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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 16h

Day six! Write a letter as your character. There aren't actually any people in Aranel's past she would want to write to, but I think after the events of BG3 Halsin would try to convince her that writing to her deceased parents would give her some closure

#BG3Fic

Dear Mom and Dad,

This feels stupid. It's been over a century since you died. Halsin keeps pestering me, though, saying writing will make me feel better. He's usually right, the ass.

Reithwin is flourishing now that the shadow curse is broken. Halsin has been amazing. He claims he's not a leader, that he was terrible for the Emerald Grove, but he is. He just couldn't thrive while the curse remained.

I managed to convince him to let me be his apprentice. He kept protesting that as my lover he shouldn't be my teacher but when I pointed out how useful it would be to have a second healer he finally relented. I managed to wildshape for the first time yesterday, into a wolf. I got good at combat in the monastery, but learning the druidic arts feels so…right. I still train, of course, and I'm training others, but I've turned away from Ilmater and back to Silvanus. I wasn't smited, so I think The Crying God understands.

Halsin thinks you would be proud of me. I hope he's right.

Miss you,

Aranel

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 1d

"The chimera has three heads... but does it still count as one?"

The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 1d

Day five! Take a personality quiz as your OC. I took Buzzfeed's "Pick Some Colorful Fall Pictures And I'll Tell You Which Blend Of Tea You Are." I don't know how I feel about the bergamot with jasmine, but the description certainly suits Aranel

#BG3Fic

Jasmine Bergamot Oolong
You're a loving, gentle person, and you rarely lose your temper. You're serene and resilient because you know what's most important in life. People appreciate your quiet calm and your wise, thoughtful advice.

The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 2d

Day four! Make a social media account for your OC. This was hard -- Aranel is very private and would hate social media. I think she'd definitely post in a very terse way, and only when somebody prompted her to post. It would be super incongruous with how big or important of a thing happened

#BG3Fic

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Janu-beary - A Halsin Fic Collab @bg3collabs.bsky.social · 3d

Just a heads up, for those that have their Discord messages set to "friends only", you should be getting a request from one of our mods. :-)

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Janu-beary - A Halsin Fic Collab @bg3collabs.bsky.social · 3d

Writers!! Keep an eye on your inboxes as we are beginning to send out invites!

#halsin #bear #druid #bg3 #janubeary

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 3d

Day three! Four characters who share traits with Aranel:
Toph: fighting style, refusal to accept help
Chirrut: fighting style, protector of others
Belle: isolation, desire for belonging
Jane Eyre: orphaned, abusive childhood, strong-willed and courageous

#BG3Fic

Belle from Disney's Beauty and the Beast (the 1991 animated one)

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Colours of the Gate Fanzine - 🏳️‍🌈 Pre-Orders Open Thru Oct 17 🏳️‍🌈 @coloursofthegate.bsky.social · 4d

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##bg3zine #bg3 #bg3queer #cotgzine

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 4d

Day two's prompt is to make a collage to represent a place. Aranel's whole deal with that she doesn't have a place she feels at home in anymore. She loved the grove, but it burned down when she was so young she can barely remember it. She wants to forget the cold stone of the monastery.

#BG3Fic

A series of three images -- a green, idyllic forest, a raging forest fire, and an empty hallway of tiled floor and stone walls and ceiling. The hallway is well-crafted, with pillars and arches, but no colors

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 6d

I'm following @ginnydi.com's 7-Day Character Challenge for Aranel! Today's prompt is to write a diary entry from the perspective of your character. I chose the day Aranel finally completed her Trial of Mastery and left the monastery as a full monk

#BG3Fic

It’s over. I’ve finally been named Master. I bribed the guards to seal the doors during my audience with the council, and told them their choices were to elevate me or to kill me. When none of them could touch me, they finally agreed I had passed my trial. I walked out and will never return. The monastery is in my past, now, and I am leaving my child name behind with it. I’ve named myself Aranel, after my mother. I don’t know where I’ll go now. Maybe to the Cloakwood, to see if I can find any remnants of my old Circle. And if not…I don’t know. I’ll decide once it has come to that.

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 7d

Working on my longfic and needed to skip forward and write this scene. Previously, Aranel admitted revivification was common at her monastery and novice monks were expected to kill each other. She claimed she couldn't remember how many times she's died. That night, Halsin presses her

#BG3Fic

Halsin exhaled another stream of smoke and his smile faded into seriousness. His eyes met hers in an intense gaze.

“How many times have you died?”

“I told you I—”

“You lied.” Halsin’s voice was flat, more matter-of-fact than accusatory. She opened her mouth to protest and he waved a hand to stop her. “Karlach and Astarion may not be insightful enough to see when you are trying to deceive them, but I am.”

Aranel sighed softly.

“That’s truly what you want to know about me?”

Halsin’s lips quirked up in a smile that held little humor.

“There are…a great deal of questions I have about you. This is one of the least intrusive. But if you wish, I could pick another…”

Aranel leaned her head back against the tree to look at the stone above. They were both quiet for a long time. She found his presence comforting in a way she couldn’t quite put into words, and appreciated that he didn’t seem to feel the need to fill every silence the way their companions did.

“Two thousand, four hundred, seventy three.”

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 8d

Y'all want a druid boyfriend until he accidentally shifts into a bear during sex...wait...actually...that's hot...

junie 🌙🐾 @juniedayy.bsky.social · 9d

yall want a werewolf girlfriend, until she wants to bite into your neck permanently scarring you because she wants you as a mate for life 🙄

noodicula 🐰🦇 @noodlescripts.bsky.social · Feb 9

y’all want a witch girlfriend, until she binds your souls together for eternity 🙄

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Janu-beary - A Halsin Fic Collab @bg3collabs.bsky.social · 8d

WRITERS!!! Please keep an eye on the preferred method of contact you provided on your application as messages will start going out next week. :-)

Artists! We are working on matching art pitches to writing pitches, so don't worry, your invites are coming soon!

#halsin #fanfic #halsinfanfic #bg3

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 9d

Aranel and Halsin prepare Reithwin for Highharvestide. The adults spend close to a full tenday cooking and decorating, and Halsin leads the children in building a cart out of wood to be broken and buried as a sacrifice to Silvanus.

#TavQotD

Tragedy Sorbet @tragedysorbet.bsky.social · 9d

#tavqotd

It's that time of the year again. The days are shorter. There's a chill in the air as we stretch ever closer to Halloween. Or the Faerûn equivalent anyhow.

How is your Tav/Durge getting ready for this most wonderful occasion?

a carved pumpkin is lit up in the dark surrounded by other pumpkins .

ALT: a carved pumpkin is lit up in the dark surrounded by other pumpkins .

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Enjoy the Pizza @enjoythepizza.bsky.social · 10d

THE PALE ELF

A rich, complex cocktail featuring smooth cognac, sharp blackberry, and a whiff of rosemary.

Thanks to @thesubscribe.bsky.social for collaborating on this recipe!

Full recipe in replies.

#bg3 #bg3cocktails #astarion

A photograph of a red cocktail against a gray damask background, with a screenshot of Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3 on the right side.

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Janu-beary - A Halsin Fic Collab @bg3collabs.bsky.social · 10d

Apologies for being so quiet, but we are hard at work selecting and organizing pitches! Keep your eyes open for what's to come!

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Colours of the Gate Fanzine - 🏳️‍🌈 Pre-Orders Open Thru Oct 17 🏳️‍🌈 @coloursofthegate.bsky.social · 11d

(1/2) Colours of the Gate is running a charity raffle!

Every person that pre-orders our zine will be entered to win a print of this gorgeous piece by @miurgen.bsky.social, signed by Tim Downie.

Pre-Order Here: forms.gle/fyT95AV5eWTh...

#bg3 #GaleDekarios #bg3zine

A navy, yellow, and green art nouveau style graphic with a rainbow motif for the zine Colours of the Gate. It reads: Charity raffle. Art print signed by Tim Downie. Art by Miurgen. Pre-order to enter! It features an art piece depicting Gale reclined in a full bathtub, looking at the viewer. He is wearing a soaked through white button down shirt that is rolled up past his elbow and unbuttoned at the chest to reveal the orb.

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 11d

Aranel is The Hermit. She is wise and very independent, but a century of loneliness has left her feeling isolated and distant from others, and she struggles to let her guard down enough for others to get close. She's uncertain where she belongs and feels resigned to being alone

#TavQotD

Angel of Altabestudio ❤️ @altabestudio.com · 15d

#<3oc if your oc was a tarot card, what/which would they be?
(picking more than one is encouraged cause a lot have similar meanings)

Question by @flwr-bloonz.bsky.social
See comment for additional info

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 11d

New fic up, and probably the last in this series! I've been exploring a slowly ramping up D/s relationship between Halsin and Tav, culminating here in CNC

archiveofourown.org/works/71377686

#BG3Fic #BG3Fanfic #BG3NSFW

He left me...wanting more - TheSubScribe - Baldur's Gate (Video Games) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 11d

Characters not in your party just level up to whatever your level is when you swap them in

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 11d

If you have him in the party you go into dialogue when you try to go back to act 1 and he says something like, "I won't leave until the curse is broken." You can tell him to wait in camp

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 11d

No, he just stays in act 2 if you go back to act 1. He's still in camp when you return

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 14d

Third attempt died to a Dark Urge event I didn't really understand? I made it to Act 2, then woke up with a party member dead and all the others aggroed. Died in one Lae'zel turn when she hit me twice, action surged, and hit me twice more. I think next attempt will not be Durge...

#BG3

The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · Sep 7

Second attempt ended to the hag, which I tried to do before Dror. I have legitimately no idea what to do to get from level 4 to level 5. Dror, Hag, Paladins of Tyr, Zentarim gnolls, shadow druids, and Spider matriarch all are level 5

#BG3

The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · Aug 30

First attempt at Honor mode ended when I stumbled too close to Dror Ragzlin without destroying his war drum. Sigh. Didn't even manage to see if my Halsin dad bod mod worked

#BG3

The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 16d

Aranel would absolutely try shibari, but only Halsin is allowed to tie her up. She'd prefer vines but if it must be ropes they should be red to reflect her past as an Ilmatari

#TavQotD

Timmy 🔞🩸| Sekh's dad 💜 @lilmourningstarr.bsky.social · 17d

#tavQOTD / #ocQOTD

Would your tav/durge/oc try shibari? Would they prefer to be bound or to tie up a partner? What color rope would they like to use?

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The Sub Scribe 🔞 @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 16d

If Halsin has said no and this admirer still won't let up, Aranel will absolutely fight them, and she won't hold back. She'd probably have to be stopped from killing them. No means no even when it's coming from a pan, poly, and insatiably horny man

#TavQotD #ConsentIsSexy

Lilyfield @lelalyo.bsky.social · 17d

#Tavqotd

Flipping the scenario now!

Your Tav/Durge LI has an unwanted admirer who is so insistent that your Tav/Durge is an inadequate partner that they challenge your Tav/Durge to a duel at HIGHHHH NOOON, do they accept?

a man in a cowboy hat and vest is standing in front of a building and says `` high nooncoming '' .

ALT: a man in a cowboy hat and vest is standing in front of a building and says `` high nooncoming '' .

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