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leaked look of blades 2 script

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I’m sure this has been done before, I just miss old Choices right now.

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so anyway when do you think pixelberry is gonna add wolf bride to this category?

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ok with the sequel confirmation post, I really do get that some "undeserved" books keep the lights on, but lmfao what are you saving up the money for ?? bc it sure looks like pb is farming the steamy romance and baby books for even more steamy romance and baby books 🗿

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PB: *releases Inside Choices blog*

Fandom:

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sucks that awesome books like endless summer and it lives are shackled to this app that has become shallow wrapping to erotica

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Reading that It Lives is officially over when I’ve known it forever got me like

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Recognize her?

Probably not. This is Leah Myers, one of the OG sidelined black female LIs. From #LoveHacks. In 2016. She had an interesting storyline. Older sister to a fiery 14-year-old, psychologically abused by her ex-girlfriend, trying to scrape by as a writer. First appearance in Chapter 9 of the first book. Sidelined in favour of Mark and Ben. Granted, Ben wasn’t introduced until Chapter 11, but he was more prominent in the story, when he and Mark were jealous over MC. Sound familiar?

Recognize her?

Probably not. I don’t blame you, Home for the Holidays (2017) is the OG shitty romance book and I speed-tapped through it too. Holly Wright, another childhood friend. Another writer. Sidelined in favour of Nick and Wyatt, and what makes matters even worse is that Nick wouldn’t even give her manuscript a chance because, to quote the Wiki, “it doesn’t deserve to be published”. Is literally gifted a flashlight from MC if you didn’t pay for her premium gift. Was given the most stereotypical Christmassy name in the book. Done hella dirty, even for HftH.

Recognize her?

Maybe, if you played Wishful Thinking back in 2019. I don’t even know if you’d classify Ellen Thompson as an LI, as she only got actual “relationship development” if you call it that in Chapter 12. The book had 14 chapters. She had an interesting backstory, with abrasiveness stemming from insecurity and not being good enough for her family. Could’ve been an interesting rivals-to-lovers subplot if given time to develop. But nope. Shove her route 2 chapters before the end and call it a day.

Recognize her?

Perhaps. She’s Vera Reimonenq from Nightbound, also from 2019 (moment of silence for the lost potential). While the other 3 LIs also had compelling backstories, I thought hers was the coolest. Nightbound was heavily advertised as a Nik-focused story, but relatively, she did have more development than the others on this list. Still, it could’ve been better. Mysterious gloved stranger, Lady Smoke’s daughter, kickass fighter, despite appearing outwardly calm. What’s not to love?

Recognize her?

You most definitely should. If you don’t, why? She’s been sidelined so hard, treated as the ultimate walking wardrobe (I’d say she even surpasses Shreya Mistry for this title), and not to mention the victim of a racially-motivated hate crime shrouded as a “human sacrifice”, as if this somehow made it better. Was given a racial profiling criminal backstory for no reason other than for PB’s “exploring racism” propaganda. In 2020. Twenty-fucking-twenty. Four years after release. Despite being a group of pixels, deserves the world and nothing less, and sure as hell did not deserve the treatment she received in Queen B. With a black female lead writer? Not at all.

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Is there something in common with these characters? Of course. You’d have to be blind not to see it. They’re black. They’re female. They’re sidelined. They’re treated like absolute shit in comparison to the other LIs. This has been happening since the very beginning, meaning PB had 4 years to fix what could’ve been done in a matter of moments. And these are just the women. Griffin Langley, Shane Parker, Syphax, to name a few. I’m sure there are plenty others that I haven’t mentioned. Race-customizable characters are primarily written for the white audience (see: brushed aside a loose strand of my hair, when black male MCs have no loose hair??? And plenty of times, hairstyles don’t even match the sprite’s head).

So don’t you fucking dare come at the black players in this community or don’t you fucking dare try and defend PB saying “there’s no racism” or “PB has black representation”. I cannot speak for the black community personally because I am not black, but I cannot begin to imagine what you’re all feeling seeing this as your representation, because it’s not representation. If this doesn’t make you angry, it should.

Racists shut the fuck up challenge.

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you ever think about how tom caught ava reading the rites of becoming aka the spell that turned filleus into redfield and pb was like . hmm idk about book 3 . you ever think about how noah and connor specifically mentioned a group of people from westchester and pine springs were coming together to fight the power and pb was like . hmm idk about book 3 . you ever think about how they completely redesigned jocelyn and pb wa

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I’M GONNA KILL YOU!

And that’s when Richard remembered whose grandchild he was dealing with

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love that a fun, immersive, & often heartwarming choose-your-own-adventure story app has turned into a fully fledged vehicle for erotica ! cool cool cool cool cool cool

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Idk.....did this sound “completed” to you all 😕😕😕💔 didn’t to me

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well .... OK. I guess it's a good thing because the books for the past year (with the exception of BOLAS and DS) have all been terrible anyway!!! PB is a husk of its former self and here's the nail in the coffin.

EXCUSE ME WHAT @playchoices??? I KNEW YOU WERE BEING STUBBORN ABOUT DS, BUT IT LIVES TOO????

Omg I can’t even. I thought it was common knowledge they were working on a sequel for It Lives. I’m so mad I’m so mad I’m so mad

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some of yall the dryest mfs. lighten up lmfao. us saying we're "bullying" a corporation isn't that deep I promise you. laugh like the rest of us or MOVE

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WHY ARE YALL SO MAD WE WANT NONE WHITE CHARACTERS TO BE TREATED THE SAME AS THE WHITE ONE? WHY???

WHY ARE YALL SO MAD WE WANT PB TO BACK UP THEIR WORD WITH ACTIONS SINCE THEY CLAIM TO CARE SO MUCH ABOUT DIVERSITY?

WHATS THE FUCKING ISSUE YALL HAVE WITH PEOPLE OF COLOR?

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Please do not be in my mentions showing your ass over this OH hiatus. My tolerance is at an all time low.

• I don’t care that you’re upset over the hiatus

• I don’t care that you’re mad at PB attempting to take a stand and right a wrong

• I don’t care that you want to bury your head in the sand and use Choices as an escape, while simultaneously trying to ignore the problematic shit they’re writing

29 black and non-black POC have died at the hands of cops (one in my very own hometown) within the past 10 FUCKING. DAYS. So if PB thinks they should scrap a racist and triggering storyline, shut the fuck up and let them.

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pb if you really just want to postpone chapters you already did... just don’t. because no matter how long your new hiatus will be, the feedback will be the same, trust me.

rewrite this fucking book.