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Busy with important family events over the next couple of days, and so I thought it would be good to get a day-and-date release for this Debrief on the latest entry in my Sapphic Valley series, "How You Get The Girl." Be sure to read the story before jumping in!
Did you do it? Did you read the story?
Alright, I'm trusting you. Go ahead and hit that 'Keep Reading' button you scamp.
It only seems appropriate to start this Debrief off by addressing the elephant in the room. I haven't posted anything in over a month, and "By Moonlight" came about a month after its predecessor, the conclusion to "Stone-Cold Lovers."
Work, naturally, has been a major factor.
You can see me talk about that almost two weeks ago in this Tumblr post I made about writing in a coffee shop, which came weeks after I actually started writing during a trip to a friend's house.
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Side note:
Just wanted to take a moment and acknowledge my beautiful Haley and Emily keychains. My friend who's responsible for the affairs of one ghostly farmer named Jizzabelle (Gisabelle to the laymen) got them for me! Only appropriate after I commissioned some art of her and Abigail.
Emily was my first Stardew wife, and Haley currently holds the biggest place in my heart. They make a lovely duo!
And I'll avoid any sister-wife jokes
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While I've had some other projects like Zine writing to take care of, work and life can't explain the full absence.
The best way I can think to explain things is that:
I had the general writer's block, and
Despite the best intentions and advice of my irl friends and online pals like @alchemicallymoon and @duelbraids, I couldn't force myself to "break" that block by just... Writing something else.
This is entirely the result of my own psychosis. I have a tendency to carefully plot things out and impose a timetable that really doesn't need to exist. When I feel the cause is righteous enough, it's hard to get around that. In this case, I knew I needed to get my poll-winning idea out after dawdling for holidays like Valentine's Day, and then I knew I only wanted to post one more story before jumping on a very special event for my upcoming 30th AO3 post.
Thus, here we are: arbitrarily forcing myself into a spiral of writer's block misery because of a silly promise on Tumblr and my own sense of ordered chaos.
At the very least, this meant it's coming out not long after my AO3 pal InsertACatchyPennameHere also emerged from the woodwork to tell me they're working on something INSPIRED by my four-person friend group farm adaptations.
Much love to them, wherever they may be.
I'll probably start writing more eclectically now that my shoulders are unweighed, but don't expect my next publication to hit until I'm finished working on teasing the big event. All you Pokemon fans better get hype!
And oh how sweet this publication feels. Between my great set of recent ceramics, the figure drawing class I've been attending, and creative writing, I've felt more fulfilled than ever.
You're here to talk about Stardew, though. So let us talk.
This idea began less with any one event as it did a desire to advance the Alexis/Haley relationship, and Haley's characterization in particular. It was always going to end with watercolor painting reference, but 2 Willow Lane was what I really wanted to dig into.
As I see it, a lot of what keeps people invested in Stardew when its comfy vibes becoming routine is the air of mystery in Eric Barone's worldbuilding. Haley and Emily's parents being some world-traveling duo who left their home in the siblings' care for who knows how long (and who knows how many times over their lifetime) really piqued my interest. So much so that the new writing challenge I set for myself in "How You Get The Girl" was crafting a particularly long set of descriptions that emphasize how overwhelming the parents' influence feels — without creating an impenetrable wall of text.
Hopefully I succeeded in that. Let me know!
I tried to include some vaguely real world-adjacent references into that description of the house, as happens with the magical-realism world of Stardew Valley. For example:
The computer sitting next to their bonsai tree is an iMac G3, the kind of old 'futuristic' tech that my dad loves!
A Speedwell refrigerator is based on even more vintage tech, the Mayflower fridge, but named after a different ship ridden by Pilgrims coming to America.
That city that the family visited in an old photograph with a "monument of arching, interlocking steel" is, of course, Paris — with the statue bookends referencing any number of statues in the Louvre.
Haley's FAD magazine could be referencing any number of publications, but Vogue is probably the closest analogue to what I imagine her reading.
Furthermore, I took some notes on describing the home's layout off of my sister's apartment building, and I asked my bestie @trybard for input on what kind of hanging plant should be used in the transitional hallway. Hanging pothos, philodendron, and spider plants were the three options provided, and my response was appropriate:
They know so much about plants.
Go bug them about it.
I drew on other friends' knowledge to help decorate the house. Specifically, I asked one of my witchiest friends what kinds of protective wards someone like Emily would leave around doorways and windows. She had... A lot of reference material.
I picked Hazel given it purportedly "protects against evil; encourages abundance and inspiration." I also picked Amethyst as one of Emily's loved gifts, one that purportedly "absorbs negative energy, promotes harmony."
My witchy friend is the same one who provided the TikTok that I referenced in my advertisement post:
Perhaps the most important thing about 2 Willow Lane was the recurring motif of Barbie's Dream House.
As a surface-level reference, I think the groundwork is clear. Blondie's love of fashion and general queen bee demeanor fits comparisons to Barbie well, and she lives in a big ol' house full of stuff. We all saw Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie last year. It's still in the cultural zeitgeist.
I'm hip with the kids.
Yet, early on I also tried to make it clear that if this is a "dream" house, it's neither Haley's nor Emily's dream. Haley is a Barbie in that stereotypical sense, but also there's much to be mined from the analogy of a sort of powerless doll in an immutable house, constrained by social obligation to her family rather than literal plastic and stickers.
The cold open of Jodi and Sam was meant to stand alone, but in execution I also think drawing Kent's absence into the conversation makes for a more thematically rich comparison to these sisters who appear to have themselves more put together.
My beta reader said this wound up being one of my stronger stories because of how all of that intertwined, which I appreciated given how down on myself I was following the whole writer's block thing.
But also.
Also.
Alexis gets to be horny. She's hitting on lonely MILFs and watching girls shake their asses to the tune of bad reality TV.
We love a buff dommy mommy farm girl in this house.
Haley is probably horny too, she just doesn't realize it yet. For now I think it's fun enough to play into her being coy about building excuses for Alexis to come over, and then getting incensed when Emily barges in on their private time meant to learn more about this farm girl she just can't get out of her head.
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Fun fact:
Every story in this series is named after a Taylor Swift song, but I know next-to nothing about her discography. All of them are suggestions by my friend whose house I was at when starting this story — the same one who controls Gardenia on the farm.
While I went with "How You Get The Girl," her alternative suggestion was "The Man."
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All that w|w talk aside, I also want to give Sam the loveable idiot a shoutout. Had to do a fair bit of research into how skateboards are constructed for his failed ollie, and I slipped in a reference to shitty old technology that's exclusively for my beta reader to enjoy.
I also tried doing some agricultural research to figure out how the folks at Kevin Farm could have grown cucumbers so there'd be a jar of legitimate pickles... But that was getting too in the weeds.
Insert laugh track here
Decided to just go with pickled artichoke hearts to save everyone a lot of trouble.
And where does "Kevin Farm" come from, you may be asking yourself. Or the fabulous "Kevin's Special" with its definitely not innuendo tagline.
That story will have to wait for another day, my friends.
#I really went in on this one#Moreso than I was expecting#But I guess that's what happens when you get very anxious about how people on the internet are judging your ability to do things well#And in a timely manner#Not that I think any of you are judging me#My fans are great <3#Anyway thanks so much for reading!#I promise the Kevin Farm story isn't all that interesting but one day I'll make it relevant to a piece#Fanfiction Debrief#fanfiction#fanfic#companion piece#author's commentary#ao3#stardew valley#stardew haley#writing#creative writing#struggle#macintosh#vintage technology#paris france#louvre#vogue#plants#tiktok#witchcraft#protection#barbie#metaphors
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pov: you glance over during training in camp
#gale dekarios#bg3#baldurs gate 3#the rizzard of waterdeep strikes again#gale of waterdeep#baldurs gate#baldur's gate 3#this is not great but he got me gnawing the bars of my enclosure fr#idk what spell hes casting im a fake fan#dnd#art#digital art#sketch#wip#dnd art#wizard#ref from a wrestler i dont know the name of
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i'll keep all my plans close to my chest
alt ver and initial sketch under the read more :3!!!!
#sorray if it looks weird. i still don't quite understand how to go from greyscale to colors!!!!#i might keep drawing birds w kzm sorry for being a bird head....#my art#digital art#art#artists on tumblr#fan art#kazuma asougi#kazuma asogi#asougi kazuma#asogi kazuma#the great ace attorney#ace attorney#great ace attorney#dgs#tgaa#大逆転裁判#dgs art#“thanks ryutarotakedown for the alt text :3!!!!!!”
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(Throws this on the road) here’s a dude facial structure study drawing thing🧚
#cw eye contact#tw eye contact#postal 1#postal 1997#postal 1 fanart#postal 2#postal 2 fanart#postal 3#postal 3 fanart#postal dude#postal 1 dude#p1 dude#postal 2 dude#p2 dude#postal 3 dude#p3 dude#digital art#digital drawing#drawing#drawings#art#my art#fan art#fanart#I’m forgetting how to draw p1 a bit because of that awful awful man💔💔#The awful man is p3 I don’t like him his eyes scare me I’m never going to shut up about it why does he look like th#Anyway uhhh.. I noticed I’m getting better at drawing p3! Yay! Still not too great at it but it’s better than before#I’m so glad that I was able to draw p1 and p2 visually different#I always get so worried that they look like clones every time I draw them together
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Welcome to Qing Jing! (AU where GYX lives and joins QJP after SQQ's trial)
(edit: Part Two :3c)
[ID: A Scum Villain Drawing. Ning Yingying stands to the left of Gongyi Xiao, smiling with her eyes closed and grabbing onto his arm in excitement. Gongyi Xiao has a slightly flustered but happy expression with one eye closed and his left fist slightly lifted. He is dressed in Qing Jing Robes, primarily green, teal, with gold and silver accents. He is looking towards Ming Fan on his other side. Ming Fan is looking back with a slightly teasing smile, one arm wrapped around Gongyi Xiao's shoulder and his other hand on his own hip. End ID]
#svsss#scum villian#ning yingying#gongyi xiao#ming fan#mxtx#myart#qj!gyx au#<- starting this tag on my blog cause i already have plans for some more works in this au#listen#i need gyx to have an actual good shizun#and he and SQQ had a great dynamic whenever they interacted#also sqq deserves to do some disciple poaching from the old palace master after opm tried to do the same with binghe <3#svsss au
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Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great & Nicholas Hoult as Peter III of Russia in THE GREAT (3x01)
#AND LITTLE PAUL!!!#my favourite psychopathic family is back! <3#the great hulu#the great#the great season 3#elle fanning#nicholas hoult#catherine the great#peter iii of russia#catherine x peter#peter x catherine#the great spoilers#perioddramaedit#thegreatedit#my edit
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Don’t go. Don’t leave me. Don’t leave me.
#the great#thegreatedit#catherine the great#elle fanning#the great spoilers#tg spoilers#the great season 3 spoilers#huzzahthegreat#thegreatdaily#tvedit#cinematv#perioddramaedit#mygifs*#NO ONE TALK TO ME I'M UNWELL#my reaction was literally the 'girls when' meme#crying screaming shitting throwing up etc.#is this another year ill get upset over elle being robbed at the emmys
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deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao
not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad
#people ask me sometimes why ill occasionally talk about something i like and then go 'but it's bad' and the answer is usually because it is#i love teen wolf. i love genshin impact. i love detective conan. and i fucking LOVE taylor swift. that doesnt mean theyre good#it just means i like them. and recognizing their flaws actually helps me better identify what i like about them!#it's like. in my mind bad > good is the x axis and i like it > i dont like it is the y axis yk. they're not mutually exclusive#tldr it's not that serious. we can all relax a little#irt taylor swift i do also think she has done some real harm to her fans in enabling them to deflect all criticism of her as misogyny#and i don't think it's fully the fault of these people who are parroting that response bc so much of her marketing has deliberately#reinforced this idea that to be a swiftie is to be a part of a sisterhood and that any attack on taylor is an attack on all of those women#who are in that in-group. when that's obviously not the case. but she's marketed herself as. for lack of a better term. 'girl music'#to the point where it makes her fans feel as though any criticism of the music or the woman responsible for it is an attack on their#personal experience of womanhood/girlhood/sisterhood/etc. and that's how you get all of thess bad-faith accusations of misogyny#i don't necessarily think this was her deliberate goal with her marketing tho because like. on first glance such a strong sense of communit#among fans sounds like a great thing. the friendship bracelets i got at the eras tour movie are really genuinely special to me.#but it does present a problem when your fans are unable to separate how they feel about the community and experience your music has fostere#from how they feel about you as a person. especially when you are a billionaire who absolutely CANNOT be above criticism in this economy#anyway. tldr i love taylor's music and i don't think swiftie hivemind is as deliberately malicious as it may seem#but it's obviously necessary to be able to take a step back and look objectively at what you're participating in.#anyway stream ttpd or don't idc <3#taylor swift
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Some President Howard Goodman in celebration of Black Friday’s anniversary yesterday!
Inspired by JFK’s Official Portrait
#look I’m not a big fan of my country#but they kinda went off with that portrait#why does he look so sad in it?#it’s great#honestly I got this idea ages ago#but the Black Friday anniversary kicked me into gear to actually draw it#cause also I used the unexpected red theory kinda#which is just <3#I love random bright shapes if you couldn’t tell#I think this one came out decently#oh shit it’s 3:40 in the am#oh I am NOT going to wake up early enough to catch the beginning of the TCB stream#anyways#president howard goodman#Mr Prezy Wez#if you will#black friday#starkid black friday#curt mega#starkid#team starkid#hatchetfield#my art
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Bleach x Twice
Younha - houki boshi by kangnam with Twice nayeon, jihyo (bleach ending 3)
#IS THIS REAL I FEEL LIKE IM DREAMING????#TWICE AND BLEACH??????#THEY SING MY FAVORITE ENDING <3#jihyo has a great taste first one on rock and now bleach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WOAAAAHHH#ITS A WIN FOR BLEACH/TWICE FANS#It would be great if they make a cover of op 10 shojoS by scandal#thier voice in the japanese version is so beautiful I always like jihyo’s voice and her taste too she is just amazing#I’m not into kpop im just obsessed with Japanese music jpop/jrock but twice is special#ESPECIALLY MOMO MY LOVELY GIRL I LOVE HER SO MUCH I HOPE SHE MAKES A COVER OF BLEACH OP/END ONE DAY#IM NEVER WRONG FOR LOVING THEM I ALWAYS HAVE THE BEST TASTE ♾️#bleach#twice#nayeon#jihyo
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things we learn about mulder in s1
he wanted to be an astronaut when he was young, and stayed up all night when he was 14 to watch his hero do a walk in space
he's scared to death of fire because his friend's house burned down when he was a kid
he went to oxford 10 years before the start of s1, where he dated phoebe and they, at the very least, made out on arthur conan doyle's grave (but it's implied they went all the way)
he is a fan of like. all of the sports. i cannot keep up with them all, but he sure can
he had his first case at the age of 28, where an agent died because he wouldn't take a risky shot
(and he remembers everything about the man who died- his kids, their ages, what they do for fun- all of it haunts him)
((he also, at the trial for the man who killed the agent, screamed that he "should die like an animal, you son of a bitch"- so much for cool and composed spooky mulder))
he always falls asleep on his couch to the point where i don't even know if this man has a bed
before being moved to the x-files, he worked for 3 years at the behavioral science unit, where he profiled serial killers
(also literally no one wants him on the x files they just keep him around because he is too dangerous to fire lmao)
he will go out of his way to make any kids involved a case he's assigned to feel comfortable and/or laugh as a break from the Heavy Moments (probably because he remembers being questioned while very young and how awful it felt)
he believes that siblings have a psychic connection (heartbreaking when you remember his sister disappeared when he was 12 and he only has access to the memories due to hypnosis)
he refused to let his parents call him by his first name and only went by "mulder", even as a child
#he also is constantly saying off putting things that i don't know if he believes or not such as “elvis faked his death” so.#do with that what you will!#there's lots more to cover but these are just the biggest ones i can think of off the top of my head#he also mentioned making the psychic sing jimi hendrix songs which would imply to me he is a rock fan?#but again. you literally never know he is just so strange and off putting (compliment)#gonna try to write up some best moments later but this was just a lore reveal compilation#i am in great pain and writing all this stuff down is distracting enough to make me want to do more#but also keep in mind i have only seen s1 so! if u reblog pls don't add spoilers in the notes tysm <3#fox mulder#the x files#txf
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p3 reload box art + the art book cover!
#persona 3#minato arisato#makoto yuki#lizzy speaks#YALL HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A BOY WITH SO MUCH SWAG YOU STARTED CRYING BC GOD. HE IS SO PRETTY#ME RN ME. IM NOT COHERENT. i feel very. very happy seeing the trailers..#ohhh i love seeing bits and pieces of the animated cutscenes.. both the 2d and 3d ones...#i GOTTA preorder this. february 2nd will be a great day for persona fans i think#i wish i had actual intelligent thoughts :c i saw minato and my brain evaporated into thin air#maybe tmrw after i get some sleep i will have proper thoughts though...#and maybe. i will stream because text is not enough for me to talk about how much i love this game
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What are you hoping to see in Jedi 3 when it comes out (either story or gameplay wise)? I really hope Cal doesn't get killed off, but given that Luke is (allegedly) the last Jedi by the time of the original trilogy, I know I have to brace myself for that possibility.
So funny story, the "does Cal die at the end of Jedi 3" conversation happened (again) on Twitter last week, and I wrote a thread - you can read it here or with a non-Twitter link. Ended up getting way more attention than planned, a ton of people misunderstood my point, and now I'm a little gunshy about sharing opinions over there for a bit haha. But the community is much smaller on Tumblr so I think I'm still okay here 🫠
I do have a pile of Jedi 3 ideas from earlier this summer! Which includes the the first draft of my "Cal should live" perspective. One new thought is about the Force Slow ability - the way Cal has accessed it throughout the narrative of both games, and how that instinctual power (driven by emotion?) looks and feels different from his other force abilities, especially in Survivor.
It's ultimately been "stained" by darkness, and when (I hope) Cal finds some sort of inner peace, I'd love to see his Force Slow ability be "healed" to a new expression of that power. Not as raw and wild as the dark side, but something that comes from a place of hope instead of desperation. Maybe he learns how to be a shield instead of a sword due to Cere's teaching? (there's a small visual parallel there but that's probably worth exploring in its own post)
As far as Cal's existence clashing with our understanding of Star Wars canon, it can feel complicated. Technically Ahsoka and Ezra are somewhere during ESB, though disowning the Jedi title or getting stuck in the Unknown Regions might disqualify them enough. Will Cal still consider himself a Jedi by the end of the trilogy? Is this just an issue of semantics, or availability, or Luke being the only one operating by the Jedi code of old? Would Yoda actually know if any other Jedi exist?
Honestly not sure. Now if the third game lets Cal visit Dagobah, that's a different conversation...
#thanks for the ask anon!#twitter is great for connecting with fans and Respawn devs but very weird when anything goes beyond my small audience#most people are very nice. those who aren't are just loud or confused (sometimes both)#asks#star wars jedi survivor#jedi survivor#jedi survivor spoilers#jedi 3 concepts#cal kestis#photomode
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little susato doodle I did today :D
#art#fan art#ace attorney#the great ace attorney#dgs#dgs fanart#digital art#susato mikotoba#ace attorney susato#susato#doodle#tgaa fanart#tgaac#tgaa#fanart#i think thats enough tags#im tired#:3#i <3 putting my art through a crap ton of filters :D
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Concept for a lynx piñata cause I love Viva Piñata and I love lynxes and I think those two things should go together.
I also love moths so totally self indulgent drawing of the lynx and a mothdrop
#fun fact I actually dislike licorice#but no other candy went so well with lynx so it stayed#(I did look at the wikipedia list of candy and woah there's a lot of different types of candy)#I'm actually quite proud of the design (especially the sour one look at it it's so funky!!!!)#designing in the style of viva piñata was a fun challenge#the brainstorming was great too#but for some reason I got stuck with the rendered painting of the piñata house and three months had to pass until I could come back#the funny thing is that my art style changed a bit between those two last drawings#and I drew like 50 drawings inbetween them counting by the stuff in my folder#anyways this is for me and for you fellow viva piñata fans#maybe I'll draw more of this guy since I like their design a lot#I actually doubt we would get a lynx piñata if another game came out since there are at least 3 kitty piñatas#but that's exactly why I'm drawing this#viva piñata#viva pinata#vp mothdrop#vp#mothdrop#lynx#cinnamon's doodles
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depression isn't real and can't hurt me as long as I have Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011)
#its my yearly playthrough#and its great because it has a very active community fan level community#i have 3 mods that I havent played that i wanna get to atleast one before i go back to school#but also just the games themsevles have amazing replayability#portal#char.txt#portal 2
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