Mari Lu Ben @mari-lu-ben - Tumblr Blog

commission for @themyscrian based on the Eberron campaign

Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea The town of Thwil, first meeting Lord Nemmerle and Lesson with the Master Namer

#earthsea

ninoacca

you know the drill.... put that gayass character in a little oufit!!!!!

#rote #amber

itsrahb-deactivated20260522

my experience reading Fool's Assassin so far:

"wonderful, elegantly constructed. the purposeful imagery, the double, triple entendres. every single sentence is a masterpiece. see how this one subtly references several past relationship dynamics at once whilst clearly foreshadowing future plot points? genius. cycles within cycles, each cycle trying to heal itself. truly marvelous."

turns page

"haha oh my goodness i want to kill myself."

#truly #this book makes you love it and then you have no choice #you must suffer #rote

ttrpg character design: a forensic medicine investigator in an asia-inspired setting.

#chracter design #dnd character #pathfinder #illustration #artists on tumblr #art

rona-is-reading

Fitz is so relatable as a protagonist because I too need a 10ish year hermit period between major plot developments

rote-references

Introduction

Hello everyone! You might know me as Maddy! I have two more blogs that share stuff about the ROTE fandom @maddyisenough and @maddyhope-art! So what is this one about?

Months ago I started gathering quotes about the appearance of the ROTE characters slowly for my art ideas and then I wondered why not share these with all of my fellow ROTE fans?

So this blog is going to be an archive of canon quotes for several characters. If you have a character whose appearance is a bit vague after reading and you wish to draw them and you want me to research those quotes, you are free to send me an ask about it ^^

Keep being awesome everyone and I wish you all a lovely day!

Thanks for sharing this post for more people to see it!

#realm of the elderlings #references #rote #quotes #robin hobb

katmorart

#realm of the elderlings #the fool #illustration

radiohyo

I was honestly so surprised that I’ve only seen one fanart of this scene?? It feels like something that could’ve been drawn a hundred times.

I love Amber so much.

I keep thinking about how, out of all the different versions of the Fool, she’s the one who gets to be the most emotionally open: She’s young and in love with Fitz, she has literal telepathic conversations with him every day for fifteen years, she does all these “foolish” things like creating a new face for Paragon, dreaming about a child and a family with Fitz when they become older. Yeah, she only said it out loud once — when she was just happy to see an old friend — and after that, she always called Bee Fitz’s daughter. And she kept stopping herself every time she got too close to that weird line between "my dear more than friend" and "it reminds me of Molly". And through all of it, she stayed so painfully alone. It’s just… heartbreaking.

Fitz said he didn’t like her — I forget what exact word he used, but honestly, whatever it was, he could’ve said the same about the Fool in general if he wanted to. Sure, he’s the most charming person in the world, but he’s also a manipulator, if he needs to be somewhere, he’ll get there, even if it means hijacking a ship full of hostages.

/Speaking of old friends — and one more thing that absolutely broke me — the dragons, yeah, they’re total assholes, but the way the dragons of the Paragon completely ignored Amber? You were jealous, you considered her your friend, and she was your friend, bringing you silver and all… Funny how, after becoming dragons, you just forgot about her ?

//I rarely write long texts — I have to double-check everything I write in English to make sure it’s still readable. But I have so many thoughts

#rote

everywaythatmatters

RotE dragons my beloved

#rote #dragons

machinerust

my sillies

#rote #the fool #fitz

wetratman

“I asked chatgpt-“ well, I asked Piranesi and he told me that the Beauty of the House is immeasurable and its Kindness infinite.

#piranesi #susanna clarke

purplespacecats

Murderbot on its own personhood, by book:

All Systems Red

...Mensah had offered to let me hang out in the hub with the humans like I was an actual person or something.

Artificial Condition

Even when I was still in armor, once my PreservationAux clients had seen my human face, they had wanted to treat me like a person.

I told myself I still looked like a SecUnit without armor, hopelessly exposed, but the truth was I did look more human. And now I knew why I hadn’t wanted to do this.

It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

Since I wasn’t a person and I didn’t have an employment voucher, I would have to hack my way into one of the supply shuttles …

Rogue Protocol:

You would think the person they knew as a security consultant slamming in and disarming one of them would cause everyone to stop and reassess their priorities in this situation, but oh, you would be wrong.

Exit Strategy

“It’s the first one I saw. When I hacked my governor module and picked up the entertainment feed. It made me feel like a person.”

[...]

A roving drone cam showed me she was frowning. “You are a person.”

Oh, that we can’t talk about. “Not legally.”

Fugitive Telemetry

But I wasn’t a citizen and also technically not actually a person, which made it more difficult.

Network Effect

(I know, it’s a logo, but I hate it when humans and augmented humans ruin things for no reason. Maybe because I was a thing before I was a person and if I’m not careful I could be a thing again.)

#last quote hit hard