I miss him so much 😭

I think Dirty Little Secrets is interesting so far. And I’m surprised I haven’t seen more about it. It feels different than PB’s usual in some ways

Finally getting around to playing MOTY

gOD is it painful to skip all some of these diamond choices

What if: Thomas Mendez was gender customizable?

Was on break and drew doodles of a female Thomas Mendez..Made this! I hope you like it!

You know I gotta get the dress for her. Bye diamonds 🥲

Sent by @blackcanary3341

‘I've somewhat made my peace with PB creating the VIP option. However, I wish Choices would try and create a balance between single LI smut books and the stories that are of better quality a la Hero, HSS, WEH, MOTY. That way, it would satisfy both sides of the fandom.’

POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

Cadybear's Reviews- My Two First Loves

Welcome to the twenty-seventh official Cadybear's Reviews! Today I'll be talking about My Two First Loves, which I have ranked on the "Rotting Flesh Tier" at 2 stars out of a possible 10. My last and only playthrough of this was back in April-June 2021.

Oh boy! Oh boy oh boy oh boy! I could write a whole essay on everything wrong with this…  

So I will. 

To put it briefly: this story feels like it was adapted from a Wattpad story that was written by a 12-year-old whose only ever exposure to high school media and depictions of teenage sexuality was Glee, and then had serious queer and mature themes slapped onto it in order to make it seem better. Y’know, the equivalent of trying to polish a turd.

Or, heck, it’s probably PB’s attempt at ripping off “The Kissing Booth”, seeing as both have a MC in a love triangle between her childhood best friend and a bad boy named Noah, after all. Which, funnily enough, was also originally adapted from some tween’s Wattpad story. That’s about the equivalent to a dog eating some rotten food, shitting it out, then another dog finds it, eats it, and then shits it right out again. And THEN that second dog’s owner comes along to try to polish that double-toured turd. 

Number 1: The LGBTQ+ tag is clearly an attempt to appease the queer players that they probably think are being whiny. 

Ava’s arc about realizing she’s a lesbian who had been experiencing compulsory heterosexuality is pretty solid in a vacuum. But her being an LI was so blatantly only a last-minute decision PB made during the writing process, and it shows because Ava’s CG just uses her game sprite while Mason’s and Noah’s are fresh art. 

MC starts to fall for Ava sometime around at least 30 chapters in, but we don’t get to officially pursue her as a romance option until about 70 chapters in. I get delaying her as a love interest a bit because of the whole thing with MC realizing she’s bi, but even then, there’s just so few opportunities for building any kind of relationship with her that it hardly feels authentic. 

Speaking of, MC’s supposed bi awakening is completely rushed and treated with about as much value as a Family Guy cutaway gag, even outside of Ava being sidelined. As someone who realized I wasn’t straight three years ago and is still questioning if I’m bi or straight, I understand that people take different amounts of time to figure out their sexuality. But this MC does not spend any period of time figuring out her bisexuality. She basically just goes “Welp, guess I’m bi now”, and then it’s back to being indecisive as per usual except now there’s a female love interest in the mix too.

To add insult to injury, "discussions of sexuality" is placed in a "player discretion" warning, alongside "racial tensions" and "occasionally violence" to boot. How the fuck is discussion of sexuality even remotely on the same level as either of those? If they meant discussions or depictions of homophobia then maybe I could understand… but I don’t even recall seeing any depictions of homophobia in the book, so including this in the freaking warning tags is pointless at best and kind of insulting at worst. 

Not to mention, plenty of other Choices books like MOTY, ILS, D&D, etc. have had discussions about sexuality/LGBTQ+ stuff before, and didn't have to warn us about it. Not even MAH, a later book which had discussions about freaking conversion therapy for Christ’s sake. Sure, some of those books did have content warnings, but they were generally vague and/or mainly warned for violence, and didn’t warn specifically for depictions of queerphobia or discussions of sexuality. Yet for some reason, MTFL feels the need to include a player discretion warning for sexuality discussions, even though it contains far less harsher queer themes. 

Number 2: The portrayal of teen sexuality in this does not feel earnest. 

Let me just say, I found it very jarring how this one was much more sexually charged compared to PB’s other high school books. PB is usually way more “safe” and PG-13 at most when writing high school characters. Even in books like ROD and WEH, where the characters are 18+ and do have smutty scenes, it’s clear that those books are a lot more restricted compared to the adult cast books.  

I mean, with WEH, the safeness makes sense– it was meant to be a serious and tender story from the start, and it does actually follow through on those themes. But ROD feels like it could have easily been as horny with its writing as MTFL was, what with being about a studious “good girl” who goes rebellious. In fact, the story’s loading screen was pretty infamous at first for looking “steamier” than other covers and loading screens.

In actuality though, ROD had only, what, one smut scene? And despite a lot of MC’s outfits being revealing or arguably sensual, there are practically no moments where MC fawned over how “sexy” a revealing diamond outfit looked. Like, I’m pretty sure there were just little to no sexually charged scenes in general. 

My point is, whatever compelled PB to make MTFL *this* sexualized is beyond me. My guess is the fact that PB called this one a story about “navigating sexuality” and thus wanted to focus more on the aspects of sexuality, but if that’s the case… hoo boy, did they do a terrible job at it. 

I don’t really care about the hypersexualized writing of the teenage characters on its own, or how the characters were initially not confirmed 18+ when the earlier smut scenes were written. What I find far more important is the fact that this sort of cliche and formulaic hypersexualized writing is in a book that markets itself as being about “a young woman navigating love and sexuality for the first time”.

Teens do indeed have sex and can be all over the place with their hormones and sexuality. A lot of us have been there in some way, myself included. And there are ways to talk about that type of stuff in a manner that is silly and/or exaggerated, but still earnest and respectful. But the particular way that MTFL handles super-horny teen sexuality, specifically while claiming to be a coming-of-age story, is neither earnest nor respectful. 

The way this story handles these sorts of topics is the writing equivalent to doing a surgery with Fisher-Price toy surgery tools. It’s genuinely difficult to take MC “navigating her sexuality for the first time” seriously when has to constantly blubber about how Mason and Noah are so muscular or how a diamond outfit has “naughty little thigh highs” or how she wants to do a “down and dirty” cheer routine with Ava for Mason and Noah. 

That last one especially feels like the kind of stuff we’d see more in a campy chick flick that doesn’t take itself seriously. Honestly, if this was a more campy high school book with the tone of DLS or the 2023 movie “Bottoms”, it probably wouldn’t be as glaring. But in a book that markets itself as a coming-of-age story, the tone feels completely off and the whole book honestly felt like it couldn't decide what it wanted to be. 

(Also, while we’re on this topic of MC’s premium outfits, I really fucking despise how MC gets so upset about wearing "mom clothes" if you choose to wear the free modest clothing instead of the revealing diamond outfit in Chapter 2. Ugh. Yes, the dad was being shitty about not letting MC dress how she likes, but all it does is it just makes you feel like shit for not wanting to dress in more revealing clothes. Stop making me feel bad for wanting to wear simple non-revealing clothing. Same goes for you, Chris Romantic Getaway story with your “the regular jerseys aren’t cute enough for girls to wear, we have to cut one up into a cleavage crop top in order to make it good for us girls to wear” bullshit.) 

And it just slaps you in the face with these sexual moments too, placing them in frequently whenever it feels like it, and the amount of it that actually contributed to any coming-of-age navigating-sexuality are few and far between. Honestly, it felt like it was trying way too hard to look "mature" with how it handled sexuality (as well as some of the other stuff like them drinking alcohol). Like it maybe was trying to portray teens realistically, but it only does so at a very shallow level. 

It's literally just "Look at the teens that talk about sex and like doing sexy things and having sex and doing grown-up stuff like drinking alcohol, see how MATUUURRREEE they are!" and they don't do anything more with it. It's just tacked on so they can pretend their book is a realistic story about maturing/being mature, when it fails at actually doing so.

I mean, I guess you could argue that the MC is meant to be seen as more messy and hormonal. And in that case, I could give it a pass. But, again, MC’s supposed arc of “navigating sexuality” never goes anywhere from that until the very last few chapters where you choose which LI she ends up with. It’s pretty much the same crap all throughout the book. MC doesn’t navigate sexuality, she just runs around aimlessly in it like a chicken with its head cut off.

Number 3: All the serious themes they try to have in the story are overshadowed by MC’s stupid indecisiveness plot. 

I’ve already said MTFL tries way too hard to make its story seem “mature” with the trashy way it sexualizes its characters. I’ve said it feels like it doesn’t know what it wants to be. Honestly though, this just sums up MTFL’s writing in general. 

MTFL has quite a handful of subplots, and I will admit, all of them are pretty compelling. You have Ava figuring out she’s lesbian, Mack dealing with gang drama, and Mason and Noah dealing with their past and Mason’s dad’s abusive behaviors. And an admittedly decent arc about MC discovering her love for photography instead of cheerleading. 

And then you have MC going on about how she can’t decide between her love interests, which is just the bad apple of the bunch that ruins the rest. It just makes it very hard to take everything else seriously. You ever seen that one meme where the Power Rangers put their hands in a circle but then a Teletubbie tries to join in? It’s the writing-equivalent to that, and MC’s indecisiveness plot is the Teletubbie. 

And maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if MC’s indecisiveness wasn’t the main focus plot of the whole book. I want to take these other storylines seriously. I want to take this story as a whole seriously. But how can I when the main focus of the story is so god damn shallow? No matter how many "soft positive heartfelt" piano tracks and “so sad and tragic sad” piano tracks from WEH they try put over it, it doesn't change the fact that the focus is MC going on and on about being unable to choose between Mason, Noah, and Ava. 

I get teens are shallow and can have shallow issues, but did we really need it to be that big of a focus of the story? Especially when the way it handles it is completely empty? Something like OG HSS was great because even though a lot of the issues the characters had were seemingly shallow and basic (such as the band fighting over which song to play), they do give a little more depth to it and reason to care about it (ie. Aiden starts to feel like a failure at music because of the band infighting). MTFL just throws MC’s indecisiveness at you for 95 chapters and expects you to take it seriously with nothing else surrounding it. 

And they try to pull the twist on the title at the end where it’s all like “LI and photography, the two greatest loves of MC’s life”. Which is an interesting idea in concept, except it feels so artificial and non-earned when MC’s romance plot was spending 95 chapters being unable to decide between the LIs. 

Number 4: It reuses way too much from HSS. 

I know this is a less severe issue, but I just can’t get past it. Sprites, backgrounds, school colors… even plot points like the corrupt principal embezzling from the school, or MC and LI(s) being locked in a large school room (remember when HSS:CA MC and Ajay were locked in the auditorium?). Heck, even MC having lost her mom and having a photography passion connected to that, rings way too similar to one of Autumn’s arcs from the freaking HSS PRIME GAME! Oh yeah, and both of those characters have a love triangle with a golden boy and a bad boy. Holy hell. 

Easily the most noticeable part is the sprites. In my playthrough, I counted 7 whole HSS sprites that were used in MTFL: Sydney became Iris, Payton became Toni, Frank became this random kid in a flashback for Mason and Noah's past, Morgan became a kid in Elijah's gang named Lucy, Lorenzo became Chad, Aiden's mom became Asian Noah's mom, Skye's dad became White Mason's dad (PB really said use that sprite for abusive dads huh). And there’s probably more, I’m sure. 

And the worst offense? They even reuse the iconic bird's-eye view of Berry High in MTFL. Call me petty if you must, but that's just criminal. It's one thing to reuse and alter a bunch of the sprites, uniforms, and backgrounds from the series but to reuse another book series' iconic background like that? Honestly, it feels rather insulting. They couldn't even be arsed to change the "Go Tigers!" on the football field, that’s how little sense it makes to use that background outside of HSS. Fuck’s sake.

I know it’s kind of the norm for Choices to reuse assets throughout different series, but the fact that they do it so much here and majority of it is from HSS just rubs me the wrong way. At best, it’s jarring and lazy. And at worst, it comes off as trying way too hard to be a “more mature” version of HSS. When in reality, it makes HSS:CA’s side characters look like Citizen Kane in comparison. I mean, at least Clint and Natalie and MC stopped whinging about Rory ⅓rd of the way through the series. 

At least when other high-school-setting books like ROD, WEH, and ILITW were made, they at least somewhat bothered to change up a few things and make it feel like an actually different school. They changed up the backgrounds a bit, used different school colors and uniforms, and didn’t reuse nearly as many sprites from HSS.  

In MTFL, all they did was make new cheer uniforms for the non-reused sprites and remove the Berry High logos from everything HSS that they used. Yeah they made some changes, but it’s clear that they didn’t put nearly the same amount of effort into it as they did in the other high school setting books. 

All it does is just make me miss HSS. Like, stop toying with my heart by piggybacking off of a better series (that has better queer rep too) so much. It’s to the point where it feels like they should have just used the time making this book to instead make a HSS senior year (Which, y’know, would be nice, especially since the sendoff we got in HSS:CA 3 was absolute flaming fucking garbage). 

So… in all honesty, I don’t hate this book. But it had a lot of things that annoyed me to no end and it sure as fuck is disappointing wasted potential. It had a great opportunity to be a nice queer coming-of-age story. But instead it felt like a Kissing Booth rip-off with serious themes only hamfisted in order to make it seem more “mature”.

Top Ten Annoying Children in Choices

There are many children encountered throughout the Choices universe, some more palatable than others. Though they’re all arguably some degree of annoying, this list ranks the top ten of the most annoying children. At least, in my opinion, anyway. So sit back, relax, and read as a 21 year-old grad school student with real life responsibilities tears fictional children to shreds.

10. The Heir.

The Heir is unique in that she’s the only directly customizable child on this list with six different sprites you can choose for her regardless of your own appearance. Throughout TRH and TRF, I can truthfully say I didn’t find anything endearing about her. Like, at all. It certainly didn’t help that PB wrote her like they write animals. But her personality did get slightly better as she aged as the books went on. The same cannot be said about her appearance, however. In fact, I’d say her appearance got worse as the books went on. The Heir as a baby looks perfectly fine. The Heir as a toddler looks like she’d infect me with COVID-19 by spitting a half-chewed chicken nugget into my coffee. And The Heir as a four year-old looks like she’d beat me unconscious with a cane and call me “whippersnapper”.

9. Daughter (MOTY).

Our daughter in MOTY is actually the only child on this list with a genuinely good design. She looks genuinely cute, and that is high praise from someone who doesn’t think kids are cute. I was also sympathetic to her plight as she didn’t fit in well at school and found herself perpetually bullied. However, PB wrote her in such an obnoxious way that I just couldn’t help but be annoyed by her. She’s a gifted and incredibly smart child, but PB could’ve written her so, so much better. To me, she just came across as a slightly less obnoxious Brainy Smurf because of how badly her dialogue and writing were done.

8. Taari.

Taari was a Nothing Character, plain and simple. He didn’t add anything to Endless Summer, and he didn’t appear much at all, which is why he’s not very high on the list. But my god. This kid had practically no sense of self-preservation and Seraxa constantly had to bail his ass out of danger and scold him for getting himself into it in the first place. Kinda like another kid who’s much, much higher on the list, but more on that later.

7. Camellia.

Camellia didn’t appear much at all, but when she did, GOD was she annoying. She mostly appeared in RoE where she and Jiro were constant obstacles during Jess’s job as a tour guide, though she was much less of a brat than Jiro was.

6. Bartie.

You knew going into this list that Bartie would appear here. You knew. Let me summarize it. Annoying family, hideous design as a baby, whiny as fuck, named after Barthelemy. Though interestingly enough, I’d say he and Bianca are the least detestable of the Walker family, which really says a lot.

5. Lula Jacobs.

Kids have no place in horror stories unless they’re integral to the plot, as is the case with ILITW and THoBM. Lula serves absolutely no purpose in Bloodbound and isn’t even remotely endearing. In addition to her character adding nothing of substance to the story, our character is forced to care for her just because. Also? She’s fucking creepy, man.

4. Jiro.

We’re reaching the really annoying ones now. Jiro, like Camellia, mainly appears in RoE as an obstacle during Jess’s job as a tour guide. Unlike Camellia, though, he is almost always the one who causes trouble. He whines, he tries to throw spitballs, he splashes Camellia on the boat ride, and is generally a nuisance during any of his appearances.

3. Augustus Blackwood.

Augustus “August” Blackwood is Vanessa Blackwood’s insufferable, classist little shit of a son. He bullies the main character’s daughter and doesn’t have a pleasant bone in his body. As someone who was bullied myself, I wanted nothing more than for Luz Mendez to punt this little asshole into the sun. He would have been number #1 on this list if he’d appeared more and had a bigger role because I know my annoyance would’ve gone up if he had.

2. Isaac & Lyra Achilles.

Yes. These are two kids. However, due to them being twins, ALWAYS appearing together, and having the exact same personalities, I’m ranking them as one entity. Anyway, these kids are spoiled rotten, uncouth, uncontrollable, arrogant, and remorseless. They are ungrateful little leeches and I was so happy to get rid of them. I cannot stand spoiled children. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them.

1. May.

But Binglebonkus, why is May your number one over these spoiled, entitled little brats? Well, hypothetical person, I’m so glad you asked. While May’s personality is at least pleasant, she has ZERO self-preservation and the most insane plot armor out of anyone in Choices when there’s no reason for her to even have any in the first place. She regularly gets herself into grave danger, forcing others to risk their lives to help her. Feather lost his status as an Elder saving her life, so you’d think she’d be at least a little more careful, right?

Apparently not. We have to save her several times throughout the book and even spend a sizable chunk of one chapter during a battle trying to chase after her and get her to safety. But that’s not even the end of it. Remember how I said children have no place in horror stories unless they’re integral to the plot? May adds nothing to the story like Lula Jacobs, and also like Lula, our character is forced to care for her WAAAAAY more than they really should. The only things that endear her to the player are that she’s super young and presumably orphaned.

With all that being said, PB constantly pushes May-centric diamond scenes on us. Gather plants with May. Buy May this plushie. Tell May a story. Build flower beds with May. PB seems to have wanted May to be like Clementine from The Walking Dead and have us care for her and want to protect her, so they tried to achieve that by pushing diamond scenes with her.

Unlike Clementine, though, May is an incredible liability. Yes, she apparently knows about plants and gardening, but she constantly endangers herself and others, making her unquestionably more of a liability than an asset.

To recap: while her personality is pleasant, I loathe May because she adds nothing to the story whilst being an unrealistic character in that she constantly endangers herself and others while somehow surviving every encounter no matter how severe (like being the only person the Queen didn’t eat, which I call bullshit on) and receives nothing more than a metaphorical slap on the wrist from anyone who has to haul her ass out of trouble. And of course, everyone still unquestionably adores her even after she nearly gets them killed trying to save her for the umpteenth time.

Basically, May is a veritable waste of manpower and resources and could have been a good character, but she was a garbage one instead.

at this point I just replay HSS, TE, FA and LoA2 (because yes, it has it‘s problems but for a newer one it‘s pretty good) and wait for BoLaS 2, because most of the other books are just extremely disappointing. No PB, I do not want to play either a homewrecker, a cheater or whatever and i sure as hell do not want an emotionally unavailable SO, an indecisive one or an absolutely obsessed MC who has no business being the way they are

I actually like your idea of playing a widow quiet a lot. Grappling with the loss of a spouse or partner, returning to being a person on my own, learning to love again, recognizing that being in love again doesn’t nessecarily mean the other person left you life or didn’t shape you and that it didn’t mean you loved them any less - if i trusted PB with it i‘d love to read it! (Though this might also just be me projecting)

But right now Choices is extremely disappointing. Reading the translated books really makes me appreciate some of the old classics. they don’t make ‘em like they used to, sadly

Oh, I hear you. The only thing I'm playing at the moment is CoP 2 and peppering in some replays of past books that I love because while that's the proof that PB can make genuinely awesome content, they've definitely gone very one-note with the stuff they've been putting out. I cannot even begin to understand the appeal of all the infidelity plotlines and tbh, I don't want to. As for a widow(er) story, I'll say it's not really my speed, but believe it or not, I really believe that PB could do it right if they wanted to. Of course, if it followed the current trend, I'm willing to bet it'd be complete shit, but thinking about it, I really like how PB executed the grieving-spouse-finding-love-again thing with Thomas in MotY (and that's without him even being the main character), and if they kept that same energy, a widowed MC book could be objectively great. I would say, though, that in order for it to work best, I think the better course of action to take would be a multiple LI book with the possibility of not choosing a romance path in the end. For the former, the choice of LI could signify the kind of life MC wants to lead moving forward (would they go for a spontaneous and adventurous LI with whom they're always living in the moment and seizing every day, or maybe an LI who's more steady and makes them feel secure after their life was completely destabilized by the death of their spouse? There are so many possibilities to play with). As for the no LI path, its inclusion would be important because it could be that MC's final stage of grief is the recognition that they can be perfectly happy outside of a relationship (a contrast to how they previously would be dismayed by their unwilling singlehood). I say this not just because I'm sick of the single LI trend, but because I think that in allowing the players a choice in how the story goes (in an app called Choices, go figure), the story wouldn't feel like you're just being dragged along on what the writers are forcing the story to be without having a say in anything, and the chance to truly influence MC's journey would be what really makes an emotionally-charged book all the more poignant and moving instead of just flat. And, you know, @thefirstcourtesan gets her widow book :)

So...the book cover for Kindred was just leaked. It's a multiple MC book yet they still managed to make all three playable characters gender-locked. Are we surprised, though? PB gender-locking a witchcraft book for no reason is such a PB thing to do. This means that there'll be no new GOC books until the back half of 2023 since Rommates with Benefits, First Comes Love and The Duchess Affair are all going to "fEaTuRe a hErOiNe mC". Why does PB hate MLM and enby players so much? 😩

Well, the book hasn’t come out yet, so we don’t actually know if there’s “no reason” to genderlock the book. I feel like some people have a misconception that I think genderlocking full stop is bad. I don’t and it’s not. There are stories where anything other than a female protagonist would be to the story’s detriment. Stories like ACoR, MoTY etc. Where I draw issue (again, stemming from a desperate desire to see gay stories) is when stories are genderlocked for no discernible narrative reason. The Choices VN format is one without a fixed protagonist so like… come on, give the f-words something to eat we’re starving over here. It’s for this same reason I’m really not at all interested in male genderlocked books unless they’re also locked gay. I mean yes my unwillingness to acknowledge straight men is part of this, but also I genuinely can’t think of any story suitable or worth telling in the Choices VN format that isn’t from the perspective of a gay man. There just isn’t one.

So no, at the moment we can’t say there’s no reason. Do I suspect we’ll see there was no reason, once the book is released? Yes, absolutely; it’s why I responded in gay annoyance when I first realised they were probably gonna genderlock the witch book. But we can’t exactly say for now with certainty there is none when all we’ve got to go off is a cover and the fact that it’s supposed to be about witches.

Look we all know witchcraft and the occult is a girls gays and theys thing and it’s disappointing PB didn’t lean into that. Yeah they could’ve made one of the playable characters not a woman, in that case. We can call it a missed opportunity and move on to bigger fish like WHY did they schedule no GoC books until fucking July, instead of the specifics of an individual book.

I’m just going to end with this because something in your tone reminded me of it, and this isn’t meant to shame you anon, but still. I know there are people here who, um… will show their ass and frankly be homophobic about and around queer men and the discussion over GoC versus genderlocking, but even still, some people here are putting to much energy into responding to it. Some of you are doing to much. There’s a lot of heat there. Calm down.

The best and worst things about being in this fandom according to you

Worst is hands down the racism apologists. The people who tried to say Vanessa from MOTY wasn’t racist. The people who whined when the OH writers were receiving deserved criticism for how they were going to unalive Rafael. The people who dismissed valid criticism of just how white coded this game is. Just shut the fuck up.

Best is the amazing people I’ve met and interacted with over the few years I’ve had this blog. The artists, the writers, the people who make funny memes. I love y’all. You keep this fandom going ❤️. There’s so many funny and talented people here (I can say with utmost confidence they’re more talented than some of the creatives actually employed by PB), and we’ve all bonded because we like a silly little phone game.

Eito Matsunaga

male version of Eiko Matsunaga. If MOTY was gender-of-choice Eiko could have same gender as MC. (also eito would be gay, in my idea, but I'm not working at pb)

I love how MaH tackle different issues and thank god PB did their research but with Mr Lewis being accused and stuff they could've been a lot smarter on who is J and why he purchased said item for J cause he was way too easy to be a culprit. Very great book just kinda sad to see a teacher almost lose his job over misunderstanding.

Yeah PB did a lot of foreshadowing in the earlier chapters about Mr. Lewis. They had him in the 1st two chapters everywhere MC went. But we all know how PB can be subtle as a sledgehammer lol.

And it is sad, especially if PB does a more realistic approach, if they'll give him an Eiko treatment from MOTY and fire him for being gay, which I hope they don't, because they've done that already. But even when he gets cleared from all charges against him, there's still going to be rumors, his reputation in that town would be tarnished...if this was real life. But PB might write it in a brighter happy ever after tone.

It does seem like PB is writing all these difficult topics really well with research put in so I'm proud of them! Chapter 10 was a very powerful chapter and imo MAH is an amazing book.

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Wanting to spread some positivity among fic writers. 

When you get this ask, link your:

Favourite fic/series you’ve ever written

That one fic/series you poured your heart & soul into

One underrated fic/series of yours you’d recommend

You don’t have to link just *a* fic. Go ham! Even link your masterlist! This is all about all your hardwork.

Thank you for creating!

ohmygosh thank you so much for this lovely ask (I know I'm so late responding) and for always spreading positivity in the fandom

Everything I Write For [x] since you said we could go crazy and link our master list, I'll link this post since it links to multiple masterlists since I write across 3 blogs (2 Choices)

Specific fics/series below the cut 💖💖💖

Favorite Series: Love & Scotch (Hollywood U/Open Heart crossover)

I haven't updated this series in a while but I really enjoyed writing the chapters I did publish and it pushed me to write more Ethan which was a lot of fun. I truly do hope to finish this series someday

Second Favorite Series:  Mal's Orphanage Series

From the very beginning I HC Mal opening an orphanage so when it became canon at the end of Blades I was shocked, but so happy. I have enjoyed so much writing the adventures of Mal and Daenarya and the kids they take care of. The initial mini series rescuing Rayden and Lydo has a special place in my heart.

*I couldn't possibly pick 1 favorite fic so I chose series instead... and still I couldn't pick 1 🤦‍♀️

Fic that I poured my heart and soul into: All of my Thomas Hunt fics. But if I ignore them because there are too many to mention, I would say my fics exploring Ellie's (OH MC) PTSD following the attack in book 2

In Between  One Day at a Time  Impromptu Vacation No Longer Adrift 

Under Rated Fic: Where to start...Unfortunately most of the pairings I write for are not super popular or have at least fell out of popularity. For example, I would say most of my Thomas Hunt fics are underrated. I know I missed his peak in popularity, I know there are like 2 people that still care about him in the fandom, but I still love him too much to stop writing him. Other examples: In MOTY, I chose  Levi  who, while amazing on his own, was second to Thomas Mendez or even third after Eiko in popularity. I also wrote Justin Mercado  for a while whom everyone hates (I actually got a lot of hate messages from writing him so I stopped).

But if I'm ignoring all of that, I'd say my Bryce and Keiki as children fics are underrated. I had so much fun with them and I feel PB really missed the mark on giving us more of Bryce's background. He is so unique and Hawaiian culture is so fascinating and interesting. I think they could have done more. I definitely look forward to exploring more of Hawaii's culture through future fics for them.

Again, thank you so much for this ask. I can't tell you how much it meant to be included in this round of spreading positivity! You are a gem and I'm glad you're apart of this fandom! 💖💖💖

Thomas is not that forced but you can tell he’s the main LI! At least he’s a good one but Tom…I hate drawing your hair! That’s why I gave you a hairdresser named Courtney.

Making a Alt LI for Thomas was fun! I tried to give her a shorter and dyed hairstyle to match her job description. I also gave her an older son! I hope you like it!

I’m not sure exactly how it works since I didn’t take that route, but I remember seeing screenshots when it was releasing. I think it’s at the very end you get the option to say you want to be with a LI and other people, so more like RCD I guess with the open relationship. My guess knowing PB is that they don’t really talk about it since the book was almost over

im not happy w how pb chose to do the open relationship in RCD, but just as long as moty mc and their "main" li have an actual proper in person conversation about it, ill be fine

im still upset about RCD doing that. like thats a conversation you have in person, before you get engaged. mc and li should not have gotten married in that book