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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).
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#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*."
A screenshot of a femme wood elf from Baldur's Gate 3
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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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

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“How old were you, the first time?” Halsin’s voice was blessedly flat. “Six.” The day shone in her memory, clearer than any around it. “I had been at the monastery for just over a year. Children that young were not normally expected to fight so hard, but the extra hours I had every day were already causing me to surpass my companions.” She hesitated, but now that she had begun she needed to tell the rest. “I don’t know how old my opponent was. Fifteen, maybe. He seemed a giant to me at the time, but I’m sure he was no taller than any other human boy his age. He threw me across the room so hard my neck snapped. When I came to, Grandmaster Mei reprimanded me for landing so poorly. I…I didn’t even realize at first what had happened. After everybody else had left, the cleric told me I’d need to make more diamonds. For the next time.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This felt like the right vibes for "bloodcurdling." Aranel's reaction to Abdirak in the goblin camp. CW: physical abuse

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Aranel began to wonder if perhaps it would actually be feasible to pick off the three leaders and sneak out. She began to turn to Halsin, to discuss a plan, when a sound caught her ear. Leather hitting flesh. The syncopated patter of the tails of a scourge. Aranel felt dizzy and sick. She breathed deeply, trying to slow her heart and find stillness but the sound seemed to surround her. Leather tails lashing at her skin, pointed barbs catching and being ripped away, burning pain and hot blood and— "Are you alright?" a voice, deep but soft, broke into her thoughts and brought her back to her senses.
October 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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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)

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“Hey Star,” Karlach called out. Her voice was superficially cheerful, but Aranel thought she could hear the undercurrent of a grumble. “Translate for me. I don’t like being left out.” Astarion looked over at Halsin and Aranel and sneered. “Sorry, darling. I don’t speak tree-licker. I have no idea what they’re saying, either.” Aranel bristled and pulled away from Halsin’s grasp to round on the vampire. “Of course you can’t,” she snapped in Common. “High elves go walking around with their noses so far in the air they can’t even see the trees.” Astarion took a step towards her, his mouth opening to react. “Enough.”
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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We're not asking. We're shutting it down. Mass blackout November 25th - December 2nd. The largest economic blackout protest in U.S. history begins November 25th! No work, no projects, no spending, no events, no restaurants, no restaurants. No backing out!!! Prepare for the impact! To prevent "spike spending" before and after the blackout, we ask that all participants purchase goods needed from community-owned stores and markets leading up to and after the dates. This helps with sustained impact and keeps our money out of the mega businesses' pockets. Coordinated national pushback. Maximum local impact
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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

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A screenshot of the goblin barbeque from Baldur's Gate 3. One of the barbequed items is highlighted, and labeled "roasted dwarf ribs."
October 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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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
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The album art for American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash The album art for the Arcane Season Two soundtrack The album art for Oops!...I Did It Again by Britney Spears The album art for Immortalized by Disturbed
October 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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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

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A graphic reading "7 Day Character Challenge." 1. Write a diary entry 2. Make a collage to represent a place 3. Choose 4 similar characters 4. Create a social media profile 5. Take a personality quiz 6. Write a letter 7. Make a playlist 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
October 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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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

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A graphic reading "7 Day Character Challenge." 1. Write a diary entry 2. Make a collage to represent a place 3. Choose 4 similar characters 4. Create a social media profile 5. Take a personality quiz 6. Write a letter 7. Make a playlist 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.
October 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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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

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A graphic reading "7 Day Character Challenge." 1. Write a diary entry 2. Make a collage to represent a place 3. Choose 4 similar characters 4. Create a social media profile 5. Take a personality quiz 6. Write a letter 7. Make a playlist A fake social media post from Aranel. Her profile picture is a sweet, soft moment with Halsin. The post itself reads "Absolute defeated. Worm finally gone. Going to go sleep for three days. Wake me up when we reach Reithwin." Attached is a picture of Halsin and Aranel at the final battle, Halsin holding her up from behind as she screams in pain
October 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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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

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Toph Beifong from Avatar: The Last Airbender Chirrut Îmwe from Rogue One Belle from Disney's Beauty and the Beast (the 1991 animated one) Jane Eyre from Jane Eyre
October 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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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.

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A graphic reading "7 Day Character Challenge." 1. Write a diary entry 2. Make a collage to represent a place 3. Choose 4 similar characters 4. Create a social media profile 5. Take a personality quiz 6. Write a letter 7. Make a playlist 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
October 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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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

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A graphic reading "7 Day Character Challenge." 1. Write a diary entry 2. Make a collage to represent a place 3. Choose 4 similar characters 4. Create a social media profile 5. Take a personality quiz 6. Write a letter 7. Make a playlist 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.
October 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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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

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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.”
October 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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(Kidding, incubate your work as you see fit. But also...)
An incredibly fat raccoon with the caption "Gimmie da gorbage"
September 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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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 😈

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A screenshot from Halsin's romance scene in BG3, showing him about to kiss a femme wood elf A render of Halsin and a femme wood elf in a private room of the Elfsong. The wood elf sits on Halsin's lap and they have their foreheads tipped against each other, just taking in each other's presence after the final battle
September 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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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...

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A screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3 of Halsin with a modded body that is softer and rounder
September 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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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!

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A graphic that says announces the Colours of the Gate preorder from September 12-October 10. The sneak preview text reads: "Shadowheart squeezed her hand and turned back to Halsin's tent. She reached up and lightly drummed her fingers against one of its posts. Her fingernails made a soft clacking sound against the woos, barely audible even in the still night. Halsin slowly opened his eyes, eyelids fluttering as he regained awareness. Upon seeing Shadowheart he brightened and smiled. 'Good evening, my heart,' his voice was hushed, but held a track of a knowing smirk. 'Couldn't sleep?' 'Neither of us could.' Shadowheart took a step into the tent, pulling Karlach close to stand beside her. 'We were wondering if you would join us.'"
September 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Tumblr user junk-thunder writes: "Is sex with angels monsterfucking" forum thread shut down by moderators after 300 pages of fierce debate, 26 banned accounts and 8 doxxed members Tumblr user virtualgirladv replies: "Would the angels consider us bestiality" Follow-up thread created and instantly closed with the forum going into lockdown temporally (sic) #spicy theology
September 13, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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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)
Halsin from Baldur's Gate 3 Vander from Arcane Ganondorf from Tears of the Kingdom Jonah from Boyfriend Dungeon
September 6, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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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!
A graphic that says "Hey! I'm part of the class of HighHarvest 2025 in the BG3 Yearbook. Out in late September as a free pdf-download" with a polaroid of Aranel, a femme wood elf monk
September 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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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
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A 3D render of Halsin grabbing the wrist of a femme wood elf Tav, who is looking sideways up at him. Another angle, this time showing that Halsin and the wood elf are both kneeling beside Karlach, who is writhing in pain on the ground. The wood elf has her hands extended towards Karlach
September 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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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

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A shot of the final battle area of BG3. A femme wood elf in monk robes is screaming and raising her hands to her face. Halsin stands behind her, one arm wrapped around her chest and the other gripping her wrist. Her feet are not quite touching the ground, as Halsin is fully preventing her from collapsing
August 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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You're more than welcome to draw Aranel if she suits your fancy!
A femme wood elf OC from Baldur's Gate in a skimpy leather outfit The same OC, nakey, about to kiss Halsin
August 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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August 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM