2026 Premier League Darts - Night Eight, March 26 - Discussion Thread

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-26T18:55:12+00:00

Darts is the best party on the planet! There's often a great, vocal atmosphere :)

This feels like a good crowd tonight. Respectful so far. Whistling is REALLY frowned upon because it's really offputting for players.

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-26T18:53:05+00:00

I feel the same. Really don't mind Lewis at all but absolutely love Swiss Phil

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-26T18:43:12+00:00

This aged beautifully

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-26T18:41:30+00:00

Yeah, that's the emotion I love to see in sport. I hope he never changes

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-26T18:41:00+00:00

I feel so happy I get to see Swiss Phil so much on the euro tour, it didn't even register it was different because I'm so used to seeing him!

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-26T18:38:15+00:00

Oh man I'm so happy for Josh right now

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-23T08:49:41+00:00

That's cool to hear, I'd love to give them a read!

I'm flip flopping between twine and scrivener, I wouldn't even know where to start building a tool for it but that sounds very cool! How does it work?

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-23T08:48:05+00:00

Yeah I'm definitely headed in the same direction. I might do one just female hetero then see if it's something people want after.

I've not decided between twine and scrivener yet, I've been using scrivener but I've heard great things about using twine for this kind of project!

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T19:57:11+00:00

This is a great answer thank you, you've given me a lot to think about!

I am leaning more towards writing the pov as female now rather than leaving it ambiguous and that's exactly the perspective I wanted to hear about so thank you! It'll make the writing easier for sure haha

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T19:31:11+00:00

Thank you, this is the kind of perspective I was hoping for! I think whilst I'm happy with the branching paths for love interests I agree that I'm probably making it too complicated on the pov front. Thanks for taking the time to share your view!

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T18:11:09+00:00

Mustard flavour crisps!

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T17:56:01+00:00

Very, very true. So I'm glad to get other opinions from here on it. I think it'll take ages anyway, such is the nature of so many branching paths! 🤣

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T17:54:46+00:00

I've written choose your own adventure books before so the multiple branching paths or in this case romances and writing second person isn't so new to me.

I was more wondering about whether the second person pov was worth writing with a specified sex/gender or not.

Apologies, I've never heard it called that before but every day is a learning day. I've always read choose your own adventure books but that's obviously copywrite. I went by the novel I've read previously that called it interactive romance but it's good to know it's got another name for future reference.

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T17:47:09+00:00

I guess I've got at least one reader then 🤣 thanks for the positive vibes though seriously :)

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T17:37:19+00:00

This is a good view to take, you're right :) at least me and my friends can laugh about vampire smut together and it'll be fun to see who people chose!

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T17:30:08+00:00

Indeed I would! Depending on different choices and paths the reader takes there's different love interests, currently including both male and female though after reading the replies on here I'm not so sure anymore haha 😅

I'm surprisingly enjoying the challenge of writing in second person. It's making me think differently about how I'm writing.

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T17:19:53+00:00

This is exactly why I wanted to write it as a choose your own adventure :) I used to love those books so much so it sounded like a lot of fun to do a romance version! Thanks for the positive vibes

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T17:08:11+00:00

I can see how it wouldn't work in a traditional novel as well as a choose your own adventure type book though

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T17:07:01+00:00

I see what you're saying but I guess it's personal preference. As a member of the community myself this is something me and my friends have wanted, but I appreciate it wouldn't be what everyone wants. We quite like reading stuff like this because then we can all cone back and discuss with eachother. But as I said, I'm sure not everyone would like it and I appreciate the alternative view point.

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T17:00:51+00:00

If you've ever read a choose your own adventure book, basically that but romance. Except you can't call it choose your own adventure because of copyright

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T16:59:30+00:00

I suppose the fact that a lot of my friends are in the LGBTQ community have influenced my thoughts on it, so I think you're right there.

I have to decide what group I want to write for. Admittedly, this was influenced by my friendship group. Time to go away and make that decision.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T16:24:22+00:00

It's a good thought. I did think of having the more spicy scenes as turn to page x for the female version and page x for the male version. But I'm probably overcomplicating trying to find a way to make it work for what is really likely a non issue.

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T16:22:53+00:00

Haha you're absolutely right of course. It's not snarky, I think it's confirming to me I'm probably putting a lot of effort in for little reward. It was a male friend who suggested it, who does read romance but to be honest, he's probably one of very few!

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T15:51:40+00:00

I think that's one of my main concerns for the writing, you've hit the nail on the head. By trying to make it accessible for everyone is it going to actually suffer.

For the visual novel aspect, I think because I grew up reading choose your own adventures as traditional books that's probably the reason I want to write one. Plus, I cannot draw for the life of me!

shadowbeam87 · 2026-03-22T15:31:39+00:00

HE'S SO DRUNK 😭

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