#Ranch Story

[mnmarsart]

Ran I drew from months ago for a server event.

Also I changed my username here.

[chaosdestructionlove]

Story of seasons/harvest moon fanart 2021-23

The leia in a wheelbarrow was post finding out about the awl remake, i drew it in an insomniatic stupor since my brain refused to let me relax enough to sleep. Still pretty dang pleased with it.

Ford was a sketch to get him ready for a halloween collab project, ludus i ran out of steam on but coloured just enough that he'd still be easily recognisable (iirc i started drawing him on a bad headache day...) and the other two poot charas are from a collab too. I think i over rendered them both so they both look a lil oddly over textured but they were fun at least.

[waakemexup]

so happy i could cry

[beck-a-leck]

So this is what I spent a majority of October and November working on:

I participated in the Ranch Story discord Design A Candidate event, where a writer and an artist were randomly paired up and together they designed a marriage candidate for a Story of Seasons or Rune Factory type game. It was a TON of fun and everybody made such amazing candidates for the event. I would have married any of them in a heartbeat if they were in the games.

I had the privilege of being on two teams, and by coincidence, got to make 2 Rune Factory-type candidates!

I've gone ahead and posted what I wrote up for the character events on AO3. Follow the links if you're so inclined.

AMIRAH

A dwarven craftswoman, and divorcee. She's content with her life, raising her daughter and taking care of her family while also running her business. The one day an Amnesiac RF Protagonist wanders into town and takes her on a journey of Business Partners to Lovers.

(the MILF candidate we deserve, damnit!)

THOREAU S. MONTGOMERY DE SAINTE-COQUILLE

aka. Monty or Monster Guy.

A Monster Veterinarian and gentle giant with nothing but love to give for all the monsters and creatures of the world. He prefers the company of monsters to people, and can be a bit of an outcast. But depending on your attitude towards monsters he can be your strongest ally or your worst enemy.

(finally we can marry a DSC like Porcoline!)

[howdyriceball]

I had to make the youtube video I have always wanted...

[kinokoshoujoart]

Marrying Carter in Harvest Moon DS Cute! (North American version)

oh… sorry no not the archaeologist, i mean Pastor Carter from Mineral Town!

(or is it Pastor Curdy….?)

teeechnically his descendant, and it causes a game over… but this is the only time we’ve been able to marry him right?

so in the girl version of HMDS, there’s two “secret” Mineral Town bachelors that you can marry by talking to them enough times on the phone. one is Mason, the guy who runs May’s Tailoring… but the second, Pastor Carter, is a bit more obscure…

i couldn’t find them uploaded anywhere so here are his 2nd* thru 10th conversations+his proposal+proposal rejection in english! if you want to see it on youtube instead here you go

*i failed to record the first conversation when it happened, and there’s no way in hell i’m resetting my whole game again (…yet), so…just know the first one was like “oh you want to talk? what should we talk about…….. …… ….. …. i can’t think of anything. well see ya………” extremely riveting stuff

he’s so obscure that i didn’t even realize that he was a bachelor until i found out about the mechanic from this japanese wiki!! (here’s an archive link to the page on him in case the page doesn’t work) all i did was test whether it worked in english since i couldn’t find any english info at all mentioning it. i’m sure others have found him… right……..

in case the links above don’t work, a small guide to holy matrimony below the cut since i can’t find one in english

it works essentially the same as the Mason marriage (so it’s just a game over, sadly…), and the steps are pretty tedious and counterintuitive, so you’re unlikely to just stumble across it… but you too can get a priest to break his vow of celibacy for you or whatever!

you will need:

at least 2,050,000 G

20 cursed tools/accessories

if you really don’t want to dig up 20 cursed things you can substitute 100x “remove a cursed tool/accessory” for blessing a cursed tool…

but, including all the cursed tools and accessories, there’s only 16… which means you will need to go dig up 4 duplicate cursed accessories using this method! yay!!! extremely pointless since you can’t sell blessed accessories until after marriage in DS for girl (at which point you can’t trigger pastor carter’s proposal)

you unlock a conversation with cardi when you spend at least 205,000 G. which means the quickest thing to do is to order removal of a cursed item five times, then bless 2 cursed items.

**be careful when blessing accessories to only equip one at a time!!! if you equip a stack of duplicate accessories, blessing that stack destroys the duplicates!!!! :( so just take 1 out of the stack and equip it!!!**

you also can’t unlock more conversations until you’ve seen the one you unlocked, so like even if you spend a million G you’ll just unlock one conversation, and you’ll need to finish that conversation and then spend 205,000 G to unlock the next one…yeah….

on the tenth conversation he abruptly reveals that he’s fallen in love with you and asks you to marry him! it ends your game, but….! on the bright side, it ends your game!!! you’re finally free from Hell Simulator!!!!

[kd89-3dstudios]

Who's that Girl 💖 p2 Pose Pack

The first Pose Pack of two "who's that girl" Girl group Poses, sometimes something different than usual. Hope you like it. ✨

You get:

10  Groupe Poses

You need:

Andrew's Pose Player & Teleport Any Sim - Downlode

Generally don't use the slider mod with my Posing or Animation.

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Requirement

Everything in the description of the package

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Don't re-upload.

Don't re-edit.

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[cowboymeemaw]

Please tell the story of the calf scramble 👀👀 (and may you have a lovely day!)

Of course, and you too! (Apologies for the late answer I was working)

So this is Rugz! He was my calf scramble steer!

But that's the end- to start I'll explain loosely what a calf scramble is (loosely as some rules and prizes change per rodeo/fair)

A calf scramble is an event where those who are of age and showmen can compete. As example from my own there are six competitors (numbers can and will change depending on the year, and they are allowed to compete year after year until they win). Each competitor is equipped with a helmet & halter.

As with the competitors, the amount of calves different ever year. It's dependent on the amount of people, for me it was Three calves. Each calf was born January of the same year and this even takes place in early august, which places them in a weight range of 400-500lbs (so not tiny guys).

So what do you do? Well, you're placed in an arena (mine roughly the 3/4ths the size of an American football field). You and the other participants are lined up at one end and there is a small circle in the middle. When the even starts the calves are released at the other side of the area.

When a bell is rang, all participants run at the calves. The goal of this event is to catch one of these calves, get your halter on it, and then get all four of their feet in the middle circle.

As an explanation this sounds easy, but in reality it's not. The arena floor is wetted down to mud, and all the calves released are untouched by humans, large, and dangerous. You must grab them by the neck, as you and the calf are running through mud, then halter it, then get it in the circle.

And finally, if you do successfully do all of that. You win! Now unlike most places, at my rodeo, when you win you actually win the steer itself! The calf is given to you a week after the event, and you are required to raise it for a year then bring it to show at the same place you won it from!

In 2022 I ended up winning the Calf scramble during my first attempt at it. As pictured above I won a beautiful Charolais cross steer (who actually was quoted to be worth 5k)

I had fought tooth and nail to win. Every year from child to then I had watched the event, year after year waiting to compete. My sister competed and unfortunately lost. But my mother, my grandfather, and his father are all deeply rooted in this fair and rodeo, and I knew I had to win for them, and for myself.

I was the first one to get my hands on a calf, and It was nothing like I could have expected. It was harsh and difficult but I held on, but that beautiful shit head of a Charolais had other plans. As I attempted to get my halter on, he bolted. Running me into another competitor and flinging me off of him. I was exhausted, ready to give up, I told myself there was always next year. But I was angry, angry at myself and embarrassed for being knocked off. So I got up and ran, I chased that calf with my entire being. And in one final attempt, I dove at him.

And that's how I got this photo.

I had caught him, again. I wasn't going to wait, and as soon as I was on my feet again I put the halter on him. Then I was knocked down again, someone else who caught one ran into me. I refused to let go, I laid there, head one inch away from being kicked by a feral calf. But I clung on until I could stand.

I stood up, exhausted and I pulled that halter. Painstakingly slowly me and this calf moved, inches closer to the circle. When I got about three feet away he put his breaks on, nothing I did worked. He wouldn't move, and I was tired. So tired and worn out, the adrenaline wearing off and the pain in my body finally striking through. I almost gave up.

I remember thinking, "would they be mad at me if I gave up now?". And then he took a step back, and the my brain finally slowed down to remember one important thing my step-dad told me. My step-dad who never touched a cow in his life before meeting me.

"if you catch one, go where it goes, you can't put strength a cow."

So I did. I walked back with him, and then turned him around and he stook all four steps into that circle.

I had won.

[blossoms-phan]

many people are afraid to be real lovers. dan and phil are not

[cozygaymes]

i'm so tired of people going "farming? life sim? must be a stardew-like game"

fucking stop. let games stand on their own. not every farming life sim is going play like stardew just because they're a farming life sim. it's not a "stardew clone" just because it's using pixel art. it's not even like stardew was the first. on top of that, there's only so much you can do when you're in the same damn gerne.

to state, i do know that since 2016 there's been a horrible influx of farming life sims and this shitty "cozy as a marketing genre" movement. some of them do take a little too much inspiration from stardew (like harvest town) and yet they're still doing their own fucking shit (like harvest town).

[cinamun]

Not your paper | Next

[seeminglyranch87]

Taylor and Travis Timeline

A relationship timeline of tay tay and killatrav for funsies

October 2016

October 2022

December 2022

February 2023

May 2023

June 2023

July 2023

August 2023 - part 1 // part 2

September 2023 - part 1 // part 2

October 2023 - part 1 // part 2 // part 3

November 2023 - part 1 // part 2

December 2023 - part 1 // part 2 // part 3

January 2024 - part 1 // part 2

February 2024 - part 1 // part 2

March 2024 - part 1 // part 2 // part 3

April 2024 - part 1 // part 2 // part 3

May 2024 - part 1 // part 2 // part 3

June 2024 - part 1 // part 2 // part 3

July 2024 - part 1 // part 2 // part 3

August 2024 - part 1 // part 2 // part 3

September 2024 - part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4

October 2024 - part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4

November 2024 - part 1 // part 2

December 2024

[chaosdestructionlove]

Petra - a ranch story collab event character

So this character, Petra is an original character from a community collaboration event where every one teamed up in pairs to do the illustration or writing development for a fan created concept of a love interest in the bokumono/rune factory series.

The event was quite fun, but honestly pretty gruelling in how intense it was to fully develop a character even just with the visuals on my plate, especially with focusing on it mostly for three months or so. Hats off to character designers and developers out there you've got one mighty difficult job.

^This was the alpha character art for petra (based on my collab partner's character made via perler beads) before we realised that didn't fit the project brief for the art side of things lol. I still think her fluffy hair is super cute though.

Here is my collab partner's half of the collab, he did an amazing job. C:

[waakemexup]

💌𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖊‘𝖘 𝖉𝖎𝖆𝖗𝖞💌

🍼𝓈𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒻𝒶𝓇𝓂🍼

🌱part 2🌱 (beginnings 1)

💬 “♥ ♥ ♥ ♥…♡”

[whitestoneestates]

Wider Stable Doors CC Find!!!

✨✨✨Illusion EQ Custom Content On Patreon ✨✨✨

The issue with zooming out has been fixed on all three on 4th August 2023 so I recommend reinstalling these mods Functional, but only opens as much as it's narrower counterpart that it was cloned and edited from. Feel free to make your own swatches as well ♥ Took me hours to get the original wider door working properly so please don't steal (and definetily no uploading elsewhere without asking me first, paysites are a no-no in any case).

EA swatches on all except IEQ-Sims4-Wider-Stall-Door.package.

Regarding the Wider-STall-Door-w-custombars... Please note this noob was unable to make the bars look any nicer no matter how hard she tried. They're lacking in shades etc as I was unable to make them recolorable (fought with UV mapping and everything but too much of a noob to make them any better). BUT they do change shade alongside the main door's metal parts so you can recolor them alongside the door like that. IEQ-Sims4-Wider-Stall-Door and No bars-door has correct shadows too, the custom bar one still has the original EA mesh shadows.

Download At Their Patreon - HERE 😍

[sojutrait]

my potential horse ranch baby grill