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playchoicesconfessions · 4 months

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‘Reminder that by starting ACOR around the new year and playing 2 chapters a week, you can finish the book/stab Julius Caesar on the Ides of March’

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

#choices a courtesan of rome #a courtesan of rome #choices acor #acor #playchoices #choices #choices stories you play #confessions #mod bruffle

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they-callme-ami · 4 months

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Sometimes I lay awake at night and think about how Black ACOR MC was really serving. Like baby, that face card NEVAH declined.

#ami talks #choices #choices stories you play #playchoices #a courtesan of rome #choices acor #acor #choices a courtesan of rome

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cadybear420 · 1 month

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Cadybear's Reviews- A Courtesan of Rome

Welcome to the fifteenth official Cadybear's Reviews post! Ironic that this is the fifteenth. Unfortunately this is about 10 days late for Ides of March this year. Today I'll be talking about A Courtesan of Rome, which I have ranked on the "Platinum Tier" at 9 stars out of a possible 10. My last playthrough of this story was around November-December 2021.

I’m rather fond of this one.

This is one of the few MCs where it makes sense for them to have a lot of pre-set aspects about them, and for the record they did do a fantastic job establishing it via the flashbacks. And even then, they also manage to give us enough player agency by allowing us to choose her motives, methods, and goals. So it’s a very neat and fair balance between pre-set and flexible.

This is also one of the few pointfully genderlocked books– while male courtesans did indeed exist in Ancient Rome, they’d likely have had vastly different experiences to that of female courtesans. Chances are, the male MC version would have so many dialogue changes that it’d basically be an entirely new book. Don’t get me wrong, I’d definitely love to see a male MC version of this story, but I can understand why PB would genderlock it.

Admittedly the story can drag at times, and the “8 years ago in Gaul” flashbacks can be a bit of a trudge (granted they do set up the story well), but it is worth it. My only real problem is that according to some fans who are history experts, this story does stray a lot from historical accuracy. But I guess not every periodical story is gonna be perfectly historically accurate.

That, and also the way they handled Xanthe is just… not good. Other people have explained it better, but basically, in a general sense, Xanthe isn’t much different from MC. Both are courtesans as per being victims of human trafficking, both are forced to rely on seduction to survive and overpower men– but the story villainizes Xanthe, while MC is pushed as heroic and morally grey/complex for the exact same shit. All because… Xanthe is kind of catty towards MC?

I didn’t think much of it in either of my two playthroughs, but I’ve seen other people bring it up and looking back… it’s too major to ignore. It’s hypocritical at best, and has some very troubling (racist) implications at worst. Especially in a book that’s meant to be an empowering periodical womanhood story. So it did end up bringing the book down a tier.

We rightfully bitch about the cheap “straw loser villain woman who exists solely to have exaggeratedly bad behaviors solely to make the MC seem better” and “pitting women against each other just because they want/do the same thing” tropes all the time in Choices stories like TNA, FCL, and TBB; and while I do still rank those books much lower due to having more objective problems overall, the trope is much more unforgivable in this book given the context.

However, while the story does have some pretty major problems, it does also have a lot of good aspects going for it that did make me mostly enjoy it. But who knows, my opinion might change after a replay.

I will also say, it’s really fun to diamond mine this one for OG HSS Book 2. Getting to stab Caesar and then taking down Principal Isa right after. So I do have a bit of a soft spot for the book in that regard.

#choices stories you play #choices #choices game #choices stories we play fandom #choices stories we play #acor #choices acor #a courtesan of rome #choices a courtesan of rome

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lover-also-fighter-also · 6 months

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Hey guys!!!

First of all, THANK YOU for the 214 votes on the BEST CHOICES MC poll!!!🎉🎉. As promised, I have decided to make a second poll, featuring many other MC's who probably will be your all-time favourites. Be sure to reblog this poll for a greater sample size.

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sciralta · 1 year

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It pains me that A Courtesan of Rome and its lead writer have glaring issues that now leave a bad taste in the mouth because that MC was, truly, the moment.

#she was there to right wrongs by committing even wronger wrongs and honestly work #we need more MCs that commit cold blooded murder #playchoices #choices #a courtesan of rome #choices a courtesan of rome

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choices-binglebonkus · 7 months

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a-consuming-passion · 3 months

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> What power is there in serving men?

Girl hit the nail on the head right there. 🎯

#choices #choices stories we play #choices stories you play #choices a courtesan of rome

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reneechoices · 6 months

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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

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gaiuskamilah · 3 months

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6 fanarts (batch 1) with choices characters + miss du mortain 😁 tysm to everyone who suggested characters!!

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mythris · 7 months

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blades 2 and cop 2 airing weekly is the closest we’ll ever get to perfect match, ilb, and acor at the same

time 😭

#playchoices #choices #ilb #it lives beneath #acor #a courtesan of rome #perfect match #blades of light and shadow #crimes of passion #choices cop

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playchoicesconfessions · 3 months

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Sent by @cadybear420

‘It’s really fun to diamond mine ACOR for spending on OG HSS Book 2. Getting to stab Caesar and then taking down Principal Isa right after is such an experience you have no idea.’

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

#choices a courtesan of rome #a courtesan of rome #choices acor #acor #julius caesar #choices high school story #high school story #choices hss #hss #principal isa #playchoices #choices #choices stories you play #confessions #mod bruffle

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luminouslumity · 1 month

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Julius Caesar has been dead for many slutty, slutty years!

#choices: stories you play #playchoices #pixelberry #a courtesan of rome #acor #julius caesar #caesar #ides of march

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bri1234 · 22 days

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What song(s) do you relate to a Choices book survey results!

Hello! So it's been about a week and there are a few responses from the Google form I sent out! The form is attached at the bottom of all this so if you want to take it, you still can!

I will continue to update this if there are any more responses.

Also if you see your song on here but not the additional comment (if you left one) and would like it on here, just let me know and I'll add it!

So without further ado, let's jump right in!

Songs that relate to a Choices book (chosen by you guys!):

Across the Void

Remember Me as A Time of Day by Explosions in the Sky

Blades of Light & Shadow

Two by Sleeping at Last

Comment was "MC's deeply unhealthy desire to put everyone else's wellbeing first (book 2)."

Degenerates by I the Mighty

In My Head by Jacob Ryan Smith, Daniel Mertzlufft, Andrew Barth Feldman, & Joe Serafini

Comment was "Aerin and MC on Deadwood lake date (book 1)."

Falling by Write Out Loud, Ciara Renee, and Kat Sicilian

A Courtesan of Rome

I Survived a War by Mariami

Crimes of Passion

In My Blood Song by Joel Smallbone and The Cast Of Journey To Bethlehem

Comment was "I relate this song the Trystan Thorne, specifically Book 2 of CoP, wanting to be the son his parents and country are proud of while being himself."

Arpeggio by Alexandro

Perfect World by Twice

The Cursed Heart

Dream A Little Dream of Me by The Mamas & The Papas

Comment was "It reminds me of how Kieran and MC often would visit each others dreams at night (book 1)."

Power Over Me by Dermot Kennedy

Without You by Ursine Vulpine

Find You by Ruelle

Die For You by Postmodern Jukebox and Tatum Langley

Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey

Comment was “MC thinking about their mortality and how someday they won’t be young and beautiful.”

Dirty Little Secrets

"Slut!" by Taylor Swift

Suburban Legends by Taylor Swift

The Elementalists

Hedwig's Theme by John Williams

Guinevere

Queen of Heart by Twice

Only Girl by Stephen Sanchez

Hot Couture

Choose Your Fighter by Ava Max

Immortal Desires

Boys Will Be Bugs by Cavetown

End (The Other Side) by Fit For A King

Scars & Lifelines by I Prevail

Death Is All Around by The Amity Affliction

The Death We Seek by Currents

Kindred

Still Don't Know My Name by Labrinth

In Hell I'll Be Good Company by The Dead South

Murder at Homecoming

no body, no crime by Taylor Swift

Nightbound

Songs from the Shadowhunter series: Dynasty , Hurricane, Making a Monster out of Me (Katherine McNamara) , This is the Hunt (Ruelle), Storm (Ruelle) , Bad Dream , Love to Hate You, I am Ember from Katherine McNamara , Hold On (from Chord Oversee) , Glass Slipper (Katherine McNamara) , Paralyzed (NF), Angel with a Shotgun (instead shotgun imagine crossbow) , Brother (Kodaline), Shadowhunter series Finale Song by Ruelle

Open Heart

Symphony of Skin by I The Mighty

Comment was "Romancing Bryce vibes"

Platinum

3 Minutes by Alexi Blue

Red Carpet Diaries

Why Should I? by Alexi Blue

Roommates With Benefits

You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Jovi

The Royal Romance

Not Your Barbie Girl by Ava Max

Barbie Girl by Aqua

Loves Me Not by Kate Grahn & Will Jay

i wanna be your girlfriend by girl in red

Rules of Engagement

Hair by Little Mix

Surrender

Bad Habits by Ed Sheeran

Here's the Google form if anyone wants to take it! Thank you so much to those of you who have taken the time to do this!!!

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onemore2morrow · 2 years

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I’m sure this has been done before, I just miss old Choices right now.

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sciralta · 1 year

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Since you've played acor, do you think that it's a good book? I've been thinking of starting it especially since it seems much better than a lot of the recent stuff PB's been putting out, but I heard that jbh was the writer for it and I'm wondering if I should give it a miss instead

It is yes, story-wise overall a good book, and probably one of Choices’ better written ones. I believe I said once before that you wouldn’t be missing much if you decided to skip it because JBH got caught liking TERF tweets and it knowing the lead creator is a TERF made you uncomfortable, but I wasn’t entirely being truthful. It is good, mostly.

I say mostly because there are some fucking yikes bits, to put it mildly. At the forefront was the treatment of Xanthe. Look I’m just going to say that giving one of the few black women in the story Jennifer’s beloved “jealous bitch” archetype and then having her fate be that, to the approval of the MC was always going to make people uncomfortable in the least.

So I guess the question on everyone’s minds is: by playing A Courtesan of Rome, are you supporting Jennifer B. Hepler? My answer to that is I honestly don’t know, but probably not. I don’t know if she gets residuals for it or anything. But I will say she definitely is not getting any social capital and influence by people playing and occasionally blogging about a years-old Choices book that she was the lead writer on. Y’know this isn’t like the situation with a certain other game by a certain other TERF author. JBH is not a face of the anti-transgender hate movement, and she’s not spending the vast wealth and influence she doesn’t have to oppose trans liberation — at least as far as I’m aware. Who knows, maybe she’s become a rising star since last I’ve heard of her. But my answer at least today is fuck JBH, but playing ACoR is probably fine.

#also that one terf takes people buying her IP as support for her and her views and if JBH tried to claim the same it would be laughable #playchoices #choices #ask me #a courtesan of rome #choices a courtesan of rome #choices acor

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the-pale-goddess · 3 months

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I've polished this anger and now it's a knife.

#Q #carata of the graioceli #a courtesan of rome #acor #acor mc #playchoices #choices game #princess of gaul #moodboard

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