#trr x the freshman series

[choiceswithmika]

The Freshman x The Royal Romance CrossOver Series

Rated: Mature

Word count: 1159

Summary: Will and his friends in Cordonia are being prepared to meet Mikaylyn and her friends.

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Chapter 2: The Royal Romance Crew's Point of View

 In Cordonia, having King Will Williams with King Liam Rys along with Hana Lee, Drake Walker, Maxwell Beaumont and everyone else are doing their usual duties and routine. It was a usual day in the kingdom. It was around in the evening time now as things were calming down after a busy day. Will was about to get ready for bed when he got a call from his friend Mikaylyn, Mikaylyn who lives in the states close to New York, not so far from Will's city. Will go ahead answers his call on his phone. 

"Hey Mikaylyn! Is it like 8 pm right now?" Will greeted on call. 

"Yeah! But hey I was wondering.. Is it okay if I could come visit to Cordonia with my husband and friends..? Sumi is there too." Mikaylyn says on the call.

Will was a bit quiet for a second and as hearing the certain news, it took Will a long minute before responding, "Wait wait when did you get married?!" Will says in a shock tone.

On the line, Mikaylyn was a bit surprised before she spoke in a response, "Wait.. You didn't know? Hell.. I even invited you to the wedding.." Mikaylyn says in her soft tone.

There was a pause for a minute as Will checked his emails on his phone then Will spoke, "Uh... I never seem that email.. But I didn't think you would have a wedding without no invitation.." Will says.

"That's funny because I didn't know you were getting married to the king of Cordonia!!" Mikaylyn says dramatically in her voice.

Will was taken a back by Mikaylyn's words and spoke, "Well... I was too busy to tell you!" 

Mikaylyn sounded a bit down but shakes it off, then spoke to change the topic from the wedding instead of clapping back like how she would when she feel disrespected on the line. 

"Will.. I literally texted you 2 hours ago about asking to visit you.." Mikaylyn says softly. 

"Ugh.. whatever I'll check it out, just.. I'll let my husband and friends know that you and your own crew want to come." Will says before ending the call. 

Will shrugs his head as he goes into the bathroom to get ready to call it a night. Will was overthinking about Mikaylyn's words towards him. He is starting to think that maybe this royal thing has taken over his mind that sometimes he forgets that he is still human. Everything was so fast and challenging when he first came into Cordonia. Some nights he even missed being able to enjoy being a normal person like going out with friends, having deep conversations and all the normal human activities. Though Will does not regret being with the love of his life, he's starting to see how it could of affected his friendships with his old friends, Mikaylyn and Sumi has been his friends since high school. They used to be close and talk to them about everything until when getting into the adulthood that it changes. 

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A little while later, after Will cools down from the luxery bathroom, Will goes look for Liam around in the castle. It took a short while but he finds Liam writing down papers in the dining room. Will walks towards him and immediately starts speaking from behind. 

"My king.. Can I ask you something?" Will greeted. 

Liam immediately turns his head to focus on Will so he can hear what Will has to ask.

"Of course my love what it is?" Liam ask.

"I was wondering if my.. dear friend Mikaylyn and her friends can come visit us?.." Will ask a bit nervously. 

Liam showed a small smile on his face and answers, "Ah I think that is a lovely idea but uhm my love any reason though?" Liam says.

Will shrugs his shoulders, "She told me that her and her friends want to come.. But.. don't you think this is a good idea that they want to come over and let them get around Cordonia and maybe even.. meet our friends?.." Will suggested. 

"Sounds good to me, can you tell the others while I finish this up?" Liam says.

Will nods his head in response, then as walking back to the bedroom he immediately pull out his phone back from his pocket then immediately started texting the group chat. 

The Group Chat

W: Guys I have some news to share, you all might want to sit down.

M: OOOOHHH NEWSSS

H: What Maxwell meant was- what's this news that you want to share <3

D: I was about to have to my 3rd round of whiskey what do you want. 

M: Three?? oof Man is having a high life crisis

D: You squid fool am not!

O: Anyways. Make the quick Will. I have to finish this training. 

W: ... Anyways.. My friend Mikaylyn just contacted me and she said her and her friends want to come visit us.

D: Finally!! Normal citizens!

H: How excited! I heard about Mikaylyn before but.. who is she?..

M: She sounds great!!!

O: ... You had other friends besides us? And is Liam even aware of this!?

W: Yes Olivia, he's on it. I told him before you guys. And to answer Hana's question Mikaylyn is my old friend from high school and my other friend Sumi too. They don't live that far from New York. 

H: Sounds great ^^ We can even make new friends too. 

M: YAYYYY NEW FRIENDS!!

D: Maxwell shut upp!!

O: Okay. I am cool with that. just let me train now

W: How long do we need to prepare for the visit?

D: Just give us like a week and we should be fine. 

W: Okay, I'll meet up with you guys tomorrow for our set up plan for the visit welcome. 

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After a while longer of the text group chat messages, Will turned off his phone and continued to focus on his night routine before heading to bed. 

A week later on a Wednesday Morning, it was a hectic moment where everyone was being prepared for Mikaylyn and her friends go visit. Will is a bit nervous since he has not seen Mikaylyn and Sumi in a long time. Will also did not believe that Mikaylyn was married now, he knew about Zig but didn't think this was happening to see Mikaylyn as a Ortega. Hana was decorating the ball room as Maxwell was gathering the food and drinks. Drake and Liam were talking to each other as preparing doing the greet welcome as Olivia then was organizing her weapons before deciding to help the crew with the area. All morning the whole crew was busy with the preparation, it was a lot of work but in the ballroom, it was filled with fancy streamers, fun balloons and bunch of American's food with usual drinks that happens in the states. Everyone decided for Will and Liam to meet Mikaylyn and her friends by the front. Will takes a deep breath holding Liam's hand as watching the plane landed.

"Here we go.." Will mumbled. 

[bebepac]

Six Sentence Sunday 03/12/23

So a friend of mine introduced me to K dramas  and now it’s completely changed my netflix viewing experience.  I’m currently Watching Twenty Five / Twenty One, I highly recommend, I just finished within the last week to ten days Vincenzo and  Move to Heaven.  So if you have any recommendations, please let me know. I’m going for more dubbed right now, the only reason why is because I don’t have much spare time, so I need something I can listen while I might step away from the television a bit doing chores.  

I know it’s been a while since I’ve done an official Six Sentence Sunday but I actually do have some stuff to share! And here’s to hoping I get some of these if not all of them posted in their entirety in the next few weeks!!!!

I know I’ve been slow to post new stories but here is what I’ve posted in the last little bit: 

The Galentine’s Day Queens

School Dayz: Tornado Taylor 🌪

Original Post: 03/12/23 at 8:46PM

Laissez Le Bon Temps Rouler (Special) The Book:  TRR x The Freshman Series Series: Mia’s 🌎 World Pairings:  Mia x Jaiden (TRR MC x M!OC) / Chris x Emily (The Freshman)  Status: Still in the Writing process

Raucous laughter and ear splitting shouts followed by squeals and high pitched howls broke over the street as what had to be fifty obviously already drunken people bore down on them in a thundering herd. They were naked, all of them. Wearing only footwear and what had to be thirty pounds of beads each, the partygoers plowed through the group heedless of separating them.

The naked people, men, and women alike danced and twirled through the throng of onlookers crowding the street while the booming of a band that had been distant background noise became louder and louder. Suddenly the two sides of the street were separated by one of the seemingly endless parades that were part and parcel of the Mardi Gras experience.

As the horde of naked people finished filtering down one side of the street, a conga line swept down the other. The middle of the street filled with floats as music and shouts filled the air and beads rained down on the crowd like mana from heaven.

When they finally had a chance to look around, they each found themselves separated from the group, adrift in a strange city during a jubilant celebration.

Chris and Emily

“MIA!”  Emily called out.  

A random woman grabbed her arm dancing in front of her. 

“I’ll be your Mia.”  

Chris smiled  and gently pulled  Emily’s arm from the grasp of the scantily clad dressed woman with scores of beads around her neck.  

“Thank you, but that won’t be necessary.”  

The woman shrugged her shoulders and walked away.

“How did we lose everyone so quickly?”  

“No, the question you should be asking is why didn’t we lose each other, and I’ll tell you why right now Em, it’s our matching shirts.  I’m so glad I had these made. I told you matching shirts was the only way to go.”  

Ah the gem of a shirt the both of them were wearing, Blaze Neon Green Shirts with black writing on them, the front  saying “Laissez le bon temps rouler,” with the back saying “Oui cher,” which they had really gotten good at saying this afternoon.   Emily had yet to figure out what Chris’s fascination with matching shirts exactly was.  

Part 6: Shattered Heart The Series: The Cordonian Arrangement  The Book: TRH/TRF Pairings:  Riley x Nico (TRR MC x M!OC) / past pairing Liam x Riley Status: In the editing process

The infusion of her friends and family around her in the coming weeks greatly helped Riley. He thought at times she still looked numb and going through the motions, but he could still hear her crying at night when everything was quiet and she was alone.

“Riley?”  

“I’m okay,”  she said through the door.

“May I come in?”  

Riley opened the door.

“I brought you a slice of galaktoboureko.”

He knew from Nico that it was Riley’s favorite dessert now, but Liam had remembered that Riley always had a sweet tooth.  

“I’m really okay.”  She said through the sniffles.

After a few minutes of silence, Riley whispered.  “I’m not okay.”  

“I know. I wouldn’t expect you to be so soon after…..”  

“My husband died.”

Riley wiped away the tears once more.

“You’ve been really kind Liam, and helping with Angelo, some days when I don’t feel like getting up you’ve been there to help. I’m grateful. Thank you.”  

“You don’t have to thank me for this.”  

“Yes I do, you’ve been here the better part of a month, running a country from a distance, just to be here for me, Angelo, and little one.”  

“Because…. You are my family, and this is where I felt I needed to be.”

“We haven’t talked about it…. What Nico asked of you....”

“Yes…”

“I’m being honest, I can’t see myself leaving Greece any time soon. Just like you know you need to be here, I need to be here to properly grieve him.  I can't get up and leave his family, after everything we’ve lost, and take the last living part of him with me. I won’t do that to them.”

“I wouldn’t ask you to do that Riley.”

“As for us…. I can’t think of that right now.  I need to focus on Angelo and having a healthy pregnancy with as little stress as possible.”

The Last Part The Book: TRH Series:  The Rotten Apple 🍎 Pairings:  Eleanor x Nico / (Eleanor x M!OC)  Status: Still in the writing process

Nico patted his stomach.  “I’ve gained over four kilos since she’s been home.”

“And I don’t mind that at all.  We both have gained some. The food just tastes better here.”  

“But that’s happiness. You two are happy together.”

“We are.”  

“Speaking of, would you mind taking a walk with me King Liam, there are some things I wanted to discuss with you.”  

“Of course. Let me just finish….”  He took a few more bites from his plate.  

“There is dessert father.  Your favorite.”

“Let’s get this walk in Nico, it might need to be a spirited run.”  

“We’ll start  at a fast paced walk and see how that goes."

Elle and Libby laughed as the two started to jog down the driveway.

"What do you think they're going  to talk about?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

Libby stared at Ellie in silence waiting for her to connect the dots.

"You silly!!!!  Father insisted all the way here on the jet that the two of you have an announcement to make since you invited him here. Are you engaged? I know you're not wearing a ring unless you’re hiding it?  Are you engaged Ellie?”  

“No, he hasn’t asked.”

“Would you say yes if he did?”

Elle opened her mouth to speak but Libby immediately cut her off.  

“Of course you would!  I don’t even know why I even asked that. Well if you’re not engaged….”  Liberty’s eyes went wide.

“Are you pregnant again?”  

Elle choked on her drink.  “Why would you say that?”

“Could it be your mini me, that’s playing in the yard with your dog Icarus right now? You’re not denying it.  And you’re drinking water, not wine.”  

“So what? Nico is drinking water too.  He doesn’t drink anymore.  He only keeps wine in the house for company.”  

“You’re still not denying it Ellie….”

[choicesficwriterscreations]

CFWC F/AtoW: Jul 28 - Aug 3, 2024

✒️ = Fanfic | 📱 = Text Fics/Edits | 🎨 = Fanart Ⓜ️ = Mature Content 18+ | 🔥 = Explicit/NSFW 18+ 🏳️‍🌈 = LGBTQIA+

BLADES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW

Until the Stars Fall from the Sky 🎨 | Tyril Starfury x F!Human!MC - @oh-so-youre-a-nerd C: @thosehallowedhalls

THE DEADLIEST GAME

Jun The Bodyguard 🎨 | Jun Seong - @storyofmychoices

THE FRESHMAN

The Press Secretary (Series) ✒️ | Chris Powell x F!MC - @eadanga Chapter 15

LAWS OF ATTRACTION

A Paris Proposal ✒️ | Gabe Ricci x F!MC - @eadanga

NIGHTBOUND

To Be a Nighthunter ✒️ | Nik Ryder x F!MC - @ladylamrian

OPEN HEART

Complete OH F/AtoW List: July 28 - Aug 3, 2024

THE ROYAL ROMANCE

Complete TRR F/ToW List: July 28 - Aug 3, 2024

VEIL OF SECRETS

Kate O'Malley Geometric Art 🎨 | Kate O'Malley - @storyofmychoices

[twinkleallnight]

Haven't played this kinda since an year. Thank you for the tag @txemrn

Ships: Drake x Olivia, Rashad x Kiara, Leo x Madeleine ( TRR), Rafael Aveiro x Casey Valentine f!mc (OH) , Ernest Sinclaire x MC (D&D), James Ashton x MC ( Freshman series) , Hunter x f!MC (TRM)

Last song: Bahut khoobsurat gazal likh raha hoon

Last movie: Doctor G

Currently reading:

Series: Vancross by @ao719 and Deja Vu by @txemrn

Anything posted by @dcbbw and @angelasscribbles

Currently watching: Tumblr notifications

Currently consuming: Lemonade (why is my city so hot in February!)

Currently craving: Pudding.

Who would like to play?: @walkerdrakewalker @lizzybeth1986 @delmissesryan @princess-geek @alj4890

“Tag 9 people you want to get to know better”

I got tagged by —> @ricketycr1cks 

Ships:

I ship almost anythinggg but my favorites are macden, neris, elucien, azris, and nesseida

Last song:

A&W by Lana del Rey is on repeat 

Last movie:

Avatar 

Currently reading:

Heir of Fire

Currently watching:

I’m rewatching trailer park boys for the 80th time 

Currently consuming:

Cran raspberry sparkling water

Currently craving:

A cinnamon raisin bagel 

Tagging: 

@looseleaflettuce @tuzna-pesma-snova  @mcdens  @lady-winter-sunrise

[randombook4idk]

memes for wlw choices players

+ guess who was a fool 🙂

[destroy-the-cannon]

Comment on/reblog this with a song that reminds you of a certain choices character or MC/LI relationship

(Mine are currently Backyard Boy for Maxwell x MC, and probably Space Girl for Kaitlyn Liao lol)

[choicesmeanttolast]

At long last

[argylemnwrites]

Tag List Clean Up

Alright, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve done one of these, but now that I am back posting with a bit more consistency, it’s probably overdue. This is an opt in list, meaning you need to interact with this post to stay on/join/move tag lists. If you ignore this post, I will assume you are no longer interested in being tagged and will stop annoying you with my posts! I promise, no hard feelings!

I would prefer if people would comment/DM/reblog stating which lists they want to be on versus just liking. Every time I’ve done this, I’ve gotten numerous people liking the post who are not on any tag lists, and if just confuses me greatly. Are they confirming that they want no tags? Do they think they are on a tag list for some reason? But... I will assume that a like = leave me where I am. Yes, that means if you like this post but aren’t currently on any of my tag lists, I am assuming you decided to let me know you don’t want to be tagged. I don’t know how else to interpret that 🤷🏻‍♀️

I will be purging my tag lists in one week, so please let me know if you want to stay or move by 7/1. Again, no need to interact if you want to stop receiving tags.

As a reminder, my tag lists are set up as such:

Permatag: Hopefully self explanatory. You get tagged for all Choices books I write for, including any new books I may explore in the future.

Choices Title Tags: (e.g. TRR, Blades) I will tag you for any fics for that Choices title. This includes gen fics, any pairings I write, and any series I write. If you are on my OH tag list, you do not need to also be on my Bryce x MC list - you would be tagged for those fics as well as a fic that looks at the friendship between the roommates, for example.

Pairing Tags: (e.g. Seth x MC, Levi x MC) I will tag you for any fics that I write that feature that pairing, including any series I write which center around that pairing. For instance, if you are on my Bryce x MC tag list, you would be tagged for a one shot where Elijah finds out that Bryce and Cassie are sleeping together, but not one where it’s just the roomies hanging out with no reference to Bryce.

My Series Tags: (e.g. It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment, Fight or Flight) I will only tag you in chapters of that series or in one-shots explicitly set in that “series universe.” If you are on the Choices Title or Pairing Tag that connects to a series (e.g. TRR/TRH or Drake x MC for ICWAM), you do not need to be on the series tag, because you will be tagged for those fics already.

I am going to include my tag lists here, but current tags will go in some reblogs because I am fairly certain I can only tag so many people at a time, and since I don’t know what that number is (and this site is a beast when it comes to tags anyway), I’m gonna play it safe. Apologies for the numerous appearances of this on your dashboard if you follow me!

Permatag

The Royal Romance/The Royal Heir

Drake x MC

It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment

Fight or Flight

Open Heart

Bryce x MC

Sessions (Working title for an upcoming series set ~5 years after the end of MC’s residency)

Ride or Die

Colt x MC

Logan x MC

Red Carpet Diaries

Seth x MC

Mother of the Year

Levi x MC

Blades of Light and Shadow

Mal x MC (f!human)

The Freshman Series

James x MC

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My Choices LI list

Favorites are bolded. Ones I hate are accompanied by barfing emojis.

America’s Most Eligible: Adam 🤮

A Very Scandalous Proposal: Asian Simon

Big Sky Country: Sawyer ig

Bloodbound: brown Adrian Raines

TC&TF: Kenna x Dom

Desire & Decorum: Ernest Sinclaire

Distant Shores: brown Edward Mortimer w/ m!MC

Elementalists: Beckett Harrington w/ f!MC

Endless Summer: Jake McKenzie w/ f!MC

The Freshman series: Zig Ortega

High School Story: Caleb

HSSCA: Ajay

ILITW: Connor Green, Noah Marshall w/ f!MC

ILB: never decided, Imogen sometimes, Tom sometimes, Dani sometimes, w/ m!MC

LoveHacks: Ben

Mother of the Year: Thomas Mendez

MTFL: white Noah Harris

Nightbound: black Nik Ryder

Open Heart: Ethan Ramsey w/ f!MC

Passport to Romance: Ahmed

Perfect Match: Damien Nazario w/ f!MC

Platinum: m!Raleigh Carrera

Queen B: Ian but I think I’ll replay and date Zoey

Red Carpet Diaries: Matt Rodriguez

Ride or Die: Colt Kaneko, black Logan

TRR: white Liam Rhys

Rules of Engagement: Leo Rhys

Save the Date: Justin Mercado 🤮

Veil of Secrets: Flynn O’Malley

Wishful Thinking: Jamie

With Every Heartbeat: black m!Dakota Winchester

[choiceswithmika]

The Freshman x The Royal Romance CrossOver Series

Rating: Mature

Summary: The Freshman and The Royal Romance Series from Pixelberrry Studios (Choices). What if The Freshman Gang and The Royal Romance Dream Team all met and even being in each other's lives through out after Hartfied and Cordonia. Are they going to get along well and even make friendships? Are they going to work together? or... this might not end well for both groups?.. A Crossover series of two well known choices books and they all meet/reunion after two to three years..

Characters: Mikaylyn Ortega, Zig Ortega, Chris Powell, Kaitlyn Liao, Zack Zilburg, Abbie Bishop, Rebecca Davenport, Tyler Allan, James Ashton, Will Williams, Sumi Ayashi, Liam Rys, Hana Lee, Maxwell Beaumont, Drake Walker, Olivia Nevrakis

My AU

- Zig and Mikaylyn are married

- TRR Mc is a guy, Will Williams and King Liam Rye are getting married.

- Abbie and James are dating

- Sumi is Mikaylyn's best friend that was not a Hartfeld student but gets along with everyone else

- The Freshman Gang are graduates

- Will Williams are still friends with Sumi, Mikaylyn and The Freshman Gang but have not met up ever since Will moved out of the state.

Warnings: NSFW, Swearing, Sensitive topics like harassment, emotion abuse and more.

Word Count: 1729

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Chapter One: The Freshman Gang's POV

It was a lovely day in the city, the gang all had graduated from Hartfied and living in their new lives. Mikaylyn and her friends are living happily in their lives since graduation. Right now seems like the group all had been reunited in a buffet restaurant after a while last time they all met up. Everyone seems like having a good time by talking and having fun conversation. Some conversations were deep as continuing to have a conversation. 

"Hey guys! Check this out!" Chris says as he showed his phone to everyone at the table. 

It was a news article about King Liam Rys and Will Williams together. Mikaylyn and Sumi looked into Chris's phone and both realized that Will was getting married. Everyone else was invested about them while Sumi and Mikaylyn overthinks this, they used to have a trio with Will but when he had to leave their state to Cordonia, they kind of stopped talking to each other but they were still considered friends despite that. 

"Man.. How has it been?" Mikaylyn ask as looking at Sumi.

"I think.. like a year or two?" Sumi answered.

"Wait about what?" Zig asked. 

Mikaylyn sigh then takes a deep breath. 

"Me and Sumi used to know Will actually. He is still our friend but when he moved to Cordonia, it kind of changed and we all stopped talking to each other." Mikaylyn explains. 

Zig wrapped an arm around Mikaylyn's waist and gives her a reassuring smile. He then talks to Mikaylyn his sweet tone as looking into her eyes while holding her hand rubbing it with his thumb as he tighten her waist a little bit.

"I'm sure he still remembers you or us since Will met me before but look Mikay... It will be okay amor just remember he still is the same annoying man we knew." Zig says in an amusement trying to light up Mikaylyn's mood by saying his banter jokes about Will. It worked though, Mikaylyn chuckled a little and smiled then looks at Zig smiling.

"Yeah... You're right Zig.. I have nothing to worry.." Mikaylyn says in her normal tone that everyone knows her for.

Zig nods his head and he softly smiles, "That's my girl." Zig says in his sweet tone.

"Hey! I got an idea! We should totally go see Cordonia." Zack says with a grin.

Everyone stared at Zack with a shock, surprise and disbelief look on their faces. Like they think what Zack just said was either a stupid idea or is he actually crazy. The slience tells it all then a few minutes later Becca speaks up first. 

"Uhm. I think you are insane or double insane because huh?!" Becca says in her reaction of confused and conflict with disappointed facial expression. 

"For once, seconded because you know we are literally asking for a death wish and seeing a king and his people or friends that are literally well known everywhere!" Tyler says. 

"Okay. but Mikaylyn is famous and she has no problem with it." Zack says being defensive.

Mikaylyn then spoke up, "Zack, there is a difference with being well known writer and heroes in a kingdom. I think you are crazy for going to Cordonia, like.. there's no way we'll be accepted!" Mikaylyn stated. 

"Okay but like do you have any other ideas?" Zack said with a pointed look at Mikaylyn.

"Okay but at least we gotta let Will know that this is happening." Kaitlyn stated.

"I got it." Mikaylyn said as she got her phone out then texted Will.

It took a few minutes and after Mikaylyn putted her phone away, she looked at her friends and husband.

"Well.. Will said we can go to Cordonia in a week for his wedding with the king." Mikaylyn stated.

"But... is the King like going to be okay with it?.. More likely I am nervous of meeting the other members there.." Abbie says nervously.

"I meannn if I can meet the all time badass Olivia Nevrakis, that would be cool so I am down to give a kingdom a visit." Becca says in a small smirk on her face.

"Sooo am I a genius now?" Zack says grinning.

"I think this might be fun for all of us!" Chris says.

"Sure... But we never know what is going to happen so I say it'll be a experience.." James says.

"I guess we'll see each other at the airport next Wednesday?" Kaitlyn ask. 

Everyone nods their head in agreement.

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As time went on, the dinner was over and everyone say their good byes. They all went into their separate ways, Mikaylyn and Zig headed to their car to drive home. It only took them like ten minutes to reach home. Zig parked the car in the driveway and stopped the engine. He then unlock the car for both Zig and Mikaylyn to walk out of the car and head inside. Mikaylyn gets out of the passenger seat as Zig does the same of the driver seat. They both linked their arms together and walks towards their house. They both then walk inside their house as Mikaylyn unlock the house door with the key. The couple took their time to be ready for bed since it was almost like 8:45 Pm at this time. When they finished getting ready for bed, they both hopped onto the bed and were now cuddling for a little while as talking to each other. 

"What do you think about Cordonia and I mean be totally honest with me.." Mikaylyn spoke as holding onto Zig as looking at him.

"My honest opinion? I think it'll look beautiful and fancy." Zig answers. 

Mikaylyn chuckled to Zig's answer.

"Of course hehe, I did not expect a different answer." Mikaylyn said smiling at Zig.

"Okay but babygirl think about this, I mean we are literally going to meet Will's future husband and his other friends there. It's like, we are meeting celebrities basically-" Zig said in his normal tone of reaction but bit shocking.

"Okay fair but you kind of know Liam but we have not met like you know everyone else like... Drake, Maxwell, Hana and Olivia." Mikaylyn stated.

"But we should see how this goes for all of us eh?" Mikaylyn added.

"Mhm but well we should sleep amor.." Zig says.

"Yeah alright.. Good night Mi querido esposo." Mikaylyn grins as she gives Zig one last kiss.

Zig grinned back at Mikaylyn and responded, "Good night Mi amada esposa." Zig kissed Mikaylyn's lips softly before laying down on the bed with his arms wrapped around Mikaylyn. 

Mikaylyn wrapped her arm around Zig's neck and falling asleep in his embrace. Zig does the same as he leans in closer pressed his side on Mikaylyn's peacefully now sleeping.

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Time Skip: A Week Later At The Airport

Mikaylyn, Zig and their friends all met up in the airport with their bags packed, they all did the security gate and together as a group. When they went through the security, they all go walk together. Mikaylyn and Zig are holding hands, Abbie and James are holding hands as well while everyone else just talk and walk side by side.

"Okay.. so what number was our gate again?.." Sumi ask.

"I think.. Gate 9?" Tyler answers.

"Actually um.. Will texted me yesterday and told me that.. Liam was nice enough to helps us by getting into his private plane.." Mikaylyn stated.

Everyone stopped in their tracks and looked at Mikaylyn, even Zig who is still holding her hand was even shocked. 

"I'm sorry. Did you just say... PRIVATE?!" Zack shouts in shock. 

"Zack!!" Mikaylyn tried to calm him down.

"Wait.. Are you serious?.." Becca and James both ask at the same time in their shock tone. 

Mikaylyn showed everyone her phone of the text message from Will. Everyone was stunned to speak.

"Okay.. This is already scaring me.." Kaitlyn says. 

"Uh girl? You mean this is great!!" Becca says.

"I never thought we would go in a private plane.. the only fancy good thing is first class and I always did not want to take first class-" Zig said in shock tone. 

"Well... Let's go enjoy the hell out of it!" Abbie says.

Everyone nods their heads and agrees by cheering 

_______________________

The group all spent their time just doing last minute things on their phones and and devices before they all head to the airplane as walking towards the private plane gate. As soon everyone sees the plane in front of them they all stopped and looks at them with their mouth dropped. 

"Okay.. Will was not joking.." James stated. 

"I still can't believe that this is real.." Tyler says. 

"Seconded.." Chris added. 

"Well let's go guys!" Zack said excitingly as going into the plane first. 

Everyone stared at each other then all head inside the plan one by one. They all taken their seats and waited for the take off. The whole plane trip was kind of fun since a lot of things to eat and drink including good signal as well so everyone could go on their phones if they needed to. Zack and Tyler were playing video games on their switches. Becca was reading a magazine as Kaitlyn was listening to music. Sumi is drawing while Chris was reading a book. Abbie and James were cuddling in their seats taking a nap. Mikaylyn and Zig were holding onto each other as looking through the window while drinking some soda. 

"I never seen the ocean this big since the last time we traveled after Japan.." Mikaylyn stated.

"Yeah me either.. I never thought Cordonia would change my opinion of that besides Japan..' Zig adds. 

The rest of the flight was more smoothing than what everyone thought. It was also kind of an over night flight so everyone fell asleep in the plane on their seats as the sun went down. 

The next day though, the plane was landing in the Cordonia's private space for the plane to land, The gang realized that they made it to Cordonia.. One by one everyone gets up and walk out of the plane carefully to not bump into each other. As everyone walks out of the place. They all admire Cordonia and how beautiful the kingdom looks. 

"This is it..." Mikaylyn says as she held ZIg's hand. 

@choicesficwriterscreations

[bebepac]

Snow Day! ❄

I am participating in @wackydrabbles​​​ prompt # 131 I don’t feel so good will be in bold.

This is also day 25 of @choicesjanuarychallenge2022​​​​ for delivery.  

The Series: Mia’s 🌎 World The Book:  Crossover: TRR x The Freshman Series Pairing:  Mia x Jaiden (TRR MC x M!OC) / Freshman MC (Emily) x Chris Word Count: 1385 Warnings and Ratings:  Profanity and sexual innuendo / Teen

Song Inspiration:  We’ll Be Alright by Travie McCoy.

Original Post: 1/25/22 at 4:47PM EST

A/N: Recently my area has been hit with a lot of snow lately which has one caused us to have inclement weather plans at work, and I had to bring it out with this funny little story, aka poking fun at the south a bit for our insanity we get when snow comes.  I’m a transplant here, so I know what a real snow is. and I know this is far from it.  

Don’t be hating on our baby snow.  But this is truly quite the weather event here in North Carolina!!!!

I will be  also talking about the “Jeep Wave”  which I have found to be a very real thing. In 2019, I had a  Jeep as a rental car for a month while my car was in the body shop getting repairs.   Also the Jeep people to go off roading just because.  

And last but not least the infamous snow day.  Snow Days don’t bring the same splendor to most adults as they did when you were a child.  For me when the weather calls for snow, I get nervous, because of my job in Healthcare, it is very rare that we close.  Snow is not bad to drive on, it’s the Ice, and when things start melting and freezing back up, hitting a patch of black ice can be a scary thing.  So here’s to one of the few snow days I got to enjoy this go round because, I am on vacation.  It was a good feeling not worrying about the already crazy drivers in North Carolina, and then adding snow and ice on top of that.  As mentioned before, a lot of my Mia’s World content, is honestly based off of my college experiences. So even though I’ve made up the names of the characters, most of this is factual.  

Hope you enjoy the Snow Day I talk about here.  

Jaiden laughed as he watched the weather report.

"What's so funny?" Mia asked.

"Two to three inches of snow has North Carolina in a panic?!?! Snowmageddon, are they serious right now?"

"Hey not all of us are used to blizzards, Jai. The world shuts down here when we get snow.  You don’t know what happened during our last really major snow. There are memes because of it now. Google snowmaggedon nc memes.”

Mia took our her phone showing Jaiden a picture.

“That’s a real picture Jai. That’s Glenwood Avenue a few miles away from Crabtree Valley Mall heading towards Brier Creek.”  

“Why is there a car on fire?” 

“Because it’s North Carolina, we don’t do snow here.  And everyone rushes to the store for bread, milk and eggs."

Jaiden continued looking confused.

"Is French toast a winter storm food here or something?"

"No?"

"But then if you lose power, what are you gonna eat? Milk sandwiches and eggs you can’t cook? It doesn't make sense."

Mia thought for a second.

"You're right Jai, it really doesn't make sense."

"Why aren't you setting your alarm?"

"Because class is going to be canceled tomorrow."

"For two inches of snow? Mia, come on!"

Jaiden laughed even harder.

"When I was a kid in New York, walking home from school, I fell through a snow drift and the snow was waist high. Snow was not an excuse to be out of school."

"And I bet you walked ten miles to school all uphill and barefoot too right?"

"Now you sound like my Dad, Mia.  But you’re right.”  He kissed her nose.  “I’m still going to set my alarm though.  You might be wrong.”

Mia wasn’t wrong. The next day class was canceled due to snow.

“Guess we’re going back to sleep for a bit.”  

When they woke up again, it had finally stopped snowing and there was even more on the ground.  

Emily knocked on the door, before she walked in.  

“Are you guys decent?” Emily had her hand over her eyes in case.

“Yes we’re decent, and that was one time, and you didn’t knock. That was your own damn fault.”  

Emily peeked cautiously around her fingers.

“Just making sure I don’t  see your boyfriend’s ass, again. No offense to your ass Jaiden."

Jaiden shrugged his shoulders.

"None taken."

"But I already have a boyfriend that has an ass, that can also be one when he wants to be.”

“Hey I heard that!!!”  Chris screamed from her room.

“There’s a snowball fight at the quad in thirty. Teams of four. Get dressed.”

It didn’t take Jaiden long to get dressed.  Mia however was putting on layer after the layer of clothes.  She had on her jeans, two pairs of socks, boots, two shirts, her winter coat hat, scarf and mittens.

“Mia, it’s not that cold outside.”  Jaiden chuckled.

“Again, Jai, not all of us are used to two degrees, and blizzards.”

“Then I'll keep you warm, my little snow bunny.”  He pulled Mia by her scarf closer to him, kissing her lips softly. Mia melted into his kiss, wrapping her arms around his neck.  

“I feel warmer already.”

“And getting you out of all that later will be like unwrapping a present.”  

His grip tightened on her hips.  

“Jai stop, if you don’t, we’ll miss the snowball fight.”

There were lots of students out on the quad by the time they all got there. And at first, the game was organized.  Teams going against each other and then things just unraveled.  Everyone was just having fun. Throwing snowballs haphazardly with no team goal or winning in mind.  

Snow angels and snowmen were beginning to be built.  

“We could dress our snowman in a layer of your clothes Mia. Promise you’d still be warm.”  

“Not funny Jai.”

“Emily too, she has on eighty five layers of clothes right now.”

“Ohhh you’re so funny Chris. You should try stand-up.”

“I don’t know why we let them pick on us so much, Em.”  

“You know the guys that picked on you in school are the ones that like you.” Chris said, kissing Emily’s cheek.

“Then you boys loooooooooovvveeeee us!”  

“Enough to get you some hot chocolate.”  

“Yessssss! Our heroes!!!!”

After enjoying hot chocolate, Mia thought they were heading back inside.

“Want to go sledding?”  

“On what?  We don’t have sleds.”  

“I have an idea. Come on Chris.  We’ll be back in a few.”  

A few minutes later Jaiden and Chris came back holding two mail baskets each from Jaiden’s work study job in the mail room.

“These will work, and they have handles for us to hold onto.”  

“Well what do you know Mia?  I didn’t think our guys could find it, but they did.”  

“Find what?”

“The thousand and first way to die.  I’m not sliding down a hill in that.”  

“I don’t feel so good.”  Mia shook her head.

“I mean it should work.  I’ll go first and prove it.”

Jaiden the tallest of them all had contorted himself to sit in the mail basket.

Chris gave him a push and Jaiden sailed down the hill screaming.

“Okay that looks like fun, I’m going next.” Emily  screeched, snatching Chris's bin.

Jaiden was running up the hill as Emily started down, unable to control the basket, she was heading right towards him.

"FOUR!!!!!" She screamed, as Jaiden leaped out of the way. Mia and Chris were laughing at the top of the hill.

"She's screaming four like it's golf!!!"

"Your face Jai when you thought she was going to hit you!"

Mia went next squealing in delight down the hill, against her fears.  

"I'm so glad you did this Mia."

"Me too. This was a good idea."

Jaiden kissed her. " You're freezing Mia."

"You're not, come closer."

She pulled him closer to her, and Jaiden gave her a tight hug and rubbed her shoulders and arms to give her more warmth.

"Let's get inside and order pizza and watch some movies."

They all trudged inside into the warm heat, as Mia sat on the bed to order the pizzas.

"Jai, it's a two hour wait for delivery.   I don't want to wait 2 hours for lunch. Let's go to the cafeteria to eat instead, and eat now, I'm hungry."

"No, order the pizzas, we're just gonna go pick it up instead. We'll take Rubi."

"Are you sure about this Jai?"

"Don't I always keep you safe Mia?"

"Yes, even when I am flying down a hill in a mail bin."

"Rubi can get us anywhere."

As they were driving Mia noticed Jai casually wave to people. It took her a few minutes to realize he was only waving to fellow jeep owners.

"Are you waving to just Jeep owners?"

"It's a jeep thing. It's the jeep wave. It's legit."

"I can't with you."

"What?!? it's for real!"

"Okay, if you ever get a jeep you'll notice it too. And you better wave."

"Old Blue will never die. But if she ever does, I'll keep that in mind."

They picked up the pizzas, and the only slide that was experienced was when Jaiden slipped a bit hopping out of Rubi heading into the Pizzeria.

Jaiden drove up on what was the grass and parked his vehicle right outside the dormitory to open the door for Mia.

"What are you doing?!?"

"Curbside drop-off isn't good enough for my lady, in this weather."

"Jaiden Brooks, I am so lucky you're my boyfriend."

"And don't you forget it." He winked and smiled as Mia feigned anger and gently shoved him.

He helped Mia take the pizza and sodas inside, and when Jaiden came back a security guard was standing beside his vehicle.

"You can't park here kid."

"I know, I just wanted to make sure my girlfriend got inside safely. I'm moving now."

Jaiden moved his vehicle back to the student parking lot and headed back to the dorm.

Mia smiled when he walked in.

"Oh thank God FINALLY! She made us all wait for you, before we could dig in."

"Yeah, he drove to get food in Snowmageddon for us. Jai you're totally on my Zombie Apocalypse team."

"Oh my god!  Can you stop stroking his ego already?" Emily laughed, grabbing for pizza.

"As long as she strokes something else later after I unwrap my present."

Mia playfully hit Jaiden's shoulder.

"Why is your mind so dirty Jai!!!!"

"I told you Mia, it's always the good guys you have to worry about."

Later that evening finally alone, and the bathroom door locked, so Emily or Chris couldn't come through, Jaiden and Mia indulged in some well deserved alone time.  

[choicesficwriterscreations]

CFWC F/AtoW: Jun 16 - 22, 2024

✒️ = Fanfic | 📱 = Text Fics/Edits | 🎨 = Fanart Ⓜ️ = Mature Content 18+ | 🔥 = Explicit/NSFW 18+ 🏳️‍🌈 = LGBTQIA 🔸= Pride Bingo

AMERICA'S MOST ELIGIBLE

Not Like the Movies ✒️ | Derek Taylor x F!MC - @tveitertotwrites

BLADES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW

Tyril Starfury 🎨 | Tyril Starfury - @erixadraws

THE CURSED HEART

Ever After ✒️ | M!Kieran x F!MC - @bri1234

THE FRESHMAN

The Press Secretary (Series) ✒️🔥 | Chris Powell x F!MC - @eadanga Part 14

IMMORTAL DESIRES

And Then We Snap a Polaroid ✒️ | NB!MC & M!OC - @aria-ashryver

Cas and Gabe 🎨🏳‍🌈 | M!Cas Harlow x M!Gabe Adalhard - @m0nchoices

Manifesting 🎨 | M!Cas Harlow x F!MC x M!Gabe Adalhard - @rjschoicesstuff

OPEN HEART

Complete Open Heart F/AtoW List - Week Ending June 22

THE ROYAL ROMANCE

Complete TRR F/AtoW List - Week Ending June 22

[homeformyheart]

choices advent calendar - update!

*due to an unfortunate incident (which i can only blame myself) with my main blog, i don’t have access to my peaceinmidstofchaos blog anymore. so i’ll be continuing this event from this blog, while hoping that tumblr will fix access! i will start the reblogs from here starting december 21. fyi - @choicesmonthlychallenge​; @starrystarrytrouble​; @angela8754​; @aylaramseycarrera​; @lovealexhunt​; @iemcpbchoices​

i had this random idea to do something centered around an advent calendar - for those of you who may not have encountered this, typically it’s a calendar-style chocolate/candy/trivia-type reveal thing you can buy and gift someone. it lets them reveal something for each day of december that is a treat!

with the spirit of that in mind, i offer you - the choices advent calendar! for each day in december, i will go tag diving according to the choices books on the calendar below and reblog 1 fic/writing-related and 1 art/edit/aesthetic-related fan content that has fewer than 20 notes or 5 reblogs, whichever is less. all reblogged content will be fluff / sfw / feel-good / holiday, etc. to help keep our spirits up as we ride out the rest of 2020.

feel free to block the tags below if you don’t want these reblogs to clutter your dash - but i promise to keep it to 2 per day! additional details under the cut!

also, here’s the best part (i hope) - you don’t have to do anything! just follow the tags or my blog and enjoy walking down memory lane (or gaining content on your feed you’ve never seen before) every day in december!

how did you decide which books to feature since there are over 31 books?

i went through the booklist and grouped ones that made sense to put together (e.g., the freshman/the sophomore, and it lives anthology)

i removed holiday specials (since these are usually one-offs for specific series)

i removed 2020 releases and currently running series (e.g., open heart, etc.) since those would have the most recent (and to a certain extent, the most) content generated already and the goal is to promote content that didn’t get as much attention

i removed VIP books since not everyone has VIP or would have read the books and this would avoid spoilers (odds are there isn’t a ton of content either)

and i removed any series that i was aware of having a dedicated event in december (i.e., the elementalists)

what is the full list of books that didn’t make the cut?

Holiday specials

Home for the Holidays

The Elementalists (due to TE AW occurring in December)

VIP Books

2020 releases & currently running series – TRR/TRH, MTFL, Queen B, TNA, Rising Tides, Distant Shores, BOLAS, Witness, Baby Bump 1 & 2, Open Heart 1 & 2

how will you decide what content to reblog?

i’m going to go hunting through the tags, sorting by popularity and recency and paying attention to how many reblogs make up the notes. unfortunately, even if you have a ton of “likes,” reblogs are given more credit on tumblr in terms of the popularity of a post so i’m going to do my best to balance those with a ton of notes but few reblogs vs. those that have minimal notes to begin with but it’ll depend on what i find.

will you only limit it to 2 if there is a wide-range of non-written content (e.g, social media edits, fanart, edits, moodboards, etc.)?

i want to be fair to all the books so i’m going to do my best to limit it to 2. however, for books that seem to have less popular content or have multiple books in the series (e.g., HSS / HSSCA has a combined 6 books), i may make an exception.

are you going to be posting or reblogging content not related to the advent calendar?

i will do my best to keep that at a minimum since i want to give the content i find a chance to get noticed but i do have some things already planned and scheduled (e.g., potluck reveal and TE appreciation week).

what if i want to keep following your blog but don’t want all these reblogs clogging my feed?

first of all - i am humbled and appreciate you following my blog / wanting to keep following me, i truly am! 🥰 if you don’t want to see these reblogs, feel free to block the tags #choices advent calendar, #jens advent calendar, or #december X (whatever date it is).

what if i want to make sure i don’t miss any content?

feel free to follow my blog or the tags above! 😊 and thank you! you can also use these tags to search for these posts on my blog.

this is a great idea - can i also go tag diving and reblog old content that may not have gotten a lot of attention?

yes, of course! the more, the merrier! just let me know so i can support you and use the #choices advent calendar tag (feel free to create your own version of the other two) so we have at least one tag with all the reblogs 🤗

what if i have other questions?

use the askbox, comments on this post, or DM me! 🤗

[the-unconquered-queen]

Not trying to be rude but you call Ethan a forced LI but not Liam? Like as a Hana romancer it’s uncomfortable to have my mc forced to be attracted to Liam, or how then the whole story guilt trips you if you don’t pick him, or how instead of finding love he wants your and your LIs child to me the heir, if your gonna call out forced Lis you have to acknowledge all of them. No hate sorry for the long post.

I said it before in a post ages ago, but the way I define “forced LI” is basically as an LI that MC is forced to be attracted to when that attraction isn’t a key to the plot of the story. For example, in Witness, Cassian isn’t forced on MC because the plot of the story is the forbidden Cassian x MC romance, but in Open Heart, the plot isn’t dating your mentor, it’s being a doctor in a hospital, so the plot doesn’t revolve around the MC’s attraction to Ethan, so sidelining the other LIs in favor of him or having him pin MC by the wrists in his kitchen or having MC wish he’d look at them “the way he used to” is forcing him. Another example of a forced LI is Chris in The Freshman, where even if your MC straight up says that she isn’t attracted to him (and can canonically be a lesbian, if I remember correctly), everyone acts as though she is and as though they were an item, even her, when the plot of the story is literally just,,, going to college.

Now, in The Royal Romance, the plot is a woman who joins a Bachelor-style competition to win the love of a prince and become queen during the social season, so the MC’s attraction to Liam is a key aspect of the plot of the story, and even if your MC loves Hana, she was at some point attracted to Liam, and Liam falls in love with her, hence why it’s mentioned in the narration sometimes to add a sense of realism, I guess, because no one who proposes to the person they’re in love with to be turned down and find out they love someone else bounces back immediately like the weirdos from AME do when you ditch them, so in TRR, the MC’s attraction to Liam is important, and I’m saying this as someone who up until her last playthrough had never chosen his route.

In TRH, however, once MC is married and whatnot, it isn’t, so the game sidelining your LI for Liam here would make him a forced LI, though I see in the walkthroughs that the diamond scene options are usually with the LI MC married. And the thing about the heir to the throne is due to them having planned out epilogue books for each of the LIs but not having the resources to make them happen. You will notice things that don’t make sense regardless of your LI in TRH, like how while the princess plot fits a Liam x MC route best, the custody plot we’ll be exploring in book three actually fits Liam x MC the least, being more logical for the other pairings.

The way that I think this series failed (aside from not being able to tell Liam MC loves someone else before the proposal) is by not making Liam gender customizable, as LIs who MC is attracted to for the plot should be, like Rory in HSS:CA. It would’ve been complicated in TRH making MC, a born commoner be the pregnant one rather than the queen of royal bloodline, but they hadn’t planned TRH when they first started TRR, so there isn’t really an excuse there. It’s heteronormative in that sense and I honestly see why wlw players would consider him forced, but for the reasons I have said, I don’t.

[crystalwillow]

Choices – Stories You Play Merch. A Review

I was talking with a friend about the merch that Pixelberry Studios have recently released, for their stories on the Choices app. That conversation got me expressing how I feel about the merch, and one feeling that seemed mutual was that it seems very rushed. Let me explain why.

I personally feel there is too much High School Story and The Royal Romance stuff on the first launch when it could have been more diverse and included all of the books in some way.

The Apparel (T-shirts) – The designs themselves are okay. What I feel iffy about here is the colour selections, for each design.

·         Liam & Drake & Hana & Maxwell Shirt – With this shirt you get an option of two colours, but they are both shades of blue. Royal blue and Light blue.

·         TRR Logo/Title Shirt – This only comes in one colour. Navy blue.

·         Corgi Shirt – This is only currently available in one colour as well, which is red.

·         TRR Book 3 Cover Shirt – Only available in a deep purple right now.

·         TC&TF Title and character names Shirt – There are currently 2 t-shirts for The Crown & The Flame on the website right now. The title logo and one that reads ‘Kenna & Don & Val & Raydan’. Both of these shirts only currently available in red.

·         HSS Shirt #1 – Again there are two colour options with this design. Red and Kelly (A green colour.)

·         HHS Shirt #2 – This shirt has the cover of the first high school story book on it and comes in 2 colours again. This time a muted, sort of mustardy yellow colour and heather mint, a pastel green.

·         AME Shirt – This comes with the cover of the first book printed on it and is currently only available in a light blue colour

·         The Elementalists Shirts – The first shirt has the books title with the attunement symbols underneath printed across the chest. This one is available in purple with white text or grey with black text. The 2nd shirt for this book however is only available in purple and has the cover of the first book printed on the front.

·         BB Shirt: Has the cover of the first book in it’s series printed on the chest area and is only available in red.

·         Pixelberry Shirt – This shirt comes with the Pixelberry logo printed on the chest and is available in black or heather mint (pastel green.)

·         “Don’t Talk To Me” Shirt – Again is available in just 2 different shades of blue. Navy or Light.

·         Desire & Decorum Shirt – Is basically the title of the book printed onto either a grey shirt with black text or a royal type of blue shirt with white text.

·         Choices Shirt #1 – is the choices logo w/ wording printed across the chest in white text on a blue shirt.

·         Choices Shirt #2 – Is just the book logo of the app printed again, on the chest on the shirt in black.

So as you can probably tell by now,  the colour choice here is very poor. You have 1 black t-shirt option for 15 shirts. The main colours are Blue, Purple, Red, Green and Yellow. So if you dislike these colours or they don’t suit your skin tone and you’re a fan of these books wanting a shirt, you won’t be able to get one just yet. You will be waiting until possible future upgrades to their store. But I will digress as we move onto the next section of the store, where we will start with...

 Phone Cases

Personally, I feel like there is quite a bit that could change here. When a new merch launch happens, it is expected for there to be limited designs. Especially when you ae launching multiple items at once in your first launch. In the phone case section you have 8 case designs to choose from.

·         1 x BloodBound

·         2 X Blades of Light & Shadow

·         TRR Corgi

·         TF Zig jersey No.

·         HSS

·         2 x Pixelberry designs

To my personal self, 7/8 of the designs are okay. I’m not satisfied with the bloodbound phone case. Adrian Raines, is a customizable Love Interest (Li) in the book, yet the only version of the art for the case that is available is that of the white version of him. What about those players who customized him to be Hispanic or Black? They’re being sh*t on again by not having the option to have the artwork for those two versions of Adrian, that PB already have, on the case. That case is literally just for white Adrian fans.

Coffee Mugs

Again, with this product there are 8 options. They are as follows.

·         Open Heart, Edenbrook Logo

·         BloodBound

·         TRR Cordonian Apple

·         2 x The Freshman

·         3 x HHS

I feel like by this point things are getting a little repetitive. I understand that TF, HSS & TRR are some of their first projects and they want to cater to the people/fans who were there for that and may want merch for those series but there is such a thing as over catering, to certain things. As it stands today Pixelberry Studios have 45 series for their platform, 5 of which are not yet released. So far in the store, we’ve been in 3 sections where there’s been 15 shirts, 8 phone cases and 8 mugs. Yet only 10 series have been made into some form of merchandise so far. Now yes, I understand not ALL the shirts are series from the platform there is some standard PB merch included there and with the phone cases but that doesn’t take away from the fact the series/books such as Hero and Most Wanted could also have been put onto some for of merch too.

Water Bottles

With the water bottles you only get 6 designs.

·         1 x BloodBound design

·         Liam & Drake & Hana & Maxell design

·         HSS Notebook design

·         Hartfeld logo

·         PB Studios design

·         HSS Crest design

I haven’t got much critique for this product, except there could be 2 more designs of series that have not yet been made into merch as they are mainly just the title logo on an aluminium bottle with a screw top lid.

Pin Buttons/Badges & Stickers

All these products come individually and all retail for 3.99 apiece. There are currently 26 pin buttons and 6 stickers on the site. I want to just say that this. These sections could have been made so much better if PB would have brought out packs, for each series instead of doing it separately. Also in the BloodBound series there are 2 Li’s that later became members of the council. Whether it was officially done or not. They were part of the council by the end of the series, yet they don’t get their brands or sector logos on a pin badge like the rest of the council members did in this merch launch. That is just wrong and should have been done without a second thought from the merch teams on PB’s end, when talking about this concept for pin buttons. As far as stickers are concerned? The selection is poor. You have the 3 familiars from The Elementalists, Threep the Nesper from Blades of Light and Shadow, a Cordonian apple and Maxwell Beaumont’s hippo tattoo. Again, if packs had been made with all the characters, including the characters that are customizable in ethnicity, and retailed at around the 10.99-12.99 mark, depending on how many characters are in the pack, then it would have been a better investment. Of course some series only have 2-5/6 main characters and hardly any consistent side characters that are relevant to the stories plot so you could either add all the characters wearing different expressions and a group sticker and retail the packs for the same price as those with loads more characters or just retail them for half the price, only putting one of each character in wearing one expression.

Posters

These posters come in 3 different sizes/measurements. 8x10in, 12x16in and 18x24in. There are currently 8 of them in the store after the first initial launch of the merch store.

·         TC & TF Poster, Signed by the PB Team. This one if 15.99 for that reason

The other 7 all retail at 10.99 as they are not signed. Which begs the question in my mind of “How are they justified 5 for some signatures?” Anyway the other posters are,

·         The Elementalists 1 & 2 Book Covers

·         Open Heart 1 Book Cover

·         The Freshman 3 Book Cover

·         BloodBound 1 Book Cover

·         The Royal Romance 1 & 3 Book Covers

So now you’re probably wondering, “What’s wrong with that?” well let me tell where I kind of have an issue with this. Yes, there is a selection but it’s very limited. They have 30+ book covers to have chosen from and they choose 8 which they already have some kind of merchandise for. They could have chosen to do a Hero or Most Wanted signed poster and then which ever they didn’t choose to do put that on in as part of the 7 unsigned posters along with other posters of book covers such as A Courtesan of Rome, Endless Summer, The Haunting of Braidwood Manor etc. and then put in 2 newer book cover posters.

After reading all of this in full, some of you are probably thinking that I’ve been way too harsh here because you have to think of cost of making the products and then the amount shipping out all the orders will cost that don’t have free shipping attached to them. But I am fully aware there is so much more that goes into making merchandise than just putting the final product out there. I just feel like this was very rushed and not given the proper thought and attention it needed and deserved, some of the examples would be the colour range with the t-shirts, it’s very limited. Again with the coffee mug and water bottle designs, they are good but some different titles other than HSS & TF could have been used and the poster like I explained at the end of the paragraph for that section, could have had different book covers chosen for them. Now this is not me saying to hate the merch and not buy it and protest about it, starting arguments online over it. I’m not doing that at all. This is simply just my review of things after I took a first look at the website and found myself disappointed in the range of book diversity there is here. I get that money is an aspect that has to be thought of here, I get that they would go broke if they were to do certain things and the app, stories, all of that would stop. But yet again, it comes back to the point of things getting repetitive. The only section BloodBound is not included in, is the stickers. It’s in every other section. Same for a couple of other book titles. They have some amazing books, who’s titles they could have made into merch but for some reason they chose not to. Whether that’s because they thought it “wouldn’t sell” to which I say what the heck?! Are you serious?? There are people who are fans of just one certain book and would most likely buy that merch if they’re to hear about the merch shop somehow. Ultimately, I just feel like this store was a rush job. And like my friend said a way for them to make more money, as it looks like hardly any deep thought process went into this at all. Just like with their books, there was so much potential here, but it wasn’t met. I don’t know I honestly just think that if more thought, time and effort was put into this, then It would have been so much better. For example like I mentioned, if they had added Jax Matsuo and Lily Spencer pin buttons and made the pin buttons and sticker into packs and done 10 books for pin buttons as packs and 6 books for sticker packs, that would have been a better marketing viewpoint to approach from.

I would like to end this by saying, even though by my review it may seem like I hate the merch store for choices, I don’t. I just dislike certain parts of it and can see where there is potential for there to be so much more done with it. I really don’t know though... I guess I do just feel upset with the lack of book diversity on the store when really, they already have the resources to make merch with different book titles from everything they’ve released over the past, almost 4 years now.

[emilymay100]

Choices Fanfic Ideas

I’ve been inspired to write Choices fanfic ever since I read @maxattack-powell Freshman series. And then more recently by @commander-rahrah Open Heart stories and @debramcg1106 college TRR chapters. But I can’t decide what to write and would like to know if anyone is interested in reading any of this:

-TRR-Drake x MC, Liam x MC-Alternate start to Book 2. An international disgrace, MC has retreated back to New York after the scandal broke in Cordonia. The people who claimed to love her have abandoned her and their silence cuts more than the words in the tabloids. When the people she used to care about show up needing her help, will she put aside her hurt to help them? 

-Freshman/Sophomore-Zig x MC, Chris x MC-After breaking up with James, MC finished out her Freshman year with the best group road trip to Aurora Festival. With Sophomore year starting will she read into her growing friendship with Zig or review her past sparks with Chris? There’s no textbook on the heart but the boys at Hartfeld will test yours.

-Ride or Die-Colt x MC, Logan x MC-Alternative Universe where MC is the criminal, Logan is a cop and Colt is a young detective. MC’s life centers around family and her family is the gang. Run by her Uncle Shaw, she’s got a role to play so when she meets a cute boy with a far too expensive car, she knows exactly what to do with him. But who is playing who in this game of cat and mouse and what happens when MC finds people who could also be family?

Please share and comment :) Encouragement very welcome!