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Bee has completely stolen my heart? Two days ago if you asked me if any character could distract me from Beloved in need I would have laughed in your face. Now I’m like…FITZ YOUR DAUGHTER NEEDS YOU MORE THAN YOUR ON AGAIN OFF AGAIN SOULMATE.
I now see that Robin Hobb did a very brilliant and fucked up thing forcing fitz and Molly back together like that made any sort of sense. Cus I resented the move enough to now not be that upset to find out that Molly was essentially just narrative breeding stock????
Like I know fitz loved her but it’s not the same devotive love we see he has with Beloved. It felt so forced and yuck. But now I find out that Robin Hobb wanted Fitz and Fool to have a kid that was spiritually (and genetically?) both theirs and she needed a character with a womb to enable that??? Preferably one who would not have the life span of a Skill Healed Catalyst, or a White Prophet???
I know in any other situation I’d be horrified and pissed at her for this, but my toxic reaction is basically “it’s what I deserve after you forced all the tragedy into Fools Fate to manipulate Fitz and Molly back together and I had to stomach that bs in the first place. And in story Molly was happy so who is it hurting?”
Halfway through Assassins Fate and I am devestated and pissed that I have to spend any time in the last book of this series hearing anything about Kennit. Especially nice things. I don’t care what his trauma was. I’m glad he died. He deserved to die. He does not deserve tj be remembered as “complex” He doesn’t get a fucking pass or deserve a nice word. The awkward neutrality that some characters seem to have to him, that AMBER sometimes seems to have for him is unbearable. His son also seems like a spoiled prick so far. I was excited to see Althea and Brashan again. I loved Fitz seeing his face on Paragon. But this is too much. Kennit is a villain I don’t care how he was hurt before he became one. And I understand Robin is building complex social structures in an already complex narrative but I feel like this is the last book of 16. I’ve put in the work and patience for all of these roads to converge and I don’t want to sacrifice time with any of the characters I love to make room for a pompous, greedy, slimey, rapist piece of shit. Thanks for coming to my rant.
I’m obsessed with the idea of one of my tragic protagonists having a dramatic, gay, devistatingly camp revenge tour, crying and routhlessly cutting down the people who hurt the ones they loved. I want it set to I Can Do It With A Broken Heart. I want slowmo explosions and blood spatters etc.
Yes, Fitz did just find Fool lifeless on the floor of a dungeon. Yes I want to see The Catalyst light up the Servants’ asses. Give me Tarantino levels of blood set to poppy depressive anthems by Taylor Swift as Fitz unleashes the true assasin for the first time in decades.
Bonus points if it cuts to Paragon in a silent and calm harbor dancing along to the music nobody else can hear.
Finished rote last night. First of all, fuck that. Second of all, what are the preferred fandom fix it fics? Personally I’m fine with everything until the parasites.
I’m open to happy family Fitzloved. I’m open to Bee stays with Nettle and Fitzloved disappear. I’m open to them settling anywhere. Building a cottage by Verity’s dragon and taking trips to the areas around the mountain kingdom and learning about Fitz’s bio mom and visiting Bee and Spark and Per and Ketricken for holidays? Ideal. Bingtown? Cool. Show me Fitzloved double dating with Althea and Brashan. Kelsingra? Even better. I want Beloved to befriend Alise as Beloved and not Amber while Leftrin and Fitz get drunk and talk about Tarman (now a dragon) and Nighteyes. I wanna see the Liveship Dragons and how different they are from the traditionally hatched ones. CARSON AND SEDRIC HELPING FITZ WITH HIS COMP HET BULLSHIT while Motley is just vibing with Heeby and calling Fitz stupid.
Help me. Anything but worms and everything being left unsaid.
I would also like to do a small apology tour for Kennitson. His dad can still get fucked but Kennitson ended up being a good kid. I was sadder than expected when he didn’t make it.
I’m also happy somebody finally said out loud that Etta straight up sucks and told Wintrow to stop being a fucking simp.
Finished rote last night. First of all, fuck that. Second of all, what are the preferred fandom fix it fics? Personally I’m fine with everything until the parasites.
I’m open to happy family Fitzloved. I’m open to Bee stays with Nettle and Fitzloved disappear. I’m open to them settling anywhere. Building a cottage by Verity’s dragon and taking trips to the areas around the mountain kingdom and learning about Fitz’s bio mom and visiting Bee and Spark and Per and Ketricken for holidays? Ideal. Bingtown? Cool. Show me Fitzloved double dating with Althea and Brashan. Kelsingra? Even better. I want Beloved to befriend Alise as Beloved and not Amber while Leftrin and Fitz get drunk and talk about Tarman (now a dragon) and Nighteyes. I wanna see the Liveship Dragons and how different they are from the traditionally hatched ones. CARSON AND SEDRIC HELPING FITZ WITH HIS COMP HET BULLSHIT while Motley is just vibing with Heeby and calling Fitz stupid.
Help me. Anything but worms and everything being left unsaid.
Hi, me again, still collecting all the fandom notes and reading my welcome brochures and learning my way around. But are there good rote podcasts? Like ones that use a queer lense? I’m all for just general analysis and character and plot deep dives, but I need to know that the people I’m committing so much time to listening to are not in the “Fitz is straight” camp. Cus I’m terrified of getting into a pod and then having to adandon it cus some dude somewhere explains away the incredibly glaring subtext so he can identify with a “manly protagonist.” Like I need it to be explicitly acknowledged that this series explores gender and sexuality and sexual politics intentionally. I need whoever I’m subscribing to to agree thay the wit is an obvious metaphor for queerness. Like right out of the gate. Cus if not idk the point of even getting into discussions of later books.