#tragediegh

[emmalovesfitzloved]

"Come to Bed Fitz"

Back in September 2023, our wonderful @tragediegh was going through a rough patch after the loss of a family one, and to cheer her up I commissioned from THE GOATED and stunning ROTE artist @oexas.

This artwork is from Chapter 22 from the Opus Magnus of ALL our hearts, Of Cats and Closed Doors. Beloved is inviting for the first time Fitz into his warmth. A key milestone within ROTE's war and peace fiction (not that anyone's complaining :P).

This story @tragediegh is developing has touched all our lives in the community, because it warms us from within, and I know has been a huge source of cozy comfort of fantasy domesticity that we all need in our trying times.

Here's to many more lovely ROTE and OCACD art and many more chapters to come <3

#Of Cats and Closed Doors #rote #Tragediegh #The Tragedieghverse #Fitzloved #Commissioned art #Fitzloved fan art #OCACD art #oexas #oexas artwork

[thenightisland]

i have been joking with @tragediegh for some time about the word count on her (pun absolutely intended) beloved fic of cats and closed doors and that for many months i have had it on what i dubbed "Les Mis Watch" as i kept track of what classic novels she had outpaced in sheer number of words. well......

congrats my friend. you are now officially on "War and Peace Watch" instead

#tragediegh #this has been a useless text post you may now resume your normal programming #@everyone who reads this: congrats you have read something longer than les miserables

[showmethecrowfacts]

Another fanart based off of @tragediegh ‘s killer fanfiction, Of Cats and Closed Doors.

Lord Chance looking a wee bit scandalized~!

#showmethecrowfacts #doodles #rote #realm of the elderlings #fitz and the fool #fanart #mixed media #fitzloved #the fool #beloved #tragediegh #of cats and closed doors #fanfiction fanart

[winterfest-gift-exchange]

Hi, I saw your edit that sign-ups have been reopened and I was wondering if there is a new link for that? I tried the old one and it was closed (which in hindsight makes plenty of sense!) If you are still taking sign-ups I’d love to participate!

Hi,

Thanks for your ask and your interest in Winterfest!

To be honest, this is a new situation for us because in our previous two years there's never been a bug or a reopening of sign ups like that.

HERE's a current link that should lead to sign ups- if it doesn't, please let me know!

Love,

Winter Pecksies

#tragediegh #we can only start the matching via algorithm after closing sign ups so usually everyone was matched up by this time #we're making the best of unprecedented times.. #in any case i hope you enjoy winterfest! #as was explained in the post we'll make this work somehow even if we mods have to match everyone ourselves #mod post #winterfest 2022

[prawnlegs]

somebody tagged this post "Lord Golden" and I didn't want to hijack the actual post with fandom bullshit, so. here

#RotE #the tawny man trilogy #drowned in memes #fan art #made myself sad drawing this one #left-handed work #need to adopt tragediegh's tag: the tawny man trilogy changed my brain chemistry

[cicide76536]

My gift to @tragediegh for Rote Winterfest Gift-exchange !

My beloved @vilyar was a life saviour for lending me his drawing tablet and computer when mine broke and for helping me sketch some of the harder parts ❤️ Thank you

#cicidedraws #fitzloved #fitzchivalry farseer #the fool #beloved the fool #the farseer trilogy #The rules for lovers song ruled hard and was a good inspiration for this #also With you by Cujo Moon damn #HUGE THANK YOU TO MY BELOVED VILYAR #This would have been ruined without you my sun #I've been sick for so long so I was only able to do this so late and then my drawing table broke and i lost my nerve but there he was #my sun my star my Al who gave me his computer and drawing tablet and everything worked well! #So thank you #This will be us this year #Anyways Tragediegh YOU ARE WELCOME TO JOIN OUR AURORA BOREALIS EXPEDITION #I will send you HD versions of these two #I dont know what to say other than that I hope you like this and get the most amazing year! #Also yall I am trying to learn how to do snow #I ALSO LEARNED NEW SHADOWING TECHNIQUE and I kinda like it!

[mellowthorn]

a quick friday night fitzloved sketch

#rote #realm of the elderlings #fitzloved #my art #rote fanart #fitz and the fool #fitzchivalry farseer #the fool #i meant to go to bed early tonight but then i read the latest chapter of tragediegh's fic and it. was. just. everything #so i HAD to drag my sleep deprived ass back to the computer and draw them being sappy #anyway happy fitz friday

[roostercrowned]

I am so excited to go back to Library today and I am EQUALLY excited to get home, make some jasmine green, and fucking INSTALL myself in a cozy reading spot for the latest Of Cats update

#thank u tragediegh for all you do #gotta tidy my room it looks like ground zero after vacation prep/crash #aaaaaa

[parlerenfleurs]

I had a dream I was seeing a theatre piece live, an adaptation of RotE, and the casting for Fitz and the Fool was perfect, two gorgeous young lads. The Fool was very lithe, with a skin tight outfit made of a single piece, very patterned on the front and black on the back, with bright orange eye shadow and bare feet up to a portion of his shins, like a hobbit (I don't know if I convey this correctly, but it worked, he looked both whimsical and quite boyish).

The scene was a highly symbolic version of the Fool's death at Asjeval. He was lying supine, head toward the audience, on a big bed, and Fitz crossed the scene to go to him, and cry over his body, holding him, lamenting and kissing him. The audience was insane, full of women gasping and wailing (as it should be). Then from kissing Fitz went on to biting the Fool's ear, at which point he revived with a huge gasp, protesting, making Fitz laugh (as I said, the scene was highly symbolic so the mood could take a u-turn and become light-hearted easily). They then talked for a while on this bed, Fitz reclining back on brightly coloured pillow, like a middle-eastern, or perhaps an Indian young prince, and the Fool still lying lazily across the bed. It was so light, so fun, so unlike the books but the spirit somehow was there.

#RotE #Fitzloved #Bloom talks #it was 100% born of Tragediegh's fics #I read the vampire werewolf AU just before sleeping #and that version of the Fool and his friendship with Fitz rasa so pure because without trauma.... wow #nice #that was so pure*

[obsob]

ive been reading of cats and closed doors by @tragediegh a lot recently so here is some fitz and beloved!!! and The Cat !

#mine #rote #realm of the elderlings #fitz and the fool #fitzloved #i know beloved is meant to have brown hair but i cant not draw him with white i cant i cant #this was fun 2 colour ! i lov hills #i owe the blotchy brush my life #i hope everyone had nice weekend!!!!! :3

[heyitsrink]

There's something about Fitz and Amber together in a field of flowers that sparks an unparalleled amount of joy 🌼 • • • More Of Cats And Closed Doors art because @tragediegh keeps creating the most beautiful and romantic scenarios for these two.

#realm of the elderlings #rote #ocacd #of cats and closed doors #fitzloved #fitzchivalry farseer #amber my beloved #rote fanart #rote fanfic #fanart of fanfiction #I was thinking of vintage romance novels while drawing this #they are IN LOVE!!!!! #I read 'loose sleeves' on Amber and may have went a little overboard lol

[thenightisland]

at @tragediegh's request: some of the messages sent to a friend of mine while i recently watched avatar for the first time knowing virtually nothing about it ft. my breakdown about people being mean to appa

#atla #this has been a useless text post you may now resume your normal programming #tragediegh #ask and ye shall receive lol #you would think that being on here since 2011 that i would have absorbed a lot of this show secondhand #you would be wrong #imagine my delight at discovering where 'there is no war in ba sing se' was from after saying it for a decade

[oathkeeperoxas]

However Many Sentences Whatever Day it Currently is

Tagged by @tragediegh for this wip game! 28 sentences of icemav wedding fic can be found below

“Okay. Let me see it.” Ice looks at Mav out of the corner of his eye. “See what?” Mav raises his eyebrows, unimpressed. He has no right to look this good after their fifteen hours of travel, but Mav is full of contradictions like that. “You know what. The ring!” What? How could he know– “Come on,” Mav complains, reading the thoughts of Ice’s face. “You, big Commander of the Pacific Fleet, taking two weeks off, with less than six months notice? Taking me on holiday–” “Maybe I just wanted a holiday!” Ice protests, maybe a tad too loudly. “You should want a holiday,” Mav sniffs. “You work too hard. But you don’t, because that’s not like you, which means that we’re in Bali for a different reason, and that reason is pretty obvious. You’re not that slick, Kazansky.” “I had a plan,” Ice says, crossing his arms. Mav’s eyes go all fond. “Okay. I’ll give it back to you and you can execute your plan. But if I’ve only got two weeks to wear it, then I want to wear it. Hand it over.” Well, when he puts it like that… Ice opens his jacket and pulls out the small box that holds the two rings that he’s had for years now, but which have always lived in the back drawer of his closet, inside a rolled up pair of old socks so Mav didn’t stumble across them by accident. He’s only pulled it out recently, after the court decision, after it’s been made legal in the whole country– The box has lived in his pocket for six months, but he wanted to give Mav something nice to remember.

Tagging @adiduck @frostbitebakery @lookforanewangle 💖

#icemav #my writing

[jewishdainix]

While I do totaly understand how Fitz's reply to Nettle in their ride from Jaamphe in Fool's Assassin is seen as just a silly attempt to deny queerness , there is actually a lot to analyse about it!

When you dissect it it actually shows Fitz's failure to both bridge the gap separate his and Beloved's relationship with/from queerness, and the Six Duchies' understanding of it.

Let me explain.

The view in the Six Duchies on queer relationships* seems to be that they are Scandelous relationships that are purely sexual.

The homophobia we see from the characters shows that: When Starling was insulting Fitz she said that she was sure he whispered Molly's name while Lord Golden was fucking him; when Dutiful asked Fitz if he and Lord Golden were sleeping together, but not if they were in a relationship; when Chade told Fitz he knew he didnt sleep with men; Lant saying he was afraid when he first met Fitz because he heard rumers Tom Badgerlock also desired men.

Even during The Quarell Fitz talked about that same sexual aspect, saying he would never want to sleep with the Fool.

When Nettle asked him about his and Lord Golden's relationship, and if the rumors about them were true, she brought back that old idea of the Scandelous, purely sexual nature of queer relationships.

And that wasn't what Fitz and Beloved's relationship was.

Whether or not you interprit Fitz being secualy attracted to Beloved, their relationship was not what the Six Duchies' idea of queer relationships was. It was an emotional connection that their relationship was built on, not a purely sexual one with no care beyond sexual desire.

Which is why Fitz said there was nothing "improper" about their bond. Why Fitz said that what they had wen far beyond that.

Fitz was still unable to separate the idea of being in a relationship with Beloved with that view of queerness (he almost did, by the end of Fool's Fate, but whatever progress he made was undone by him repressing his love for Beloved all those years apart. Admitting he loved Beloved would have meant he was not able to pretend he got the Happy Ending he so desprately clung to, buts thats a whole other post).

But thats just the part about him not being able to seprate queer relationships from the view on them in the Six Duchies. Because of those views, he doesn't know how to recognise his feellings for Beloved (and other men) as what they are.

When Riddle told him how he remembered that he and Beloved were "very close" Fitz didn't oject like he has done with the acusations/questions that were related to the supposed sexual nature of his relationship with Lord Golden. He hadn't replied with anything, but mentioned that his silence said more than any thing he could have said himself.

When meeting with Carson, Fitz immidietly mentions how he felt a "feelling that sometimes comes of insant connection, a deep friendship that could have been".

Lets dissect that aswell, since I already put this under a readmore and dont care about how long this post gets. (@tragediegh and I talk about this quote every couple of days so everything I say here is recicled from our dms lol)

"Instant connection, a deep friendship that could have been," implies that the relationship Fitz is thinking he would have is very close, but it is not based on an actual expirience with that person, rather their first impression on Fitz - their vibe and how they look (interesting how Fitz says it about Carson, a gay man).

"That sometimes comes" shows that it is an - if not a common one - an occurence that happened multiple times.

This sounds like someone describing a crush/romantic atraction without knowing that what they are feelling is that!

The reason Fitz describes it as a "deep friendship" and "instant connection" and not "romantic feellings towards men" is because how he still view queer relationships from that homophobic view the Six Duchies have, and because of that is unable to connect his feellings towards men (amd beloved) to what they are.

...

* mlm relationships, technically. We havn't seen what they think of sapphic ones (even in The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince Felicity mentions how possible homophobia only briefly, though they do seem to not consider lesbian sex as not actual sex which makes since with how their culture views reproduction) and I'm pretty sure Six Duchies people don't know about trans/genderqueer people because *gestures to everything*

#fitz and the fool #realm of the elderlings #fitzchivalry farseer #fitzloved #fool's assassin #assassin's fate #internalized homophobia #love how this shower thought i had in the shower took me 50 mintues to write

[owlbelly]

"the warm one, the cold one and the cat"

Fitz, Beloved & Realder from @tragediegh's unbelievably good, book-length Realm of the Elderlings fanfic Of Cats and Closed Doors. made it for @roostercrowned's Fitzloved zine (coming soon!) which is all b/w but maybe someday i or someone cooler than me could color it, i saved the line art separately just in case. was gonna hand-draw a border but found this lovely antique public domain border instead, i've decided it's dragon scale-feathers.

#realm of the elderlings #rote #rote fanart #rote spoilers #of cats and closed doors #fitzloved #this is the most finished piece of fanart i've done in sooooo long who even am i #i wanna do a color version because beloved's skin & hair read too pale in grayscale #i imagine him sort of light honey-brown at this point #fitz is just darker & they both looked better against dark sheets #love realder so much. get out of beloved's hair you scamp

[everywaythatmatters]

The boy himself from Of Cats and Closed Doors by @tragediegh

#of cats and closed doors #ocacd #my art #it’s him! the boy! the titular cat! hi realder #he’s taking a well deserved nap after having to give couples therapy to two idiots <3 #also featuring fitz and beloved’s flowery coverlet bc it lives in my head rent free