halixius

[halixius]

Meet Our Writers

This week's spotlighted guild member is Bird!

AO3: exoticlittlebird

Tumblr: @exoticlittlebird

Age: 31

Pronouns: She/They

Guild Member since: Mar 2025

Fun Fact about yourself? I'm a certified ESL teacher and have taught English in the US and South Korea!

How long have you been writing fanfiction? I think I started writing in 2007? I wrote for a few different fandoms until 2012, then took a longggg break from writing until I picked it back up last year.

Favourite SDV character to write? Apparently it's Sebastian! He's a main character in almost everything I've ever written, and most of the time he's the POV character as well. I think I just found a version of him that I can hear pretty clearly in my head and I've rolled with it lol

Favourite tropes/genre to write? Friends to lovers/getting together/first kiss!

Your most popular SDV fanfic? Definitely my Seb/Alex two-parter Lean In & Let Go, which was also my very first SDV fic. It's spicy and imperfect, but I love it for many reasons and am still very proud of it.

Your SDV underdog fic you wish more people would give a chance? My Seb/Haley oneshot written for rarepair week! It's actually one of my favorite things I've ever written. If you like enemies to lovers romcoms, this one's for you.

Hear me out: Pierre, Demetrius, and Lewis are not that bad!! Look, any character can be made a villain if you write them that way, but the outright hate some people have for these three is unwarranted imo. They have flaws for sure, but none of them are horrible people with bad intentions.

Lastly, any other fandoms you write for? I write a little for the BTS fandom. I've got one fic that's about 80% done and posted as a tweet thread fic. I'm in the process of cleaning that up and writing the last few parts to post it on ao3 by the end of the year.

We are very lucky to have someone as talented as Bird as one of our number. If you check out her fics, please be sure to kudos and comment to show your support for small artists and writers.

If you write Stardew Valley fanfiction and would like to join our guild, please message this blog for an invite!

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[halixius]

Hi darling,

A couple of questions for your ask game.

💤 How do they sleep?

🎀 What is their main love language?

⚓️ What does home mean to them?

Thank you my love! 💖

Hello lovely, thank you for asking!

💤 How do they sleep?

Nico tends to wear himself out pretty thoroughly during the day, so by bedtime he's exhausted and ready to shut right down. He might toss and turn a bit at the start, but he'll usually end up on his stomach and sleep heavily through most of the night. He doesn't remember many of his dreams by the time he wakes up. And speaking of waking up, he's very consistently early to bed and early to rise - definitely a morning person. Except in Hell-verse, where he'll leave work at 2 or 3am, often hit the gym and shower after, and get to bed around 8am.

🎀 What is their main love language?

Nico's main love language is physical touch. He's all about hugs, cuddles, ruffling hair, touching arms or backs, and proximity in general with people he cares about. On the more intimate side, he's big into kissing everywhere, hand holding, laying heads in laps, a hand on a thigh while driving, and he's very easy to get in the mood for a spicy good time.

What happens when he marries a somewhat touch-averse gremlin? Well, he tries to ease off a bit and falls back to his second choice love language, gift giving.

⚓️ What does home mean to them?

Home is a place of rest, and a place where he has control over his surroundings. Everything has a place (though that doesn't mean neat and orderly, the 'place' could be the spot on the counter a thing has lived for a year), and everything has a function providing for necessity, convenience, or joy for him or for someone he loves.

OC Ask Game: Headcanon Questions

[halixius]

✎ㅤ. . .ㅤ𝑯𝑬𝑨𝑫𝑪𝑨𝑵𝑶𝑵 𝑸𝑼𝑬𝑺𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺.

₊˚⊹ ㅤa collection of character analysis/headcanon questions to learn more about your character and your partners'! writing/headcanon prompts requested by anonymous. feel free to edit these as you see fit.

[ 🖐️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat do their hands feel like: soft, calloused, trembling ? [ ☂️ ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they crave touch or fear it ? [ 🎐 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they have a sound, like a song or voice, that they associate with peace ? [ 🕊️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhen did they feel the safest ? [ 💤 ]ㅤ.ㅤhow do they sleep ? curled up, sprawled, holding onto something ? [ 🦇 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat is a fear they never talk about ? [ 🔒 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat is a secret they’ve sworn never to tell ? [ 🪢 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhen was the last time they broke a promise ? [ 🫳 ]ㅤ.ㅤwho do they feel they owe, but never paid back ? [ 💼 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat do they always carry with them ? [ 🧨 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat’s the quickest way to set them off, even if they hide it well ? [ ⛓️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat does guilt feel like to them ? [ 💢 ]ㅤ.ㅤwho have they never forgiven and never will ? [ 🩸 ]ㅤ.ㅤis there something or someone that, if lost, would break them ? [ 🌧️ ]ㅤ.ㅤis there a pain they refuse to heal from ? [ 🪞 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhen have they looked at their reflection and hated what they saw ? [ 📿 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat superstition or ritual do they cling to ? [ 🌊 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhen was the last time they cried ? [ 🐾 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo animals like them instinctively ? [ 🪶 ]ㅤ.ㅤhow do they laugh ? [ 🫀 ]ㅤ.ㅤwho taught them what love is ? did it hurt ? [ 💭 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they believe they’re worthy of being loved ? [ 🎀 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat is their main love language ? [ 🔦 ]ㅤ.ㅤwho do they search for ? [ 📜 ]ㅤ.ㅤis there a story they love sharing with others ? [ 🌒 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they have a dream or goal they have given up on ? [ 🕯️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat memory do they replay when they’re alone ? [ 🌪️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat’s the one choice they regret (not) making ? [ 🧩 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat’s a truth about themselves they refuse to admit ? [ 🍻 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat kind of drunk are they ? [ ✉️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat kind of letter would they write but never send ? [ 🗡️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat is a scar that they have but never talk about ? [ 🕸️ ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they have a favourite lie they like to hear ? [ 🪦 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat would they want on their gravestone but never admit aloud ? [ 🎱 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat kind of future do they crave, and who’s in it ? [ 🌀 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they have a recurring dream or nightmare ? [ 🍃 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they feel like they belong ? [ ⚓ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat does “home” mean to them ? [ 🧭 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhere would they go if they could disappear tomorrow ?

[halixius]

twilight sparkle & fluttershy I Mean stardew valley maru and penny. whatever, what ever whatever idc

bachelors: sam+seb ☆ shane+harv ☆ alex+elliott

bachelorettes: emily+haley ☆ leah+abby

[halixius]

Woooo Sam is now complete, just Abi and the trio is complete

[halixius]

Sam ticklemonster heehee anyways the egggargler fall sambastian wave is coming HOPE YALL CAN SWIM !!!!!!!

[halixius]

experimenting with settings/brushes + elliott. didn't mean to turn him into a god but, well, here we are lmao

commission / kofi

[halixius]

Yoba says “gay rights!” This wasn’t intended as ship art but by all means interpret the mood lighting however you wish lol. Keep being gay and kissing your best friends. Happy pride month ✨🫶🏼

Credit for the iconic trans brick purse goes to jessica.industries on insta and on threads 🩵🩷🤍

[halixius]

Today in fics, I didn't plan to write:

A Fishing Lesson - Annetastic - Stardew Valley (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Thanks to @halixius for the comment on my Unexpected Dinner Guests fic for the inspiration for this one!

[halixius]

You do realise the only reason your fic is "popular" is because you killed your oc? There is no structure, no content, no filling, nothing in that fic apart from mid smut and a sad ending. Try telling a story next time in between your boring mild sex scenes. Stop milking your stupid oc's death for reactions and write with substance for once.

I sat with this in my inbox for a few days wondering what the fuck is wrong with people.

Then I spent some times trying to find out who you were, you know, with the knowledge that there are a few spaces where I talk about/joke about Juniper's death in my longfic.

So, something to bear in mind.

What I'll do instead is use you for this:

Unsettled Dust of the Valley.

The Shane/OC fic with no substance and boring mild sex scenes where the OC dies at the end.

Have a gander! Don't be shy! Reviews are raving about it!

[halixius]

Leah from Stardew Valley! 🎨

Not sure I managed to draw her face exaaactly as I picture it, but I hope I did her some justice. Should I draw more Stardew characters next? 👀

[halixius]

🤘!

[halixius]

Year Of The OTP 2025 - August: Cooking Together Taken from a scene in chapter 11 of my fanfic, Coming Around Again.

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One tray finished, he glanced aside again at Mallory.

He was so unreasonably tall, it always caught Alex off-guard. Alex was tall himself, but Mallory still towered over him. It might have been intimidating if not for how sweet and scrawny he was. Like a vine spiraling down the side of a house, impossibly long but so thin and almost even delicate. Right now, he was standing on his toes and leaning against the counter, carefully placing now-filled jars of preserves into a tall, boiling soup pot. Alex’s eyes followed the length of his body down, much like if he were trailing his gaze down the curves and twists of climbing ivy.

Mallory’s eyebrows were just slightly furrowed with concentration, teeth holding the tip of his tongue in place. He still used only his bare hands and the tongs as he worked, easing the jars into the scalding water with methodical precision. With his body stretched out even taller, there was a tiny flash of skin where his overalls hung low and the end of his shirt lifted up as he raised his arm up high.

Alex swallowed thickly, a filthy thought crossing his mind for half a second before he banished it unceremoniously. What a weird thing to think about another guy. Mallory might have been cute, but he was still another man.

‘Cute?’ What the hell? No, no, he wasn’t even cute. He was too tall to be normal: gangly and weak and just weird looking.

Yeah, that’s what it was. Alex was only staring because Mallory is a weird looking guy. That justification would have to suffice, despite knowing full well he had just imagined wrapping both of his hands around that small waist of his and sliding them down into his overalls.

Alex returned his attention to the cookies. This was nearly the last of the cookie dough, just a little bit more and he would be free. One spoon, then the other—

“Ouch!” Mallory hissed suddenly, retracting his hand away from the boiling pot.

“Are you okay?” Alex dropped the spoons from his hands and rushed to Mallory’s side without another thought, concern written all over his features. His large hands eclipsed Mallory’s, thumbs brushing over his skin as he inspected his hands for burns. Mallory found his cheeks burning hotter from the attention, realizing he hardly felt the pain in his hand anymore.

“It doesn’t look burned…” Alex remarked, standing so close that Mallory could feel his breath as he spoke. Between that and the heat of the kitchen, he felt like he could faint any moment.

“I think it was just the steam,” Mallory explained, his voice suddenly tiny.

“That’s why you should have put the oven mitts on,” Alex scolded.

“I know, I know,” Mallory replied bashfully.

Alex realized all of a sudden he didn’t want to let go. His thumbs ran over the sensitive skin a few more times, then they locked eyes with one another.

Time froze. It felt like a scene from a movie. One of those scenes where the two characters that had been arguing up until that point suddenly stop their bickering, breathing heavily as they look between each other’s eyes and lips. They lean in slowly, tilting their heads, and then—

“Anyway, just be more careful,” Alex said, turning back to the counter to resume making his cookies. His own cheeks were red and he could feel his heart pounding in his chest louder than ever.

[halixius]

Never Love An Anchor X. Before I Got There

Characters: OC Tyler, OC Katie, Krobus, Harvey, Marlon, Gil, The Wizard, Abigail, Others

Relationships: Krobus & OC Tyler, OC Katie/Harvey, Marlon/Gil

Summary: Things just lined up. Tyler's guild was shut down for safety violations, and they were without work. Their sister, Katie called one too many times with an offer: a job, monsters to slay, and a place to park their trailer. The only trouble was Tyler would have to move to that farm that housed nothing but sour memories. When Tyler makes an unlikely ally, they must learn that softness is not weakness, and that love is not earned, but made.

And an accompanying meme.

[halixius]

This day keeps getting better and better, I swear 🥹

@hullygeee drew me the most adorable doodle of Callie's three chickens (Samba, ChaCha, & Jive) in dance-appropriate attire:

And the extremely talented @heartshapedjewel-me wrote an utterly fantastic Marnie/Elliott fic, "The breeze that sways us," that made me positively giddy!

I am genuinely overwhelmed and delighted by all of the love and kindness from my friends. Thank you so very, very much 💖💖💖

[halixius]

My friends are so nice to me! 😭🥹 The exceptional @lily-alphonse drew my farmer OC, Alice, and Harvey at the Flower Dance!! Look how fucking spiffy they are!! Look at the incredible skill that went into making them look that spiffy!!

I can't thank you enough, my love!!!

[halixius]

A matter of life and death.

[...] My mom always used to say love is never over if you nourish it within yourself. Grandpa always used to say the Valley is kind to those in need.  I guess love found its way to me, and not the other way around. 

A small interlude between Year One and Year Two of my series. Completely plotless, if you ask.

You can read Life or Death here.

♥︎ dividers by @saradika-graphics