#just life gets in the way y’know?

[kinokoshoujoart]

cora’s bad time hell simulation steps or how to play “sprite station for girl” “harvest moon ds cute” the wrong way

(all ways are wrong this game is Accursed)

ok so here’s what my disorganized “guide” to myself for harvest moon ds for girl (aka indecipherable notes i wrote to myself as i played and revised as i tested various things and restarted due to mistakes) looks like. at some point when i become a real gamer i will write a legible guide meant for eyes to look at but uhhh this is how i play this accursed game personally

i’m not sure if anything i wrote will make any sense since i wrote it as notes to myself so probably definitely use fogu and fc2 jonason wiki (may not work but some pages should be archived) instead

ALSO if you’ve never played or barely played the game it won’t make sense at all! hmds was my first harvest moon so i am used to various horrors!

my play style is probably not fun in general HOWEVER if you are a grinding hell goblin like me then it’s GREAT!!!! if not you may still find it amusing that the game gives you permission to play like this

(it’s a great background task game while doing like productive stuff but otherwise playing this way would probably be unbearable)

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anyway after that the days go a lot faster, you’ll get the island on summer 1, so on spring 30 i put all my money into million G tickets and sell 200 of em, do the 5x money thing, and save the rest. so when thomas comes the next day to sell you the 900 million G island you can just sell 180 tickets and do the 5x money thing again with like ~600 million G tickets left over. it takes up inventory but you’ll get the shelf in a few days. basically you just need to remember to order from the TV shopping every saturday and place orders with gotz and gray whenever they finish stuff.

random tips

after unlocking the fuckass hot spring sprites (the ones that require you to spend a total of 700 1 hour sessions in the hot springs) i usually grind grazing points— if you put your animals outside for 5 hours you get a “Love Point”, but if you interact with them after they earn that LP then the timer switches over and you can get another LP after 5 more hours. if you wear the time ring the whole time it’s 2.5 hours. i’m not very good at explaining this but basically if you’re super efficient you can get way more animal LP than you realistically should, which is great because the touch glove petting minigame is Bad!!!!

i usually wait on getting the rest of the purple sprites (the ones that require you to hire the purple team and ask for healing) until i’m totally done with the indigo team, cuz i wanna get HG’s purple heart event asap, but you can switch the order if you want

by summer y1 you’ll basically have a feel for everything. aside from Skye, Leia, HG and WP everyone can be married early-mid autumn if you want

if you want to Gay (in the japanese version only) keira is the quickest to marry. leia is the quickest to max affection but it’s impossible to get leia year 1 because the bottle you need to fish up can only be caught in spring. you have to wait until at least year 5 for WP and iirc year 6 for HG.

[crystalbeastsquidney]

Like Icarus cast upon a frozen sea

[tenwhiteandalusians]

pertaining to the idea of tenax’s band of strays i do think it’s touching that the kids are the ones who saved him and waited outside the door to make sure he’s okay. for all tenax claims to be harsh and cruel it’s a fine indicator of his character that the kids won’t rest without him and are there every time he’s in danger.

[deus-ex-mona]

ok but. my flamin’ hot take is that hw’s tendency to lock lore/character/relationship info behind a paywall kind of does more harm than good when gen 3 (particularly lxl, hiyori, and chizuchan) is involved

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

caitlyn ross from deepwoods is what the fandom thinks ford is

[badolmen]

I just realized that Jesse Pinkman’s address in high school was his Aunt’s house. He was already living with her instead of his parents by the time he was in high school. The timeline of her cancer and death is a little fuzzy, but it’s likely he had to care for her while attending school. If that’s the case it’s clear he didn’t ask for accommodations or even use his Aunt’s illness as an excuse for his poor grades (Walt was surprised to hear she had been sick). Combined with his obviously untreated ADHD, it’s no wonder he turned to drug use and failed to ‘apply himself.’

And to think that through all this - taking care of his Aunt, struggling in school - his parents didn’t help; either directly with his Aunt’s illness or indirectly easing his responsibility for her by hiring care givers…

[silksworn]

// only a lil subby when the whips come out <3

I’d say ‘soulmates’ if either of them believed in a notion that romantic or saccharine

[404shcats]

Y’know if I’m gonna be homesick I’d like to at least remember what home was like -Party

[soft-serve-soymilk]

Inigo loves Archie so much it kills him inside :’)

[joeeatsdvds]

they’re talking about the finale for this coming series being “huge” and “devastating” which i hope that means ruby gets killed

i love ruby sunday i really do but we’re long overdue a companion suffering a devastating fate again

[malachitezmeyka]

The day I found out people actually find writing and drawing and generally creating art enjoyable is the day my perception of the world broke

[vigilantejustice]

obvs logically dig that my. body/food issues are wildly nuanced + complicated things much bigger + more complex than this but it is very hard to stop feeling like wow can’t believe my entire problem is just having “too ugly to function” disorder that is so pathetic :(

[kneebrac-ed]

what gets me is how resolved ed was to just. do what he thought was the best option. stede’s ‘but this isn’t it, right? you’ll come up with a plan, right?!’ and ed’s no, mate, done with that. you’re safe, we’ve made this decision, I’m gonna fold your socks, that’s my life now. from the moment they arrive he’s giving stede these cautious looks, knowing he’s expecting something different, and he has that visible ‘hmm, oh dear’ moment when stede fully comprehends the situation and ed’s approach to it. they’ve really been caught, the adventure is really over, and stede has already been thinking that he’s ruined blackbeard long before he’s told so. ed’s always understood their situations better, and this time he needs stede to drop the whimsy and fantasy that this will all work out and they can just keep going the way they have been. but the thing, The thing, is that as soon as ed knows his feelings are reciprocated the life and sparkle comes straight back to him. ‘there’s always an escape’. they Could have broken out, of course he could have got them out of there, but at that point it didn’t seem worth the disruption. ed had resigned himself to this being the life, this being the way he would become a different person and have stede by his side. both of them just being some guy, not adventurers or pirates or runaways wanted by the crown. he wanted stede to want the vision he had of them making do because it’s all over and they’re together - the comfort of their situation. but in the end it’s talking! it through! that’s needed — in explaining to stede that he’d found this new purpose and happiness with him, it leads them away from the scenario they’ve found themselves in. as soon as the option of Together And In Love was there rather than just together by any means, of course ed wanted more for them, as safe and far away as possible, and would immediately pursue it ;;

[flippedorbit]

my mom’s about to be the reason i off myself exactly a week before graduation if she keeps bitching about every little thing

[deus-ex-mona]

i think these two should kiss

[jadepresentingnipples]

Apparently the way to make me write about my OCs is to get me distracted while writing explanations for my choices on a survey in the tags.