Untitled

Translator and Writer. Author of Vampire and the Dayspring Star

[musoumiko]

VatDS 90 — And His Head is Quick to Follow

All according* to plan** I suppose old habits die hard, but there's no better bait than exactly what they're after… Writing actions scenes always has me feeling troubled about if the reader's going to remain engaged with it or not, tbh

90 — And His Head is Quick to Follow Story Page

[sakura-rose12]

Commission for Sister Carmilla featuring Carnelia Idra, Agletas Ochros and Talias Tamisrah from @musoumiko 's story Vampire and the Dayspring Star.

[musoumiko]

VatDS 89 — A Fool and His Dream Are Swiftly Parted

And during pride month? Brother, you're cooked! Chopped! Queue the "Everybody disliked that" meme.

Also last week I apparently hit 100 chapters uploaded! What a huge milestone… for not even being a third done like I'd hoped,

89 — A Fool and His Dream Are Swiftly Parted Story Page

[musoumiko]

VatDS 88 — Unfortunately, He Was Given Something Else

Something tells me that whatever he has planned, it's going to go remarkably poorly. Which 'he' am I talking about? Why that's the magic of storytelling, it could be any of them!

88 — Unfortunately, He Was Given Something Else Story Page

Also available is this month's bonus chapter! Which you can find over on my Patreon for subscribers of the 5 and 10 dollar tier, along with all the previous month's vignettes. It's a pretty good deal if you ask me!

Here's the link, in case you don't want to go digging: June Bonus Chapter

[musoumiko]

VatDS 87 — He's Going to Need a Bigger Shovel

Time to call in your bets. There's always a bigger fish, after all. Mooching is an important strategy in fishing! …I bet Lycoris was pretty good at fishing, what with the whole peninsula nature of Dauwen.

87 — He's Going to Need a Bigger Shovel Story Page

[musoumiko]

VatDS 86 — The Form is Good, but the Technique Needs Work

Be sure to like and retweet if you think he's not gonna survive to the next chapter! Unless you're on bsky or tumblr, in which case be sure to react with an emoji instead.

Once more I have fallen to the curse of simply writing Too Much. Alas!

86 — The Form is Good, but the Technique Needs Work Story Page

[musoumiko]

VatDS 85 — Playing with Dolls

One has to imagine those little booties are enchanted so they can run fast enough to keep up. Or maybe said mysterious individual was just walking very slowly and cautiously, who can say?

85 — Playing with Dolls Story Page

[musoumiko]

VatDS 84 — Every Self-Respecting Tyrant has an Expansive Surveillance Network

This isn't the first time we've seen these little balls of fun, but as it turns out, there's a lot of complications with them! As a fun side comment, there's approximately 400 of the little guys in the Spire. This statistic isn't really narratively relevant so I feel no concern sharing it here.

84 — Every Self-Respecting Tyrant has an Expansive Surveillance Network Story Page

Also available is the monthly bonus Patreon chapter for May, right here!

[musoumiko]

VatDS 83 — A Life Waning

It feels weird having that extra long wait between chapters… hopefully it makes sense why I was more glad that the interlude was the longer delay rather than this chapter. I'd feel terrible making everyone endure this for even longer.

And to those concerned about certain unspecified decisions, just remember, Vampires live long lives! There's always a chance for minds to change. Fuhu~

83 — A Life Waning Story Page

[musoumiko]

VatDS Interlude — Audience and Audacity

If I had a nickel for every princess who received emotion-reading abilities from a goddess… can I even do this bit if I wrote one of them? Honestly it wasn't even intentional, considering the similarities end there. I'm sure our princess has a much nicer goddess backing her, even.

Interlude — Audience and Audacity Story Page

[musoumiko]

VatDS 82 — My First Birthday

You only get two of those before the series is cancelled forever. We cannot repeat the mistakes of Square's past.

Who do you think gave the best gift? Vote now on your phones! (this isn't a serious poll) Personally, I'm biased as I also used to have something like what Dahlia gave, though it didn't have wooden scratchy claws. Probably for the best, tbh.

82 — My First Birthday Story Page

Also available, April's monthly bonus chapter!

Sunlight Filters Through the Boughs

[musoumiko]

VatDS 81 — A Life Waxing

I would say "at last, I can finally skip ahead a little" except… I did that silly thing where I wrote so much I had to split the chapter into multiples again.

81 — A Life Waxing Story Page

[musoumiko]

VatDS 80 — Afterparty

It's normal for girl's.

In the Empire at least, maybe Lycoris still just has a bit of culture shock to overcome…

Also worth noting that there's going to be a vote on Discord about which style of chapter layout people prefer.

80 — Afterparty Story Page

[musoumiko]

VatDS 79 — The Rise and Fall of House Lasombra

How many times do you think Mizar's party found a really cool sword-shaped stick in the woods while they traveled? Probably enough that it annoyed Tatyana to (metaphorical) death.

79 — The Rise and Fall of House Lasombra Story Page

[musoumiko]

VatDS 78 — The Worst Wheel in History

Originally, the festival was going to be a single chapter, and yet I ended up writing enough words that it's become four somehow. There's just too many important little moments… OTL

78 — The Worst Wheel in History Story Page

[musoumiko]

VatDS 77 — Round One

You know, this chapter is supposed to be about the longest day in the year, which is also in the middle of summer. I wasn't expecting to release it on a weekend where it feels like summer in the middle of winter…

77 — Round One Story Page

[izumi-is-blah]

Vgen Comm for Carmilla | VatDS on royalroad