#choices mm

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by @loveloveoliver

‘while I enjoyed playing Ms match (I truly found it funny and had a great time), the MC is so HORRIBLE. Like girl, you DO NOT deserve being CEO, you appeared out of nowhere and suddenly are competing for this??? and it made me so mad when she would say it was her dream job WHEN SHE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT WAS A CAREER PRIOR TO KNOWING THE LI???? The LI deserved being CEO and I'm bitter at the ending, they actually worked to get that promotion and had every right to be angry at that horrible decision Veronica made.’

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

[cadybear420]

I named my MC in Ms. Match "Perfect Match" solely to get this moment. And I got it in Ch11/12. It made me so happy.

[aixeko]

GODDDD. THEY COOKED SO GOOD WTFFF. EVERYONE AT ONCE. AH FEIXIAO LOOKS SO MIGHTY FINE IN THAT OUTFIT. TINGYUN MMMM NEED HER SO BAD. AND MY BELOVED SINGER ROBIEEEE.

[caseyjones2012]

im bitter about the fact that Casey Jones still hasn’t been introduced in TOTTMNT/TMNTMM so I made an AU where Oroku Saki has three children with a woman named Cassidy Jones

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Even the toughest man's hands will sometimes shake.

Leverage S01E10 The 12 Step Job.

Last Dam Job Bonus:

[irishhousecore]

[simphic]

Love my gapped-tooth shawtiess 🫶🏾

[simminglytimeladies]

Usual Movie Night

This one is an oldie as you can tell from the style but I wanna post it here. Might consider a rerender of this one at some point.

[lxminsims]

sim challenge post omg!! (soren, they/them)

@aliengirl this was really fun! i might do it again later on fullbody under the cut

[memento-morianon]

Blood and flesh

He-esh's story

I've been pondering the history of the orcs in my story and how this particular clan came to be and other such details. and then I also remembered that the orc who dies at the start of my main story, He-esh, the old and beloved patriarch who brought about so many diplomatic alliances, did in fact have an older brother at one point in my plans for the story. an older brother who should have been the one to inherit the leadership role He-esh ended up in. so I've decided to bring that detail back.

below the cut is a summary and a handful of dialogue scenes about He-esh before he did all the great deeds that made him into the beloved and important man he is when he dies of old age. maybe I'll have a chance to write this story in full some day.

Lead in with scenes of normal orc life for the clan. He-esh is the second son of the ruling family. He is married to Elkha. He-esh is loved by the people. His brother is strict and warrior-like. Their father is very hands off in his final years as leader. 

Scene: At'ali is banished and her name erased because she loved a gnome. He-esh tries to stop the removal of her name. 

“Don't do this! Please, there must be another way!” He-esh stood between his brother and the family pillar. The gathered crowd murmured and stared, but he stood his ground. His brother snorted and stamped a foot in warning, baring his sharp tusks. 

“This is our way,” he scolded, “stand down.” The chisel in his hand looked more like a knife.

“Our ancestors came here to respect the boundaries the centaurs laid down,” He-esh said, baring his own tusks, “and now we banish our cousin because she loves one of our own kindred? The gnomes are not our enemies! We disrespect our own ancestors by denying them a place among us!” 

“How dare you,” his brother growled, “you would disrespect the laws our own grandparents wrote when they founded this clan?” He stepped closer, tusks and chisel threatening He-esh's bare throat. The crowd fell silent, staring, waiting. 

“No,” He-esh firmly stated, closing the gap between him and his brother. “We disrespect our ancestors by destroying our family in the name of their laws.” 

All he could hear was his own heartbeat. All he could see was the fury in his brother's eyes. 

“He-esh!” A single voice broke the silence. At'ali, standing far from the crowd, outside the village boundary. Her gnomish lover and his companions stood behind her, glaring at the orcs. At'ali shook her head. “I made my choice, He-esh.  Stand down.” 

He bowed his head and stepped away, closing his eyes against the tears of grief that burned down his cheeks. 

As his cousin's name was chipped away from the family pillar, falling in pieces to the forest floor, he felt every blow of it in his own heart.

More scenes of him getting along well with his people. Secretly reaching out to the goblins. His brother being more and more of a tyrant as he comes closer to claiming his birthright as a leader. 

Elkha is hard of hearing. She doesn't speak well. He-esh learned the orcish sign language so he could speak with her more freely. She tells him that his people love him. She says his brother's children might turn out better than their father, because their uncle is a good example.

There are a few more incidents where he-esh clashes with his brother. Something finally makes him snap and he decides he is all out of options. He talks it out with his wife. He tries to glean wisdom from his father. He communes with his ancestors. Tension has been rising in the clan. He-esh worries that his brother is one bad incident away from abandoning the isolation their ancestors wanted and becoming a conqueror instead. 

He-esh invites his brother out hunting. He shoots a wild elk  And then he tears his brother's throat out. He uses the elk’s antlers to make it look like an accident and bites the elk's throat to conceal what he has done. 

He bit down harder, flinching at the blows from his brother's desperate flailing. The struggle only lasted a few heartbeats; he could feel each one in his mouth, flooding his throat with the burn of fresh blood. And then he was holding a corpse. 

“I had no other choice,” he coughed, spitting blood over the cold ground. “You gave me no other choice. We are a warrior people, but you would have made us conquerors.” His breath was ragged, interrupted by heavy sobs. His tears turned red as they rolled down his cheeks and dripped off his chin. “Flesh to flesh,” he whispered, “blood to blood. One death benefits many lives, my brother. I only hope yours is enough of a price for the future of our clan.” 

His wife is there also because she is ride or die even through fratricide. When he brings back his brother's body and the elk, she stands by his lie that the elk killed his brother after it was shot and ran in a panic right at him. He truthfully explains that it was his shot that hit the elk, so he can still say it was his own fault his brother is dead. But he will take the whole truth of it to his very grave.

Still, people definitely know. It isn't hard to guess. They keep their mouths shut. He-esh was more popular with the common people than his brother.

His father also guesses the truth but shrugs it off. “It is not the first time change has been made through blood, and it will not be the last.” is his only remark on the matter. 

When He-esh eventually takes the leadership role from his father, after going through the necessary preparations, he makes a promise to the clan. 

“I love our ancestors. And I honor them with every beat of my heart. But I believe in change. Many of our old traditions have lost their purpose, and I intend to repair them.” He took a cutting wire from his pocket and held it high for all the clan to see. 

“When a child's tusks grow in, the pain is unbearable,” he continued, “you all remember that pain. Remember why you endured it. Remember why you chose the shape your tusks have grown into.” 

He opened his mouth wide and wrapped the wire around one of his tusks, just far enough from his gums to avoid any unhealthy damage. The sound of the wire rubbing against his tusk merged with the sound of gasping voices from the crowd. He heard his mother cry out in shock. 

Back and forth, he dragged the ends of the wire, wincing at the awful vibration that traveled through his jaw. The wire snapped straight and his tusk fell to the ground with a dull thud. Without hesitation, he whipped the wire around the other tusk and sawed it off just the same.

He held his head high, free at last of the burden of his guilt as the second tusk fell. Tusks that jutted forward, sharp as knives, perfectly shaped for a warrior. 

No one spoke a word as he scooped the tusks off the ground and stood tall, holding them out as he finished his speech. 

“As I cut off my own tusks, I will cut out the old laws that have brought so much pain to our families. As my tusks grow anew, reshaped, I ask you to help me reshape this clan. Tusks only grow if their roots are healthy and strong. I do not ask anyone to cast aside their ancestors, but I do ask that we give our descendants a better life.” 

He paused as his people began to cheer, losing their silence in the fervor of his words. Heart trembling, he took a few deep breaths before he spoke again. 

“I swear to you all; as long as I yet live, my tusks will grow with the heart of this clan. Our symbol of peace is a circle; the shape of an unbroken tusk. If I ever fail to uphold my promise, I will break my tusks with my bare hands! Come now, and help me build a better future!” 

And then I can wrap the story up. He-esh goes on to do all the things mentioned about him in the main story. He only trims his tusks to keep them healthy and avoid the troubles of overgrowth. They are full spirals by the time he dies, coming all the way around so their tips have actually started to point forward again. He kept his promise. He changed his people and he changed the small part of the world he lived in. 

And now when I revise the main story, I will be sure to drop more details about this backstory in there so the pain of seeing Ikar be the way he is, and the warning He-esh gives him, will reach a new layer of depth.

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by anonymous

‘the MC in Ms. Match is truly terrible. Jack/Jess is right, we completely lucked out and we definitely don't deserve to be CEO. I normally hate the way Choices does enemies to lovers, but it worked here because the MC was simply wrong. i wanted to drop out of the competition and help Jess win :(’

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

[cadybear420]

Cadybear's Reviews VERY Brief Thoughts- Ms. Match

Welcome to the twenty-eighth official Cadybear's Reviews VERY Brief Thoughts! Today I'll be talking about Ms. Match, which I have ranked on the "Stone Tier" at 4 stars out of a possible 10. My last and only playthrough of this was during January-May 2022.

Besides the MC and LI’s hatefuck-y dynamic which was fun to watch sometimes, this one was honestly pretty forgettable. It wasn’t outright terrible, but there wasn’t anything special or remarkable about it either.

Probably the highlight of the book was how I gave my MC the last name “Match” for the sole purpose of eventually hearing someone refer to her as “Ms. Match” and say the title of the movie in the movie. And sure enough, I got to see that in around Chapter 11/12. 

Also, very pointlessly genderlocked. The only thing that justifies this genderlock is that the pun in the title would otherwise be lost. Then again, people have suggested “Mx. Match”, so do with that what you will.

[aroaessidhe]

Cosmoknights is SO GOOD I'm obsessed with this comic

[buysomecheese]

Y’all ever spend.. 2+ hours consuming fan content for a ship for a show you Refuse to watch?

Anyways Tweek and Craig are so cute together and they love each other

[libelelle]

In reference to that last post. Some of yall need to reflect on your gajinka designs methinks

[rustedgate]

characters reacting to someone close to them dying as them 'leaving'