Jax's eye patch

Even though he framed it like that on his post, it was NOT only me. It's false. I'm not the only artist affected by this, we were more than a dozen who had our art taken without being asked or credited. It was small Legend of Drizzt artists, as well as big names in the bg3 community. And all of them took action, not just me. I'm just being made into the scapegoat now because I was the first to address this situation.

And just so you're aware. I know that the Legend of Drizzt characters do not belong to me. I never stated that anywhere. But the art that I draw myself, does. It belongs to me. Even if it is fanart, it doesn't give anyone the right to just take it and use it for their own (monetized) purposes. It also doesn't matter what you might think of my art now, if its ugly or bad, it was still taken without my consent.

For the idiots at the back

Artists do art commissions exclusively for people who paid to share on their own accounts. He’s taking from indie artists who need to respect their clients wishes on how art they paid for is shared

Wizards of coast doesn’t blanket use fan art without permission or payment. If they don’t its because of legal and ethical reasons

fair use law isn’t international and is allowed to be challenged in US since its not blanket you can use it all whenever. Especially when videos are monetised or entertainment. If you didn’t ask permission youre not checking the laws from where the artist is from. Especially if they get told by companies to remove the fan art over copyright rights issues

Its been internet best manners to ask permission and credit first when it comes to indie art and fan art made by people. its the easiest step since forever. People have faced backlash for not crediting or getting permission before. If you don’t credit you look even more like you’re pretending its yours

If you run a popular monetised youtube channel commission the artists. Especially from smaller artists. If you have paid subscribers and business model you can afford this

after over a year of sitting around on this I finally finished this short comic... featuring my 2nd favorite scene in the book Neverwinter, and a moment I was waiting for for so many books when I read the series for the first time. The reunion between these two after their last encounter in Silent Blade

Drizzt: don’t ask me ask the children what they want to play with and make that

Market researcher: oh your so sweet

Bruenor: barrel of gutbuster

Market researcher: no…

Bruenor: child size! Bah Catti-Brie was fine

Catti-Brie: I threw up. A plush toy of a unicorn

Market researcher: Nods

Wulfgar: and a elk fawn

Market researcher: plush?

Wulfgar: no real. It’s what my dad got m…

Regis: …fishing rod

Market researcher: nods

Artemis Entreri: why a toy why aren’t you using this money to make sure they have three good meals a day

Market researcher: ….

Dahlia: that and a replica of Kozah's Needle

Market researcher: nods

Dahlia: and it’s also a taser

"Jarlaxle's friend was dead, given to Lolth, whom he hated above all others. Jarlaxle could only hope that Zak had gone to his grave with hope that his action would save his son."

The Legend of Drizzt - Relentless

"“His treasure, don’t you see?” said Entreri. “They, we two, Bregan D’aerthe, Luskan itself—we are all Jarlaxle’s treasure. He’s like a dragon, but he hoards people and power instead of gold and gems.”"

I love so many characters from the Legend of Drizzt, especially Drizzt himself, but I wanted to talk about my other favorite character (Jarlaxle, of course).

It is genuinely unreal how insane this character is. He's shaved his head bald, he wears an eyepatch that he switches between eyes, he cosplays as a pirate, he becomes a pirate, he starts a commercial business on the surface so he won't have to be around stupid drow politics, he's pansexual, he forms a deeply unhealthy homoerotic bond with an emotionally unstable assassin, he walks around wearing more magic items than some wizards will ever see in their lifetimes, he casually seduces dragons, his family tried to kill him when he was a baby, he formed another homoerotic bond with his best employee, he was briefly driven mad by an evil crystal, he becomes the secret ruler of a city just for shits and giggles, and if anyone ever accuses him of something slightly untoward he'll gasp and act like an innocent baby.

I do not exaggerate when I say than RA Salvatore broke the mold with this character. When I asked him about it at comic-con, he said he wanted him to be "like Batman's utility belt, a walking deus ex machina." No one does it like Jarlaxle. I love this character to an unreasonable degree.

He has so many great appearances across the series but I will always say that he and Artemis Entreri, and their relationship, peaked in the Sellswords trilogy. The chemistry they have is insane. They play off each other so well. Every page feels like they want to cut each other's throats one minute and have a sloppy makeout session the next. It's impossible not to ship these two while reading these books. They even have a messy breakup at the very end. "But I am your muse", "I don't like the songs you inspire" is a heartbreaking line. Everything about these two breaks my heart. I ship them so hard but I know that there's no way they could ever be together because of how toxic and broken they are and how they're both unable to form meaningful, lasting relationships because of everything they've been through (they eventually get better but again, peaked in Sellswords).

Artemis: standing next to me when I went through mine doesn’t count as going through a redemption arc

Jarlaxle: I freed you from Memzoberranzan

Artemis: you kidnapped me there and betrayed me years later