#fitzposting

[himbosimpraccoon]

Who can sail without wind? Who can row without oars? Who can be parted from their friend without shedding tears?

more fanart under the cut :)

First one has got lyrics from Vem kan segla förutan vind, there are tons of versions but I'd suggest the one by Cumulus. The only other lyrics in this are from El hombre que yo amo by Myriam Hernández, @funnyhatmen made a BANGER edit to that song which inspired my drawing!!!! Check it the fuck out y'all!!!!!!!!!!

[girlovid]

see it's easy enough to find people who love tortured men but painfully hard to convince them to read a 16 book epic fantasy series starring the world's most victimized man as the main character. just another of life's cruel little jokes

[drizzleli]

I kinda like how this is going.....

[fitzlovedcomplex]

Who up playing with their memory stone carving that their homoromantic best friend gave to them because they miss him so badly that they feel a piece of their soul is missing?

[sillygreenrat]

im so good at being consistently around on a platform

so this game was really good. happy halloween

[lesbianboyfriend]

the more and more i think about the ending of tawnyman trilogy the more clever nuanced and compelling it becomes. on one level there’s the fantasy of like, what if the bad thing never happened to you. this is particularly relevant re: the skill healing basically removing all of fitz’s physical disabilities. he even says something to this regard, of feeling like a man of his years *should* provided he never faced all that abuse. and then a big part of this is also getting back together with molly, which is not only about how the abuse prevented him from having a relationship with her but also about proving that he can do the heterosexual thing—especially the notion of “providing” for his family (this is literally what burrich asks him to do). but then there’s the wrench—burrich had to die so this could happen. fitz had to regain his memories/feelings of all the bad things that happened. it’s a situation so predicated on the history of everything that happened to him playing at the illusion of what if it never happened. it’s like this self-devouring fantasy—think of the urgency fitz felt to establish himself with molly again. and then the title, ever after, elide the happily. can you live like this forever? will you live like this forever? it’s the storybook ending, but again—that requires there to have been a story. fitz is still trying to outrun what happened in the story and live in the ending. but you can’t live in an ending!! and on some level he knows this—and the fool is his door to the future. he downplays his grief at losing the fool, that’s part of what he wants to avoid—especially since the fool rejected his offer to go with him and urged fitz to live out this life in the first place—but he acknowledges (and hopes for!) a potential that they will meet again. they both know there’s no role for the fool in the fantasy—they explicitly acknowledge this in conversation. to meet the fool again is to deconstruct the fantasy. but despite this, fitz leaves that crumb in the epilogue, that potential—an acknowledgement that one day the fantasy will end even as he weaves it for the reader and asserts that it is absolute. all that is to say: THERE IS STILL TIME!!

(important context note: i have not read rwc or fitzfool trilogy yet)

[the-lemonaide]

guys we need more on fitz being NOT OKAY AT ALL

fitz is NOT OKAY

that boy needs a welfare check and a good friend to listen to everything on his mind

all of the characters need this BUT TODAY IS ABOUT FITZ :((

[songofsaraneth]

sometimes i think about how Robin Hobb started the Realm of the Elderlings series with the premise that damage lasts, which is very rare in fantasy--protagonist FitzChivalry Farseer gets hit hard enough to be knocked unconscious but this also makes him prone to seizures for the rest of the Farseer trilogy. A broken nose stays crooked. The scars from his injuries make it harder for him to move certain ways.

however our dear author beats up Fitz SO MUCH that eventually she has to retcon overkill healing magic into the second trilogy just to fix him back up again after all. nevermind the whole damage thing i guess because the poor man is a shambling bag of scar tissue by that point, but she needs him to carry another 5.5 books so up and at 'em Fitz my boy!!! no rest for the weary here we go again!!!!!!!