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Emma Moore @ Vivienne Westwood Fall/Winter, 1995 Ready-to-Wear

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Emma Moore 🇮🇪

2026 Ostrava Golden Spike

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A card game between the counsellors gets interrupted by a skunk fight

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Story info: 2,398 words

Tw: Anxiety Attacks, Bullying, Internalised ableism, Ableism, Transphobia, Internalised Transphobia, Minor Self Harm, Age Difference (17 and 19)

Summary: It has been an exhausting week for Ezra filled with pain and misery, but that all changes when he gets to spend some quality time with his favorite colleague.

This one is posted especially for my dearest @just-a-wholesome-rabbit

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Personal Thoughts on... Hot Couture

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.

First, please note that this post may have some spoilers… I tried to do my best to avoid them as much as possible, but it’s quite hard, so I thought about letting you know because not everyone has access to the VIP books and I don’t mean to be disrespectful because I seriously hate it when people release spoilers without an alert.

Second… it’s been a long time! I’ve been working on a couple of posts, but I feel that everything regarding Choices has been so tense in the last two months that I decided to just read the weekly releases and keep myself out of Tumblr. I’ve been waiting for the right moment to post them, so maybe soon I’ll do something about it (I’m also waiting to read all the fan fictions I know I’ve been missing!).

Third… yup, I got the VIP. So I’ll do my best to catch up on the VIP books as soon as possible so maybe you can have an idea about it when trying to decide whether to get it or not. I also hope to make a long review on the whole VIP experience as soon as I finish all the three books that have been fully released, but today I’ll be reviewing only the first book I finished: Hot Couture.

I’m not going to lie: based on the comments of people who first tested the books, I didn’t have high expectations on this story, that’s why I read it first (basically, I wanted to get rid of it). But to my surprise, I ended up being super invested in it (and a little sad because it’s a standalone). The book is also genderlocked, so this might kill your mood if you’re a guy who enjoys playing as a male character. We have three main LIs (Marco, Travis and Luz) but we also have a chance to have some fling with Hazel, our boss. The story is placed somewhere after Red Carpet Diaries 2 (and maybe even after RCD 3), as there is a Chris Winters appearance that gives us some hints (our MC has already watched “The Last Duchess” and Chris’ baby is apparently eating food already) and the main plot is about our MC (her default name is Emma Moore) who moves from Connecticut to New York to try to pursue a career as a fashion designer. Her goal is to get a job at Hazel Boutique, where her college friend Luz already works in the business department. But things don’t go as expected and she ends up becoming a model.

There are so many things I enjoyed about this book! First of all, without being a mind-blowing story, I think it’s pretty well-written. Then, the chapters are long. This is actually cool because even if you don’t use diamonds, every character has their own time to develop (and yep, all three main LIs have similar screentime), so when you finish the book, you don’t feel like there are plot holes or unsolved questions regarding anyone… I mean, I would have loved to see a second book just to follow the evolution of the characters (especially of the MC), but it works pretty well as a standalone as well. Your enemies are pretty clear (or they’re very predictable) since the first chapter, so don’t expect huge plot twists on that matter. Also, I’ve been noticing that during the last few months it’s getting harder to access our closets to change our MC’s clothes as much as we want to. Well, Hot Couture goes back to the old closet system and you can mix and match your hairstyles and clothes as you please throughout the story. And finally… our MC can wear glasses! That’s a HUGE “yes!” from me!

Of course, not everything is perfect. As you can imagine, most of the diamonds are spent in clothes and hairstyles, so this is a pretty expensive book, as you’re basically buying new outfits and/or hairstyles almost every single chapter (the basics are pretty cute though! Not spectacular, but cute). Of course, we also have a “mood board” that we must complete to have access to some exclusive scene at the end of the book (I usually complete them because I’m a sucker for extra scenes, but I’m getting tired of having to collect stuff in almost every single book). Don’t expect new faces, at least when it comes to the MC (they reuse the Bloodbound faces). I would have loved to see a deeper insight of the problems that models must face; I mean eating disorders, rivalries, the stress of feeling that you’re “disposable” for the industry, and so on… I think they tried to do that with Cleo, one of the models, but it was very superficial, so they missed a great opportunity there. And as per the LIs, they’re all pretty cool people as friends and significant others (by the way, don’t expect the 30 diamond scenes to be like the ones in “The Nanny Affair”… they’re probably more like “The Freshman” style), but things seemed a little rushed by the end of the book. The stories were developing at a nice pace, but in the end, I felt like the writers realized they were running out of chapters and tried to speed things a little bit, but it felt a little forced in my opinion (maybe it would have worked better with one extra chapter).

I had a blast reading this story; I can’t even remember when was the last time that it only took me a few days to finish a book. Sure, it’s a romance book (and I’m a sucker for romance books), but as the main focus is not on romance, it’s pretty enjoyable even if you want to remain single or you don’t care about romance at all. The fact that you can change your look or reuse your clothes as many times as you want is also very, very nice. And finally, the secondary characters (there are a lot!) are pretty important in the story, so you don’t feel like they’re unnecessary people in the plot. Not a masterpiece, but a pretty enjoyable story that I might even replay in the future to try some new choices.

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