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Results: Choices LI Survey 2021

Hi guys! Thanks so much for all the support and responses I’ve got from this survey x 

I started this survey because I am attempting to romance Bryce, Rafael, Aurora and Ethan (in order of preference) in Open Heart, which has become increasingly difficult and very expensive! I wanted to see if anyone was doing the same thing as me, so I made this survey.

the results should be under this read more :)

I’ll put any main conclusions (I’m a psychology and anthropology student, sue me) at the bottom and respond to any of the comments you have! If anyone needs closed captions, just reply to this post and I’ll happily write out the figures for you x

To that one submission, Baz wasn’t a character in book 1, but hey, I admire your tenacity.

Do y’all who say ‘none’ think that theres is enough representation already? (fyi I disagree)

Wow! if you scrolled all the way down, I’m pretty impressed!

That last question seemed more controversial than I imagined ahah maybe I should have asked ‘gender customisable ethan ramsey?’ instead? let me know what y’all think.

Overall, its pretty clear that I’m way in the minority with the whole romancing the entire friendship group thing. Maybe that’s for the best! But, still us serial romancers like to stick to our guns and romance the same amount of LIs across all three books, so uhh, go us?

(side note: I’m also very glad ES won as the best LI layout as it’s 100% my favourite book. all lovers of ES say aye!)

My response to any comments under here:

I am not a member of the ace community, and I would much rather hand the microphone to someone who is when responding to this, but I’ll explain my reasoning. I included asexual as a category because aces are still often very much interested in romance. To qualify as an LI in this study, I decided you hand to have a history with flirting with each other (diamond scenes often only go to canon-LIs and so eradicate Aurora, June and others as objective LIs), but I made sure people were free to enter any names they wanted to. There have been LIs we have not had 16+ times with, like Kyra and Aurora. Therefore, they to some extent could have been asexual, but we don’t know for sure. Therefore, Asexuals would still make great LIs!

Speaking of asexuality, can we all agree that this should be an option for all MCs? why should we have to be interested in one LI in a book? especially when some of them are so bland. by not including an ace option, pixelberry is pretty much disregarding ace/aro existence.

Pixelberry, if y’all needed a bigger sign to increase LI minority representation, you’re looking at it. 

‘need older female LIs’ - yes, I agree! pls let us date Harper I’m begging you

‘I would die for bryce lahela’ - mood 

‘We all know this, but as a non-Ethan romancer (Bryce 4ever) OH can be a bit disappointing. Of course, minority representation (especially in lis) would be amazing, but pb has to work on giving all lis equal screentime/diamond choices as well.’ - Yes anon! From romancing 4 people in OH it’s super obvious to me how biased screen time is towards white-passing male LIs, when POCs and members of other minorities seem more interesting as LIs! both equalling screen time and increasing representation is a must for later Choices books.

‘im gay man i just like men’ - my favourite comment. I like your point

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Anyway, this has been a super long post, and it’s only my 4th post on tumblr lol.

I’ve really enjoyed the process of this survey, and how accepting the choices community has been to me! If anyone (seriously, just one) wants me to, i am happy to do similar survey on any topic requested (I’m thinking a POC survey looking at how many people romance POC LIs and why). 

I’ll try over the next couple days to share these results on as many platforms as possible, so everyone who responded can see it. So, any signal boosts, shares, discussions, replies etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Finally, let me know what y’all think about the results! Were you surprised?

All my best, Victoria x 

a.k.a. @codykosuckmytoe​

[codykosuckmytoe]

Thanks for all the responses guys!! I’ve amended and added some questions so keep those responses coming ;)

Heya! I made a google form for the open heart LIs and I’d love if people could complete it! I’ll share the results later this week x

It’s mostly about how many LIs u romance in OH and in general and whether there should be more minority representation in the LIs we see :)

Please signal boost if u can as the more responses, the better!

https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBAhpjxdds6eaeDSEUiqcg91CFAlbzTKZ_3tSn9xrt-K01rA/formResponse

[codykosuckmytoe]

Heya! I made a google form for the open heart LIs and I’d love if people could complete it! I’ll share the results later this week x

It’s mostly about how many LIs u romance in OH and in general and whether there should be more minority representation in the LIs we see :)

Please signal boost if u can as the more responses, the better!

https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBAhpjxdds6eaeDSEUiqcg91CFAlbzTKZ_3tSn9xrt-K01rA/formResponse

[codykosuckmytoe]

Hey ! I just wanted to check in after I was hacked today (thanks for notifying me, Zeke!). Even though I haven’t posted anything, I’ve amassed a small following in this community which I’m grateful for!

I don’t feel I’ve got anything particular to add to this community, so I probably won’t be posting any time soon, but I’ll continue to be active in other ways :)

All the best,

Victoria, of @codykosuckmytoe