#clint covington

[princepotatosack]

What If Choices' Race-customizable LIs Had Surnames Reflective Of Their Ethnicity?: An Experiment Just For FUn (Part 1/3)

As we're probably all aware, Choices has been going ham on their formula of "one LI whose appearance is choosable" for the past few years (ever since they started drawing criticism for narratively favoring white male LIs, i.e., when the Ramsey bubble finally burst; draw your own conclusions), and these LIs almost always have canon names or default names associated with white Anglo Americans. This is one of several reasons these LIs are described by players as "white-coded", or written as if they are white men with any changes reduced to a one-line afterthought, which kind of nullifies the point of romancing an LI of color.

Getaway Girls impressed me with branching that gave two of the six Jordan appearance options (the ones described in the asset files as "Indian") the surname Paudwal, as opposed to the other options that had the surname Parker. And then they NEVER DID IT AGAIN (ingnoring Kiss of Death cause it was a weird case I don't know how to categorize)!!

So here's me assigning surnames to race-custom LIs of other books because it's fun for me:

DISCLAIMER: The Choices single LI formula has for the most part consisted of a white LI, a Black LI, and one or occasionally two other option(s) of varying races. Framing it as white, Black, and "wildcard" raises a lot of questions about racial dynamics and percieved binaries in the United States which are NOT the point of this post but I didn't want to not address it. Also have to address that I will not be assigning new surnames to the Black LI options since most of them are American and a lot of Black Americans have Anglo surnames due to the community's history with enslavement and enslavers, and Choices has simply not given us enough lore to determine if each of the custom race LI Black options are African (or another background) and which languages are a part of their heritages. Would really appreciate if they started writing more African LIs though. Also, similar reasoning applies to face options described as "Native American" in the files re: American colonization.

ALPHA

Channing Luna

These face options are described in the files as "Hispanic". Luna was a Spanish-language surname sound match for Lowe, and plus it also means "moon"!! Yippee werewolf theme!!!!!

Channing Liu

These face options are described in the files as "Asian". The Chinese surname Liu was just the closest sound match to "Lowe" tbh.

BABY BUMP

Clint Kao

This face option is described in the asset files as "Asian". He reminds me a little of the Taiwanese actor Godfrey Gao (rip) so in my head he's Taiwanese like meeee!!! Which sucks cause I didn't like this LI that much lmao. Anyway Kao is the Taiwanese spelling of the surname that is Anglicized as Gao in Chinese Pinyin so I gave it to him cause he reminds me of Godfrey Gao (rip). Not a spelling match but then again there aren't any Chinese surnames that start with the same letter and sound as Covington (e.g., Chang and Cai both start with the letter C but start with the sounds "ch" and "ts" respectively.).

DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS

Charles Quiñones / Charlotte Quiñones

These face options are described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Went with sound matches since there aren't many (any?) Spanish-language surnames that start with K like King.

Charles Kim / Charlotte Kim

These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". I thought Kim was a pretty good sound and spelling match for King. But it did make me realize that although Kim is the most common surname in Korea by a lot, a Choices Wiki search revealed to me that there's only one character in the entire Choicesverse with that surname and it's the FBI guy from Veil of Secrets?

DISTANT SHORES

Edward Mao

This face option is described in the asset files as "Asian". I originally chose the Japanese surname Morishima because it was an initial spelling match, multisyllabic, and had the ending "ma/mer" sound, but I wanted to honor the great Ming Dynasty Chinese tradition of piracy and its far-reaching legacy. So I went with the Chinese Mao.

Also I know he's canonically from like England which would explain why he's an 18th-century Asian man with an English first name but just for fun if he was from China I think he would be called Mao Aiwei. Or Morishima Eiji if he was from Japan.

Edward Montoya

This face option is described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Montoya was a relatively close Spanish-language sound match.

And if he had a Spanish first name too he would be Eduardo Montoya ovb.

THE DUCHESS AFFAIR

Nathaniel Pandit / Natalie Pandit

These face options are described in the asset files as "Indian". Not a lot of sound matches for Pippin but the Sanskrit surname Pandit has the intial "P" and the ending "i" sound, plus it means "scholar" and fun fact, this word is also the origin of the English term "pundit".

Also since in my research I learned that the vast majority of Indian immigrants to England in this time period adopted English language aliases for use in English society, I came up with some potential real names for these face options: Nathuram for Nathaniel and Nalini for Natalie.

FIRST COMES LOVE

Blake Mai

These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". I decided on Mai since it could be Vietnamese or broadly Sinophone.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Blaine Juárez

These face options are described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Not any Spanish-language surnames that start with the letters "Ha" as far as I know so I went with a sound match.

GUARDED

Ash Harada

These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". The Japanese surname Harada is a sound and spelling match and also one of the most common surnames in Japan! EASAYY!!! Though headcanoning them as Japanese brings the total number of Choicesverse Japanese-Americans Named Ash to three. Laugh out loud.......

Part 2

Part 3

#playchoices #choices alpha #alpha choices #channing lowe #choices baby bump #baby bump choices #clint covington #choices dirty little secrets #dirty little secrets choices #charles king #charlotte king #distant shores #choices distant shores #distant shores choices #edward mortemer #the duchess affair #the duchess affair choices #nat pippin #first comes love #first comes love choices #blake marshall #choices foreign affairs #foreign affairs choices #blaine hayes #choices guarded #guarded choices #ash harada

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by anonymous

'shout out to the all time spineless wormboy, pre-rewrite covington (baby bump). never forget letting a random woman have free and complete access to his house for no reason and taking 18 chapters to say literally anything in his baby mama's defense'

POSTS/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT MOD'S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

#mr. covington #clint covington #baby bump #babu #choices baby bump #choices babu #choices #playchoices #choices stories you play #confessions #mod kamie

[cadybear420]

This but unironically

#look if we can have a retelling of TNA from sams pov #we can certainly have a retelling of babu where MC gets Covington pregnant #do it pb do it #choices stories you play #choices #choices game #choices stories we play #choices stories we play fandom #pb #pixelberry choices #pixelberry studios #pixelberry #babu #choices babu #baby bump #choices baby bump #babu mc #clint covington

[eadanga]

Love the wedding outfits 😍

#choices baby bump #choices #pixelberry #play choices #clint covington

[liaromancewriter]

My Top 10 Favorite Choices Characters

For @choicesfandomappreciation fandom appreciation event

1. Cassie Valentine (my Open Heart MC)

2. Aiden Rys (The Prince/King - TRR)

3. Ethan Ramsey (Open Heart LI)

4. Sienna Trinh (Open Heart)

5. Phoebe Summers (my TRR MC)

6. Cadence Dorian (my Platinum MC)

7. Alana Cassidy (my Baby Bump MC)

8. Raleigh Carrera (Platinum LI)

9. Clint Covington — my Sweet Southern Gentleman (Baby Bump LI)

10. Olivia Nevrakis — (The Royal Romance)

#playchoices #open heart #the royal romance #choices fandom appreciation

[naturesfirstgreenisgold]

Judd and Grace Ryder playlist {9-1-1 Lone Star}

In order of artists

Take My Hand- 5 seconds of Summer

505- Arctic Monkeys

Till Forever Falls Apart- Ashe, FINNEAS

Stand by Me- Ben E. King

Take My Breath Away- Love Theme from “Top Gun”- Berlin

Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)- Big & Rich

Honey Bee- Blake Shelton

I’ll Walk- Billy Covington

Cowboy Casanova-Carrie Underwood

Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’- Charlie Pride

Hold On- Chord Overstreet

This Side of Paradise- Coyote Theory

Can I Call You Tonight?- Dayglow

Islands In the Stream- Dolly Parton, Kenny Rodgers

I Will Always Love You- Dolly Parton

Can’t Help Falling in Love- Elvis Presley

Love Me Tender- with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra- Elvis Presley, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Let’s Fall in Love for the Night- FINNEAS

Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)- Frank Sinatra, Count Basie

Love Me Tender- Frank Sinatra

Calling Baton Rouge- Garth’s Hits

Soldier- Gavin DeGraw

Write This Down- George Strait

Carrying Your Love With Me- George

Strait Check Yes Or No- George Strait

we fell in love in october- girl in red

Hey Good Lookin’- Hank Williams, Drifting Cowboys

BOYFRIEND-HARDY

Love Of My Life- Harry Styles

I Want You Back- The Jackson 5

When You Love Someone- James TW

Lover, Lover- Jerrod Niemann

Hey Good Lookin- Jimmy Buffett, Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, George Strait

It Ain’t Me Babe- Joaquin Pheonix, Reece Witherspoon

Heaven Sent Me You- John Michael Montgomery

Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)- John Michael Montgomery

High School Heart- John Michael Montgomery

Cat’s In The Cradle- Johnny Cash

Ring Of Fire-1988 Version- Johnny Cash

I Walk The Line- Single Version- Johnny Cash, The Tennessee Two

SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK- Joji

Somebody Like You- Keith Urban

American Kids- Kenny Chesney

Hold My Hand- Lady Gaga

Atta Girl- Lainey Wilson

A Woman Like You- Lee Brice

I Don’t Dance- Lee Brice

Drunk On You- Luke Bryan

Fast Car- Luke Combs

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough- Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell

As the World Caves In- Matt Maltese

Ophelia- Matt Schuster

Vienna- Matt Schuster

Tennessee Orange- Megan Moroney

Great Balls Of Fire- Live- Miles Teller

Me and My Husband- Mitski

Sweater Weather- The Neighbourhood

Heaven- Niall Horan

Fishin’ In The Dark- Live At The Red Deer Fine Arts Center, Canada/1991-Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Dixieland Delight (Alabama Cover)- Old Crow Medicine Show

Story of My Life- One Direction

Mr. Loverman- Ricky Montgomery

Unchained Melody- The Righteous Brothers

See You Tonight- Scotty McCreery

You Belong With Me (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift

Everybody Wants To Rule the World- Tears For Fears

My Girl- The Temptations

Die A Happy Man- Thomas Rhett

Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not- Thompson Square

Always On My Mind- Willie Nelson

Something in the Orange- Zach Bryan

Oklahoma Smokeshow- Zack Bryan

#judd ryder #grace ryder #spotify #playlist #9 1 1 #9 1 1 ls #9 1 1 fandom #9 1 1 show #9 1 1 lone star

[yourqueenb]

Not them dressing him like Clint Covington 😭

#choices tna #choices the nanny affair #choices sam dalton #choices stories you play #playchoices #choices #choices app #pixelberry studios #pixelberry

[korgbelmont]

Character Transparent Folders

When a character reaches a certain number of files, I have been putting them into according to their outfit or variation in order to prevent the character folder from becoming messy and making it difficult to find what you're looking for. The ask I had regarding Avery prompted me to go through every book folder and have a look at characters where this may need to be the case. Now the following characters have now been sorted into outfit folders, along with the characters who are already sorted into outfit folders.

I have not included Rory Silva, Skye Crandall, and Logan from Ride or Die as I need to finish their folders. But once I have, they will also be sorted into outfit folders.

In the case of Adrian, Gaius, Jax, Kamilah, Lily, Rheya, Cas, Gabe Adalhard, & Bastien, they are organised into Vampire and Werewolf eyes folders instead of outfits. And in regard to Kyra & Dakota, they are organised by their hair.

If there are any characters I have missed that you think should be sorted like this, let me know.

Undercut due to length

America's Most Eligible

Adam McIntyre

Derek Taylor

Ivy Fisher

Jen Espinoza

Mackenzie Harris

Slater Dominguez

Baby Bump

Anna

Clint Covington

Myles Dixon

Myra Dixon

Bachelorette Party

Aisha Bhatt

Courtney Van Ness

Diana

Bloodbound

Adrian Raines

Gaius Augustine

Jax Matsuo

Kamilah Sayeed

Lily Spencer

Rheya Apostulous

Crimes of Passion

Trystan Throne

High School Story / Class Act

Aiden Zhou

Ajay Bhandari

Caleb Mitchell

Emma Hawkins

Maria Flores

Michael Harrison

Hot Couture

Cleo Burbank

Immortal Desires

Cas Harlow

Gabe Adalhard

Laws of Attraction

Aislinn Tanaka

Gabe Ricci

Ms. Match

Jack Monroe

Jaqueline Monroe

My Two First Loves

Ava Lawrence

Mason Jennings

Noah Harris

Open Heart

Aurora Emery

Bryce Lahela

Elijah Greene

Ethan Ramsey

Jackie Varma

Kyra Santana

Rafael Aveiro

Sienna Trinh

Perfect Match

Damien Nazario

Hayden Young

Sloane Washington

Platinum

Avery Wilshere

Raleigh Carrera

Queen B

Poppy Min-Sinclair

Selene Montmartre / Persephone Dalton

Zoey Wade

Red Carpet Diaries

Chadley Fortnum

Matt Rodriguez

Seth Levine

Teja Desai

Thomas Hunt

Victoria Fontaine

Surrender

Reagan Thorne

The Nanny Affair

Sam Dalton

The Phantom Agent

Callum Gray

Samara Gray

The Royal Romance Series

Drake Walker

Hana Lee

Liam Rys

Maxwell Beaumont

Untameable

Kit Jackson

With Every Heartbeat

Dakota Winchester

Witness: A Bodyguard Romance

Cassian Keane

Wolf Bride

Bastien

#playchoices #choices character transparents #choices transparents

[peonyblossom]

Choices LI Tag Game

Thanks for the tag @jerzwriter! I'm not going to do every Choices story I've played bc there's so many, but I'll do most of them (not including single LI books)! If there are any specific books you want to know about lmk. Also, I'm putting a 💎 next to the ones I played with diamonds! Not tagging anyone because I think most people have been tagged already, but if you haven't then take this as your sign to do it too ❤️

A Courtesan of Rome: Cassisus Longinus

Across the Void: Sol w/f!MC

America's Most Eligible 💎: tbh I've replayed this with every, single LI, but the first time I played I romanced Adam McIntyre (Handsome Stranger) with a m!MC; I wish Carson was an LI though! And I plan on writing for him with a f!MC eventually (this was actually the idea that got me into writing Choices fanfic)

Baby Bump: "Clint" Covington, although I renamed him Jesse

Desire & Decorum: Annabelle Parsons 😍

Distant Shores: Edward Mortemer w/m!MC

Foreign Affairs: m!Blaine Hayes w/nb!MC

High School Story 💎: Michael Harrison; The first time I played with a f!MC then I replayed with a m!MC; I also did a replay with a f!MC romancing Emma Hawkins

Laws of Attraction: Aislinn Tanaka w/m!MC, but might switch to f!MC for Book 2

Open Heart 💎: Ethan Ramsey (obvi) w/m!MC then w/f!MC

Perfect Match: Damien Nazario, f!"Hayden" Young (renamed Maya), & Sloane Washington w/f!MC

Red Carpet Diaries 💎: Thomas Hunt, my beloved 😍

Rules of Engagement: "Leo" Rys renamed Lysander (bc I had just seen A Midsummer Night's Dream before I played it lol)

Save the Date: Lindsay Basu

Wake the Dead 💎: Troy Hassan & Shannon Fox w/f!MC

#acor #a courtesan of rome #atv #across the void #ame #America's most eligible #babu #baby bump #desire & decorum #d&d #desire and decorum #distant shores #foreign affairs #high school story #hss #laws of attraction #loa #open heart #perfect match #red carpet diaries #rules of engagement #save the date #wake the dead

[storyofmychoices]

Choices Love Interests 💖

Thanks for the tag lovely @jerzwriter. You're so wonderful!

Tagging anyone who wants to play! It's kinda fun to think back on all the books that I've forgotten about

America's Most Eligible: Handsome Stranger

A Courtesan of Rome: I romanced them all equally but chose Cassius

Baby Bump: Clint Covington

Bachelorette Party: Ash Tanka

Big Sky Country: Sawyer

Blades of Light and Shadow: I romanced everyone because why not, but chose Mal and I tried to replay to pick Tyril but ended up with Mal again

Bloodbound: I romanced them all but chose Jax

Crimes of Passion: Trystan

The Crown & The Flame: Dom Hunter

Desire and Decorum: Ernest Sinclaire

Distant Shores: Edward Mortimer

The Elementalists: Beckett Harrington

Endless Summer: Jake McKenzie

The Freshman Series: I romanced them all but ended up with Chris

The Haunting of Braidwood Manor: Eleanor

Home for the Holidays: Nick Peralta

Immortal Desires: both is good!

It Lives Series: Tom, Parker, Andy, Connor

Laws of Attraction: Gabe but tbh I didn't finish the book and was just ehh

LoveHacks: Ben Park

Mother of the Year: I played for both Thomas and Levi. I expected to fall madly in love with Thomas like everyone else but I really love Levi so much more. I really feel guilty because as great as Thomas is, I wanted to adopt Luz more than be with him lol

Nightbound: Cal

Open Heart: I romanced everyone, but have one playthrough choosing Ethan and one choosing Bryce (though I did not read book 3 for either)

Perfect Match: Hayden and Damien (two playthroughs)

Red Carpet Diaries: book 1 no one. Book 2 + 3 my beloved husband Thomas Hunt💖💖💖

I know this is HWU, but IDC look at my babies! 😍😍😍😍

The Royal Romance: I romanced everyone and still got bored (sorry!!!) I really tried to love it like everyone else so I kept restarting to choose different LI and still haven't made it past book 2 with anyone. If I had to pick someone it'd be Liam. I LOVE Max, but not with MC. I have a full on HC for an OC with Max that I might write one day but have yet to have motivation to take it from my brain to a google doc/tumblr post.

Rules of Engagement: I romanced all 3 men. I chose Leo in one play through and Dean (bartender) in another. I like the bartender more than Leo

Save the Date: Justin Mercado (hate me for it, I no longer care. I loved writing Justin but the hate and harassment really became too much and I stopped. I really want to write him again if only to take back the narrative and end on my terms)

Surrender : I wanted to love this book but NO! It's such an unhealthy portrayal of BDSM

The Unexpected Heiress: Mr John

Veil of Secrets: Flynn O'Malley

Wake the Dead: Troy Hassan (though I'd love to replay with Eli one day, or Shannon😍)

I literally had no idea I've played so many Choices books. Wow!

#choices #playchoices #choices game #all my love interests #my lis #pixelberry #ask #answered #lovealexhunt #september2022 #tag game

[ratanslily]

this.

this is next level of cursed. (put the audio on)

#playchoices #choices ads #baby bump #choices baby bump #clint covington #myles dixon

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by @cadybear420

'Baby Bump was a decent book, but I loathe the Ch1 flashback scene of MC and Covington met. The part where women are fangirling over Covington read like it was written by someone who once heard some people stereotyping Twilight fangirls and thought that that was enough to make them knowledgeable about female gaze. Plus, it's very unfitting to the book's otherwise realistic wholesome nature; that type of writing would be more at home in something like Queen B, LoveHacks, Bachelorette Party. I mean, I'd still probably roll my eyes at it, but it'd be more tolerable in those books because it at least fits their wild, comically exaggerated themes. I think they were trying to hype up Clint to make us feel "lucky" that he's the one who knocks up our MC... but it just feels forced, pandering, and very disconnected.'

POSTS/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT MOD'S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

#baby bump #babu #babu mc #clint covington #mr. covington #queen b #qb #lovehacks #lh #bachlorette party #bp #choices baby bump #choices babu #choices queen b #choices qb #choices lovehacks #choices lh #choices bachlorette party #choices bp #choices #playchoices #choices stories you play #confessions #mod kamie

[blaines-hayes]

okay i have a genuine question. what was the last choices book/series you *actually* enjoyed? i mean, you liked the characters, storyline, and weren’t disappointed by the ending. 

if u only liked (1) book from a series i want to know that too. i.e. you liked OH1 but not 2 and 3. 

#choices #babu 2 #baby bump 2 #baby bump #foreign affairs #open heart #ethan ramsey #open heart 3 #bryce lahela #myles dixon #clint covington #blaine hayes #tatum mendoza #ayna seth #play choices

[cadybear420]

Cadybear's Reviews- Baby Bump

Welcome to the twenty-first official Cadybear's Reviews! Today I'll be talking about Baby Bump, which I have ranked on the "Gold Tier" at 8 stars out of a possible 10.

WHY DO PEOPLE HATE THIS SERIES!? WHY!? It’s FINE! 

Okay, I can maybe see why people may not like it because, let’s be real, accidental pregnancy is a very overdone trope. And apparently there were a lot of parts that were originally problematic when the story was released and had to be re-written, but I wasn’t around for that and I know next to nothing about the original lines, so I can’t say much about them. But even now, how does it get ranked as being among the worst so often? Even if you think it’s bad, it’s really not that bad. 

Like… I found it decent? I don’t think it’s nearly as bad as a lot of people have said it is. And I’m saying this as a GNC cis woman who experiences major genital dysphoria and absolutely REVILES the idea of becoming pregnant. Like, I would rather die than ever experience being pregnant. And yet I still quite enjoyed this story. 

I guess it kind of helps that the book is very clearly a pregnancy book from the beginning, so I kind of went in knowing what to expect and thus not self-inserting as the MC at all. Unlike something like TRH, which is a continuation that suddenly introduces a “MC gets pregnant” plot to a non-pregnancy series… but that’s a subject for a different day. 

I’ll be honest though, this story has a pretty awful start. In the flashback in B1 Ch1 where MC meets Mr. Covington, they try waaaayyyyy too hard to make the player swoon at the idea of having his babies. Like, did the guy they wanted to be MC’s baby daddy HAVE to be a celebrity company salesman, who is also the keynote speaker at MC’s graduation? 

And don’t even get me started on the Clint fangirls, who feel like they were written by someone who’s only ever been surrounded by the “Facebook Mom” stereotype and has never met (and probably never will meet) a real horny woman in their entire life. 

Literally, the scene is just all like “OMG LOOK!!! BIG FAMOUS CELEBRITY SALESMAN!!! OMG HE HAS *GASP* ABS!!! OH WOW, A MALE LI IN CHOICES WITH ABS AND BIG MUSCLES! THAT’S SO UNIQUE AND SPECIAL AND TOTALLY NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE!!! OMG ALL THE OTHER WOMEN ARE CHANTING OVER HIS ABS AND WANT TO HAVE HIS BABIES TOO!!! DON’T *YOU* WANT TO HAVE HIS BABIES TOO!?!?!?! AREN’T YOU SOOOOOO LUCKY THAT YOU’RE GOING TO BE HAVING HIS BABIES?!?!?!?!?!?!?”. Like, how much intelligence do you think your wlm audience has PB? Really trying to pander to the “Facebook Karen Mom” stereotype here, huh? 

With that in mind, I guess I can understand why people may have gotten a bad impression of the book at first, because the story for how MC got pregnant in the first place (and her conflict with Cassandra in Book 1) feels straight out of one of those weird Instagram and Facebook ads. 

But besides that, it was an okay series! I found it mostly cute and wholesome. Literally everything else was fine! There were even a few moments in Book 2 that made me cry, like when MC can record a sweet message for the babies with a plush bunny she can get from the Baby Baskets. 

Besides maybe Book 1 Dr. Mariana Castillo who is just way too unserious (at least she gets better in Book 2), I honestly really liked the main cast. Even though MC is technically an outsider to the town, she still gets to be very driven and gets shit done rather than being the typical doe-eyed newbie who needs to be shown the ropes. Clint is a sweetheart and does get to be more than just “har dee har muscular celebrity salesman who knocks you up aren’t you soooo lucky” that they wanted him to be in the first chapter. Mayor Dixon is a nice mix of goofy and tsundere, and the female version Myra contributed to my bi awakening. Luisa is just a queen all around. MC’s sister… initially she could sometimes be a bit of a stereotypical “OMG girly girl talk best friend to talk exclusively about LI and diamond outfits” but she does become more than that too, and I really like her subplot with Bao. Speaking of, Bao is just the most absolute precious ever (and shame on PB for making him the sister’s LI and not one for MC /jk). 

The antagonist characters were… kind of a mixed bag, I will admit. They were memorable, but also kind of stupid. Like I said before, Cassandra’s storyline in Book 1 just felt petty and cheap, plus I’m tired of straw loser villain female antagonists who exist solely to compete with the MC over the LI. It never got too overbearing, but it was still stupid. Book 2 Cassandra is great though. 

Then there’s Craig, who wants to destroy everything MC and friends accomplish and take over Gracetown because… potatoes. I guess he’s alright as he is actually a threat in Book 2, but the townspeople can be pretty damn meek to him which is a little weird. But he was still a strong antagonist in that book. Book 1 Craig feels a lot more like he just exists to be an annoyance for the sake of being an annoyance, though. 

Jebediah is a lot more compelling as an antagonist character, and I did expect the Covington family conflict to be incredibly boring but it turned out otherwise. He’s a jerk at first, but it’s nice to see how he does genuinely try to change throughout the storyline of Book 2. 

Also, props to this for being one of only three Choices series ever (the others being OG HSS and ILITW) where the collectible system has some items that aren’t diamond-walled. The baby blanket collectibles are really cute, and it’s really refreshing to have a collectible system that isn’t “the first one is free and then the rest you have to pay for”. Like HSS, there are even some pieces that are determinant on your success in certain events. Why can’t more series do their collectibles like this??? (Oh right, because it requires actual effort). 

Would I say it’s a good or accurate portrayal of pregnancy? IDK, I’m not an expert. But it’s fine if you just want a lighthearted pregnancy story to chill out to. 

#choices stories you play #choices #choices game #choices stories we play fandom #choices stories we play #choices baby bump #baby bump #choices babu #babu #cadybear's reviews

[eadanga]

Get to know game (I always do that when I meet interesting people, don't worry):

Your Top 10 Choices Books?

Your Top 10 Choices LIs?

@ladylamrian loving your asks

1. The Freshman series

2. Royal Romance series

3. Big Sky Country

4. Guinevere

5. Mother of the year

6. Laws of Attraction

7. Baby Bump

8. Blades of Light and Shadow

9. Ms Match

10. Nanny Affair

1. Chris

2. Liam

3. Sawyer

4. Gabe

5. Clint Covington

6. Mal Valorti

7. King Arthur

8. Thomas

9. Jack

10. Sam

#choices #pixelberry #answered asks #send me asks

[liaromancewriter]

I will be honest in the 2 + years I have been here, I have never given my opinion on anything bc of the reactions I’ve seen from/toward others. I don’t talk about the books I like because I know there are those that don’t read/like them and I don’t want people coming for me like I have seen them do with others who have expressed liking those same books. It kind of killed the whole “be in a fandom” experience for me. And I don’t talk about my own ideas or head canons. It has even made me afraid to write and post. The only ones I have really had the courage to engage with have been some on TRR side and they been great and welcoming. But I was surprised to hear a couple of them who are known and have been around much longer than me say the same thing about how they do not share the same things bc the same reason. It did help to make me feel a little better in a sense that I was not alone in feeling like that. Now I can gush to them over those those things I was afraid to but it is still in private instead of out in the open 😕

Hi Nonny. I'm very sorry to hear about your experiences.

My advice is to never let other people bring you down. If you enjoy something, then you should feel free to talk about it, use the book's or character's tags, and others who love it too will find you. If you are concerned about anon hate, switch off the option for anonymous asks. It does help to keep your blog a safe space for you.

I can certainly understand what you said about other books. For example, I enjoyed Wolf Bride (and found others who did too) and I love Baby Bump on Choices. I've been jokingly told I have a Colonel Sanders kink because I romanced Clint Covington in BB (I don't have that kink). But, I love the Hallmark sweetness of that series and I'm going to continue to enjoy it for myself.

While I can't speak for others, I'm always interested in having a civil and respectful exchange of ideas/perspectives/hc with anyone, in public and in private. I prefer to do it in public because it opens up the dialogue for anyone to join. And there's nothing quite as fun as exchanging our different perspectives and learning something new about a book or character.

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