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tveitertotwrites · 20 days

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Outfit Replacements (America's Most Eligible Book 3)

Last book for my MC's.

I do think that out of the three book in the series that book three has the best outfits. There is also not as many outfits in this book as books 1 and 2.

Again, some outfits were paired together in photos so the formatting might be weird.

Again, the sprite photos are from Choices Wiki

"Initial Outfit":

It's fine. Again, not my favorite as there are other starting otufits I like more.

Below is what I think Charlie would actually wear.

"Garden Goddess":

It gives me prom vibes. But I don't like it.

Below is what Charlie would actually wear.

"Sequined Starlet":

It's good but it is not Charlie's style. Both with the pattern and the jewelry.

Below is what I think Charlie would wear instead.

"Busty Babe":

Again, not my favorite. mostly because of the jewelry but it just doesn't work for me.

Below is what I think Charlie would wear.

"Daughter-in-Law":

Charlie doesn't really like the short tight dresses. And if she wears a dress with flowers on it, it is small flowers, not big ones like on this dress.

Below is what I think Charlie would actually wear.

"Sin City":

Again, I think the jewelry ruins the outfit. It's also supposed to be for a bachelorette party and I don't feel like it is.

Below is what I think Charlie would wear.

"Wedding Dress":

Like my common theme, I don't like the sleeves.

Below is what I think Charlie actually wore to her wedding.

"Wedding Dress (Simple)":

For a simple dress, it is not bad. But it does give me nightgown vibes.

Below is what I think Charlie would wear instead.

#americas most eligible #outfit replacement #america's most eligible book 3 #catherine “charlie” howard #charlie howard

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ilonga · 2 years

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also, fell headlong back into my playchoices obsession and the ame series, which I’m playing through for the first time, is SO MUCH MORE FUN than I expected

#playchoices #ame #america's most eligible #mackenzie and jen my beloved <3 #though i will say I'm at the start of the third book right now #and i'm not vibing with it as much as the first two #not as big a fan of this new points system as the other two books

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batboyblog · 1 month

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The governor was firm: Nebraska would reject the new federal money for summer meals. The state already fed a small number of children when schools closed. He would not sign on to a program to provide all families that received free or cut-rate school meals with cards to buy groceries during the summer.

“I don’t believe in welfare,” the governor, Jim Pillen, a Republican, said in December.

A group of low-income youths, in a face-to-face meeting, urged him to reconsider. One told him she had eaten less when schools were out. Another criticized the meals at the existing feeding sites and held a crustless prepackaged sandwich to argue that electronic benefit cards from the new federal program would offer better food and more choice.

“Sometimes money isn’t the solution,” the governor replied.

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The new $2.5 billion program, known as Summer EBT, passed Congress with bipartisan support, and every Democratic governor will distribute the grocery cards this summer. But Republican governors are split, with 14 in, 13 out and no consensus on what constitutes conservative principle.

One red-state governor (Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas) hailed the cards as an answer to a disturbing problem. Another (Kim Reynolds of Iowa) warned that they might increase obesity. Some Republicans dismissed the program as obsolete pandemic aid. Some balked at the modest state matching costs. Others hinted they might join after taking more time to prepare.

The program will provide families about $40 a month for every child who receives free or reduced-price meals at school —$120 for the summer. The red-state refusals will keep aid from about 10 million children, about a third of those potentially eligible nationwide.

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As with Medicaid, poor states are especially resistant, though the federal government bears most of the cost. Of the 10 states with the highest levels of children’s food insecurity, five rejected Summer EBT: Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas.

Like the school lunch program, it serves families up to 185 percent of the poverty line, meaning a family of three would qualify with an income of about $45,500 or less.

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Some Republicans, in rejecting the aid, found critics in their own ranks. After Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina dismissed Summer EBT as a duplicative “entitlement,” State Senator Katrina Shealy, a fellow Republican, wrote a column with a Democratic colleague warning that “hunger does not stop during summer break.”

In an interview, Ms. Shealy said the state should not reject $65 million “just because Biden is president,” and perhaps just partly tongue-in-cheek wrapped her plea in Trumpian bunting: “Everyone wants to say, ‘America First’ — well, let’s feed our children first.”

Oklahoma initially said it rejected the program because federal officials had not finalized the rules. But responding to critics, Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, sharpened his attack, calling Summer EBT a duplicative “Biden administration program” that would “cause more bureaucracy for families.”

Tribal governments, which have influence over large parts of the state, stepped in. Already feuding with Mr. Stitt, they promised to distribute cards to all eligible families on their land, regardless of tribal status, while bearing the $3 million administrative cost. The five participating tribes will cover nearly 40 percent of Oklahoma’s eligible children, most of them not Native American.

“I remain dumbfounded that the governor of Oklahoma would turn down federal tax dollars to help feed low-income children,” said Chuck Hoskin Jr., the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.

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some of the most stunning highlights of this story.

All I got to say is, let's feed the children? every single Democratic Governor took the money to feed the kids, every governor who rejected it, every single one, is a Republican. If you don't vote for Democrats you are STEALING food out of kids mouths.

#food #food insecurity #Poverty #politics #school lunch #feed the children #Republicans #2024 elections

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mostlysignssomeportents · 9 months

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That means that for a work to be eligible for copyright in the USA, it must satisfy three criteria:

1. It must be creative. Copyright does not apply to non-creative works (say, a phone book listing everyone in a town in alphabetical order), even if the work required a lot of labor. Copyright does not protect effort, it protects creativity. You can spend your whole life making a phone book and get no copyright, but the haiku you toss off in ten seconds while drunk gets copyright’s full protection. 2. It must be tangible. Copyright only applies to creative works that are “fixed in a tangible medium.” A dance isn’t copyrightable, but a video of someone dancing is, as is a written description of the dance in choreographers’ notation. A singer can’t copyright the act of singing, but they can copyright the recording of the song. 3. It must be of human authorship. Only humans are eligible for copyright. A beehive’s combs may be beautiful, but they can’t be copyrighted. An elephant’s paintings may be creative, but they can’t be copyrighted. A monkey’s selfie may be iconic, but it can’t be copyrighted.

The works an algorithm generates —be they still images, audio recordings, text, or videos — cannot be copyrighted.

For creative workers, this is huge. Our bosses, like all bosses, relish the thought of firing us all and making us homeless. You will never love anything as much as your boss hates paying you. That’s why the most rampant form of theft in America is wage theft. Just the thought of firing workers and replacing them with chatbots is enough to invoke dangerous, persistent priapism in the boardrooms of corporate America.

- Everything Made By an AI Is In the Public Domain: The US Copyright Office offers creative workers a powerful labor protective

THIS IS THE LAST DAY FOR MY KICKSTARTER for the audiobook for "The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation," a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and make a new, good internet to succeed the old, good internet. It's a DRM-free book, which means Audible won't carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now to get the audio, Verso hardcover and ebook:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Going to Burning Man? Catch me on Tuesday at 2:40pm on the Center Camp Stage for a talk about enshittification and how to reverse it; on Wednesday at noon, I'm hosting Dr Patrick Ball at Liminal Labs (6:15/F) for a talk on using statistics to prove high-level culpability in the recruitment of child soldiers.

On September 6 at 7pm, I'll be hosting Naomi Klein at the LA Public Library for the launch of Doppelganger.

On September 12 at 7pm, I'll be at Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

#labor #copyright #public domain #ai #creative workers #hype #criti-hype #enshittification #llcs with mfas #solidarity #collective power

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choicesficwriterscreations · 2 months

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CFWC F/AotW - Mar 24 - 30, 2024

✒️ = Fanfic | 📱= Text Fics/Edits | 🎨 = Fanart Ⓜ️ = Mature Content 18+ | 🔥 = Explicit/NSFW 18+ 🏳️‍🌈 = LGBTQIA

AMERICAS MOST ELIGIBLE

Bianca Sandoval x MC Fanart 🎨by @lilyoffandoms

BLADES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW

Birth ✒️| Tyril Starfury x F!human!MC - @petalouda85

Blades MC Fanart 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

I Trusted You 🎨| Aerin Valleros x F!human!MC - @erixadraws

Tyril Starfury x F!human!MC Fanart 🎨 by @lilyoffandoms for @petalouda85

BLOODBOUND

Be An Amazing Mother ✒️| Adrian Raines x MC - @stanathanxoox

Gaius Augustine Fanart 🎨by @gaiuskamilah

Kamilah Sayeed Fanart 🎨 by @gaiuskamilah

CRIMES OF PASSION

Gridlocked ✒️| m!Trystan Thorne x F!MC - @inlocusmads

Hidden Romance ✒️| m!Trystan Thorne x F!MC - @storyofmychoices

Home ✒️| m!Trystan Thorne x F!MC - @thosehallowedhalls

Lofi Beats To Supress Your Anxiety To ✒️| m!Trystan Thorne x F!MC - @inlocusmads

So Was it Honestly the Best? ✒️🏳️‍🌈| m!Trystan Thorne x MC - @choices-ceri

IMMORTAL DESIRES

Incident in the Ghostland (Chapter 8) ✒️Ⓜ️| Cassius Harlow x Gabe Adalhard - @dreamscapingsblog

IT LIVES ANTHOLOGY

Andy Kang Fanart 🎨 by @artbyalz

Noah Marshall Fanart 🎨by @payroo

Noah Marshall x MC Fanart 🎨🏳️‍🌈by @payroo

NIGHTBOUND

Peacock Princess ✒️| Nik Ryder x F!MC - @ladylamrian

OPEN HEART

Complete Open Heart F/AotW List

THE PRINCESS SWAP

Main Characters Fanart 🎨by @lilyoffandoms

RED CARPET DIARIES

Thomas Hunt x F!OC Fanart 🎨by @/artbyainna (IG) (C: @storyofmychoices)

THE ROYAL ROMANCE

The DeFacto Queen (Series) ✒️Ⓜ️| Liam Rys x MC, Drake Walker x MC - @angelasscribbles Chapter 5: Come Together

Capitulo 3: Adios New York ✒️| Liam Rys x F!MC - @belencha77

Capitulo 4: Bienvenidos a Cordonia ✒️| Liam Rys x F!MC - @belencha77

Capitulo 5: Noche Especial✒️| Liam Rys x F!MC - @belencha77

Once Upon a Time, Book 1. Ch. 1 (Part 7) ✒️| Liam Rys, Drake Walker, etc. - @fadingreveries

WAKE THE DEAD

Close Call ✒️| Troy Hassan x F!MC - @dutifullynuttywitch

CROSSOVER FICS

Bloodbound/Open Heart

Immortal Desires / Open Heart

The Meeting ✒️| Original Characters - @ezekielbhandarivalleros

Immortal Desires/Murder at Homecoming

Murder at Homecoming: Harlow Part 4 ✒️| Cassius Harlow x MaH F!MC - @korgbelmont

Murder at Homecoming: Harlow Part 5 ✒️| Cassius Harlow x MaH F!MC - @korgbelmont

Murder at Homecoming: Harlow Part 6 - Finale ✒️| Cassius Harlow x MaH F!MC - @korgbelmont

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synergysilhouette · 4 months

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Guide to my Rewrites (and other content)

I post a lot of things, and some of those things are rewrites. As such, I thought this would be a nice guide for fans of my rewrites in particular. I'm still adding new things! Lemme know what you think.

Alternate Takes (Disney)

These are projects that have the same characters and settings (for the most part), but different plot points. These particular alternate takes suggest ideas that would've made me enjoy the movie more (or at all) and aren't a fanfic so much as bullet points with pictures.

Aida

Pocahontas

Hercules

The Princess and the Frog

Tangled

Frozen

Big Hero 6

Moana

Frozen 2

Raya and the Last Dragon

Encanto

Strange World

Wish (Note: This is NOT the extensive rewrite I've been working on, entitled "Stargazer". For that, check out this temporary placeholder: Characters/Setting and Prologue/Opening Song)

I also did rewrites for two Dreamworks movies:

The Road to El Dorado

Sinbad

Marvel

Not quite as detailed as my other rewrites, but I thought I'd include them.

Dr. Strange: Multiverse of Madness

Thor: Love and Thunder

Reimagining Disney Movies

These are projects that take Disney's framework (ie a fairy tale) and create my own characters, plot, setting, and song titles for it.

The Snow Queen

Kingdom of the Sun

Rapunzel

Extensive rewrites

TV shows that I've remade episode-for--episode, perhaps removing and adding some as I see fit.

X-Men: Evolution--New roster, Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Roster (Timeskip), Season 4, and Season 5

Miraculous Ladybug--Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4 (currently working on Season 5; been dragging my feet with that!)

Wolverine & the X-Men--New Roster, Season 1

Anime as comic books

Yes, this is a topic. I remember when I was in this headspace, and it was really fun. I basically reimagined what if popular anime had been created as superhero comic books that golden or silver age.

Dragon Ball

Naruto

Anime rewrites

Black Butler

Naruto (Part I)

Bucchigiri?! (Pending)

High Card: Season 1

Video Game Rewrites

These aren't quite as detailed as my usual rewrites.

Bayonetta

Fire Emblem: Awakening

Fire Emblem: Fates

Fire Emblem: 3 Houses

Kingdom Hearts

Mood Boards

Just something I've made for fun to inspire others! Not an expert on making them, but it was still something I wanted to do.

My Wish rewrite (temporary)

Disney's Swan Lake

Disney's Hansel & Gretel

Disney's Rumpelstiltskin

Disney's Red Riding Hood

Sub-Saharan Disney musical

Disney Superhero Film

Japanese Disney musical

Actors who could play Disney villains

Choices: Stories You Play

REALLY into this game for a period--but it started to get awful when "Witness" came into play. Here's a list of reviews (which I've stopped doing) as well as concepts for new books (originally on Reddit before I got banned).

"Before I Say I Do"

"Celebrity Status"

"Summoned to Court"

"Arkikara"

"Fairy Godparent"

"Hierarchy: Scheming University"

"Willow Falls"

"Late at Night"

"Spellcaster"

"Four"

"America's Most Eligible" (Review)

"Desire & Decorum" (Review)

"High School Story" (Review)

"Rules of Engagement" (Review)

"The Freshman" (Review)

"Queen B" (Review)

My OCs

This section covers my original characters for a few fandoms.

Fictif

The Arcana (Pending; I had a couple, but I've decided to mak a new one--plus I can't remember the Reddit accounts I first made them on, lol)

Hogwarts Legacy

Baldur's Gate 3 (Pending)

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the-unconquered-queen · 3 months

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For ongoing series, they count as completed if you're up to date, but it's up to you if you want to include a series' shorts/extras (like holiday specials) or not for 'completed'. (So, for example, if you've read the one available chapter of The Deadliest Gambit, then you've "completed" The Deadliest Game, but you decide whether you consider The Nanny Affair as completed if you haven't read The Dalton Affair.)

Full list under cut because why not, but you can just vote for an approximation/your best guess if you'd rather.

(In short, spin-offs like RoE/TRR and HSS/HSS:CA are each counted as their own separate series, TRR/TRH/TRF are all counted as one series, and finally ILitW/ILB and Untameable/Unbridled are counted as the same series respectively)

Series listed in the alphabetical order of the Choices library: A (1) Across the Void, (2) Alpha, (3) America's Most Eligible, (4) A Very Scandalous Proposal;

B (5) Baby Bump, (6) Bachelorette Party, (7) Big Sky Country, (8) The Billionaire's Baby, (9) Blades of Light and Shadow, (10) Bloodbound;

C (11) Crimes of Passion, (12) The Crown & the Flame, (13) A Courtesan of Rome, (14) The Cursed Heart;

D (15) The Deadliest Game, (16) Desire & Decorum, (17) Dirty Little Secrets, (18) Distant Shores, (19) The Duchess Affair;

E (20) The Elementalists, (21) Endless Summer;

F (22) First Comes Love, (23) Foreign Affairs, (24) The Freshman;

G (25) Getaway Girls, (26) Guarded, (27) Guinevere;

H (28) The Haunting of Braidwood Manor, (29) The Heist: Monaco, (30) Hero, (31) High School Story, (32) High School Story: Class Act, (33) Home for the Holidays, (34) Hot Couture, (35) Hot Shot;

I (36) Immortal Desires, (37) It Lives;

K (38) Kindred, (39) Kiss of Death;

L (40) Laws of Attraction, (41) Lovehacks;

M (42) Most Wanted, (43) Mother of the Year, (44) Ms. Match, (45) Murder at Homecoming, (46) My Two First Loves;

N (47) The Nanny Affair, (48) Nightbound;

O (49) Open Heart;

P (50) Passport to Romance, (51) Perfect Match, (52) The Phantom Agent, (53) The Princess Swap;

Q (54) Queen B;

R (55) Red Carpet Diaries, (56) Ride-or-Die, (57) Rising Tides, (58) Roommates with Benefits, (59) The Royal Masquerade, (60) The Royal Romance, (61) Rules of Engagement;

S (62) Save the Date, (63) Ship of Dreams, (64) Shipwrecked, (65) Slow Burn, (66) Sunkissed, (67) Surrender;

U (68) The Unexpected Heiress, (69) Untameable;

V (70) Veil of Secrets, (71) Villainous Valentine;

W (72) Wake the Dead, (73) Wishful Thinking, (74) With Every Heartbeat, (75) Witness, (76) Wolf Bride

#playchoices #I think I'm at 57 #as for the list I think the only thing I counted differently to the app was HSS:CA as its own series instead of putting it under HSS #unconquered queries

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surr3al1sm · 1 month

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Official announcement post I guess

It’s currently 01.30 AM where I live, but the Wanderrose one-shot I am writing is finished. Somewhat- my beta reader still needs to finish and I’m sure imma end up rephrasing some stuff tomorrow morning, but I do know its ready to be posted tomorrow, so I just wanna rant about it a little. Read it if you’d like to!

It’s going to be called: Maybe Loving You is Dangerous

Which I’ll admit is a pretty basic title, but it was suggestion from a friend and it won the vote so- we’re rolling with it. It also just so happens to be a song lyric of the song I was looping while thinking of this idea (Slow it Down by Benson Boone. I’ll link it to this post but its a pretty popular song so I bet you’ve heard of it)

This is going to be the summary:

It’s a big day in the danceverses, the prince is finally turning 21. This means the prince is finally eligible to fully inherit the throne, but most importantly: it’s time for him to look for proper suitors. This is a cause for celebration in the Nova family. A big celebration at that. They invite the social elite of all the different danceverses, but the most important guests are the heirs. To offer Wanderlust a good view of the suitable young ladies he can court, but Wanderlust seems to be completely enamoured by an unexpected guest.

The word count is currently at 9956

This is ofcourse subject to change as my beta reader and I edit stuff.

Some quotes

My beta reader has already beta-ed a good chuck of it while we were on call last night (technically) and these are some of my favourite quotes from that and some comments I made myself while writing.

- “He’s turning 21 so he can now legally drink in America.” “Good thing this isn’t America.”

- "Night Swan. You, me, Denny's parking lot at 3 am."

- “Selios is like: I know what you are.”

- "After he (Wanderlust) fell through the floor because of a single look."

- "Stop cock blocking"

The brain factory is working

Imma be honest, this was an absolute blast to write, and while writing it I got an idea of how I would want to continue this story if there was demand for that. So I’m leaving this up to you readers whether or not you want more lol.

I truly hope you guys enjoy this fic as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you are able to find the time to tomorrow or like any day in your life I think it would be very cool if you could give it a read, maybe even a kudos and/or a comment if you’re feeling generous.

Thats all folks

Thanks for listening to my yap.

#imma go to sleep now #I’m honestly so nervous to post this its insane #jd #just dance #just dance 2024 #just dance fanfic #wanderrose #jack rose #jack rose jd #jd wanderlust #wanderlust #just dance fandom #just dance coach #just dance 2023 edition #Spotify

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cadybear420 · 1 month

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Positivity Chain!

Can you please recommend 3 of your favorite fanfics by other creators and 1 of your own

Then tag five other creators and ask them to do the same.

Three Five (because I can) of my favorite fanfics by other creators:

OG High School Story Trilogy: Moving by @tveitertotwrites, for some lovely bittersweetness surrounding an older Aiden x MC moving out of their home.

Blades of Light and Shadow: Adventures with Threep by @storyofmychoices, for some adorable vignettes featuring Mal x MC and a pregnant Threep.

Immortal Desires: Breakfast Roast by @aria-ashryver, for peak Gabe/MC/Cas banter.

America's Most Eligible: I Wasn't Built for Iceland by @peonyblossom, for some good MC-spooning-Carson sweetness.

OG High School Story Trilogy: Evie x Aiden Drabble by @inlocusmads, for some top-tier Aiden x MC banter.

One fanfic of my own:

OG High School Story Trilogy: Rolling on Forward, featuring Aiden's parents bringing him and MC to the roller rink after Isa is arrested. I choose this one because I recently made a cover image for it lol.

Tags: I already tagged 5 creators lol, but anyone who sees this is welcome to participate :)

#choices stories you play #choices #choices game #choices stories we play #choices stories we play fandom #choices fanfic

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a-cloud-for-dreams · 8 months

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Ok so I've recently been on a mission to read as much of the Choices catalog as possible since there are so many underrated books on there besides the boring smut ones. I think my last reading list is a lil outdated, inaccurate, and harder to find, so for my convenience I'm making a separate post.

My goal is to knock out the single books before starting the series for efficiency's sake, so most of the books on the priority list are single books

Priority

Kindred (CURRENTLY ON)

The Crown and the Flame (CURRENTLY ON)

Immortal Desires?? I've been curious about it for awhile

It Lives Beneath (ALREADY STARTED...)

A Billionaire's Baby (diamond mining)

Endless Summer (ALREADY STARTED...)

Murder at Homecoming

Secondary

Guinevere

With Every Heartbeat

Laws of Attraction Series

America's Most Eligible

Red Carpet Diaries

Rules of Engagement

Break Glass in Case of Emergency

The Royal Romance/The Royal Heir

The Freshmen Series

High School Story

Feel free to recommend more books that you feel like recommending!

Current MC & OC List

Jasmine Nefaletzi (Kindred)

Velaska Prescott (It Lives Beneath)

Natasha LeNoir (RCD)

Summer Reverie Layne (ES; OC)

Minerva Kallias (MAH)

Saoirse Lemoncello (TBB)

You can find the full list of my MCs and OCs on my pinned post!

Completed Books and Mini Opinions

The Elementalists: I LOVED this series it had flaws but it was super fun to play!! I love my powerful MC and my sarcastic twin, and I'm a sucker for elemental magic systems and magic centered schools imao

A Courtesan of Rome: AAAAAAAH WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK BESIDES HOW AMAZING IT WAS!! I feel like this was a historic book that felt accurate y'know and ofc ACOR MC is literally *chef's kiss* just an absolute baddie we have no choice but to stan <3 she had all of Rome on her knees as she should!!

Crimes of Passion 1 and 2: I think objectively the original book was better but this one was more replayable/entertaining solely because of the Thorne siblings but i wish the mystery and the plot twist were handled better in Book 2 specifically

Bloodbound Series: UGH IT WAS INCREDIBLE!! It still had flaws and I would have added/rewritten things but it's definitely one of the best and most satisfying series PB has ever written

Ride or Die: IT WAS AMAZING A+ I'm so sad the sequel got canceled it deserved so much more :(

Nightbound: IT WAS PRETTY GOOD i miss them already and want a sequel now. It's very replayable which I always appreciate

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lover-also-fighter-also · 2 months

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P.S there are some books I didn't cover as the polls have a limit of only 12 options. I know it lives within is not pixelberry made but considering its a fan favourite I put it up in the options too

#choices #pixelberry studios #choices ame #bloodbound choices #choices the crown and the flame #desire and decorum #choices endless summer #choices the freshman #choices high school story #high school story class act #choices the royal romance #the royal heir #rules of engagement #choices it lives in the woods #choices it lives beneath #it lives within

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animedublove · 3 months

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Final Post for Choices FanWorks Day is my top 10 Choices MC. Huges thanks to @choicesfandomappreciation for making such a welcoming space and it has been fun seeing everyone's post so her we go.

1) The Elementalists MC

2) BloodBound MC

3) Kenna Rys (TC&TF MC)

4) Across The Void MC

5) Kindred MC

6) The Perfect Match MC

7) America's Most Eligible MC

8) The Freshman MC

9) Crimes of Passion MC

10) Foreign Affairs MC

#choices stories you play #choicesfanworksday #playchoices #choices game #choices fandom

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qqueenofhades · 2 years

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I hope this doesn’t sound too ignorant, but as a non-American (South African here!), everyone is saying that this election is very incredible and different than others? Something about how the democrats have managed to hang on to power and it’s very close? What makes that so unique, and why is it so surprising that the democrats still (likely) have the senate? Shouldn’t you have a democratic congress because you have a democratic president? Here we do have a bunch of different parties, we don’t really have to main ones that always win, except the same corrupt party keeps getting elected again and again because it’s a very unfair system. While I do personally view Nelson Mandela as a hero to our country, his party has fallen so far from his beliefs and everyone is still so obsessed with him, and that seems to be much the case with America and the founding fathers, if I’m not mistaken?

I’m really sorry and I hope this doesn’t come across as sarcastic or dumb, I just don’t fully understand American politics and am a bit confused about your elections, and are they genuinely as bad and messed up as ours? Thank you so much!

Oh Jesus. Asking for a beginner-level crash course on American politics is a bit like asking for a beginner-level crash course on nuclear physics, but I'll do my best. Short answer: yes, American elections are fucked up to such a cosmic degree that it's truly astonishing that they still work at all, and yes, as many of my recent posts have discussed, it's shocking that the midterms went as well for the Democrats as they did. Because:

There are 50 states. Every single state has a considerable degree of autonomy over their own voting laws, voter eligibility, whether voters can register online, vote absentee, etc etc. Thus, the states run by Republicans have been rushing to enact as many restrictive voting laws as possible, meaning that this impacts who is able to actually cast a ballot (and indeed, have that ballot counted).

Each state is also very often "gerrymandered," aka divided into districts where one party has a better chance of winning than the other. Republicans, because they suck, also draw districts that erase or severely reduce Black voting power. For example, if you have District 1 that is 80% Black and therefore something like 80% Democratic, you cut little bits off the edges and put those in red districts, so you turn one safe-Democratic seat into multiple swing or Republican-leaning seats. It sucks.

The Supreme Court, after Trump got three picks with lifetime appointments, has 6 conservatives and 3 liberals, which means that if the conservatives vote as a bloc (as they often do), they can overrule pretty much anything they please (as long as it is a pending case before them). This has been especially notable with voting-rights cases this cycle, and was also the reason that Roe vs. Wade (the right to an abortion in all 50 states) was overturned this summer, capping 50 years of Republican efforts to do just that.

Every election, with the big exception of one, is won the old-fashioned way (whoever gets the most votes wins). The exception is the presidential election. There, it doesn't matter if you win the popular vote, as long as you win the Electoral College. Because of racism, each state in America has a certain number of electoral votes that reflect its population. California, with 40 million people, has 55 electoral votes; Wyoming, with 300,000, has 3. (And yet, they both also get two senators! This seems fair). Therefore, winning the popular vote in blue California is more important than winning the popular vote in red Wyoming.

This is also where we get the term "swing states." These states don't consistently vote Republican or Democratic, so whoever can win those has a better chance of winning the presidency. For example, Pennsylvania voted for Trump (red) in 2016 and for Biden (blue) in 2020, by relatively small margins each time. Yes, the Electoral College is a horrible system and we all know it. It's why Trump became president in 2016 despite losing the nationwide popular vote; he eked out just enough votes in key states to win the Electoral College (you need 270 electoral college votes to win; there are 538 up for grabs overall).

Likewise, the midterm elections are, almost without exception since 1934, used to punish the incumbent president's party for the perceived fuckups of the last two years. So if the president is Republican, the midterms lean Democratic; if the president is Democratic, the midterms lean Republican. The reason that everyone is so surprised at the Democrats doing well is because of 80+ years of historical precedent dictating that they would take a beating. But because Republicans have gotten so crazy, people shied away from voting for them. The Republicans were projected to win up to 5 Senate seats and up to 40+ House seats. As of this writing, they have won... zero and 8, or thereabouts, and it's still not clear who will secure 218 of the 435 seats in the House, which is the amount needed for a majority. Some of those House wins are also offset by the Democrats winning Republican seats back from them, hence why overall control is still up in the air.

So in other words, Congress is LESS likely to be Democratic when the president is Democratic, rather than the same party.

Trump's big thing after he lost in 2020 was to yell to the high heavens about imagined "voter fraud," which was clearly the only reason he could possibly have lost. This is why he tried to launch a coup and sent the January 6 mob to attack the Capitol during Congress's certification of the 2020 election results.

There are probably a ton of other factors I am forgetting, but yes, once again: I cannot possibly emphasize enough what a shitshow it is, and the fact that despite all of the above, the Democrats are guaranteed to keep the Senate and are still in the running for House control. Even if the Republicans do win the House, it will be by such a tiny margin that they will have trouble doing anything except wasting everyone's time with pointless revenge investigations. Democrats will still control the Senate and the Presidency until 2024, and thus can block House GOP nonsense and continue to confirm judges, which is very important after the number of unqualified right-wing hacks that Trump stuffed onto the bench with lifetime appointments.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts #america: 50 small countries in a trenchcoat etc

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America's 100 Most Eligible Bachelors. People Weekly. July 10, 2000.

"Steve Burns, 26, actor, Brooklyn.

Burns' fans have a habit of drooling all over him. Literally. As the host of Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, the 5'6" actor charms some 10 million tots each week. Yet when it comes to captivating grown women, the Pennsylvania native says he doesn't have a clue. 'It's never been easy for me,' says Burns, who's dating again after a long-term relationship ended recently. While admitting that his nice-guy TV persona can be an asset, 'even that gets scary,' he notes, 'because [then] it's, 'I bet he's great with kids.'' (Never fear: He does want kids someday: 'That's my goal, definitely.')

Looking for: 'A cross between Christy Turlington, Gwen Stefani and Janeane Garofalo.'

Caveat: 'He can annoy you until you want to scream,' says his mother, Janet, 58."

Burns' comment on the picture choice from his interview on WKDU 91.7 FM Philadelphia December 3, 2003:

"But the picture they used was so dumb, my god! They did this whole photo shoot and I was getting changed between things and I was just wearing this tank top and they're like, 'oh, let's take a picture of you in this tank top,' and I went, 'oh yeah,' and made a muscle. And of course they used that picture..."

#steve burns

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choices chronology

(a complete timeline of the debut of all choices books since 2016. mini stories/short stories have an asterisk beside them, and only books with exact debut dates are included. vip books are included with their early access date, not their public debut.)

2016

the crown & the flame, book 1 - august 17

most wanted - august 17

the freshman, book 1 - august 17

the freshman, book 2 - august 22

* chris: luxury getaway - august 22

* james: masquerade ball - august 22

* kaitlyn: the perfect date - august 22

the crown & the flame, book 2 - september 7

rules of engagement, book 1 - september 22

* the freshman: love bites - october 19

* the freshman: snowed in - december 7

endless summer, book 1 - december 15

the freshman, book 3 - december 22

#lovehacks, book 1 - december 22

* the haunting of braidwood manor - january 4

2017

* the freshman: game of love - february 8

rules of engagement, book 2 - january 25

the crown and the flame, book 3 - march 29

the royal romance, book 1 - april 13

the freshman, book 4 - may 3

#lovehacks, book 2 - june 2

endless summer, book 2 - june 30

hero - july 12

the sophomore, book 1 - july 12

high school story, book 1 - september 7

the royal romance, book 2 - september 22

high school story, book 2 - october 6

it lives in the woods - october 18

* the freshman: hartfield horror story - october 18

the sophomore, book 2 - december 6

home for the holidays - december 13

red carpet diaries, book 1 - december 15

endless summer, book 3 - december 22

2018

high school story, book 3 - february 28

perfect match, book 1 - february 28

the royal romance, book 3 - march 2

bloodbound, book 1 - march 30

the junior - april 9

veil of secrets - june 1

red carpet diaries, book 2 - june 13

rules of engagement, book 3 - june 21

america's most eligible: season 10 - june 27

desire & decorum, book 1 - july 30

across the void - august 20

perfect match, book 2 - september 5

the senior - september 14

big sky country - september 21

high school story: class act, book 1 - october 8

it lives beneath - october 10

the elementalists, book 1 - october 24

* rules of engagement: newlyweds - november 8

a courtesan of rome - november 14

the heist: monaco - december 10

desire & decorum, book 2 - december 17

2019

america's most eligible: all stars - january 16

ride-or-die: a bad boy romance - january 25

high school story: class act, book 2 - february 11

open heart, book 1 - february 22

the elementalists, book 2 - march 15

passport to romance - march 20

wishful thinking - april 15

nightbound - april 24

bloodbound, book 2 - may 17

platinum - may 30

red carpet diaries, book 3 - june 7

the royal heir, book 1 - june 22

sunkissed - june 26

bachelorette party - july 18

big sky country, book 2 - july 27

desire & decorum, book 3 - august 4

mother of the year - august 30

america's most eligible: wedding edition - september 18

save the date - september 29

the royal masquerade - october 18

high school story: class act, book 3 - october 30

bloodbound, book 3 - november 9

* the royal holiday - november 19

* the elementalists: winters past - november 27

baby bump, book 1 - december 9

hot couture - december 19

with every heartbeat - december 19

* bloodbound: dark solstice - december 21

* desire & decorum: first winter - december 22

2020

the royal heir, book 2 - january 24

blades of light and shadow, book 1 - january 29

a very scandalous proposal - february 5

open heart: second year - february 29

witness: a bodyguard romance - march 16

distant shores - april 3

the nanny affair, book 1 - may 13

the unexpected heiress - july 22

queen b, book 1 - june 26

my two first loves - july 27

the royal heir, book 3 - august 21

ms. match - october 3

rising tides - october 28

baby bump, book 2 - november 20

foreign affairs - december 30

2021

open heart: third year - february 19

slow burn - march 26

laws of attraction - april 27

the nanny affair, book 2 - june 18

the royal finale - july 28

shipwrecked - august 27

queen b, book 2 - september 22

wake the dead - october 27

surrender, book 1 - november 26

crimes of passion, book 1 - december 22

2022

untameable - february 25

the princess swap - march 25

the cursed heart, book 1 - april 27

immortal desires, book 1 - may 25

the nanny affair, book 3 - june 24

murder at homecoming - july 29

the phantom agent - august 31

guinevere - october 26

wolf bride - december 23

kiss of death - november 25

surrender, book 2 - december 28

2023

getaway girls - january 25

roommates with benefits, book 1 - february 24

first comes love - march 29

the duchess affair - april 28

kindred - may 26

crimes of passion, book 2 - june 28

the billionaire's baby - july 26

dirty little secrets - august 18

blades of light and shadow, book 2 - september 1

alpha - october 13

(if you see an errors, please let me know!)

#choices #playchoices #i mostly made this so i could compare different eras of choices #thought it would be nice to share it with the public #there are sooo many freshman books god kill me #anyways my main takeaway from this? capitalism kills art

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CFWC F/AotW - Mar 17 - 23, 2024

✒️ = Fanfic | 📱= Text Fics/Edits | 🎨 = Fanart Ⓜ️ = Mature Content 18+ | 🔥 = Explicit/NSFW 18+ 🏳️‍🌈 = LGBTQIA

AMERICAS MOST ELIGIBLE

Cherry Blossoms Dancing In The Sunlight ✒️🏳️‍🌈| Contestant x F!MC - @aallotarenunelma

BIG SKY COUNTRY

Pink Azaleas For a Love That Saved Us ✒️🏳️‍🌈| Dallas James x F!MC - @aallotarenunelma

BLADES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW

A Burden We Both Share ✒️🏳️‍🌈| Valax x Nia Ellarious - @livelaughlovecassie

Forever in my Mind ✒️| Tyril Starfury x F!human!MC - @petalouda85

Mal Volari Portrait 🎨 by @artbyalz

Valax Art 🎨 by @erixadraws

THE CROWN & THE FLAME

The Crown & The Flame OC Fanart 🎨by @lupinobi

IMMORTAL DESIRES

Cas Harlow Art 🎨by @solaceriverine

Cas Harlow First Hunt 🎨 by @nukritus

Gabe Adalhard Flower Crown 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @lilyoffandoms for @aria-ashryver

LAWS OF ATTRACTION

Aislinn Tanka Portrait 🎨 by @artbyalz

I thought that I was special...🎨🏳️‍🌈| Gabe Ricci, NB!MC - @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

Weird, but not a sin🎨🏳️‍🌈| LOA NB!MC - @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

Wind Fanart 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @lilyoffandoms for @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

OPEN HEART

Baby Ramsey 📱| Ethan Ramsey x F!MC - @genevievemd

Christmas Through Your Eyes (Series) ✒️| Tobias Carrick x F!MC (eventual) - @jerzwriter Part Two: With a Capitol T Part Three: The Philadelphia Story

Half Baked 📱| Ethan Ramsey x F!MC - @genevievemd

It Happened One Miami Night Part 1 ✒️| Ethan Ramsey x F!MC - @liaromancewriter

Losing Game 3 of 4✒️| Bryce Lahela x F!OC - @peonierose

Moving In (Series) ✒️| Rafael Aveiro x F!MC - @rafasgirl23415 The Bunny Sweater

Your Death, Your Dog, Your Declaration ✒️🏳️‍🌈| Bryce Lahela x M!MC (eventual) - @mydemonsdrivealimo

PLATINUM

Wisteria Will Intertwine Around Our Wrists ✒️🏳️‍🌈| M!Raleigh Carerra x F!MC - @aallotarenunelma

RIDE OR DIE

Logan Fanart 🎨by @am-i-invisible777

Ride or Die Fanart 🎨🏳️‍🌈| F!Logan x M!MC - @cadybear420

THE ROYAL ROMANCE

Forevermore (Series) ✒️Ⓜ️| Liam Rys (King Marquise) x F!MC - @khoicesbyk Chapter 5: Joy of Winter

The Royal Romance Book 1, Chapter 1: Once Upon a Time Part 6 ✒️ | Liam Rys x MC - @fadingreveries

Savage Love (Series) ✒️Ⓜ️| Liam Rys x MC, Drake Walker x MC - @angelasscribbles Chapter 37: Gone

You Belong to Me (Series) ✒️| Liam Rys x MC, Drake Walker x F!MC - @queenrileyrose Part One: I Wonder What's Mine

CROSSOVERS

Immortal Desires / Murder at Homecoming

Murder at Homecoming: Harlow Part 3 ✒️| Cassius Harlow x MaH F!MC - @korgbelmont

#playchoices #playchoices fanfic #playchoices fanart #americas most eligible #big sky country #blades of light and shadow #the crown & the flame #immortal desires #laws of attraction #open heart #platinum #ride or die #the royal romance #murder at homecoming #choices fic writers creations #cfwc fics of the week #cfwc art of the week #choices stories you play

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