The SubScribe
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The SubScribe
@thesubscribe.bsky.social
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🔞 Writing explicit fan fiction primarily of cis women (characters and OCs) being dommed by men, and the occasional woman. Currently writing Halsin/Tav (Baldur's Gate) and Ganondorf/Zelda (Tears of the Kingdom).
#TavQotD Small facts

👊 125 at the start of BG3

👊 Born to the same druid circle helped by Jaheira in BG1

👊 Can intertwine her ki with another's to painbear

👊 The year of BG3, the grandmaster from her monastery, Bak Mei, is killed by adventurers in Candlekeep

"I do not fear death, *Aerister*."
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Today's prompt for #BG3FirstsWeek is first physical fight or battle. I'm tweaking it a little. Here's a snippet about the first time Aranel died in battle

#BG3 #BG3Fic
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This felt like the right vibes for "bloodcurdling." Aranel's reaction to Abdirak in the goblin camp. CW: physical abuse

#WiPSnips #BG3Fic
October 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Aranel and Halsin regularly speak Wild Elvish to each other to keep their conversations private. It has occasionally caused some tension with the group...(snippet from a current longfic wip, when Aranel and Halsin are arguing in Wild Elvish in the Underdark)

#TavQotD #BG3Fic
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Roughly once a week I see a post that says siding with Halsin is just as bad as siding with Minthara because he makes you genocide a group of poor, innocent goblins. Instead of arguing about how he literally stresses that you *only* need to kill the leaders I'm just going to start posting this

#BG3
October 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Final day! Make a playlist.
1. Hurt - Johnny Cash, after being orphaned
2. Wasteland - Royal and the Serpents, after searching for years and finding nowhere to belong
3. Stronger - Britney Spears, during BG3, learning to trust
4. You're Mine - Disturbed, after BG3, with Halsin in Reithwin
#BG3Fic
October 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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
October 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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
October 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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
October 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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
October 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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
October 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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
October 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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
October 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
(Kidding, incubate your work as you see fit. But also...)
September 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Halsin was Aranel's first! I actually wrote a fic of it for Halsin Week 2025. She later embraced her own pansexuality and wood elf polyamory, but nobody could ever quite live up to Halsin 😈

archiveofourown.org/works/65825890

#TavQotD #BG3NSFW
September 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Awww, yeah. Finally made it deep enough into an honor mode attempt to get Halsin in the camp. Looks like Tav's Dad Bod mod is working. Cannot wait to get this man in my party and get his shirt off...

#BG3
September 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Little sneak peek of the fic I wrote for the @coloursofthegate.bsky.social NSFW add-on! I had so much fun working on this, and I really hope you enjoy it!

#BG3 #BG3FanFic #BG3Zine #BG3NSFW
September 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
September 13, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Fictional "hold me backs." What can I say? I lika da bige bois. This is in order

1. Halsin (BG3)
2. Vander (Arcane)
3. Ganondorf (Tears of the Kingdom)
4. Jonah (Boyfriend Dungeon)
September 6, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Soooo excited for Aranel to be in the @bg3yearbook.bsky.social class of HighHarvest! I learned a lot about her through this and can't wait to see everybody's wonderful OCs!
September 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
In the Underdark, Karlach is badly injured near the Sussur tree. Healing doesn't work and she can't be carried back to camp, so Aranel takes on her pain so she can walk. Halsin is already concerned by what he's seen of her tendency to self-sacrifice unnecessarily and tries to talk her out of it
#BG3
September 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I've been playing around with ripping assets from the game and posing them in Blender. Here's a scene from Aranel's story, when the brain kills all the parasites. Halsin, parasite-less, grabs her to stop her from clawing out her eyes in pain

#BG3 #BG3Tav #BG3OC
August 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
You're more than welcome to draw Aranel if she suits your fancy!
August 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
August 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM