#non ac

[anch-vaviel]

#non ac #sorry not sorry #finished Unpacking last night and wanted to post some cute shots #yes ik the shelves are chaotic and not sorted #no idc that they are I'll be more neat and tidy next time #was just vibing with the sound track #unpacking #nintendo switch #nintendo #cozy games #cozy switch game #cozy nintendo game #unpacking game #indie games #indie switch game #polaroid #cozy gaming #aesthetic #nintendo aesthetic #cozy aesthetic

[pumpkab00]

Unbothered and uninterested 😌💅🏼✨

#me #selfie #non ac #non Pokémon

[stumpmaker]

Hey check out this game demo if you like match maker games. Its very cute and fun so far. I can't wait for the full game to come out.

#other games #love ghostie #non ac #demo games on steam

[mayor-brandy]

Another new buddy 🍪 A cookie themed bear. I’m thinking his name could be Chippy for now

#OC #my art #bear OC #mine #non ac #chippy #mascot #doodle

[elowyncrossing]

no tomodachi life…again.

#non ac #tomodachi life #nintendo direct #i am so TIRED!!!

[clayykaczmarek]

i kinda wanna play assassins creed black flag rn

#shitpost #non ac

[boggly-island]

The feminine urge to trauma dump on your acnh blog bc you’ve got no one else

#non ac #im going insane

[okmayor]

the docks 🌊

#minecraft #non ac

[megatownac]

The queue is empty, and it's been a little over four years since that happened. The last time, it's because I was on a two-week trip to Japan. This time, it's because I've quit playing New Horizons.

I stopped playing on September 22, on Ankha's birthday, because I wanted to celebrate that one last time before I put the game down. Since then, I've regained half an hour each day by not playing, and another twenty minutes by not queueing up posts after I got through my backlog on October 1. So it's been about 23 days of having an extra 50 minutes.

I'd been playing for nearly a year for no reason other than to keep getting fuel for posts. It wasn't fun on its own anymore.

I started this blog in September 2013, 10 years and 1 month ago. Since then, I've written over 22,000 posts in just about 3700 days.

When I started this blog, the Animal Crossing world was a lot more active. I made friends with people like @toysleaf and @vivinzenz. I would visit people's towns, and they would visit mine. As years went on, that faded. The blog got a little bit bigger. Just barely, barely big enough that I had to get cautious about what I wrote. I cut out all swearing and off-color jokes. I stopped asking people for things. I made sure never to reveal my political leanings, or my thoughts on current events. It wasn't my place, I thought, and was grateful that nobody asked me to weigh in. I eventually became isolated in my little world, not reblogging anything from anybody, ever, and hoping that maybe eventually some silly joke I made would get viral enough to…

To what, exactly? It's not like I ever made money doing this, and I'd all but given up on making friends. I was just doing it out of habit, out of a drive to see if I could get my follower count to go up. It didn't. I hit the 1500-follower mark back in 2016 or 2017 and never got higher than 1595. My silly jokes, my constant barrage of snarky comments about my day-to-day life, simply weren't popular with some imaginary mainstream Animal Crossing tumblr fandom that stopped existing well before New Horizons came out.

There's still an Animal Crossing fandom out here, of course. Just not one that follows blogs like mine. Do something impressive: create some art, or crochet something, or even design a cool home. Things I was not doing. Things I did not want to do.

I'd like to get back to enjoying Animal Crossing. To playing the game for fun. To playing it with other people, and making friends. But that won't happen right now. It can't.

Remember, I've been doing this for over 10 years. I was in my late twenties when I STARTED this blog, and I knew very well that I was one of the oldest people on Tumblr posting Animal Crossing content. My forties are not far off. I'm old. I feel out of place and weird posting my silly little jokes here when I know that most of the people reading them, and there aren't many who do, are probably quite a bit younger than I am. It's a kid's game, and that's fine. But I'm not a kid, and I'm not posting anything truly creative. Just blogging. Just starting up my game each morning to run around and gather fossils and hit rocks and talk to any islanders I see and snapping dozens of screenshots so I can post them on Tumblr at a rate of 4 or more posts each day.

This isn't goodbye forever. I'm just going on break for now. When something changes, I'll be back.

In the meantime, my main blog, @ratralsis, was active before this one started and is still active. I'm going to try to write there a little more often now that I'm not posting here each day, but we'll see, I guess.

As for here, I don't know what I might be posting here in the next few months. Maybe nothing. Maybe I'll start reblogging things again for the first time in, what, six years? Seven years? I don't know. A long time.

I'm not saying I will. Just that I maybe will. Maybe I won't!

Either way, take care of yourself, and remember that I'm still around and, one way or another, will continue writing on the internet until I am physically unable. I've been doing so since 2001 or so and have never stopped. I've been Ratralsis since 2002 and I needed a name to write on a friend's website (the website is long gone now). As far as I know, I'm either the only Ratralsis out there or the other people with that name don't show up on Google, so, as of today, at least, if you see a Ratralsis out there complaining about Best Buy on Twitter or leaving comments on YouTube videos or posting in the forums on Flight Rising, that's me.

That's all for now.

#text post #long post #non ac #not ac #goodbye for here and for now

[leafdiy]

just finished my first ever gouache painting! it’s not perfect, but I’m glad I pushed myself to finally start

inspired by some lovely art I saw on here

#this is going to be a gift I hope they love it #non ac #personal

[thetruthisneverfree]

#non ac #seriously tumblr get your shit together #even instagrams better about its terrible ads than this

[anch-vaviel]

Somebody needs to explain what a boop meter is because I'm confused

#non ac #text post

[pumpkab00]

Well, you can’t knock him for tryin

#funny pics #funny #non ac #non Pokémon #nonrelated #I hope it works for him

[stumpmaker]

Got a fountain fairy quest from the fairy festal and made this bad bitch. Jealous? wish there was a bamboo purse wearable tho

#neopets #non ac

[elowyncrossing]

this game always hurts but it’s so good

#non ac #a night in the woods

[solitary-seaweed]

my parents just got back from vacation and my mom is like *must buy more houseplants* now and conveniently there were a few houseplant warehouse sales around town today.

also obsessed w the owl house rn!

that is all

#non ac #personal #the owl house