#kieran is one of my fave LIs

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I love them so so much :(

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Kat’s Guide to Choices: Fave Books and LIs

Hey everyone! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Kat, and I’ve been playing Choices since ~2016. Being on the app for so long has given me a lot of time to read a lot of series, and of course, I’ve accumulated a lot of favourites from among them. Some of those favourites are unsurprising, because they’re widely recognised as well-written or they’re similar to ‘real-life’ books that I enjoy: think Blades of Light & Shadow, Most Wanted, Mother of the Year. Others are surprising, even to me, because at first glance they seem like shallow romances but if you play them just right then they go straight for your heart: think Baby Bump (I dare you to play it romancing Myra Dixon), Big Sky Country (I dare you to play it as an MLM romance), The Cursed Heart (it doesn’t even matter how you play that one, I think it’s the most underrated series Choices has ever had). It’s gotten to the point where I think it’d be cool to have this pinned post of all the series that stand out to me on the app, plus all the LIs that made them feel special. I’m not the type of person who likes picking between favourites, so it’s not going to be a ranked list, or a list with a limited number of slots – I’ve just done it alphabetically, and I’ll keep adding to it as I go. I hope that it helps people celebrate their own favourites, and maybe even inspires people to read something new 😊

Without further ado, here are my favourite series and LIs on Choices:

Baby Bump – Myra Dixon (whom I renamed Harper)

Big Sky Country – Sawyer Oakley

Blades of Light & Shadow – Tyril Starfury

Bloodbound – Adrian Raines

Crimes of Passion – Princess Trystan Thorne

The Cursed Heart – Prince Kieran

The Deadliest Game – Dante Valdez

Desire & Decorum – Ernest Sinclaire

The Elementalists – Griffin Langley

Foreign Affairs – Tatum Mendoza

Guinevere – King Arthur

Laws of Attraction – Gabe Ricci

Most Wanted

Mother of the Year – Thomas Mendez

Ms. Match – Jack Monroe (whom I renamed Elijah Bennett)

Murder at Homecoming – Donovan Navarro

Nightbound – Nik Ryder

Open Heart – Rafael Aveiro

Perfect Match – Damien Nazario

The Royal Masquerade – Kayden Vescovi (whom I renamed Kaspian)

The Royal Romance/The Royal Heir/The Royal Finale – Liam Rhys (whom renamed Nikola)

Save the Date – Simon Hendricks

Slow Burn – Julian Navarro

The Unexpected Heiress – John Somerset

Veil of Secrets – Naomi Silverhawk (I got really close to picking Kate O’Malley once I realised that she was an option, but in the end I couldn’t reject Naomi, and I think she doesn’t get enough love)

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My media this week (2-8 Apr 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 jsyd extras (not playing a part #2) (biblionerd07) - 105K of alt-POV/extra/post-epilogue scenes

😊 The Edification of Steve Harrington (ChronicRabbit) - 44K, steddie post-canon divergent everybody lives slow burn

😍 One of Many Great Fires (delgaserasca, author; , narrator) - 126K, spirk AU; Jim shows up on Vulcan for an arranged marriage with T'Pring to solidify a treaty & Spock ends up tutoring him on Vulcan culture. Excellently written, absolutely DELICIOUS slow burn

🥰👂‍ Cabin Pressure: Molokai (John Finnemore, author; Stephanie Cole/Roger Allam/Benedict Cumberbatch/John Finnemore, cast)

🥰👂‍ Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 3 (Newcastle to St. Petersburg) (John Finnemore, author; Stephanie Cole/Roger Allam/Benedict Cumberbatch/John Finnemore, cast)

🥰 Put Down in Words (paintedrecs) - 203K, sterek college AU - very slow burn, angsty, lots of emotional depth, plus an adorable dog

💖💖 +109K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

The Adventure of the Opal Necklace (beautifulduckweed) - KJ Charles: multiple ships, 9K - rollicking KJC mashup crack featuring some cursed opals

A Sense of Identity (DaaroMoltor) - DCU: SuperBat, 21K - love love love a good identity porn fic

Deep Sea Diving (AidaRonan) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 5K - reread, forever fave - never not in the mood for fat thirst trap Bucky & besotted Cap!Steve

🖋️🖋️ plus these articles/essays that were really good 🖋️🖋️

How an Alleged Con Man Tore Apart One of the Nineties’ Biggest Bands

Tracing the Affinities Between Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and C.S Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Maine Cabin Masters - s7, e14-16

Moana

Ted Lasso - s3, e4 [x2]

Great Art Explained: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

Dirty Laundry - s2, e1-4

Hot Ones - Kieran Culkin Fires Sean While Eating Spicy Wings

Game Changer - s1, e4

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

It's Been a Minute - Fighting back against spams, scams and schemes

Richmond Til We Die - Maximilian Osinski • Zava on Ted Lasso

Welcome to Night Vale #225 - Renegotiations

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Museum of Clean

You Must Remember This - 1989: sex, lies and videotape: Rob Lowe and James Spader (Erotic 80s Part 12)

⭐ The Sporkful - Are You Eating Chipotle Bowls Wrong?

You're Dead To Me - Atlantis

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Arrows Across America

Shedunnit Book Club - The Golden Age Autopsy

Switched on Pop - The Shakira Conspiracy

Reformed Rakes - No Love Lost: Romance BookTok's Dubious Reputation

99% Invisible #531 - De Fiets Is Niets

Vibe Check - Go Outside and Touch Some Grass

Richmond Til We Die - Tackling Homophobia in Football (with Lou Englefield)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Yellowstone Zone of Death

Ologies with Alie Ward - Chickenology Part 2 (HENS & ROOSTERS) with Tove Danovich

ICYMI Plus - Buying Concert Tickets Online is Still a Hellscape

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Lady Liberty’s Little Sister

Song Exploder - Yaeji "Passed Me By"

Our Opinions Are Correct - Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: "Difficult Geniuses"

Into It - Are We Into the 'Barbie' Trailer, Fading Taylor Swift Merch, and a New 'Moana'?

Endless Thread - The Lullaby

You're Dead To Me - The Jacobites

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Fun & Funky

Guitars & Good Times

She Bop: '80s Ladies

Classic Feel-Good Pop

my Greatest Showman playlist

Classic Disco Hits

Presenting Kelly Clarkson

Presenting Miranda Lambert

Elle King

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                                                                JANUARY                                    2020

PAGE  RIB

 Lots of nominations are out. I do have some faves: The Grammy’s went crazy for Lizzo and Billie Eilish. The comedy recording noms went to Trevor Noah, Ellen, Aziz, Gaffigan and Dave Chappelle.**The Sag’s gave love to Leo and Brad for Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, Of course, Joaquin was nominated for Joker. Most noms went to JJ Rabbit, The Irishman and Bombshell.  In TV there was much ado about The Morning Show, The Crown, Barry, Big Little Lies, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Schitt’s Creek.** The Golden Globes which will air on Jan. 5 were full of great choices. Fingers crossed for Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Phillips for Joker, Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood and Quentin and Brad and Leo, Knives Out, Kathy Bates, Jodie Comer, Olivia Coleman, Billy Porter, Bill Hader and Henry Winkler and Barry. I hope good things for The Crown, Succession, Patricia Arquette, Helena Bonham Carter, Brian Cox and Kieran Culkin. Ellen DeGeneres will get the Carol Burnett award and Tom Hanks will receive the Cecil B. DeMille award.

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And Hooray to Schitt’s Creek for their PSA at the end of an episode that was about a character coming out to his parents. The promo gave resources to turn to for help.**The crew met up recently at the Paley Fest after the end of the series.

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Finally.. The Pope has abolished pontifical secrecy. It’s 2020 and the church may finally stop protecting predators. The age of consent for their porn was raised from 14 to 18 to keep up with modern times.

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Days of our Lives has been renewed for another year. We are safe until September 2021.**I am really hating Kate right now. I wish Rolf would take them all down.  I am quite thru with the ‘acting’ of pushing buttons on phones and computers which leads us to read their messages on the screen. I do not like it in real life and I don’t want to watch it. Boring!!

*****

The Patriot act has been reauthorized.

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Sara Gilbert has separated from wife Linda Perry.

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Sharon Stone was blocked on Bumble because users thought it wasn’t really her, it was and her account was restored.

*****

The new film, Linda Ronstadt: the sound of my voice shows just how far her reach has been.

*****

Kudos to Eddie Murphy and company for the fab ‘Dolemite is my name.’

*****

I saw that the Bachelor is back. Is that horrid show still on?

*****

Steve Bullock is out.** Kamala Harris is out. Scary Clown tweeted: Too bad. We’ll miss you Kamala. She tweeted back: Don’t worry Mr. President, I’ll see you at your trial.** Biden is on the No Malarkey tour.

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Willie Nelson has reportedly quit smoking weed.

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Word is that Trump wears Switzerland’s Bronx face makeup for that orange glow.** Have you seen Rand Paul lately. He seems to have taken on a similar look to his President with the big white puffy eyes and that deranged look. What is going on with these people?

*****

Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux will star in a series about Watergate from the Veep team.

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Billy Dee Williams tells us that he identifies as male and female.

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About 1 million kids are getting thrown off lunch subsidies and other programs.** A recent Rolling Stone article explains the evangelical support of Trump.  An early campaign meeting with religious leaders promised to fuck with the rights of transgender folks, abortion rights and to leave climate change alone because of the belief that God will control that. So, with that thinking should we shut down the factories because those are man made? Should we all be Christian scientists and not practice medicine anymore? Word is that the big money donors for Trump are helping to prop up their institutions and charities. **Christianity Today magazine : Trump should be removed from office. To the many evangelicals who continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record, remember who you are and whom you serve. ** On Dec. 8, the President tweeted 108 times. So much time on his hands!

*****

Michael Moore has a new grass roots podcast called Rumble. He will discuss and digest the breaking political news of the day and suggest things that the rest of us can do. He is introducing the Emergency podcast system.

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The last democratic debates of the year were here and again there was not enough time for Andrew Yang. He did well when he got the time and got to promote his book without that sounding too bad after he was asked whet gift he might give another candidate. Warren made a sound bite with her “wine cave” crack which just made her look petty. Biden and Bernie sounded the same as always. Amy Klobuchar had the best night. She was not shaky and seemed so confident.  Trevor Noah seemed thrilled that he was mentioned. The sound on the microphones was a bit prickly.

*****

I really hate advertising for the most part and try to avoid them if at all possible. But it seems these Peyton/ Brad ads are everywhere and they are the most annoying things I have ever seen. Please make them go away.

*****

Hooray for Kansas City for being the first major city in the country to offer free public transportation.

*****

The Giuliani’s are divorced.

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Ok.. I’ll hand it to Dolly Parton. She has been putting her story songs on the screen in Heartstrings. They are a little “Hallmarky” so they wouldn’t really be my thing but it’s Dolly so sure I’ll give it a go. They celebrate all kinds of love which is a beautiful thing . One story had a beautiful performance b Gerald McRaney.

*****

Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally, the broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you. –L.R. Knost

*****

I was so hoping that Greta Thunberg would be the person of the year for Time.  Hooray!!

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Rep. Van Drew is switching from the democrats to the republicans. Um..ok.. what timing.

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Check out Jack’s grandson, Duke Nicholson. He is all the buzz!

*****

The President was impeached on Dec 18. There were plenty of objections and rants from the republicans like they were children. The idiocy that comes out of their mouths is astonishing. Doug Collins, Deb Lasko and Louie Gohmert just seem insane. I don’t understand why there was not more push back when they kept up their mantra about nothing in the Mueller report when we can all see that there was. We are not all stupid. In the end some sort of consequence was finally brought to the man who has been accused of so much in his life. In formal impeachment proceedings there is no executive privilege. Pelosi is mulling over when to send the case to the senate. It is probably a good idea to let POTUS stew over the holidays.

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If impeachment would overturn the will of 63 million voters and that’s unconstitutional, then what is the electoral college overturning the will of 65 million voters. –Adam Parkhomenko

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Trump fans were upset when Canada broadcast Home Alone 2 with their President cut out. They called it political but it was found that it had been cut for ad time long before his campaign even began.

R.I.P. Irving Burgie, Williams Rucklehouse, victims of the multiple military shooting, Ron Leibman, Marie Fredriksson, the Jersey City , Portland and New Zealand victims, Don Imus, victims of the Vegas fires, Jerry Herman, Alley Willis, Carol Spinney, Danny Aiello, Syd Mead and Neil Innes.

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Thank yoouuuu! Maybe you have some recommendations what to watch?:) Genre is not important

awww np anon !! AAAA if you haven’t seen skam it’s my fave show of all time so Def worth the watch (like if you like the more realistic aspects from euphoria you’ll LOVE it, like i’d recommend it before watchin skins tbh) but also omg hmm i’ve been bingin a bunch of hbo shows rn so Def big little lies, los espookys, a black lady sketch show, curb your enthusiasm, and succession (i JUST started this one but it’s rlly addictin and good so far omg and also kieran culkin ...... is so attractive and endearingly funny LIOWJDIOJ) and some honorable mentions would be always sunny in philadelphia (there’s a LOT of eps tho but it’s one of the funniest shows i’ve seen) and the bold type !! hope this helps :~)