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loitering by the RotE posts. she/they 18↑ i do art sometimes

[wyvernwyrm]

It's my Birthday today! :D

You can share my art as a congrats if you feel like it! Also I have comms open but a share is absolutely as valuable!

[wyvernwyrm]

Emergency Comms!

Some very unfortunate thing suddenly came up, so I've decided to offer simple portraits for just $10 in this style (simple BG included)! I would love to draw your favs or OCs or whatever!! :D Please DM me on tumblr or on discord (wyvwyrm). Also big thank you if you decide to share!!

[itsrahb-deactivated20260522]

fitzchivalry farseer is the most unrelatable character of all time because the angelic nigh-immortal genderfluid nb shows up at his door with expensive gifts, entertains him, lovingly carves intricate patterns into every square inch of furniture in his house, asks him "wanna go do master/servant regency era rp at a castle", makes him a COOL SWORD, carves his face into a sentient ship to calm it's troubled mind because it requested that they make it "a face [they] could love" and the only face that would work for the carving is one that they attached bone-deep unwavering unconditional affection to, buys him a horse and btw has a unique soul-affirming psychic connection to him that is Canonically Better Than Sex and fitz is still like - dude are you gay. what are we. what are WE? what the fuck are YOU on about FITZ.

if someone did all THAT for me I would be deciding that WE are MARRIED.

"but what would people thi-" YOUR NAME IS TOM BADGERLOCK NOW AND WHO FUCKING CARES GO BACK TO THE CABIN OR GET ON A BOAT TO BINGTOWN YOU FUCKING

[bird-brain99]

rip fitzchivalry farseer you would’ve loved cargo pants and monster energy and game of thrones (books) and ballpoint pens and shitty wolf tshirts and wool socks and chai lattes (begrudgingly) and hating television like a ninety year old and leaving your phone on do not disturb and ponytail holders and cognitive behavioral therapy (begrudgingly) and radiohead (you’re a creep you’re a weirdo) and hash browns and nature hiking and work boots from the thrift store and wearing crocs (gift from hap that was intended ironically) and raisin bran and homemade salsa and backyard gardening and taking sunset pictures and jeans and not realizing you’re in a situationship with your best friend from college. come back king I miss you

[neatbay]

“you aren’t a good… you’re not able to be a good father.” the one thing that fitz always dreamed of being #awesome

[neatbay]

i truly can't think of a sentence that would hurt him more. it's painful to think of fitz in assassin's quest, longing for nothing more than to abandon his king and country so he can go to his little daughter. the pride + joy he took in nettle since the very moment she was born. and in the mountains, he tells the fool how much he longs for his baby girl to have pretty dresses and clever little toys.

and then you get to tawny man and he physically can't get it up with jinna because she has a birth control charm and he wants to be a father that bad. and he goes and watches his daughter from afar. he spends all his time wanting to be her father and also thinking that he's being a good father by staying away and keeping her out of the farseer intrigue. that, to him, is being the best father he's currently capable of being.

and then you have molly telling fitz that he can be a good father to bee, and all the hope + excitement he has at finally having a chance to do right by a little girl. and he promises himself that he will. and molly believes in him!

but molly's dead and riddle tells him with so much gentleness that he's not able to be a good father. after so long of wanting + trying to be that. like how crushing to know that you were failed over and over by your father + father figures and you couldn't break the cycle.

and also that you're not able to. the way riddle says it is what makes it sooo crushing to me. he doesn't say it with any blame. it's a very empathetic, "fitz, you've simply been through too much and you're too damaged to have the capacity for fatherhood." and i can't imagine the hurt and anger fitz must feel to know that he could've been a really good father if his life had been different. like to hear that you're too much of "damaged goods" to be the thing you've always wanted to be, but it's not your fault you're damaged goods. with that sentence, it's framed as just one more thing chivalry and shrewd and verity and chade and regal took from him — his ability to be a good father. that would make me so anguished and resentful about my past all over again.

and riddle has some bias here as nettle's lover, since fitz failed her. (and riddle definitely doesn't see so many of fitz and bee's good moments.) i'm only on fool's assassin so we'll see but currently i do feel that fitz is a good father for a) the time period + setting b) his own history c) bee's lovely oddness. just to be clear i'm not saying that fitz is actually incapable of being a good father because having a bad childhood doesn't actually mean you're incapable of that. (my father had a very bad childhood and he is the most wonderful dad i could ask for.) but that's definitely what riddle is saying and what fitz is hearing and can you IMAGINE being told that as fitz.

but anyway this line stuck out to me and has been rattling around in my head because i just can't believe how hurtful it is even though it's said so gently. you're not able to.

[dykefitzchivalry]

The actual fucking PROBLEM like the SICKEST PART of every single way Beloved acts and thinks and talks about Fitz from Ship of Magic through the quarrel is that they're doing that because they KNOW Fitz loves them. Because they LOOKED INTO HIS SOUL and SAW and FELT that he loved them the way they loved him. They spent all of AQ flirting with him (bc he was their FIRST CRUSH and CHILDHOOD LOVE btw) and assumed that Fitz was humoring them or pitied them when he claimed to care for them and then SAW WITH THEIR FUCKING EYES that their ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL LOVE for him was RETURNED. And then they KISSED HIM GOODBYE. So when Amber is blushing about her one true love giving her the earring and carving Fitz's face into Paragon and when the Fool is clinging to Fitz "like a woman" and playing domestic in his house for way longer than he intended to and Lord Golden is proudly pinning the flowers he thinks Fitz is making a point of giving him to his FUCKING chest EVERY day and when up to the very first sentences of Fitz picking a fight with him he's asserting that they both know what they are and they both know what they feel for each other and is literally operating on the assumption that those are the exact same thing it is because THEY HAVE SEEN THEIR LOVE FOR FITZ MIRRORED BACK AT THEM IN EQUAL MEASURE THROUGH HIS FUCKING HEART AND SOUL. And they KNOW that it is there. And EVERYTHING THEY HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT HIM for OVER FIFTEEN of SA'S OWN YEARS has been colored by the knowledge that Fitz reciprocates their feelings. AND THEN FITZ INSISTS HE DOESN'T AND THAT THEY'RE IN THE WRONG FOR THINKING HE DOES. OKAY. OKAY

[chronokepts-deactivated20260510]

It's so important to me that Fitz's sections are diagetically written from his hand, that the beautiful narration we read is the fruit of his penchant for eloquence, his artistic curiosity; that they're both a recollection of his own efforts and a patchwork of the myriad studies he's ventured into, or collected from other authors, anecdotes and musings and theories. He's a scribe!!! He's an illustrator!!! Millions must go to the library and read his works NOW!!!!

“I began these pages as an effort to write down a coherent history of the Six Duchies. But I found it difficult to keep my mind long fixed on a single topic, and so I distract myself with lesser treatises, on my theories of magic, on my observations of political structures, and my reflections on other cultures. When the discomfort is at its worst and I cannot sort my own thoughts well enough to write them down, I work on translations, or attempt to make a legible recording of older documents.” [Assassin's Quest]

“The years have come and gone in their scores of turnings, and night after night, I still take pen in hand and write. Still I strive to understand who I am. Still I promise myself, “Next time I will do better” in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a “next time.”” [Golden Fool]

[wyvernwyrm]

"The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know."

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Aaaaand it's done! ^^ Tbh it's always hard for me to draw rote fanart for some reason because I always wrestle with the feeling that I won't do this amazing story the justice it deserves T-T But I'm punching this doubt in the face!!!! Because I love this story!! And that's what truly matters!!!!

[parlerenfleurs]

"Onward, my stallion!!" "Fool, this is so embarrassing....."

April Fools AND trans day of visibility combo :D

[531phia]

tiny zoom-in of my assquest wip i swore i would finish someday. on april fool's day. happy beloved day and hello roteblr!!!! how are we today

[vronoch]

„And for a time, as I stared up at the false night sky, I kept a drunken watch over him.”

this scene haunted me i had to draw it, enjoy 🫶

[neatbay]

i show fitz an old film he goes "omg black and white just like a fool's winter motley......." and i drown him in the popcorn bowl

[kaetor]

rote ponies + some tawny man doodles. mostly of the tawny man himself. ask me about my cutie mark lore

[sirguyofnothing]

song thing that i will finish in trillion years from now hopefully

[531phia]

modern au fitz might still be miserable and fucked up and repressed, except one day he would accidentally stumble into a drag show or a queer bar, and someone there would be like, "hey so there's this thing called bisexuality," and it wouldn't quite illuminate him, but he might piece it together when he's like 38