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New Art!

Alright, I’ve been dying to share this! I think this is my favorite piece by Isabela Zaneti yet—so many neat little touches and details.

Presenting our fab daddy/daughter duo!

I’ll be releasing more of the spoiler asks because I’m so excited to talk about this. All the asks I’ve received have been equally encouraging, insightful and hilarious, lol.

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Cantata Chapter 6 Public Update Is Live! 🥳

This chapter adds another 45k words of content, bringing the grand total to 230k words.

I can’t express how excited I am to be releasing this chapter! Not only does it feel like the culmination of my original concept, but also a brand new beginning. ❤️

As previously mentioned, there’s going to be a longer period between this and chapter 7. The next two months will be a struggle for me, and I’m happy to be able to share this chapter with you now. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

I can finally release all the asks I’ve been holding onto, lol. I won’t discuss big spoilers for a few days, but some of the asks may give hints. Be sure to mute the tag #chapter 6 spoilers if you want absolutely no hints.

Without further ado…

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528 Days

That’s how long I’ve been waiting to drop this chapter. 528 days since I first conceived Chapter 6, and Cantata as a whole.

And it’s now available in EARLY ACCESS for KoFi and Patreon subscribers! 🥳

Some of the fun things coming at you in this chapter:

Revelations

Surprise cameos

More revelations

Romantic one-on-one moments with the ROs

Some real fucking big revelations 👀

No cliffhangers whatsoever 😇

As a reminder, early access is a rough draft. I need to polish some scenes and add more flavor text.

Public release will be May 22!

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Get ready!! Public release for Chapter 13 begins one week from now, April 15th at 10 A.M. EST.

Patreon release begins five days early for the Midnight Tier on April 10th at 9 A.M. EST, while the Twilight tier receives the chapter three days early on April 12th.

As you may know, Chapter 13 features the long-awaited romance lock (and also more than a few smooches). And, for those of you who are playing platonically, these scenes are a chance for you to get closer to your RO of choice. I've had so much fun writing these scenes, and I'm so excited that they will finally be yours!

What to Expect:

Comfort [A] and discuss your history as best friends... or more

Talk about Blane's history and unravel why they hate you so much (or do they?)

Learn N's (surprisingly tragic?) backstory and find out what you mean to them

Hear K's thoughts on immortality and why they push you away

Find out what happened when Rylan got accused of murder

And more!!

The cat's out of the bag! See you all very, very soon. All my love <3

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Stop pissing on the porch

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One of my beta readers made this and I’m dying! 🤣❤️

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Cantata Chapter 5 is live!

This new chapter is 50k words, bringing the grand total to 185k.

There are a few scenes that run long with little opportunities for choice. In those instances, I tried to factor in your previous choices as much as possible. In fact, this whole chapter has variables firing left and right, lol. I think it’ll be a fun experience for those of you with multiple playthroughs. 😁

Without further ado… go forth and enjoy, my lovelies!

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Happy Cantata Birthday! 🎉

Today marks the one year anniversary of Cantata’s publication! I’m traveling back home today, which will be a weird bit of time travel, so I guess I get to celebrate Cantata’s anniversary twice, lol.

Anyway, I have a surprise… I actually finished Chapter 5 before my trip! It’s done! 🥳😱 I left it in the hands of my beta readers and Ko-Fi subscribers. If you want to read Chapter 5 now, follow the link to my Ko-Fi page and subscribe to be a Choral member.

In Chapter 5:

50k words of new content, bringing the grand total to 185k words. Yes, it is now longer than Viatica. 🫠

One on one moments with most of the ROs; one RO is conspicuously absent for most of the chapter but I promise it’s worth it

More humorous moments; there’s a lot to unpack in this chapter but I wanted it to be lighter than the last, so I strove for a balance

Opportunities for you to use your hobbies once more; they also show up in the Character Stats now

A mission and subsequent battle; I purposely made it brief and lighter than the last

Possible first kisses 👄 depending on your RO

Other changes:

Updated the tonics and binder options so that they trigger for non-binary MCs, too

While I technically finished Chapter 5 by the anniversary like I wanted (whew!) I like to sit and chew on my chapters a bit before releasing them. I’m going to review the comments from my beta readers, probably sprinkle in flavor text and flesh out some scenes.

Public release will be Friday, February 20!

Thank you all for following along with me and my writing. This journey has been fabulous and sometimes surreal, lol, and I’ve loved every minute. Let’s see what the next year brings! ❤️

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is vicente still entrenched in court life or is that gonna be revealed in the story as we go?

That will be revealed in story!

You’ll eventually get to court, but that’s for later chapters. Gotta have the requisite ball scene, amiright? 😉

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Two different versions because they're both accurate

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All I could think about the entire scene lmao

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It's yearning hours, who up?

Legitimately how I feel playing the D route. All we do is yearn, it's killing me 😭

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Also I have made way too many atoc memes, it's not even funny. Maybe I'll post more