#cyberpunk lars

[busyvampire]

[breezypunk]

This outfit kicks ass, he looks so good here!

Big thanks to @a-pirate for the amazing shots of my boy <3

[arcandoria]

Birthday Boy! 🐺

Happy birthday to my beloved dumbass who has brought me so much joy these past years AND was responsible for helping me find so many OOC friends. 💕

OCs belonging to @togepies @pinkyjulien @lucky38-2077 @lokiina and @aldecaldhos joined Dante's little bday party! <3

[wanderingaldecaldo]

📸 by @a-pirate | comm detes

Finally Friday

[ugh-my-back]

📸: @a-pirate 💙🖤

[pinkydude]

[kharonion]

pretty face... dark soul.

Commissioned absolutely gorgeous shots from @a-pirate — these are but a couple. (I'm still going FERAL over them btw.)

[vkei-company]

DEVIL FASHION Cyberpunk bright leather women lace up mesh belts

デビルファッションのレザーコルセット

メッシュとレースアップを取り入れたサイバーパンクなデザイン

デビルファッション　ゴシックコルセット　フェイクレザーコルセット　編上げ　メッシュ　黒　ウエストベルト　メンズコルセット　ユニセックス　ヴィジュアル系　ビジュアル系　ロック　インポート　V系バンド

[valerie-valentyne-cp77]

[desertpirate77]

Cyberpunk 2077 - Tie Dye Collection

Here's the link

4 Items each for both Masc and Fem framed Vs. 18 color options Vanilla frames only for now, cuz I still need to learn how to refit

First big mod I've done and posted on the Nexus. It was sort of an accident cause it started as me learning how to do something, that accidentally went better than I thought it would.

Big thanks to everyone who took those beautiful pics: Ace, Altar, Beanie, Halkuonn, Kharonion, Lar Rackell, Lucky38, Nippie, PinkyDude, Quelatoni, Wilxfyre and Winks And a huge huge big thank you to the big brain mod experts on the Cyberpunks Discord server for the help and advice! 💖

[the12thnightproject]

Game Review, Part 2: Lovebrush Chronicles

Read Part One Here

By the time your character finishes the Eden routes, it's become clearer what is going on and what the threat is to Earth. I believe you can read the existing worlds in any order, but I suggest not doing so, because the revelations in each world build upon each other.

The third route, is actually more like route 2.5 - Awakening, and while there is less at stake here, the stories are darker, and none of them have conclusive endings.

In "Awakening" MC doesn't leave Earth. Instead, she and each LI go to a new "virtual reality theater" and experience a personalized movie experience. The LIs are told that the experience will read their subconscious to give them a movie about a possible future. What MC knows is that this experience is actually to wake the LIs up a threat to Earth (from, well, more details would be a spoiler).

Each of the awakening stories are sci-fi, and they deal with how MC and their LI's lives have been changed by the threat. Cael too gets a story here, but for him we get a story that might be about his past.

The Awakening stories are each about a third of the length of the other worlds' main stories, and if you've got stamina saved (and in this game, you can stack up your daily stamina between reading routes, so you can indeed have a lot banked) it's easy enough to get through all of these in a few hours if you are a fast reader.

Finally we come to the main story (Lost Bloodline) that was just released a couple of days ago, and I've only read that story's prologue. This one is being released in three different parts, with part one covering Ayn, Alkaid, and Clarence's story, part two will be Cael's (I believe) and part three will be Lars'.

From what I have seen of Lost Bloodline, MC's travel to this particular world was, unlike her other visits, unexpected and unwilling, and she does not know how to travel back to her own world. This world is a lush and vibrant planet populated by people who can turn into animals.

There are four factions who have dominion over certain parts of the world, The Lord of the Light (Lars), The Lord of the Wind (Clarence), The Lord of the Forest (Alkaid) and the Lord of the Night (Ayn).

In this route, Cael will (finally) be a LI as well, but at the beginning of this story, he's searching for MC, but he realizes that he is on the right world, but at a different place in their timeline.

As you can see from this and the previous post, there is an abundance of content in this game. Besides the main story, there are event stories that happen in between (and around) main story releases. These generally alternate between stories in the modern/true world that are tied to calendar events (New Years, White Day, Halloween) and stories that have fantasy elements (a story collection in which MC is a witch, a cyberpunk story involving a game, a historical fantasy associated with the lantern festival, for example).

(Someone has nicely put together a spreadsheet of story and event order here).

Additionally, you can unlock modern day stories by increasing your affection points with the characters and by collecting gacha cards. There is also a way to phone and text the other LIs (though Cael is notoriously bad at answering calls), and get mini stories there too. I'm amused that Lars is very fond of sending gifsets to MC. Modern Lars is kind of a goofball at times.

Speaking of the Gacha... the card collection you have is what you use to advance in the story. You put these cards in an array of "battle cards" and at various points in the story, they are needed to fend off an attack:

To level up the power on your cards, there is a "practice area" available on your home page:

And that brings me to one of the things I don't like about the game. The UI is very complicated, and it took me a good week of playing it before I got a sense of where everything is. Each of these areas connects to a daily task of some kind that you need to complete, or sometimes just check in, in order to pick up stamina or in game currency. It's not a simple go in and click one or two buttons. You need to hop all over the place (there's also an upstairs, and an island map that you zip through) in order to get your daily gifts. Again, once I learned where everything was, it became easier to go through it all, but there were a few days where I missed gifts because I simply didn't see that they were there.

(The good thing about training your gacha cards to level them up though, is that you can go in and program it on automatic, then go do something else for five minutes. You don't have to baby it.)

If you're still with me, here is my bullet list of pros and cons of Lovebrush.

Pro: Content, lots of content, a fascinating storyline that builds on the overall series lore world by world.

Con: Complicated UI

Pro: MC. She's great, she isn't overpowered, but she does have abilities, and generally most of the LIs respect those abilities (in face, the Eden version of Lars recognizes that she is stronger than he is and hires her as a bodyguard).

Con/Pro: Not all of the world route endings are completely happy. Winning often comes at a cost, and some endings are definitely bittersweet. Still, it adds to the tension and emotional connection to the story, but it's not like Cybird where there are happily ever afters in everything but the specifically marked tragic routes. (Not that there is anything wrong with that, I'm still an Ikesen uber, through and through).

Pro: If you make the wrong choice, you die, or end up in a time loop, or an eternal prisoner, however, this does not force you to return all the way to the start, you can just backtrack to the previous crossroad and make a different choice.

Con: If you are looking for steamy content, I haven't come across anything beyond a few kisses here or there.

Pro: That said, the stories have all been quite romantic and emotionally satisfying (and as I said, the Godheim Clarence story is gorgeous).

Pro: You get your own cat.

Pro: As you might be able to tell from the attached GCs, the artwork is gorgeous.

[busyvampire]

[breezypunk]

Maggie from @a-pirate! Thank you for all the gorgeous shots of my #1 girl, I love them! ♥︎

[crimeoftheweekpodcast]

What the hell, since it's Podcast Girls Week, and Iggy Sever is my own podcast girlie... here's a rough version of Episode 1. There's no credits or music or soundscaping. It's just me, the mic, and my shaky grasp of editing in Reaper. And here's the basic transcript for those who'd like it.

Crime Of the Week is a cyberpunk true crime podcast set in So-Lar City. Each week, Iggy Sever breaks down the weirdest and wildest crimes across all corners of the sprawling megacity, all in under 15 minutes!

This episode: sex toys are stolen and NOT used for their intended purpose.

[wanderingaldecaldo]

When your BFF introduces you to her favorite Christmas Eve tradition of onesies and you go along with it because she's your ride or die.

onesies by @wolv2077 | christmas decor by @bnbc

[mejomonster]

SOME FIC RECS LETS GO

These are the fics I'm currently reading or rereading. <3

Divergence by 13empress: https://archiveofourown.org/works/3327329/chapters/7273328

It is AOS Star Trek, Spirk, time travel and fix it fic and just was so amazing last time I read it.

Rapture by ratbones: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33172045/chapters/82355902

Weilan, Guardian, cyberpunk case fic science fiction mystery. Summary: In the towering neon-lit half-underground metropolis of Dragon City, a cryptic homicide case brings together Dixing Register Department field agent Shen Wei and an unusual detective by the name of Kunlun, who may not be what he seems.

Mismatch by laireshi: https://archiveofourown.org/works/25206172

Weilan, Guardian, secret identity. Summary: Zhao Yunlan goes to Shen Wei's office and runs into the Black-Cloaked Envoy instead. He does his best to convince him not to send Shen Wei back to Dixing.

Void by Alxina and xantissa: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38479816

Love and Redemption, Luohuo Jidu X Yu Sifeng, Summary: What happened in the Demon Citadel when Luohou Jidou realized Yu Sifeng was a lot more injured than he let on. (I'm so happy fic for LaR exists)

The Crimson Lotus by bonibaru: https://archiveofourown.org/works/19983613/

Guardian, Weilan, summary: A chance meeting. An unexpected union. A kingdom in turmoil. Secrets run deep in the tumultuous land of Haixing - but none more deeply than those between crown prince Zhao Yunlan and his mysterious new husband from Dixing.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by ancient_moonshine: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33438478/chapters/83065069

Guardian, weilan, organized crime au, dark. Summary: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33438478/chapters/83065069

Who Wants to Live Forever by The_Marron: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38704245

Guardian, weilan, enemies to lovers historical au. Summary: Shen Wei hates the highly-favoured General of the North. He’s reckless, unorthodox and unruly, he disregards almost everything Shen Wei knows about conducting battles, and yet he returns triumphant every single time, his signature cocky smile firmly on his face. Shen Wei hates that he is so competent, hates that he is so unlike Kunlun, his predecessor. He hates how much he yearns for his return every time Zhao Yunlan goes away.

To bind a tiger and subdue a lion by Humanlighthouse: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30487530/

Pingxie, dmbj, Summary: While rescuing his shady uncle, young antiquarian Wu Xie somehow finds himself bound to a man of mystery by an even more mysterious set of jewelry. Much like his efforts to discover the man's identity, every step Wu Xie takes to unbind himself from him seems to have the opposite effect from the one intended, but does he really mind?

Into the Woods by killerandhealerqueen: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38655996/chapters/96639642

Killer and Healer, alternate universe fantasy historical. Summary: It was a calm and peaceful night as a tall young man dressed in black robes, with light skin, brown eyes, and long dark brown hair pulled up in a half-up, half-down, the half-up part of the ponytail adorned with four braids while four smaller braids framed his face, walked through the forest that surrounded the kingdom, basket in hand as he was out collecting ingredients for his latest potion. As he walked through the forest, enjoying the crisp night air that caressed his face, a scream suddenly echoed throughout the forest, an explosion following shortly afterwards. At the scream, the young man paused and looked around, a frown of confusion on his face.

         ‘I thought I was the only one out here at this hour…so who screamed?’

先来后到 ⃒ first come, first served by sarahyyy: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28357530

SVSSS, mobei Jun X Shang qinghua, bridgerton au. Summary: “You speak of my engagement to Gongyi Xiao,” Shang Qinghua says. He’s quiet today. Distant. “The banns will no doubt be read this coming Sunday.”

Mobei Jun’s chest tightens. His fingers curl into fists. “Why?”

“He proposed, Your Grace,” Shang Qinghua says mildly. “There seemed to be no other offers forthcoming, and he is an acceptable match.”

“I came back, didn’t I?” Mobei Jun asks, hoarse.

(Or, the Bridgerton-inspired AU nobody asked for.)

Reweave Our Lives by starandrea: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20511506/chapters/48679718

Guardian, weilan, post canon fix it fic. (One of my favorite post canon stories) Summary: After the Hallows restore the Guardian, they bring back the Envoy and the Enemy as well. Zhao Yunlan will do anything for Shen Wei, but he has to accept that there is no Shen Wei without Ye Zun: not now, and maybe not ever.

Deal with me by amiyade: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38888196/chapters/97249488

Heihua, dmbj, merman au. Summary: He didn’t leave home with the intention to buy an at least two metre long octopus-man, but apparently that was his life at the moment.

Xie Yuchen makes the purchase of his life and gets so much more than he bargained for.

Maybe you just don't understand the brain of an ancient alien by Hyde_DualDomination: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45424996/chapters/114289978

Guardian X The Lost Tomb (dmbj) crossover. Summary: The fact was simple: Wu Xie, the antique shop owner, had been a good friend of Shen Wei for a while - how it had happened was a long and ridiculous story, which Zhao Yunlan had heard five times and had stopped trying to understand, - and he was one of the few people who had always known that Shen Wei was Dixingren. And it was Wu Xie who Shen Wei had chosen to ask for help in his severe case of inability to confess his love - even if that love was something ridiculously explicit at that point.

The Gate of Memory by Destina: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2659442

Merthur, Merlin, post canon reincarnation fix it fic, this was recommended to me and thank you so much for it! Summary: Merlin forgets to remember, until the time comes to remember once again.

*Deeper Water by Alxina: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46632835/chapters/117440221

Silent Reading, Fei Du X Luo Wenzhou, I LOVE THIS FIC, character study, canon compliant. Alxina writes amazing Silent Reading fics <3 Summary: Luo Wenzhou has several headaches in his life, and one of them is called Fei Du.

When he gets called into Chengguang Mansion to pick up Fei Du on his request, Luo Wenzhou has no idea what to expect. He now knows better than to walk in with expectations where Fei Du is concerned. However, this time Luo Wenzhou finds himself in deeper water, because apparently, nothing is what it seems.

Least of all, Fei Du.

~What Makes Monsters Stop Devouring by softcorevulcan (me): https://archiveofourown.org/works/21072317/chapters/50130563

Guardian, Weilan, Ye Zun X Kunlun, post canon fix it fic, Ye Old Haixing, dark, angst with a happy ending, time travel. (Yeah I'm reccing my fic lol). Summary: Zhao Yunlan is brought back to life. Then he is brought back in time 10,000 years, to a version of the past that is different from the one he experienced the first time. And Shen Wei is alive and okay, but it’s not clear if that means everything Zhao Yunlan hopes it does. Also, Ye Zun is there. And Kunlun never died.

Or: Shen Wei and Ye Zun did end up okay, together, after they died, after Shen Wei promised to be with Zhao Yunlan again. This is the story of them all finding their way to that better ending.