#cassandra taylor

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Michael Turner and D-Tron Ballistic Action #1 Ballistic (Cassandra Taylor) pin-up (1996) Source

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Safekeeping

Posting this today as a birthday gift to myself. 🍰🎁 I'm enjoying this character immensely and I hope others do as well! I'm writing little slices of her life and working up a fuller story for her.

I'm posting this as part of ficwip5k 2022 and I hope you read some of the other amazing stories people have already submitted.

Cassandra is kind of stubborn, very clever, and loves her father and their bookshop more than anything else in the world. While Jack the Ripper is roaming the streets, William decides the only way to keep his daughter safe is to send her away to America.

Read it all here on AO3 and leave a kudo or a comment!

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*tips fedora* m'lady

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Roast the BaBu characters pls

Okay I only played like 3 chapters and I barely remember half of the characters so this one will probably be messy

MC: the only thing she did right in life is to get knocked up by a rich guy so she can get that sweet cash

Mr. Covington: Proof that money doesn’t make you smart. First knocks up a random woman and then immediatley propses as if they haven’t known each other for like 2 days

Mayor Dixen: Looks like they would propose to you by saying “Will you be the yee to my haw?” with a face that is lacking of any emotions

Mariana; Absolutely sucks at her job. Manages to mess up everything even though it’s just a pregnancy

Luisa: Just another “I’m such a cool girls cause I don’t like hugs” character. Get over yourself geez

Cassandra: Stop going after a woman who didn’t even know about your existence and blame her for everything. Go after your man like a normal person should

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I'm just now catching up on Baby Bump 2,

I do think Cassandra's change of heart happened too quickly but I gotta say I love having her on our side. She can be a very interesting character if they only gave her the screentime ans the chance.

ALSO PLEASE DON'T LET THIS POST AGE POORLY AND HAVE HER BETRAY US OR SOMETHING

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The problem with having characters come to life is that if they're a shopaholic while you're trying to make them an outfit for a scene, it ends up becoming a virtual shopping spree and the second I see rainbow shoes and she's like I want them and I'm like they're ugly and she's like they're rainbow though so now I'm looking for cute rainbow shoes for here

Here's a couple shoes she already picked out (already at 13K - she's lucky she's rich)

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Personal thoughts on Baby Bump, Book 1

Note: As the title says, these are just personal opinions on Choices books and chapters. Of course, you may agree or disagree with them, I only use this platform to express my thoughts on what I read every week and what I’d like to see in the next chapters, because none of my friends play Choices so I have no one to comment the books with.

So… I’ve been out of Tumblr this week because I focused on replaying Baby Bump. I’m not going to lie: this is not one of my favorite books in the app, and I had actually forgot about a lot of the things that happened in this story, so I basically had to replay it for two reasons: the first one is because Baby Bump 2 was just released today (I haven’t read the first chapter yet, so I have no idea of what happened) and I wanted to remember what happened… and the second one is because I might be working on a post with a summary of 2020 releases, just like the one I did last year.

However, I have to admit that replaying Baby Bump left me with a completely different taste when compared to the first time I read the book. Maybe it’s the fact that I was able to read a story that had been fully released, so I didn’t have to wait a full week for a new chapter and I could easily play 3 or 4 chapters a day… but for some reason, I didn’t find it as boring as the first time I read it!

Even though the plot is not amazing, it’s quite consistent, lightheaded, and easy to read and follow, and I think this might actually explain why there are many people who simply love this story. Another thing that I realized during the replay (and this has probably become my favorite thing about this book) is how the writers managed to balance the pregnancy story with a MC who’s trying to develop a career after graduating. Even though I’m not a mom, I’ve seen my friends with kids struggling with this since forever now, so I really appreciate the fact that the book not only addresses the topic, but also the fact that they do it in a very tactful way, to the point that in most cases it looks natural and it almost gets unnoticed (except when dealing with Anna, she’s like the queen of overreacting!). So kudos to the writers!

Unfortunately, even though the plot is fine (again, not “great”, but “fine”), there are too many specific situations in this story that just feel weird to me, no matter how many times I play the book. And probably at the top of my list are our friends. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against the characters as individuals, I like them (especially Luisa, I think her personality is kind of different to what we’re used to see in a female friend), but when I look at them as a gang, I just don’t feel the chemistry I see in stories such as The Royal Romance, Open Heart or Perfect Match. I mean… the only thing that Luisa, Myles and Clint have in common is the MC… I don’t know what they’d talk about if they were in a room without her. And this feels especially true when you notice that they’ve been living in the same small town since forever, but only became “friends” when the MC appeared.

There is also this thing with the LIs. Again, I have nothing against Clint or Myles, even though Clint behaved like a real freak when he decided to propose our MC just because she was pregnant. I understand that PB needed to have one unique father for our baby, so they went with Clint… but in my mind, dating Myles is just so weird now! Maybe it’s just me, but it is kind of uncomfortable to see Myles dating a pregnant woman who actually got pregnant after a one night stand with the other guy in our gang (or with the only guy in the gang if your Myles is a girl). Yikes!

Then, there is something about the professional side of our MC that just doesn’t feel right to me. Maybe this is just me misunderstanding the story, but even though I consider our MC is very good at her job, but I don’t think it’s OK to hide her pregnancy from Myles. Maybe there is something cultural about it, but in my country, the chances that you get a job while pregnant are minimal because you’re considered a “burden” by most employers (I know, it’s awful!). However, it is not OK to hide this information from your employer either. Telling your employer that you’re pregnant is some basic good education, especially because the employer must figure out what they will do while you’re on maternity leave (if you have access to it).

And last but not least, there are these two characters that I truly can’t stand: the first one is Selma. I don’t know if we’ll get to see her in Book 2 (I don’t know what would be her role in the new book to be honest) but there is something about her that I don’t even know how to describe… the woman was very unpredictable and sometimes I felt like my MC was “forced” to do things she didn’t want to do just to please her, so it was just unpleasant for me to share scenes with her, she made me feel uncomfortable. And the second one is Mariana. I may forgive her for missing one of the babies (because yeah, it happens in real life) but her attitude when the MC took Clint with her to the appointment was so unprofessional (Ethan Ramsey would have had a heart attack by watching this situation) that I just couldn’t stand her since that moment. I’m an awful person, I know!

What do I expect from Book 2? I think everything was pretty much said in the extra scenes in Book 1… our MC is delivering not one, but two babies… we’ll have to recover our job… we’ll also have to deal with Clint’s parents (maybe that will be an opportunity for Cassandra to have her redemption arc)… Craig will make our life a nightmare… Anna and Bao will be planning their wedding… we’ll do a lot of baby shopping… honestly, I don’t think there’s much room for surprises because Book 2 will already have many subplots, so by now, I only expect to have a lightheaded and enjoyable story to read on Fridays.