#choices mother of the year

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by @ryuuisnotpresent

‘mother of the year is one of the few books in choices where I absolutely HATE the antagonist. Usually I'm indifferent or hell I even like the antagonists in other books but something about guy is just so rooted in reality that I just REALLY loathe him.’

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

#choices mother of the year #mother of the year #choices moty #moty #guy ledford #playchoices #choices #choices stories you play #confessions #mod bruffle

[lover-also-fighter-also]

#playchoices #choices #pixelberry #choices stories we play #choices stories you play #blades of light and shadow #blades of light and shadow 2 #across the void #choices mother of the year #choices high school story class act #choices the elementalists

[moominofthevalley]

moty the year is such a good book — i just found out on of the characrers is a disabled filipino woman (like me!!) :’)

#moty choices #choices mother of the year #playchoices #choices #choices game #choices stories you play #alma choices #filipino

[charmin-ultra-strong]

PIXELBERRY IM IN YOUR WALLS

#pixelberry #choices #choices perfect match #choices mother of the year #I have reread pm an ungodly amount of times it’s one of my favorite things in this world #so you would not believe the sucker punch at felt at this interaction

[cadybear420]

Cadybear's Reviews Brief Thoughts- Mother of the Year

Welcome to the twentieth official Cadybear's Reviews Brief Thoughts! Today I'll be talking about Mother of the Year, which I have ranked on the "Platinum Tier" at 9 stars out of a possible 10. My last and only playthrough of this was around April-May 2021.

A straightforward yet well-done story. 

This is definitely one of the few times where the MC has a more pre-set backstory but it actually works. Although they don’t really immerse us with flashbacks like with ACOR and ILITW, it’s still set up well, and it strengthens the narrative rather than flattening it like a lot of pre-set MC details tend to do. 

Our MC goes through some realistic struggles, but it’s not too overbearing with them and it manages to keep a good spirit. This is more or less how you do a “realistic scenarios” story– in something like HSS:CA, the so-called “realistic events” just felt like drama for the sake of drama that did nothing more than beat down on our MC; there’s nothing that they really gain out of it, and the resolutions to the conflicts feel more like they just move on too quickly. 

But here, we have a MC that gets to be able to navigate and mitigate her situations. She does face plenty of setbacks and moments of vulnerability, but overall the story does feel like it’s about her doing her best for her and her daughter, fighting back against all the awful shit that happens to her and overcoming adversity. 

So it feels all the more satisfying when she gets good outcomes. Granted the ending of Guy getting some custody over the daughter is kind of a shit move on the narrative, but you still at least feel some degree of actual payoff for everything MC went through. 

Other than that, there’s not much else to say. It handled most of its subjects fairly well, and had many endearing, compelling, and memorable characters. The daughter, Luz, the LIs, Alma… all of them amazing. It is lacking as a choice-based story which is why I can’t consider it one of the bests, but it’s still well-done. 

Definitely one of the better stories on the app overall, and one I’m very fond of.

#choices stories you play #choices #choices game #choices stories we play fandom #choices stories we play #choices mother of the year #mother of the year #moty #choices moty #cadybear's brief thoughts

[livelaughlovecassie]

Happy belated Fathers Day to Thomas Mendez and Thomas Mendez alone <3

#thomas mendez #choices mother of the year #mother of the year #moty #playchoices #choices stories you play

[princepotatosack]

here is my character sheet for my mother of the year mc!!

notes below :-)

on my first playthrough of the book i didnt romance anyone cause i was diamond mining oopsie but then i saw peoples screenshots of the levi route and i thought it was so cute!! so 2nd playthrough was the levi playthrough <3

i forgot where i got "seacrest heights" from i think the mc says it at one point in reference to like a different school? idk. also idk if they ever say where the book takes place, i'm assuming generally east coast united states?? i actually had to do a little bit of research on bougie private schools in new york for a play i was doing that was set in one so i guess thats why i thought it would be like in upstate new york HAHAHA

oh i just remembered that the book series "the clique" from my childhood took place in upstate new york lol maybe MOTY takes place in the same area as all those richie rich schools from those books hehe

my inconsequential headcanon is that stephanie's mom, (and madeline's grandma) rachel was an elementary school librarian :-)

#playchoices #mother of the year choices #choices mother of the year #choices moty

[starberrybliss]

I miss my favorite dilf Thomas Mendez

#playchoices #choicesgame #choices mother of the year #thomas mendez

[storyofmychoices]

SpreadJoy #542: spreading positivity with quotes and @playchoices characters.

Quote in edit by Ruby Rose

#eiko matsunaga #mother of the year #choices mother of the year #choices moty #moty #eiko moty #choices #spreadjoy #choices spreadjoy #choices game #playchoices #spreadjoy pride #spreadjoy request #ruby rose

[moonsbijoutoo]

wow randomly remembering i dreamed choices released a trailer for moty 2

meeting the in laws of the love interest you chose?

another bully vs your daughter?

how will you deal with your daughter starting puberty?

and perhaps an oops baby with your love interest this time a son?

my brain really be on something once i close my eyes

#choices #playchoices #choices moty #choices mother of the year #choices mother of the year 2 #choices moty 2 #and mc’s daughter was dealing with puberty too

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by anonymous

‘Mother of the Year was such a good book, not only because all of the LI’s were amazing and it had the best side characters like Alma and Luz, but because it dealt with real issues and they were handled well. You have Eiko, someone a part of the LGBTQ+ community worrying about coming out and how it would affect the work she does. Levi, a struggling musician who’s trying to decide whether to keep following his dream or just give up. Thomas, a single dad who is working through the grief of losing his wife and trying to figure out how to move on with his life without guilt. And MC, a struggling single mother who is doing everything she can for her child while trying to stay afloat on top of dealing with a narcissistic, emotionally and mentally abusive ex. I wish we had more books like that.’

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

#choices mother of the year #mother of the year #choices moty #moty #playchoices #choices #choices stories you play #confessions #mod bruffle

[lover-also-fighter-also]

Holy trinity of choices men that make me go 🥰🥰🥰

#playchoices #choices #pixelberry #choices stories we play #choices stories you play #choices high school story #the elementalists #choices mother of the year #griffin langley #caleb mitchell #thomas mendez

[niminarissa]

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

#choices mother of the year #choices moty #freakin Guy he did it again #pb makin me spend diamonds to throw that nasty dress down the sewer #it had to be done

[duskwood-fandom]

I don't usually play books that I know in advance will involve motherhood or pregnancy because it's not my thing, but I read Mother of the year (because of this event) and I really liked it, it is really cute

#mother of the year #choices mother of the year

[reneechoices]

The GOATs of Choices imo:

#what an era that was #playchoices #choices stories you play #endless summer #desire & decorum #the elementalists #the crown and the flame #blades of light and shadow #the freshman series #mother of the year #a courtesan of rome #it lives anthology #most wanted #pixelberry

[atopvisenyashill]

Thoughts on the Alysanne is Maegor's daughter AU? I feel like it has some interesting potential, and it vastly recontextualizes different parts of Jaehaehae (I do not like him sjsjsjs) and Alysanne's relationship (such as Jaehaehae's treatment of their daughters) but I wanna hear what you think about it!

I’ve touched on this a bit before but since you actually want to hear my thoughts, allow me to present to you my Jaehaerys Is The Goddamn Worst, And Alysanne Annoys Me Too: An Essay lmao but my answer is basically “yeah all of what you just said.”

I think it makes Alysanne much more palatable (to me) as a character because as she stands, she just fixates on forcing her daughters through these fucked up marriages at too young an age bc it traumatized her to be married and pregnant at 15 too but she’d never admit that being a willing participant in her own kidnapping by her brother-husband was the single worst thing that ever happened to her, and because Alysanne doesn’t want to admit it (and Jaehaerys would never see it as wrong or a mistake) F&B really shies away from delving into the fact that Alysanne is as deranged of a mother as Cersei is. So as she stands, she’s very flat to me because she’s presented very flatly and inconsistently. She’s so in love with Jaehaerys, she’s maritally raped by Jaehaerys, she’s a loving and doting mother, she forces her daughters into marriages when they’re the same too young age she was, she accuses her teenage girls of being scheming whores then gets angry when her husband accuses their teenage girls of being scheming whores, and worst of all we are just told “Maegelle tells them to make up so they do” so we don’t know why Alysanne gets over all of this. What is the point of riding a dragon when you never use that dragon to protect your daughters from unwanted teen marriages? We’re just not given a good enough justification for why her behavior is so weird and frustrating towards her daughters.

Make her Maegor’s daughter though…most of her behavior as an adult makes more sense. Like a worse version of Rhaenyra’s childhood almost - a father desperate for a son, but lowkey obsessed with his daughter, who makes all his hang ups about his parents the problems of every woman around him, except Maegor is out here blood sacrificing and torturing and starting wars and forcing babies on wives he discards quickly and brutally. Then here comes Jaehaerys on a white horse green dragon to save her from the horror her life has become, and he loves her so much he runs away with her even though Alyssa says they shouldn’t marry because people won’t like it. And they have beautiful children, and a beautiful marriage, and build a beautiful kingdom.

Then her pregnancies start getting dangerous. Gaemon, then Valerion, die. Alysanne thinks of the shriveled up mutants she called brothers, if Maegor’s taint has passed to her. Her perfect husband ignores her no, and forces Gael on her. Alysanne remembers that he said nothing to Rogar when Alyssa died, merely wept. Then her daughters start to die. Daella, Alyssa, Viserra, all within a few years. Then Jaehaerys makes Saera watch as he murders her boyfriend, calls her a whore, and says Alysanne cannot follow Saera to Lys. Alysanne thinks of Maegor torturing the Harroways over Alys’ presumed infidelity. Jaehaerys says he’s sorry, and her daughter badgers her into forgiving him, and she remembers how she helped Jaehaerys badger Alyssa into forgiving Rogar. Not two years later, Jaehaerys passes over Rhaenys. Alysanne thinks of how she was never enough for her father, how she felt so superior to Rhaena banished to Dragonstone and resented by Aerea, yet there she is dragging Gael away from court because she can’t stand to be with Jaehaerys. How her father was surrounded by dead women and dead babies and how Jaehaerys is surrounded by his own dead daughters, but surely she did the right thing, surely Maegor was worse, surely the realm is better off? Is he right to pass over Rhaenys? Is she enabling a man just as monstrous as her father? She will never decide, because Maegelle will guilt her about keeping Gael isolated at Dragonstone, and Alysanne will do as she’s told, just like Rhaena, and Alyssa, and Jeyne, Elinor, Ceryse, Alys, and Tyanna, just like every one of her daughters.

I do get why Alysanne is Alyssa & Aenys’ and not Maegor’s. The weird Targ babies, the line not descending from Visenya, Jaehaerys and Alysanne being held up as the perfect Targaryen couple specifically because they are brother and sister and dragon riders. I do even think canon Alysanne is likely traumatized by her time as a hostage on Dragonstone, and the ensuing war, and the trauma bond that caused with Jaehaerys, and it makes her idolize Jaehaerys, and then he isolates her at Dragonstone so he can swiftly and safely marry, groom, and knock her up. It’s not like,,,, a fun time, and it’s enough to make anyone crazy and weird about their daughters, but I think having her father be Maegor makes Alysanne herself much deeper because it gives her, as the most beloved Targaryen queen, a blood tie to the most hated Targaryen king, and a marriage to the most beloved Targaryen king. It fits better with a lot of the themes of the main series (again, imo) - forcing the spotlight on the outsiders to see how the affect the story from behind the scenes. The fall of Aegon’s sons, and The Long Reign, not told from the PoV or to serve the PoV of any of the kings or princes, but of the queen that tied them all together.

#anti jaehaerys i targaryen #f&b critical #fire and blood critical #asks #thesadboy #like he kind of does this with aenys & maegor by focusing on alyssa and rhaena and the wives and visenya. #but the Moment jaehaerys enters the scene he completely dominates it. the same way daemon and aemond do actually. #but this is not. it should not!! be their story. that’s not how the main series is told anyway!! #if f&b isn’t told by a dornish maester than it should have been written by a septa!!! #nuns wrote books!!!!! #rich noblewomen wrote novels and poetry!!!!!!! #GEORGE DO YOU READ WOMEN. I AM NO LONGER ASKING POLITELY. #i went to look for her mother and apparently this was just a mistake elio made and i’m even more depressed. i can’t believe i’m saying this #but elio damn your mind. #i bet he saw that and went ‘wait which one is her fucjing mother’ and george was like what in the goddamn hell are you talking about. #idk who would be her mother in this au. if we want to keep her within 3 ish years of jaehaerys it Has to be alys or ceryse. ceryse hightowe #is the hilarious and obvious choice. but don’t count out alys harroway second wife here either. #then there’s rhaena as her mother which with the canon timeline makes him 12 years older and isn’t THAT horrible let’s stop here actually.