Blood Stains the Snow — Worm Dancing in a Sake Cup In which Oyuki convinces Atsu to play the part of a sake house waitress while they track down a Matsumae informant who has a lead on the Kitsune.
Blood Stains the Snow — Waiting by Glowing Coals In which Oyuki ponders the implications of Atsu's return.
Blood Stains the Snow — A Premonition of Death In which Oyuki finds an unlikely ally when she meets a wanderer who turns out to be a ghost from her past.
Reader Mailbag: Kassandra, Atsu, and Similar Beginnings Leading to Different Ends A longtime reader wrote in with a great question and I've finally played enough Ghost of Yōtei to be able to answer it.
Craft Talk: On Pacing Dialogue Getting dialogue to sparkle means polishing lot of tricky little facets, one of which is pace. Too slow and readers get bored. Too fast and you'll leave them behind while the conversation gallops away. Here are a few techniques I've used to keep a sequence of dialogue moving exactly how I want it.
Member Poll: On Toxic Yuri Taking a quick temperature check of the membership to guide the direction of future stories and posts on this site.
Sneak Peek: States of Resemblance, Chapter 4 Author's Note: While I'm pretty sure this chapter draft is in good shape, the final version of this story is subject to change.
One More Time So I'm back again, giving this website thing one more try, because I'm fucking done with techbro bastards stealing my stories on AO3 to train their shitty "AI" models. But first, as a soundtrack to this post, please enjoy this classic tune, which, like