Hello, and welcome to Black Cat's Path 2025! Black Cat's Path is my annual Halloween-themed commission drive wherein I offer a bounty of hot smut writing for everyone that wants to dare enter my commission forms. In the years before I've offered prompts and YCHs during one year, but we're continuing to play around with the offerings this year and opening things up to a spread of potential options for y'all. It's a real mixed candy bowl of commissions. :3c

What do you mean by that? What exactly are you offering?

We're keeping things to 31 offerings this time around after doing 34 for BCP 2025: The Camera's Eye. As said before, the amount of potential story types on offer is broadening this year!

Prompts are returning, with ten slots! Prompts are three-page (probably) short stories based around a single word. So like, if you purchased "Envenomed" from a list of prompts, it could be about a snake biting you and turning you into a naga through being poisoned, or someone getting doped up and horny from a drider's bite, or you getting taken over by Venom from Spider-Man! These are very flexible as long as there's some connection to the prompt. Prompts are priced at $35 USD, are first-come and first-serve, and limited to two slots per customer this year to keep things fair. If you're interested, check it out over here!

Now, we get onto what's new for this year, and we'll start with a big one... Literally! For the first time ever I'm offering ten long-form slots as part of Black Cat's Path! Long-forms are just straight up writing commissions. No muss and no fuss beyond the thematic details all BCP stories will get mentioned below, you tell me an idea and I craft it for you. You know how it works! Long-forms are at $13 USD a page, with slots selected from submitted forms after October 14th, 11:59 PM EST. I write at about 800 words average a page, in twelve point font Times New Roman. You will be charged based on single-spacing the lines, with double-spacing coming afterwards.

Going from big to small... the one-pager experiment worked VERY well, and accordingly, I'll be opening up for six one-pager commissions! These are, as they suggest, (hypothetically) single-page commissions meant to let you explore a short scene, sculpt out an idea, or get a fix on how a certain character or species behaves. You can do this just with an idea off the top of your head, or we can make this a caption commission where you give me a picture that you own and I can base it off of what's going on in there. One-pager commissions are priced at $11 USD each. Long-forms and one-pagers will be opening later today once the advert for them is finished!

Finally, we have something that I'm experimenting with that's a little bit between a YCH and a long-form... I'm tentatively calling these host slots and will be providing five slots for these. Host slots are focused around a singular kink with a similar intro for each story, focused around the focal character for this year or "host" kicking your character's story off. This year, the kink is TF, the host is Roil, and he'll be selling or offering you a potion. Beyond these fixed potions, the sky's the limit on what you want to get. More details (along with an example of an intro to a host story!) will be coming shortly! Host slots will be priced at $120 USD for a tentative ten pages each, with slots selected from submitted forms after October 14th, 11:59 PM EST. Keep your eyes on this spot over the next few days for when they'll be going up!

All of these offerings are pay-on-completion. You pay me when they’re finished and when you’re satisfied.

So, to reiterate:
10 prompt slots at $35 each
10 long form slots at $13 a page
6 one-pager slots at $11 each
5 host story slots for $120 each

All of these offerings will be guided to fit the commission drive's theme. This may take the form of your story specifically ending up in the festival mentioned below or basing it in the town near the woods of the Black Cat's Path. This could be giving things a more general spooky or horror-based vibe. It could even be that your story takes place in the Fall or around Halloween. I'll work with you on this!

You've had themes for the past few years for these, what's this one?

The theme for 2025 is "A Phantasmal Festival", wherein we explore past the town settled against the woods of the Black Cat's Path and head further down the path itself to a massive party taking place on Halloween that's almost like a monster's Coachella or Burning Man. It's taking place in a valley that doesn't seem like it should exist, considering that the landscape doesn't appear anywhere near the town, and is filled with fantastic buildings carrying a seasonal charm to them. You've been guided here by an enigmatic munchkin black cat going by Roil, full name Veins Roiling, or maybe you're a monster that just found yourself here.

You know that everyone around you should be tearing each other apart, but for some reason, anyone who passes from the woods into this area seems to lose that violent instinct. People are behaving each other.

When the sun rises, you know this will all go away, and you'll be in danger, so you have a time limit to enjoy as much as you want. Go, have fun. Make mistakes. Maybe find yourself somewhere you don't want to be if that's your thing...

You could also just have a good time. The dead like to rise out of their coffins around these woods for a reason, after all.

I wanted to do a lighter theme this year since 2025 has been hard on everyone... myself included, it's definitely been a struggle at times. So, no overarching threat to have to worry about! Make this one a chill time if you want! Get absolutely fucked over because you wanted to prod somewhere or something you shouldn't have! Use this as an opportunity to kiss werebears or get stuffed with a fuckton of candy by ghosts! :3

Are you going to be finishing all of these by the end of October? This seems like a lot of work!

Admittedly, no, I think I would die! That, and the long-form and host openings require a bit more time to feasibly do with the time I'm giving people to come up with ideas! I also plan on taking a break for a week at the end of the month in order to celebrate my birthday, so just from sheer time crunch it's not gonna happen.

I can promise one thing: The one-pagers will be done by the end of October. The rest will be done as I'm able to do them.

With that in mind, I would like to state that BCP 2025 will most likely be my last opening for the year, barring emergency openings. If you had anything you wanted to get from me before 2026 that you think could work within the context of this event, now's your chance.

There's still a few prompts that still haven't gone up yet from BCP 2024, are those still coming?

Mmmhmm! BCP 2024 was a fall and winter combo theme and thus there's still a few stories that need to come out in November and December along with some stories that need more polish. Have no fear, I'll be finishing those before the end of the year! You'll actually be seeing some of them, prepped and edited and ready to go, being posted in conjunction with BCP 2025's entries!

That's about it, I'm real excited to see where all y'all's minds go with this one, this opening is always a highlight of my year. I like being able to experiment and bring new things to the table, I always learn new things about what y'all want when I do, so hopefully this variety bag of treats is enticing to your appetite. Enjoy, party, celebrate with me.

We're going to make Halloween last the rest of the year. :3