#thanks chooms!!

[wanderingaldecaldo]

Tagged by @gloryride, @gamerkitten, @chevvy-yates, and @aggravateddurian to share something I'm working on. Thanks, chooms! Still leaning into the ADHD, so there's several things I'm working on simultaneously. Most recently it's been...

Modding

The cutoff vests are 95% done, just need a few touches before I can make them live on Nexus, so what better time to start a new modding project? 🙃 A friend mentioned wanting Vik's pants and I'm always looking for more butch clothes for Val especially ones that ride low on those hips but also the belt & tools seem like a fun project.

Unedited. Not bad for an hour's work ☺️

Both the pants and belt are simple replacers to start while I test. I have some clipping to deal with on the pants, but so far the weights look okay. 🤞

As for the belt, I lost the tools somewhere between Blender and Wkit lol. I wanted to take a go at texturing them in Substance Painter so I split them off into their own submesh. Not sure where I lost them but I'm sure they'll turn up again.

Writing

It's fitting that Durian tag me because my latest writing was incited by a scene in his fic "The President's Lady" in which Myers invites Sol and V to lunch at the White House. I'm going for a more, uh, traditional take on The Tower ending than he is, using my fave angst, combined with some good ol' longing and probably some flashback smut. I've been canoodling on this in my notebook since Durian's chapter came out, writing a bit each night before falling asleep. I started transcribing it just for this post, so here are 315 of 338 words, hot off the Google Docs.

Some backstory: The second time I played Phantom Liberty I beelined to Dogtown, and skipped meeting the Aldecaldos and doing pretty much anything past finishing the VDBs quests. Vik was the only one who called, and she decided to take Sol up on his offer of a job at Langley. Soon after she's back in DC, she gets an invite to lunch from President Myers.

“Thank you, Madam President.” “V, please. No need to be so formal. I believe we’re well past that now.” “Heh, just a few weeks ago, told you—” “Yes, V,” she cries out, breath hot against her neck— Stopping, Rosalind turns to look at her, eyebrows and lines of her forehead drawing to a point, as if finally she recognizes V for who she still is. “I suppose that really was like yesterday for you.” The lines soften and she leads V to a sofa across the room, gesturing for her to sit first, then sits close and takes her hand. Long, graceful fingers teasing her skin— V stares down at her hand in Rosalind’s, her arms blank of cyberware still a disconcerting sight, but she doesn’t pull away. “How are you feeling? I can’t imagine the news was easy to hear.” “No, wasn’t,” she says with a shake of her head. “Thought I was gonna die a merc but now....” “I’m sorry I wasn’t there to tell you myself. Solomon suggested it would lead to too many questions among the staff. He’s right of course, but I still feel I let you down.” V frowns. “Ma’am?” “You weren’t my agent for long, but that doesn’t mean you weren’t important. What you did...” Rosalind trails off, eyes dipping to her mouth before she drops her gaze to their hands on her lap. Her nails are still perfectly polished, buffed to a shine. She looks up and says, “I’ll never be able to repay you for all that you did for me.” V down looks at their linked hands then, heart pounding, she leans forward to kiss her, as if she’s just any other woman, not the most powerful in the world, and Rosalind tilts her head and parts her lips and— She swallows and shakes her head. “You did, though. Least as far as I’m concerned.”

Tagging with the usual no pressure disclaimer: @medtech-mara @breezypunk @streetkid-named-desire @peaches-n-screem @rosapexa @luvwich @merge-conflict @steelscorner @ghostoffuturespast @byberbunk2069 and YOU!

Take this as an invitation to share something you're working on and tag me! Doesn't have to be Cyberpunk, or anything fandom-related!

[jaeyuned]

ENHYPEN XO (only if you say yes) @ studio choom ↳ anon ♡

[booskwan]

WOOYOUNG AOTM “BAD” 2 Year Anniversary

[humberg]

'Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.'

[seokmatthewz]

YOON JONGWOO ✧ BACK DOOR ✧ STUDIO CHOOM X BOYS PLANET

[reactionimagesdaily]

[pinkyjulien]

[wayfaringellie]

Listen... to all my fellow Valerie x Aurore Cassel shippers out there...

I've had this fic idea brewing in my head all day about an alternate scenario for the twins.

What if the meeting with Kurt gets delayed for hours so instead of V and Alex assuming their identities immediately and driving off, they have to wait? During the transfer of the assess codes from Aurore to V, V realizes that she's still alive despite the multiple shots to the chest from Alex. But only barely. V plays it cool and tells Reed she would take care of the bodies (they know she's still pissed and Reed shrugs it off) so she loads Aurore into the trunk first in case she makes any movements or sounds to indicate she's alive while Aymeric is actually dead. She brings Aurore to a ripperdoc. Aurore's got punctured lungs and lost a lot of blood but she survives. V maybe sticks around long enough for Aurore to regain consciousness and tells her never to come back to Dogtown or Night City, explains that the FIA were the ones who flatlined her brother and how it wasn't how she wanted it to play out. Maybe pays for a spot at the morgue for him until Aurore can decide what to do with the body.

I'd love to see a scene with Aurore waking and she immediately recognizes Valerie. Perhaps panics and/or gets angry despite how weak she is from her injuries. V trying to calm her down.

This would make an amazing one-shot (or something a little longer!) that leads into Aurore actually reaching out to V later and thanking her for saving her life. I feel like the twins were really interesting characters and despite being career criminals, didn't deserve to go out how they did. If anyone ever wants to write a fic based on my idea, please do link me the story!

[kharonion]

This man's gotta be A Model™ about everything... even these super cozy sweaters by the awesome @pinkyjulien ✨🖤

[deobis]

[BE ORIGINAL] Roar || Sunwoo

[cybersteal]

𝕎.𝕀.ℙ 𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣

tagged by @koda-shoulda-woulda-but-didnt @ouroboros-hideout & @katsigian

Thanks for the tags, chooms! Sorry it's taken me so long to get to it but uhm, I didn't have anything to share until now, so...

Yeahhh 😅

First thing's first!

VP

I've had this idea for a while, as a good way to learn and maybe level up my skills, but haven't had the patience to dress a damn set for it, but I decided to give it a try. Kinda fucked it up the first time around - egregious clipping where I didn't notice it initially, not enough props, etc - so this is my second attempt at this finnicky fucking series. I like it so far, and I have to take some indulgent screenshots as a reward when I'm done that really make me wonder if I want to be Vice, or fuck him, because why the hell not? Who's gonna stop me?

Here's a few that I think are acceptable to share, though not all of them are guaranteed to be posted anywhere when I'm done lmao

And secondly!

Writing

I've ended up diving back into writing some decently chunky pieces of narrative revolving around Vice and the canon I'm still making for him. I finished a small, cutesy 1600-word thing where Vice and Johnny ride the fixed roller-coaster in Pacifica, and that opened the floodgates to my writer brain. Unfortunately I just don't have the stamina or energy to bang out 8k+ works in a few days like I used to, even for something I love writing about, but I managed that, and a question asked over on the Cyberpunk discord server I'm part of really hooked me. I've only gotten about 2k words out for it at the moment, but I'm chipping at it steadily.

I also won't be sharing it in this post, just because I don't like to share my unfinished writing, sorry sorry, it's not you it's me, I promise lmao

Taglist ahoy!

I’ve already lost track of people who’ve done one of these recently so if you posted a WIP post, just ignore this, or save it for another time when you have smth you wanna share! whatever you like 🤗❤️

@lokiina @totentnz @netripper @pacificaisstillpacifica @nightcxty @nightcityace @wraithsoutlaws @cyberholic77

[wanderingaldecaldo]

Ten Characters, Ten Fandoms, Ten Tags

Tagged by @fly-amanitaa, @ghostoffuturespast, and @luvwich, thanks chooms!

Mitch Anderson, Cyberpunk 2077

Garrus Vakarian, Mass Effect

Elizabeth Bennett, Pride & Prejudice

Dana Scully, The X-Files

Starbuck/Kara Thrace, Battlestar Galactica

Camina Drummer, The Expanse

Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal (TV & movie); featuring both Sir Anthony Hopkins & Mads Mikkelsen

George Smiley, various books/adaptations by John LeCarré; featuring both Sir Alec Guinness & Gary Oldman

Blackwall/Thom Rainier, Dragon Age (Inquisition)

William T. Riker, Star Trek: The Next Generation

Taggging with no pressure: @pacificaisstillpacifica @drunkchasind @peaches-n-screem @glitchinginthegarden @cinnamon-mey @thegreatdivide @arachnophobic-larantula @humberg @juststayquiete @irrigone

[jaymber]

｡✳ 𝒢𝒶𝒷𝒷𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑀𝒶𝒹𝒹𝑒𝓃 ✳｡

@angynomadsimp trusted me with their handsome boy Madden so he could finally meet a good friend of his. Let's just say these two got along real well 😌

[spicyraeman]

Happy Friday!

A while ago @valrez surprised me with the absolutely amazing fanart of Dallas! I thought about hoarding it all to myself but it was too good not to share!

[humberg]

Devil on my shoulder

[procyo9]

Corpo Elegy AU

In this AU, Elegy's parents were never fired from Fukuoka's Arasaka facility upon it being sold, and rather they got moved to the Tokyo HQ.

Since Elegy's birth it was clear that she had no other choice than joining Arasaka in the future. She went to their private school, where she was noticed as a promising netrunning talent - her results were outstanding for her age.

When her parents received the news they thought this was a great opportunity for their child and agreed to send her in for training - little did they know that she would hate their guts for the rest of their lives for that decision.

At first, it was strictly netrunning training in an undisclosed underground facility for years - it was like a prison. She became the best of the best, thinking it would save her from being trapped underground without any windows and no mirrors - only to receive a "honorary trip" to Arasaka's Hokkaido Training Camp.

There, they made her focus on a stealth approach - she became one of the most successful trainees for espionage missions, although it cost her everything.

She spent her whole childhood and teenage years separated from society, trained like a dog - she never formed a friendship (all trainees were kept separate due to an accident that happened recently in one of Arasaka's secret netrunning training facilities), she couldn't indulge in any hobbies - she was left a husk full of hatred towards the world and everyone in it.

When her efforts finally paid off - when she heard she got herself a cozy place for the rest of her life - she didn't feel anything. As she arrived in her new apartment in Night City, the first thing she did was creep awkwardly into the restroom, staring into the mirror like a deer in the headlights.

She hasn't seen how much she changed during these years - she was an adult now. She ran her hand through her buzzed hair and felt uneasy - they were always so rough when shaving it off. It was her first independent decision to let it grow out - and never cut it short again.

She dyes her hair in light colors as opposed to her dark, natural one - it reminded her of her past, especially her parents. As for her full black eyes, she got them to seem more intimidating, but also for advantages of her targets not knowing where she's looking at all times.