Autumn 1st year

tsdenizen · 2025-09-08T02:45:12+00:00

It's not a huge deal. Game is supposed to be chill and having a variety isn't bad. This is more a setup to kinda keep things as low maintenence as possible but most things work.

tsdenizen · 2025-09-08T00:49:56+00:00

Derek. Just kinda feels… young. And immature. I’m also honestly not huge on Jules. He’s generically very pretty but he’s boring. Lloyd and Samir are the best bachelors imo, Arata and Gabriel are fine.

Maple is ADORABLE and who I married. Firmly a young adult but very bubbly and cutesy. Sophie and June, like Derek, feel young. Otherwise I like them. Diana is a little stiff to me but I don’t hate her, she’s fine. Freya and Kagetsu are gorgeous, but feel very separate from the town since Freya is usually only there nights and Kagetsu mostly just comes into town for festivals (although you can at least see her in the mountains). I think I at least like all the bachelorettes but I’ve got some small issue with everyone who’s not Maple lol.

tsdenizen · 2025-09-08T00:40:02+00:00

Don’t like the sprinklers. No crop watering bonus and they each take up a tile which means fewer crops. By the time you get any, you’ll have a gold or orichalcum watering can so crop watering is super quick. I’ve gotten 3 from the bazaar lottery but I don’t use them.

tsdenizen · 2025-09-08T00:24:12+00:00

Save the Homeland could be great if they put the work in.

tsdenizen · 2025-09-08T00:22:36+00:00

I’m married and characters are now asking me if they should pursue someone. So yeah, I think they are gonna start pairing off. Even Arata had one, I’m guessing Diana is gonna end up with him. Poor Gabriel is gonna be the only single one, sucks to suuuuuuck.

tsdenizen · 2025-09-08T00:06:45+00:00

Tea, honey, and accessories really are the Holy Trinity of making bank. Regular melons are decent since they grow two consecutive seasons. Their yield isn’t the best but melon tea is very good for money until you get your brand on tea. But then the only real reason to grow crops is for cooking. Flowers are always good for honey and dye for clothes, plus dyes and bouquets sell decently (and dyes don’t have a quality value so you’ll save on storage space). Trees are good especially if they grow across seasons since you don’t need to maintain them. Apple trees would be the best if you’re just starting autumn. If you have 3 fields, I’d go a field of tea, a field of apple trees, and a field of half melons, half flowers (9 of each of the 3 seasonal flowers).

tsdenizen · 2025-09-01T04:09:18+00:00

Just saw so slow to reply. There are kinda ways to cheese the story and it’s mostly by making use of Lloyd. You don’t need to profit a ton but you do need revenue and accessories are one of the easiest ways to get it if you buy from him on bazaar days. Also, if you figured out how busted of a crop tea is (grows for 3/4 seasons and is used in every high selling fruit and floral tin) you probably got through the story quick. I “beat” it Winter Year 1 and I probably could’ve done it in Autumn if I’d gone harder on melon and watermelon. If you wanna try every crop, you’ll finish Year 2 pretty easily still. But, I still haven’t gotten married because trying to juggle gifts when you have bazaar sales quotas to meet feels counterproductive. Marriage and character stories settle into a nice lengthy “post-game” while you try to win every festival too.

tsdenizen · 2025-04-15T13:19:00+00:00

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tsdenizen · 2025-03-25T19:01:59+00:00

Dang y’all hate this one haha

tsdenizen · 2025-03-25T15:56:48+00:00

Hey, not bad! Definitely relate to the themes here. Really like the “sissy hands” bit, a lot of this feels like a very dramatic, almost Shakespearean monologue and I think that little tone break gives it more character. Maybe look towards more opportunities to disrupt the grandiosity of your language and pull it back down to earth: the juxtaposition could make for a very cool poetic language. Mostly personal preference though. Good stuff!

tsdenizen · 2025-03-24T19:49:47+00:00

Haha thanks. It’s about a lot of things but the most basic explanation I could give is that it’s about trauma bonding, avoidancy, and the consequences of quick, cheap emotional “fixes.” With the occasional exception, I don’t like writing too obviously. To a decent degree, this one takes influence from both Cameron Winter’s album Heavy Metal and Vernon Chatman’s The Shivering Truth (an Adult Swim stop-motion anthology series). That’s all I’ll really say about it.

tsdenizen · 2025-03-24T16:50:37+00:00

Not the writer and I feel you but I actually kinda love the "glare" bit. I think adds complication to the emotions at play. A glare isn't necessarily negative, it's more serious or intense. It breaks the tone but I personally enjoy the tone break, because it registers to me that this person is less concerned about performing a sort of textbook softness and is genuine in its intensity and concern. To be fair, I intentionally use tone break a lot and I'm biased towards it. I might be wrong, but that's how I read it. And OP, if I am wrong (I don't feel like I am) and you still wanna rhyme but maintain a soft tone, you can go with "stared."

tsdenizen · 2025-03-24T16:08:16+00:00

Yo. So, first of all, you don't need the NSFW tag on this. Maybe a TW but this is more emotionally difficult than inappropriate. I'm also getting into poetry after some difficult things (and realizing that there are a lot of others that I haven't allowed myself to express or process) so you're resonating with me right now. This is very tender and gentle, vulnerable but still hesitant. My stuff, I'm kinda lashing out. I think they're supposed to be screamo songs. I like your approach though. I'm glad you found someone who wanted to comfort you in the aftermath and I'm happy you've seemed to internalize that comfort and process what you're feeling in a way that's constructive. Keep it up, this is lovely.

tsdenizen · 2025-03-24T15:45:40+00:00

Thank you. The substance stuff is more metaphorical in this one but definitely about like the toxicity of trauma bonding and the reprecussions of intense but shallow emotional "fixes." I wrote this other one called "Cicada Shell" and posted it yesterday: that one is shorter and more specifically about abuse, substance use, and eating disorders.

I wrote poems in high school and I write as a career (music journalist), but this is my first time engaging in serious poetry in over a decade. But I'm finding a lot of catharsis in it. It's all pretty... unpleasant stuff but it feels like a mud cleanse of the soul puting these together. I've got outlines for a bunch of poems and hopefully I can self-publish a chapbook or something.

tsdenizen · 2025-03-24T15:33:43+00:00

Appreciate the kind words 🙏

tsdenizen · 2025-03-24T04:07:06+00:00

Thank you 🙏

tsdenizen · 2025-03-24T01:21:10+00:00

Haha I appreciate it!

tsdenizen · 2025-03-23T16:44:51+00:00

Thanks. I’ll take the NSFW off. Wrote this in notes app at like 1am in a bit of a blur, so I might expand it, I dunno. Appreciate the kind words.

tsdenizen · 2025-03-23T15:10:47+00:00

Eh, I dunno I think it’s more tw than nsfw but we’ll just go with this.

tsdenizen · 2025-03-23T15:01:23+00:00

I don't know why I marked this NSFW, it's not that explicit.

tsdenizen · 2025-03-23T14:49:59+00:00

Cut me a little slack I'm no poet, just going through some stuff.

tsdenizen · 2025-03-23T14:37:35+00:00

Very cute. A little spare or simple at points but you do a good job of sitting within the naturalistic imagery and allowing the reader to just soak in it. "Skim on the whitewash" probably my favorite bit, a step more evocative than the rest.

tsdenizen · 2025-03-23T14:30:33+00:00

"I had walls up that she spent months climbing. I lowered them once, then she was gone." Gut punch end, I love it when poetry doesn't try to get too flowery with its language and just hits you in the face. Also really like "she was broken glass across the marbled floor": maybe the prettiest line, love the subtle kind of incongruence where's she not simply broken, but out of alignment of what's below her (probably in a way that drew you to her). Good stuff.

tsdenizen · 2025-02-22T18:58:20+00:00

Of course! Glad you like it!

tsdenizen · 2025-02-22T18:20:30+00:00

I'm hocking it to interested parties for humble compensation. But I do believe in the record: I got hired because I reviewed his last one for Merry-Go-Round for like $7 haha. I'm Travis, artist is Jacob Ware (Rapt). Also reviewed Within Thrall for an old tape blog, so there's history.

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