#beloved fool

[mercyhaunt]

amber sketch from a few weeks ago

[crunch-barr]

this is probably beating a dead horse but you know I hear often this debate on whether rote is queerbaiting and I have to say I genuinely argue it is already on-page queer. beloved is canonically queer & in love with fitz and I just don't think there's a version of fitz that's normal about that. i think that even if there was a different author but the same fitzchivalry you could not honestly write that man in this story coming to terms with his identity because he doesn't reallyyy come to terms with any other parts of his identity. he doesn't come to terms with any of his loves on-page, barely comes to terms with the wit, never stops lying, is deeply uncomfortable with himself and his life and his relationships and his family and himself as a father and the fact that he is a bastard so why would this be any different? it's weird that hobb takes such a stance against a romantic fitzfool reading or a queer fitz because she already wrote it, it's on the page! this IS how a relationship between the two of them would play out, this is how fitz would act if he was queer, there is no what if, this is it. in my opinion at least it IS a queer story. anyway.

[winterblues]

“It is time's oldest question. Are we solitary creatures by nature, or is it nature that unites us? Are we bound by our differences, or alike as the bird that shares the flight of a bee? For I have read texts, Fitz, that speak at length of squashing any notion that man must be separate from his fellows. Texts that posit man’s isolation is but the result of losing sight of that which is part of one’s own flesh.”

The Fool's Seduction | A03 << read it here

Ahh I commissioned this piece based on my first ever Fitzloved fic from one of my favorite ROTE artists, the talented and lovely @hannahelatham. Check out Hannah's blog and support her on Patreon! I know I'm going to be framing this one! Thank you so much for bringing a scene from my work to life! <3

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Beloved doodles on fools day

[patitojus]

a little fool sketch bc i miss him :( he was just a babyyy

[sonacava]

sick ass back tat bro

[tobeingremembered]

Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb

Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb

[neophytefool]

I’ve been thinking about that one scene where the fool asks Fitz what should he cut out, why he should have to truncate himself for love. And then I realised THATS WHAT FITZ DOES FOR MOLLY.

Fitz cuts of bits of himself for molly so she doesn’t hate him. He was prepared to leave nighteyes, to cut off that part of him. He actively did cut off FitzChivalry Farseer to live at Withywoods, he hid his aggression from being an assassin in the early years (and probably much of the later years too) which is why Fitz is forever writing things down. He is constantly truncating himself for others. The difference is that when the fool does it he does it with the most incredible acting skills

This is no fault of molly (that I see) but interesting regardless.