The other side of me...

This used to be a Choices blog, but Open Heart and Ethan Ramsey took over it || Compulsive fanfic reader || Patagonia, Chile

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Open Heart (Masterlist - Under Reorganization)

Expect it to be updated when the inspiration hits... if you want to check my reviews on other Choices books, click here.

Meet My MC: Dr. Casey Valentine

Meet My OC: Oliver Valentine

Meet The Ramseys!

Meet My MC Event

Casey Valentine: About Her Past

Casey Valentine: About Her Present

Casey Valentine: About Her Future

MC Monday

Part I: Endearing

Part II: Framed picture

Part III: Book release

Part IV: Thirst trapping

Part V: Phone lockscreen

Part VI: Family tree

Part VII: Badges

Part VIII: Dating app profile

Part IX: Winter looks

Part X: Christmas camera roll

Part XI: Casey's "lasts"

Part XII: Vision board

Part XIII: Magazine cover

Part XIV: High school yearbook

Part XV: Pictagram profile

Part 15.5: Opera/Ballroom/Gala date

Part 15.8: OC Occasion

Part XVI: Love & Friendship Photo Challenge

Part XVII: Selfie and reaction

Part XVIII: Valentine's and Anti Valentiine's Day

Part XVIX: Meaning and history of Casey's name

Part XX: The exes

Part XXI: Casey's hometown

Part 21.5: Women who inspire Casey

Part XXII: Spring look book

Part XXIII: News headline (NEW!)

Part XXIV: Student ID

Part XXV

Part XXVI

Part XXVII: Eyes

Part XXVIII: Hair

Part XXIX

Part XXX: Flowers

Part XXXI:

Part XXXII: Children's names meaning

Part XXXIII: Casey's 13th picture in her camera roll

Part XXXIV: Picture of Casey in someone else's camera roll

Part XXXV:

Part XXXVI: Fathers and father figures

Part XXXVII: Siblings

Other

One year later

The Newlyweds Game: Casey and Ethan answer a series of questions about each other as newlyweds.

Masterlist

Week 9: Friends Edition

Week 10: Wedding at a Glance

Week 11: Ramdom questions

Week 12: NS*FW Stats (NS*FW)

Week 13: The Exes

Week 14: The Looks Throughout The Years

Wedding Wednesday

Week 1: Music

Week 2: The dress and the suit

Week 3: The cake

Week 4: The wedding party

Week 5: The wedding night attire

Week 6: The vows

Week 7: The rings

Week 8: The speeches

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13: When did they decide to get married?

Week 14

Week 15: Old, new, borrowed, and blue

Week 16: Favorite photos

Week 17: Traditions

More Templates

More About Casey and Ethan

Headcanons: My own vision on Casey and Ethan's perfectly imperfect world.

Baby Talks For completely different reasons, kids have never been on the cards for Casey and Ethan. What happens when he realizes he might be changing his mind about it?

The Calm After The Storm What happens to Ethan and Casey when she is finally discharged from Edenbrook after the attack? Set in the time jump in 2.12.

The Road To The Aisle Part of the Newlyweds Game. Ethan and Casey decide to give the next big step on their lives, but the process is not always easy. Luckily, they have a bunch of friends who are always willing to help.

Personal Thoughts On...: Series of personal reviews on different Open Heart chapters. I basically write them when I need to vent about something.

Open Heart

Open Heart, Second Year

Open Heart, Second Year, Chapter 13 (with some glimpses to previous chapters)

Open Heart, Second Year, Chapter 13: Casey vs. Levi

Open Heart, Second Year, Chapter 18

Open Heart, Second Year, Chapter 19

Open Heart, Second Year, Chapter 20

Open Heart, Second Year... and the mess with the Ethan plot

Open Heart, Third Year, Chapter 1

Open Heart, Third Year, Chapters 2-4

Other Theories and Random Posts: Again, the only reason I write these posts is to vent.

Open Heart: On Ethan Ramsey's relationship with his family

Open Heart, Second Year: On Sora dying instead of Danny

Open Heart, Third Year: On the LIs confessions in Hawaii

Open Heart, Third Year: On Ethan Ramsey's personality: attachment and self-sufficiency

Open Heart vs. Laws of Attraction... same vibes

Open Heart: Gratitude post

[koobiie]

i feel strongly about this

[ailurinae]

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[baddywronglegs]

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

[shrewreadings]

Не верите. Доверите.

Do not trust: verify.

[crazy-loca-blog]

The fact that AI has made my job WORST on a daily basis... please double check EVERYTHING!

[ambienne]

This tweet means a lot to me.

[ambienne]

It’s probably a really cool and good sign that this post I made in 2014 is going around again, right?

[i-put-the-sin-in-sinclaire]

Old man yells at cloud about old Playchoices

Literally never use Tumblr aside from occasional reblogging (sorry for the DM's that I have struggled to respond to in um.... YEARS, I am SO sorry) I just want to say how much I miss older PlayChoices.

I haven't picked up the game in ages, I used to play pretty much every day. I jumped ship around the time Alpha was being released I think? I would maybe make a yearly appearance on the app to replay old books like ILITW, D&D, TC&TF, etc. The app used to share intriguing adventures in fantasy settings, historical dramas/mysteries and campy stories about rising to stardom. It started to almost exclusively create more smut oriented stories (which is fine but I feel like it really deterred good portion of the fan base, myself included)

I remember stories like Open Heart, Desire and Decorum and Blades of the Light and Shadow updating and the PlayChoices tag trending at number 1. Fan art, fan fiction and edits were being posted DAILY. Theories, speculations and memes would circulate, inside jokes would form, heated debates about yet another book using OH faces for MC would spark discussions. It felt like a thriving fandom bonding over different stories that were being produced by Pixelberry.

I don't know when momentum truly started to slow down on the app as I had abandoned ship before it truly became obvious, but I can't help but feel like the use of AI generated assets really stomped the passion a lot of fans had for the game. I also feel like a large portion of the fan base were maybe deterred from the overwhelming amount of smut books and lack of other genres being explored. Smut sells, I don't blame Pixelberry for this decision, but I feel like it was a really polarizing action on their part. Books like ILITW, BOLAS and ES really showed how a story doesn't have to rely on the romance aspect for it to be received positively by its audience (I would like to mention that I am aware that there were some books displaying relationships in more harmful and dangerous lights without calling them out within the narrative, such as Witness. If I recall correctly my experience reading it presented a possessive dynamic that was never discussed further, there was toxicity that was never confronted within the narrative, creating an unhealthy message to the player/reader)

I look back and think of how the Playchoices tag would trend a few times a week and smile. I think back to the community it made, how artwork of various mediums were created inspired by the books that were being released at the time. The excitement for a new book sequel to release, the dread (affectionately) of yet ANOTHER TRR book being released. I think back to how the characters in the older books and the fan artists of the community inspired me to pursue my illustrations more seriously and see my art in a new way and push myself to draw in a way that really resonated with me. It was truly heartbreaking to see Playchoices turn to AI slop instead of actual artists for their assets. I would take reused OH faces for the 1000th time over the genuine horror slop I've seen on my feed.

All this to say, without this app and its fandom I may not be where I find myself in my personal and professional art journey, for that I will be eternally thankful.

Thank you to anyone scrolling this tag and takes the time to read my ramble, sorry if it is all over the place and is read in a negative light. That's not my intention rather.... disappointment? Longing for old PB? Reminiscing perhaps? Idk but I just wanted to write a virtual message in a bottle and send it off into the virtual Tumblr sea I suppose.

I hope you have a good day to who ever is reading :3

[crazy-loca-blog]

Hey!

I'm kind of disappeared because I'm on a mission of replaying/recording/saving as many of my Choices playthroughs as possible just in case. The bad news is that, last night, I pressed the wrong button on my phone and lost a lot of the content I had already recorded. The good news is that, because of it, I'm exploring some new routes.

And that's how I discovered one thing I had never noticed in Americas Most Eligible. When we first meet Adam, we ask him for some advice. And he gives us two tips. The first one is the same for everyone and it's not paywalled:

However, the second one is paywalled and it changes depending on what you choose:

If you choose to jump in the water:

If you choose to rub sunscreen on his back:

[crazy-loca-blog]

The fact that I was so tired yesterday that I thought the earthquake alert was actually my alarm intereupting my nap and I didn't wake up until my boyfriend told me "wake up, an earthquake is coming!" (don't worry, it wasn't a big one, I didn't get up of my bed and I went back to sleep, it wasn't worth my time and effort 😂)

[ryan-sometimes]

When people justify using gen AI by talking about how it allows them to do (insert creative hobby) it sends me into a blind rage. The whole point of the creative hobby is to use your brain. Having a machine do it for you defeats the purpose. That’s like saying you’re getting into running marathons then just driving the 42km

[crazy-loca-blog]

Faking a pregnancy so that I could get free stuff for the real baby mama who couldn't attend the event because she is in another city will forever be a top moment in my life 😂

[crazy-loca-blog]

Given the circumstances (that is, "I know we've said it plenty of times but now it truly seems the end of Choices is coming"), I think I'll have to stop working on my reading journal to record as many gameplays as possible so that I can work on my reading journal after we lose the app

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I had forgotten how much fun I had playing AME!

[crazy-loca-blog]

I'm about to finish the Alpha series (I've got three chapters left) and I promise I can't believe how PB dared to ruin a good series, with a solid plot in all three books, by adding smut scenes that feel forced, out of character, and in the weirdest situations.

[noah-wyles]

all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again

[crazy-loca-blog]

As someone who was born and lived a period of her childhood under a dictatorship, I know when to shut up and keep my political opinions to myself if I want to protect my family. And I hate to say it, but the future is so uncertain right now, that I think the moment has come.

[crazy-loca-blog]

Words in Spanish I never expected to see in Choices: "calzones" 😂

[nonbinaryjudean]

made you some graphics to help you remember

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Spoiler alert (does anyone care at this point?)

This must be the weirdest sentence in the book, as my MC necer questioned anything about her soulmate or her pack... please, make it make sense!