#fitzloved is real

[cryptidlark]

[emerges from the ether covered in blood and gore] just finished assassin’s fate

[brbarou]

kisses

[asha-mage]

On the one hand I feel like I should probably read ROTE (and the first book is in my tbr stack) but on the other hand part of me doesn't want to ruin the experience of having no context for what the hell my mutuals are talking about.

Like every time I see a ROTE post I just nod my head and go, "ah yes it's that Pennywise looking twink and his boyfriend Just Some Guy. I wonder what new and exciting levels of No Homo they've reached now? Oh? Soul bonding with your bestie but five feet apart cause you ain't gay? Horrible I wish them only the best."

[heyitsrink]

As I lifted the tent flap, he spoke again. "Fitz. I've really missed you. Don't go. Sleep here tonight. Please."

So I did.

my contribution to @roostercrowned 's Fitzloved fanzine. A lot can happen in between chapters - especially in Fool's Fate.

[apamates]

RGU, ep. 23: Qualifications of a Duelist | Fool's Fate, ch. 18: Ice

[jewishdainix]

How do fitzloved manage to get in the category of queer couples where you dont need to have them kiss or declare their love for eachother onscreen for them ro be a couple yet still having. You know. Kissed on screen and declared their love for eachother

[fitzbelovedhangover]

The Fool: And we will live happily ever after?

Fitz: That is my intention.

Hobb:

Me:

[artandlurking]

Currently reading Assassin's Fate and these two still make me feral

They make me unwell

[brbarou]

crazy things are happening in kelsingra

[mistninja]

Good job everyone

Hes not your lover yet he's ready to defend you OHHH civil ate with that one. He said if hes not your dog why he barking?!?!?!

[ramblesandstuff]

Don't take this as me trying to push the fitzloved agenda (I am, but not rn), but for conversation's sake it's sooooo funny to me when people try to chalk up the tawny man fitz/fool kiss to "well, they had to kiss, it was the only way!" Like do you honestly think that Mrs Hobb sat down at her table looking over ancient manuscripts of the very real Skill magic and went "Oh no... it's the only way... they have to kiss!!!" bb she wrote the thing

[dontgofarfromme]

Robin Hobb denying fitzloved isn't real guys it's method writing, she obviously had to practice denying and repressing her characters' intentions herself in order to have write Fitz as so realistically repressed and in denial

[brbarou]

ilistore and dwalia may have tortured beloved but they were being kinda toxic yuri about it so i have to forgive

[spectrum-color]

Can’t decide what my favorite Fitzloved era is.

The Assassins Quest era? Brought us “what has become of me, that I did not know you though I carry you in my arms!” Starling seething with jealousy over the Fool and deciding he must be a woman because homosexuality apparently doesn’t exist! Them sharing their little yurt! The birth of the Skill bond! Nighteyes declaring the Fool pack! Some of the best dialogue between them of the series (“I think you found your manhood before I did.” “How droll!”) The Fool full on kissing Fitz on the mouth!

Early Fools Errand in the cabin where they get a chance to live peacefully for once in a way they won’t find again until their death? Beloved finally telling Fitz his real name? The middle of this trilogy is of course brutal but then you get the Fools Fate era! The highest highs (the Elderling tent! The Skill joining! “My dream was dead in my arms!” “The man I had been would not survive this loss!” THE BODY SWAP! the resurrection! “All that night, I cradled him in my arms as if he were my child or my lover!”) and lowest lows (PRILKOP!) This one has the greatest number of scenes that live rent free in my head.

The last trilogy? It had some excessive grimdark (was Fitz accidentally nearly killing him as their reunion really necessary?) but also so much more. We got the complete and total breakdown of Fitz caring about people assuming they’re a couple! “‘Would you kill for me?’ I didn’t even have to think about it!” Paragon being jealous of Fitz! Pausing the revenge tour for a family cuddle! Whatever tf happened in Kelsingra! The promises to raise their daughter (!) together! “and we will live happily ever after?” “That is my intention!” “He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!” GOING INTO THE WOLF TOGETHER TO SPEND ETERNITY IN THE SKILL STREAM.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

Shipping ask game:

- Only semi-joking here but JGY/a fucking break (since I’m sure someone else will be all over xiyao)

- whatever your favorite non-The Untamed ship is

Please and thank you 😊

jgy/a fucking break, my other OTP 🤝

and oh my god, you've done it now, I'm going to talk about fitz and the fool from the realm of the elderlings. you can't escape from this. it is as inevitable and inexorable as the changing of the seasons and my begging an extension to file my taxes every year

1. what made me ship it?

the fool's tsundere phase in royal assassin where you can almost feel his feelings for fitz changing as fitz grows more and more infatuated with molly; a very baby queer experience imo, which makes sense because I was about 13 when I was reading these books for the first time and I too was very aloof and sullen and "fine, it's not like I like you anyway" towards the other boys and girls I did, in fact, like anyway. if this seems childish, please see the above sentence where I indicate I was a literal child when I read these books for the first time. like. fitzloved was my first queer ship, but I happened to get into it while I was also reading inuyasha fan translations online (page by page, downloaded through a 56k modem connection in the late 90s/early 00s) so, yeah.

re-reading the books as a 30-something, what made me ship them was their gentle and effortless domesticity at the start-ish of fool's errand, where even fitz calls out how seamlessly the fool adapts to his and nighteyes' way of living on his remote cottage homestead, and how there is no real frustrating period of adjustment as they cohabitate because they instinctively understand each other so well. it's such a marked departure from how fitz's relationship with molly goes, first in their fractious youth (where fitz is a truly terrible lover to molly, who deserves better) and then later on when /zips my lips because spoilers for the last trilogy, and I know I have some followers who are reading the books through for the first time.

anyway tl;dr they're in love your honour, and it is the defence's position that they should fuck about it, I rest my case.

2. what are my favourite things about the ship?

oops I kind of answered that already

(son of oops, I forgot to change the font and I managed to fail correcting it three different times, so it stays.)

3. is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

ummm I'm not sure. I rather transparently do not like the end of the last trilogy, which I will again avoid discussing because spoilers, but I'm not sure that is an unpopular opinion, exactly. it used to be unpopular in some corners of the fandom, many many moons ago, to assert that the Fool wasn't actually a woman pretending to be a man, because fantasy as a genre that was open and welcoming to queer characters (and writers) is a comparatively new phenomenon, and so for a lot of fans the only way to make fitz/fool work for them was to insist that the fool had been a woman all along. which is very 👎👎👎 imo, not because I'm someone who ascribes to the "the fool is really a man" school of thought either. the fool's gender is a fluid and amorphous thing that is frankly none of my business lmao but regardless, even the pale woman knows that fitz is hot for his bestie regardless of his sex or gender, which is why she tries to woo fitz with her whole "I'm like the fool, but a woman!!" spiel.

[spectrum-color]

Reblogging because these tags are so good

Fitz on Molly: I love her so much!!

Fitz on the Fool: “He flowed to his feet, every nuance of his grace as familiar to me as the drawing of breath”