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every truly great story is about watching a grown man get abused
My faves from rote! Patience, Chade and Kettricken
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amber⦠oh my god. amber⦠my wifeā¦
so how do you think the fool got starling to go to fitz after the whole body swap / dragon sucking on his pain thing. hey so could you like offer to fuck him bc he won't do it with me since im not a woman but like tell him so he will know im the reason you are having sex with him xx. because i get to make him feel better. or is that fucked up?
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4/5 interior illustration for Assassinās Quest!!
Spend hours deciding on how to draw Belovedās face just to lighten everything up in end š« But honestly I like this version better, it has more emotional weight in it, I think, and better visualises of how Skill and this whole merging of souls might feel like idk (if you ever merged souls with someone let me know if I did a good job of illustrating it lol). The whole composition was inspired by Belovedās realisation of Fitzās true feelings towards him and just in general the feeling of truly knowing someone from deep inside, like a fog finally clearing and you can see a full picture. For someone who self-gaslights a lot (not pointing finger at you, Fitz) knowing something or someoneās feelings for certain would mean a great deal, hence, this illustration is much warmer than others.
Also, chronologically this illustration is supposed to be the last one but the last one that Iām gonna to share is double page spread so it made more sense (for me) to leave it for the end š¤·š½
Also number 2, tried explaining what is happening in this image to someone outside the fandom and dramatically failed. Thankfully, I would never have to explain how Bee was born
despite all iāve done to you, i loved you. despite all Iāve done to you, i loved you. despite all iāve done to you, i loved you.
this is possibly the worst thing verity has ever done to fitz
thinking about fitzās relationship with hunger in the beginning of assassinās apprentice and how food (or the lack thereof) is part of the reason for his abandonment at moonseye.
his grandfather says, āIāve fed him at my table for six yearsā¦Iāll not feed him any longerā¦Let him be fed by him what got him.ā almost certainly, his grandfather canāt feed him any longer. when fitz ate that night, he āwasted no time filling [his] mouthā and āstuffed as much bread into [his] mouth as [he] could.ā he was starving! given how desperate his mother was to keep fitz and his grandfatherās emphasis on food, their family had to have been experiencing severe food insecurity to finally have the grandfather give fitz up.
food insecurity can be defined in two ways: 1) limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate or safe foods 2) limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways. while we donāt have confirmation for the nature of food insecurity fitz experienced before moonseye, we do know afterwards. the first day fitz arrives at buckkeep, cob and burrich obtain food for fitz but out of his sight and neither show him how to properly acquire food in the keep. during the time period after the first day and before burrich takes nosy away, burrich leaves before fitz wakes up and pays no mind to fitz as long as fitz is in bed every evening.
burrichās negligence causes fitz to experience both of the definitions of food insecurity. he acquires food in socially unacceptable ways by learning to steal from the kitchens and town, as well as scavenging other food (burned crusts, raw sheel - this can be dangerous to eat, seaweed, fish) which is a nutritionally inadequate and unsafe diet. fitz mentions that burrich sees fitz āfed well enough to grow heartily,ā but we can presume from fitzās descriptions of daily life that he uses the word to mean burrich perceives fitz to be fed and the measure of āwell enoughā is clearly ambiguous. basically, anyone thatās eating burned crusts is not being fed well enough.
hunger is an inextricable part of fitz being forcibly removed from his mother. hunger drives fitz to steal sausages leading to burrich catching him red-handed (which burrich deals with by drinking and leaving fitz hungry for the rest of the day) and forcibly removing nosy from him. hunger drives fitz to eat from the great hallās leftovers where shrewd catches him and makes him the crownās tool, forcibly removing fitzās autonomy from himself. essentially, hunger in fitzās childhood is a catalyst for life-ruining events. and knowing that food insecurity in early childhood is a predictor of depression and may contribute to substance abuse disorders and unhealthy attachments to caregivers, well itās something to chew on.
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at times as i'm reading assassin's quest i find myself going "wait what? what was that?" and i have to go back reading the lines again because i cannot believe that i'm witnessing such homosexuality (apparently) out of nowhere. robin hobb you suddenly decided these bitches are gay and you went for it.
btw with 'out of nowhere' i just mean fitz is a filthy liar
at times as i'm reading assassin's quest i find myself going "wait what? what was that?" and i have to go back reading the lines again because i cannot believe that i'm witnessing such homosexuality (apparently) out of nowhere. robin hobb you suddenly decided these bitches are gay and you went for it.
assassin's quest was crazy omg.... them :' ) fated counterparts, my favourite.
"who do you self insert as when you read?"
This is me when I read:
fitz voice i'm not scared of violence anymore fitz voice ten pages later i am more afraid of pain than i am of anything else in the entire world and that fear shapes me completely and entirely
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