#khalila

[keeperesque]

Very sad no one got to watch khalila very diligently coming up with a unique nickname for ven and landing on evie.

#not peach #khalila #this is just random factoid i remembered dskbkxx

[tryin9]

you and i will live in a home filled with sunlight and warmth and safety. our love will grow every day and we will live a happy life. and life will be peaceful and safe because you are by my side 💕

#my love #my angel #khalila #grateful for you

[camelspit]

the dudes !!! redraw of this post from april lol

#especially fond of dario. #i dont think hes the best looking but he is funny #cant stare at him too long without giggling lmao #still not sure if im 100% with my jess design but #im not that surprised since ive never had a good mental image of him #when i was reading the books i swear the way i pictured him changed every other sentence #the one universal constant is that ill never know what jess looks like 😔 #tgl #the great library #tgl fanart #the great library fanart #jess brightwell #glain wathen #thomas schreiber #morgan hault #khalila seif #dario santiago

[bookwyrminspiration]

attempt 1/? of figuring out how to draw tgl characters, ft. our favorite desert flower <3

#tgl #the great library #tgl fanart #khalila seif #quil’s quill #i do not have a good understandkng of her appearance(or anyone’s) so bear with me #also it occurs to me I don’t think I’ve ever drawn hijab before #so I’ll need to work on that #anyway #khalila sketch!!

[jellsmells]

secret santa gift for @confuseds-library !! thomas, khalila, and glain enjoying a peaceful winter’s day out—i hope u like it :DD

#they are friends!!! they are everything to each other!! #jess and dario were supposed to be there but my ipad broke and i couldn’t finish their panel LOL #maybe once it’s shipped back here i’ll make a part 2 w their side #the great library #tgl #the great library series #the great library fanart #tgl gift exchange 2023 #thomas schreiber #khalila seif #glain wathen

[thegreatlibraryfangirl]

I still don't have discord so let's go back to the old days of tumblr theorising: what subject do we think Jess would study at university? (major or specialise or however the fuck america works, I don't care). And why? Does Callum insist he goes to do Business or Finance or something? Do we think Jess could actually manage English Literature, or would he hate how it affected his enjoyment of books? Chemistry? Something physical?

All opinions welcome, including for other characters.

#the great library #I have thought about this before but hey tumblr is not searchable from the mobile #Khalila still does astrophysics imo though that I remember

[spillingskies]

jess brightwell being so full of love and loyalty without ever knowing it from his family is my roman empire

#he’s so pure #him against the world for the ones he love #the great library #jess brightwell #rachel caine #niccolo santi #christopher wolfe #brightwell #ink and bone #khalila seif #Morgan hault #thomas schreiber #ash and quill #paper and fire #sword and pen #smoke and iron #the great library series

[moodindigov]

guys listen: tgl but give them dragons.

#idek where i was going w this tbh #jess brightwell #tgl #the great library #christopher wolfe #brendan brightwell #dario santiago #rachel caine #khalila seif #thomas schreiber #morgan hault #glain wathen #niccolo santi

[gay-otlc]

I love it when straight t4t sex

#khalila/dario. hope this helps

[ironwingedhawk]

The great library as BFU/ Watcher screens I found on the internet and saved on my phone

Nic and Chris at the end of Sword and Pen:

Dario about the library training:

Chris and Nic in Stormcrow:

Khalila about the burners (probably):

All of the kids about SanWolfe

Jess after Nic opens Chris' door half naked:

Thomas and Chris post Rome:

Jess:

Chris and Nic the moment one of the kids is in danger:

Chris about the archivists schemes:

#the great library #the great library series #niccolo santi #christopher wolfe #jess brightwell #khalila seif #dario santiago #thomas schreiber #glain wathen #morgan hault

[vioranhyperfixation]

Just want to let you guys know the doll lore are going to develop alongside disable!damian au since it's a crucial part on Rafi life, like that's what made Rafi, Rafi. And not just a mindless rat lab that's dependents on Damian and all he knows is damian.

Like it's the reason why his speaking is informal, how he knew curse word, how he knows what's normal, how he knew that when you're hurt it also effect other people besides you. It shape him!

Information present about the doll lore

• the main character is River, she's a tribe leader that's been betrayed by her tribe and currently undergo a journey to have a chance to make a better future.

• she's partly at fault for that betrayal

• Khalila is the star that granted her wish

[=] Far into the future lore

• River currently competing in a survival competition for a position at the Catalyst.

• She's known for her fighting strength and intelligence, by who? Who knows

• river register as a professional mourner

• Most of her loved one are dead.

• Khalila is in a bad situation

• Jupiter and Neptunus haven't come back

• The moon revolution had come to an end

#doll lore #disable!damian au #011 #Rafi #dc #oc #oc made by an oc #love it #damian al ghul #river!ten wish #khalila!ten wish

[phireads]

#mine #polls #tgl #the great library #the great library series #rachel caine #ink and bone #paper and fire #ash and quill #smoke and iron #sword and pen #jess brightwell #morgan hault #thomas schreiber #dario santiago #christopher wolfe #niccolo santi #glain wathen #brendan brightwell #khalila seif #books

[aphelea]

gave up on econ notes, now i just doodle tgl characters full time

#khalila my beloved #the great library #khalila seif

[bookwyrminspiration]

Jess: Khalila is the best of us…so good and right…better than we could ever hope to be…

Khalila: hey let’s hold that kid hostage

#tgl #smoke and iron #listen I know the justification she gave #and I think she makes excellent points #and that this is a misrepresentation of the situation #but it’s just funny to me so #I’m not sorry #love u Khalila <3

[jellsmells]

day 2: AU/canon divergence

-danton lives !!!! my boy my boy

-morgan + thomas imprisonment happens some days AFTER they’re all given their appointments—this one’s mainly just for the sake of the center piece LOL i just want to see my trio joke a bit (said trio doesn’t even exist outside of my head)

little explanation for each piece below for those interested-

top left: right after their first translation, he is Unwell

top right: i love them both so i wanted to draw them that’s all HAHA

center: a couple days after they’re given assignments, they’re all official looking now (pls ignore the gold band. totally forgot until it was all merged together. he is NOT a gold band haha)

jess is ignoring the sting of his position, danton is questioning the acceptance of his, morgan is enjoying time with her friends because she plans to run once night comes (she’s not successful, thomas finishes his press soon after and so on)

bottom right: the one scene in book 1 chapter 5 on the way to the serapeum !!

@tgl-fandom-events

#the great library #the great library series #the great library fanart #tgl #ink and bone #guillaume danton #jess brightwell #morgan hault #thomas schreiber #khalila seif #tgl prompt month 2023

[thegreatlibraryfangirl]

I keep meaning to make this meta post and then executive dysfunctioning my way out of it because it feels too big. So let's just start and see where it goes. I can always reblog it with additions later.

Khalila is an interesting Muslim to me, because she's not a stereotype. She's devout, and fierce about it, but she seems to choose which hadith she follows. (More on this in a sec)

I like to interpret this as a deliberate, highly reasoned-out decision but partially a reaction to what is either her upbringing, or the influence of certain family members. To explain my thoughts:

She's from Riyadh, which as we may remember from her hilarious put-down to Dario being racist/Orientalist/anti-Arab, whatever your buzzword is, is a modern, technologically developed city. This indicates certain things about history, which are backed up by the later discovery that the country name is still Saudi Arabia. So its history has been very close to that of our own, which in an absolutely tiny nutshell means that it was unified in 1932 by a member of the Al Saud family. The family had long been in alliance with the Wahhabi/Salafi movement, a reactionary movement largely against European colonialism/imposition of values, which leant hard into things like perfect adherence to the hadiths judged authentic and forbidding reasoning/logic being applied to which of these should be followed.

This is how we got to Saudi Arabia pre about 2017, with its incredibly powerful religious police, separation of men and women, women can't drive/travel anywhere alone/wear anything other than (black) abayas&niqabs or even burkas, stoning, etc etc.

Now, I don't know about you but when I first came across this information, my brain went straight to one particular scene: Khalila's Ink and Bone introduction.

In it, Khalila is being vigorously chaperoned by her uncle, Nasir:

"...when a man moved over to take a seat next to her. He was a rounded fellow, older, expensively dressed in traditional Arab robes ...The uncle gave Jess a warm smile, rose, and gave him a bow in return. It was all very civil, but he wasn't leaving the girl's side, that much was obvious ... the departure of Khalila's uncle. He clearly didn't like leaving his girl to the unwashed masses, but he went with good grace."

(This is also, through sheer elimination, probably the uncle who was a Library inventory for 30 years who she apprentices with, mentioned in S&I)

Khalila is not only chaperoned (the only one to be so) but is wearing a black hijab. Jess not mentioning any other colour makes me convinced that Khalila is actually wearing all black here. I think that she is doing this against her will, as in the entire series we never see her wearing black again after this (apart from adopting the explicitly English mourning custom for Morgan).

Adding this comment that Khalila makes about her uncle -

"Rough company," said Dario. "Unsuitable for an innocent flower like you." "You sound like my uncle. One can be innocent and not be ignorant, after all."

-- and I am claiming that at the very least, Khalila's uncle is a Salafi Muslim. I dither over whether the rest of Khalila's family is the same, since there's no evidence either way. Given that in our real life history, there has been a huge loosening of restrictions in Saudi Arabia from about 2017, I like the idea that her family in general are more progressive/lenient/different school of thought, and it's just Nasir who is a strict Salafi still. (Poor guy having fucking Rafa for a son.)

Other things that Khalila very quickly goes against that are mentioned or inferred here: being alone with unrelated men and touching the opposite gender. (Having a Christian boyfriend, even chastely, is ... that's a big can of cultural worms lol I'm talking about her being alone with, for example, Jess, and also freely doling out hugs and other physical affection). Hadiths and customs that Khalila does still adhere in the series to include the five prayers, wearing hijab, and calling both tattoos and alcohol haram.)

Anyway. I forgot my point. Basically, freed from the restrictions of her uncle and a religious movement that she clearly does not agree with, Khalila chooses her own way to be a devout and proud independent Muslim woman. Idk. I just love her.

#the great library #Khalila Seif