KNEW IT.