#I have never played animal crossing
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as tedious/obnoxious as it is to rewrite early chapters, there’s a real sense of pleasure in figuring out how much I can stretch a premise before it breaks. finding out new ways to convey the same things that I did the first time around, only better. untangling so many strange, abortive plot lines/concepts that I didn’t end up utilizing properly - things I didn’t think I could get rid of without the whole foundation falling apart.
but then I did, and the story was better off for it. hasn’t even been 3 years since I really started writing, and already I look at the first volume with an extremely critical eye. which isn’t BAD or a manifestation of self-hatred or anything like that - I was just feeling things out. the first draft was shit, naturally, but it needed to happen. and now that I have “felt things out,” I’m confident enough to throw away any part of it that I want because I have a much better idea of what I’m doing.
freedom :)
ok report over, here is a little leopard Doctor Anna for you artheads out there
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uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh miscellaneous doodles of Bliss characters from the past several months idk
I’m literally soooooo nice to my ocs
#tw smoking#// smoking#tw blood#// blood#I love looking at the first doodle and thinking#‘this is the face she probably makes before committing a serious crime’#Mary probably uses her cane to trip people for fun :) but yeah it’s mainly for mobility reasons#i Imagine she’s got a bit of a limp sometimes. she’s got a bad leg#oh yeah caregiver has Tourette’s as well !!!#idk if daisy likes animal crossing but she’s got the same name as the stock market gal or something#I have never played animal crossing#Daisy-Mae#Mary the Descender#Caregiver#Rupert Snapdragon#Forget-Me-Not#Nottie#Tabitha#The Caretaker#The Sealed Lady#Pearlie#The Cocancilla#((don’t ask who she is. don’t think about it too much))#honestly have I ever even posted her wtf#sometimes I think about how I haven’t even posted the main character of Bliss#Bliss#ocs#original characters#original stories#The Kiwi Draws
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In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.
He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!
You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).
Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!
But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!
#this is a really long winded way to say i really really really really hate new horizon's storyline and player role#i really hate that not only your house but the entire TOWN. the whole COMMUNITY you're a part of is owed to tom nook's business#i really hate the “vacation getaway package” angle because it shows just how commercialized the entire premise of nh is#and how lost the game is in its original core concept#animal crossing is about the experience of moving to a new town and becoming a part of that community#just to compare: all past ac games have a similar opening#you're on a bus or train or taxi to someplace new. a stranger strikes up a conversation and you get to know them before arriving#new horizons opens with you at customer service desk filling out an client application before a flight.#in prev games working for nook in the tutorial is meant to be demeaning. you want it to be over with so you can actually start living life#but in new horizons working for tom nook IS your life. and it's so rewarding! don't you feel rewarded?#you aren't a person. you aren't a new neighbor. you're tom nook's client. and then his unpaid employee. and the game insists it's fun to be#that's how void the game is#because it's bad enough that a rpg life sim got turned into a sandbox game where you have to build the town yourself#but the only reason why you're building it is because the landlord who you're in debt to TOLD you to build it.#everything is a rewards program! everything is a tour service! be sure to do your daily tasks to earn nook bucks to spend on nook merch!#that really sucks imo.#i mean. the entire game is based around the vacationing industry. of course it all feels fake and temporary. it's only a vacation.#long post#rant#not art#god the fact that your starter villagers can't even decide where to live you have to decide for them#i've never played a game that does the opposite of handholding#where instead it's the PLAYER who has to handhold the npcs through everything. and newsflash!! it's really exhausting and boring
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I’d invite machete and vasco to my animal crossing village
They're a package deal, you have to take them both.
#own art#own characters#CanisAlbus#Vasco#Machete#answered#wowwforever#this is as good a time as any to admit that I've never played any of the Animal Crossing games#consoles are just so expensive and I have a bizarre personal vendetta against buying electronics unless I'm 110% sure I *need* them#so these days unless a game gets a pc release I'm unlikely to ever get my hands on it#but the art style is very appealing and the character designs are vibrant and clever so I've been admiring them from a distance for a while#I love it when I have a chance to draw Vasco with these specific bean eyes#they make him look benevolently mischievous#also just now noticing that I made Machete's tail machete shaped
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Hey minecraft fans I'm really sorry you guys didn't deserve this
#like man#when it comes to movie adaptations i really lucked out as a fan of professor layton and animal crossing#everyone else is just having a terrible time#I've never played minecraft in my life but i know it didn't have to be this bad
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GRAAAHHH SORRY THIS IS SUDDEN BUT OH MY GOD I FINALLY FOUND YOU. IM THE BENREY THAT RAN UP TO YOUR BOOTH AR AMW THIS YEAR AND MY FRIEND BOUGHT ME LIKE ALMOST ALL YOUR VALVE STUFF, I LITERALLY CRIED WHEN I GOT BACK TO THEIR ROOM CAUSE LIKE DUDE. THAT MEANT EVERYTHING FOR ME, I WAS GENUINELY SO SO SO HAPPY TO SEE THE FANDOM IS STILL ALIVE AND IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR FANS IN THE WILD FOR YEARS. THE EXPERIENCE WAS ENLIGHTENING TO SAY THE LEAST AND IM SO SO JOYOUS ABOUT IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH !1!11! :•3
:D !!!! HI!!! I REMEMBER YOU!!! THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY, I'M SO HAPPY IT WAS MEMORABLE FOR YOU!!
people who are so enthusiastic about the things i make and the fandoms i rep at my booth are THE #1 coolest part of the experience 🥺 i feel like convention artist alleys these days are mostly filled with the same 4 popular anime/mobile games and it's really hard to find less popular anime, let alone things like video games and webseries. you would not believe how many comments I got that people never see things like Team Fortress 2 or Portal in AAs, let alone stuff like Infinity Train or HLVRAI 😭 the people who recognize them are always SO excited and then I'M excited and we are BOTH excited and nerding out together. it's fantastic!!!
the hlvrai fandom is definitely still going strong! i still see a lot of fanart and community posts and my sales on my few hlvrai things on my etsy have Not slowed down lmao. i'm sure if covid didn't happen there would have been so many benry cosplayers in 2020. we were ROBBED </3 i've seen You and one benry cosplayer at ACEN last year and that was IT </3 </3 </3
#ask#agoraphobiclemons#at anime central i had an admin for one of the radiotvsolutions folks stop by my booth. they were also very excited#to see my art prints i had of the science team!! they were also very nice :3 and a neopets fan. big W#hlvrai is one of those fandoms where you might not meet them super often but when you do they're the coolest people#anyway hearing from people who saw me at cons is so so so fun#im booked for the same con next year already and fingers crossed i can get into acen again#anyway. fellow artists. bring some merch for things that aren't the biggest thing in the world#if everyone's selling genshit midpact you have to split the attention of every attendee who plays it#if you're the only booth selling something thats only moderately popular though. you'll get all that attention to yourself#and everyone that recognizes it will be really really excited about it. and then its not a Transaction its an Interaction and its FUN#i am saying this as somebody who never watches popular anime or plays gacha games pleeeeeeease diversify your catalogues dhjbdsfbhj#i started attending cons in 2016 and the 2016 ~ 2019 cons were completely different from cons in 2022 ~ 2024#and 'oh well they're Anime Cons ofc they have an emphasis on anime' isnt even an excuse because before 2020 it wasnt like that#esp here in chicago where we have like. three pop culture cons total. and they all have Anime in the name. doesnt stop anybody#or at least it didnt used to#anyway i am mentally pinning this ask in my brain corkboard and i will look at it forever <3 fandom is beautiful#THANK YOU FOR THE MESSAGE !!!! <3
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#looking back on the craziness of acnh in 2020!#let me know if you have one in mind that could have been on this poll! im sure i forgot some!#this anniversary for new horizons i’ve really been looking back on the early days of this game#and even tho i mostly played by myself back then the internet was def alive with acnh stuff#some of it was lovely but looking back there was a lot of crazy mixed in too lol#forever sad about hybrid flower islands! i saw them all the time but never took any pictures!? who could have guessed they would be removed?#hope a lot of the community can remember some of the things on this poll💛#acnh#animal crossing#animal crossing new horizons#new horizons#acnh community#ac community#acnh 2020#new horizons 2020#ac poll#acnh poll#polls
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#why does everyone think im angry with them when i don’t respond to messages#i get that she’s worried but like it’s not that deep#my batteries are just corroded#she doesn’t have to pick up everyone else’s slack#i don’t know#i see what she’s trying to do and I appreciate it#but that’s not what I need#no one cares about what I need#they just want a simple fix#im not angry#and im not ignoring anyone#or at least im not trying to#between this and fallout and animal crossing tonight was really annoying#the whole animal crossing thing really bums me out#cuz like ive been collecting everything doubly for when people were going to play again#and ive been asking for MONTHS#months#and plans are always made and then something better comes along and it’s like the convo never happened#i miss when people still wanted me around#sorry#rant over#im really going through it tonight apparently 😂#dqb will fix me
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#i have never had this happen in all my years of playing ac gamecube#he keeps following me around and randomly talking to me????#animal crossing#acgc#gamecube#population growing
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I get paid this week and tbh I've been thinking about getting a switch.
#chit chat#it's kinda stupid cuz there's like one game i want to play on it#but also I've been fucking miserable for the last month and maybe Video Game will cure me#can you get chips or game cds or whatever for switch or do you have to download everything?#I've never done anything nintendo i know nothing except that switch has animal crossing and melody of moominvalley on it
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You give the vibes of a guy who makes excel sheets in preparation for their farm on stardew valley. and I respect that.
I gotta be honest I’ve never played that game in my entire life, but I was literally taking photos of this one guy from the game this morning and overlaying them in varying opacities. Weird coincidence.
Glad you respect my non-existent grind though.
#Also I was doing that (with the photo) because I saw two photos of this guy next to one another#and I thought the picture of him on the right looked like it had been edited to have an ever so slightly bigger head#Anyways I overlayed them#It didn’t. I was totally imagining it.#No idea what about me would give out these “vibes” considering I’ve never played the game unfortunately#but maybe. I play animal crossing religiously for like 2 months a year#and I always overplan everything to the extreme.#My island is a masterpiece of the ages.#I have the ideal selection of villagers. I have top ratings on everything#and I get the feeling Stardew valley is kind of like animal crossing. Correct me if I’m wrong#and also Minecraft kind of? I play Minecraft too. I always grind super hard for 2 days to get everything though#only to build my house and get bored. Haha#Sorry for rambling in tags. I always do this#thanks for ask#ask#…? I made an ask tag right? I think I did.#Ignore if that isn’t the right one
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gosh i'd like to get into gaming but like everything is expensive and i wouldn't even know where or how to start
#mostly pc games i think#recommendations are welcome!#gaming#like my gaming experience is limited to a few 2000s-pc games the nintendo dc (+dsi+3ds) and the ps2 and ps3#oh and the gameboy advence sp!#all of those consoles where my older sibling's first (8 year age gap) so i have never in my life bought a game console#i think i's like to play minecraft (yes really) (i played the ps3 version but i'd like to play the pc version)#and like uncharted and tomb raider#oh and jedi fallen order and survivor ofcourse#the only reason i'd buy a switch is to play animal crossing (ac new leaf is one of my favorite games) but like that's noit woth it#and like i think that small indie games are cute#i actually think that game development seems really fun (but also like those people do get not paid that well and they are often overworked#like i had to make a word search in java for a uni project and i thought that was really fun#kj post
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OARFISH!! Tried my hand at some perspective and bbshshsbd be gentle I'm still practicing lmao additional lighting under cut
I wanna show it better in another sketch of them but their hair is divided w that fin and I Totally blanked on translating that into the hair (now that I look at it again, if I did it again there would be more of a split in the back) bout damn time I added a redhead to my mermverse I say, half these goobers don't even have hair
#ive never played splatoon. in fact their palette is heavily based off the animal crossing oarfish render.#but i got reminded of those lil salmonid fellas when i was coloring#i also noticed another coincidence of some of those characters having fun colors on their hands and#maybe my subconscious thought that was neat#as soon as i noticed i attempted to vary it a little more lol#oarfish#mermaid#merfolk#siren#cherrys merms#oarfish mermaid#obsessed with how these weirdos swim. fuckin vertical. big as hell. earthquake omen. wiggly fin. this dudes got it all
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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/392024342580879974
Ok, admittedly I know very little about Animal Crossing aside from the 18+ Ankha meme let alone who this character is, but this looks scarily accurate. 😆
haha, i remember seeing the cat character compared to Byakuya Togami a lot back in the day, but this is the first time i've seen it for Alec. i think the cat might like books though, so, that fits...? Alec also just has some cat vibes. i can't explain how, but he does.
#i also have never played animal crossing. but i do know that cat's name is raymond!#disventure camp#alec disventure camp#ask tag?????
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opened animal crossing new horizons for the first time in a million years
currently fighting the urge to delete my island and start over, only to abandon it again once I reach ten villagers
#KLAUS my beloved#never change toga bear#nothing beats the adhd endorphin rush of villager hunting#looking up new horizons villagers in hopes SOMEONE will leave the island#for villagers that appeared in new leaf as well WHY TF DID NINTENDO/ANIMAL CROSSING MAKE ALL THEIR HOUSE DECOR LACK PERSONALITY#I SWEAR SO MANY OF THEM ESSENTIALLY HAVE COPY AND PASTED HOUSES OF EACH OTHER#where is the spice#the flavor?#animal crossing#willow plays#acnh
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so i started playing acnh again and i went to Saharah cuz im addicted to wallpaper and flooring and you will never fucking guess what i found there
#princeposting#the world ends with you#twewy#acnh#THE NOISE I MADE LMAO#my interests are converging#totally tempted to make a twewy themed room with this now#they should have never added so many fun new outdoor themed wallpapers and floorings dawg#i remember being 6 playing accf and being absolutely enamored by the sky wall and backyard lawn items#cuz like woahhhh u can make it look like outside inside thats fucking crazy#imagine handing acnh to that guy he would fucking explode#theres not enough rooms in my house for all the themes i want :(#nintendo let us make like hugeass mansions or something in the next game#speaking of that#calling it rn we're getting something animal crossing at the next nintendo direct#cuz its been 4 years since acnh (FUCKING INSANE OMG) so they gotta
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