koda

[enslavedbyfaeries]

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

Remember when you paint, there is no such thing as bad, just different.

Which do you like better?

Paper: Fabriano Artistico 100% cotton/ cold press

Brushes: Silver Black Velvet rounds/ Da Vinci Casaneo mop/ Rosemary & Co detail brushes

Paint: M Graham/ Schmincke/ Mijello Gold

[drizzleli]

iconic scene

[aoya]

[fieldsofvarley]

When he was small, I was too glad to have any piece of his father that was left to us. I cherished him and kept him from all harm. I wanted him to be a prince. I wanted him in fancy clothes with clean hands. I wanted to see him have what his father earned for him. To be what his father would have expected of him.

um burrchiv called they want their yaoi back

[fiery-kitty]

Oesterreichische Monatsbilder / Austrian Monthly Illustrations (spring) – Heinrich Lefler (1900)

[perplexingly]

Patience and Chivalry commission for @aporeticelenchus, with a little Fitz as a bonus because it made me feel nostalgic :D Thank you!

(Commissions on Ko-fi)

[ladiestown]

i'm obsessed with "mage gray" as a beloved moniker. for one thing because it's given so little page time and is very clearly taken less seriously than the other facets of his personality, even though fitz does try to tie it in sometimes ("a part of him is the fool :D a part of him is lord golden :) a part of her is amber :/ and i guess he's also mage gray")

but also i don't think "mage" is a term used anywhere else in the series and that's so hilarious to me. magic is such a definite, carefully limited force throughout the story and so i'm left to imagine that a "mage" is someone you would only see in literature, just like in the real world

"yeah this emaciated, visibly tortured, deeply antisocial man started showing up in the castle and calling himself Wizard Gray. the king's mother looks pissed off every time someone questions it so we've decided to just go with it...."

[allthe0slinedup]

[brambeag]

mythals chosen on a southern scouting mission

[not-neolionheart23]

Sketching Beloved on the computer : D

I want to do a full fanart of them, considering how the series have plagued my mind for more than a year now. Yet it feels so intimidating. How do you create a prophet with many faces, so alienated and ethereal, yet also is the person that Fitz - the central character, our point of view - know so intimately about? There is warmth and closeness, and lighthearted humour of a childhood friend, but then there is the gravity of fate. The Fool was not created to be Fitz's friend. Arguably, if it were another story, a prophet that need the character to suffer in order to achieve the vision he dreamt of would rightfully be a terrifying antagonist.

Yet the prophet was in love. In spite of fate, in spite of their position and in spite of the writer herself, Beloved's character was apt with his name: he loved his Fitz, but not in a way that is (just) personal or possessive. He loved the Catalyst, and the world that he saw, with him in it. Everything Beloved touched, there is beauty and warmth and life, to be traded with his own beauty, warmth and light. He draws no boundary. To Fitz, to the future they'd envision, Beloved is completely devoted.

Fitz never believed in evil, so the world they created was a world with the evil forces erradicated. Fitz's childhood unfolded the way it did, was due to the conflicts between the Six Duchies, and the Outislander, so the new world they mended had the conflicts resolved. Fitz's detachment to everything stemmed from forging and his assassin work in the dark. In the new world now, with Kelsingra and the dragon revived, and the pirate island united, Mountain Kingdom, the Six Duchies and the Outisland allied by marriage, there was no longer a need for another Chade or Fitz. Each of Fitz's children took up a piece of his dream, or a life that could have been his. Dutiful as the King, who is outright Witted and be accepted and celebrated for it; Nestle as a Skill mistress, who live with the love of her life, never have to choose between her duty and her love; and Hap, who lived as a free, traveling bard, loving his art and telling his stories, whole heartedly, never forged, never hiding.

And Bee. Bee who is orphaned, and is lonely in court, but would grow up amongst love and protection regardless. Bee who witnessed the killing and the chaos, who was a prophet and a catalyst at the same time, yet would never have to tread the path that Fitz had to walk on. She would grow up under Kettricken, learn the Skill from Thick, surrounded by family and friends who look at her as equal, and loved her for who she was, not as a tool to be wielded. And when time comes, she will love who she love, and pursuit whatever she desires. Never a pawn. Never a commodity.

I think my flaw in the initial reading of RoTE is that I get overwhelmed by the individual stories, and characters. From the point of view of Fitz, it looks grim, and he thought of himself worthless. When you look as his and Beloved's love from his personal perspective, it is sad, and it felt fruitless: what was the point, they were apart more than they were together, each of them were tortured beyond recognition; and they could not even acknowledge their love until both of them meet their end. The Stone Wolf felt like a let down. A suicidal tomb, in a way. Undeserving of what they have been through, to be together.

But as I stepped out and looked at the whole story, the real scenery of what unfolded throughout 16 books, I realized that it was just them. The overwhelming force that overturned the wheel of fate in the story was their love, and as the fish cannot see the water around them, their love was never be able to be defined. There was no confession of love, or a romantic end game, because the whole story and the world that they walked in - Beloved's future, was their love confession. At every turn, Fitz and Beloved acted on their mutual love. They chose each other, again and again, so the dragon was revived, so Clerres was destroyed, so Bee was borned.

So yeah. Fanart. Un-doable to me at the moment, but I hope I can thoroughly draw them soon. The love of these characters inspired me greatly, so I am also currently learning to animate. We'll see where that goes.

[stollro]

아아...... 그린건 있는데 요새 올리기 민망해서 안올리게됌....

wip....

procrastination........

[drizzleli]

“So. So love and hope blind us all. I thought the flowers were from you, Fitz."

sad Beloved because I'm stille here

[portalibis]

Chants royaux du Puy Notre-Dame d'Amiens, c. 1518

[straight-chillidog69]

nerevoryn

[princessofcairhien]

she’s so real

[bobbole]

Sheila Norgate, Raven with Issues

[bird-brain99]

oh royal assassin reread. can we talk about how fitz attempts to distance himself from nighteyes by calling him Cub but in doing so mirrors his own childhood as Boy and inadvertently brings them closer. can we also discuss fitz losing molly the First time and thinking “I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.” and on that note can we discuss burrich’s advice on that situation with lines such as “I don’t think you’d want her pity. It’s a poor substitute for love,” said in his classic speaking from experience tone of voice. and to go a few pages back from there and state the obvious can we consider “my life is pledged to the man who wears that earring… patience had no right to give it to you.” and then a few pages forward when fitz says “you cannot put two saddles on one horse” and burrich responds, “hoarsely,” “she said that to you?” And then can we go all the way to the beginning when fitz is considering his love for molly and thinks “she was apart from these things, unsullied by them. I carefully preserved her from any touch of them. I never tried to draw her into my world… To me, it was enough that she existed for me to love.” And lastly can we just remember fitz telling the fool he dreamed about him and missed him and the fool responding “how droll.”okay thank you goodnight