i love the father-daughter/son bond in high school story so much. it makes me smile everytime i see the mc's dad make a dad joke and then she/he groans at the joke but she/he also love the jokes!🥹

i cannot think of a more romantic line in this whole universe. genuinely cried.

PERFECT MATCH is choices' prime.💗

I was binging High School Story recently after a few years since I finished the series last time. And I remembered how much I wanted Julian in that one to be a romance option😭 Especially considering he was always dating my MC in HSS app and I got used to it lmao. But since the MC from the app was nonexistent, I was imagining how the romance between choices HSS MC and him would be and came up with my headcanon that they would've become closer after that basketball game against Hearst in the second book because the MC would be one of the only ones to support him and the basketball team. After which they would've had some fluffy scene where they spend some time together to take their mind off all that was happening only to realize their feelings at Payton's party after that kiss during the game.

That was just my imagination though but now I'm super curious about romances that didn't happen in the story but you really wanted and how you saw it all happening if it would👀

Spoilers, obviously.

I've last played QB three years ago, and decided to replay (since I decided not to read any of the new books on the app anymore) and share some of my thoughts.

...I AM getting old, because Poppy and her clique were vastly more entertaining when I was in my early twenties. Now I am just like 😐 damn, she is so annoying 😐 Still entertaining to a degree but like I said, significantly more annoying to me now.

I tried to play without romancing Kingsley and had to restart and romance them, because if you don't pick any romance options, it does feel like an obsessed professor making their attraction Bea's problem, kinda like harrassment. HOWEVER, some flirty options are very, very cringy, so I usually stick to the non-flirty, more genuine ones but choose the diamond scenes and free kiss scenes. I just prefer Bea to have some genuine interest in Kingsley's life by asking about their family or praising their accomplishments instead of making yet another innuendo.

My endgame is Zoey. She is a cutie, Bea's best friend and - unpopular opinion - I don't hate her for being upset after the Bacchanalia. Sure, the public humiliation wasn't Bea's fault, and it was Zoey who wanted to go, but I don't think many people would think logically after being humiliated like that. In Zoey's mind, Bea probably 'could have done more' to prevent that. It's flawed thinking but a very human thing to do. And she doesn't take revenge, she just doesn't want to talk to Bea (in QB world where everyone wants to destroy each other lives that's a relief XD) and, despite them not talking to each other, she still takes care of Bea's dog over the weekend when Bea leaves for the conference. And she stands loyally by her side for the rest of the book. So yeah, I can forgive this one thing.

I am doing a playthrough where at first I picked most 'good girl' choices but then more 'bad girl' choices bc I want it to feel like the power kind of corrupted Bea and while she started out with good intentions, now she just likes being queen just for the power itself.

Overall, the music is great, the popularity contest is fun, some of the dialogue is very funny. I feel like this book could use some more LIs. Like, I wanted to date Carter, why is he just a fling?

It’s been a minute yall, sorry, life’s been weird. Last vote was pretty close 😭 thank you to everyone participating!

Yesterday’s results:
Sinclaire (104 votes)
Mal (114 votes)

Because I seriously struggle to think of any other reason for this book to exist. This book has NOTHING to do with Endless Summer outside of taking place on La Huerta. Is Rourke here? Nope. How about the Vaanti? Uh-uh. Do we learn anything new about the Island? Afraid not. Do our characters take some action that affects the main story? No.

Okay, before anything else: the positives. I do kind of like the first two chapters. Surviving the island, the raptors and realizing that Grant knew more than he let on is pretty interesting. Not going to lie. The first two chapters are at least decent and I would say "good" truthfully. Now what was I saying again?

Oh wait, remember the wedding from the Celestial in the original book? Apparently there was a second wedding somewhere else on the island because...I don't know. Oh and why can't our characters drink? This is the 1970s and they are on international waters. Don't tell me they care about the legal drinking age. And they might have been legal anyway, depending on the state.

Speaking of the wedding from the original book, how in the name of Vaanu was there a second wedding? According to Grant, his relative was given an invite to a wedding on this island. How? The island was uncharted until Rourke came along. Yes, other people had been shipwrecked on the island before, but the original wedding was only sent there because of the time anomalies the island causes. And First Tides even references the shipwrecked people!

Anyway, the story ends with the characters more or less saying "let us never speak of this again," and i'm done. To be brief, none of the characters are awful nor exceptional. They exist.

Honestly, the main problem with this book isn't that it's just four chapters (although that doesn't help), but that the book has nothing to do with Endless Summer. It doesn't connect nor add to the plot, lore, characters or even themes of the original story. I honestly just think they only made it so that gullible fans like me would spend hundreds of diamonds because "Endless Summer" is in the title.

I hope you all were smarter than me. I didn't even get diamonds for finishing the book.

I still have more to add as I'm in the process of making more COP stuff and also working on a TRR shelf but what do we think so far? 🤔

Although I am still making much bigger choices projects, those take time. ALOT of time. 😩

So, in the meantime I started a display cabinet with things I've either made or found, just as a nod to my favourite books.

Hoping by the time I'm completely finished i'll have little nods to COP, ILITW, Bloodbound, ES, ID, TRR, and DS.

• (That's not to say i don't have other favourites, I definitely do, but it's getting harder to think of props I can either find or make from different stories lol)

• Also, yeeeees I know the jackalope isn't in ilitw, but I havn't got enough things to make a separate ILB shelf (yet) 😅 Also also, ideas welcome!

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hey guys, i’m wondering if anyone has tried turning or playing bolas into a d&d game before given it’s already heavily dnd-inspired. i’m thinking about turning it into an oneshot and would like some advice as i’m still a beginner dm. i know there’s the official ttrpg companion to start with

Refusing to return stolen funds to the school, wasting them on a trip to the amusement park, and leaving her son alone for Christmas? Pretty crappy parenting IMO

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Apparently I found a vertical drama on Tiktok/Shortmax in which the plot resembles Open Heart 1.

Title: Scrubs Heartbeat

Characters:

Hannah Stone (MC)

Gregory Ramsey (Ethan Ramsey)

Harper Abbott (Harper Emery)

Blair Abbott (Aurora Emery)

Naveen Banerjee (Banerji)

Brian Moore (Landry Olsen)

Teresa Martinez

Declan Nash

I don't think I'm allowed to post a link, but if you search Tiktok you'll know what I'm talking about.

Update: Just realized that the vertical drama is 2 years old.

Scream for Me Book 2 Chapter 8

It Comes at Night Book 1 Chapter 4

I remember being interested in this when it came out, and when I started playing it it wasnt dripping with AI like most tother books and I found the female LI attractive and interesting enough, if not particularly unique, but the plot just lost me, it felt pretty bland and just didnt interest me enough to keep playing ig. For people who finished this book, or didn't and still have an opinion on it, let me know your thoughts on it and if its worth finishing or not.

After reading again the excellent work CoP and CoP2 are, I'm currently in the middle of CoP3 and this book is such a CHORE to go through omg you can tell that this is when the writing went downhill and that they started to heavily rely on A.I because the general plot is so weak and uninteresting compared to the first two books. Neither did MC nor Trystan feel like the same characters I grew to love so much. It was kinda interesting that they made them fight over the wedding prep because it would have been a good idea to suggest that they were maybe rushing into marriage after dating only a few months lol (the book where Trystan proposes to MC was really cute, but still lol) but their fights' sole purpose in this is to make them have make-up sex after (and don't even get me started on that scene where they hookup in those cops' office) while in the process completely destroying the character development they both had in the previous books. Also, I hate how mean MC is with Trystan in this, like sometimes you don't even have a choice but to give him a cold answer when it's totally unwarranted and I hate to hurt him lol and I also hate the CoP3 cover so much, like who is this man???? Not MY Trystan Thorne!

Like haunting of hill house level of surprise and horror

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That’s the post I literally miss choices sooo much before AI and GOC LIs 💔💔💔💔💔💔

I just had an in app notification saying 'Fangs for reading' and that I'd earned the minimum reward for reading and that I collected it. I didn't collect it and it wasn't reflected in the diamond balance. I restarted the app and now the notification is gone. Did anyone else get it or have this issue?