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Drow midlife crisis. When I say I'm old, my older brother laughs and coughs like an old man.(•_•) Gromph carries his familiar like a lady carries a small dog.)

Jarlaxle playing his harp 💖

Your detailed reflection on this topic makes me think. It also makes me sad and makes me draw.

Abbil No More

[[ One of the sweetest elements of The Sellswords trilogy is how Jarlaxle would refer to Artemis as, “my abbil”, more frequently than he would refer to him by name. The charm of this moniker comes from both the fact that it is an exclusive nickname that Jarlaxle uses, and that it’s in Jarlaxle’s native tongue. As such, the gesture of adopting and almost exclusively using “my abbil” for Artemis contributes a lot to the sense of intimacy of their relationship, however one might interpret it.

It occurred to me that we haven’t seen Jarlaxle call Artemis “my abbil” for a long time, nor have we seen the word, “abbil”, at all for a while. I didn’t realize how long it’s been until I went through all the books from Glacier’s Edge back to The Companions. Abbil does not appear at all in any of the 12 books except for one occurrence in Starlight Enclave:

It is sad that Jarlaxle no longer addresses Artemis as, “my abbil”, but it’s sadder that he’s not addressing anyone with it, not Zaknafein nor Kimmuriel either. He certainly could, and would be within his rights to address any of them as, “my abbil”, but it’s as though the phrase has been totally purged from his brain. 

I can only make conjectures as to why this has happened. Perhaps the level of unintended male/male intimacy when that phrase was being employed was too much for RAS. Perhaps there’s some overarching plot involving Jarlaxle distancing himself from other characters that we’ve yet to see. Perhaps Jarlaxle is experiencing PTSD from how his affections were so rejected the last time that he regularly used that phrase. Or perhaps RAS simply forgot the existence of the phrase despite the many times he wrote “my abbil” during The Sellswords. 

Whatever the reason, there’s been a growing sense of distance and artificiality between the characters with each new book, and the absence of terms of endearment/familiarity only furthers those rifts. ]]

how dry can a report be

Jarlaxle, stop exaggerating, Kimmuriel tried!

Drow can't live in peace

I started reading the Archmage and here's what I think about it all.

Let's wish Jarlaxle strong nerves so as not to tear off the psionicist's ear

Welcome to my family, my love.

I wondered if there could be something in a foreign culture that is not obvious to another culture? I think Drizzt is saying here: I thought you understood everything right away.

P.S. one drow is good, many drow are fun

Inktober 2023, day 3. Path

Inktober 2023, day 5. Map

P.S: Sorry, Diatryma ran off to investigate

Sad Jarlaxle

Winter Is Coming

Take care of warm sweaters for your drow

pattern with Christmas mood

P.S. I decided to try the chibi style in drawing. It was fun to draw these little legs ^.^

Who will be Santa?

No, Zaknafein, those around you are not crazy. These are just such traditions on the surface.

Jarlaxle, you are irresistible, keep up the good work

I made myself a phone charm of my favorite canon dnd guy, also 💜

Im reading Exile now and- Jarlaxle may just become my new favorite so heres the scene where he bows to Briza (with his bald ass head) plus a pretty Masoj doodle