#Hayden Young

[thedarlingdearestdead]

Awake (2007)

This film should be illegal.... No thoughts....

[haydenyoungappreciationweek]

(this amazing poster was made by the brilliant @sazanes!!)

It's our third year of the Hayden Young Appreciation Week!! (or fourth, if you include our one-day HYAD celebration in 2022 😄)

Hayden Young will always have a special place in our hearts, because they were first character that we (hosts @lizzybeth1986 and @sazanes) ever ran an appreciation week for, back in 2020! Now 4 years later, we still experience the same love, passion and joy this character brings, with so many other players!!

Hayden's birthday is around the corner, and as usual, we hope to celebrate it in style! We hope you can join us.

HYAW 2024 will happen from Sept 25th-29th, and we have a range of great topics you can choose for your pieces:

Day 1 - Sept 25 - Character Appreciation/Vacation

Day 2 - Sept 26 - Throwback/Pizza

Day 3 - Sept 27 - Soul/Changes

Day 4 - Sept 28 - Relationships/Psyche

Day 5 - Sept 29 - Happy Birthday Hayden!!

Any form of creative, original work is welcome - fic, art, meta, edits, moodboards, interactive media, headcanons...even screenshots of your favourite Hayden moments! The only rules are that they show a positive depiction of Hayden, and that the works center Hayden as a character. We will also accept WIPs and it is not necessary for the pieces to be put up only on the day of the theme. We also have a specific day for throwback pieces where you can share older stuff and even take us through the process of creating it if you like (here's an ask list that may help!)

Make sure you tag @haydenyoungappreciationweek, as well as hosts @lizzybeth1986 and @sazanes in your content. It would also be helpful if you used #haydenyoungappreciationweek and #HYAW in your tags!

For inspiration, you can always refer to our previous years' masterlist: HYAW 2020 | HYAD 2022 | HYAW 2023.

Various fan content blogs have helped us immensely in promoting the events, and run a range of amazing events themselves!! Check them out here: @choicesficwriterscreations, @choicesmonthlychallenge, @choicespride, @choicesprompts, @choicesholidays, @wordwarriors, @choicescommunityevents. If there are any other Choices fan content/appreciation blogs you'd like us to give a shoutout to, do let us know!

We have a month to go before we enter HYAW 2024, and we'd love to get signal boosts from the fandom! If you know any Hayden stans who would love to participate/consume content, do tag them too!

Hope to see you all at the end of September, to celebrate Hayden's birthday!! ❤️❤️

✅✅signal boosts will be much appreciated!!✅✅

[sazanes]

Day 2 - Throwback/Pizza - Kiss the cook ❤

Guess who learned how to make pizza? Now Steve has a rival in the kitchen 😎 Will Hayden put pineapple on pizza one day? 🤔

Thank you @lizzybeth1986 @haydenyoungappreciationweek 💚

[lilyoffandoms]

Hayden Young

Event Tags: @haydenyoungappreciationweek and @choicescommunityevents (Royal Academy Day 29)

My Art Ish Thing Tag (Choices Edition): @storyofmychoices @aallotarenunelma @twinkleallnight @dutifullynuttywitch

[blinkfizz-the-unfortunate-gnome]

Me? I love the rain!

This was supposed to be for Day 1 of the HYAW, Character Appreciation. I'll never forget the way Hayden enjoyed the rain on our first date, always so full of life. :)

I wanted to create a gouache gif for this scene considering the characters were outdoors. I also have a static version with memories from that first date. Happy birthday, Hayden, we love you!

And thanks to the hosts of course! @haydenyoungappreciationweek @lizzybeth1986 @sazanes

[lizzybeth1986]

We're in the second half of the year, and have three more appreciation weeks to go! Let me know which ones you're interested in and would like to be tagged for.

Hayden Young Appreciation Week - Sept 25th-29th (Hayden's birthday)

Nadia Park Appreciation Day - Oct 25th (World Artists' Day)

King Liam Appreciation Week - Nov 15th - 19th (Baklava Day)

[anastasiaskarsgard]

Here are all the magazine covers Hayden Christensen did alone as Anakin Skywalker

Stay tuned for more

[storyofmychoices]

SpreadJoy #910 spreading positivity with quotes and @playchoices characters.

Quote by selfcare.recipe

For @haydenyoungappreciationweek

[choices-binglebonkus]

The only gender/race customizable love interest story I’ll excuse is Perfect Match because Hayden Young is literally an android and the use of the different genders and races of Hayden actually makes sense and is incorporated in the main story in a realistic and interesting way.

All the others, there’s really no reason to have the love interests gender/race customizable. It just makes them feel more like interchangeable parts than actual characters. Plus, they’re almost always white-coded and male-coded, and that really rears its head in the stupidest ways (See Also: F!Sam Dalton repeatedly being called “dad” by the twins).

[sethnorth]

Truitt Fields v. Hayden Young

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by @cadybear420

‘Hayden is literally just a robot... and yet they still feel more like an actual human being than 90% of all customizable LIs.’

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

[marshallmallows]

my choices character playlists!

i make so many of these so i thought i’d compile them all in an easy master list if anybody would like to check them out :) some of them are pure vibes from what i think they’d listen to but most have lyrics that i feel are applicable to them/their relationship with mc/the story. i hope you enjoy!

genre: pop/indie

hayden young (perfect match)

damien nazario (perfect match)

noah marshall (it lives in the woods/it lives within)

abel flint (it lives within)

logan (ride or die)

colt kaneko (ride or die)

i make new playlists occasionally, and i’ll update this master list when i do!

[haydenyoungappreciationweek]

Welcome to our third edition of the Hayden Young Appreciation Week! We started this way back in 2020, during the lockdown, and it's been a blast spreading our love for this amazing character ever since!!

Hayden is the heart and soul of Perfect Match - their tenacity, their unwavering love and their deep questions about life and identity make the story so much more interesting and nuanced.

For Day 1, we have two themes for you to try. One is of course Character Appreciation, where you can appreciate practically anything about Hayden!

There is also Vacation as a theme! We all know that PM as a story has its characters travelling around the world, either to get away from Eros or to plan their next move. Hayden, in particular, seems to thrive in different settings, exploring different cultures - even more so if their MC chooses the polyglot skill for them!

Any work is welcome – fics, art, edits, moodboards, interactive media, headcanons, meta, even screenshots of your favourite scenes! Our only requirements are that the works are original (nothing AI generated), and they center Hayden and present a positive depiction of them.

It is not necessary to put up your works only on the day of the theme – you can always put it up later. We will also be keeping a buffer week in case you’re not able to complete it during the week itself (till Oct 10th).

Please be sure to do the following when tagging your posts for HYAW 2023:

1. Use the tags #haydenyoungappreciationweek, and #HYAW, along with the day/theme you made the work for (#HYAW Day 1, #HYAW Day 2 etc).

2. Tag @haydenyoungappreciationweek, and hosts @sazanes and @lizzybeth1986 in your posts so we can access them easier!

FAN CONTENT BLOGS are the lifeline of our fandoms, esp for books that have long been over yet still have a strong fanbase. Many of them are hosting some incredible events that we highly encourage you to participate in if you feel so inclined!!

@choicesficwriterscreations - Accepts fic and art (no AI). Read up on their roster of events and guidelines here!

@choicesmonthlychallenge - Accepts fic and art. We're almost at the end of September but can still give in entries for the "Royal Academy" event (run by @choicescommunityevents and @ladylamrian) currently hosted - particularly Day 29! You could also participate in Picktober for next month!

@choicesholidays - Mostly fic and art. Currently no events, but be on the lookout for announcements!

@choicesprompts - Mostly fic. There are a variety of events for the next three months! There is Smutember, Flufftober and Angstgiving.

@choicespride - All content welcome as long as it features LGBTQ+ pairings and themes! Currently no events.

Hope you have plenty of fun with Hayden content today. Let's make Hayden's birthday special! 😃😃

Happy Hayden Young Appreciation Week, everyone!!

[sazanes]

Day 3 - Soul/Changes - Nature

"When I go for a walk and look at these incredible trees I feel something so strong inside me, I think they gave me a soul as a gift." 💚

Thank you @lizzybeth1986 @haydenyoungappreciationweek 💚

Yes, yes all Haydens have souls!🥰

[lilyoffandoms]

Arielle x Hayden by @somewillwin for @rosepetals1

[Gabi’s Kofi]

Thank you so much, Aurora, for participating in OCtober and for sharing your OCs and MCs with us all! I hope you love this piece of you gorgeous MC.

Thank you also to the lovely, Gabi, for always being such a pleasure to work with and blessing us with beautiful art!!

[lizzybeth1986]

(Tentative) Dates for Appreciation Weeks Next Year!

This year's lineup of weeks was amazing and we got a LOT of art and fic and creative stuff from the fandom, as well as incredible support from the fandom and fan community blogs! 💖💖 I know that it's often hard to get content ready for these weeks for all of y'all, especially when some weeks are arranged back to back, so we (my amazing co host @sazanes and I) do try to space them out as much as we can with every passing yead.

Thinking of changing around some dates for AWs next year:

Sloane - Feb 7th - 11th (Women in STEM)

Hana - April 21st - 25th (World Book Day)

Kiara - May 21st - 23rd (International Culture Day)

Lily - July 5th - 9th (Video Games Day)

Hayden - Sept 25 - 29th (Bday)

Nadia - Oct 25th (World Artists Day)

Liam - Nov 15th -19th (Baklava Day)

These are the dates I'm planning to go with for each AW. If you're a fan of any of these characters and would like any updates on any or all of these weeks, do let me know! You can also follow their blogs:

@hanaleeappreciationweek, @kingliamappreciationweek, @kiaratheronappreciationweek, @haydenyoungappreciationweek, @sloanewashingtonappreciationweek, @nadiaparkappreciationweek, @lilyspencerappreciationweek.

Leave a note in this post for which weeks you'd like to be tagged in, and we will tag you in updates for the same! Can't wait to celebrate all these characters with you next year!!