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[asaara006-blog]

Took me so long to prepqre another update, but I hadn't read so many books and I still need to add three more patches.

The books here are:

- Timeless R.A. Salvatore

- Assassin apprentice Robin Hobb

- Piranesi Susanna Clarke

- The dragon's bride Katee Robert

- Gideon the ninth - Tamsyn Muir

[khaytiefari]

Jarlaxle enjoying an engaging game of Lanceboard with a companion (in those pants and thigh straps that I want to gnaw right the fuck off of him)

By @blatterburystreet

[steamclouds]

portraits I did a while ago, Artemis and his changing style throughout the series. IWD Trilogy, Way of the Drow and Sellswords

[asaara006-blog]

That lovely moment when you are craft free and your brain decides to go Brrrrr 🤣🤣🤣

So I decided, somehow, to cross stitch one drawing per book I read, until the whole hoodie is filled with drawings or I run out of books, whatever happens first 🤣.

So, so far, I have the following books cross stitched.

- Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie

- The Devils - Joe Abercrombie

- Eragon - Christopher Paolini

- The Silent Blade - R.A.Salvatore

- The Empress of the Ethereal - Laura Gallego

- Old Magic (or in Spanish El Cículo de fuego) - M. Curley

- The Alchemyst: the secrets of the immortal Nicolas Flamel- Michael Scott

- The Magician - Michael Scott

- The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie

- Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett

I made some rules for myself too for this.

- Can't make drawings of re-read books.

- I have to wait until I have finished the book.

- I'm starting with books of this year 2025.

(Disclaimer: neither the drawings or the idea are 100% mine, I gotninspired and I tweak drawings to fit on what I want)

[drizznt]

my most controversial take about popular media is probably that Vhaeraun would make a perfect and insanely popular Shadow Daddy-esque BBEG for an official campaign (who would immediately earn a fanbase as widespread and insanely dedicated as that of Astarion BG3) if WotC writers actually cared about the lore in their IP beyond just covering up the tangle that is everything about drow to avoid criticism from people who don't know what they're talking about and have never sat down and read a source book in their lives or, in a surprisingly large number of cases, actually played D&D.

He's a tortured underdog who wants the wrong things for the right reasons and is hopelessly morally askew while also full of big emotions and a gentle side. He's canonically extremely handsome and edgy. He's secretive and paranoid and has a baked-in trait that makes him incapable of hiding his emotions. All of the ingredients are there.

Not to mention the fact that he and Eilistraee's relationship to one another is half of what makes both of them interesting, and Eilistraee is kinda boring when she's treated as a one-dimensional goddess whose entirely personality is that she's good and not Lolth. There's a lot more to her than that, but all of it is tangled up in the drow lore they're wanting to get rid of.

But, see, creating such a campain, or even, apparently, simply continuing to acknowledge that Vhaeraun exists without retconning every word of his lore for the past several decades like they did with Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, would require the writers to actually go back and read their own lore instead of just basing every decision about drow lore that they make on popular fan interpretations from redditors and xitter users whose entire frame of reference is novels that famously ignored, steamrolled, and comically misrepresented his lore (yes, Cunningham did that just as much if not more than Smedman) and that are officially not even considered canon anymore because of the shit-show that was Forgotten Realms lore after the decision to kill off most of the gods. It would also require them to actually think critically about the biases in drow lore and what is actually a problem vs. what isn't instead of just letting people who don't even play D&D dictate their profit-motivated decision to just retcon and steamroll absolutely everything that made drow interesting when in reality all that was actually needed was a little more light shining on the nuances beyond Lolth and a change in skin color (which was the ONE change they made that hasn't kind of sucked). It'll be interesting to see how tiefling fans deal with this shit when WotC inevitably finds a way to screw up the newest edgy anti-hero race everyone loves like they did with drow.

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Still a very much obsessed with the way his fighting style with Charon's Claw and his dagger is described, redraw of this piece from almost exactly a year ago, this time more accurate to his look during the Sellswords Trilogy!

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a bunch of redraws of the Halfling's Gem graphic novel that I did last week, to make him more faithful to his book descriptions. So much went wrong in these comics

[seanofbeankeep]

Is this new official art. Not sure but 💖

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[exiledfrommars]

And I’m supposed to believe that Jartemis isn’t canon

[tantlisart]

Wittle Jarlaxle and Gromph with these plushies in your style... would break the internet (or at least my brain 🤣) with cuteness.

https://www.tumblr.com/luthierscurse/797533474328313856/jarlaxle-and-gromphs-ravaged-childhood-stuffed?source=share

It turned out pretty nice.XD

P.S. Original toy design by a wonderful artist - https://www.tumblr.com/luthierscurse/797533474328313856/jarlaxle-and-gromphs-ravaged-childhood-stuffed?source=share I almost drew little Jarlaxle bald.(・_・ヾ

[steamclouds]

I like to think that Artemis gets invited over to Regis and Donnola's home in Bleeding Vines regularly, to have dinner or tea with them post Lolth's Warrior

[khaytiefari]

@gio-utti doing another out of this world painting of Jarlaxle 😭

Thank you, again 💜 This was a ton of fun to work with you on!

[pidgeydraws]

entreri with "the sellswords" dragons

[pidgeydraws]

boy changed his style in every new book

[asaara006-blog]

And here it is, my favorite book. It was the book that made me spiral into getting to know Jarlaxle and Artemis, and making said rouge my all time favorite character in all the books that came after... Closely followed by Jarlaxle, of course.

Is the type of book I will describe as a "Comfort Book", no matter the years, or how many times I had read it, whenever I'm down is still a book I love to revisit.

The whole, Ray-guy/Kimmuriel been the "bad guys" while Jarlaxle ua happily hopping around causin mayhem and Artemis is trying to be 5 steps ahead is still incredibly funny.

Seen the power struggle and then, afterwards, two people, one antisocial and the other too social just waltzing around different settings makes me wish there were more adventures of this two... Maybe an spinoff? Or just a book series as a prequel? Or stand alones?, I don't know, dreaming is free 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

I don't want to spoil things, but once Artemis and Jarlaxle start talking to each other about towers you will just know, this two are gonna be friends, they are just not aware of it... Yet 😅🤣

[jungwildeandfree]

so my toxic trait is i grew up reading RA Salvatore's novels, and man if this did not light up every single neuron in my brain for 57 seconds

[seanofbeankeep]

I like to think Jarlaxle tries to wind up Entreri with giving him silly roles for his schemes but more often it reveals another hidden talent Artemis has that amazes Jarlaxle. I miss in the books that Entreri is a master of disguises too

Jarlaxle: for this quest I need you to go undercover…..as a mime

[Artemis proceeds to put on a goofy face and perform the greatest and most perfect mime routine ever seen]

[Jarlaxle jaw drops and smiles with glee simultaneously]

Jarlaxle: WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME YOU COULD DO THAT!

Artemis shrugs: you never asked me before

Jarlaxle: damn I was joking about the quest hmm but now I need to find a reason to rob a circus

Entreri: With that outfit I assumed you already had