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I see a lot of people clowning on the people of Pelican Town for not repairing the community center themselves or clowning on Lewis for embezzling and. like. Those criticisms aren't entirely unfair. But I think instead of coming at it from a perspective of "why can't the townspeople do this" we should be asking "why and how can the farmer do this?"

Like. Think about it. The farmer arrives in Stardew Valley on the first day of spring. By the first day they're obviously different. By day five the spirits of the forest who haven't been seen by the townsfolk in years or generations are speaking to them. By the second week they've developed a rapport with the wizard that lives outside town.

In the spring they go foraging and find more than even Linus, who's spent so many years learning the ways of the valley. Maybe he knows, when he sees them walking back home. Maybe he looks at them and understands that they're different, chosen somehow.

In the summer they fish in the lakes and the ocean for hours on end, catching fish that even Willy's only ever heard of, fish that he thought were the stuff of legend. They pull up giants from the deep and mutated monstrosities from the sewers.

In the fall, their crops grow incredibly immense; pumpkins twice as tall as a person, big enough that someone could live inside. The farmer cuts it down with an axe without even batting an eye. Does Lewis wonder, when he checks the collection bin that night and finds it full to the brim with pumpkin flesh? What does he think? Does he even leave the money? Does he have the funds to pay the farmer millions of dollars for the massive amounts of wine they sell? Or is it someone--something--else entirely?

In the winter, the farmer delves into the mines. No one in Pelican Town has been down there in decades. No one in living memory has been to the bottom. The farmer gets there within the season. They return to the surface with stories of dwarven ruins and shadow people, stories they only tell to Vincent and Jas, whose retellings will be dismissed by the adults as flights of fancy. People walking by the entrance to the mines sometimes hear the farmer in there, speaking in a language no one can understand. Something speaks back.

The farmer speaks to the the wizard. They speak to the spirit of a bear inside a centuries-old stone. They speak to the shadow people and the dwarves, ancient enemies, and they try to mend the rift. They speak to the Junimos, ancient spirits of the forest and the river and the mountain. They taste the nectar of the stardrops and speak to the valley itself. They change Pelican Town, and they change the valley. Things are waking up.

And what does Evelyn think? She's the oldest person in the valley; she was here when the farmer's grandfather was young. (How old *is* she, anyway? She never seems to age. She doesn't remember the year she was born.) Does she see the farmer and think of their grandfather? Does she try to remember if he was like this too, strange and wild and given the gifts of the forest?

And does their grandfather haunt the valley? He haunts the farm, still there even after his death; his body died somewhere else, but his spirit could never stay away for long. Does Abigail, using her ouija board on a stormy night, almost drop the planchette when she realizes it's moving on its own? Does Shane, walking to work long before anyone else leaves their house, catch glimpses of a wispy figure floating through the town? Does the farmer know their grandfather came back to the place they both love so much?

Mr. Qi takes interest in the farmer. He's different, too; in a different way, maybe, but the principles are the same. They're both exceptional, and no matter what Qi says about it being hard work and dedication, they both know the truth: the world bends around the both of them, changing to fit their needs. Most people aren't visited by fairies or witches. Most people don't have meteorites crash in their yard. Most people couldn't chop down trees all day without a break or speak to bears and mice and frogs.

The farmer is different. The rules of the world don't work for them the way they work for everyone else. The farmer goes fishing and finds the stuff of fairy tales. The farmer goes mining and fights shadow beasts and flying snakes. The farmer looks at paths the townspeople walk every day and finds buried in the dirt relics of lost civilizations.

The farmer is a violent, irrepressible miracle, chosen by the valley and destined to return to it someday. Even if they'd never received the letter, they would've come home.

They always come home eventually.

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the concept of the farmer being a literal anomaly to the townspeople bc of their in-game features and add-ons will always b so funny to me. so heres a little silly doodle i made.

(edit: ermm... numba two)

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hii hello heres another part of the other silly comic that people liked a lot thats about slightly crypid farmers !! also. happy new years !!!

(tumblr is poopy with the formating- read from left panel -> right panel, dialogue order doesn't really matter. i added image descriptions to help :p).

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Has the rabbit's foot comic been done? Yes.

Did I also have to do it? Also yes.

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thinking about harvey stardew valley and being a rural country doctor with a caseload like:

guy who won’t accept any diagnosis except “you have consumption and need to go to the seaside for your health”

woman who asks what gemstone he would prescribe for her UTI

guy who spends half the day trying to give himself a concussion and the other half trying to blow out his hearing on his guitar

two people who have struggled with alcoholism for years but reject all of his resources for it UNTIL someone gifts them alcohol biweekly for a year straight and suddenly their lives turn around

guy who will not stop mailing people bombs but in a friendly way and like this just isn’t on the PTSD screener??

guy who won’t stop asking him vague but increasingly bizarre questions about the safety of truffle oil

woman who EATS ROCKS

and also there’s a fucking wizard. what’s up with that. how often do you think the man goes “why did i get an MD why didn’t i just train to be a wizard i didn’t even know that was an option” while performing emergency surgery on this one farmer who won’t stop picking fights with ACTUAL MONSTERS

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"okay kid, i have a doctors appointment, you can handle this big fuckoff bus, i believe in you, keys are in the ignition, this thing DOES NOT HAVE INSURANCE so DON'T GET PULLED OVER, have fun"

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You are a villager of pelican town and decide to pay the farmer a visit on their farm, when you arrive the farmer is just leaving there house, you call out to them and they smile at you and ask if you need anything, you say no and tell them you just wanted to check up on them, they happily smile and say their doing well, you ask how the farm is doing and they excitedly say it’s doing really well and ask if you want a tour you say yes.

The first stop is a sheds filled with kegs making wine they ask if you want to try a taste from the batch they made yesterday you say yes. You try it and it’s good but you don’t recognize the taste of the fruit, you ask what kind of fruit they used to make it they say they found a seed and after they rehydrate it they grew it in they’re greenhouse they tried to find it name but never could so they just call it ancient fruit, you ask to see the fruit they agree and you both head towards the greenhouse

When you enter the green house you freeze as you see odd plants with large blue fruit and you recognize the plants from a drawing in a book you once read. It was a plant that when extinct eons ago, the farmer doesn’t seem to notice your reaction and asks if you want to continue on the tour you nod and quietly follow the farmer out of the greenhouse.

You look out into their field and see some odd mounds amongst the blueberries bushes, you point at them and ask the farmer what they are, the farmer says their junimo huts. You chuckle and are about to ask what are they really because junimos are just fairytales but before you can the farmer points and says that there’s one of the junimos now, as you look where the farmers pointing you see nothing but suddenly a berry is picked from the bush and floats away. The farmer smiles and says how helpful the junimos are and how they have to get more raisins to give them as a thank you gift, your words are caught in you throat so you just give a wobbly smile back and say nothing.

The farmer shows you inside their coop they have small dinosaurs that look similar to the pepper Rex’s rumoured to only be found deep in the caverns of the desert. You ask where they got them the farmer shrugs and says they dug up an egg up in the mountains and threw it in the incubator to see what would happen. You don’t know how to respond to that so you stay quiet.

You follow them to the barn they have cows, goats, sheep, pigs, and oddly enough there are ostriches. You can’t bring yourself to ask why they have ostriches.

You look in the slime hutch and you see slimes of all different colours. There are the normal colours, greens, blues, and reds, then there are some rarer colours like purple and even an exotic type that’s looks resemble a tiger normally only found in the tropical regions. As you stare at them you notice mixed in are some as black as night who just stare at you. The farmer follows your gaze and just shrugs saying that a witch likes to curse their slime hutch sometimes they gesture to a red eye statue in the corner and says that it keeps her away now. You look away from the statue and leave the hutch quickly.

As you get ready to leave the sun begins to set and you hear a hissing sound almost like a snake and the sound of moving earth as if something is digging its way up the farmer smiles and tells you to hurry home.

You leave quickly and don’t dare risk looking back you wonder if anyone would believe what you saw today without seeing it for themselves you know you wouldn’t.

As you arrive home and enter your house you can’t help but wonder it today was a dream. You can’t help but think about the farmer, are they just a normal person who has seen so many odd things that the abnormal is normal to them or are they themselves something otherworldly.

I'm a cryptid in Stardew valley. I live on the outskirts of town. I disappear for days on end, purchasing daily one-way tickets to the calico desert. Nobody knows where I go while I'm there. Can occasionally be found fishing at random spots throughout town. I am never not running on at least one triple shot espresso. I take the abandoned minecarts to get around and am frequently seen disappearing into the sewers. I carry a sword for some reason. Once every week or two I will stride into your bedroom to deliver you your favorite meal. I'm a self-made millionaire. I attend all the town events and will go to your concert in the next town over. I have donated approximately 2583 items to the local museum and singlehandedly revitalized the town community center. There are rumors I can talk to junimos. I'm friends with the local wizard

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junimo breakdancing

animated on stream !!

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A civil conversation with your local lake fish sturgeon

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My head cannons

Elliot is a mermaid

Caroline grows weed in her green house

Sebastian and Sam have had a crush on each other for YEARS

Abigail knows this she keeps making plans the three of them then cancelling in the hopes they confess to each other.

Shane is actually good friends with krobus

The magical creatures show themselves to Haley when she's taking photos in nature. She will never tell Emily worried she'd be upset despite their efforts the creatures never show themselves to them.

Marlon, Willie and the wizard meet up and talk shit about Lewis. They also encourage Marlon to make a move with Marnie (he never does)

Morris and Pierre grew up best friends. Morris had a crush on Caroline and told Pierre next day Pierre had asked her out. Neither has moved on they are rivals in everything.

Alex has zero alcohol tolerance but he doesn't drink anyway so no one knows

Penny planned to run away and work for the night market when she was younger. She writes short stories online about her dream life sailing the seas and traveling the world meeting people.

Robin is working up the courage to divorce dimetrus. She already has the divorce papers from Lewis now she's just waiting.

Clint doesn't have romantic feelings for Emily it's platonic love but because he's so isolated and they are the only person who makes time for him he mistakes this for romantic feelings.

Penny is related to robin on her father's side.

Shane is actually jazs biological father. He donated to help his friends have a baby. He isn't sure when the best time to tell Jaz is.

Leah is an amazing singer. That's how her and Elliot became friends he heard her sing assumed she was a mermaid too. She is either completely oblivious or pretending not to know what Elliot really is.

Gunther is a world renowned EDM DJ in zuzu city. Gunther isn't even his real name he just likes his privacy and no one knowing him.

Jodie consumes the most weed out of all the villagers. That's what happens in Caroline's greenhouse.

Linus is gathering evidence to take down Lewis. The government has been on to Lewis for years but Linus will be the one to expose the truth.

Krobus is wanted is 38 states for identity theft, tax evasion and three cases of possession of dangerous weapons.

Vincent eats bugs

Jaz dared him

Marnie is in a burlesque dancing club with sandy

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Something I think is overlooked about Jacob is the fact that he was in school when the Marauders were in school.

Mc : 1983 - 1981

Jacob : 1973 -1991

Marauders: 1971 - 1978

Jacob was two years younger than them. Which also makes him two years younger than Snape. Snape wasn't his teacher. Bro, was his upperclassmen. Jacob dead ass was there when Snape was getting bullied and when Snape was getting rejected by Lily. This was such a missed opportunity for some funny interactions.

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reconciliation after a quarrel didn't come up with the reason of the quarrel btw lol

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Nuzi Week Day5: Wedding Proposal

Sooo. I could’ve made a sweet and realistic proposal…

….COULD HAVE. Essentially, I’d think late into their relationship, THIS is how they bring up marriage into the conversation lmao. Yell at me if you want a sequel to this or for me to make a serious proposal one day :P

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I refuse to belive Uzi can't easily carry N if she wants to.

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Our little bird

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good boy