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The only route I've read is Leon's (and I haven't even finished it yet) but this is my definitive, 1000000% correct tier list of the ikepri boys.

If you disagree, I'm sorry but you're simply wrong. I can obviously judge them better based on the three lines they have in the prologue than anyone else can after reading their entire routes.

#if you couldn't tell that last part was sarcastic #this entire list is subject to change when I actually read all of their routes #also sorry chev fans #i just don't like his attitude in the prologue #but i also didn't like motonari from ikesen and now he's one of my faves so..... #also i haven't even met silvio gilbert and keith so i had no idea where to put them #cybrid #ikemen prince #ikepri #ikemen

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someone send help

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yes i am smart. yes i am stupid. it’s called being flexible.

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#bye bye #lovestruck #lovestruck voltage #reigning passions #galen of the wind

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Ha. Ha ha. HahahahHahahahahahahah

#today has been a bad day #lovestruck #lovestruck voltage #gangsters in love

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ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?!??!

Are they seriously making me pay to say 'I love you' back??????

I am outraged and I am offended. LS, you will be hearing from my lawyers.

#no but really #whose dumbass idea was this??? #i mean this isn't the first time they did something like this #but seriously #you know what stuff like this makes me NOT want to do? #give money to Voltage #so yeah #get fucked #lovestruck #lovestruck voltage #ever after academy #arin langdon

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This scene. THIS SCENE. Just... punched the air right out of me.

Mx. Langdon, my heart is not built to withstand this kind of assault, so I'm going to need you to stop. Otherwise I'll start researching ways to make a fictional character real, and I don't need to go down that rabbit hole again.

#lovestruck #lovestruck voltage #ever after academy #arin langdon

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Can I just talk about how much I love Jackie? She's such a fun character and I'm so glad she's not an antagonist anymore.

#anyway...... jackie x alice route when #just saying🤷 #lovestruck #lovestruck voltage #ever after academy #ever after academy jackie

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THIS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A WAR CRIME

#HOW DARE THEY MAKE ME HURT THEM LIKE THAT #JAIL #lovestruck #lovestruck voltage #ever after academy #ever after academy arin #arin langdon

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Thinking about him...

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Called it.

Lovestruck is fucking predictable.

#i expected this yet i'm still disappointed #🤡🤡 #lovestruck #lovestruck voltage #gangsters in love #chance valentine

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Complicated Lovestruck Feelings

You may have noticed I haven't been posting as much about Lovestruck. I haven't been playing much of Lovestruck, only grinding for Hearts for the past month and a half. This is for a lot of reasons.

Listen, I'm not a fan of dramatic break up letters like "I'm never interacting with this show/movie/video game/fandom again!" or what have you. This isn't a relationship, and therefore not a break up. But over the past weeks, I've definitely had some mixed feelings.

Since the strike, Voltage has been absolutely bleeding writers. People I've followed since I started playing, writers I greatly admire, artists who made Lovestruck the awesome app it is: they're gone, and most with a vague, ominous note that Voltage's working environment made them miserable. While they got raises, Voltage's indifference to their well-beings seems to have turned into outright hostility.

More and more routes and series ended, and less and less new routes were announced. New writers were brought in to finish off stories, and they clearly were not given enough information or prep time. I'm talking about how characters' dialogue sounds off in the 2021 Pride Special, or how established lore was ignored in Cecelia Visconti's final season, or how the WLL MC's narration veers from bucolic Western cowgirl to modern day Texan. Producers' plots got more bizarre: remember Xenia's sudden marriage, or SWM MC sweating literal bullets in Cal's route.

They don't have enough writers to premiere episodes 7 days a week, which I'm fine with as a fan, but I think hints at something sinister like lack of staff. While the comeback of Starship Promise and Gangsters in Love excited fans, the amount of promotion worries me. Did they get a new (or invigorate their current) social media manager and this is the new normal? Or are they teetering into bankruptcy, and these revivals are last ditch efforts to save the company? We don't know. We might never know.

At the same time this is all happening, we're getting more queer content and content about characters of color than ever before. Gold standard stuff! Gay routes! Two more nonbinary routes! Nova, Jo, MSC MC, Maxime, IHS MCs, Nahara, Piama, Galen, the new GiL MC: they're all VISIBLY people of color. There's black characters on the schedule again! I should be celebrating! This is everything I wanted!

But, Lord, at what cost? There's a lot of nuance and pitfalls with fandom as activism, which I won't go into here. Fiction is important--it's important for readers to see themselves on screen. But living, breathing queer people were hurt by Voltage. I want to support the writers of these newer routes, some of whom are confirmed gender and racial minorities. Are they okay? Are they being disrespected and under-valued? Should I forgive the hurt Voltage management dealt out because there's a new "cast" of freelancers in rotation, or should I move on?

So far, the only answer I've come up with is...maybe stop supporting Lovestruck so hard. Diversify to other companies who do support their writers, or at least don't have a public track record of under-paying and under-valuing them. That's why I've gotten more into Cinamon Games' Maybe: Interactive Stories, Arcana, and Fictif. After I finish those, I'll branch out with (re-downloading) Choices and Lovelink. I started playing Lovestruck in 2017, and in that short time, there's been an explosion of queer art and queer love in the mobile game space. My options aren't limited.

I guess what I'm saying is: I support writers, not corporations. I support the real over the hypothetical. While I'm going to support Lovestruck's new queer characters of color, I'm also spreading my fandom love to other apps' queer characters of color. I'm buying VOW Together's books, short stories, and games. I'm doing more on-the-ground activism and expanding my feminism through nonfiction reading. There's a lot more I could be doing than this single romance app.

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Watch the '2 sexy gangsters' be Aurora and Chance. Bc Lovestruck is predictable.

In other news, the new MC looks pretty damn good, and even tho I won't be reading any of her routes (since my interest in GiL is nonexistent unless it's Irving) I'm gonna count her as a W.

#i mean we already know Aurora is one since she's on the schedule #but the other one is either Chance or Ash #and my money is on Chance #lovestruck #lovestruck voltage #gangsters in love

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Forgot to post this but Jackie's history with Alice sounds very interesting and I would very much like to know more

I would also like to meet Alice. This isn't the first time she's been mentioned in Arin's route and every crumb of information makes me even more intrigued.

#i mean EAA has so much content already that I highly doubt that we'll get much more than this #but i can dream #just imagine with me #a short or route where we play as Jackie(the first trans mc) and we get a proper exes route(nothing like Alanna's toxic ass) #*sighs longingly* #lovestruck #lovestruck voltage #ever after academy #ever after academy jackie

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HE IS BACK❤❤

#maxime my love #lovestruck #lovestruck voltage #my siren crush #my siren crush maxime #maxime okun

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homophobia won today