#fitz ‘no homo’ farseer

[dontgofarfromme]

Like yes I am Anxiety over the fact that Fitz told the Fool where Molly is hidden when clearly the Fool was obviously not the one piloting his body but that's whatever, more importantly would the jury please turn its attention to the sentance by his love he is betrayed and his love betrayed also, which is clearly referencing this situation, and tell me of one single instance in which the phrase "his love" has been used to refer a person someone loves platonically rather than romantically. The answer is never. Therefore, here we have explicit confirmation that Fitz is in love with not only Molly but also the Fool I rest my case

#the farseer trilogy #realm of the elderlings #rote #fitzloved #@ fitz the prophecy said it u cant no homo ur way out of this one #we can discuss the fact that u will literally refer to this person as beloved later bc i havent got that far yet but lmao

[earnestlyeccentric]

🌻 Sunny Reading Tag 🌻

Thank you for the tag @petrareads!

🥞 favourite book

At the minute, probably the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb! Though I love Harry Potter and Percy Jackson and a thousand other books to death. 

🌾 tropes that make you go “asfgrthgj”

Not sure if this is really a trope but I LOVE mentor-hero relationships like Chade and Fitz, or Gandalf and Frodo, or the Cuthberts and Anne.

🌻 comfort book

It’s impossible to choose just one so a few: The Song of Achilles, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Percy Jackson, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables.

🌙 death in a book you would take back

Leslie from Bridge to Terabithia! I swear I did a double-take when I read that book for the first time because I didn’t think children could die in children’s fiction! I mean, I guess it was a good way of introducing death and all but I really wanted Leslie and Jess to be best friends forever.

💡 book you wish you could read again for the first time

Hm, I’m going to be super cliche and say Harry Potter. It was the series that really got me into reading and I don’t think I’ve ever felt that awe with any other series. I guess I became a tiny bit desensitised to fantastical things because after Harry Potter, I consumed pretty much every fantasy novel I could get my hands on.

If you read and enjoyed this, you’ve been tagged! :-)

#books #book reviews #tags #this was a fun tag! #fiction

[incorrect-rote]

“why can’t a heterosexual guy tell a heterosexual guy that he thinks his booty is fly?”

- Fitz

#boring #realm of the elderlings #fitzchivalry farseer #rote #incorrect realm of the elderlings #incorrect rote #fitz no homo farseer #source: flight of the concords

[silverbastardgoldenfool]

Me, reading the Fool's Visit chapters in Fool's Errand:

#These books seriously made me. So gay. #We love identifying with Fitz no homo Farseer the idiot son of the series #Realm of the Elderlings #RotE #Fitzchivalry Farseer #The Fool #Fitz and the Fool

[mistninja]

Happy Valentines Day to Fitz-no-homo-Farseer and his Beloved (platonic):

"I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical, and then he was pulling apart from me, laughing, a bubble inside me, separate and unknowable, yet joined to me. "You do love me !" I was incredulous. He had never truly believed it before. "Before, it was words. I always feared it war born of pity. But you are truly my friend. This is knowing. This is feeling what you feel for me. So this is the Skill". For a moment he reveled in simple recognition"

Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb.

"Like sundered pieces of crockery that snick back together so precisely that the crack becomes invisible, the Fool joined us and completed us."

Fool's Errand.

‘I love you,’ he said quietly. ‘I set no boundaries on my love. None at all. Do you understand me?’

Golden Fool.

"Oh, Beloved! I said. I bent and kissed his brow in farewell. And then, grasping the rightness of that foreign tradition, I named him as myself. For when I burned him, I knew I would be ending myself, as well. The man I had been would not survive this loss “Good-bye, FitzChivalry Farseer.”

"For a moment our gazes held as we mingled in unity. One person. We had always been one person. It was good to be whole again. [...] And so, we passed, one into the other, but for a space we had been one. The boundaries between us had melted in the mingling. "No limits" I recalled him saying, and suddenly understood. No boundaries between us"

Fool's Fate.

The most couple of all time, invented love etc etc. I could write a 1000 pages book just with the scenes these two have that make me crazy. And this is only from half the series.

#fitz and the fool #no one cares BUT i do #idgaf about valentines day i just love them #mine

[smalltownfae]

I am living for the conversation between Tino and Dichaan. I love how he calls him ‘Chaan too.

PS: Spoilers for the Fitz and the Fool trilogy, last books in the Realm of the Elderlings series by Robin Hobb. Yes, every single one of my posts circles back to that and I’m sorry.

“What is there still for him to learn?”

Tino straightened his back and stared at Dichaan. “Does he know everything about the Oankali?”

“... no.” Dichaan let his head and body tentacles hang limp. “I’m sorry. The resisters don’t seem very complex - except biologically.”

“Yet they resist. They would rather die than come here and live easy, pain-free lives with you.”

Dichaan put his food aside and focused a cone of head tentacles on Tino. “Is your life pain-free?”

“Sometimes - biologically.”

He did not like Dichaan to touch him. It had taken Dichaan a while to realize that this was not because Dichaan was Oankali, but because he was male.

Tino is ok with aliens but draws a line if they are the same sex ahah like most human men in these books really. Then Lilith said to Dichaan that it was already difficult to accept Nikanj, who is an ooloi - neither male or female, and he is like “Nah. Everyone finds Nikanj hot. I didn’t see him struggle.” THEN he says “And in the long, unforgettable group matings, Tino had not seemed to have any difficulty with anyone. Though afterward, he did tend to avoid Dichaan. Yet Lilith did not avoid Ahajas.”

Ahajas in the female Oankali and no one can tell me Lilith isn’t bisexual. She always seemed to love her just as much as any Oankali in her family. Poor Dichaan this is like loving a man with internalized homophobia (cof FitzChivalry Farseer cof).

Dichaan got up from his platform, left his salad, and went to Tino. The man started to draw back, but Dichaan took his arms.

“Let me try to understand you, Chkah. How many children have we had together? Be still.”

I don’t know why the salad detail is hilarious to me, but it is. You made him leave his salad, Tino!

“How many children have we had together? Be still” This could be a deleted scene with Fitz and the Fool in the last trilogy. We had a kid together. Stop saying “no homo”.

“You chose to come here,” Dichaan said. “And you’ve chosen to stay. I’ve been very glad to have you here - a Human father for the children and a Human male to balance group mating. A partner in every sense. Why does it hurt you to stay here?”

This one is the most wholesome in the family. I still remember when Lilith said to Ahajas that she missed her and she just stayed silent ahahah

“I tell myself there’s some justification for what I’m doing. Most of the time, I think I’m lying. I wanted kids. I wanted... the way Nikanj makes me feel. And to get what I wanted, I’ve betrayed everything I once was.”

(...) “Nikanj says you prefer to endure your pain. It says you need to make yourself suffer so that you can feel that your people are avenged and you’ve paid your debt to them.”

“That’s shit!”

And now Nikanj joined the party. This is no females allowed therapy hour. Now it put Tino to sleep and is just asking Dichaan wtf happened XD This is probably my favourite scene in the whole book so far.

#adulthood rites #xenogenesis trilogy #dichaan #nikanj #augustino leal #I love how they gave each other nicknames #they're so cute #even though cute is probably the wrong word for this mess #but look this book is told from akin's pov and some humans are really upsetting in it #I flip flop between aliens and humans just like lilith and tino because yeah our race can be really shit #my posts

[foolish-bastard]

I had a dream last night that Fitz kissed the Fool and then freaked out and ran away and it has been haunting me

#rote #robin hobb #fitzchivalry 'no homo' farseer #fitz #the fool

[sinni-ok-sessi]

I'm on the first book of the third Farseer trilogy now and I think I might... actually have started... to like Fitz?? What is happening

(I think I've been warming towards him since the end of the last series, where he finally admitted that he loved the Fool and didn't feel the need to 'no homo' it, but damn its taken a long while to get here)

#the farseer trilogy #Ish #Spoilers #I also have Strong Suspicions that Fitz Nighteyes and the Fool are all kn some way Bee's parents #And that poor kid's family tree is looking increasingly lile one of those 'walking trees' with a dozen different trunks #Everyone in this damn series seems tp be related somehow

[ballsballsbowls]

wait what about robin hobb and homophobia?

Not that she’s homophobic that I’m aware of. If she is, I don’t remember seeing it anywhere.

Just that I also considered sending her pounds of fanfiction because she hates it so much.

That said: Farseer/Tawny Man/Fitz and the Fool together was months worth of reading for me and after nine books, Fitz is like, “YO I KNOW I USED ARCANE MAGIC TO BRING YOU BACK FROM THE DEAD BECAUSE I LOVE YOU SO MUCH BUT NO HOMO RIGHT? I ONLY EVER ACTUALLY LOVED THE GIRL I DON’T MENTION FOR BOOKS AT A TIME.” I felt personally attacked.

#stop b think of the children #Anonymous

[radicalorc]

'And we will live happily ever after?' the Fool asked. 'That is my intention.' 'And mine. My hope. But a thin one.' 'Don't doubt us, or we are lost.' 'Fitz, my love, that is the problem. I do not doubt Bee's dreams at all.' I opened my mouth and then found wisdom. I closed it.

so finally on his roughly sixty-third year of life prince fitzchivalry farseer found the wisdom of shutting his mouth and not screaming no homo when the fool admits his love

#realm of the elderlings #assassin's fate spoilers #yeah it's a bit out of context but who cares #i'm sorry

[dillydedalus]

books i read in august

here we go again... two main themes this month: a) james baldwin week for our shared bday,  b) august is women in translation month BUT i decided to put those books into a different post bc this one was getting long (plus i wasn’t finished with everything on time) - so i’ll post that round-up in a week or so

rebecca, daphne du maurier disturbing neogothic or whatever (psychological horror? yes) in which the young unnamed shy & neurotic mess of a narrator marries a rich widower but feels constantly in the shadow of his dead wife rebecca, as if haunted by her. her husband is the fucking worst (#maximdewinterdiebitch) but the awfulness of the relationship is very well-done and disturbing, plus there’s some smart ~identity/mirroring stuff going on between rebecca & the narrator. 4/5 

notes of a native son, james baldwin baldwin week #1: a collection of ten of his earlier essays; i found the personal essays about his own experiences with racism in america and europe and his family much more engaging than the ones about books/music/culture, his writing is always incisive & elegant tho. highlights: notes of a native son, equal in paris & stranger in the village. 3.5/5

the fire next time, james baldwin baldwin week #2: two essays, one about 10 pages long, one a bit over 100, both about race in america, broadly. the long one especially is just amazing and should be required reading like, everywhere. baldwin is at once bitter and hopeful, full of rage and full of love and i’m honestly in awe of him. 4/5

another country, james baldwin baldwin week #3! a powerful novel about a group of friends, black&white, gay&straight, in new york (and briefly paris) in the 60s (??); they are wounded and bitter and do horrible cruel things even as they love each other, so again it’s strong on that whole rage & love theme. it was maybe a bit too depressing for me. 3.5/5 

royal assassin (farseer trilogy #2), robin hobb so i ended up buying an ebook of this bc the queue on overdrive took too long lol. i enjoyed this i think a bit more than #1, bc fitz is older & we learn more about everyone & get a sense of the larger mythology of the world. the pacing is honestly not very good & especially the first half is not only pretty slow but also sometimes seems to forget/walk back on plot or character progress BUT i still love the characters (kettricken is. so much) & the court intrigue is great. also without giving anything away the very end is like...... jon snow who??? 3.5/5

qualityland, marc-uwe kling kling is p well-known in germany for a radio series (turned into books later) about his flatmate, a chaotic-neutral anarcho-communist kangaroo. this book is a satirical dystopia about a world where corporations and algorhithms rule all, and while that sounds very much like the tired next-ep-on-black-mirror type thing, it’s all so absurd and over the top (yet uh. real) that instead it’s genuinely funny and (if not smart) certainly SMORT. also the book is really well-designed and there’s constant like inserts of adverts and internet comment sections and y’all know i go weak in the knees for some gimmickry. 4/5

assassin’s quest (farseer trilogy #3), robin hobb i say this with love but this book is Too Damn Long, like criminally so, you could easily have chopped 200-300 pages from this and it would be a much better book for it. so much dragging & poor pacing & endless repetition of the same plot beats. it gets better in the second half when fitz rejoins some other characters but the end is kinda of underwhelming as well... that said, i do still love the characters (the fool!!!) & the world & enjoyed the series overall. 2/5 for this one, 3/5 for the trilogy. i will continue with the realm of the elderlings series maybe next month

we crossed a bridge and it trembled: voices from syria, edited by wendy pearlman an oral history of the syrian revolution and civil war, put together from interviews with syrian refugees pearlman conducted over several years and in several countries, incredibly affecting, upsetting and powerful, especially since with the exception of the introduction (which you should read bc it gives some background info on syria) it is all personal accounts by syrians. i’d rly recommend this if you want to know more about the syrian struggle in their own voices. 4/5

simon vs the homo sapiens agenda, becky albertalli i wanted something cute and fluffy to balance all the depressing refugee stuff i’m reading right now and this one is sweet & charming & probably would have been better if i was like a bit younger, but hey! cute & fluffy goals achieved! 3/5

ein raubtier namens mittelmeer, ghayath almadhoun (tr. from arabic) (in english this collection is published as adrenaline) a collection of poems/vignettes/prose poems about damascus, exile, refugees & migration, being safe in sweden while your friends are dying in syria or on the way to europe (the german title very literally translates to ‘a predatory animal called the mediterranean sea’ and yeah it sounds better in german). very interesting & sad/sharp & provocative, but like, i’m not rly a poetry person and there were a few too many metaphors involving female bodies for me... 3/5

currently reading: transit by anna seghers (rly good but it’s taking me a while) & the displaced: refugee writers on refugee lives, ed. by viet thanh nguyen

#the books i read #between my bday wishlist and just buying a ton of books my unread-shelf is getting real crowded #but september is international lit festival berlin month so uh..... probably i'll end up buying even more books #i also have to write at least one paper so... yeah that's a thing #long post