"that Love Is Like A Star; It's Gone, We Just See It Shining, It's Traveled Very Far. I'll Keep A Leftover

"They were most thorough. Silly me. To think there was such a thing as a safe place in the world." - Royal Assassin, Ch. 20

A foolish Lord Golden! (No prizes for guessing who they're looking at).

La Belle Portia, 1886 Alexandre Cabanel

golden fool

Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (1829-1893) "Die Genesung" ("The Recovery") Oil on wood

a night in kelsingra

The Flower Girls • Alexei Harlamov, 1855

civil brasinga worst nightmare

Realder had grown quickly and clearly adored the Fool as much as the Fool adored him. Rarely did I see one without the other in those early days, the little cat always trailing behind my friend, curling around his ankles and playfully weaving between his legs as he went about his daily tasks. It was a comical yet strangely eerie sight, for almost, they could have matched one another in coloration; the Fool now dark as newly polished wood and his tabby gleaming brown beside him.

- Of Cats And Closed Doors, Chapter One

I commissioned the most lovely portrait of post FF OCACD era Beloved and Realder (and the embroidered purple vest!!!!!!) from the stupendously talented @risoria and I could not be more in love with it 💛 Every little detail is so stunning and Beloved and his kitty couldn't be sweeter... Little wonder Fitz is so down bad! Even I can't stop staring 😍

Romantic Encounter - Mihály von Zichy