Is The Consequence of Secrets on permanent hiatus? I just binged the whole thing and I'm curious to know what happens when they get back to the palace.
Hi! Thanks for loving it and being curious!
I wouldn't say it's a permanent hiatus, I just haven't had time (or motivation) to write for quite a while! I went independent in my career and have been busy, busy, busy! Good for the bank account but not good for extra-curriculars...
Let's see, what can I tell you about the next chapter?
It's from Jennifer's pov.
Maxwell will be her (as she sees it) babysitter, which let's be honest, she probably needs one because she's on bed rest for a couple of weeks.
They hide how serious her condition was from the public.
I honestly don't know when I'll be able to write again but I fully intend to finish the story... someday.
Hi, all! I thought I'd pop on here and give you a life update (of the last 5 years)!
Long story short, my (now ex) husband is an addict. Writing for me, in part, was a bit of an escape at the time. I had a lot of time and emotions on my hands!
I got divorced during covid (three cheers for over the phone divorce settlements!)
Fast forward to present time! I've dating a great guy I knew in high school for a year now! He has 3 kids (I don't have my own) and have started my own business!
Holy shit, I'm busy, but living my best life and loving it! I keep saying I'll get back to writing, but no idea when that will be!
For now, I love and miss you all and thank you SO SO much for keeping me sane all those tough years!
I'm still around, somewhat. Keep tagging me and sending messages, etc. I'll try to be better! ❤️
Thanks to @kennaxval @jovialyouthmusic @mariamulroney @h3llostrang3r and @hellospunkiebrewster for tagging me. I was holding off because I hadn’t added anything that wasn’t a major spoiler, so here we go!
Rules: Post the last sentence you wrote and tag as many writers as there are words.
From By the Light of the Moon, The Rise one shot:
“I should have known you’d find me.” She said a smirk on her lips, her stance remaining unchanged.
From City of Silence, chapter 12 of Crimson Rain:
It was a pain she knew she would always carry with her, but knowing that he wanted her even if having a child together was completely off of the table she suddenly felt less afraid of what the future held for them.
It's June once again, and it's time for my birthday giveaway. Just like the last two years the winner will receive a paid for commission by @pilitella valued at 130.00 USD.
Here's an example
The winner will be randomly selected on June 20th. To enter, comment or reblog saying "I'm interested."
Have you looked at Storyloom? Do you think there will be significant changes in Choices if Storyloom ends up not doing well and has to enter the sunset stage.
I played one story and hated it and have not been back. I saw that Choices is doing lay-offa and my first thought was that it has to do with all the extra staff they added when launching StoryLoom and that they don't need them anymore. I don't know how much effect it would have on Choices specifically though.
This is very detailed (there are more screenshota to come) and I stand by my theory that Luke leaving the leadwriter role was why RoD2 got scrapped because there is a lot of detail in this.
"I wish players would give more love to LFOS and SIF.
Alexander's stories are so fun and even a bit crazy lmao his characters are unique and I love his writing.
I miss SIF's crew, especially Sebastian. I think most people don't read SIF because the visuals are very lacking... but honestly? Just give it a try anyways, I can assure y'all that you'll have a lot of fun reading that book.
Adelaide is still the most badass and powerful MC in RC, I love her to bits ♡
I heard that Alexander T. was a bit insecure about his writing 'cause his books aren't that popular so I'm glad that a lot of people are reading Love, Sin & Evil now."
I love the nostalgia of Sails in the Fog but the writing is definitely lacking. No hate, my writing has gotten significantly better over the years too.
I think Love From Outer Space will benefit from playing it all at once. One or two chapters every six weeks makes it hard to know what the hell is going on.
Love, Sin, and Evil is great, but waaaay too expensive!
"Tell me to get out. Push me away." Lucifer's grip tightened on my back, pulling me even closer against his chest. His warm breath turned ragged against my lips, his voice shaking as he whispered, "Please."
"I can't."
He tilted his head, bringing our lips even closer together. "I shouldn't have come here."
I knew why he acted the way he did when Plague took over. He was protecting me, attempting to stop her from using our love for each other to hurt me, and himself. If you push everyone away they can't be used against you and your attachment to them can't be used as some sick punishment. Knowing didn't stop it from breaking my heart, though.
He had once told me he was sorry if he'd ever hurt me, how he didn't know any other way. But he did. He had proved it to me for ten years.
"But you did," I replied with a relieved smile, just before his lips covered mine.
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I. Am. In. Awe. Thank you SO very much @indiacater for your giveaway and to @pilitella for creating this amazing, beautiful, fucking perfect piece of art! I LOVE IT SO MUCH! ❤️
Also, do not steal or reblog this without giving credit where credit is due. @pilitella for her impeccable talent, @indiacater for her generosity and me, for my genius of choosing these 2 beautiful subjects.
I made it to the end of the Ms (and the first half of the alphabet)! My Two First Loves. I actually llt really enjoy this book and it is one I have been looking forward to replaying. @the-unconquered-queen I finally made it to this one!
Since this one is 100 chapters, I am going to check in every 10 chapters, instead of in quarters.
10% mark. This MC is definitely self-absorbed, but I like the narrative style and how she is telling us the story in her owns and the self-absorption makes sense in that context. Plus as a former messy, self-absorbed teen, I can relate 😂
I have now hit 30%. This is an easy read. The MC is still self-absorbed as Hell but the narrative works and the fact that this is her story, her recollections (and ok I have some fondness for messy teenagers)
40%. The relationship with the boys crashed and burned and Ava is still only maybe a possibility 😂. And MC is definitely still dramatic. But the story is fun and easy.
Halfway mark. We are back with the boys, have all the backstory and the relationships are hot and heavy again. Ava is still only kinda sorta a possibility and we had one kinda diamond scene with her.
Starting Diamonds: 49
Current Diamonds: 129
I am currently up 80 diamonds (and have been slacking on my ads).
60% mark. Ava finally made it to a “choose your LI” scene, but she also has a girlfriend. So one step forward, two steps back. Things are great with the boys though, love triangle is full steam ahead. I also like that the LIs gets the occasional POV and that Ava’s shows a different take on events than MCs because it highlights the unreliable narrator and that this is really MC’s story and her take on things.
70% mark. We’re getting into the “evil principal story” which I enjoy a lot less than “messy teenage love triangle”. Although this triangle almost as another side, because Ava is almost a legit option, as only taken almost 3/4s of a book. While the boys have gotten “I love yous” and a lot of action.
80% done! Took a bit of a break because we are getting into the section of the story I like the least (my rating for this book is going to be hard because it is all over the place). Ava is a legitimate LI! Only took 3/4s of the book.
Starting Diamonds: 49
Current Diamonds: 392
I am up 343 diamonds in this replay (but I also renewed VIP).
I honestly enjoyed this story. Like most Choices stories it had its flaws for sure, but it was fun. The fact that I freaking loved Noah didn’t hurt lol
@jerzwriter Noah is an amazing LI (I also liked Mason and the LT angle, but poor Ava is so mistreated). I genuinely love this book, I am just getting into the one section I don’t love 😂 but overall it is fun and it has great characters.
@jerzwriter I think it is because we are old enough that high school was a fucking long time ago and we can approach the teenage drama with amused nostalgia. I was a messy, dramatic teenager and those years are long enough ago that I can laugh instead of feeling embarrassed. MTFL MC is a lot, but she has always felt like one of the most real MCs.
This reason is why I could relate to the RoD mc. I WAS her in high school. Granted, I never stole a car or broke any major laws, but a good student with a wild side drawn to the "bad boys"? Yeah, that was me 😁
@choicesflashfics #36. Uses prompt #2, "You’re allowed to fall apart a little."
A/N: I started writing this before I thought to grab a prompt, and it went to dark places. It was supplied to be a Harper x Ethan, but F!MC started talking... That's it. This fic is dark and I'm not sure why it came out, since it seems like the first chapter rather than a one shot. // Words: 1150 // Pairing: light f!mc x Tobias, acor MC x Antony (implied) // implied age gap relationship.
I always knew I'd end up working for the Outfit, from the time Uncle Tony caught me with a plastic stethoscope in my hands, to the day that Uncle Sam signed my soul over to the combat medical corps.
We need good people... like you, Chiara. You're the brains and Sy is the brawn. There will always be a place for the both of youse in the Outfit.
Is that because of Mama? I asked as I stood in front of Uncle Tony's desk and watched him swallow his grief along with his Campari, gold rings glittering. The shadow of two days beard was heavy on his jaw, and I yearned to reach out, to touch him, but instead crumpled the acceptance letter to Edenbrook in my pocket into a smaller and smaller ball, trying to keep my breathing steady as I watched him, the hero of my girlhood, the master of us all.
He set the glass down on his desk, the sound of it like the funeral bells that had gonged as the hearse pulled away from the cathedral steps in Little Italy, and I felt my throat tighten too. I swallowed my grief with my wine, clinking his glass in a toast. To her, then. I would always live in her shadow, until I could prove my worth.
Uncle Tony's eyes glistened wetly. Arin was a good woman. Bellissima... my tiger. You remind me of her, Princess. That blonde hair, and those eyes... Dio in paradiso, but she was a hurricane. And you are her very image...
Even though he'd married Octavia, I knew Mama had been the love of his life. Uncle Tony would have died for her, and nearly did. That was why I gave him my pledge of loyalty, right there in that room. A pledge for love, the kind that lasts beyond the grave.
And when I returned, I was no longer Chiara Valentine, Arin Valentine's little princess, but Chiara Valentine, combat medic and fast tracked through medical school due to all the strings pulled by Uncle Tony. It wasn't that I couldn't have done it on my own recognizance, but time was a luxury we didn't have after Doc Claudius had gotten his brains blown out by the Family, out in Drakovia. And Sy was in the clink. Again. For stealing cars from some gang in LA, connected to the Yakuza.
The Campari on the desk turned into the Negroni at the bar, and I was staring up into the golden eyes of my boss's and biggest mistake's biggest rival, the one and only Dr Tobias Carrick.
"Valentine." His upper lip curled, and I itched to smack the smugness right off his face, but I'd probably break a nail. After all, I was the Brains. I'd never fought anyone closer than fifty paces in my life, and we'd been in a tank. "Am I really that ugly, little princess, or do you scowl like that at all the plebs?"
If it were up to me, men like him would be six feet under, but I'd promised to hold my peace on mob soil, and the last thing Uncle Tony needed was a war with the Irish. Not that he'd do it for my sake -- it had been Mama who held his heart, and always would. So when I opened my mouth, what came out next surprised me. "I lost ... I lost someone. Today... it's the anniversary of her death."
"Bartender!" Tobias waved down the hipster serving white claw spritzers to the masses. "Get us a bottle of -- what's your poison, princess?"
"Limoncello." I didn't have to hesitate when the bartender slid the bottle down, and poured us two, on the rocks.
He prepared to knock back the entire glass when I caught him on the sleeve, for a moment looking thrown off his game, like he'd never seen a woman before. "Whoa there, Princess."
"Do you know what they say, Dr Carrick? They say that only the dead have seen the end of war. That's Plato. And don't call me princess." That's Antony's name for me.
"You’re allowed to fall apart a little." He touched my cheek gently, and it was only then that I realized I was crying. "Was it... a patient?"
What could I tell him? Of Afghanistan, and the starless desert skies that seemed to reach into the abyss, or of that single moment when my life changed forever? Or of how my life now seemed laid out before me in a single straight line with only a few stops along the way, Chicago to Afghanistan, to Boston and soon, soon, sooner than anyone could ever know, back again.
A pledge for love, the kind that lasts beyond the grave.
"She's been dead a long time." I wiped my cheek angrily with my sleeve, streaks of mascara coming away on it. "My mother. She died, and no one ever figured out what it was that killed her. That's why I'm here, really." I had never admitted the truth out loud before, to anyone.
Antony had come to find me at the barracks. I'd been barely eighteen, and one year in the army already. We'd drunk Limoncello til midnight, Arin Valentine's favorite drink, and we'd held one another and wept. In the morning, he'd left me with blood still drying on the sheets and an ache in my heart that no amount of Limoncello would ever ease.
A pledge for loyalty, until I stepped out of her shadow and proved my worth.
"Do you want to get out of here?" Tobias rubbed a hand over his stubbled jaw and held out a hand. "We can just walk, Chiara. You look like you need some air. I won't talk about old business tonight, and it's not a trick, I... I promise."
I took his hand, Dio in paradiso, heaven and hell. Eyes as gold as the sunless desert sands. "You can talk about it all you want, Tobias." I don't care if we win, after all, a snap of the fingers, a pouch filled with thirty pieces of silver, a handshake in a back room, that grant will end up lining the pockets of Edenbrook instead of Mass Kenmore, whether Tobias Carrick likes it or not.
I'll be going back to the Outfit, my mother's daughter, back to Antony. For I owe so much more to him than blood. Life and loyalty, and a love that never dies.
"Valentine?" Tobias waited by the door, jacket thrown over one shoulder, looking at me with a troubled question in his eyes. If I slid off the stool now, I'd have to make that choice. I'd have to face the truth about what drove me to this place, to Boston, to Edenbrook, and to stare at my own reflection in a glass of Limoncello as I counted the stars like the drops of blood in a vein, all the way down the bloody years.
Blood on my hands, blood on the sheets, washed clean by my tears.
You've got the mafia. You've got a veteran (the group of people most dear to my cold, dead, heart). You've got Open Heart and ACOR. There's even a little hint of Crimes of Passion snuck in there, and now I need more.
Hey. Thanks to all who wished me a happy birthday. Got a decent turnout for the giveaway. I do plan to do a shadow giveaway near the end of the year. (A shadow giveaway is where if I like a scene from your story, I will personally message you about getting that scene made into art. Again, the art will be done by pilitella). I'm looking forward to seeing who wins that.
Now the moment if truth. My 2023 birthday giveaway winner is @blackcatkita. Congratulations!!!!
Again, thank you everyone. Can't wait to do this again next year.
SQUEE!!!! OMG I'M SO EXCITED! You're the BEST, India!!! ❤️
...now to figure out what to get. Do I do an idea I had for Ride or Die's Logan and Ellie? Or do I do something for Romance Club? And if I do Romance Club, WHO DO I DO??? Lucifer? Reinhold? Killian?
Hello, I only want to confirm if the tags work because most of time I tag you for my fic (since you requested to be in my my taglist), I get strange feeling it doesn't work. Well, idk... like you're not beeing linked when I enter your blog name immediatly. I could be wrong too... Do you get any notifications that it works? Did it worked this time?
There's also a way to send you the link of the fics all the time if there are still tagging issues. Please let me know, thank you.
[my last fanfic update on April 21st 2023 (I think)]
Ugh, no, I'm not getting them. A lot of the time if I see something come through while I'm at work there's a good chance I'll forget by the end of the day, but I just scrolled through my notifs to check and nope, nothing there.
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