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24, she/her/hers, questioning wlm + GNC/Virago cis woman. This is my blog for Choices related stuff, mainly HSS and Aiden Zhou. I post some non-Choices stuff, but the blog overall is mainly Choices/HSS centric.
I may post a fair amount of NSFW/suggestive stuff so mute the "suggestive" tags and other adjacent tags if you don't wanna see that shit.
Oh, and HSS & Aiden Zhou Supremacy.
Intro Post + All Important Masterlists (NOTE: List is subject to frequent updates)
Hi everybody. You can call me Cady. This is a hetGNC-centric Choices: Stories You Play blog.
Some stuff to know about me:
The OG High School Story trilogy is my favorite Choices/Pixelberry title. Aiden Zhou is my favorite Love Interest. I love to post about other stories too, but most of my stuff will be about HSS.
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers (I'm a Virago/GNC cis woman)
Age: I was born in 2001
Be normal about cis ppl and het ppl who are GNC/genderqueer, or face my instant vaporizer ray. It is charged, and I will use it without hesitation.
I may often reblog and promote campaign posts for đ, usually organization-based ones that will have a broader reach. I do not officially vet and verify posts myself, but I always do my best to check and figure out which campaigns are legitimate.
Collection of sources for transparent Choices sprite that I use for my edits
My Story Writing
OG HSS Adaptation- A Breath of Fresh Breeze
Official Fics Masterlist
Minifics Masterlist
My Drawings
Drawings Masterlist
Plushies Series Masterlist (in the making)
My Meta/Analysis/Review Writing
Choices Book Tier Ranking and Cadybearâs Choices Books Reviews Masterlist (reviews are under a mass redux/update)
HSS Analyses
Gifts
Gifts, Inspired Works, etc. made by others (under reworking/updating)
(other lists in the making)
Taglists
I like to tag all my friends on any important creations of mine by default (with the exception of my NSFW and mpreg creations where Iâm more selective about who I tag, as I know those categories can be sensitive for some). But if you wish to be on a perma/official taglist, be tagged in particular kinds of creations, be tagged for creations about any particular book(s)/MC(s)/character(s)/etc, or you want me to remove you from any taglists, please let me know!
NSFW/Suggestive Content Warning
I sometimes talk about NSFW and suggestive topics here. Whether it be fic, art, edits, headcanons, thirstposting.
I always tag this sort of content with tags such as "cw suggestive", "NSFW mention, "NSFT", and if it gets very explicit I may put it under a "Read More" cut.
I do not recommend following if you're a minorâ but if you do choose to follow, do not interact with my NSFW/Suggestive posts or you will be permablocked.
If someone is doing things that don't make Sense, try to understand that it is entirely possible that their brain is probably under an enormous weight and fracturing under the pressure. People who have been stabbed will sometimes talk a circle around the fact that they've been stabbed because stress and shock prevent you from recognizing the distress you are in and what you need to do to seek help for it. PTSD will do this also. You will find yourself repeatedly jamming a bag of frozen fruit into the same spot in the freezer where it doesn't fit and keeps falling, over and over and over, focused on nothing but that bag. You will decide that a beanbag chair is 10000% necessary to your life. You will lose your entire shit because you stubbed your toe on a table and that means the whole setup of your furniture is wrong. These are largely harmless examples. People under strain will also hurt themselves and others. Cornered animals bite. And it doesn't heal the bite to go "Hey, are you okay?" But it might get you to an animal that stops biting, so you can start to heal. And before you had an animal that bit, you probably had an animal that kept doing shit you didn't understand as stress signals
Mental illness is Off-putting. Trauma and stress make people hard to be around. There are no perfect victims. If your framework for someone under pressure are people who cry photogenically at home in the bathroom or at night when everyone else is asleep and then wake up and act like they're fine then you will fail to recognize it when your coworker who's normally really nice suddenly blows up on someone for leaving forks in the company sink.
Everyone is going through shit. And it doesn't make it okay for them to treat others badly, but it also sometimes makes it difficult for them to recognize that they're treating you badly, like the person on the phone with 9-11 who no longer realizes that he's telling the operator about his day and not answering questions. When your friend of ten years who has a new boyfriend suddenly starts being a massive bitch to you about your weight maybe she's just being a cunt, or maybe she's internalized some bullshit. You don't have to take that, but you Can go "Hey, what the fuck?" And that is often more helpful than you realize. It is easy to assume that someone who does something cruel is acting with intent, but especially in cases where someone's behavior changed in a short span of time, they aren't, any more than the person who is convinced the beanbag chair is going to fix them.
You don't have to give people endless chances. But you should give them at least one chance. Because on your worst week, it's going to be you crying at your friend's birthday party because she ran out of chili before you got to have some, and you're going to want some grace for yourself.
All of this and also, sometimes you just cannot control your reaction even if itâs harmful or mean. Which also doesnât make it acceptable to treat people poorly, but it does tie into the give people a second or third chance and communicate before deciding theyâre just terrible now
GNC liberation must happen. In many countries being gnc is a crime, toppled by the explicit erasure of trans existence. GNC people are removed from consideration within the LGBTQIA+ coummunity. We are much more likely to be targetted by both our governments and local community.
This video is a perfect model of how conservative society views GNC men, one of the less extreme cases where a man simply speaks talks about makeup of all issues.
This is GNCphobia. More specifcally, Cuphobia, the bigotry against GNC men and extreme femininity.
i do find the rules around clothes fascinating because of how made up it all is. we invented the idea of covering our bodies from the elements because we lack fur like other mammals and then made up all these rules around it and now people will unironically tell you "men cant wear skirts its unnatural" girl none of this is natural. we are born naked and made up the rest as we went along. hope this helps.
if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"
A rework of a graph I came up with a long time ago that describes my idea of gendered privilege vs oppression.
The idea I am trying to express here is that trans people typically start transition in the "bad [assigned label]" category and then drop down to the gender failure zone. Those few who are very lucky can eventually come out on the other side in the "bad [other label]" category. But nobody makes it to the top, and most still stay in the gender failure zone.
I think it explains some phenomena rather well, like all trans people regardless of identity being affected by all types of transphobia, or conditional male privilege that a certain narrow sector of western trans men is talking about. It also differentiates between the concepts of the bottom of the hierarchy and an underclass of womanhood.
I still feel like the graph is lacking in certain aspects, because I like the terminology "good man" vs "bad man", but I need to make it more clear somehow that it refers to social roles rather than gender identities.
Has anyone ever coined a term that refers to being judged by norms of a certain gender, rather than identifying as that gender?
Side note, I am aware of the work by Nora Hikari, but I don't consider mine to be a branch off of hers. We make some different conclusions (e.g. 5 categories vs 3, or her directly calling hers "genders", while I'm trying to avoid it) and plus, I started working on mine around 2020-2021.
i like how this diagram also explains the terf viewpoint that a lot of feminine cis women hold- that theyre the most oppressed group and anyone masculine or male (or masc/male adjacent) has privilege over them
in reality, the "best" woman, the most gender conforming woman, will never hold the same power or get the same praise of a gender conforming man. the game is designed for them to lose, but failing at it or refusing to play is infinitely worse
When a cis woman beats cis men at a sport, and cis women across the board are not beating cis men across the board, she is treated like an outlier--and she is, but not for the reasons misogyny suggests.
From a young age, young girls* are discouraged from roughousing and sport and playing outside, while boys** are encouraged to do so. From a young age, sport is treated as a viable career for boys down the road and simply a hobby for young girls. Girls are under a pressure to not let sports make them look dirty or ugly--boys have no such pressure. When girls are injured in sport, they are subjected to medical misogyny. Either interpersonal or the result of the misogyny in the medical field and research itself.
When competition becomes more rigid in high school, girls' teams are underfunded, are playing on smaller worse arenas, are given less priority in field/rink/court time, are promoted less than their male counterparts, and are subjected to a wide range of competitive disadvantages outside of the other social pressures they are subjected to for being women--expected to take care of kids after school, are pushed away from sport under the expectation to find a husband, etc.
At the college level, the disparity intensifies. Coaches for women's teams are paid less. Funding is starkly different between mens and womens teams. All the same facility and arena priority is amplified. The issues with visibility and promotion exist to a worse degree. Men are given better and higher scholarships. At the highest level, male athletes are given grace on their grades (if not also tutors or ghostwriters) that is not afforded to the women. There is still the pressure to focus on studies and a non-sports career (if they are not pushed towards a mother role) that is not there for the men.
At the pro level, the women are still subject to poor arenas, barred from playing in arenas for the men, get less coverage, less funding, are given poor accommodations, and are paid a fraction of what the men do regardless of how well they do. One year for the world cup, the US Women's Soccer team was paid 20% what the men's team were paid, when the men lost in the first elimination round, and the women won the cup. Many pro women athletes are expected to or are forced to take up other jobs outside of their sport to afford to live. The men do not have any of these factors to contend with, and at every avenue where the things ARE difficult for the men's team, it is made exponentially worse for the women's teams. When a female athlete DOES have a child, the recovery from the experience is not treated like the injury recovery it is. Not only is she expected to come back fit, she must come back hot.
At every level, there may not even be a women's equivalent of the sport. Women may have to travel much farther away for a chance to play their sport, due to not having a team nearby, and she will be paid less to make that move.
In every opportunity for disparity, there exists one between men's and women's sports, and the interest on that disparity compounds until the women are at 20+ years of obstacles and STILL manage to beat cis men!
That woman is not proof that women can compete with men, she is proof that with weights on her ankles and one arm tied behind her back she can STILL beat a cis man guided every step of his career.
Patriarchy has an extreme vested interest in demolishing women's sports, so that women can remain an inspiring story of overcoming adversity rather than someone who simply excels at a sport.
If women's sports were not subjected to appalling levels of disenfranchisement, cis women would be crushing men at their sports at a rate that would make the establishment shit their pants, and unfortunately until we recognize the subset of women who find the suffering a noble right of passage as a hindrance to gender equality, we are never going to see the advancements we need to give female athletes the opportunities they deserve, and we will not realize how fake the skill gap is between men and women--a collective realization we MUST have to be able to fight patriarchy properly.
And at every avenue where gender disparity exists, there also exists gaps among the women with regards to race, or class, or able-body status, etc.
We are judging a whole class based off of a woman who just stumbled out of a final girl situation against a man waking up from a nap, and then ignore why it's even THAT woman who stumbled forward and not her peers.
The bigotry is so deep, yall!
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*"girls/women" as both cis girls/women and the forced association of those assigned female at birth. Broad language that does not begin to encompass the whole experience, but is the framework society works off of.
**"boys/men" as both cis boys/men and the forced association of those assigned male at birth. Broad language that does not begin to encompass the whole experience, but is the framework society works off of.
You Have to show the same level of respect and compassion that you show to people who are dysphoric/grieve over their inability to get pregnant to people who are dysphoric/grieve over their unwanted ability to get pregnant, btw. You simply Have To. Itâs non-negotiable, especially in a world that physically and often violently prevents the latter group from exercising their right to bodily autonomy and removing unwanted parts of themselves.
You Have to show the same level of passion and interest that you show to future technologies and treatments that will allow people who canât get pregnant to finally do so to future technologies and treatments that will allow people who canât impregnate others to finally do so, btw. You simply Have To. One is not more worthy/morally virtuous than the other, one is not an easier burden to bear for those dysphoric about their current anatomy. You Must show the same level of compassion for people who grieve that their only current way to have a biological child with their partner would be to carry it themselves that you do to for people who grieve that their only current way to have a biological child with their partner would be to get them pregnant.
You Must be just as interested in technologies that will finally allow anyone (infertile cis men, intersex people, trans men/mascs/trans people AFAB) to impregnate that you are towards the technologies that will finally allow anyone to get pregnant. Itâs not up for debate. Dysphoria around one is not more morally virtuous and worthy of respect and compassion than the other. You MUST be pro-bodily autonomy and reproductive autonomy for all, or else youâre not at all. Itâs just how it is.
Signing this as a HetGNC cis woman who hates having the ability to get pregnant and would far prefer to be able to impregnate. Respect our grievances or get the fuck off my page tbh.
my biggest word of advice to anyone scared to post their work/ocs/involve themselves in creative spaces online is to earnestly get interested in other people. be kind to others, like/reblog their work, tell them what you like about their work, get to know them as people.
this isnât to âweaselâ your way into anything or having ulterior motives or whatever. if you become friends with someone then thatâs great! but thereâs always something very personal about posting any kind of creative work. weâre all trying our best to connect with each other and the best way to get comfortable is to get to know others and show up as yourself. đ«¶đŸ
@hamletthedaneâs tags:
#Vincent Van Gogh is crying somewhere in the after and Iâm crying just thinking about that#you knew!! you saw the patterns!! there is a whole planet painted in the oils from your brush!!#TIL that the craft Juno went as close as 4000km from Jupiterâs weather surface#for context: the craft was closer to Jupiter than NYC is to LA#which is space terms is like. basically being on the planet#holy shit
There needs to be a 4th option because I consider past me to still be me but I don't think of myself as having always been the same person, if that makes sense
Birthday: June 9, 1993 (approximately 30 in the story's timeline)
Gender: Genderqueer Cis Man (he/him)
Ethnicity: Korean
Sexuality: Straight
In-Game LI Pursued: Peg King (Hispanic Charlotte King)
Endgame LI Headcanon: Marries Peg King and becomes the proud (step)-father to Yvette. Thereby making him a DILF.
Additional Notes: His former name is "Gabriel Cho". He's trained in acting and an aspiring pornstar. Once he did get a job at a porn studio, but it quickly went to shit. Let's just say, they didn't respect his sexual boundaries/preferences. After getting the fuck outta dodge, he took on the name "Dick Ryder" in order to own his sexuality. "Peg King" on the other hand is her original name tho.
TYSM @lover-also-fighter-also for the ask! Answers below!
NSFW 1. How often do they have sex, if at all?
Aidevie: Very regularly. Aiden incorporates prep sessions into his daily routine when he can.
CherJay: Mildly regularlyâ they enjoy casual sex, but tend to find it more pleasurable when itâs done on a special/important occasion.
[I havenât yet figured this out for my other HSS pairs]
Peggyler: Fairly regularly. Mostly casually. Peggy can be pretty busy sometimes, but they do enjoy it when they have free time or are spending the night out.
TYSM @storyofmychoices for the ask! Answers below cut!
SFW 6. Going out to eat: Who pays? Who orders the most food? And who has dessert?
Aidevie
Evie insists on paying a lot of the time because she likes to be a gentlewoman. But sometimes Aiden will start insisting he pay because, while he does appreciate her being a gentlewoman, he thinks itâs not fair if she pays all the time. I think a lot of the time they end up either splitting the bill or paying for their own orders (or sometimes paying for each otherâs orders). Often if itâs a surprise date, they will go by âwhoever planned it pays for itâ.
Who orders the most food + who orders dessert usually depends on the place. Evie is a very picky eater, so she might not order as much if most of the food options are uninteresting. They both like dessert, but wonât order if theyâre too full.
Peggyler
Peggy likes to pay a lot of the time, and Tyler loves it. But most of the time they take turns or split. Tyler tends to eat a fair amount more than Peggy. They both like dessert but donât order it every time.
CherJay
Cher loves to pay, but because a lot of their Going Out To Eat dates tend to be at swanky restaurants, they often find it more sensible to split it in some way. They tend to eat equal amounts of food, and both love ordering dessert.
SFW 15. Vacation ideas: who decides them? Where would they go, if anywhere?
Aidevie: Evie especially loves summery vacations, like somewhere with a beach and/or a pool, but theyâre down for anything fun/relaxing really. I think Aiden would have a preference for more âmoderateâ vacations, but he enjoys summery stuff too (especially with Evieâs annual summer fever being extremely contagious).
CherJay: Would probably enjoy visiting England and France a kind of often, maybe? England (and France too to an extent) holds special value to them because of the Spotlite trip, plus because of Cherâs Gio family. But also France would appeal to them a lot.
Peggyler: IDK yet about them. Peggy tends to prefer cooler and rainier seasons+climates, while Tyler prefers warmer. I think theyâd sometimes like outdoorsy vacations such as campingâ Peggy likes to get away from society, and Tyler likes the space for running and other outdoors physical activity/sports.
All couples tend to decide vacations together, unless itâs a surprsie. Sometimes Evie will suggest vacation ideas more though.
NSFW 4. Oddest place theyâd have sex?
I had one headcanon about Aiden and Evie doing it super discreetly at a rave/concert but I havenât really thought it through.
Peggy and Tylerâs first time was in the backseat of Tylerâs car, some time into when they first started dating. They consider that pretty weird to a degree, considering how Peggy had snuck in back there back when she was following him for Gabbieâs case lol.
Cher and Ajay like the idea of doing it in a public use jacuzzi (like the one in the book 3 premium scene) but theyâd never actually go through with that. So idk.
NSFW 9. Quickest turn ons? Immediate turn offs?
Evieâs biggest turn-ons probably go without saying. Honestly, Aiden literally just existing turns her on, but when he dresses or dances in a risque manner that flaunts his best assets, thatâs a huge booster. She does also love when he uses a hard serious commanding voice+demeanor, sheâs a huge pathetic service top for that shit.
Aiden is very turned on by Evieâs musclesâ especially her arms. Any display of physical strength or flaunting of her muscles is a huge turn on. He also has a bit of a fixation for her forearms and hands and dexterityâ partly because of his own instrumental experience, topped with his desire for Evie to finger him.
Peggy is attracted to Tylerâs chest, ass, and thighs. She loves when he wears clothing that hugs/accentuates it (especially his activewear). She isnât attracted to his muscles on their own, but they become much hotter to her when theyâre all decorated in something like lingerie and.or body jewelry.
Tyler gets pretty turned on by Peggyâs body figure. He is also on record in canon for saying that Peggy standing up for him was kinda hot (see ch6 premium scene), sooo any time Peggy is protective of him too.
Cher is obsessed with Ajayâs serious hourglass shape, hot butt, and serious demeanor; and Ajay is attracted to Cherâs singing voice and serious-yet-upbeat-and-confident voice, but I donât think either have any specific turn-ons?
Probably goes without saying, but all the gals are stone tops with some level of bottom dysphoria. So anything involving them getting penetrated or focusing a lot on their vagina/vulva (or just generally, most if not all hetnorm sex roles) is an immediate turn off. Iâm still working out each characterâs levels of dysphoria/discomfort, but Evie is probably the most sickened by it. Cher and to an extent Peggy actually, neither would like if someone touched her vulva, but it wouldnât kill the mood for them unless their partner kept going even after being told no. Meanwhile for Evie, if someone touched her there even once, or even insisted that they touch her there, it would be all hands on deck.
Similarly for the guys, theyâre all stone bottoms(? Is that the right term)? I havenât figured out yet how bottom dysphoric theyâd each be though. I know Aiden wouldnât mind the occasional dick squeeze during his preferred sex activities, but anything more than that is a hard no. But Iâm still figuring that out for Ajay and Tyler.
Anything involving bodily waste is also a hard turn-off for all of them. With the exception of the guys sometimes being squirters (mostly occasionally for Aiden, but Ajay and Tyler rarely experience it). And yes, given their normal forms of sex prior to reproductive/genital swap transplants, theyâre all very thorough when it comes to cleansing prep.
