#choices ame

[lilyoffandoms]

Date Night for Derek and Catherine

For the @choicesfandomappreciation Secret Pal event.

Hello @tveitertotwrites I was gifted your name and characters to choose from and I went with a book I’ve not read so I hope I did them justice. (Also your fc for Catherine is gorgeous hello 👀).

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by @songsaboutgirls

‘Chadley should've been a contestant in the All Stars season of America's Most Eligible’

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

[lover-also-fighter-also]

P.S there are some books I didn't cover as the polls have a limit of only 12 options. I know it lives within is not pixelberry made but considering its a fan favourite I put it up in the options too

[cadybear420]

Cadybear's Reviews Brief Thoughts- America's Most Eligible

Welcome to the twelfth official Cadybear's Reviews Brief Thoughts post! Today I'll be talking about America's Most Eligible, which I have ranked on the "Gold Tier" at 8 stars out of a possible 10. My last and only playthrough of this series was back in May-June 2021. I had started another playthrough in July 2023, but it's been put on hiatus.

This one was pretty fun. 

I think it did a pretty good job of getting you into the crazy atmosphere of reality TV shows. Whether you love it or hate it, you gotta admit it’s quite filled with some pretty wild drama. I also loved being able to establish our own confession cam persona for the MC– MCs that give the players agency in their character are always a win for me. 

My only real problem is that besides maybe Jen, the LIs were mostly forgettable and flat in personality. Let me clap Carter’s cheeks instead please!

That and, a lot of the male MC outfits were painfully mid. Like, they seem to really enjoy dressing male MC in basic casual and/or toilet swirl color scheme outfits, even though this is a reality TV show where ideally you’d want to grab people’s attention and make yourself look stylish. I don’t like the outfits that f!MC gets as they’re not my style, but at least I can buy that they’d be impactful on this kind of show. But for m!MC… why do they want him to do a photoshoot in a big winter coat that looks like the same coat worn by PETA’s version of Ghetsis from Pokemon? Why are they saying this is his last chance to “show off his hot bod” and then giving him an outfit with a big coat that looks like an off-brand Doctor Who cosplay? 

I know it’s pretty par for the course for premium outfit setup scenes to be obviously written with f!MC’s outfits in mind, but it’s far more frequent in this series, and far more glaring in this kind of story too because this is a romance-based reality TV show. Ideally, the hardcore dedicated contestants would want to dress in ways that grab people’s attention and make themselves seem more desirable. And I can assure you, no one’s underwear is gonna be flying off at giant peepeepoopoo-colored winter coats. 

Speaking of m!MC writing coded for f!MC, this is kind of an elephant in the room, but I don’t think this series as a whole is quite as “female coded” as people have made it out to be. Granted it has the most gender errors I’ve ever seen in a GOC Choices story, like some of the outfit descriptions or that “he brushes a stray strand of hair from your face” line. But a lot of the other stuff like the shoulder carrying stuff or MC’s sometimes gushy personality or the walking down the aisle stuff, more or less boils down to lazy coding in general rather than lazy coding specifically for a male MC. I mean, that tends to be the case for the majority of the “male MC is female coded” complaints I see, but since this book in particular has gotten a lot of those sorts of complaints, I figured it’s worth bringing up. 

So yeah. Overall this one was pretty fun. Would love to play this again and see the different kinds of outcomes I can have.

[yourqueenb]

What did you think of Americas most eligible? I wish you could be with Ryder 😭😭 I thought all the love Lis were boring af

I liked the concept behind AME, but wasn't crazy about the execution. For one thing, I hated that it was pay to win. I feel like you can get away with not spending diamonds in other books. But from what I remember from AME book 1 (it's another one that I haven't replayed), there was no way for MC to be successful in the end unless you bought a lot of the diamond scenes. And when it was releasing, diamonds were a lot harder to come by.

I also felt that there should've been more drama and MC specifically should've been allowed to be more messy. I mean hello it was a reality show?! I did like that they let us decide how MC was portrayed to a certain extent. (I think the options were sweetheart, flirt, and villain or something like that?) But they still should've played it up more.

Personally though, I didn't have a problem with the LIs or at least the one I chose (Handsome Stranger). I actually really liked him, but I do remember seeing a lot of people who were dissatisfied and wanting to romance some of the other characters, which is why they added Slater and Bianca at literally the last minute lol

[saskieenkeli]

So I screened the first scene to complain that Slater shouldn't flirt with me like that when they didn't give me the chance to engage him, but then I forgot about it. And now we're sick at home, so I get to read and my mom says this?! Okay, I'm really trying not to look at spoilers, but what the hell is going on?! I really hope this is not a trap 🙈😮

[koko-heads]

A WIN FOR THE SAPPHICS!!!!!

+ awooooooga

[storyofmychoices]

SpreadJoy #574: spreading positivity with quotes and @playchoices characters.

Quote in edit by Heather Stillufsen

[canonqueercharacters]

The canon queer character of the day is:

Kiana from the America’s Most Eligible series, who is bisexual.

[lilyoffandoms]

Bianca & Adan

[wip here]

My Art Ish Thing Tag (Choices Edition): @storyofmychoices @aallotarenunelma @twinkleallnight @thosehallowedhalls @dutifullynuttywitch

[the-unconquered-queen]

Who are you in the AMEverse? 👀

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by anonymous

'Am I the only one who loathes the MCs from AME and OH? They have really weird facial features and stuff and their smiles feel disturbing sometimes. My favourite ones have to be the ones from It Lives or The Heist: Monaco.'

POSTS/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT MOD'S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

[cadybear420]

No because this is what some Choices fans sound like when they complain a male MC is "female coded" because he ended up with more feminine behaviors/roles

[absentlyabbie]

taking my life into my hands to resurrect this godawful hellpoll and let it run for a week this time

[saskieenkeli]

Did I just dump my LI, who went through hell with me on the TV show and played stupid games for our dream wedding in the last season, to propose to someone else? Absolutely! Last chapter absolutely unrealistic because there's no way everyone would be so cool about it. But no regrets here 😂😂