#i rambled so much about my excitement about Cyberpunk

[yeyinde]

Bro cyberpunk is my favorite genre of anything, EVER. I’m trembling even imagining the power you’d have with writing something cyberpunk-y. You could go like OG cyberpunk, like retrofuturistic/steelpunk/formicapunk, or take it more towards cyberpunk/nanopunk and I’d still eat that shit up like a woman starved at a royal banquet. Both directions would go wonderfully with a noirpunk/cybernoir storyline or undertone. I myself am writing a cyberpunk story rn (it’s not exactly fan fiction so idk what to call it) and even just imagining a cyberpunk world through your lense of prose is making me vibrate violently. I devour anything and everything even remotely related to this genre. Obviously no pressure for you to write it, and I don’t mean to infodump in your inbox but please just know if you actually write a techno-punk flavored ANYTHING I will worship it like it’s my Bible

Noirpunk/cybernoir is honestly such a fave of mine, so I'm really leaning toward something in that direction.

I sorttttt of have a story mapped out already? (But it's mostly just random thoughts that came about from too many midnight musings after gorging myself on clips of Akira and old nostalgia hits of GitS, and the loose Cyberpunk/cassette-punk/space noir/space western genre abomination that is Cowboy Bebop.)

And no worries at all! I'm always down to talk -punk anyway (especially cyberpunk), and I welcome any and all advice about this, or suggestions because it's such a massive thing, right? Like, there's tonnes of directions it could go, it's almost overwhelming 😅

My biggest blank, atm, is the design of the characters. I haven't quite decided if it would be a reader-insert or an oc (which gives me tonnes of flexibility with upgraded parts/cyborg leanings, but. It's also an OC 😬 and I am notoriously bad at them).

I'm def writing something, though! It might not be a full dive, but I'll have a taster soon enough to lay the groundwork, and then branch out from that point!

Thank you so much!!! I rambled a lot in this, omggg!! But cyberpunk is a favourite of mine, so reading this, and all the lovely things you said, made me so happy!! 🖤

#ahhhhhhh #i talk too much #im surprised that isnt a tag of mine already #thank you for this!! seriously!!!! #i rambled so much about my excitement about Cyberpunk #but your kind words have absolutely made my entire night and im so ready to jump into this!

[katsigian]

Rambling specific to Cyberpunk 2077 only

I've done it. I'm biting the bullet and letting go of everything that's been sucking joy out of me. The way I've been creating doesn't serve me any longer and I need to go find that joy again. But the thing is, I already know where I'll find it

I'm moving all of my Cyberpunk 2077 (the video game) lore and characters into their own semi-original setting. It'll be created sort of like a ttrpg campaign. I'll be using elements from the Cyberpunk Tabletop by Talsorian and fully diving into making my own world that's a combination of the cyberpunk genre and urban fantasy. I'll create my own future-based sci-fi dystopia where my vampires and wolves can exist using that platform and base foundation of the cyberpunk world made by Mike Pondsmith.

I love Cyberpunk 2077 the game, but it's confining and I can no longer create within in-game lore. My characters and world are too expansive now. Also, fandom itself is very confining and the cp77 fandom has sucked too much life out of my creations. I'm not going to let the constant, meaningless, childish nonsense ruin my characters for me any longer. I, and others, had no part in this nonsense ever and yet it still finds a way to drag people down and suck the creativity out of them. I'm not bearing witness to it anymore.

I will still share my friends/mutuals cp77 creations and I will still show support for those creations. I'm still excited to see other's creations in game! And I am still going to take VP in game for the purpose of telling my stories and because photomode is still a good creative outlet and way for me to show my characters designs I've worked hard on. I will offer support to those who have offered me support, but I am not going to be confined within fandom/in-game limits anymore.

I'm already so excited. I'm already thinking about all of the things I can finally create and all of the worldbuilding that I'm going to finally settle on and share.

I can finally fully create Valen and tell his full story the way its supposed to be told. I can tell all of my other characters' story threads and how they connect to the main, golden thread that is Valen. He's the catalyst and my entire world flows from him. I can finally make it, I can finally share it! I can tell my stories! I'm so relieved, it feels like this giant weight is finally gone from my chest. I can breathe again

#i still have a lot to do before i can share anything solid #but one day soon i will #katsi.txt

[merge-conflict]

year in review

2023 is on its way out, and it's been... a year. First full year that I've actually been active on social media (i.e. not just lurking), and first time in fandom.

My first fic of the year? when her edges soften – the longer I wrote for Valentine and the more her relationship with Johnny got weird and intimate and full of casual innuendo the more I needed to write something where they were reunited. Also my first ever experience writing smut and self-indulgently adding a whole fencing scene. Goddamn that was fun! Feels like it's older than a year.

My favorite fic of the year? thread-safe – I became engrossed with cyberpunk because of Jackie but I imprinted hard on Takemura after that traumatic heist mission and perhaps the rest is history. Valentine's story has had a lot of tinkering and reworking and it was the thing that got me back into writing, but the original story in my head was something bittersweet and angry and grieving, one night only no encores, parting badly– and I finally was able to capture that in thread-safe and it feels so good.

Most fun experiments?? There are several of these. When I got stuck and discouraged and tired of working on the longfic and plotting things out I ended up working out a "shenanigans au" (fleeting fits of reason) where I could put Johnny and Kerry and V (and Alt and Rogue it turns out) together and just have them interact without plot. Well the plot crept in, but writing some loosely connected 1-1.5k pieces focused on a single scene or idea with minimal polish was incredibly freeing. Then I recorded some of my own podfic! I wrote a chapter of thread-safe in second-person! I wrote imago and decided to incorporate pieces of it into my longfic. Playing around like this has really kept writing fun for me when I don't have the concentration to play the long game.

Additional musings and personal reflections under the cut:

2023 the year sucked ass. It has been god awful. Just the fucking worst! Cyberhanami was in February? March? I remember finishing up some of my prompts that week while I was in another state with friends who were out and about while I was in bed too nauseated and weak to move. Writing was the only thing keeping me from going insane. My health has been shoddy, I had to cancel a much anticipated two weeks of international travel, spent at least two week long periods this year with anxiety so intense it made me almost physically incapable of eating. I had an incredibly expensive panic attack, and the world... things have been better!

I find it difficult to be honest about that sort of thing– my primary instinct is Not To Talk About any of that shit, because well... it's personal! And I handle reassurance about as well as I handle compliments (awkwardly. half in panic. friendly self-deprecation). But it feels disingenuous to celebrate accomplishments without acknowledging the yawning abyss we all struggle with from time to time. I remain cynically optimistic, as always, and I'm seriously grateful for all the connections and shared art and braincells and excitable messages, especially from folks tolerating my tendency to ramble onto tangents and use an oddly formal tone. I don't know what I'm doing, but who does? It comes easier with practice. It has to, right?

See you cool cats in 2024. :3 😼

#cyberpunk 2077 #year in review #for auld lang syne #seriously though everyone who's ever interacted with me even briefly– I appreciate being a part of the community and connecting #it ain't perfect but it's ours y'know? #also as someone who's horribly time blind it is nice to look back on a year and have date and timestamps and posts #to prove that I was here and doing stuff and it wasn't just a weird blur #highly recommend :3

[delta-orionis]

Synthwave Sunday #22

This week I want to highlight a whole album, UNICORN by GUNSHIP:

First off, the mashup of references to different cyberpunk/sci-fi media is front and center in this album's marketing. (It was released just a few days ago, on September 29th). Gunship definitely wasn't shy about making allusions to cyberpunk in their previous albums, and they really leaned into it in this new one. I think it's fun.

Seeing the album art, I immediately thought, "that has to be a Blade Runner reference, right?" It seems like my suspicions were correct, if the album's announcement trailer is anything to go on:

(The origami unicorn from the ending of the movie, for reference:)

There's a ton of other little references to other sci-fi media throughout the album, too. One of the song titles is a WH40K reference, and I caught a reference to Portal in one of the songs as well. There's probably more than I noticed on an initial listen, they're like little easter eggs. Maybe it's a little campy, yeah, but I think it's fun.

I'm having trouble picking my favorite song off the album, so I'll talk about a few.

If you pay attention to the posts I make about music, you probably know I like Carpenter Brut. I was pretty excited to see that they collaborated with Gunship in this album. The song they collaborated on, DooM Dance, is a direct reference to DOOM, of course. Fitting for Carpenter Brut.

Another favorite artist of mine, HEALTH, collaborated with Gunship as well, in the song Blood for the Blood God:

I wasn't expecting a song featuring HEALTH to be so dancey, but I think it works really well. This whole album as a whole is much dancier and upbeat than Gunship's previous albums, in my opinion. Their second album, Dark All Day, is much more gloomy in comparison, for example.

I also noticed that the album contains a sequel to a song from their very first album Gunship, Tech Noir:

The song is somber and slow, evoking visions of fleeing from a city on fire. The sequel, Tech Noir 2, is much more hopeful in comparison:

Tech Noir 2 urges the listener to persevere, and to rebuild something new from the ashes.

"My son, the gift of survival is yours. Please, may you never submit. There will be more."

Overall, I was blown away by this album. It's been a while since I found an album that made me this excited. I think I'll be listening to it for a while. It's a fun, catchy, energetic love letter to the cyberpunk genre. Hopefully I've my scattered ramblings have convinced you to give it a listen, haha.

I'll post another favorite song of mine soon!

#synthwave sunday #honestly I've been having a rough couple of weeks. I needed something fun like this #wild how sometimes an album grabs you by the neck and makes you feel uplifted for the first time in a while #Youtube

[mysticstarlightduck]

Happy STS! 😊 If you could visit any setting/location in one of your WIPs, where would you go? Why are you drawn to that particular place? What would you want to do there? 🗺️

Happy STS, Kate (@little-peril-stories)! Thank you so, so much for the ask! This is such a good set of questions!

(I'm working on catching up with my asks and tags, because my health has been one heck of a wild ride these past few weeks, so I'm slowly and surely coming back to being more active on Tumblr again!)

So let's start with this STS Ask!

If you could visit any setting/location in one of your WIPs, where would you go?

Ooh, this is a tough one! Since I've been working mostly on Enchanted Illusions (and Mutant Inquiries, but there are few places I'd actually want to visit in a near-dystopian cyberpunk future lmao) that's the WIP I'm going to use in this answer!

I'd definitely say that my top three, at least so far in Act 1 of the book, are:

1. the train rides from Ansburke to the other cities (for one, train rides in the middle of winter are highly atmospheric, plus, these trains are actually enchanted and have a lot of neat magical items and details to them. And these train rides are also the place of some pivotal moments for the main cast as well!),

2. Madam Olympia's Pastries and Baked Wonders, a bakery shop that is introduced at the beginning of the book - not only the magical sweets created in this shop are things I wish were real because they seem delicious, but the whole shop is like stepping into a unique universe of its own (plus the owner of the shop, the matronly faerie Madam Olympia herself is a wonderful character that I'd love to meet and I'd love to give her a hug and eat some pastries while she rambles about gossip),

3. the Hideout - Thaddeus' hidden hideaway in the city's catacombs, from which he conducts his revolution against the Hemlock Society and which becomes a headquarters for the main characters once they befriend him (I'd really, really love to visit this place in the story. For one, it is a giant underground system, almost like an underground "mansion/fortress" right underneath the city, which was built during the wars between humans and Myths and abandoned once it was over. Plus, it feels really homey, being a place of fun and reprieve for the main characters during their ongoing journey through the cities, and it also has some really interesting nooks and crannies about it that I can't spoil right now but can't wait to talk about!)

Some other "bonus" places I'd love to visit in this story are:

The Daemitya Mansion (because, let's be honest, it's one of the fanciest and most historic places in the entire city, and not only that is enough reason to want to visit, but the mansion has a whole maze of secret passages and hidden halls that only the Daemitya family know about, and those places are full of ancient secrets and magic, one only has to know the right password. Plus I'd just really like to be friends with Evangeline, lmao)

The "Fair" - it's the other side of the coin for Ansburke, a hidden undercity where the outcasts from above can be anyone and thrive, it's a haven for those unseen in the streets of the capital. It is a bit shady, and run by one of the most renowned vigilante guilds of the city, namely their leader Phoenix (Marcus Kallihan, who is an ally/friend of the main characters), but as long as you follow their rules and don't try to cause trouble, you'll have a great time. I'm a very curious person, and if I lived in Ansburke, I'd definitely like to pay this place a short visit - especially since it's one of the most mysterious and exciting places to be in the city.

#wip enchanted illusions #writerblr #writers #writeblr #writing #character writing #my writing #my characters #asked and answered #my wips

[elvenbeard]

Long long rambly headcanon post regarding my V and Kerry specifically, because I have feeeeeels XD On a meta level this time, bc some coincidences you just cannot plan out beforehand.

I know this all is gonna sound so fake, but I promise, it's not xD Also, it's maybe not as deep, but I want to write about all these things at some point in more detail too and not forget about them, so here they go for now!

I put several details into V's background way before meeting Kerry in game that ended up connecting to his life and questline in amazing ways. Mind you, I went into my first playthrough almost entirely blind. All I'd looked up at some point was the romanceable characters' names and who can romance them, because River was sending so many mixed signals xD.

Heck, I wasn't even too excited about Kerry XD I was hell-bent on River, bc V and he hit it off so well imo, and when I looked up that River is not available to romance for masc body/ masc voice V I was so disappointed xD Thinking "urgh fine, let's see how Kerry is like then, if he's the only MLM option". I was half-expecting though to probably finish the game without playing any of the romances - wouldn't have been the first time that happend to me in a game, sometimes my OC just doesn't click with any of the characters XD

During Johnny's first flashback it didn't even fully register with me that you're actually talking to *the* Kerry there, just his younger self. I'd basically forgotten about him again until the Voodoo Boys job. And overall, the little Johnny says about him didn't intrigue me (or V on that matter) that much, beyond an "okay, noted, it's complicated with you two". Overall I was basically expecting a less funny Johnny 2.0 with Kerry, personality-wise. I was still looking forward to meeting him, because he was taking his sweet time to show up XD But otherwise I had zero expectations.

Since I didn't know the lore or world of Cyberpunk that well either, a lot of stuff I made up for V's background along the way, and it led to so many amazing coincidences in the end...

Like, Vince his half-Japanese. That I settled on while messing in the CC, filling in some gaps as I got to know the world better. His father was a huge admirer of the Arasakas, Hanako in particular, gave his life for the corp, yadayada. He wanted his family and his kid to resemble the Arasakas' grandiosity in as many ways as possible, and so amongst other things V learned how to play the piano when he was a kid. He ended up hating it, stopped playing, because it was not something he wanted to do but was forced to do, more or less. Then, what's the first thing you see walking into Kerry's mansion the first time? Front and center, big piano. Admittedly, pianos show up here and there elsewhere, but somehow at Kerry's villa it felt the most out of place for me, just how V felt like out of place snooping around there. I'd like to think that Kerry inspired him to pick it up again at some point, on his own terms this time, playing what he wanted, not what others told him. Out of the other former Samurai members he also gets along best with Nancy, and they stay in regular contact after he helped her out with her request.

Another thing, I don't even remember where you can read about it in-game - in Kerry's database entry, or in a shard? - that kinda caught me a little off guard, a "what the heck" moment, was Kerry apparently doing yoga on his patio every morning. I think one of the first things I added to Vince's background for flavor was that he did yoga for a long time, picking it up some time after starting at Arasaka (recommendation by his life coach to cope with the stress) and eventually falling out of the habit after leaving the corp, because all his routines kind of went out the window for a while there. Here I'd also like to think Kerry makes him pick it up again, bc it's some additional time they can spend together in the mornings, especially important when the rest of the day they don't get to see each other anymore, until late at night maybe.

When V and Takemura talked about their childhoods during Gimme Danger, first thing I did afterwards was drive to Charter Hill and figure out where V might have grown up, which street and building he and his family could have lived in. The building I ended up settling on turned out to be one of the first you see when you step onto the rooftop lounge of the Dark Matter with Kerry. The thought of Kerry going there during important moments in his life, and the kid that would really change everything for the better for him a few years down the road living right across the street, neither of them aware of the other... I live for shit like that. So if anything, that one settled the deal for me for good XD Not to mention that Kerry was not what I had expected in the slightest, and I mean that in the best way possible.

The more I think about it, and as I'm replaying the game, I might notice or remember even more stuff or little coincidences. But yes... they were meant for each other, from the start, without me or either of them realizing it then, and I love it XD

#cyberpunk 2077 #kerry eurodyne x v #kerry eurodyne #corpo v #male v cyberpunk #cyberpunk 2077 spoilers #my headcanons #vincent ezaki #otp: to bad decisions

[reaperkiller]

tagged by @bnbc @katsigian and @silverpixelcloud to do this THANK YOU!! <3 i love not shutting up

rules:

👻 post 5 facts about your oc

👻 go into the recent section of the #cyberpunk 2077 tag and rb some posts. and be nice. [i will do that when i am not afraid of people. dont worry about it. hold me at gun point if you must]

👻 tag people to keep the game going

who else would i talk about other than this fruit of a man.

1. he grew up as part of the valentinos, with his father taking him out on jobs at a very early age, which wasn't a very good idea - but he was the eldest child, and his father figured that getting him involved in gang business early would've been for the best. seb hated it, but was also thankful for it in a way, because it at least meant he could keep his younger siblings safe from as much harm as possible

2. he 'left' [see: got kicked out of] his family at 19, when he decided he didn't want to live the gang life forever, and wanted to work for a corp in order to get more money for his family. they [1000% just his father actually] shunned him pretty much immediately, and he was left to live alone on the streets for 2 years. he handled himself pretty well, using the skills he learned over the years to con people out of money and get by relatively unscathed.

3. i could go into sooo much more detail with all of that but then we'd all be here forever so basically; steals money from someone at arasaka, she is like whoa lol, gets him working at arasaka as an assistant, eventually becomes something of a bodyguard/intimidation device for people who worked there. they get married [not good], and then she cheats on him [with their boss [also not good]]

4. he understandably got angry bc of that, and when he threatened to quit, his boss beat the shit out of him and left him for dead in an alleyway, which is where his cyberjaw/neck cyberware comes from. the attack also left him with a prosthetic leg. if he was just some guy who left, none of that would've happened. but unfortunately he was a very important asset bc they were experimenting on him - drugs and other fun things that greatly improved his combat skills, and made him more useful. and if any of that info got out, everyone involved would've been greatly fucked over basically. and because they'd kind of fucked up by making him highly dangerous, the only option was to kill him. but that didn't go very well and now here we are 👍 i said i wasnt going to ramble but. anyway

5. and then from all of that, he slowly got back on his feet and became the leader of a small gang who mostly deals with fucking over corpos for people whos lives have been ruined by them - sometimes also helping corpos get revenge on each other, mostly bc it's always petty drama, it's funny, And they get a lot of money out of it. they also do security stuff on the side. because of their reputation amongst corpos, seb is often the target of assassination attempts, and always gets out of it unscathed. but he is currently being hunted down by a VERY stubborn merc who is the first guy in many years who has ever come close to killing him, so life is finally getting exciting for him again (^:< ehehehe

BONUS FACT HE HAS A CAT CALLED FRANKIE STROMBOLI

i. do not know when to shut up sorry <3 i need everyone to know everything about him. i do not know how to be concise. <3 not my problem now

ANYWAY i will tag uuhhhhhhhh. who has cyberpunk ocs. @aartyom @nuclearstorms get over here right now and yell about your guys. it said 5 people but i dont know 5 people. anyone who follows me and has cyberpunk ocs feel free to join in teehee. hii

#oc seb #do you understand why he is my babygirl. do you get it.

[artheresy]

Part Two (Stellaron Hunters)

Like the last one with the Astral Express, I am listing my opinions on aspects of the HSR designs, including things I kinda dislike or at least would change about certain playable designs in HSR to help myself with planning some of my own designs/redesigns for future art!

And I am so excited to get onto three of my favorite designs in this game!! The Stellaron Hunters are my babies and I originally was going to include them in the AE part 1 post, but sadly exceeded some kind of limit on the post while rambling about both of the groups designs, so they get their own post! And y'know what if that gives me more room to talk about them, I am not upset!

Ofc, Disclaimer: I am not a professional character designer, I'm not saying any of my ideas for them are objectively better or improvements even, nor am I bashing any of these designs. This is just my opinion and I like most if not all of the playable designs at the moment! I just have a few thoughts regarding them.

The List part 2:

Silver Wolf: I really like her design, I think honestly the Stellaron Hunters (at least for the trio, still forming my thoughts on Sam's) are easily some of the best designed characters in HSR so far. I do think out of those three designs though, Silver Wolf might be the weakest? Not that it's bad ofc, as I just said I think they're some of the best designs, but alongside Kafka and Blade, it feels like there's more that could be done with her design. They went ham on having so many like "Haha look she's a gamer!" details on her outfit that it ends up a bit eye rolling when you keep seeing all the details. The buttons hanging from her belt, the controller garter, the pattern on the fabric hanging from her hip for no reason, the power button logos on her her belt in multiple places and the strap that hold her knife, and that's not even all of them. It's just a bit much. Yes, she's a gamer, we get that. It doesn't need to be sprinkled throughout her design this much, at least not in this way. Because the way they did it, admittedly looks a bit gimmicky since it's only visual details rather than anything more is the best way I can describe it. I would maybe give her a few more items in place of all of these little things. Give her a visible earpiece, or some other kind of hands off communication device. Give her more devices if you're gonna have her adorned with all these straps, make them useful. Though I have two (maybe three?) other bigger ideas that could either work for changing her up physically, either separately or somehow together in a design. I'm stuck between the idea of giving her comfier clothes, both to reflect her more laid back personality and also to fit more so with what she does, or giving her more of a tech wear influence in her design, especially considering PunkLorde is meant to be a cyberpunk themed place. I feel like there's a better way to reflect that influence in her design. Also I dunno about you, but when I think cyberpunk I think of Neons a bit. I’m not saying turn her whole color palette that, but I think in a few of the patterns or in little details adding tiny touches of neon would look cool and help make her pop out a bit. (Sorry this ended up rambling, when I actually draw my thoughts for her, it will come through cleaner and clearer. Overall, I really like her design still even if there's a lot of details I would preferably change.)

Kafka: Kafka is one of my favorite designs, I adore her, I adore the spider, the web, and even the butterfly motifs present in her design. Her color scheme has a sense of allure to it if that makes sense, well balanced throughout her from head to toe. If I were to change something, it would be to make her design more show-y, a little more over the top. As it stands, Himeko has a more ostentatious design than her. Which feels off to me. "Oh but she's going on missions, taking people out, and collecting Stellarons. Her practical design makes sense." Very true, but also these missions aren't merely just missions. They are performances, displays of acting according to Elio's scripts in order to obtain the results he needs for the future. Kafka, of the rest of the Stellaron Hunters we've seen so far, seems to be the one that best fits into the role of Elio's dramatic villain/anti-hero. I mean just compare her presence in the Luofu quest to like Blade also in the Luofu quests, or Sam in the Penacony ones. There is a difference in dramatics and performance. She beckons the audience's (and law enforcement's) eyes towards her, as she strings them along with her schemes and plans. She is made to be the one in the lime light, delivering monologues and putting on the best show for everybody. When we look at the few missions of the Stellaron Hunters we’ve seen so far, Kafka does fit the bill as the star of his show, his leading actor in the role of the antagonist. As such, I think Kafka could benefit from making her outfit a bit more dramatic, leaning into the role she plays even further. Especially when thinking about how playing up that dramatized version of herself would work with the facade she's hinted at putting up. I do adore it the way it is, I just think more could be done with it. Lean a bit harder in, and by nature of making her more over the top, that could lead to the potential for a more interesting silhouette depending on how it's handled. Maybe even some more elements to influence like making it more over the top could be inspired from the Kafka Stigmata in HI3rd

Blade: I can’t lie to y’all. I think his design is close to perfection. I think it’s so well done (even though the silhouette could use some work? Depending?), it’s absolutely packed with symbolism. However, aside from just some silhouette adjustments, something I would change is the emphasis of how injured he is. The injuries he feels every single day of his life, that can’t heal because of Jingliu essentially overriding the default state his body is trying to restore. It’s a big thing in his lore, so much so that it’s been mentioned multiple times including in a main companion quest and literally up front show to us face to face. That cg of him with the sword in his chest feels like somebody stuck a sword in mine every time I see it, I swear. But design wise, I feel like this point about him and his history doesn’t shine through as well, and it feels like the gravity of that time isn’t properly portrayed in his design. Like let me emphasize, Bailu’s words might suggest that the default state for some of his injuries is literally open and bleeding so... And you might think “Oh that’s funny, when he’s literally covered in bandages like his arm and chest.” Well, I’ll one up you by clarifying if you look up his jacket as he runs, you’ll see his model has bandages ALL the way down his torso!! But the thing is, this is covered by his jacket. We only see his hand bandaged and a little peek at his chest, but his face? Completely fine. The rest of his body? Perfectly covered not showing anything. If I could change his design just a bit, first off, I’m making his coat more tattered and broken. Yes he gets his coat replaced at times, but that doesn’t mean we need to always see it in pristine condition. He’s a fighter, making his coat have tears in it, leave the edges worn down, more fabric than just his red ribbons to be frayed at the ends. In those tears of his clothes, either show bandages (left up to you whether to be seen as fresh injuries covered waiting to heal or more wrapped remnants of Jingliu’s slashes) or scars on every single bit of skin that manages to peek out from that coat. And for some flavor, add some scars to his face however big or small. There’s no way I can believe Jingliu killed him hundreds of times and didn’t at least once go for a head shot. I bet that woman knows the extent of his healing like the back of her hand, I bet she could answer my question about how exactly Blade’s body would heal if his limbs were severed. If he has some part of himself not covered, it should have evidence that he was harmed there! Never let us forget that part of his lore! NEVER!!

(I promise I’m totally not insane about him, what ever could lead you to that conclusion?)

I want to say, I will eventually update this once we have more Sam lore, perhaps I’ll include Sam with the Penacony characters post to make it easier or I’ll just redo the Stellaron Hunters post and revise and revisit my ideas for these three! As it stands, I want to wait until we have more Sam lore and more things cleared up about them before I jump into talking about the armor design or things I know from leaks until it’s been confirmed or disproven so I can give better my thoughts about the design in relation to the character!! Please stay tuned, I can’t decide if I should go for Overworld Belobog first because I have more clear ideas (including a rant about one specific character) or if it’s best to go to Herta Space Station first in order to just go in order essentially. Who knows ! Well! I hole you enjoyed this, I adore the Stellaron Hunters and any time I am able to talk about them I am very happy :D

#basically to sum it up #kafka and blade’s designs need to lean in more to certain aspects #(the drama and the trauma) #and sw’s needs to ease up on the gimmick #but overall? #some of my favorite designs in the game #MWAH love them #okay im finishing this at 3:30 am and i need to sleep so ill schedule this for later #have a good day y’all <3 #the stelle redesign btw is cooking in my wips im just making notes about what i would change or explore #so i can start making concept arts for the different ideas i hav #after her will probably be either himeko or march bc im still thinking of ideas for dh #and once i have this post done i might be doing belobog next #which as a heads up #will feature one of the character design opinions I feel so strongly about that it inspired this whole series of posts #(spoiler alert: the belobog design is servals and youll understand what i mean when i say i feel strongly soon enough) #hsr #honkai star rail #hsr blade #hsr kafka #silver wolf #stellaron hunters

[wolfynsong]

finished ch 1 of the BH story!

ramble about planets/npcs/feelings under the cut

hutta - starting area, so i didn’t expect much, but it was alright. i do kinda feel like i didn’t get enough time working with braden to actually care about his death. i guess they expected you to be motivated through mako’s grief, but i don’t know that it worked that well. they did a good job making tarro blood incredibly unlikable, though, so i at least wanted to get one over on him just for that. 4/10

dromund kaas - surprisingly pretty for the imperial homeworld? though the lighting was kind of dark and hard to see in sometimes. didn’t feel very immersed as a BH, but i think coming here as a sith would be much more intriguing with all the ancient ruins and such. story here was alright, but kinda just wanted to get into actual bounty hunting so i didn’t linger much. absolutely delighted by crysta, though, laughed out loud when i heard her southern ass “bless your heart” voice, best mandalorian mom friend. 6/10

nar shadda - now THIS planet was incredible. coming through the spaceport and seeing the neon skyline stretching out was stunning, and made me stop and go “oh i need reshade for this game right now.” definitely spent the most time here, running through all the little quests i could find, crawling through the underbelly of the city fighting gangs and droids, very cyberpunk and very very fun. i even bought the stronghold as soon as it was offered. the story definitely picked up with the first actual hunt, and i really started to feel vex bonding with mako through learning about her childhood, avenging her slicer friend, helping her start figuring out where she came from, etc. 10/10

balmorra - honestly, nothing to say about the planet. the terrain was interesting and the skybox was nice but besides that, nothing here felt memorable, especially coming off nar shadda. the story was pretty generic, though i was pleased to have called murghir’s little scheme from the start. kinda a shame i had to kill her, i appreciated her acting. definitely felt good to shoot that imperial creep that was perving over her, he felt more like my bounty than the actual bounty. 2/10

tattooine - obligatory sand joke, but really, i was excited to come here, and it was exactly the dustball i imagined it would be. getting to roam the dune sea was super cool, made me wish i had a bantha mount or something more fitting. i was a little disappointed with how short the story there felt, though. chasing tyresius/gault around was fun, and i was delighted when he ended up as the new companion, but i still feel like i barely spent any time there at all. i guess it doesn’t help that the planetary quests are getting dull, it’s just different flavors of “here’s an incompetent imperial officer that is for some reason in charge, now go run errands/fight junk for them” and so on. 7/10

alderaan - contrary to tattooine, the planetary story was at least very involved in the houses, though i didn’t end up finishing that because i wanted to continue the main story. i brought along gault, and vex immediately started making dark side choices because apparently mako is their only moral compass. (that and who doesn’t want to suckerpunch a snobby noble?) gault’s quips are utterly charming and i am honestly distraught that i can’t romance this devil, but oh well. 6/10 would punch the rich again

i switched back to mako for the final wrap-up, and left tarro to die in the brig of the cruiser as it blew up. vex really did want to shoot him by this point, but i think this stung more. now that i’m through the great hunt, i might take them back and finish up the planetary quests i skipped before i move on to ch 2. overall, as my first story arc though, i’m pretty content and excited for more.

#swtor #rhys plays swtor #rhys rambles #screenshot #vex korva #i dont know if i will do breakdowns like this for every arc but i'm having fun talking to the void

[bonesandthebees]

hi there! i've never sent an ask in before so i'm not entirely familiar with how it's supposed to be done, but here i go anyway lol

you are genuinely such a talented writer! anytime i read one of your works, new or old, i'm blown away by just how well it flows and how authentic and consistent the characters are. as someone who also writes fanfiction that is an incredibly useful skill, and one that i really love to see in others work because it makes it so easy to become engrossed in the characters and the storyline and feel like you're right there beside them, experiencing the fictional world in tandem.

i'm writing this immediately after reading the latest chapter of a glass divine, and let me just say i'm adoring this fic already!!! sci-fi fics are my bread and butter and i absolutely love seeing the worldbuilding that has already been laid out especially with the religion aspect that is going on in a glass divine. the worldbuilding is very distinct from anything else i've read, especially regarding the pythia and all of the regulations surrounding him--from the blindfold to having to leave his name behind when he took up the old pythia's mantle. i imagine that it must have been a really hard transition for the pythia when he was young (especially seeing some of the flashbacks in the latest chapter, it seemed like he was taken against his will).

as well as the history of the deathlings--i think it's so cool!!! they've all got such cool cybernetic enhancements (just thinking about them gets me really excited because i think engineering is really really awesome dskjdfjgsdff) and i think it was really cool to include how the cybernetics, while they are enhancements and can make one stronger, aren't always perfect and can sometimes even prove to be a hinderance (especially when it comes to tommy's cybernetic lungs. sam mentioned that they weren't his best work because he was in a hurry, and while they do operate well, they aren't perfect.) as is with all machines--none are perfect, since they are constantly improving and evolving, and as time goes on and newer, more efficent ones are created, the older ones will become less and less relevant (again, seeing as tommy said they'd worked for him "all these years" makes me wonder just how old the lungs actually are. and on another note, even if they were sam's best work at the time, after so long they'd be outdated as he might have found ways to build a more efficent set of lungs later on.) it also makes me curious as to why tommy would need them in the first place, though i suppose i'll just have to wait and see to find that out!

the next fic on my reading list is stars, which i read the first few chapters of forever ago but fell behind on reading for some reason. i'm super excited to read it!!

but anyway those are all my rambles for now lol. hope you have a great day :D

-⚡️(i'm putting an emoji down just in case i send another ask in the future lmao. i hope no one else has used this one)

Oh thank you so much this is so sweet!! It means so much when people point out character consistency because that’s something I put a lot of effort into. I love figuring out how to keep a character true to their original form while throwing them into so many different worlds and changing parts of them accordingly. It’s just such a fun exercise for my writing skills.

(Also for posterity this ask was sent before I posted chapter 5 of glass sorry for late answer)

I’m so glad you’re enjoying glass so far!! It’s such a fun world to play around in. I’ve always wanted an excuse to worldbuild some heavy fictional theology, and I’ve also always been fascinated by the concept of oracles/prophets in fiction. Fun fact, the original inspo for glass came from an OG story I came up with years ago based off a dream I had about an order of priestesses who received visions of the future from their goddess. Anyway I’ve had a very fun time throwing that into a cyberpunk setting and playing around with the sci fi elements and connecting it to the religious themes

Oh it was definitely a hard transition for the Pythia and we’ll learn more about what he went through soon

I’m having such a fun time with the cybernetics. One of my favorite parts of cyberpunk worlds are cybernetics, but I get annoyed when it’s often treated like just a normal limb/organ when it’s still a prosthetic replacement. Just because it’s high tech doesn’t mean it’s perfect! I definitely have taken some ideas with the difficulties for the cybernetics from FMA and how it handles automail. While automail is a fantastic mechanical prosthetic, it still comes with issues which we see talked about in the show/manga. Going into cold weather is dangerous, his automail gets destroyed regularly, he has phantom pain from his lost limbs, etc. It’s not perfect and that’s what I love about it. So I’m trying to convey a similar idea with the glass cybernetics.

You’re completely right about the lungs. Even if they were Sam’s better work, technology is constantly advancing. They’re out of date even if they were done with more time and materials at hand. You’ll find out more about why he got them soon enough :)

Oh I hope you enjoy stars!! It’s certainly a ride lol

Welcome to the anon club!

#lightning anon #ask #through a glass divine

[travelingneuritis]

Hello! I have been LOSING it over your cyberpunk fic - it's some of the best and most exciting science fiction writing I've read in a long time. I was wondering if you might share some of your influences for the fic? I would really love to read them! I saw you mention Snow Crash in the author's notes and it piqued my interest re: re: what else you're drawing from, canonical, fanfictional, or contemporary.

ok firstly, hi!!!! and holy shit that's so nice of you, what an unbelievable compliment for what I still halfway think of as robot-fucking porn that got out of hand. i'm so glad you're enjoying it!! here's my far-from-exhaustive yet still really long and rambling list of Media In This Genre I Enjoy:

Obviously, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and its loose sequel, The Diamond Age. Both describe a plausible near-future of improved technology, deepening economic stratification, and a society crumpling under the weight of looming collapse. That makes them sound like Any Other Sci-Fi Novel but I assure you, they are a delicious and sensitive read. (The Diamond Age is one of my all-time favorite novels: expansive yet tight worldbuilding, plot that never plods despite crossing multiple years and POVs, and the one trope that cannot fail to make me weak in the knees, Unrelated Adult Unexpectedly Becomes Parent Figure To Endangered Small Child Out Of Sheer Necessity. the nell & miranda storyline makes me cry just thinking about it.)

Michael Moorcock's An Alien Heat is short and weird, about a "perfected" future version of humanity that has absolutely every element of existence (resources, laws of physics, brain chemicals, reproduction) under such tight control that there's nothing left to do except play make-believe all day, every day. so basically, jin sect. Then a time-traveling Victorian housewife gets stranded among the decadents. It's hilarious and surprisingly subtle.

As far as movies go, it feels obnoxious to say Blade Runner, so instead I'm saying Blade Runner 2049! (or as my roommate liked to call it, Blaze Runner 420.) The original is a classic for a reason but parts of it really don't hold up for me; the sequel, though, has pretty much everything I like, and the stuff I don't like is easier to ignore or skip. I love how dirty it makes the future look.

The Fifth Element has super immersive set design/dressing and my favorite costume design from any movie ever. the whole Born Sexy Yesterday thing is a bit much to get past but i still like to watch it for the worldbuilding, which is plentiful. (my roommate: "what dumbass let her google War right before the apocalypse? Just let chris tucker go down on her for 20 minutes problem solved")

I've also been looking at a lot of Richard M. Powers illustrations and like, chewing my hair over how good they are and how much I wish I could paint like that. I do try I think I'm just too much of a tightass lol

As far as MDZS fic recs:

Not Afraid To Know, by Phnelt, is a bouncy one-off about robot LWJ and his first, ahem, experience with a cute backalley technician who teaches him how to feeeel. It's funny, it's hot, and it sparkles with Phnelt's customary wit & charm.

electric heart by sundiscus has been at 3/? since 2020 and probably won't update again, but I still reread it for the incredible worldbuilding and character design. especially love the way the curtain is gradually lifted on WWX's personhood. LWJ's crush keeps pace, obviously.

also the sexy/violent neon noir short series Inside the Mind of a Man is a Massacre by Pip (Moirail). Especially the two one-offs focusing on (droid? Bionic part-human?) WWX and his (handler? coder? lover?) LWJ. Ooh, and when I just went to grab that link off their page I saw they have a new WIP in a similar setting, world.runExecution(), which is 2 chapters in and really exciting so far.

there are almost certainly more that i've read and loved and lost. please feel free to add on with more recs! and thanks for the ask i love talking about this stuff i hope i get some recs back!!

#fic recs #media recs #asks #mdzs meta #mdzs fanfiction #recs

[selibuildsonsims]

UPDATE: a personal milestone

ONE OF MY BUILDS HIT 1,000 DOWNLOADS!!!!!!!!!!!

IM SHOOK BRO FOR REAL!!!!!!!!!!! I'm literally just so excited about this, IM OVERWHELMED ACTUALLY OMG!! It's a small number compared to a lot, but the fact that 1,000 people who have my art & vision in their game which is truly insane to me. I'm so happy that this milestone is on one of my favourite builds that I've made!

Truly, to anyone reading this, THANK YOU so much for the likes, reblogs & follows! Everyday I check my Sims 4 Gallery & Tumblr I'm amazed at the amount of stuff people are downloading, liking & commenting on. Seeing people enjoying the builds I'm sharing is really fucking special to me & as someone who is chronically ill, it truly does make my days so so so much better.

I started making my builds purely because Sims 4 was an outlet for me to create my own reality out of the the euphoric, vaporwave, cyberpunk worlds that I see in pictures, videos & artwork online. I'm basically making the world that I would love to live in. My own melancholy, dreamlike haven.

But the fact SO MANY people are also experiencing my dream world with me is insane. I genuinely feel such a deep connection to the nostalgia of the aesthetic & the fact that people are enjoying my dream world too is truly special. I know it seems silly & not that deep in reality, but for me, it really is!

I don't want to ramble too much so again, thank you to anyone who interacts, enjoys & allows me & my builds to be part of your worlds! I truly love sharing my builds with you all and I hope you enjoy them too 💜

Much love! Selenebaby xoxo

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[youremysputnik]

How was the ateez concert?? (i need details since i couldn't go, they didn't have any shows near me and i can't drive for 2 hours so yeah i'm a suffering atiny lol)

i’m sorry bestie :( i also completely get it because i’m so lucky to live an hour and a half from chicago (the ONLY midwest show) and my dad is willing to go, since i don’t want to drive in chicago…

this reply is going to be long and rambling since i haven’t really started processing this yet lol

IT WAS INCREDIBLE!!! ateez are so naturally funny it’s crazy! this show on a whole felt more natural than txt, i mean ateez had translators so they could go into korean whenever they wanted or needed. like jongho was backstage after dazzling light but they finished everything they had planned to say, so wooyoung asked san in korean what song he wished was on the set list (twilight, he sung like five seconds of it). they also sang a bit of pirate king since people said they wanted to hear it

so starting at the beginning, kq fellaz 2 (their junior group that hasn’t debuted yet) opened and did two songs, then ateez started with new world and it changed me as a person and i also don’t remember any of it because i was so excited

during their first ment, they talked about how the arena is usually a basketball arena, so yunho, wooyoung, and yeosang did some dunk shots. plus woo forgot what he was supposed to say, so he walked to the back of the stage giggling, then walked back and said what he needed to say

JONGHO IS INSANE LIKE I KNOW WE KNOW BUT HE IS CRAZY TALENTED also he was in a silly goofy mood, he did “jongho’s magic show” where he changed all the lightiny’s different colors. he said he was going to turn the lights red so he grabbed a water bottle and people started screaming, so he goes “this is water! this is water!” and walks over to wooyoung and says if you drink this the lights will turn red! and then made a comment about wooyoung adams apple 😂 so woo drank it (while the camera zoomed in on his throat) and the lights turned red. then jongho said i’m going to turn them yellow! so he grabbed a napkin (“this is napkin! this is napkin! napkin is fire!!!”) and goes over to seonghwa, who is very confused. jongho tried to explain to hwa what he was doing and he’s very cutely said “sorry??????” eventually jongho put the napkin over hwa’s face and then removed it and seonghwa was making a face and the lights turned yellow. i still don’t completely know what was happening hahaha

BUT THEN yeosang made us start chanting sexy seonghwa (i have video of this if anyone wants to see lol) and seonghwa did some of the inception choreo lol then he dragged yunho in (also have this on video) and yunho did some sexy poses and hongjoong goes “ok we need to finish the sexy time!!”

seeing win live changed my life too lol i love their pirate concept so much. also guerrilla, wave, say my name, and cyberpunk changed me

ok and then before guerrilla (the fake final song) hongjoong said it would be the last song and then was like “you don’t seem sad about that… there was no awww nooo just like eh okay.. let’s try it again” so then we all screamed noooooo awwwww and he started laughing

there’s definitely more but i’ll stop rambling lol if you want more or to see any of the videos i have just let me know :))

#i want to say everything that happened but i’ll hold myself back #asks #answered

[softgrungeprophet]

i watched so many trailers today i already forgot half of them but the new forza horizon game seems really cool (console exclusive... oh well...) and microsoft seems to have some cool shit coming out

and also

*grabs todd howard by the face* tell me more about this space game

#also glad a lot of the coop and multiplayer games allow solo play #actually kinda curious about the new wolfenstein game. heard a lot of good about II #SO MUCH STUFF was in the microsoft one i literally cannot remember which ones i was excited about #i'm gonnna have to check my twitterr #I mean. sea of thieves but i can't play that. #oh cyberpunk seems alright. i was mostly caught by the cars #more interested knowing it WILL hve character creation #wish more games with character creators would use anything other than Some White Guy as their trailers' protag though #would love to see games feature the char creator IN gameplay trailers as well as like do blends between created chars in other trailers #to showcase what you can do #fucking idk shit about devil may cry but he revved his sword and i went SIGN ME UP #it's so fucking dumb i love it #i hate that lady's outfit though #anyway there was some cool shit and i refuse to watch the devolver presser #looks like all their games are about shooting people in the face ANYWAY which like #ok a lot of the announcements have been but man #can you imagine a skateboarding ballet game without the gun part thtt would be rad #also the url for the metal wolf remake's website fucking sucks it's not a funny joke Devolver #nadia rambles #long tags #ok i'm done

[alyona11]

French musicals recs (aka my previous special interests listed in one post)

Actually I wanted to make a post a while ago, since there're some nice musicals that mostly go unnoticed by tumblr even though they are really cool (and have a DVD records)! Before I start I wanna say that these are very different from what Broadway or West End usually stages, so I advise you to just relax and enjoy without purposefully comparing the two together. I bet this gonna be a pretty big post, so clock on "read more"! @machine-without-feelings, hope you'll have fun!

I'm a little extra so it took quite some time to write, so please join me in my weird interest leave a like/rb. Under the read more you'll find:

1) My excited rambles

2) Links to these musicals (proshots with English subs)

3) Some songs to vibe check whether it's something you'd enjoy listening or not

1) Notre-Dame de Paris! Gonna start with this one since it was one of the main reasons I've started to learn French. There was a time where I would watch it every single day. I probably watched it a millions of times by now and was obsessed with it for a good couple of years.

About: What can I say? It's a Hunchback of Notre Dame adaptation that sadly usually goes overlooked when English speakers talk about the book. Which is a shame! Cool French-Canadian cast, good grasp of the original, really nice lyrics and music. Love from the first song for me.

Where to watch: here with English subs, the quality isn't the best, I have a better one on my google drive so you can DM me for link. Plus there're some DVDs of different productions (notably Italian one) just waiting in the internet for free.

Songs recs (to get the vibe of the musical): Actually it's hard to choose, because I love the thing so much, but here're some.

Classic Belle, Le Temps des Cathédrales, Ma Maison C'est Ta Maison, Pretty Guys In Pants In The Background song, Song after which I became Daniel Lavoie fan lmao could add some more but you haven't got all day, just check the whole thing.

2) Le Petit Prince! I said that I wanna promote it and I will. As I said earlier I really liked Daniel Lavoie (aka the guy who played Frollo) and here he plays the pilot!

About: A very very very good adaptation of The Little Prince book. Literally quotes the book in most songs. The music is written by the same composer as NDDP, so it's good. The set and costume design is amazing! It's very colourful and inspired by author's illustrations. I cry each time I watch it cos it gives me FEELS. Also a good musical for beginner French learners imo, not as hard as NDDP, can be an addition to reading the original book. Wholeheartedly recommend, it's criminally underrated.

Where to watch: There's a playlist with English subs, French subs are also to be found on YouTube if you want them.

Songs: Dédicace, C'est un chapeau, Apprivoise-moi.

3) Well, cannot avoid mentionning Roméo et Juliette. Kinda a classic, to be fair. Was probably the 2nd French musical I've heard. More active in terms of music, some tunes gonna stuck in your head for days.

About: Well, it's obvious from the name. Kinda cool actually? Weird in some places but not in a bad way. Good musical to have a fun time (well. at least act 1 is fun, right?). The costumes are a bit cheesy, but that's not important. Still sad the pandemic ruined its tour I hope to see it live one day.

Where to watch: Actually it has two DVDs of different versions from different productions. Some songs changed, I vibe with the earlier version more, but the newer one is nice too.

Songs: Oh these slap, haut my mind since the second I first heard them. Kinda pop. But not that boring pop that modern French musicals have, it kinda has its style. Here're some of my favs: Vérone, Les Rois Du Monde, Aimer (aka the song I can listen for hours).

4) Starmania. Speaking about classic. To be fair, never watched it, only listened to the albums, but I mean it's still looks more like a concert.

About: deppressive cyberpunk and anti-utopia. A lit of bandits. Evil capitalist included. A classic. If you were interested in French songs you've probably heard some of these multiple times.

Where to watch: here

Songs: SOS d'un terrien en detresse, Le Monde Est Stone, Le Blues Du Businessman

5) Le Roi Soleil. Ok, I cannot explain why I like this one. Can't say I was obsessed with it, but I liked it a lot. I like the songs, enjoy relistening from time to time.

About: Louis 14. That's it, that's the musical. Kinda about his romantic relationships and king issues. A bit about La Fronde. But mostly about romance, lmao.

Where to watch: boop

Songs: Être à l'hauteur, Contre Ceux D'un Haut, Un Geste De Vous.

6) Mozart L'Opéra Rock. Was kinda hesistant to add it to the list because I mostly wanted to mention least well-know stuff and it feels to me that Mozart is kinda hype-ish? But I got that it may be not so well-known for the English speakers and it's worth checking out!

About: Well it's about Mozart and it's rock! The songs slap! probably will get in your head and you gonna whistle Le Bien Qui Fait Mal or something. Also Mozart and Salieri are pretty gay.

Where to watch: here! and the quality is great!

Songs: L'Assasymphonie, Place je Passe, J'accuse mon père, Bim Bam Bim Boum

Ok, I'll stop there cos this post took me a few hours to write, I could have added some other musicals, but I guess I need to rewatch them first, cos I barely remember them.

#me being me #musicals #french #french musicals #le petit prince #notre dame de paris #mozart l'opera rock #le roi soleil #starmania #romeo et juliette #my recs #i'd say that nddp and le petit prince are an absolute must-watch #others I like but these two are in its own league

[punchsomeoneforme-willyou]

The wonderful @heartoferebor tagged me for nine books I am planning to read (thank you so much for the excuse to ramble away and also make my opinions other people’s problem). Now I will point out that I am moving back to my term time address on Sunday, so this is the to read pile I have at my parents’ place (a lot of them will be coming with tho). So let’s have a little look:

1. The Left-handed booksellers of London by Garth Nix: So I picked this up on a whim over a year ago and I did actually start reading it, I even got a friend a copy as a Christmas present 2020 aaand then I got distracted by some other book and never continued it. So yeah, eventually I will get back to this (it’s not even the highest priority tho).

2.Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong: I LOOOOVED These Violent Delights, which this is the sequel to. I got excited enough to preorder this … and then I was never actually in the mood to read it. I will get to it, I promise (likely before I manage to finish the booksellers)

3.Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe: Yep, it’s a physical version of the webtoon. A friend recommend the webtoon to me ages ago, buuut I do not like reading books in digital format and I find graphic novels difficult and tiring to read, doubly so when on screen, so this is the solution. I do enjoy Greek mythology, so looking forward to this (prettyyyyyyy also).

4. Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell: obligatory sequel, I am assuming it will be an entertaining easy read, so I have been saving it for when the time when I need that comes. (In case you’re wondering I did some fanart for this series quite a while back for some gift exchanges).

5. Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell: It’s a gay space opera, I don’t think I need to say more 😂

6. Crier’s War by Nina Varela: It’s a sapphic enemies to lovers type deal and I am beyond hyped for it. It’s veeery likely to be my next read after I finish The Jasmine Throne (by Tasha Suri).

7. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki: Read the summary and HAD to have it. It is also very high on the priority list for soon to be read.

8. Cinder by Marissa Meyer: I basically decided to get this as soon as I saw the cover, because HOW COULD YOU NOT. Anyways, as you probably guessed it’s a Cinderella cyberpunk au.

9. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir: this guy’s one of my trusted authors, so it was only a matter of time before I got this book also excited to read it.

Aaaaand we’re done. I will point out that overall I read more fantasy than sci-fi even if this pile shows me leaning slightly more towards sci fi (just for transparency). But I’m currently playing my way through the mass effect trilogy, so I have been influenced by that. I shall tag @vmcgmidlifecrisis and @threeowlssittingonashed and whoever else wants to do it, because I would love to hear about what other people are reading.