#animal crossing meta

[hey-hamlet]

Unhinged animal crossing rabbit hole.

ive been playing animal crossing new leaf again, because as dope as new horizons is the villagers feel a little flat in comparison with past games.

Anyway, i've fallen into a strange rabbit hole of like. villager identity politics. they clearly self identify with their own species (a peppy villager in new horizons will mention a "fashionable [species] monthly" magazine. In the original game, tom nook will mention a "mammal strike" when calculating the debt for your first home loan, and Hopkin's photo quote says something alone the lines of "a wise mammal avoids danger". Are there like. taxonomic based class structures. Is biological essentialism a right wing talking point - also, almost every business is owned by a mammal, with the exception of really only the Roost (i'd argue that the museum is a not for profit) and maybe Club Lol, but Dr Shrunk did have to come begging to the mayor to get signatures so...

Are semi-aquatic villagers like octopodes and frogs oppressed?? is there equal representation for non-mammalian constituents??? The only interspecies romance we see in game is Lottie's (otter) crush on Digby (dog) in happy home designer - all other couples (Kapp'n and Lelani, Reese and Cyrus, whatever is going on between Pete, Pelly and Phylis) are between the same species. I think villagers, in older games, will talk about rumours of one villager having a thing for another but I can't find any dialogue dumps so I can't find any evidence of this.

Also! You as a human - at least the lazy (or maybe smug?) villagers will refer to you as their 'favorite human', so it's probably not taboo to mention species at least. In the gamecube game your mother questions why you'd even want to live with animals - "don't they smell bad?" so there is clearly discrimination between species, even if its not at an institutional level. Also - all of (most of, but like - thats all representative stuff) the museum artwork depicts real human painted artwork, with humans in it. Interesting aside - why does no-one know the correct name for the artwork? Why did some random guy get it on his boat with his other sketchy wears?

[yirggzmb]

Kirby Town Tunes

A collection of town/island tunes for Animal Crossing based on assorted tunes from the Kirby series. Screenshots are for New Horizons, but they should work in any Animal Crossing game.

Running Through the New World from Kirby & the Forgotten Land

My Friend and the Sunset from Kirby Super Star

More under the cut for ten total

Planet Popstar from Kirby 64

Grass Land from Kirby's Epic Yarn

Mt. Dedede from Kirby's Dream Land (also just Dedede in general)

Boarding the Halberd from Kirby Super Star

Castle Lololo from Kirby's Dream Land (also associated with Dynablade) albeit based more on the Super Star Spring Breeze rendition

Frozen Hillside from Kirby Air Ride

Bubbly Clouds from Kirby's Dream Land

Wind Blowing on Earthfall from Kirby Star Allies (ending is a bit truncated here)

[borbology]

had this concept haunting me for months so now im making it your problem too

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kirby sneezes like this btw

(and of course, bounces when he does it)

[wet-bed]

yeah, I enjoy animal crossing

[mementomarx]

New ship dropped along with a couple of doodle requests with Meta Knight.

[cali-kabi]

~ I don’t know if I shared these on here :0 here are some character color palette challenges I done a while back and the blue one I done it recently <3💖💛💚💙

[gardenofhope]

kirbtober day 21 - favorite character[s]

[mudkirby]

Just some cursed things and I'm into animal crossing now.

[emile-hides]

Everyone should go watch Densel’s Animal Crossing series on YouTube right now just for these moments alone

[song-writer-melo-wrath]

5 comfort characters

As always, @treshmind , thank you for the tag, it is a pleasure <3

I'm limiting myself to no OCs, and one character per series/origin/etc. In no particular order:

Meta Knight | Kirby

I still someday want to make a long video going into the phoenix-like nature of his character arc, and how he shifts. He starts off with “I want to be the most powerful warrior, and everyone else should strive to meet the same standard”. Over time, he's transitioned to “I want to be stronger so that I can protect those that are not.” It's incredible.

Cream Unicorn Cookie | Cookie Run

Sir that's my emotional support canonically non-binary character with a love for both pastels and the combination of pastels and dark colours. Who is pretty much the embodiment of nostalgia. Who has abandonment issues. … I'm sure the fact that I heavily relate to them says nothing about me.

Gundham Tanaka | Danganronpa

Danganronpa really was the series of “Every Character Deserved Better… Writing-Wise.” Gundham Tanaka is one of the few exceptions. Oh, don't get me wrong, he's too great to be here, and I will always be wishing more time was spent on him, but DAMN. They may not have meant to make one of the most well-written autistic-coded bisexual characters of all time, but they sure did anyway.

Henry | Fire Emblem

Crow man crow man crow man- I think I immediately grew attached to this guy from the moment he introduced himself. And then he's just…lovely. A character who smiles almost constantly, has a grim sense of humour, loves blood, loves crows, practices dark magic, would kill for his friends and loved ones, also very autistic-coded, quite literally raised by wolves, what's not to love?

Label/Labelle | Animal Crossing

A really touching story. Here you have a character who struggled with family bonds, and desperately wanted to find herself, who eventually reunited with her family after gaining a better sense of identity. She's become warmer over time, and will grow progressively friendlier to the player character. Plus, who doesn't love a fashion-forward gal?

… The matching colour palettes, if you're wondering, were semi-intentional, but not entirely. I'm realizing I could do another 5 with another colour palette.

I've already done my tagging today, so if you see this and want to join, consider yourself an honorary tag <3

[hey-hamlet]

Back on Animal Crossing rabbit holes -

Have you ever considered that not all of the villagers are like. Living animals. Like - Stiches is a stuffed bear, Hoppkins is a pool toy, Sprocket, Cepholabot and others are robots, Coco is a gyroid - Tangy is a mandarin.

How did they gain sentience? Are the robot villagers actually sentient or are they just convincing facsimiles? Who made them? Do they have the same rights as 'real' animals? How does taxonomy work if a stuffed animal is considered more closely related to a bear than an actual mammal.

The museum in New Horizons clearly implies that all of the villagers evolved from their namesake species - so like. Most of them are real animals - what does that mean for the others?

[mjcw64]

[romanticslimecreature]

It always makes me lowkey sad when a video game NPC says something like "I could talk about this thing all day! But you probably don't want to hear it," and then you can't get them to say any more. I want to let the NPCs infodump! Tell me about fossils or your favorite music genres or the lore of the magic system in your world! I make myself emotional imagining whoever told these people that their knowledge isn't interesting.

[wet-bed]

gaming setup packing up stuff to move out

[chromatic-lamina]

Dec 2023 Tumblr Top 10

There we go. Still mostly screencaps, and Cross Guild comes in to play, but the two December meta are in there, and the cute One Piece Academy Post, and even a fanfic post of mine (rare, and obviously won’t be in a year break down, but cool that it’s in a monthly one!)

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[cali-kabi]

~ Color Wheel Challenge 💜🌈✨💫

I saw this challenge going around a little while back and wanted to try it out with my favorite characters and draw different ones as well :D💫🌈this was fun to draw I hope y’all like this :)💕

Poppy Red (Animal Crossing)🌱

Bandanna Dee Orange (Kirby)🍎

Jirachi Yellow (Pokémon)🌟

Luigi Green (Super Mario)🍄

Manaphy Light Blue Cyan (Pokémon)🌊

Meta Knight Blue (Kirby)⚡️

Amity Blight Purple (The Owl House)🦉

Toadette Pink (Super Mario)🍄