#rote reread

[mellowthorn]

Fitz's love life during Assassin's Quest is actually hilarious. Practically every woman he meets is immediately into him. He keeps seeing dreams about his ex dating his foster dad. He spends months traveling in a group in which literally everyone besides one grandma has a thing for him, and he doesn't have a clue. The Fool blatantly confesses his love to him and he just kind of ignores it. He has bathed twice in the past year.

[mistninja]

<3 yeah

[chloristoflora]

I was torn between utter confusion and deepest insult. I had a faint memory of him telling me once that he'd had two fathers—brothers or cousins—in a place where folk accepted that arrangement. I'd assumed that it meant that in that place no one would care whose seed had actually ripened in the wife the husbands shared. I forced myself to calmness and looked at him carefully. His golden gaze seemed to meet mine. His eyes were more unnerving now than when they had been colorless. The metallic gleam in them seemed to shift and flow and swirl as if they were liquid while the black dots of his pupils seemed too small for the dim light. I drew a deep steadying breath. Don't be distracted. Stay on the trail. "Fool. Bee is not your child. You were never with Molly."

He smiled at me. "No, Beloved. Of course I was never with Molly." His fingertip tapped the table, once, twice, thrice. He smiled gently. Then he said, "I was with you."

I opened my mouth and stood in gaping silence. It took a long time for coherent words to find their way out. "No." I said it firmly. "No, you were not! And even if…" And then I ran out of words and logic.

He laughed aloud. Of all the reactions he could have had, that was the last I expected. He laughed as I had rarely heard him laugh, for while the jester makes others laugh, he seldom betrays his own amusement. But now he laughed unabashedly and without restraint, until he was breathless and had to wipe tears from his sightless eyes. I stared at him. "Oh, Fitz," he gasped at last. "Oh, my friend. What a thing for me to miss! Such a terrible time to be deprived of my sight. Still, all I could not see on your face, I heard in your voice. Oh, Fitz. Oh, my Fitz." He had to stop speaking to take in air.

Fool's Quest, by Robin Hobb (Fitz and the Fool Trilogy #2)

[unfortunate-plant-killer]

Rereading the entirety of Robin Hobb's 'Realm of the Elderlings', currently on 'Royal Assassin'.

Debating creating a collage of quotes by Beloved/the Fool because he's just that iconic.

[medievalthymes]

somethings in the air (seasonal depression)… it’s almost time… fitzloved I’m coming home

[everywaythatmatters]

Attolia broke an amphora once…

[stellar-jay]

The only one condition, I've got the premonition, that Christmas is a vision!

HAPPY WINTERFEST!

[alexandercolbourne]

FitzChivalry “perhaps I was a trifle stupid not to have seen it” Farseer

[janeways-coffees]

Verity: shit let me make sure my nephew has some toys, uhhhh here have some 25 year old wooden soldiers

Fitz: this is the greatest thing to ever happen to me

[kizunarae]

this is so Beloved coded I had to share

[mellowthorn]

[mistninja]

[chloristoflora]

"So you will always love him as a son, but treat him as your prince. One step away from where you long to be. Because even if you told him, you could never be his father."

I was starting to get angry again. "You are not my father."

"No." He stared at the fire. "And I'm not your lover, either."

I felt suddenly weary and sour. "Is that what this is about? Bedding with me? You won't return to Buckkeep because I won't bed with you?"

"No!" He did not shout the word, but something in the way he said it stunned me to silence. His voice was low, almost harsh as he spoke. "Always, you bring it back to that, as if that is the only possible culmination of love." (...)

He caught his breath, and said, "There it is. Plainly, Fitz. I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me."

Fool's Fate, by Robin Hobb (Tawny Man Trilogy #3)

[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

[wretchedbroth]

Revisiting some liveship traders designs

[everywaythatmatters]

Ok I’m back with the rest of the “how many times did Fitz describe the Fool’s hands in Tawny Man” data. And because this was a serious scientific investigation I have helpfully displayed the data on this bar graph.

It really dropped off in the middle there due to The Divorce™ but even so this is an absolutely bonkers number of times to describe someone’s hands. Thank you for telling me thirty three (33) times that he has long slender elegant fingers, Fitz. That’s a super normal number of times to do that. No need to examine those thoughts at all I’m sure it’s fine