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I'm stargazing in Animal Crossing, so hi internet! Keep me company while I listen for the chimes.

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Okay! Thank you for this company, I am heading to bed now. Good night sweetpeas, be well and be safe! <3

Apparently they changed how visitors work in Animal Crossing as part of the summer update, so instead of having three definite visitors and rotating chances between the others, it's now a random chance of any of the nine of the visitor characters each day, and the four that you don't see will have priority the week after. (Source and cute infographic that people are arguing about in the comments) That would explain why it's Wednesday and I've had both Flick and CJ but none of the shopkeepers! *updates chart accordingly*

I didn't realise that Animal Crossing had a narrative at all, but... I think I finished it? It hasn't changed anything except for who visits my island at the weekend, which is good, but in my brain it was like The Sims and the only narrative it had is what you gave it! But that confusion to one side, I'm still playing and still having fun.

HAS EVERYONE SEEN THE JULY UPDATE?! We can go swimming! There's other stuff in this month's update, like ALL OF THE NIGHTMARE BUGS, but I've been incredibly hype about swimming. I only have two grumbles about it, which are 1) the wetsuits are ugly, and 2) I've not really found an easy way to dump all of your things when you want to go into the water. I've got half a changing room set up on the beach that I need to keep tweaking – it's got all of the swimming gear and a nice little fire to warm up by, it's just not very pretty yet. ... I would fight someone for an actual usable storage box that I could put my tools in while I swim I'm just saying.

I finally figured out why there were birds on my noticeboard! They're the new message notification! Yes it's been like three months and I only just figured that out, hush.

Cyd and Elvis are apparently counted as "grumpy" characters because whoever labelled the character types is WRONG and doesn't understand that they're beautiful balls of sunshine.

MY VILLAGERS ARE MAKING FRIENDS! I didn't know that they could do that! But it gives me warm fuzzies when I pop in to visit someone and find that I wasn't the first one there. Plus, what I have learned from my earwigging: Pashmina knows how to fight and doesn't realise that "moves" can also refer to dance moves, and Cyd used to work on a rigged ring-toss game on a boardwalk. Plus Cyd is concerned about whoever's stomping about the island in the middle of the night and I have a horrible suspicion it's me.

Isabelle does not like the number of trees on my island, which is obviously unreasonable because I have a perfectly sensible number of trees. (I am cutting down probably half of the non-fruit trees, but I will not surrender my orchard! ... I will probably stop stealing every fruit-bearing tree from tour islands.)

I've had my first bug-off! It's really nice, I love getting to see all of the villagers being excited about the same thing!

My island layout is MOSTLY finalised! I have one island connected to the airport that's got all of the buildings on, and anything on the other side of the river is for flowers and the orchard. And I've put all of my houses on a grid, because I am very much a townie and not living cheek-to-check with people is weird to me. ... Also there's a SPACE behind my museum and I need to fill it with something. Maybe I'll make a park!

I know I SHOULDN'T just set up a lucky dip of all of the unused stuff I've accumulated, but seriously if you need something LET ME KNOW before it all goes to the Nook Twins.

It turns out that I am EXCEPTIONALLY the mum friend when I open my island up for visitors, even if I can't be there to show people around. Like "It's raining so I've left you an umbrella and a snack, here's the key to the colour code of the paths, here's all of the stuff that you can take if you want!" levels of mum friend. ... It's probably too extra to just make a dreamwidth post I can link to with that information, isn't it?

Speaking of being too extra, did I tell you all that I've made a little diary for my Animal Crossing shenanigans? I've got one that's for tracking things like turnip prices and when certain shopkeepers have visited, so I can track patterns! I saw a post from someone that said you're guaranteed to get Kicks, Sahara, and Leif every week (with KK Slider and Daisy Mae on their own schedules), and any other visitors rotate, and that actually matches up with my data! ... I also have one notebook that's just like an actual diary, like a roleplaying journal or something where I just... Write about my day in Animal Crossing, and sometimes draw pictures because THIS IS THE SORT OF NERD THAT I AM.

I referred to turnips as The Forbidden Root on twitter to try to avoid people who were searching for prices, and I think I'm just gonna stick with that from now on! ... Also if anyone needs a turnip price predictor, this one hasn't been wrong for me yet and I can actually understand it!

I just had my first villager mention wanting to leave in Animal Crossing! Not like, in a bad way? It's Ozzie and he was just like "What if I go to new bug island and find NEW BUGS," and I'm here like "This is sad, but live your dreams you funky little bug lover."

(... I mean, after I frantically googled whether this meant I'd done something wrong!)

I'm glad he decided to leave BEFORE I started trying to futz with the town layout, because if he moved out after I finally got his house lined up I'd be quite irked. As it is, I really desperately want my island to have a thing that lets me get an aerial view, like my house does, because I WANT TO HAVE NICELY LINED-UP STREETS AND I CAN'T DO THAT BY EYE. Ugh. Maybe I need to embrace it and just start slapping houses down wherever. Hmm.

But yes, the only other things I have to report on the Animal Crossing front:

WHO KEEPS BRINGING SCORPIONS TO MY ISLAND AND CAN THEY STOP

I CAUGHT A WASP! I am a goddamn QUEEN. (NGL I used this guide for how to do it and now I can do tree-shaking runs before I start chopping wood? I guess?)

I started rearranging my house so that the craft/utilities room was in front and my bedroom at the back and got to the everything looks messier than it did before stage, just like when I tidy in real life!

Tidying my house is complicated by my AGGRESSIVELY HOARDING BUGS AND FISH in my storage because real talk when the bug-lizard and his partner (!?!?!) fish-beaver show up I am going turn them upside down and shake them until the bells fall out.

I have two (2) back-to-back TTRPG sessions today, one of which is a boss fight against a fucking flamethrowing swarm ghost that nearly killed the ranger's pet otter, so rearranging my house might be good keeping my hands busy work for that.

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Susan

I think it was the first time I saw stars on my island!

And of course the minute I post about the schedule of visitors, Nintendo makes a liar of me!

I have paid off my Animal Crossing house! \o/

Your dream stinks, I was talking to her.

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