Books and music

Katherine Arden (via mashamorevna)

Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold (via fenrirsfangs)

No kiss, no gentle word  Could wake me from this slumber  Until I realize it was you Who held me under…

Mabel, Episode 18: Unusual Hungers written by Mabel Martin (via girlwithouthands)

instagram: @winterofherdiscontent 

Fitz: Eh, this woman is alright, I suppose. I mean, I don’t trust her or anything but she’s nice and sort of pretty. Fitz: She seems sort of into me. Awesome, maybe we should hook up.

— Eliza Crewe, Crushed

If they’d been teenagers the world fucked with less? And if Fitz weren’t straight? Lots of ifs but lemme daydream please

Fool: On a good day, Fitz

My brain: Fitz was rendered incapable of accepting a love as full and unconditional as the Fool’s. The Fool was the first person who embraced Fitz for all that he was instead of just facets of his being. To the Fool, Fitz wasn’t Chivalry’s Bastard, or the Stableboy, or the Assassin’s Apprentice. He was none of that and he was all of that. He was Fitz. Yes, he was the Catalyst, but that in itself is a manifesting of *all* that Fitz is as opposed to something confining. The Fool was the only one who loved Fitz enough to not constrain him to one convenient role. Again, the Catalyst was not really a role - a persona - and it was definitely not convenient. For either of them. But through it all, the Fool never wanted Fitz to be anything different. That’s why Fitz was “content” rather than *happy* at Withywoods despite having all the peace he supposedly desired. It wasn’t just that he had trauma that haunted him, but that he was still playing a role, being Holder Tom, Molly’s Husband, Respectfully-Distant Stepfather. Not once in all those years could he just be Fitz. Except when he was writing to the Fool, which goes to show that

Guess who’s getting mad at Robin Hobb on twitter dot com again

— Robin Hobb, Assassin’s Quest

Would have been too simple, wouldn’t it.

Here’s another fan art illustration based on the wonderful Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb, featuring the bastard son FitzChivalry and his wolf Nighteyes :) Photoshop, August 2018.

Ravenclaw: *shrugs*

Reread Six of Crows… again