#stardew valley sort of

[not-poignant]

Unnecessary throwback, I just reread The Wind that Cuts the Night AGAIN (one of my faves) and I think about this every time i do, are there any authors or books in particular that influence your writing style? Because the vibes are impeccable in this fic and it’s something that makes me wonder about any inspiration you may have had <3

Hi anon!

I have read literally thousands of books, and I think every single one of them - especially the ones I've loved - have all influenced my writing style a little. From non-fiction to fiction.

There's definitely no single writer I want to emulate, because I pretty much never find exactly what I want to read out there. It's more like I find moments, and then I think 'oh I want to make a reader feel the way this writer made me feel right now' but that doesn't necessarily mean I want to write in their style? Or if it does, it will still be influenced by all the other things that have influenced me in the past.

*thinks* I've read so many authors it's almost impossible to single out the ones I love the most re: writing style, but here's a few: Ursula K. Le Guin, dgalerab on AO3, Robin Hobb (though I feel like I've aged out of her writing now), CS Pacat, Suzanne Clarke, Bill Bryson, Robert Holdstock, Mark Z. Danielewski, Asumiko Nakamura, Andrea Gibson, Martha Wells (particularly re: Murderbot), Hinako Takanaga, Chuuya Nakahara, John Fowles, Orson Scott Card (for all that he's a bigot homophobic dickhead), Sarah Monette / Katherine Addison, Alan Ball, Mike Schur, Brian Jacques, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Dan Harmon, Randall Jarrell, Thomas Harris, Yana Toboso, Ono Natsume, Kim Dare, Moto Hagio, Scott Heim, Gerald Durrell, Tanith Lee, George Mackay Brown, early Lyn Gala, early Sidney Bell, early Roan Parrish, Ann-Marie MacDonald, William Goldman, a bunch of classic authors and poets that we don't have time for, Tamora Pierce, Philip Pullman, and like...more fic authors I'm forgetting, lol.

(There's a mix in here, including fic writers, poets, essayists, scriptwriters and novelists).

(Also I am under no illusions that I am anywhere as good as any of these writers, they're just the ones whose styles really inspire me. Except I know I'm missing like 100 others and that's going to annoy me, lmao, I am okay with being mediocre, when I have this greatness to aspire to).

(For all the people who've ever asked me to rec some stuff, there you go, there's the list sdalkfjas).

(For anyone who thinks my writing is good, all I can say is read broadly, widely, across genres, across mediums, it's the best way to improve what you do. Though I'm mad as fuck that the list doesn't have more POC in it. I need to read far more broadly).

(Anon I'm SO glad you enjoy that fic! It was such an indulgent little story :D)

#asks and answers #inadvertent recs #the wind that cuts the night #stardew valley sort of #thespectaclesofthor #i don't know any writers who write like i do #because i don't want to write like any other writers specifically #that doesn't mean there aren't some out there #but like... i write stuff i haven't read yet #or stuff i'm still looking for #but i also know i am indebted to every good and bad book i've ever read #poem i've ever absorbed #television show and movie i've ever watched #administrator gwyn wants this in the queue

[buglaur]

🌾 who're you romancing? 6/12

#ts4 #sims 4 #stardew valley #sdv #it's 3am and i can't sleep so heres this even though i wanted to post all 12 together lol #remake of my first ever post sort of! swapped out alex and leah 💀 #hope i didn't do ur fav dirty #think i nailed my harvey though #in my head emily and haley dye their hair. don't know the canon on that #gave shane an uneven shave #wanted to give abi more piercings but ran out of slots 😢 #sebs frog earring 🥹 #goodnight hopefully i fall asleep soon 🫠

[ejsuperstar]

Imagine you live in pelican town. The new farmer has been here a couple weeks now and seems to be settling in, except... He's picking the weirdest friend choices. Like sure it's not weird to befriend the local fisherman, especially when he has an interest in fishing himself, but you're pretty sure you've seen him rooting through the Saloon's garbage with the local homeless man. As well, he keeps harassing the poor guy who works at Joja even though you KNOW he doesn't want to be friends with him.

And since you're on the topic of weirdness, isn't it odd he seemingly runs everywhere at a full sprint? Or just... Eats entire raw fish while fishing for "energy reasons"...

...

Despite all that, it's too early to call him off putting or anything... He has been engaging in town traditions, and he's started helping out with the old community centre. He's probably like the rest of you. Someone with a few quirks, that will fit in with the valley great!

Surely he can't get any weirder... Right?

#been playing my new sdv save some more recently #i keep thinking about the whole “eldritch” farmer thing #where the famer is just... objectively strange #i fucking love it #i love the idea of the farmer being some sort of higher being #someone who doesnt understand local conventions #someone who doesnt get why its considered weird to eat whole raw fish fresh from the river #or how it might be offputting to greet someone for the first time using their name #but at the same time #this eldritch entity genuinely wants to be a part of the community #they want to learn and they want to love and they want to learn to love #i see minmaxxer/speedrunner eldritch famer a lot #mainly played off for gags #but not genuinely loving their live in the valley eldritch farmer #at least not often #theres so much temptation to write an eldritch farmer x shane fanfic set in spring 1 or some shit lmao #text post #stardew valley #sdv #sdv farmer

[squea]

since maureen handed over the farm to her sister esther, they have spent more time fist fighting skeletons than any actual farming.

#ts4 #the sims 4 #stardew valley #sdv #sdv farmer #maureen married shane and i really wanted to play the new update but couldnt get immersed bc i missed maureen and shane #so i made maureens sister as a continuation of sorts #esther is actually older than maureen even tho maureen has big sister vibes idk #mine

[pomporri]

that should be me in her ear 🙄

happy valentine's day

#stardew valley #sdv #sdv fanart #stardew fanart #stardew haley #sdv haley #sdv alex #stardew alex #valentines art #thank you for choosing her pinup poll almost cried happy tears #alex lookin like a little dopey freak #if there was some sort of cupid au he would TOTALLY be a side kick #stardew farmer #sdv farmer #Spotify

[katcreatesthings]

alan wake found dead in a stupid ass pose. officials say they "laughed when they saw him". more to come.

#alan wake #alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #family guy death pose #sort of #he's close enough #i couldn't help but laugh #giving off grandpa from stardew valley

[fishofthewoods]

Oh my god I woke up this morning and my Stardew Valley meta post had almost 150 notes????? Hello?????????? Anyways I started writing this last night because @moon-is-pretty-tonight left nice tags on the original so thank you so much!!

We know from the starting scenes of the game that the farmer's grandfather loved Stardew Valley. So why did he leave? Pelican Town is a good place to grow old; George and Evelyn are just fine. It's a fine place to raise a kid, but maybe he just wanted to raise his child closer to real schools and other children.

Or maybe, just maybe, he understood.

Was there a day when he was in his thirties where he looked at his friends and realized they weren't like him? That he could run faster than them, work longer, explore deeper into the hidden places of the valley?

Was there a day when he went to the wizard to ask him for help, for knowledge if nothing else? Did he learn then that his family was different? Special? Chosen? And how did he react? He couldn't possibly raise a child in the valley if they would be as strange and fey as him. He had to leave. There was no other way.

But years later, on his deathbed, did he regret that choice?

Is that why he gave the farmer the letter?

Is that why they went back home?

When the farmer steps off the bus that first day, the valley is still on the cusp of winter, just barely tipping over into spring. The flowers are starting to bloom, but a chill still hangs in the air. As soon as the farmer's boots touch the soil there's a change. The air gets warmer. The trees get greener. Not by too much, not all at once, but it changes.

The junimos watch the farmer as they do their work. They're new to farming, but take to it with frightening speed; their first batch of crops is perfect. None of the townsfolk tell them that parsnips don't normally grow in less than a week, that cauliflowers don't grow to be ten feet tall, that fairies don't visit when the sun goes down and grow potatoes and beans and tulips overnight. The junimos talk amongst themselves in their strange, wild language, and agree: this is the one. They're back. The valley recognizes its own, even when they've left for a generation. The farmers have come home.

Things change fast in the valley. The community center, empty and decrepit for so many years, is rejuvenated. (Lewis says it was abandoned only a few weeks after the farmer's grandfather left. Strange coincidence, he says, that it both came and went with the farmer's family.) The mines and the quarry, similarly abandoned, are explored for the first time in ages. The town becomes cleaner, brighter, more vibrant, happier.

And it is happier. Not just the environment, but the people. It's the talk of the town for weeks when Haley does her first closet purge. Leah's art show in the town square is a huge success. Shane's smiling for the first time since he moved to the valley. All of them, when asked, say it's all thanks to the farmer.

People love to ask why Lewis didn't fix the community center on his own. Why Willy never repaired the boat to ginger island. Why Abigail or Marlon never went down to fix the elevator in the mines, or why Clint didn't fix the minecarts.

But isn't it so much more interesting to ask how those things were there in the first place? How they got so broken down? If the stories the townspeople tell are true, the valley was once a beautiful place, flourishing and full of life; why did that change? When did it change?

Was it when the farmer's grandfather, the locus of the valley, its chosen representative, left town?

And if so, what happens when the farmer comes back?

#lich says shit #stardew valley #stardew farmer #sdv #my writing #Hope y'all enjoyed! #I'm thinking about developing this into. Like. An actual Fan Fiction. Still sort of short-form but like with more detail? #LMK if you'd be interested to see that! Also if you want to be tagged in future installations of this please just let me know :) #I'm super into this version of the farmer as like. Blessed and cryptic child of the valley with all the strange behavior that entails #If i DO write a more in-depth version of this it'll be from the perspective of someone in town #maybe Leah? She seems like she'd be the one to notice the farmer being Odd. Either that or I'll do it from the perspective of multiple-- #--different people to get their unique insights and stuff #I'd also want to dig into like #The family history of the farmer. And what that's like. #Because like why did grandpa leave? #He clearly loved the valley #So why didn't he stay? #Why did he give the deed to his grandchild and not his literal child? #And is it a coincidence that everything in the valley went downhill when he left? #I don't think so.

[rad-roche]

totally recommend marrying the wizard in stardew valley extended because it makes the vanilla quests so much funnier. honey a dark and powerful witch has cursed me. please beat up my ex-wife

#text post #stardew valley #rasmodius you sort of deserve this

[sea-buns]

Finding out about the stardew valley update from the confusion of seeing it trending on tumblr is so wild. I'm primarily a console player and I've only played a bit of modded on pc but fuck is that about to change

#i never know how soon console updates come after pc updates but however long it is i aint waiting #now to figure out how tf i turn off the mods #and also my steam is kinda fucked cuz i was having sync issues sooo #guess now im being forced to finally sort that out #stardew valley #sea rambles

[eepyism]

if eated soapno ididnt

any way ess this is an au inspired by stardew valley and the result of a lot of pepsi

#ducktales 2017 #ducktales #ducktales AU #stardew valley au #sort of #ducktales 2017 fanart #ducktales fanart #webby vanderquack mcduck #webby vanderquack #webby mcduck #donald duck #lena sabrewing #weblena #hdlw #but tiny

[chickenmanbeloved]

No shame at this point...

Collecting these men like Pokémon cards

#shane stardew valley #beanix wright #joel miller #peter b parker #miguel o'hara #arthur morgan #cole cassidy #bigby wolf #posting this here because i dont really post on my “main” blog #if you asked i could totally sort these men into categories... #not even lying... #not all of them #just the main ones #just got done playing The wolf among us tho #so good so good

[mrjeremyman]

Another SDV Ghoap because I love them so much.

I might start selling my art as prints maybe, that would be fun LMK if I should

#digital art #call of duty #simon ghost riley #cod #john soap mactavish #ghostsoap #soapghost #ghoap #stardew valley #sdv #sdv fanart #I looooove Stardew #the soldiers yearn for the mines #it’s some semblance of their old lives #I imagine SDV Ghoap as a sort of retirement au #I love retirement aus #stardew valley Ghoap au #sdv Ghoap au

[dizzybizz]

AITA if I accidentally left fish at my mayor's house for two weeks straight? And it left his house stinky?

OK- so I (26TM) moved to a small sort of isolated town during spring this year, where I work as a farmer on a farm my grandpa once owned. It's been great and I have really settled in over the course of the year.

Time passed and eventually fall was upon us. Now, during the middle of fall the town holds a small festival, where among other things you could set up a little stall with your finest products for a friendly competition and review. Our mayor (??M) hooked me up with one of those which was really nice- I had been doing a lot of fishing over the months and I had a few good ones to display so I did. I ended up getting second place- okay no, that is not really relevant-

But after the results were out, the mayor specifically reminded me to not forget to empty out my supply and bring it with my back home. He specifically went out of his way to remind me. Thing is... I might have gotten a bit caught up in the other festivities and fun things around (not my fault they were grilling burgers and had gambling). And I completely forgot, I only remembered the moment I stepped foot inside my room again.

Next morning rolls around and I wake up to a letter in my mailbox from the mayor explaining that the fish I had left were placed inside the town's Lost and Found. Which is just a big box inside his house. So I thought "OK, great. I'll head over today and retrieve them." Yeah, that didn't really turn out. I completely forgot, it completely slipped my mind. And that same series of events of - me recalling that I had stuff in the Lost and Found and meaning to go pick them up and forgetting - kept happening for a while. Until two weeks had passed and it was winter. And as I was passing the mayor's house the thought struck again. Except this time I actually REMEMBERED and WENT THROUGH WITH IT. So I knock on his door and I get let in, and the house smells like, well... rotten fish. I go straight to the box while talking about how I'm so sorry it took so long and that I was always getting distracted by this that and the other. And he's being all understanding and nodding along. But there is no way he wasn't at least a bit ticked off, right? And I do feel really bad but I cannot do much for my forgetfulness besides setting reminders maybe... maybe I will try that in the future.

AITA for forgetting to pick up my forgotten fish from my mayor's house?

#i dont think i have the brain capacity to read this through right now im so tired #does this sort of read like a convincing aita. i wouldnt know #doesnt really matter tho. its all for shits and giggles. #ive been writing for like 40 minutes for this absolute shitpost help #when the bit goes too far #stardew valley #sdv #sdv farmer #sdv lewis #uhm do i even wanna tag this with my art .... #my art #doodle #guyssailawayfarm #this is pure crack i was cackling so hard writing this you dont even know

[darticous]

emily & shane being friends for reqs pls? ;_; (howdy, i hope u have a good day!!!!) thank u!!!!

Ive been so lazy this is the only thing ive drawn all week 🥱

been brainfarting on ideas for the reqs so ive just put them off lol but im happy that people send them in!! ty all for being patient with me :0D

#my art #sdv #stardew valley #fanart #sdv fanart #stardew #sdv shane #shane #sdv emily #emily #request #im looking at this again and it looks like some sort of sitcom

[incoherent-sounds]

they're multiplying. help.

#i might have a problem #it just sort of happened #but i regret nothing #stardew valley #sdv #stardew valley 1.6 #sdv 1.6 #manequin invasion #1.6 spoilers

[vilochkaaa]

the sillies :p

#Willow and Pierre have a “hyperactive silly son and tired of getting him out of trouble dad” kind of relationship. #despite some misunderstandings they still respect and help each other #Willow gives all sorts of things from sparkly cool rocks to goodies from the kitchen or hauling quality merchandise to the store to sell #and Pierre pulls him out of a cave on the edge of town for the millionth time and mends his wounds.. #.. and most importantly he gives powerful support and motivation to live not to exist and rot from loneliness. #i love thinking about their strong relationship.. #stardew valley #stardew valley art #stardew valley fanart #stardew #stardew art #stardew fanart #sdv #sdv art #sdv fanart #stardew valley pierre #stardew pierre #sdv pierre #pierre sdv #stardew valley farmer #sdv farmer #stardew farmer #stardew valley oc #sdv oc #art #artists on tumblr #vilka post #my art shit #farmer willow #omg I made a separate tag for him.