I've heard its better to make new years resolutions/end of year summary BEFORE the new year starts, for good luck!! So firstly...I am NOT dead (surprisingly!!) and miss all you lovely mutuals :> I do NOT have a good reason besides life got busy, but I'm still so attached to cyberpunk that I WILL be making an effort to do stuff more here <3 That being said, I know I owe like, a lot of people art (owe is personal to me, it was for the giveaway!) but worry not!! My main news year resolution is to draw on a schedule, so the art WILL be starting/sent out to everyone next year <3 promise!! They all got half finished so it shouldn't take too long, but I promise I didn't forget!!
Finally, some sad news, I will be closing the nightcitygigs tumblr <3 I know that there were quite a few folks who were really invested into it, but I simply don't have the mental fortitude to keep it going and I know there's quite a few blogs on here who do a similar thing. Sorry to those who interacted, I promise before I delete it I'll reblog the engagement/posts here and spread hella love!!
Anyways I missed y'all and love y'all and hope you're all doing well :>
:0!! I got 40 followers (new friends!!) now!! Sorry for being super inactive, I promise when work slows down I'll queue up EVERYONES COOL STUFF and gush all over whatever I missed!! For now, since I feel like giving a gift away, just comment your cyberpunk OC that you'd like me to draw and I'll pick one >: ) mini giveaway time!!
all these gay girls are like "wow i want a big lady to step on me" but where is the love for short girls stepping on you? short girl intimidating you with her presence and body language alone until you fall over and she steps on you?? short girl taking down a girl who's much taller than her and making her submit??? where's the love for my shadow of the colossus bitches???
i love when an in-game gig gives me an idea that lets Vic be awful and fuck with a friends oc in tandem.
Wisteria belongs to the dear @wistereia 💕 i can't wait to write more of these two being lil shits together and to each other
Summary: Wisteria has a choice to make and there's a few factors not making it easy, Victoria's input certainly isn't helping
Premise based on Gig: Talent Academy
It’s an effort to smile, like pulling lead with a fraying thread but – Wisteria manages it, manages something that appears genuine enough even if it certainly doesn’t feel it. An odd way to lie, one that she hasn’t quite mastered just yet. She expects Victoria will so graciously offer to help her sharpen that particular skill now that she’s noted it to be lacking.
But it works, and the little boy with cyberware too dense for his body and still not enough for the weight his parents are pressing on his shoulders smiles so brightly it makes her chest ache. Pearly whites on full display as his lips split with such a genuine joy, his eyes – still organic, but for how long? – almost wet with tears twinkle under the white overhead lights. Delighted and trusting.
Naïve, a venomous voice hisses, and she can’t distinguish if it’s her mother’s or Victoria’s for how they overlap. A harmony of both.
“Right kiddo, you run along so I can get that meeting set up okay?” Her muscles ache with the smile now and they falter minutely at his responding ‘okay!’ Still, she keeps it up until the door mutes the distinct light patter of the boy’s steps. The breath she releases when it drops is exhausted, unrelieved.
“Well,” Victoria croons over their line, “that was certainly a…very you approach.”
“What, were you expecting me to zero the kid?” She had meant it to be an extreme, an unthinkable thing – but her throat dries at the thought. What was unthinkable to her was likely little more than a day that ends with a y for the other.
“No, but it perhaps would have been kinder.”
“I doubt that.” Wisteria says softly as she jacks into the terminal, both letting the silence settle and stew. And maybe this is another lesson, or another one of Victoria’s bullshit tactics, the silence sits heavy for her, settles onto her shoulders little by little as each second ticks by and the download bar crawls forward.
It’ll be fine.
They’ll actually get to be kids, get to run around and laugh and play sports because it’s fun, not because it’ll line someone else’s pockets. Not their parents and not some corp. It’s better for him, him and every other kid here—
“He’ll be fine.”
“Are you trying to convince me or yourself?” Something’s off in Victoria’s voice, a softness that borders on caring and she can’t tell if it’s supposed to be mocking or not. It sharpens the ache in her chest, has her press her lips together and nails clawing into the expensive wood of the desk.
“Just…let me get this over with.”
“Very well. Contact me when you’re done.” The call ends, the download bar finishes.
And the door to the office slides open, a two-bit corpo of a woman walking in with the still-beaming little boy at her heel. She can’t draw the smile again.
I was tagged by @theviridianbunny & @pozerjacket!! thank you two lovelies for giving me the chance to drop some half done SHIT!! <33 also second image's character is obviously the lovely Victoria of @another-corpo-rat!
I'm just gonna tag who I have on the top of my head!! Please do it if ya see this too, I'm tagging you as well >: ) @bishicat @chitcharlie @dreamskug @elvenbeard @foxglovefaun @glitchinginthegarden @merge-conflict @juststayquiete @luvwich @miss--river @nananarc @kharonion @another-corpo-rat @rindemption @timaeusterrored @thereignwolf @wilxfyre @wraithsoutlaws @elmknight @katsigian please let me know if you don't want to be tagged and I will make a list!
