oh Ratsy, we're really in it now

crying about Realm of the Elderlings. header image is my art

[roostercrowned]

I read a sixteen-book fantasy series and now I spend every waking moment thinking about sad people kissing. There will be SPOILERS. I try to spoiler tag by series if not by book, but I'm bad at it.

Main is @prawnlegs My art is tagged my art

I have an AO3

If you've also read these books, here is a tiny sleeping Lord Golden to bring you solace:

[catchymemes]

[lastivenka]

Light my way

[feyweird]

Amber from Fitz and the Fool you are so important to me.

[roostercrowned]

I read a sixteen-book fantasy series and now I spend every waking moment thinking about sad people kissing. There will be SPOILERS. I try to spoiler tag by series if not by book, but I'm bad at it.

Main is @prawnlegs My art is tagged my art

I have an AO3

If you've also read these books, here is a tiny sleeping Lord Golden to bring you solace:

[tragediegh]

🪶✨Lord Golden Moodboard ✨🪶

[mviji]

Sea serpents in the ROTE world are one of my biggest loves

[vronoch]

happy pride month to tom badgerlock and lord golden specifically!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

updated my shop with a whole bunch of recent stuff if any of you so desire to support a broke grad student who is currently not employed because their university has eliminated basically every source of summer funding and absolutely nobody is hiring 🫠🫠🫠

Shop gallery quality Art Prints by Miles.

[roostercrowned]

wough that Springfest final stretch really killed me… pray for grandpa 🫠

[werewolf-transgenderism]

Lady Patience, writing a treatise on the healing properties of local herbs and plants, just before meeting Burrich for the first time and demanding he remove a splinter from her foot :)

[lairn]

Happy Springfest! I worked with @roostercrowned who provided a lovely Kettricken/Laurel prompt about secret relationships. Their comic is great, check out those facial expressions!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

@springfest-rote

[roostercrowned]

Yaaaayayay our Springfest collab is finally complete! Here’s my illustration to go with Lairn’s fic:

with invaluable help from my very own irl (farmshuman) Laurel with the placeholder flats. There are two not-so-subtle cameos here, which I’m sure you can spot. The illuminated borders are clipart because my arm said THAT’S ENOUGH 💀

Thank you so much @lairn for bringing this to life with me! \o/

[maddyhope-art]

Here is my Springfest art for my collaboration with my friend @tragediegh 💜💜💜 for the wonderful fic:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It was a joy to work with you on this and to enable each other! 💕 We struggled a bit but we did wonderfully!

Adding one special thing here regarding Beloved's clothes. In my headcanon for Mercenia I use Romanian motifs and this time I used them on the cape: the rows of pointed triangles are called wolf fangs and they symbolize protection against all evil, something I thought that fit Fitz and Nighteyes in Beloved's life. The second symbol represented by geometrical stars, they symbolize the guiding star and I also gave that to Beloved's mother attire for the recent Beloved animatic!

Happy Springfest, everyone!

[owlbelly]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Happy Springfest @springfest-rote! it's time for babes at the hot springs! this was a collaboration with the amazing @impiousgherkin who created the prompt & also an entire 5-page comic to go along with the fic (!!!)

an explicit Kettricken/Starling hook-up during the Assassin's Quest journey to the Stone Garden. third person limited, Kettricken-POV. light angst, pining (& not exactly for each other), girls having fun because the alternative is giving in to despair - you know how it is

[wavelette]

like, the most compelling ships for me always stem out of one thing: the characters have a profound, ongoing effect on each other’s senses of selves. when they are apart, the characters’ actions are still affected by each other. the way they approach the world changes because of the other. 

which is this deeply Austenian view of ideal romantic relationships as mechanisms by which we come to know ourselves better and become better versions of ourselves. good romance, for me, is always tied in with a sense of self-actualization, and the way in which a beloved partner allows a person to know themselves better.

[jmhowl]

Okay, character meme thing. I was tagged by @prawnlegs and briefly thought “but I never see a fictional character and go ‘just like me!!!’” and panicked, but then realized all I had to do was find aspects of characters that resonated with me and it got much easier. Reaching from childhood to present day.

Honorable mention goes to Eleanor Vance from The Haunting of Hill House novel, who was originally in (book version) Samwell Tarly’s space before I realized I DON’T in fact want people to think of me when they read of her. It was like reading all my worst qualities and insecurities thrown back at me! (It’s an incredible book).

Sam Tarly is a fun case of “Character I have gotten as #1 in ‘what character are you (from among a huge range of media properties)?’ quizzes multiple times” and “character one of my actual friends is on the record as hating” 😅

I tried to do this as individual images like everyone else but it showed as rows of two (plus one at the bottom, bigger) instead of a 3x3 square. I’m STILL bad at Tumblr two decades or so on. So: One big combined image for now because I don’t know what I’m doing here.

[fitzandfooltrash]

Happy Pride month to Fitz "what do you mean you're in love with me, those kisses were platonic" Farseer, and to Beloved, who has to put up with him