#acnh mori fashion

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Greens - Mushroom Picker Coat, Flowery Bohemian Dress, Sprout Dress and Garden Walk Dress

[dreamdropsystemarchive]

an animal crossimg new horizons fit! love the flower hair clip

[animalcrossworld]

☆彡 ☆ミ☆彡 ☆ミ☆彡 ☆ミ☆彡 ☆ミ☆彡☆ミ

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⁽⁽ଘ( ˊᵕˋ )ଓ⁾⁾  Having fun with friends is always nice.

[thesimplesprinkle]

dressed my islander as an island hippie 🌻

[ikenugs]

IMAGINE!

So, the reaper department is having quite a chaotic day (and I mean a little more than normal of course) , and the manager had had an especially horrid time dealing with those crackheads. I mean just thinking back on it,

Theo spraying Quincy in the eye with disinfectant spray for atleast a minute, I mean he low-key had it coming, how could you even attempt to mess with his yandere side? (The down low is so June had found this caterpillar in the garden, he named is Sir Winkleton btw, who was very colorful and he wanted to "show his brothers this glorious wonder of the world". He went to Theo first and he thought it was quite unsanitary and nasty, but he gave him an encouraging smile because that's his best fren. So then June came around to Quincy and was like, "look at my new pet!" And Quincy screamed at the top of his lungs and slapped it out of June's hand with a DISGUSTANG! Now that brought tears to June's eyes, SIR WINKLETON WAS HIS SON, HIS PRIDE AND JOY, AND NOW HE WAS JUST DED ON THE FLOOR! Quincy still wasn't satisfied and yelled, "nasty insect" Now Theo couldn't just ignore his favorite person in the world's suffering, and waltzed up beside Quincy, his eyes empty eyes which bore deep into the depths of Quincy's soul, nothing could match the agony of watching his best fren's pain ridden tears. "Did someone say disinfectant?" Then Theo sprayed disinfectant in Quincy's eyes for atleast a minute. No one messes with Theo or those he cares about. Theo and June held a funeral which over half of the reapers showed up due to not being able to turn down June's woeful face. It took Quincy AND Verine atleast an hour to wash it out and stop the burning, honestly poor Verine lmao.)

Kati almost burning the whole entire department down. (He was attempting to make something, you couldn't tell by the charred remains, maybe ramen? But he left to go bite Noah who had offered assistance, and came back to a steam filled kitchen and the fire alarm blaring. The first one to reach the kitchen happened to be Ell, who was like "I'll use an enchantment to quench it!" Which, as you know, they tend to fail, so the two who were about to enter, Day and Sian, were drenched, causing Sian to flee in mental breakdown. Day was confused but saw flames rising up, and in his, entirely flawed and completely illogical, logic catapulted himself directly at the fire, cause he was water? Who knows, but he got set on fire and somehow the manager was able to stop the situation before it escalated to horrible measures, like death or arson, maybe??)

Mori successfully being a con artist and conning Louis, with yet another neverending scheme. (Even the manager couldn't figure out what he had done this time, sigh)

Kirr setting up, yet another, trap to specifically catch deer (he dislikes them the most?. And Verine just so happened to stumble into one, he wasn't exactly in to where it would actually stab him, the sharp claws were only barely touching his leg, since he was so skinny, so he couldn't move or he would be stabbed. Which this situation was actually pretty ironic, cause Day passed by and was like, "Hey, Bambi, you alright?" But Bambi is a deer so I mean Kirr kinda got what he wanted right? After being set free, Verine was so shocked he kinda just, fainted, so Youssef reluctantly dragged him back to the Diluculo dorms.

And sadly many many more chaotic events.

So yeah, everyone gathered for dinner to discuss their trip to an engineering facility spoken to have a vengeful spirit lurking. After they spoke of their plans, a weary and down looking manager sighed,

"I would just kinda like some alone time tonight guys, be sure to pack your stuff." And she walked off slowly back to her designated corners. But when she turned the corner her exhausted attitude had faded away and all that was left was excitement, as she sauntered away.

Everyone was quite worried at that, their optimistic manager so low?! So, about an hour later everyone agreed to have Theo check up on her, so he knocked on her door. No answer. He decided to just open the door and say,

"Manager? You see, I just came to see if you were doing alri--" Only to find her goofily laughing, she screeched, not noticing him there,

"EX CA USE ME, GALA BUT ATLEAST I DON'T LOOK LIKE A HIK, OK?! HOW DARE YOU INSULT MY FASHION SENSE!" Her Wii remote was pointed directly at the screen, and she was talking to an animated pig, who, low-key did look kinda like a hik. She was playing Animal Crossing, and no, I don't me acnh, I mean the OG City Folk, yeah, she's that old. But for modern days sake we'll say she's playing it on a Wii-U. Theo caught her with her Wii remote in hand and reaching for some gummy bears, when she sensed a presence she looked around and her face turned to one that someone would wear if they just got caught snorting a bag of cocaine or something lmao.

Theo walked back to tell everyone dejectledly that she was perfectly fine. Maybe he should buy her some gummy bears for her birthday?

I don't know where this even took a turn to, but Animal Crossing City Folk was my childhood, and me as a manager would totally do that.

[radfem-reviews]

Review #1: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH)

With Isabelle as my avatar, this only felt appropriate as my first review! (Please note that I am speaking only to the content of the game itself, not the fanbase, fan works, or other unofficial things.)

System: Nintendo Switch

Summary: Play as one of the first residents moving to a deserted island. There, you can engage in activities such as making friends; catching bugs, fish, and sea creatures; filling out your museum; creating clothing, flags, and town tunes; decorating your house; and gardening.

Overall: ACNH presents somewhat of a utopia for many of us: freedom and safety. Beyond that, it’s cute and the islanders have many funny lines. There are also many things for you to collect, but there’s nothing forcing you to engage in parts of gameplay that don’t interest you once you’ve done enough to unlock everything. Gendered personality types and a lack of variety in female NPCs remain, but allowing your character to be as GNC as you’d like is a nice step toward removing gender roles.

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Tests (see terms list for explanation): Anti-Freeze: Pass. No characters are injured or killed, barring the player character hitting them with a net or something. Bechdel: Pass, to the small extent NPCs talk to one another. Mako Mori: N/A as there are no narrative arcs. Sexy Lamp: Pass, although there’s no real plot.

Please choose your style.

Let’s start with a big talking point in certain circles: “Please choose your style.” In the original -- and most likely every single version of the game except English -- this was a choice between playing as a boy or a girl. They changed it in English due to threats and harassment from TRAs. 

[the choice as it appears in English: “Please choose your style. You can change this later.”]

[the choice as it appears in Japanese: “Please choose one! *You can change this later.   boy / girl”]

The odd thing about the fuss around this is that it actually functionally does not matter whatsoever. I don’t think I’ve seen it come up even once in dialogue. That said, I’m not sure if other languages’ versions have characters refer to your character’s sex. On the bright side, it does mean that male and female player characters would be talked to and about in the same way. On the other hand, there was never a problem of animals treating you differently based on your sex in previous games anyway that I ever saw, so to see it that way is fixing a problem that didn’t exist in the first place.

I’ve noticed that the animals will use “they” to refer to someone they’re talking about. My guess is actually that this is an ease of programming thing rather than a woke thing. Because Japanese uses personal pronouns quite infrequently, and some of the lines are random ‘fill in the blank with a random islander name’ types of statements, sometimes previous English releases ran into a problem where the translators had no way to know whether the character would be referring to a man or a woman, and iirc, seemed to go with male by default... Ironically, using “they” is incorrect 100% of the time, though.

Self-Expression

Unlike previous games in the series, your character’s facial features and beginning hairstyle options are not determined by your character’s sex. It’s a nice change of pace that your character can be as GNC as you’d like from the beginning, although your starting outfit may be somewhat gendered. You also can freely change between hairstyles and facial features whenever you want once you’ve acquired a mirror, so you aren’t locked into one type of self-expression.

Also, any player character can wear any outfit without commentary. In New Leaf (the previous main-series game), you could wear anything as well, but some clothing options were gendered. For example, Labelle (the porcupine who sold accessories) might say things along the lines of, “That’s made for women, [player name], so it’ll look good on you!” or “That’s usually made for men, but I bet you can pull it off, [player name]!” In New Horizons, these lines are no longer present, at least that I’ve seen in the English version.

In terms of self-expression, I see these as strengths. There’s nothing in the game that encourages or discourages “feminine” or “masculine” expression for anybody.

Gendered Personalities

While gender roles do not apply to the player character, they can be seen in the NPCs.

One thing I will say in the series’ defense is that in the Japanese versions of the game, every personality type uses a different personal pronoun. In Japanese, personal pronouns are almost all quite gendered and, in fiction, tell you a lot about the character’s personality. It would actually feel a bit formal and odd to have all the characters use ‘watashi’ (a less gendered personal pronoun, but for men I think it’s a bit formal). Each personality type has a different pitch to their voice, with higher pitches for female personalities and lower pitches for male personalities, too. None of these are insurmountable barriers if they committed to breaking free of these stereotypes, but they are relevant factors.

The personality types are as follows: Normal (F): Friendly and kind characters who want to help you out. Peppy (F): Cheerful, energetic characters. They may come across a bit “ditzy.” They dream of being idols (actresses/singers in English). Snooty (F): Haughty, vain characters who value fashion and beauty. They can be standoffish at first, but are loyal friends once you’ve gotten close to them. Big Sis (F): Similar to normal types, but more mature. Jock (M): Athletic characters who are obsessed with sports and muscles. They can often come across as lacking in intelligence and one-dimensional. Cranky (M): Rude, standoffish characters, though they can be protective and kind once you’ve befriended them. Lazy (M): Most likely self-explanatory. Lazy characters want to lounge about and not work too hard, mentally or physically. Smug (M): Conceited, ostensibly "charming” characters.

Overall, the female personalities are kinder and more intelligent. However, even this “positive stereotyping” is still putting us in a box, and these “personalities” are indeed very much stereotypes.

The situation with special characters (shopkeepers and such) aren’t much better. There are a variety of male special characters with a variety of different traits: intelligent with good business sense, sneaky, timid, friendly, daydreamer, cheerful, artistic... Meanwhile, female special characters are basically sweet, shy, and/or fashionable. The only exceptions that come to mind are Saharah (who was a man in the Japanese version, but changed to a woman back in the original GameCube game due to long eyelashes, I can only assume) and Luna (who has so few lines it’s hard to even describe her personality).

On the bright side, ACNH did get rid of the gendered speech bubbles. It used to be that male villagers’ names would have a blue background and female villagers’ would be pink, save for special characters for whom it would be green. Now in ACNH, the color seems to be determined by the character’s aesthetic, which is a nice change.

Little to No Sexualization

Unlike many forms of media, ACNH is pretty free of sexualization as far as official content goes. (Obviously the internet is another story entirely, but that’s not Nintendo’s fault.) Only one character has any form of secondary sex characteristics (Luna has breasts), and while I question the need to give a tapir breasts, her outfit is modest, there are no “jiggle physics,” and there are no sexualizing camera angles or dialogue.

I’ve heard that the smug characters flirt with the player character. I don’t like them so I can’t say with confidence whether this remains true in ACNH, but as far as I saw in New Leaf, all they said in that regard would be like “you’re looking as cool as a cucumber.” It was enough to weird me out, but still, it’s obviously quite tame.

I haven’t seen any official* clothes that are sexualizing, and there are many clothing options that aren’t heavily gendered. (*I’m sure someone somewhere has designed clothes that are sexualized, nude, whatever, using the clothing design feature. I don’t think this is technically allowed by Nintendo, so if you encounter this you are able to report it however.)

[undernauticalblue]

Mushroom Outfits - Forest Green, Cotton Candy Pink and Autumn Evening

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Crochet Jacket, Blouse and Skirt

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Cottagecore Outfits - Root & Soil Collection

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Fox Hat, Blush and Brows Face Paint and Travelling Coat

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Coats / Cardigans - Minty Peach Bunny, Bear, Bambi Rose

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Outfits for a Cozy Day - Sunflower Pinafore, Caffe Mocha, Bear Cardigan

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Three Styles Knitted Cardigan Combo - Pastel Cozy, Retro Mint, Rustic Autumn

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Outfits for a Florist

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Vintage Apron Dress - Four Shades

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Spring Themed Dress, Blouse, Cardigan, Hat, and more