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

(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

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

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

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

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

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

"Halsin, what the hells are you doing? We've never been exclusive?!" #TavQotD

Aranel is 5 feet even -- definitely on the small side for a wood elf, but not abnormally so. She's slightly more muscular than BT1, in the toned way of a martial artist. I don't know how tall Halsin is canonically, but it's quite a size difference #TavQOTD

I'm The SubScribe! I write explicit fan fiction. I do all sorts, but the most common is M!D/F!s, ranging from the minor (dirty talk, hair pulling) to the major (bondage, choking) to the extreme (CNC/r@pe play, pain play, NC). Find me on AO3! thesubscribe.carrd.co #BG3NSFW

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

So happy to be part of this collab raising money for good causes!

Just a couple more days to sign up to the fic collab project starring our beloved #Halsin - we may put out a call for space filling once initial pitches have been picked too 💙 so do keep an eye on @bg3collabs.bsky.social for those posts~

Any Magic enjoyers? Playing around with a Halsin commander deck idea. Basically green elf tribal, but then Tree Daddy turns all the elves into bears moxfield.com/decks/z0tVqh... #BG3 #MtG

4 more days left to get those contributor applications in!! Please come join us in creating a collaborative romp through the Sword Coast with our big bear, #halsin! #halsin #bg3 #bg3fanfic #collaborative #rarepairs #nsfw #kinks

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

Aranel is not very trusting of others, but she doesn't worry about food. Her monk training makes her immune to poison and most disease so if somebody did try to hurt her that way she probably wouldn't even notice #TavQOTD

I'm so excited to be helping with this collaboration! Have a favorite character you wanna write with Halsin? Throw in your pitch! All ships are welcome!

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

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So we are looking for pitches for #Halsin with: Minsc, Minthara, Mizora, Gortash, Withers, Volo, Rolan, Durge, Nym Orlith, Abdirak, Dribbles the Clown, Naaber, Hope, Korilla, Mamzell Amira, Dammon, Nocturne, Auntie Ethel, Ulder Ravengard... (More in the next)

1 week left to apply! I'm also a foolish fool and Sunday is in fact the 21st September so....I'll give it til whenever I awaken on Monday 22nd before it closes~ First reply to this will be all the characters that don't yet have pairing pitches to write with for Halsin~ (Not counting flexi options)

Pre-orders are open! I am so excited to be a part of this zine, and get to share a little sneak peek of the fic I wrote for the NSFW add-on in a few days! #BG3Zine

Applications to join as a contributor are now open! forms.gle/oWRGHu3hh3JH... The form is for both writers and artists, and you are welcome to apply for both if you would like to do both~ The form can also be edited, so don't worry if you want to change something later. Form closes SUN 22ND SEPT 2/4

A little less than two weeks to get those applications in! Come and join us for what is sure to be a wildly creative project involving one of our favorite druids, #Halsin! #halsin #silverbough #bg3 #bg3fanfic #fanfic #nsfw #nsfwfanfic

Aranel is very much a sub. I've written a little series (one more chapter coming next month) of an AU Aranel and Halsin traveling together over 100 years before BG3, exploring D/s dynamics together archiveofourown.org/series/4797814 #BG3NSFW #TavQOTD

Crowd-sourcing ideas: what are some insults you think wood elves and high elves would throw at each other? I know there are generic elf "slurs" like "knife-ears," but what about more specifics between the two? #BG3

Come join us!!! We are looking for writers and artists of all ability levels who'd like to work on a cohesive collaborative story about Halsin's adventures after an encounter with an incubus. ;-) Applications are open until 9/22.

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

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)

Still plenty of time and plenty of spaces to fill! We're open to popular companions and the wildest crackships, so please do pitch what you're passionate about~ Kinks welcome too, though we will be keeping it a bit lighter rather than DD:DNE for this~ #Halsin #BG3Halsin #BG3 #BaldursGate3 #BG3NSFW

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!

Joooiiiiinn usssss #BG3NSFW #BG3FanFic

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

New smut up on AO3! Continuing my series of Tav and Halsin exploring D/s. Today, Tav has to use her safe word so Halsin calms her down with some sensory deprivation. archiveofourown.org/works/69949276 #BG3FanFic #BG3NSFW

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That's me! This zine has been so much fun to work on and I get to share a little teaser soon! #BG3Zine #BG3NSFW

Aranel has very low charisma. She's blunt to a fault and holds her emotions in check a little too well, making people think she's cold and uncaring. She also can't lie at all, so she fails a lot of deception and persuasion checks #TavQOTD

I can't wait to share a preview of the story I've written for this!

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

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 Halsin Collab is now open for contributor applications! Form link in the second post of the thread~ Love #Halsin? Want to participate in a #BG3NSFW collaborative effort to make fic and art pairing our favourite druid with a whole range of different characters including rare NPCs? Come and join!

Welcome to #Janu-beary! We are a collaborative #fanfiction project planning to release on AO3 at the start of 2026, with a whole lot of love for Halsin through fic and art. The idea is a cohesive storyline, showing #Halsin paired up with all kinds of characters in NSFW scenarios #BG3 #BG3NSFW 1/4

Halsin is very encouraging. He thinks Aranel needs to be more comfortable with herself and her desires after years of suppressing them. In turn, Aranel enjoys watching Halsin flirt with others and regularly pesters him for details after he spends an evening with someone #TavQOTD

i know what you good people want to see <:3c #vander

The morning after the final battle, Halsin braids flowers into Aranel's hair. I actually wrote this as part of the fic series I made for Halsin Week 2025. Warning: first half of the fic is the evening before, and wildly NSFW. archiveofourown.org/works/65826019 #TavQOTD #BG3NSFW

halsin: everybody thinks it's funny that i turn into a bear and i like honey me, slathering organic globs of raw honey on every inch of my skin: how rude of them, i would never laugh at that.

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