#LoveHacks

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by anonymous

‘PB need to do more comedy based books like LoveHacks or Wishful Thinking’

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

#choices lovehacks #lovehacks #choices wishful thinking #wishful thinking #playchoices #choices #choices stories you play #confessions #mod bruffle

[choices-binglebonkus]

Okay I never realized just how truly obnoxious the TRR MC actually was until I replayed #LoveHacks, whose MC shares faces with the TRR MC. This entire playthrough I was just waiting for the MC to be plucky and unserious and annoying and qUiRkY and I had to keep unbracing myself because the #LoveHacks MC, while flawed, is actually rather well-adjusted and mature, whereas the TRR MC will interrupt a ceremony to call the crown regent a big meany bad man, name a boat christened in her daughter’s honor “Boaty McBoatface”, and obsess over fancy hats for seven whole books + a holiday special.

#YES I KNOW THOSE ARE DETERMINANT OPTIONS #BUT THE TRR MC CARRIES THAT SAME OBNOXIOUS ENERGY THROUGHOUT THE SERIES #lovehacks mc is like I said well-adjusted and reasonable #meanwhile you know you’d hate the trr mc if you met her irl #you just KNOW #lovehacks #choices lovehacks #choices the royal romance #choices trr #trr #the royal romance #choices stories you play #playchoices #choices stories we play #pixelberry #pixelberry studios #playchoices fandom #choices stories you play fandom #choices stories we play fandom

[casharlow]

just realized that the “red herring” drinking game the lovehacks gang plays is def based off the true american game from new girl, my other comfort sitcom media about another quirky group of friends’ daily antics in a california city

#shocked i’ve never connected the dots before on how similar new girl and lovehacks is #there’s a reason i rewatch/replay both extensively whenever i’m feeling down #playchoices #lovehacks

[storyofmychoices]

The beginning of 2024 had definitely already brought it's share of challenges for me, but I'm hoping that maybe things will still be improving from here! Thinking positive!

Writing Goals

Where to even begin? I have probably 100+ WIP ranging from a scribbled idea on a post it to an outline that needs to be typed. I'd like to put a dent in that? So far each year, that list keeps growing instead of shrinking. I find that I'm more of the in the moment writer. It's all or nothing. Either I finish a piece in one sitting or it never gets done. I'd like to try to find more of a balance in 2024.

In a perfect world, here are some stories I'd like to complete:

Mal's proposal: I started this fic last February, and would really like to actually write it. I have art for it. I don't know what I'm waiting for, especially now that I have their Blades 2 AU proposal done 🙈

Laser Tag with Brylivia: This is just a short little drabble that I think is like 75% written. It's from 2 years ago. I really have NO excuses lol

Love and Scotch: This series fell away when I stoped writing Ethan (for a number of reasons). I'd love to finish this series. I had several more chapters planned but I might just skip some and at least get to what I envisioned as "the end" aka Thomas and Alex's HWU AU wedding and a big turning point for Ethan and Ellie.

#HollywoodHacks: Does anyone even care about this series? Anyone even remember it? I feel like no. I was really only writing it for 1 person, but they're not in the fandom anymore...It might not be the ending I'd planned or wanted, but I think I could wrap the series in 1 or 2 (tops) more chapters. I had hoped that the story would lead to me writing more for Ben Parks and my #LoveHacks MC but that never happened

Tipsy Nia x Daenarya: an anon requested tipsy Nia hitting on Daenarya and I started it but then never finished it. It's such a small drabble it seems silly to even include it here, but here we are!

Blades 2 AU: At the start of Blades 2 I was doing a great job keeping up with the book and rewriting the chapters to fit my vision for the characters. That kinda fell apart around Chapter 5. I'd like to finish that rewrite and see how Iliana fits into how the rest of the book happened. Last I wrote, Daenarya didn't even know she was pregnant.

Rayden and Lydo's Adoption: Mal and Daenarya have already decided to adopt them. I've also written them as a family. But, I've never written the actual story of Mal and Daenarya telling the boys they were adopting them and they'd be a family forever, so I'd love to do that!

Pairings I'd like to write more of in 2024:

Thomas and Alex: I used to publish 1 new story a day when I first started writing them. It lasted over a year, then it gradually decreased. Last year, I only wrote them 10 times! I know the lack of interactions with their stories, has definitely made me want to share less and just enjoy daydreaming for them, but still, I'd like to keep their story going, regardless of interactions, because they are so special to me. Plus, if I could wrap those two series above that they're in, that would definitely lift my RCD/HWU fic count for the year!

Nyx x Aerin: I LOVE NYX! NYX is incredible and I love love love them. Aerin is kinda fun too. I would love to develop these two more this year.

Trystan and Lilah: I've only written them a few times and I'd like to get to know them better

Beckett and Emma: I haven't written them in a long time and when I did write them it was for 1 particular series (them in Detention). With the Book Club replaying TE, I'm hoping I might be inspired to see what they're like outside of the library.

Troy and Astraea: I love these two but I haven't had time to explore them more. I don't think I'll have time to participate in the group reread right now, but I would still like to reread WTD at some point this year and keep developing them.

Daenarya x Maiele (@lilyoffandoms) + Mal x Tyril: In 2023, Lily and I started to develop these relationships more. I loved every second of that and I hope 2024 will bring us more of these four lovely characters.

Mal's Orphanage: Blades 2 destroyed the orphanage storyline. If PB wanted to steal it they should have done a better job of it. Like there was literally no point in them having that storyline since they abandoned it the first chance they got. I'd like to fix the Blades 2 orphanage storyline but then go back to focusing on my original orphanage because those children are my favorite.

Other Goals

Catch up on reading and be a more active reader

Follow and support new Choices accounts

Continue with the book club and other events I host but find a balance with hosting that I still have time to create and read/support others

Try my hand at drawing again. I had been drawing chibi's a while back and I haven't had time/the courage to try again, but @lilyoffandoms's incredible art journey this month has inspired me to add it to my list this year

Keep editing Aerin in the sluttiest Choices outfits I can find

Flesh out more of Olivia's pediatric practice and how she transitions from Edenbrook to Sunshine Pediatrics

Be kind to myself and let myself rest when I need it. I am my biggest critic and if you ask me what I'm good at, I'd say nothing and I would tell you everything wrong with anything I've ever done, including all of my pairings. I see the mistakes and I want to let myself see the good and focus on only that this year.

#lovealexhunt #storyofmychoices #writing #2024 goals #choices countdown to 2024 #thomas hunt #bryce lahela #mal volari #lovehacks #hollywood u #red carpet diaries #nyx selenastra #aerin valleros #troy hassan #trystan thorne #beckett harrington

[dist4nt-shores]

choices as random text posts i have saved (because why not and i’m bored)(and beneath the cut because i’m nice)

queen b

laws of attraction

tom from it lives beneath

wolf bride

bachelorette party

perfect match

lovehacks

blades mcs with seduction as their main skill

bloodbound

the heist: monacco

most wanted

distant shores

imtura tal kaelen

tyril starfury

home for the holidays

prince aerin

perfect match (again)

damien and perfect match mc

part one | part two | part three

#sorry in advance for all the tags 👀 #queen b choices #queen b #queen b playchoices #laws of attraction #it lives beneath #it lives choices #wolf bride #bachelorette party #perfect match choices #perfect match #lovehacks #blades mc #blades of light and shadow #bolas choices #pb bolas #bloodbound #the heist: monaco #most wanted #distant shores #imtura tal kaelen #tyril starfury #home for the holidays #prince aerin #damien nazario #choices stories you play #choices #___ as textposts

[choices-junkie]

so many people hate on LoveHacks for no reason omfg

it’s such a cutesie sitcom-like easy read. the characters are all super lovable and the plot is easy to follow but still entertaining…i regret taking years to actually read it now 🥲

#choices #playchoices #pb choices #pbchoices #lovehacks #mark is the loml #i’m just being fr

[daniel-the-waiter]

MY GUY

#loml #daniel the waiter #lovehacks #playchoices #choices #pixelberry

[peonyblossom]

Question for the Choices Fandom

Do you use the wiki walkthroughs when you play? Or do you just play on your own?

#my anxiety could never let me play on my own lol #I need to know I'm making the right choice #america's most eligible #across the void #baby bump #blades of light and shadow #crimes of passion #big sky country #desire and decorum #distant shores #endless summer #foreign affairs #high school story #laws of attraction #lovehacks #most wanted #mother of the year #my two first loves #open heart #perfect match #red carpet diaries #rules of engagement #the royal romance #the nanny affair #wake the dead

[randombook4idk]

mark:

#if i could i would be matchmaking ben and mark #ben is my choice for mark after cole #pixelberry choices #choices lovehacks #lovehacks #playchoices #choices stories you play #choices stories we play #lovehacks mark

[jess-owl]

It's October, and is almost Halloween, so that means: It's Nibble Time!!! 🎃 Starting with:

Halloween Nibble #1: At the Corn Maze. With #LoveHacks, the only Choices book I still remember every day because I love it so much 💕 And as you can see, it's digital and not in paper, this is how I'm going to do them from now so I hope you like the new look.

☕IN HERE☕

#my art #fanart #halloween #halloween nibbles #lovehacks #playchoices #pumpkin

[lostinthe603]

#inner strength #mindfulness #heartfulness #lovehacks #self care

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by anonymous

‘LoveHacks and RoE are slept on 😭’

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

#choices lovehacks #lovehacks #choices rules of engagement #rules of engagement #playchoices #choices #choices stories you play #confessions #mod bruffle

[choices-binglebonkus]

I’m replaying #LoveHacks since I have the book pass for it AND since I have a lot of diamonds to throw at stuff and I have to say…like…it’s not as bad as I remember it being, but it’s still pretty damn bad.

I can think of four separate times when the characters referred to my MC as Dani (the default name), which is not the name I chose for her, and I’m only on chapter THREE. Considering #LoveHacks has been out since 2016 and those very blatant and noticeable mistakes are not only repeated, but left in the game…shit, man. That’s bad.

I figured I’d like #LoveHacks now since I’ve been using diamonds on it (thank god for the modern diamond ads) but the diamond choices like…don’t really add anything of value. Which is shocking, since the earlier Choices books usually had way more impactful diamond choices. But no, these ones are…not really that great.

The vibes are pretty good. The book is really unserious and stupid and I like that. But the MC’s whole thing with Mark is so forced. The friendship between the MC and Mark’s friends is so forced.

#LoveHacks is a book that I think could’ve been really fun and cool, but the execution was shoddy. I have to wonder…how would it have done in the modern Choices era?

Like…this MC is dating around and sampling the whole buffet and oh my god, I LOVE THAT. I actually think that if this book were released in the modern Choices era, it would be a smut; a really good smut. Think of how unserious Dirty Little Secrets is. A modern #LoveHacks would just be the MC hoeing around and living her best life and it would have been so much better than what we actually got in 2016.

But anyway. Just a frazzled, tired, allergy-hazed, ADHD post. Couldn’t really sort out my feelings here and so this unorganized heap of a post was born.

#choices stories you play #playchoices #choices stories we play #pixelberry #pixelberry studios #playchoices fandom #choices stories you play fandom #choices stories we play fandom #lovehacks #choices LoveHacks #long post

[casharlow]

unironically one of the hardest choices i have ever had to make on the game called choices

#you know it’s a great cast when every single of them is an genuine option i would choose #we were robbed with mark being the only LI in the group #lovehacks #bree replays lh

[storyofmychoices]

SpreadJoy #865 spreading positivity with quotes and @playchoices characters.

Quote by marcandangel

#horatio santos #lovehacks #choices #playchoices #choices game #choices spreadjoy #spreadjoy #choicesspreadjoy #marcandangel

[that-one-choices-girl]

So my opinions on LoveHacks is that it's honestly one of the best ways PB has designed books.

The main plots are really well done, not being rushed while still being introduced reasonably, the main characters all have their personality shown really well, and the LIs are really well written.

Leah wasn't shown often in the first book, not as much as I would've liked, but they definitely made up for it in book 2.

Honestly, I don't think the community talks about how well written LoveHacks is. One of my favs, easily.

#choices #playchoices #choices love hacks #lovehacks