#The End of Harvest

[espeonseal]

horror games yipee!!! (late late halloween art tho..)

[chalkrub]

various art trades from the past month! had FUN as usual

[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!!!!

[wazzi2ya]

That line in Merry Sinsmas that goes "I would travel every ring of Hell/Just to see if you'll be mine" has me thinking how Blitzø has indeed been to 6/7 rings and most of those trips were Stolas-related in some way.

[emeraldspiral]

[sophfandoms53]

obsessed with how he does this actually

[ryllen]

he really grew on me

[asha-mage]

Something that has occured to me as I've been replaying Hades: initially it bothered me that the game takes place after the Trojan War because the abduction of Persephone is usually treated as a pretty foundational/early myth in the timeline and the Trojan War is usually treated as the swan song/closing act to the age of Greek heroes/myths. But I've realized their is a bit of brilliance in it.

The historical Trojan War set off the collapse of Greek civilization that resulted in the Greek Dark Ages (OSP has a great video about the details here) where cities were abandoned, writing was forgotten, huge swaths of people died, and the Greeks pretty much had to start society over from scratch resulting in Classical Greece as we think of it now. If Persephone's abduction and Demeter's resulting eternal winter happened shortly after the Trojan War and persisted for a few centuries that fits neatly into the timeline of the Greek Dark Ages.

It also puts Demeter's depiction as a terrifying eldritch nature Goddess into context. She didn't just kill a few humans or devastate a few cities. She ended a civilization in her grief and rage. No wonder everyone is kinda scared of her.

[wisebeth]

why does the pjo series have to unnecessarily villainize goddesses (hera & athena) or show them as silly ladies (aphrodite & demeter) BUT posiedon and apollo are somehow shown as the coolest/most likeable gods, even though arguably, they're right after zeus on terms of corruption?

ares shown as the worst god after zeus and hera amuses me. last time i checked, he was the patron god of amazons and literally killed a man for attempting to rape his daughter but guess who cursed women for rejection? apollo. guess who raped women when they said no (aside from zeus)? posiedon.

[violetmoondaughter]

Blessed Lughnasadh🕯️🌽

[pharawee]

"The organs of an athlete whose body is still strong like you. You know what? The price is as good as those Alpha specials."

[espeonseal]

weird obscure PSX/Old PC games with cult followings

some more rpg horror guys since you've all been so kind

[ranchstoryblog]

February Community Poll: Headcanons of the World Wide Web

The year is 1999, and a sleepy little farming village just got their first (and so far, only canonical) computer with internet access set up at their local library.

So, in all of the fandom's infinite wisdom, I ask you:

[dnalt-d2]

I'm still not over just how many different levels of insane today's lore was

We've got 2/3rds of morning crew, with Pac asking Ramon for his blessing to start dating Fit, plus the new info about the Code Attack the other day

Then we jump to Phil, who was just trying to make an orchard with his kid, when suddenly he's face-to-face with this little Eye Guy who escaped a government facility where he was being tortured for information. Then two big Eye Guys show up and tell Phil that if he doesn't hand the little guy over in two days time, they're going to harm his child. After dealing with that as much as he can, the government comes back and recaptures the little guy, presumably to torture him again. All the time, with the looming presence of an almost all-knowing Creation Deity who's trying to help him heal his damaged mental state, as well as resist the temptation of a greedy undead Monarch from another world.

And then Roier's evil twin brother conspired to switch Roier's brain with a rat and now we have Ratoier

Just saying, today was a D A Y

[sweet-marigold]

Gay cowboys 🤠

[infiniteorangethethird]

tumblrinas when the disability disables you: oh wow that's so cringe. Stop doing that. Actually, I have disability too, and I can do it, which means you're just using your disability as an excuse. I'm morally correct therefore to mock you for being disabled and using tools and aids to help you. I'm not ableist, I'm just saying the hard truth 😊