#it's so frustrating... I think the pacing at the end of kks and at the beginning of bm was good

[birdmenmanga]

the pacing of birdmen... -_-

[barbararomance]

Can i request quackity x reader, where they are in a late night driving, singing and being all cute, and quackity realize he's really in love with reader? Pls and thank u

words left unsaid, quackity!

synopsis! it was a late night cruising round the city; with love sparkling in his eyes looking at you as he thinks you're so pretty.

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yelling at the top of your lungs simultaneously, you and quackity "singing" along the taylor swift song playing on his radio - it mattered not if the song was beautifully sang for the meaning was heard by the way the two of you were screaming out loud. quackity had invited you to a spontaneous getaway to who knows where.. wherever really. he had sent you a message:

[ messages ]

alex <3

hey y/n, i'm bored

wanna get out? lol

y/n

kk pick me up x

and with that, you find yourself here. next to him, "singing".. if you could call it that. and enjoying the view of the ethereal night sky, once the yelling died down - you rolled open the window to just feel the breeze of the cold air and let it find itself brushing your hair out of your face; it was peaceful. especially with the calm song playing on the radio, you had failed to realize with your eyes closed that the car was slowing its pace. you hadn't noticed the way quackity had been admiring you the whole night... he had been secretly stealing glances of your pretty smile, it was legitimately difficult to keep his eyes off you and keep it on the road but he somehow managed, he joked around just to make you laugh for he absolutely adored the sound.

and after stopping by a 7-11 and acting like kids outside the store, it felt as though the night was coming to an end since quackity was driving back the direction to your home, and you had arrived. "we should do this again, man" you say whilst unbuckling your seatbelt and preparing to leave but you come to a halt feeling his soft hand circling your wrist; stopping you. "y/n..." he speaks your name nearly whispering - "yeah?" you respond waiting for him to say something.. "i.. uhm.. nah man, nothing. yes yes uh we should do this shit again, next time i'm gonna record your beautiful singing voice." he teases you and lets go of your wrists altogether giggling.. you playfully hit him before getting out of his vehicle. you waved goodbye to quackity and walked home as his car drove away into the night.

in quackity's car.. he sighed heavily, he got too scared.. he stopped his car near the 7-11 y'all had visited and he rested his head on the steering wheel of his car dissapointed with himself, he looked up at the gleaming moon that judged him. quackity was so inlove with you.. but tonight was not the time to say so, but what if it was and he just fumbled his only chance with you? he messed with his hair frustrated with himself when suddenly..

[ messages ]

y/n :)

alex, i think i love you too.

[misshappilyfading]

re: acnh 2020

i wanna post this on twitter but it’s super fucking long

Recently, I saw a video about playing acnh during quarantine vs afterwards and it inspired me to start playing again. The guy in the video basically had the same experience I did where he played for hours during March/April 2020, trying to catch up/compete with his friends but ultimately ended up overwhelmed and discouraged knowing that he just...never would.

iirc, I played every day from March 20th to around the end of May/early June. There was just so much I wanted to do and it wasn't just my friends' islands I'd compare mine to, but also like...hundreds of people on the internet who'd post their amazing designs and layouts. It's not like I was unhappy with my island, but I knew certain things just weren't possible for me to create and that frustrated me. Every morning as soon as I woke up, I’d open ACNH so I could:

check my mail

buy/sell turnips (I spent HOURS on turnip exchange)

water my hybrid flower patches

check nook’s crossing for new items

check town hall’s catalogue for new items

check able and sister’s for new clothes

collect the daily DIY in a bottle

harvest foreign fruit from my (4) groves

Outside of my morning routine, I’d spent even more time doing construction on the island, decorating my home, flying to friends’ islands for DIYs or cataloguing, making pro designs, searching for rare islands and cuter villagers, trying to catch all the seasonal bugs and fish, so on and so forth. It was extremely fun, but after 2 months, it began to wear on me. The beginning of the end was definitely the Flick Incident.

To sum things up neatly, one of my friends and I began storing our bugs so we could sell them to Flick at a higher price. Even though most guides at the time said that Flick should visit every 2 weeks, he didn’t show up on my island until ~5 weeks after I’d started stashing my bugs. It was torture because I’d wake up every morning hoping that today was finally the day I could stop playing from 5-7pm just to farm expensive butterflies, could stop having an entire section of my island lag horribly because there were so many bugs in one spot, could finally earn my bells and begin construct on the spaces taken up. And every day for 5-ish weeks, he wasn’t there. Everyday, I became angrier and angrier. On top of that, I was still trying to get my island to 5*, get KK to come, search every night for shooting stars to get DIY materials, get more bells so I could expand my home-- it was just a mess. I had random, ugly villagers I hated but couldn’t afford to spend hours searching for new ones. I’d spend about 3-4 hours a week searching for the islands with good turnip prices and low visit fees. All the while, I’m still trying to copy other people’s designs to make my island look nicer. (I also went back to work in May while I was enrolled in a summer class, so there’s some extra outside stress.) 

All this to say, there were a lot of things making me unhappy and waiting for Flick was adding fuel to the fire. But eventually Flick came and I got my bells. I finished my big plan for a playground area. I wished on lots of shooting stars. I made millions of bells on turnips. I reached my last house expansion. Things were...okay. Just okay because by now, I was forcing myself to play. Near the end, I was so tired of the game, I’d finish my morning routine and not touch it until the next day. The very last straw was when I started crying over the prospect of buying $30-50 amiibo cards. I had like this moment of clarity like...why the fuck am I crying over a video game? Because I don’t want to spend more money on it? Because I’ve grown that frustrated? If I’m unhappy, then what’s the point of playing?

I still played every morning for maybe a week after that, but one day I kinda told myself, “If I don’t wanna play anymore, then just stop” and so I did. Everyday became once every few days, then once a week, then...nothing. I felt disappointment that there was seemingly nothing left I wanted to do on my island, but I also felt intense relief not forcing myself to play anymore.

So, fast forward a year and some change after launch and I watch this video. After taking a break from the game, he talks about how he came back and learned to just...enjoy it. For himself, at his own pace. And then I started to wonder if 10 months was long enough for me to restart. So I charged my dead switch and started to play.

I think today is the...3rd(?) day in a row I’ve opened acnh. Most of my friends don’t play anymore and those who do don’t post about their islands often. I don’t have switch online now, so it’s not like I can them visit either. I feel like I’ve missed a lot, but I’m excited to try things differently this time. Maybe I’ll make it to Fall this year. Or maybe I’ll be stop after the bug tourney. I’m not sure. Now is not the best time in my life to dive headfirst back into playing but I don’t know. Maybe just for this spring break, I need a little time to myself and this is how I’ll get it.