#The Tawny Man Trilogy

[brbarou]

beloved, i have missed your company

[raindropwindow]

Book series that get u all scrambled up

[p4nishers]

i truly believe fool's fate was the closest fitz ever came to realizing his feelings for beloved. after beloved died, he stopped caring. before, there was always a layer to his thoughts, always a little hesitation or a word that dismissed the moments full meaning ("i felt strangely at peace", etc) bc that was safe, right? if he had a mental wall in his thoughts about beloved he surely couldn't feel anything else he wasn't saying thus he wouldn't have to explain himself. but after beloved died, that stops. he doesn't care anymore. like would he have ever thought something like "my dream was dead in my arms" before?? or saying there were "things he would have said to him" if he knew beloved was actually gonna die?? what the FUCK was that about or "the man i had been would not survive this loss" or the fact that he was willing to DIE in beloved's place. like i genuinely think this was the most honest we've ever seen him and he came sooo close to realizing his feelings but then beloved left him and he was forced to suppress them again bc he could NOT be in love w beloved if he wanted a happily ever after with molly. he couldn't be in love. no. imagine him realizing it w that poem and then repressing it bc now that he couldn't have a future w beloved (which he was FULLY willing to have he was fully willing to leave molly and his DAUGHTER behind to go w beloved) he WOULD have the future he 'always wanted' w molly and i think that's exactly why he skipped so much in that chapter and felt so shallow bc he genuinely was trying to convince himself that this was what he wanted and this would finally make him happy but it was not. all he got was content. all he got was an ever after. all he got was burned letters to beloved he would never send. like. god. it makes me so sad to think he was finally close to the truth only to repress it as self-defense.

[craelar]

Gold and Buck blue

[heyitsrink]

Fitz and his boy

[sterlingterror]

I think Fitz is incredibly oblivious to the fact that at least half of the resons why everyone thought Lord Golden was railing him are squarely on him.

He spends half of his time just staring admiringly at his bestest friend with moony eyes waxing poetically in his head about how pretty and regal and perfect and fashionable he is. How charismatic and personable. How very golden. My guy.

Not just that, he relentlessly fucked up the whole pretending to be a servant thing, so of course everyone said 'oh yeah, definitely secret lovers or else he would be so incredibly fired'. So much for being a trained spy.

[fairweathermyth]

ROBIN HOBB’S REALM OF THE ELDERLINGS >> Fitz POV Books

I sigh and set my quill aside. I have written too much. Not all things need to be told. Not all things should be told. I take up my scroll and make my slow way to the hearth. [...] I throw the vellum onto the coals.

[emerydraws]

Rereading fools fate, honestly just making me think about how much this book feels like the beginning of the end for Fitz for me. Like it starts the downhill that takes Fitz to the end of the series. The dread and hopelessness just builds and builds reading this and the Fitz and the fool books. Anyways! Art!

[eekend]

Not friends not lovers but a secret third thing, with a secret third thing(Nighteyes)

[brbarou]

cover him over, so he is no longer white

[m-malyar]

Tom Badgerlock&Lord Golden

[lesbiansagainsttheatre]

do you think people in buckkeep were making "which could mean nothing" jokes about lord golden and tom badgerlock

[raindropwindow]

Eggs for brains

[roostercrowned]

"Jey if your version of the Fool has naturally curly hair then how do you differentiate the Lord Golden Ringlets" I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED

[heyitsrink]

no limits

[spending-life-pretending]

POV you’re Robin Hobb deciding on the title of your new novel