#kinda inspired by those old arcade carpets

[loving-delusions]

drew a moonman to try and cure artblock

[emidori-crossing]

ACNH: Emidori Island

This is the tumblr that will chronicle my soothingly mundane days spent on Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Shortly after I began working from home due to the pandemic, I decided to get a Switch - mostly for the sake of playing ACNH. I didn’t want to splurge on the full system though, so I got the Switch Lite - I managed to find the very last one available at my local Target - and even in my choice color of yellow! You can see my ACNH passport as my blog banner image, shows my start date and all that.

My Switch friend code is SW-1261-8943-4808, which anyone is welcome to use :)

So I’m Lora. I’ve named my island Emidori - it’s a combination of the Japanese words for “smile” (emi) and “green” (midori). It’s a name I made up years ago when writing a story about a Shinto priestess whose shrine is dedicated to a juniper kami by that name.

So here’s me at the Emidori airport, where you can see the flag I designed. Looks weird maybe, but I think it looks “flag”ish, if you know what I mean - kinda like something you’d see on an old-timey heraldic crest. The inspiration - since Emidori is named for a happy green juniper tree spirit - is a tree with roots showing, its canopy made out of hearts. The blue and yellow bands at the side are just there because I thought the design looked too plain without it.

Here’s the layout of Emidori currently. We’ve come a long way since April! On my island (left-right, top-bottom) are Leopold, my roommate Deanna, Whitney, Biff, Huck, Shari, Broffina, Stu, Tucker, Piper, and Alice. Biff and Shari were my first neighbors. I’ve also had Portia and Audie (edit: and Bea! I knew I was forgetting someone; edit again: AND KNOX, geez, there really have been a lot!), who have moved away. My roommate and I have dibs on our favorite neighbors who, no matter what, are never going to be advised to leave. Her favorite right now is Shari. 

My favorite is Biff - which is unusual for me. I don’t usually like the jock types because I’m not really into fitness and they so often have those angry eyebrows that I don’t find cute. But he’s so fun and enthusiastic and encouraging. And I think in ways he reminds me of my boyfriend, because though my bf is not a jock, he is fitness-minded and likes to be active and tries to encourage me to be too. I’ll often screenshot Biff’s dialogue or letters and show them to my bf later and we’ll have a good giggle over them.

Here’s the outside of my house. I have the main room and two side rooms at the moment. I’m a little behind my friends and family as far as house development because a lot of time and money was going toward redoing the layout of the town - moving every island building into the arrangement that we have now. But I’m happy with the results.

I have a basic personal garden - hyacinth have a nice rainbow-range of colors, and I do like having grass to run around on and put furniture on. My roommate carpets almost every inch of her property in flowers - it’s quite a sight to see! But that will come later.

Pool, picnic table, and pizza oven seem a pretty ideal yard to me. There’s also an exercise bike out of frame to the left. I do that when I play Sims too - I like the idea of using exercise equipment like that outdoors. I put the clothesline in because I think it gives a homey feel.

This is the main room of my house, doubling as a bedroom and living room at the moment. I like to coordinate furniture, but I also like to take advantage of pieces I think are super cool, even if they don’t match everything else. 

That Girl with the Pearl Earring is a fake. I give the real ones to the museum, but I am actually equally happy getting fakes because then I feel more free to put them in my home. And from here, you can’t really tell it’s fake anyway.

I was ABSURDLY EXCITED to find that hamster in the store on one of my first days playing. I didn’t know there’d be pets of any kind besides the critters you can catch. And since I have guinea pigs IRL, the hamster is a great addition to my home :D His name is Mori, after my one boy piggie. (I have four girl piggies).

The pinball machine I got recently, and it’s extra cool to me, because it’s a baseball pinball machine. My bf and I go to these conventions where they have rooms full of pinball machines and arcade cabinets that are free unlimited play with price of ticket, and the baseball pinball is my favorite! And even more appropriate: it was a gift from Biff.

That’s the highest level workbench I have at the moment. My roommate has the bigger design, but this one is fine for me right now with the space that I have. (That phonograph is faced the wrong way around so that I see it from the front every time I enter the house).

(This room’s theme music is Wandering)

I turned my first expansion into a kitchen. I’d already been collecting every cool kitchen gadget I could find. And I always like the idea IRL of a yellow kitchen, so that’s the basic theme I went with. I’m REALLY anxious to get more food items. I have so many fun food items in Pocket Camp, and virtually zero in NH. 

I only just last week got the Cutting Board and Ironwood Dresser recipes. I have had the Ironwood Kitchenette recipe for months now, but hadn’t been able to make it until just recently.

(That’s a vacuum to the left in picture two. And I don’t care that the boombox is blue, because I can’t even see it when I walk in the room anyway.)

(This room’s theme music is K.K. Waltz)

The bathroom is the most recent addition to my house. It’s slightly eclectic, but I think the colors all look nice together. Yes, that is wedding flooring and wallpaper, and yes the toilet rug is made of cherry blossom petals. And that gold rose is from my roommate - she’s got a ton of black roses and has recently been trying her gold watering can on them.

(This room’s theme music is K.K. Sonata)

So that’s my basic introduction. Later today, I’ll be posting about my “today” on Emidori. Feel free to send me a Switch friend request :D

[hecth]

❛ ˗˗˗˗ ❥ ( alex fitzalan, he/him, cis male.) : * ❝ oh my god! is that heath godwin? i know all about them, i used to date a friend of theirs. they are a twenty-three year old production assistant from camden, maine but they’ve been living in apartment 405, room two for two years. they are known as the interstellar because they are so + open-minded, and + determined but they can also be very - changeable, and - airy. i’ve heard they really give off the arcade lighting, foggy evenings and super eight film cameras vibe you know? ❞

hello all!! i’m hayley n i’m excited to be here and introduce you all to my bby heath! he’s a reworked older muse of mine so i’m kinda working things out still but i would love to plot with you aLL! i’m about to head to bed bc,,, i have to be up early,,, and gmt problems... but if you leave a like i will come to you with all my best ideas in the morning! 

BACKGROUND!

the youngest of three boys, both with other varying nature names, heath is the product of two hippies who were chasing their lifetime dream of owning and running a b&b in camden, maine.

being the baby of the family, heath was always, well… babied… more than his older brothers. not that he ever really minded. he kinda loved the affection and extra attention

growing up, he really just enjoyed being around a lot of people? so a b&b was probably one of the best places for that. as he’d lie spread out on a rug on his stomach listening to guests’ stories and asking about their lives (probably contributed to the only 1 star reviews the place got on tripadvisor lbr) and particularly adored in the fall when spookier stories were exchanged

creativity was always fostered in their household and heath’s lying on the carpet kinda developed over time into his siblings and him playing elaborate games of pretend based on the stories they’d hear, which eventually!!! developed further into heath offering to record them so they’d always have a memory of it when they grew older

except he also became super passionate about filmmaking! which culminated when he was sixteen when heath made his first short film with the help of his brother who wrote the script. a debut characterised by heaps of imagination and vivid colouring, set on the coast in the height of summer and featuring some of the stories they’d heard over the years.

very idyllic and dreamlike as a result of his upbringing, this kinda transferred into the style of filmmaking he enjoyed most. most of the short films he’s made are sorta wes anderson-inspired focuses on visuals, but also think shrouded in some kind of scooby doo-esque mystery

by the time he was applying to college, heath was pretty certain he’d be applying to film schools. he’d developed a small showreel and had a couple of local accolades

attended nyu tisch with the help of scholarship funding and a pool of his parents’ savings and has kinda been haunting the city like a ghost ever since. when he moved into 405 it was basically the only place he could afford as he was still a student and on a part-time job/whatever stipends his parents were generous enough to give him budget!

he started working as a production assistant at nbc a year ago which… wasn’t exactly what he envisaged it to be, but ya know. getting some experience with witnessing how a production is run comes at the cost of taking everyone’s coffee orders

FUN FACTS !

odd socks with quirky designs for days

avid reader of horoscopes but he’ll never admit it. just judge u based on your sign from afar

big east-coaster. contemplated moving to los angeles for better job opportunities after graduation but… just couldn’t bring himself to do it. he loves seasons!

kinda gets by on good luck? definitely one of those people who you kinda wonder how they still exist as he honestly probably zones out sometimes while crossing the road and ~other stupid stories to come~

has the most chaotic creative process in which it’s probably just… a heap of stuff gathered around him and heath sitting in the middle drawing a weird flowchart that legit would not make sense to anyone bar him

will easily indulge in 3am discussions about conspiracy theories. is it procrastination? is it genuine interest? he’ll never tell

has a huge passion for all things stephen king but due to the fact that his parents deemed his work to be too gory, he still keeps this on the down-low like it’s some kind of taboo