#the fool rote

[pocketsizedcrab]

u guys remember this scene right

[henryviiicutupwhiletalking]

“- isn’t this what God felt when he pressed together the first Beloved: Everything. Fever. Vapor. Atman. Pulsus. Finally, a sin worth hurting for, a fervor, a sweet - You are mine.”

Natalie Diaz, “These Hands, If Not Gods” Postcolonial Love Poem

[arcadiiian]

He turned in a slow circle for me to admire him. "Well?" "You don't look like you," I said bluntly. "I am not intended to." He tugged his overjerkin straight, then plucked at his sleeves to display better not only the embroidery on them, but the slashes that showed off the rich fabric of the sleeves beneath them [...] From deepest indigo to palest azure went the colors, and the Fool's white face, like a peeled egg, peeping out of them. "Fools are no longer in fashion."

[impiousgherkin]

tiny fool : D

[artsypatience]

If I had a nickel for every time an adult fantasy novel featured a bastard from a very cold land and a mother he never knew, with a huge heritage that could twist the story, having a magic taboo link with a wolf, fighting off fantasy zombies-like, and a kind of morally ambiguous character who grew up in a hot land, descending from an almost ethereal kind with white hair, skin and weird eyes who actively works to make dragons come back while having cryptic weird prophecy-like dreams, and a feral boyish little girl traumatised by the loss of her familial figures, who was protected by a wolf, had to survive alone and became a killer as protagonists, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[novacane0808]

It’s been a minute so I decided to draw my boys 😖🫶🏾

[wanderingline]

Silly jester :)

[nireu-art]

Across the snow storm

[feydrawings]

The King, the Bastard and the Fool

the scene in Royal Assassin where Fitz learns that King Shrewd, his grandfather, is gravely ill. the Fool is also there of course

king Shrewd's pose is inspired by Lear and Cordelia by John Everett Millais

Media: watercolor and sepia ink on paper

[stardustravens]

I think Hoid and the Fool should meet.

I’d feel sorry for anyone they encountered together, but they’d have a great time.

[swordbreakerz]

fellas is it gay to lift your boy best friend off his feet in a hug upon seeing him for the first time in 15 years 🤔😳

[pocketsizedcrab]

the only way to cope with tawny man is low-effort shitpost art

[henryviiicutupwhiletalking]

beloved’s embrace

[arcadiiian]

the fool ...

[hijklab]

Amber: paragon I am going to treat you with so much love and respect despite all the atrocities you have committed and I’m going to lovingly describe the world to you until you truly learn to trust me

Fitz: dutiful you’re sort of lame I’m gonna fucking kill you (x9)

[artsypatience]

I just got the hugest RotE feels today. God damn it's been 4years since I've read Assassin's Fate, and I only started Assassin's Apprentice some days ago. But thinking about it all, honestly it's so hard. And sad. These books are so fucked up I feel remorse each time I reccommend them to a friend. Thank you ms Hobb, but why, whyy.

I will never stop thinking about Fitz, Beloved, Nettle, Bee, Dutiful, Patience and all the others :(.

Huge RotE rant + spoilers below:

It just makes me feel so sad each time I think about it, besides it being a fictionnal story, it rings so true and deep in my heart.

Fitz never got to die in his bed in Whittywoods next to Molly, he never got to raise Nettle like he wanted to, never got to become an adult at Patience's side, never grew a lot himself and stayed his old scarred and scared self even through some improvements, never got to grow up and old with Beloved, never got to say a proper goodbye to Nighteyes, never got to have the long conversations he should have had with Beloved, never got to raise Dutiful as his own, and the worst is that he never got to finish his days peacefully by Bee's side.

Also the fact that Beloved is so important to him, yet in the whole span of his 60+years life, he barely spent 6 with him. And how Patience mourned him for years when he was still alive, but depressed and empty. How Burrich thought he died to bandits for years after their ugly fight, and then just after being reunited with him, died for him and his son. Ugh. How after having his happy ever after, which actually was just an ever after, with Molly, he still didn't grow a good enough relationship with her to trust her wholly, and how he still was bitter and locked himself up in his office, wondering about Beloved and Nighteyes. How after all these years he still believed he didn't belong even with his own family. How he thought Bee was dead and went on an hateful and twisted path, damaging both him and his relationship with Beloved.

But then, even though all these bitter things it's still beautiful, worth it, because these books got to capture life's essence like a very very few other did. You never get what you want, especially if you don't admit it to yourself, and when you do achieve a dream or a huge thing, it's a sacrifice of other things that would have made you happy, but you are there and you have to carry on, and carve your own happiness with the bare flesh of your hands.

Patience desperatly tried to teach him instruments and he couldn't, and made a drawing of the cub she gifted him, as an excuse and present for her. Kettricken made the gardens beautiful again so she wouldn't be lonely. The Fool carved toys for children, made them happy, Amber carved jewels and wood and made it a life earning. She made friends with Paragon, and with a crow. Which was healed by Fitz, like many other animals, like a wolf he rescued, and all the hurting things he could care for on his path. Fitz raised a boy, supported him, fed chickens. Wrote a lot of books, a lot of letters. He helped Bee have access to her artistic abilities, protected her the best he could even if it was never enough. Did the same with Beloved, and all of the people he cared, it was never enough but the best he could have done and he himself was always enough

My man was DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE

:(

And what comfort can we get from all this ? Bee still has a family. Fitz and Beloved are finally whole and without limits. Molly died being loved, with a little girl she loved in her very own garden. Patience died moved to see Chivalry. Dutiful has a family he can count on. Nettle has a good man (and the best one I might say) by her side. But somehow it doesn't erase the sadness and bitterness of the journey. And tbh when she releases her next book I know it will mess me up all over again agh. Bee is my favorite, this is going to hurt a lottt.

Ugh why am I crying again. And don't get me started on Beloved's side of this story, or I will violently sob on my carpet. Fitz's is bittersweet but his is just plain sad.

"What were we ?"

it's ok i'm just gonna jump off a cliff in an instant