plant, water, harvest, repeat

I love Stardew Valley and also hate it. It's easy to play -- except for the fuckin fishing, of course, fuck fishing. But I can't stop playing even when my eyes want to fall out, so that's a bit annoying. When a day takes ten minutes or so, "just one more" is so tempting.

I want some more nice sprinklers, watering is exhausting. I love my cat Puff and my chicken Lilo, and petting them is my favorite part of the game, I think, although I also like watching things grow. I want more chickens. I'm trying to save up for a kitchen, but I might need more chickens first -- get eggs, make mayo, money in the coming winter. Of course, because I am me, I have looked up spreadsheets for the most profitable plantings and things, which makes me feel better about knowing what the hell I'm doing.

I'm kind of enjoying the community centre bundles, which I wouldn't have guessed; fetch quests are commonly annoying, but this isn't, maybe because the sprites there are adorable. And the jellies, the beautiful glowjellies!

I like Robin and her family. Penny seems sweet too. I might romance her or Elliott. I feel kind of soft to Shane and Sebastian, too, although I don't know much about them yet. I gave Shane something that made him really happy, a gold star hot pepper. I don't know if the star does anything apart from sell price, but it was worth it to see him happy. Leah seems nice too, but I don't see her very often. I like being nice to Linus, as well -- the event scene where he's almost caught dumpster diving and then (I don't know if this is choice dependant?) when Gus catches Linus too and just straight up offers to feed him. Ugh, my feelings.

It made me sad when no one wanted to dance with me at the Flower Dance. I talk to characters when I see them and I've given the odd gift, but I'm just so busy with my farm. It's hard work!

I had an idea for a fic -- well, it's not really a fic, but sometimes I just get little pictures in my head of Pelican Town life -- mostly just my PC being grumpy and lonely and not liking it here very much and not having anywhere else to go and not knowing where she belongs. It would be pretty tragic and very on brand, I guess.

I'm still only in my first Fall. I installed it on… Tuesday? Tuesday. Because I possibly or probably have the thing that's going around and I needed something that didn't take too much brain and it's taking over my life now. I only feel a tiny bit bad that it's put my FF7 replay on pause because it's just more convenient, but! three more weeks exactly until the remake!

Thanks again enemyofperfect