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I am fucking livid
I am livid with the way that people will only take things 'seriously' if it's a trend.
I am livid with the way that people will only care about some thing if it's popular.
I am livid with the way the horrors people live with are only ever given 24 hours of attention before the next thing trends.
I am livid that people will only care about the victims when they are gone or when the trouble has passed.
I am livid by the fact that no one knows about the Indian untouchables.
I am livid that people are silent about Syria.
I am livid about the silence that surrounds slums being bombed.
How many more hits must they take? How much more blood must they lose? How many more must die? How many more must suffer? How many more children need to die?
Tell me honestly... when was the last time you took the time out of your day too give them recognition?
When was the last time you listened too them?
Their voice matters but it is being drowned out with waves of hate and trends that flood your mind?
Did you even know that Afghanistan was taken over again?
Did you lend your ear to any of them then?
I am livid by the fact that people care more about what 'core' they are.
Does 'fairycore' matter more then lives?
Does brain rot matter more than the children in the sex slave industry?
Their homes look like the buildings you see in dystopian movies...
I am livid... and I am disappointed, you talk of the human spirit, you boast and brag about the human spirit, about humanity... but when was the last time you demonstrated it?
I see humans but I don't fucking see humanity
I see humans who wear masks and tape over their mouth that they can so easily take off.
I see monsters who crudely wear human skin as they bomb another village, another town, another city... another family.
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You can be so sassy it’s so fun
random baldur's gate moments in bg3
baldur's gate 1: siege of dragonspear - gorion's ward is a comedian actually
Learn Me Right
Jaheira x Khalid
This is a fic excerpt (~600 words). Someday, I’ll publish the rest. Because there is more — believe me, there is more.
Between the two of them, Khalid is the first to cry in front of the other.
They're tears of sheer frustration. They’d barely had time to sleep the night before, the day has been hell, and all he wants is a moment's quiet but the patrons of the pub below their room clearly have other plans. On a good day it would set his teeth on edge, never mind now. Jaheira is trying to cheer him up with that flirtatious banter she's so good at, something he loves, and this is the fourth time he's gotten completely trapped in the middle of a sentence. For fuck's sake, he's trying to compliment her (it's a favourite trick of his, disarming her with sudden earnestness) and somehow he can't coordinate his own mouth to say it.
He can’t find a way to tell her how beautiful it is when he can make her really laugh, that he wants to do it again and again for the rest of their lives, that when she smiles at him her eyes glow golden and warm and he feels it from shoulders to hips. He can't meet her eyes and his face is screwed up with effort, fists suddenly clenching as his head jerks uncomfortably to the side, and for a moment he's frozen there — and then he's crying.
The whole thing is mortifying. Khalid desperately swipes away the tears, turns away from her in his effort to hide it all. What must she think of him? Unable to keep it together even now, in this quiet moment between them.
Jaheira doesn't allow it.
She approaches slowly, sits in front of him on the bed. This is bad enough on its own, but then — then she’s holding his hands, moving them away from his face and clutching them firmly in her own. Khalid feels suddenly wild with panic. He can’t, he can’t, he —
“I-I-I —”
"No need to be ashamed," she says firmly, thumbs brushing over the backs of his hands. "It's just the two of us."
After a moment, she brings his hands up to rest above her breasts, and then both of hers move up to his face. Jaheira holds his head in her hands and kisses away the tears under each of his eyes, before her forehead presses against his. As her chest rises and falls with her breathing, he manages to copy her.
"Good," she says, a softness in her tone that's uncommon, that he's always treasured when she opens it to him. "That's it."
Her thumbs trace rhythmic circles over his cheeks like she’s trying to soothe and memorize him all at once. Slowly, the sharp noises from downstairs that had grated on him fade into undifferentiated murmurs, and there is nothing but her; the way she smells of the forest even after days spent in the city, the steel of her spine, the unshakeable calm in the eye of her storm and the way she can somehow bring him into it with her. He has no idea how he got so lucky, that he has the privilege to spend so much time at the center of her focus.
Jaheira is looking at him with that rare, precious gentleness that tells him she’s dropped her guard. That he’s seeing her all the way through, the way she always seems to see him, and all he wants in the world is to learn every path to get here with her. All he wants is her.
"I love you," Khalid whispers, and Jaheira’s eyes are suddenly wide and bright in a way he’s never seen before. For a tiny moment, they flutter closed, and he could swear her breath trembles.
She coughs. "Well, I --." Swallows. "I love you, too."
He suspected she felt it, but he had expected a smart remark, for her to hide behind a quip again. His heart swells.
Before Khalid can say anything else, she kisses him, one hand fisting into his hair, and he knows they'll both sleep soundly tonight.
HAPPY JAHEIRA X KHALID BRAIN ROT ANNIVERSARY TO MEEEEE 🎉🎉🎉
(Kinda)
One year ago was not the start of the brain rot but it was the date I could find for when I started making fanart disclaimer I didn’t finish most of them lol
In honor of this special occasion let’s look back on some of it!
These are the dated ones:
It is the only finished one that I will be showing here lmaooo wow Khalid has changed over the year. For context this was before I saw githyankidanky’s design and was like “that’s him, that’s the guy”
I was doing an expression challenge at the time which I also never finished but THIS WAS THE BEGINNING
These two never got out of the gesture and the structure lol.
The text on the left one reads: “excuse me, he asked for no pickles”
The one on the right was going to be the picture Jaheira has of them down in her basement in Bg3 that Khalid got from the wizard since she banned him from poetry. I don’t know why I cropped it at the thigh?? I feel like it should be down to the waist at most but whatever past wren.
The unfortunate thing is that most of these relics are now lost as I doodled them on the sides of my notes, I did find one though! And it was this:
True artistry right there tbh
So happy anniversary to me and many more!
bg1 doodles from my lunch break, the girls and Khalid
Some Jaheiras for your troubles.
Did my design for an AU and in a sexy little party dress. Harpers gotta have a good time too :P
what if we kissed.... and we were both harpers....... birthday present to myself <3
jaheira x khalid for kiss prompt #9 a kiss on the ear.
starting in on these. THANKS for sending in requests!
Love them ♥️
I especially love the hot springs drawing, love Dynaheir's expression
(now I wanna draw hot springs.…)
let a thousand flowers bloom for minsc and khalid. i keep thinking about what fun their dynamic could be
AAAAAAAAAA I LOVE BALDURS GATE 1 MY BELOVED
~ intro ~
(redraw of og/ee intro)
BGFDNGFHTTDGJTSHTR
ohmigod you guys Khalid is so cute i want fifty
[quiet squeeing] This is some next level romancey stuff. I love it. Caden is absolutely eating this up; given his line he’s clearly had his own share of pining– maybe after some visitors that came in to Candlekeep now and again, seeming all sophisticated and worldly.
(…He’s absolutely going to do this when Aerie comes around at first in BGII; he’s used to being the kind of sheltered country boy when beautiful ladies come around, doesn’t actually have any experience except for flirting briefly with the werewolf lady in BGI. And when he meets Aerie – since evidently she’s dropdead gorgeous – he’s gonna be a little slackjawed and believe there’s no way he could have a chance. And it’s going to be ADORABLE. *excited bouncing*)
But omg I’m just picturing this scene and Jaheira being all gruff as Khalid comes bursting in and then admitting she feels the same way…ja;sldfjaposdfjpoajdfa.
So cute.
Atta boy Khalid! \o/
eeeeeeee :D
(You have the option to charge him 200 gold for the aquamarine. But we are not that kind of jerk. c: )
I like the angelic scion outfit a lot
I’ll finish shading someday idk
jaheira and khalid doing the meme
Oh just stab me in the heart and it would hurt less than this.
Some expression practice with my OC Evune
I think I might make rp blog for her (and my Durge, but mostly her because she’s the favorite lol) we’ll see if I get around to that ;-; it also would be nice to have a separate place to put her too for organizational purposes
I prefer these long periods of relaxation. Lovely day for it.
Thank you Khalid for being the only person on this team who can relax
Coloring/lighting isn’t my specialty but I had fun
jaheira x khalid head kiss
Some very VERY rough sketches from when I was designing Khalids mother
Rip her in that last one
I now have a hc that since Khalid wasn't there the shadow thieves asked her where he was (perhaps under a false pretense of living if she tells them), of course they’d find him one way or another but less work ya know, but she refuses to tell them
💜Dynaheir Dynaheir Dynaheir💜
Ok… we’re getting there, we’re getting there… need to ponder more
I won’t lie I have no clue what her necklace is supposed to look like so I just made it an amulet thingy
sketchbook jaheira and khalid
Something about that last jaheira….
There’s something about her that is scratching my brain
I love her so much
Mapped out the progression of my khalid design. apparently it’s been 11 months of this already. happy new year!
Decided to write a general summary/timeline thing for my Jaheira and Khalid raise the bhaalspawn AU, my bhaalspawn’s name is Evune and she lives there now. I did need to mess with the timeline a bit so just roll with it
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1348- Gorion saves baby Evune from the bhaal temple but decides to give her to Jaheira and Khalid due to his own guilt
They take a break from the Harpers but are still heavily involved with the network to keep tabs on things and return fully once evune is a teenager.
1368- Gorion finds out about Sarevok and tries to warn them and gets killed. Good play through bg1 events follow
The party is Evune, Imoen, Jaheira, Khalid, Minsc, and Dynaheir but the other characters are involved at certain points
J+K tell her she’s a bhaalspawn earlier than you find out in the game
Normal SoD events happen and they stop the crusade but Irenicus comes to ruin everything, Evune is found not guilty of skies murder but is banished from the city so the party meet up before irenicus ruins everything again and captures them.
1369- during their captivity Dynaheir is killed in front of imoen (rip girly im so sorry) and irenicus intends to to the same with Khalid and Evune BUT Evune makes a deal with him that she would be an active participant in his experiments (very morally dubious move on her end leading to her becoming a fallen ranger) This disturbs her and she keeps this deal a secret from everyone.
Good playthrough Bg2 (+ ranger class side quest to restore her ranger status) but Khalid is also there. Evune’s a much softer character now than in bg1 because she doesn’t feel “good” anymore
1370- Throne of bhaal plot and Evune gives up her essence of bhaal (it’s a surprise tool that will help us later)
1372- a couple years later complications from irenicus’ experiments start really messing Evune up and she is taken to a healing house to try and heal her, but a cultist of bhaal seeking revenge finds out about this and in her weakened state she is fatally wounded. (I did flirt with the idea of this happening while J+K are at moonrise but I haven’t decided yet)
Fun fact: when I originally made this au Khalid still died but I was talking to a friend about it and they said “both her husband AND her daughter? Jaheira cant have shit” and I hadn’t thought about that and it seemed really mean plus it means Jaheira x Khalid lives on!!!! so I brought Khalid back. Rip Evune tho
-Fast forward to BG3 time
1464- ??? Is born
1487- ??? Is killed and used as a vessel to create Durge, along with other offerings, the water from the winding river where bhaal was killed by cyric and fell from the boareskyr bridge, and Evune’s discarded essence
1492- Bg3 Orin betrays Durge who forgets everything including her own name. Durge becomes paranoid about dying and becoming a faithless since they don’t know what god they worshiped so latches onto the first deity they come across which is Silvanus in the grove so she becomes a Druid. (They don’t know a lot about mindflayers)
Because of the essence Evune is able to communicate with Durge and is basically the anti Sceleritas Fel saying “nooo don’t kill people nooo :(“
They mainly talk when Durge is long resting (like the dream visitor but less frequently), they can communicate while Durge is awake but generally don’t.
Evune is a passive observer to the events of the game via Durge. I think of her like an invisible ghost following Durge around.
🚨KHALID MENTION THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨
I remember hearing the “sit in it for all I care” in the jaheira voice files on YouTube actually
Was looking through the folder of datamined dialogue (thanks again @thecubspeaks for sending it to me!!) and found all these Jaheira and Minsc dialogues I've never seen before
I have finished cooking
Here she is! Khalid’s mom + a baby Khalid
I think she turned out really pretty and I like her even if this was a struggle lol
I’m not very good at designing outfits so even though I had the parameters of wanting to be light weight and have light colors to avoid overheating as well as a head piece to protect her face and scalp from the sun I struggled to make brain work. I wanted her to look older than she ultimately ended up looking but she is an elf I suppose… but I still want her to look older
Something I think about is Khalid’s mother
Because in the first game in Khalid’s background she is not mentioned at all, and in siege of dragonspear she is mentioned as ‘not thinking much of him’ but to a lesser extent than his father did who we all agree was a POS
1. What was she like?
like her life probably sucked a lot.
She was an elven concubine in a country that is pretty much devoid of any other elves, and so she was seen as exotic, which is probably why Khalid‘s father had her as a concubine in the first place.
She would always be below his actual wife and I won’t get into all of the horrible things that could’ve happened to her prior or during this time
And then on top of everything, she has a illegitimate kid with the dude!
I doubt Khalid’s father or his wife (mother of Khalid’s half brothers) was particularly interested in raising him, so it was probably all on her.
So now on top of her life already probably sucking, she has this kid in a world that is guaranteed to be hostile towards him because he is considered lower by default.
There’s no way she could protect him from that even if she did try.
Maybe there was a combination of resentment of having another thing on her plate to take care of but also guilt about having this kid that she feels is guaranteed to have a miserable life
2. Was their relationship purely indifference and neglect or was there some love?
Is it possible that she walled herself off from him so that when he was inevitably hurt it didn’t hurt her as much? Like self protection so she only had to feel her own hurt
Were there good moments? Where she would protect him or comfort him in ways she felt she could?
Maybe she held some hope that because his father was of the merchant class Khalid would get further than she could only to have those hopes crushed within her lifetime
3. How does Khalid feel about her?
Maybe he is a bit overly forgiving of her actions because of he knows her circumstances (Which probably annoys Jaheira lol)
Maybe there’s some resentment for not being the mother he needed but he feels guilty about having those feelings
Maybe she just fades into the background of his childhood
There’s so many possibilities because we know nothing about her so we get to fill in the blanks!
Made some fanart for @marigoldbaker!
It’s from a scene in their fanfic “I’ll be waiting for you (if you ever wanna be there)” which is a coffee shop/modern AU
Normally I don’t have much interest in either modern AUs or coffee shop AUs but i have been awakened- I loved this fic and wanted to draw it! I don’t know why I cast Gorion as the manager in my head but I did and he’s there too. I nicknamed the coffee shop “candlekeep coffee” because I thought it was funny :)
Might color it eventually idk the idea of coloring the background scares me lol
you know, Khalid, it has been a long day without you. And I'll tell you all about it when I see you again.