#rote ship

[heyitsrink]

Fitz x Celerity queerplatonic ship, anyone?

[mellowthorn]

Malta & Tintaglia for @roostercrowned's Bingtown Homeward Bound -zine

[bobellafofella]

i read the divytown chapter of ship of destiny last night and am soooooooooooooo obsessed with wannabe pirates wannabe lovers brashen and althea. they just want a life together!! is that too much to ask for robin hobb???? oh.... yes...? okay yeah.... that's what i thought but i just wanted to check.

anyways my take on them!! they saw you from across the bar and absolutely hate your vibe (they're too busy being obsessed w each other rn sorry)

[brbarou]

too late for her. wide wings hang above her

[lesovyart]

Amber my best girl 🌻

[sidethatyoudontknow]

In the middle of all this 457 chaos there's me that lowkey ships junho and the salesman/ the recruiter/ddakji guy or whatever you're calling him

I mean have you look at them, imagine the banter we could've got

Like there's junho, a detective who's been trying to find his brother only to be led up to a brutal kids game competition in some sketchy island and also finds out the person who controls the said game is his very own brother that he's been searching for a long time that is also a previous winner in the game

And then there's the salesman (some people call him ddakji or dak ho) who's been trained to kill, to see people that played the games is lower than him like a trash since he was a teenager probably, who doesn't even know the purpose of life anymore, a literal mess, a maniac. That's also probably the one that recruit junho's brother into playing the games(a theory not sure if that would makes sense)

Just imagine that, I could write a few headcanons if anyone interested

And yes yes I know they didn't even interacted once for SHIT(and the only time they ever see one another was when one of them already died and the one died never also see him or does he?)

[izzi-illustrates]

something about Patience and Lacey growing old together makes me very emotional OK

[metamagic-adept]

Amber the Beadmaker on Love (from Mad Ship)

“Don’t try to tell me that that is what love is, giving it all up for someone else.”

“But for some people it is,” Amber pointed out inexorably. She bound another bead into the necklace, and held it up to look at it critically. “Others are like two horses in harness pulling together toward a goal.”

“I suppose that wouldn’t be so bad,” Althea conceded. Her knit brows said she did not entirely believe it. “Why can’t people love one another and still remain free?” she demanded suddenly.

Amber paused to rub her eyes, then tugged thoughtfully at her earring. “One can love that way,” she conceded regretfully, “but the price on that kind of love may be the highest of all.” She strung her words together as carefully as she strung her beads. “To love another person like that, you have to admit that his life is as important as yours. Harder still, you have to admit to yourself that perhaps  he has needs you cannot fill, and that you have tasks that will take you far away from him. It costs loneliness, and longing, and doubt, and-”

“Why must love cost anything?"

[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]

Laurel x Kettricken in Fool's Errand

"Look out for them. Bring home my son." "I will, my Queen."

[fitzandfooltrash]

Robin Hobb was so right, old timey ships really are dragons. Like you just have to look at one and you're like, yeah, there's a dragon in there.

[yeerkfool]

So, is every series in ROTE a family drama where the worst person in the family has finessed everyone’s inheritance in such a way that they can run it into the ground, or…?

[kizunarae]

So, you're telling me that the Robin Hobb that wrote this

— Kettle, Chapter 37 of Assassin's Quest

AND THIS

— Molly, Chapter 38 of Assassin's Quest

This Robin Hobb actually intended for Fitz and Molly to be end game????

[izzi-illustrates]

My latest RotE obsession: I finally re-read the Liveship Traders after 10+ years.

Design choices and mild series spoilers below the cut!

I had fun making this one! Particularly with playing with family resemblances that are mentioned in the book, like Wintrow looking a lot like Althea. I chose to make them both look like Ronica, but to also give Keffria Ronica's black eyes - and Wintrow Keffria's worried brows. I also wanted Althea to look a lot like her father - she's the only one with his nose and almost exact colouring.

Selden and Reyn were harder to draw - both have basically no description other than Reyn's eyes glowing through his veil, and Selden starting to scale after meeting Tintaglia, so I made Selden look most like his father in colouring, but more like his mother in the eyes and nose. Reyn I just decided to have fun with and ignored Grag describing him as "able to walk among Bingtowners unremarked" and instead went nuts with the sort of scaling he probably has in the Rainwild quartet later on.

Brashen Trell accidentally came out looking an awful lot like a friend of mine, but I like it.

Malta, my beloathed, my beloved, was one of the hardest to draw; I wanted her to look young, but also overly made up and dressed more maturely than her years. I also wanted to give her some of her father's colouring - since he favours her most of his children - but also her mother's nose and those Vestrit brows, since she's so much Ronica's granddaughter/heir by the end of the series.

[cait-sith]

Day 19: Glass

Background details hidden by the bottle under the cut.

[floradelisstuff]

Others island from the beginning of Ship of Magic . 𝒪𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒪𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝐼𝓈𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹, 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝓌𝑜-𝓂𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒸𝒽𝑜𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝒟𝑒𝒸𝑒𝓅𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒞𝑜𝓋𝑒. 𝐻𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝒷𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑀𝒶𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓉𝓉𝒶 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝓃𝒸𝒽𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝒷𝓁𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓂 𝒸𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓀𝓎. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓇𝒾𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓃, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝒹 𝓇𝑜𝒸𝓀𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝑔𝓇𝓊𝒹𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓁𝓎 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝑒𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝑒𝓃𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒽 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒽𝓎 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒.

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅'𝓈 𝑔𝒾𝑔 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝓈𝒸𝓇𝒶𝓅𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒷𝑒𝓉𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝒶𝓇𝓃𝒶𝒸𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝓇𝑜𝒸𝓀𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝓊𝓉 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒢𝒶𝓃𝓀𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝑜𝓃 𝒶 𝓉𝒾𝓃𝓎 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓈𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝓈𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒷𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓂 𝓌𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝒹𝓇𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝓊𝓅 𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝑔𝒽 𝓉𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝓂𝒶𝓇𝓀𝓈.

𝒜𝒷𝑜𝓋𝑒, 𝓈𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝒸𝓁𝒾𝒻𝒻𝓈 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓂𝑒𝒹, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝑔𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓃𝓈 𝓈𝑜 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓁𝓎 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓇𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈𝓁𝓎 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝒾𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓋𝒶𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓈. 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝒦𝑒𝓃𝓃𝒾𝓉'𝓈 𝒾𝓇𝑜𝓃 𝓃𝑒𝓇𝓋𝑒𝓈, 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓅𝓅���𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒'𝓈 𝒽𝒶𝓁𝒻-𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓃 𝓂𝑜𝓊𝓉𝒽.