The Scribe’s Silly Little Crush

Sometimes you're at con hauling ass to the nearest coffee shop books in hand after spending too long getting the wigs on thinking you're going to end up being late for your favorite author's book signing (but coffee is so absolutely necessary) AND its raining

and as you're getting ready to cross the street, eyes on caffeinated prize, you hear

"FITZ, FOOL! HEY! STOP!"

And you turn around and your favorite author is herself hauling ass down the sidewalk to flag you down and take a picture.

We walked right by her in our hotel lobby. She said "I looked up and saw my characters walking by!' Did we notice her? No, we were in dire need of caffeine as previously described. You could call us fools even. To not expect the dance of chances to throw this fate in our laps..

So yeah, we got an even more special interaction, book signing and got to say hi to the fam too including Kat!

And that's why you should always take the extra wig time.

Pleeeeeeeease i want them to become buddies so badly.

I'm reading the lord of the rings and I'm once again amazed at how... good most characters are. Like, they are genuinely good people. They are a bunch of kindhearted, gracious, caring people, coming together under adverse circumstances and trying to figure things out and find a solution and support each other through it all. Like Frodo and Sam meet Faramir and Faramir is a bit suspicious at first and kind of implies Frodo may be a spy, and then when he hears his story and he's like Frodo, I pressed you so hard at first. Forgive me! It was unwise in such an hour and place. And this blows.my.mind. He wasn't even particularly mean or threatening to him in the beginning, he's just such a kind, considerate man, recognizing the kindness and honesty of another man. And they're all like that. Even Gollum starts slowly changing (for a short while) when he encounters Frodo because that's the thing about kindness and humility and grace, they are contagious. They transform people, even a creature like Gollum cannot be immune to that. Like, you may consider all this simple and basic and I get it but, hear me out. It is quite rare to see that in modern media and it is also pretty difficult to pull off in a way that is not corny and simplistic. It is mind blowing that you actually don't have to present the entire palette of human cruelty and vice in order to tell a compelling story, contrary to popular belief. Lotr does the exact opposite, and it is just beautiful and it warms my heart. Especially taking into consideration tolkien's pretty grim growing-up experience, him being a double orphan without a home, raised between an orphanage and a priest and having no family apart from his brother and then the war and then he almost dies and then he's poor as hell and then a second war and it all makes sense somehow. He writes to his wife who is also an orphan two days before the marriage "the next few years will bring us joy and content and love and sweetness such as could not be if we hadn't first been two homeless children and had found one another after long waiting" and, yes, yes! The love and sweetness just radiate from his work, the entire lotr series is a little radiant bubble of hope and love and grace that he imagined in his head to deal with a dismal reality and then he just gave that to the world, and isn't that what imagination and art is all about after all?

the boy does have chiv's look about him, doesn't he?

Art by Servane Altermatt

i need to see atleast 798 images/day

happy international ace day everyone

still thinking about how fitz gave a trained warhorse to a stable girl. because the horse asked him to

just packing the essentials

[Fitz art by @heyitsrink and earring art by @mellowthorn]

FitzChivarly Farseer being sentenced to death at like 16 is insane. he wasn't even old enough for the club