A Choices Blog For WLW

hi, I’m a lesbian and I love getting played by pixelberry!

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Happy Pride to Choice’s resident rockstar lesbian, our beloved Kaitlyn Liao 🎼🎸

I’ll never forget how special it felt to have a canonical, openly lesbian love interest back in the deeply heteronormative days of early visual novel games 🩷🧡❤️

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Long Live Siren Queen Charlie 🩷⚔️

Finally got around to reading Distant Shores (highly recommend!), and I just had to commemorate my beloved sapphic pirate queen Charlie 🥰💕

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Hana Lee x Motherhood Appreciation Post 💕

My wife is just too precious 🥰

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Happy Holidays from the love of my life, Hana Lee❤️

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Never not thinking about this iconic moment 💀

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💫 Duchess Hana Lee being protective: a mini series💫

Anyways, I love my wife🥰

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Ok but fr? This felt mad disrespectful. This whole book is a goddamn mess, but this was just tasteless. This wasn’t what we asked for. Genuine question for PB: do y’all not think Black ppl have been traumatized enough yet? Like, we been knew that they weren’t gonna improve, but this was just so gimmicky and poorly done, I feel fucking sick.

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Throwback to TRH MC’s Maternity Looks💞

These were absolutely i c o n i c 💫

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girls !!!

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Appreciation post for Mr. Chambers of Desire and Decorum💕 Being each other’s beards in our respective tragic gay romances? All behind the backdrop of the unkind English gentry of the early 19th century? Let’s just say that I feel WLW and MLM solidarity in this Chillis tonight🥺

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Thoughts on Recent Pixelberry Happenings, from a Black Lesbian

So let’s call a spade a spade; Pixelberry has made quite a few blunders as a company, and their commitment to representation has been spotty at best.

I hate to start my sentences by listing the identities I hold. Not because I am ashamed of those identities, but because I have been taught that in order for my perspective to be respected, I must refrain from partaking in “identity politics”. However, I won’t hide from the fact that my point of view in this situation is one of a black, transient lesbian who has felt thoroughly disappointed by Pixelberry’s lackluster representation.

When I first played the freshman, I was overjoyed to see a lesbian of color in Kaitlin Liao, I was so absolutely shocked that one of the many(many) visual novel games I’d played would “go out of their way” by making a character that I could relate to. A queer character, a dyke, who was both gay and a woman of color and had a plot line that( albeit scarcely) addressed the cultural implications of coming out. I was floored. And I was so happy that I somehow forgot that my expectations for representation had been influenced by a lifetime of never seeing myself in media. The bar wasn’t on the floor- the bar never existed for me and those like myself.

I couldn’t tell you how I squealed with excitement when I saw that I had the privilege of paying Pixelberrry to let my black MC in Bloodbound wear braids. I couldn’t tell you how joyful my transient self felt when I realized that Aisha of Bachelorette Party and Andy of It Lives in the Woods simply existed as trans characters. I couldn’t tell you how utterly honored I felt by the scraps that were tossed at my feet.

I suppose it never came to my surprise that blackness or a uniquely black character arc had never reared its head into a main plot of a Choices story. When have nonblacks ever committed themselves to telling black stories? You could say I’m being unfair. Because of course, we were given the chance to exclaim to Vanessa in MOTY that her actions against us might have been racially influenced. We could opt into a black MC, or rather a white MC with a different color pallet, and we could pay to put that MC in a hairstyle a black person might actually wear. We could choose to make an LI black, with no lasting effect to the storyline of course. We could romance a POC character to only have them suddenly not be a LI anymore( shoutout to Rafael stans, they did y’all dirty). We could develop an attachment to a black character only to have her killed so your white MC can go cry to their white male boss who is also apparently the only LI that matters enough to get any screen time ( Ethan stans- fight me).

I saw Pixelberry’s statements, and though I want to believe that they are meeting the moment, I am weary of how committed they truly are, especially considering they just released Queen B with exactly one(1) textured hairstyle: that recycled, ugly ass, high bun. But hey. They’ll tell you Black Lives Matter when you open the app. Cheers to that I guess. Good on them.

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This proposal was honest to god the best moment in the original TRR series, don’t @ me😩💕💞🥰

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Okay, not even gonna lie, I’m high-key geekin’ over how adorable TRH2 is so far🥰 Queer motherhood? Beautiful💕

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My dyke ass really just wants a gf to cuddle and fuck, like is that so much to ask? But like,, in the meantime I will take all of the pixelated women ya got, thank you very much

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That’s my fucking wife 🥰

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I forgot what a pair of bad ass dykes Hana and MC are- they’re literally lesbian vigilantes I can’t

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Harper Emery should have replaced Ethan Ramsey as a love interest

Some of y’all about to be real mad, but it must be said. Open Heart has a terrible male to female love interest ratio. We only got Jackie, and while she’s fine, her whole personality feels like an overdone trope. WLW players were forced to take her though because she was the only female love interest. I don’t date men, I don’t fuck men, and I’m not interested in Bethan Chamsee despite Pixelberry forcing him down our throats.

Harper Emery would have balanced the scales and made it much more fair to players who don’t like men.

I said what I said.