#acnh notion

[pastelgirltemplates]

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Island planner Notion template

Link to the template Support me through my Gumroad

Happy planning!  .* :☆ﾟ.

[xuethms]

✂ islander notion template.

Links: install (6 USD) | features & usage guide

Islander is an Animal Crossing New Horizons Notion template that's perfect for go-getter resident reps who are looking to complete all collections. Both north and south hemisphere templates available.

Features: dashboard, monthly in-season fish/bugs/sea creatures, full islanders database, museum donation trackers, other collections (music, reactions, nook miles), personal saved databases for photos + custom designs + island inspirations, guides, turnip profit-tracking & stalk market tips

Disclaimers: This is not a tumblr theme/page. I do not claim ownership over the use of ACNH game graphics. 

[vantacrew]

i have decided to make this animal crossing notion page everyone's problem actually (she will be public when she's done bc i want more to come out of this thing than just my friend + i using it)

u can only add up to 100 items into a database n i wanted to have a thing where u can mark which villagers u have + another of which villagers u want right ? theres like nearly 450 villagers.

my brilliant solution to this is a google spreadsheet instead that has (what i've deemed) the relevant info for every villager so that u could copy + paste that shit onto the notion. the plan is to also make images + upload those to a google drive folder so u could add them to make shit look nice in the gallery view.

i have yet to do much progress on the databases for critters n other collectibles, n i have much more planned. i am so very normal

[chiimi-png]

100 Days of Productivity [28/100]

🌿24/09/23🌿

My family came over today so I spent the majority of the day with them. At night I decided to finish transcribing my notes from notion into my binder and then decided to play some ACNH again.

🎧 song of the day: Call Me Little Sunshine - Ghost

[overfillednightsky]

🌟 get to know people game 🌟

tagged by @seashrine, been awhile since i tried something like this :0c!

Current Time: 1:45 PM

Anything you intend to do later: work on more self-improvement stuff, like start using the notion app to organize to-do lists better, get my stuff together to maybe draw and post online more again, hone my storyboard skills, etc,, esp for video essay or silly nuzlocke ideas i have various ideas w both experimental visuals and Tone/"writing" to consider, but also like. Do the thing, not just hypothesize about

Anything you recently watched or played: replaying lies of p's demo (my first shot trying to Get Into a soulsborne game and mechanics to boot, the lore compels me!) and the original pinocchio story to see what adaptations the game is doing, i love creative reinterpretations/expansions upon the source material stories can do! aside from that, trying to relax w acnh and mp100 as always, along w satoshi kon's filmography

Anything you want to watch or play: kh4 more like khiv drip--kidding, aside from my terminal kh affliction and frustration w the lack of news of either kh4 or missing link atm, the full lies of p game when it comes out! aside from that, i think i want to properly decorate my acnh island, it's v barren and i still haven't done much decoration... for media to watch, i still have a huge backlog of animated media to watch for both relaxation and storyboard analysis (the owl house, monkie kid, rottmnt, etc), my affliction w storyboard and animation is just as terminal

not gonna tag anyone bc i don't want to peer pressure, but esp if you're a mutual/friend reading this, feel free to do it too!

[njadakaufey]

I'm so happy, I finally got the sticker from @catoce_shop with the little Animal Crossing sized adaptation of Luna*. Luna is part of the elemental guard, and she's a darkness elemental, the best elemental, I don't make the rules 🤭. Feel free to check out her Etsy shop, her artwork is incredible 🖤 🤎 To shop my desk set up items, you can check my Throne storefront linked in bio 🛒 You can find my notion templates, twitch overlays, wallpapers & digital reading journal on my Ko-fi shop linked in bio *PS: I won the little sticker thanks to her random draw on discord. ☁️ Cozy gaming partners 🐻 @tinybearsprout 🐙 @lecoindekoko 🐸 @pixel_plant_gamer 🐿️ @clara.crossings 🦊 @evs_gamespot 🐱 @doenutt_geek 🦉 @savscozycorner 🐺 @junimocove 🐝 Check out the beautiful creators I tagged 📩 If you’d like to collaborate with me send me a DM or email me #desksetup #setup #setupdetails #deskdetails #cozyspace #cozydesksetup #setupinspiration #gamingroom #neutraldecor #deskgoals #shop #acnh

[moominsfcknproductive]

01.18.2022 // first day of classes! our first week is online, so i made myself a cozy spot on my bed during my class; it was a quite good start to the semester.

highlights include:

• looked over syllabus for time and motion; class on video production through animation and photography

• updated notion with links, assignments, and resources

• completed introduction post for art history class

[svyatoiy-arch]

i only have two more days of work before the holiday,  but most importantly:   it’s alya’s birthday on tuesday!!!

[nightglider124]

I’m tempted to play some Animal Crossing since i wanna work on my crops area cos I have not yet put any in the ground lmao or tried any recipes 👀

However, I seem to be on a writing roll with this current chapter I am working on and I’m like ehhhh what do I wanna do… I have work tomorrow so I don’t wanna be up too late either.

[whoriginal]

I made a notion template for acnh because I was bored

I calculates how much you’ll make from each fruit, all of them together, and the next day you can harvest fruit.  (I put every three days)

https://www.notion.so/Animal-Crossing-Templates-ddad05415fe342a5a61deda3a16c4c44

[vantacrew]

making an insane animal crossing notion page for my friend n i, i promise im very cool

[cirquecarte]

01. techo kaigi 2022

wanna try out actually blogging on my blog!! chatty post under the cut. it’s about journals for next year and how i use them!

for a while now, i keep on joking that i’ll drop everything and become a stationery youtuber. in reality i’m too shy, self-conscious of my voice, and my desk setup is too messy for my liking to take a video of LOL... but i’m still fairly interested in the journaling community and people’s thoughts about planners. i’m a big lurker, but i really enjoy talking about things i like! so i kinda want to try using tumblr to talk about my interests! twitter is a pretty social platform, but there’s only so many tweets i can thread before feeling like “now i’m really talking too much” and then i stop LOL

anyways, i thought that a good first stationery blog post would be about my planner lineup for 2022!

🐤 hobonichi a6 - crane cover (from sakurahandcraft on etsy)

my main journal for memory keeping and scrapbooking! i’ve been using a hobonichi since 2019 and i think it’s been really helpful for me. i didn’t vibe with the a6 hobonichi covers this year so i went with a cover from an indie shop! people are super creative with designs. i really liked this cover because i felt like it’d look nice with the hobonichi weeks cover (also..... mail bird...... oc content.....)! i’ve been matching my a6 and weeks covers for the past few years so i feel like i can’t get out of it haha.

the way i use hobonichi is pretty straightforward - i try to incorporate a little bit of journaling every day, so the one page a day works really well for me. i’m comfortable with the smaller a6 size, the empty space isn’t as intimidating to me. prior to hobonichi, i tried bullet journaling, but i realize... i HATED having to write the date every day LMAOOO so i feel more ready to just jump right into journaling.

some other things i use the a6 for: habit tracking! i track things like going to bed early, drinking a certain amount of water, etc. i like using rainbow highlighters because it’s satisfying to see a full row filled up!!

(plant stickers by @/itskleine, washi by me)

admittingly i slacked off on doing these monthly doodles because i wasn’t feeling well (i think... this is the only month i had completely filled out 😔✊), but i rly enjoy seeing these filled! i want to try and do better next year on these because it’s cool seeing a month in review.

sometimes i miss pages, or i don’t really know what to write on some days, and that’s ok! when i’m at a loss, i tend to write out quotes, stuff that resonates with me, or horoscopes lol. (the above acnh image is actually a shop promo image, so i use my empty pages accordingly LOL)

🌱 hobonichi weeks - dandelion pappus

(stamp washi by @/blueludebar, boat washi by @/anguiculus on twt)

i’ve been enjoying hobo weeks the past few years, but not sure if i’ll use it moving forward since i started a new job! regardless i still got one because i like using it for both work/art-related things and other miniscule tasks. 

(egg sticker by @/kaiami, washi by me)

as you can see i keep the exact same layout every week LOL, which i think is fine! it works for me! i put general goals for the week on the blank page so that i can remember what i want to get done over the course of the week. i also like separating the columns and pages for personal stuff and for art stuff.

for monthly pages in the weeks, i put in events or outings. i used to indicate my spending but now i use notion for that!

 🍋 leuchtturm1917 a5

(stickers by @/missdurianne, @/kinwamonster, @/karakanani on ig, @/superaenbow on twt)

this is something new i’m trying out! admittingly blank right now but i’m hoping to put art i’ve made in there and also log achievements/nice things that people say to me bc... my brain fogs and i don’t remember good stuff as much as i do the bad 😔😔 i’m hoping that it’ll be a positive notebook when i have a bad day!

🐶 midori pocket diary b6 - dog

i’ve been using the midori diaries to track my health (both physical and mental). it’s really helpful for me because my memory has been very bad (esp with pandemic etc etc), and it’s very useful for whenever i have doctors appointments. the inside pages are already decorated, so i don’t have to focus too much on it looking nice, which i really like.

🐱 chococat blank notebook

admittingly i don’t know the specs of this notebook because..... it’s from 2005 LMAOOO?? this is my “morning pages” / stream-of-consciousness notebook. it’s a habit i’ve been doing for a few years! yumi sakugawa made a good post explaining morning pages here. whenever i write, i try and pick a notebook that isn’t too expensive or an old notebook i never used. it doesn’t super matter because it’s just a space for me to write unfiltered thoughts, so it really doesn’t have to be pretty haha. i don’t really want it to be because it’s a vent notebook!!! tbh i don’t really look back on this notebook, but it’s very helpful for me to have a space where i can let out thoughts without being judged - i like doing this in the morning so i can start the day with a clear head!

...and that’s it!! (i say, as i write a long post HAHA) if anyone is also journaling or buying planners for next year, i always love to hear what other setups are out there! i always get a little melancholy and existential at the end of the year, but planners and stationery helps cheer me up so that i can look forward to the new year, a clean slate.

[fightmeyeats]

ACNH: Colonial Desires in the Context of Quarantine

Since finishing up my undergraduate studies in June, one of the major things I've been doing with my free time is playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons (please don't @ me but I've already logged something like 400 hours). As much fun as the game is, one of the things that's really stood out to me is how much AC:NH depends on and reifies colonial logics, and how important it is to unpack this in the context of the game's popularity and the ongoing pandemic.

One of the first ways I want to address colonialism in AC:NH this is through the way I was first introduced to it, namely through its connection to my thesis and what I refer to as the "terraforming imaginary". Before I started playing or had even decided to buy the game, I was working on my thesis "Constructing New Worlds: An Investigation of Climate Change and the Terraforming Imaginary" (which, shameless self plug but if you're interested you can check out my 10 minute video presentation for symposium at Johns Hopkins University here). During this time I was talking about my thesis pretty non-stop with anyone who would listen and as a result probably about half of my friends independently sent me this meme

[ID: meme from @animalcrossingmemes which shows two children; the one on the left is smiling and looking off into the distance with the label "daydreaming about terraforming" while the child on the right looks stressed and upset with the label "actually terraforming". Beneath this meme is text from @kaijuno which reads "I realize this is an animal crossing meme but as an astrophysicist I was really excited for a second that someone was finally seeing the light on how fricking difficult an a huge waste of time it would be to try to terraform Mars". Beneath this text is another meme with four hands gripping each other's wrists to make a circle. In the center is the initial animalcrossingmemes image and each arm is labeled, respectively, "Minecraft Players," "Sims Players," "Animal Crossing Players," and "Astrophysicists apparently"]

Although my thesis addresses terraforming in the context of space exploration/colonization, AC:NH's engagement with "terraforming" (alongside other aspects of colonial practices and desires) helps to expand on the stakes of this. The reason I put "terraforming" in scare-quotes is because…technically, there isn't any terraforming in AC:NH, given that terraforming is "the operation consisting of rendering other stellar bodies—mainly planets and eventually asteroids—appropriate for human life" (Frédéric Neyrat, 46). While I'm all down for an interpretation of the Animal Crossing world as a non-Earth planet and the villagers as aliens, the island is already suitable for human life and the use of "terraforming" in the game is generally more readily identifiable as geoconstructivism: players redesign and restructure their islands, shaping waterways and topography to create idealistic spaces (as opposed to making the island literally livable). Either way, it speaks to the terraforming imaginary—the underlying set of logics and desires conducive to the imagining and desiring of “terraforming”, ie the logics and desires of colonization. Even though AC:NH's terraforming isn't technically terraforming, it is an embodiment of the terraforming imaginary, centering desires for the "civilizing"/"cultivating" of a space into an orderly, colonized ideal. On even a very surface level it is useful to think about this through the island rating system: islands are ranked out of five stars, with deductions made for things such as having "too many" weeds or not "cleaning up" by leaving items lying around rather than placed with intention. 

Another, perhaps more obvious, way in which AC:NH embodies colonial logics is through the "Nook Miles Tickets". Players trade in Nook Miles (an achievement based currency) for tickets which they can take to the airport and use to visit other, uninhabited islands which they can destroy to extract all of the resources slash-and-burn style. Players also have an increased likelihood of catching rare insects, fish, and sea animals to display to their own island museum or sell. As Wilbur, a dodo pilot, explains about this process: "we run the 'finders keepers' protocol here. Lumber, fruit, fish, whatever? Yours if you can carry it", going on to emphasize the importance of not leaving anything behind as there will be no returning; they "burn the flight plans" after each flight.

Although the rampantly destructive extraction of resources is the most apparent embodiment of colonial logics, the centrality of the museum and the imperative to complete each wing by finding and identifying all of the bugs, fish/sea creatures, fossils, and artworks in the game is an equally significant connection to colonialism. Benedict Anderson argues in Imagined Communities that the museum, along with the census and the map, "shaped the way in which the colonial state imagined its dominion—the nature of the human beings it ruled, the geography of its domain, and the legitimacy of its ancestry" (164). The specifics Anderson goes into differ of course, because he's talking about actual colonial states while AC:NH has the fluidity of embodying the underpinning desires which colonialism as process requires to function, but what holds true is that these specific forms of producing, organizing, and displaying knowledge which produced "a totalizing classificatory grid, which could be applied with endless flexibility...to be able to say of anything that it was this, not that; it belonged here, not there" (Anderson 184). Essentially, in AC:NH part of a player's ownership of the island occurs through a player's ability to classify and collect artefacts for the museum. Furthermore, this imperative to collect and preserve fossils, art work, bugs, fish, and sea creatures is part of the way the player's island is positioned as a place of value. 

The museum also implicitly functions to reify positions of authority, legitimizing a kind of monopoly of knowledge. In AC:NH, this primarily means the positions of the museum curator (Blathers) and, to a degree, Tom Nook (who selected and invited Blathers) are secured as the authorities on knowledge. When Tom Nook tells the player that the island(s) are deserted, we must take this as truth...yet fishing both on the player's island and the Nook Miles islands can turn up trash items like old tires, tin cans, and boots. Colonial logics depend on a management of who counts as "people" and what counts as "inhabited" and the myth of empty lands; Tom Nook's instance that these islands are all deserted is haunted by these lingering traces of some other inhabitation prior to the game's start. 

Okay, so you might be asking what does this all mean and why should we care? Let's talk about both the game's popularity and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which contextualized its release (and continues to shape daily life). Animal Crossing: New Horizons has not only received overwhelmingly positive critical reception, but is one of the best selling games both for the Switch console and the Animal Crossing series. According to freelance journalist Imad Khan's New York Times article "Why Animal Crossing Is the Game for the Coronavirus Moment," the game's appeal centers in its function as an escape to an "island paradise where bags of money fall out of trees and a talking raccoon can approve you for a mortgage". Khan quotes Dr. Ramzan (a professor of game narrative at Glasgow Caledonian University) who refers to it as "the universe you’ve always wanted, but can’t get." Given the significantly decreased mobility and connection that has accompanied social distancing, as well as the increased stress and heightened inequality which have accompanied COVID-19, this probably isn’t particularly surprising. It makes sense that a cute, low-stress video game would be a valuable form of escapism.

Mobility is a particularly fraught discourse in this context: on the one hand, concerns surrounding containment/immobility are heightened in the context of neoliberalism and within colonial societies, which depend upon discourses of individualism and independence to demarcate the “freedom” which comes from capitalist economies. At the same time, the desire for things like connection/community, movement, and spatial autonomy/sovereignty are not inherently colonial, even as colonialist logics frequently position colonial/capitalist/neoliberal expansion as the solution. Animal Crossing is heavily situated within this entanglement, simultaneously offering a very real form of connection (and even protest) for many people while also implicitly speaking to latent beliefs that colonization is a legitimate form of mobility and escapism. To say that AC:NH is the universe we’ve always wanted but can’t get is to refuse to engage with the inherent contradictions of neoliberalism and reafirm the notion that colonial capitalist worlds are worth wanting; that the fantasy of individual wealth and success through destructive extraction and market freedom, when obtainable, is good.

None of this is to say that playing AC:NH is the same as colonization, because of course it isn't. However, the colonial undertones of the game reflect the pervasiveness of colonial logics and desires in our daily lives, subsequently further normalizing them. Journalist Kazuma Hashimoto, for example, emphasizes the importance of contextualizing AC:NH's colonial undertones within Japanese Colonialism in "Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Japanese Colonialism". As Hashimoto argues, "I am only asking that people familiarize themselves with Japanese colonialism and why something as innocuous as discovering a deserted island can be read as colonialism — especially within the context of a Japanese game".

Inattentiveness to the more subdued, invisibilized manifestations of violence facilitates their internalization and acceptance; educating ourselves and paying attention to and challenging places where we feel comfortable with these kinds of escapist fantasies is an important exercise in critical thinking which can help us to continue to refuse their real life manifestations. 

[hotpocket-fucker]

The people who have only played ACNH and only met the NH Tom Nook and say that he's a "greedy capitalist pig" have no notion of how spoiled they are, like do you have any idea how fucked up is in the older games when you told him "no" to a house update and like a typical empath he just says "I know that you won't be happy" AND UPDATES THAT SHIT ANYWAYS?!

[eyerasure]

ACNH SENTENCE MEME  /  accepting !

@heroboy​ sent:  “ i wanna be friends with everybody. so i wanna learn everything about everyone! “

      “   not everyone is going to let you in ,  midoriya  ...   ”    the notion is taken in his hand and crushed.   there’s honesty within the sharpness  ;   not everyone wanted to be known in such a manner.   though from what he’s seen from this kid  ,  he’s been successful so far.  for better or for worse  ,  it seems to be better for the most part for now.   “   but i guess you’ve been successful so far.  good for you.   ”

[followingnewhorizons]

These two photos give a hint at the sort of vibe I want with my ACNH island. The first is more along that "lonely chic" one associates with life in the city, especially late at night, while traveling, living daily and seeing life through a lens of hotels. As someone who grew up in a sleepy little town of a few hundred people then moving to NYC in my early 20s, I still have Romantic notions about cities, and there is a lovely book by Olivia Laing titled, The Lonely City, which resonated deeply with me. I shall spare you my diverting into anecdotes and fantasies and instead summarily state that this top screenshot, with it's dark blue atmosphere, shadowy interior, faint glimmer of lights and feeling of quiet solitude, is one which illustrates an aesthetic I wish to explore more in this interesting medium of video games.

The second is more in keeping with a couple of my previous posts, and my desire to explore an aesthetic angle exemplified in the Hannibal tv series. Sumptuous interiors and rich coloring belie and undertone of loneliness akin to the aforementioned one of the city. Though this loneliness is less shameful, more of a cultivation of purpose. Again, think Dr. Hannibal Lecter--psychiatrist, former surgeon, and criminologist whose tastes range the gamut from fine wine, history, classical music, poetry and all fine arts, as well as a sartorial sensibility that would please all the master clothing designers. This is a different sort of loneliness, one that is taken up happily. It is the kind of solitude that is carefully tended to by someone who finds no equal in the world, who sees himself as both gentleman and monk. Forgive my rambling but I do find this style more in keeping with my ideal sensibilities. As someone who experiences loneliness often, I think it better to cultivate interests and skills to satisfy one's own spirit rather than drift through a hollow existence, much like any one-night cheap hotel.

I shall close this post with a resolution. I endeavor to share my progress with you, Reader, as I realize my journey on my ACNH island. Please don't take my writing too seriously, this is about a video game after all. But it does mean much to me and as such, I think recreation is as important as work. We human beings have found a lovely connection to these creatures and characters and the making and caring for little deserted islands. It is beautiful in a way, isn't it?

I think so.

Take care and be well--M

Photos from tropikitch and missstiegl, respectively.