#fitz's surprise

[wingedaches]

reading chade go from wholeheartedly saying things like "you should definitely listen to what the fool says, fitz! he's very clever!" in assassin's apprentice to just barely holding himself back from calling the fool a slur every time they have to interact in fool's fate is enough to give someone whiplash

[book-lover85]

Stay at home dad and artist on commission Keefe

[amelia-mariee]

Spoilers for AoS 1x17, 3x22, 5x14, 4x15

The twists on Agents of Shield hit SO HARD omg, and one of the main reasons for that is the diversions they utilize.

Like I never in a million years would’ve seen that Ward twist coming, (most people didn’t) especially after how betrayed he seemed when it was revealed that Skye was still in communication with the rising tide. They make it seem like “oh yeah, that’s the twist, Skye is the one who’s most likely to secretly work against everyone for a little while, but she’s not doing that anymore so that’s solved” and then Grant kills Hand and stabs everyone in the back and it’s insane.

I thought that the whole Necklace Of Death storyline was leading up to Yo-Yo’s death, and that passing it around and different people wearing the jacket was just another huge diversion to make us think that it was going to be someone besides her. It was her necklace. I was absolutely certain it would be her. I NEVER would’ve thought it would be LINCOLN.

We thought it was an evil fear-dimension doppelgänger of Fitz, only to find out he was never there and it was all Fitz. They really make you think it has something to do with the fear dimension, because that’s the main conflict, right? No.

AND OF COURSE WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT SELF CONTROL. OMG. Maybe other people saw this part coming, but I never considered that one of Fitzsimmons would also be an LMD. I got literal chills when they discovered that their friends were replaced. That’s what I was focused on. And then they reveal that one of them was replaced. (Also, I just have to say the acting in that episode is absolutely phenomenal)

The writers are just so good at distracting you with other elements of the story, just so that they can completely catch you off guard with new, even more insane twists.

[2minutes2midnight]

Fitzsimmons - Murder Mystery Party AU

[stellar-jay]

pov ur prince dutiful and you just got rescued by this well-meaning kind and romantic gay nobleman and his terrifying manservant and you pass out and when you come to youre being taken into The Pillar

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Me looking at a character who is currently alive: oh there’s no way they’re making it to the end of this series

Also me, looking at a character who has died/is dead/is no longer in the series: you will never be dead to me

[spectrum-color]

Just thinking about how much Robin Hobb had to do to force her OTP back together at the end of Fools Fate and being salty. It required:

-Burrich to be depicted as a decrepit old man when he’s like in his 50s and conveniently die, gifting Fitz with his family (!) as his last wish

-Fitz to finally realize and accept what “no limits” means with Beloved after an entire trilogy where this is a central theme and raise him from the dead because he refuses to live in a world that he isn’t part of, and then for this to not matter at all because Beloved decides actually he’s just an obstacle to Fitz’s true love Molly (?!) and leaves

-Fitz not being allowed to choose what he wants, because when he tries to choose Beloved he’s told no that’s not actually what’s good for you

-Molly not being able to choose if she would be ok with her ex bringing along his queerplatonic life partner because it’s already been decided for her that of course she wouldn’t

-Fitz getting lost in a Skill pillar for a month so he can’t have a rational discussion with Beloved about it as Prilkop the conveniently located agent of Clerres tells him all about how of course their Path is finished and staying by his Catalyst will only do harm

-Prilkop convincing Beloved that he should go back to Clerres, a place where he was physically and sexually abused before running away, because apparently it’s his job to fix them, and this actually working (!!!)

-Literally everyone in Fitz’s life, up to and including Burrich and Mollys eldest son who Fitz never speaks to on page again after this, pushing him to pursue her and telling him not to take no for an answer

-Molly and Burrich (actually Nettle) being granted Withywoods and a noble title by Patience so they no longer have to deal with the obvious issue of the class divide

-Molly magically accepting that he let her believe he was dead for 16 years and abandoned their daughter because he was upset she married someone else because her role in this book is to be his prize for completing the quest

-Neither Fitz nor Molly ever mentioning or even thinking about Burrich, his foster father and major formative influence and her husband of many years and father of her sons, except for a few passing references

So yeah, in a series where the characters generally act in believable ways even when it’s frustrating, this whole plot was just contrived as hell

[everywaythatmatters]

Listen it’s not like I didn’t know Bee was their child somehow but I’m losing my mind IN EVERY WAY THAT MATTERS I’VE BEEN WITH YOU???? And she looks like both of them and the Fool’s so happy I’m gonna CRY

[mellowthorn]

i pushed myself to go to the local comic book convention today even though i wasn't really feeling it, and was very quickly rewarded bc they had volume 1 of the assassin’s apprentice comic book on sale, and well. i don't think i've ever dashed to the register that fast lol

[lordgolden]

who is going to write the liveship traders but somehow fitz is there au bc thinking about it gives me brainworms

[belovedfarseer]

These books are also SO funny tho. People are constantly looking at fitz and going "wtf why are you like this whats wrong with you" and hes like "do you want it in alphabetical or chronological order"

[beth-is-rainpaint]

we made these memories for ourselves

Author: @beth-is-rainpaint​

Chapters: 1/1

Rating: G

Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)

Categories: F/M

Relationships: Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons

Characters: Alya Fitzsimmons, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, Enoch (Marvel), Deke Shaw, James Fitzsimmons (OC)

Additional Tags: Fluff, Birthday Fluff, Family Feels

Summary:

Most people think Alya Fitzsimmons was born in Scotland on January 27, 2016. Those closest to her know better: she was born on a plane-turned-spaceship, 154.65 light-years away, on January 27, 2020. But today she's turning seven, not three.

Being born in a time loop is weird.

Or, the Fitzsimmons family celebrates each year of Alya's life so far, in space and on earth.

Read the rest on Ao3!

[sailforvalinor]

Seeing every character in season 1 and knowing what they become is mind-boggling, but seeing season-1-baby-faced-fresh-out-of-uni-couldn’t-kill-a-spider Fitz whose biggest source of anxiety is having dead things in his lab and whether or not Simmons thinks he’s cool is by far the most jarring

[misshazelevers20]

Breaking news: the hitman has a daughter and is not using that as an excuse.

[flaresanimedump]

I'm once again digging too deep into BSD characters' real life authors' wikis, today because I was thinking about how many languages Fukuzawa might speak.

Fukuzawa wrote the first English-Japanese dictionary so we know he spoke English, but he also spoke Dutch probably better than he spoke English. But that dictionary? Was translated from an existing English-Chinese dictionary. So. Probably spoke Chinese too.

Another important fact about the dictionary: Fukuzawa wrote it after staying for exactly one (1) month in San Francisco. He'd been trying to learn for 2 years beforehand but as somebody with very little opportunity to really practice Japanese, I know how hard it is to make progress in a language without exposure. So writing a dictionary after a single month of real exposure is goddamn impressive. He became an official translator for the shogunate too. He had a really good head for languages.

Why does this matter. Well. In 1862 he traveled with an envoy to: France, England, the Netherlands, Northern Germany (Prussia), Russia, and Portugal. The envoy stayed in most of these places for only 3 weeks, though they went back to Paris at the end for a little bit. The exact timeline is a little fuzzy but... a single month in SF got Fukuzawa up to a level of translating English. By the time he went home he was probably able to get by in a couple of these languages, maybe more. Dutch and German have a lot of overlap, for example.

So I will now be factoring "Fukuzawa speaks multiple languages well and many more enough to get by" into my headcanons.

But also WAS ANYBODY GONNA TELL ME FUKUCHI WAS ON THAT ENVOY TOO OR WAS I SUPPOSED TO READ THAT ON THE JAPANESE WIKIPEDIA PAGE MYSELF-

[fitzfunnymoments]

Her name is mp4 and I love her <3