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As Halloween draws nearer, I would like to invite you all to come visit Rosedew Island and experience the autumn season in our cozy little community ... and maybe get a fright!
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For two and a half years now, the residents of Rosedew have been hard at work building a happy little town on what we at first believed to be a deserted island. However, strange rumors have been circulating lately about mysterious old structures appearing out of nowhere just outside of town! Where did all these warning signs come from? What’s with the glowing moss? Why, at night, are the lights on in the old, abandoned manor on the hill to the north-east?
... Is there something Coco isn’t telling us?
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Features of interest: - A comfy town with a focus on environmentalism and upcycling - All villager houses are customized to reflect the characters’ lives - Slimy, dank nature just beyond the town’s borders - Environmental storytelling anywhere I could fit it in/come up with something - A spooky story lurking just beneath the island’s cheery surface! - At the heart of the story: a fully upgraded and customized old manor! - My own house has nothing to do with the story, but it’s still pretty cute!
Come to Rosedew, soak in the small-town atmosphere, and see if you can piece together the clues to the island’s sordid past!
Dream address: DA-7118-7118-7898
Note: As certain visual and story elements of this island may be distressing to some players, I’ve put a list of content warnings under the cut, just in case someone needs it. Beware of spoilers!
Content warnings: - Custom designs heavily featuring blood - Hospital/medical settings played for horror - Implications of severe illness and body horror - Death, grief and ghosts
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anniversary pics, part 2/2! see part 1 for commentary.
those last two pics are my favorites of the whole bunch ... I’m so glad I still have my two first villagers, it feels really special to be able to celebrate the one year anniversary with them <3
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anniversary pics, part 1/2!
hey everyone, it’s been a while! I had a small unplanned ACNH break during fall and winter, but I’m back for the one year anniversary of the game - and of Rosedew island!
to celebrate, I took all my villagers to harv’s island to a remote spot for a little party and took pics of everyone hanging out! I recently finished collecting all my favorite villagers, so everyone here is staying for good. the full list now includes:
Agnes - my first fav, whom I still love very much! we’re next door neighbors now and hang out every day! she’s been the primary victim of all the silliest catchphrases and greetings I could come up with, I’m sorry, Agnes, I love you
Jitters - the other half of my first pair, who actually moved away from my island for some months. I ended up missing him too much and wanted him back; fortunately @thenearsightedmicroraptor was kind enough to cycle through their move-in queue and lo and behold, Jitters was in there and I managed to move him back to Rosedew! I’m so glad I did, I love my boy, never should have let my boy go ;_; <33
Zucker, Marina and Dotty - my first trio of island villagers, still hanging out and doing weird stuff together. Marina and Dotty specifically keep being adorable near each other, which I take to mean their relationship is still going strong. my island would not be complete without tiny liddol lesbians
Quillson - the little bastard who forcibly moved himself onto my island without my permission, then kept ruining my nice scenic photos until I gave in and let him stay for good. we’re best friends now. he’s my favorite villager alongside Agnes, unfortunately
Merengue, Diana and Coco - my prized Aesthetic Girls(tm) that I specifically wanted to find because I’d seen them on the internet and Needed To Have Them. I’m not going to admit the lengths I went to to get them. however, I will share my very good headcanon that Coco is Dotty’s cousin. I like to imagine everyone on Rosedew had agreed that Dotty was a little haunted, but once they met her VERY haunted cousin, they were like nvm actually, Dotty is very normal, we know better now
Rasher - I met this messed-up looking senior citizen on an island randomly and I couldn’t not keep him. the interior of his house looks like a parking lot. I would die for Rasher. also, in the same way I want Coco to be Dotty’s cousin, I want Rasher to be Agnes’ uncle because they have a Lot in common haha
it’s been a tough year, but ACNH has been a wonderful distraction, it couldn’t have come out at a better time! I love my little villagers so much and I’ve super enjoyed getting back into the game over this last month or two. here’s to another year of good times in animal crossing! <333
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Hey Sketcher! How's your island doing? I found this blog after a long time and was reminded of it when I saw an Animal Crossing related video the other day. I hope you're doing well both irl and on your island, and that your villagers are doing okay too!
Hi there, anon! I’ve actually just been getting back into Animal Crossing over the last few weeks after having only played occasionally during the fall and winter months, so this ask is very relevant!
I recently got the last of the villagers I’ve been wanting on my island and the island itself is almost ‘finished’ (or rather, how I ideally want it to be right now - I’ll probably change it over time as I come up with new stuff, though), so I’m planning on updating this blog once I’ve taken a bunch of photos! I’m super excited about getting back into the game, so many new fun updates have happened while I’ve been gone!
I don’t know how often I’ll be updating this blog in the future, but aside from showing off my new villagers and everything I’ve built, I also at the very least want to do a “Rosedew: one year later” update in early April - the sakura season is my favorite event, so I think it would be fitting to take a bunch of nice photos of my island during that time and share them with you all.
thank you for dropping by! hope you’re doing well too!! <33
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some pics from when I first got Merengue a couple weeks back + some progress pics on some of my favorite yards!
I decided to leave everyone’s yards relatively compact so everyone can live close together, but I also wanted to make each yard look lived-in and unique to the villagers’ interests! in order of appearance, there’s Merengue’s yard (table, book and birdhouse), Agnes’ yard (native plants and watering can), Dotty and Marina’s shared yard (table set, clothing hanger, birdbath), Zucker’s yard (on the left; brick oven and hammock), and Quillson’s yard (on the right; tulips and a small fountain). I’ve also worked on Pinky’s yard some, but I haven’t taken a picture of it yet. I think when I’ve finished everyone’s yards, I’m gonna take good pics in daylight of all of them and stick ‘em in a post here on tumblr!
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oof, I had a big ol’ unintentional break from posting on this blog for a while, sorry about that, friends! I haven’t had the energy to play much the last few weeks, but I’ve been getting back into the swing of things so I’ll start updating again. though I’m coming back with SAD NEWS
I found someone in a discord server I’m on who was giving away Merengue, and while I don’t normally time travel, Merengue is probably my favorite villager from an aesthetic perspective and I absolutely had to have her! so I time traveled for the first time in order to get one of my other villagers to move out so she could take their place.
sadly, no matter how many times I kept rolling the dice, Jitters was the villager who was the most determined to leave, and since I’d already made peace w the fact that I was most likely going to cycle him out at some point, I decided to let him go ... as long-time followers know, he was half of my first pair and I love him very, very much. if there were more spots on the island, I would have kept him for sure :(
but it was time for him to be free, and I decided to let him go. spent some quality time with him at the end wandering around the beach together in the rain, and so on. he’s a sweet boy and he will be dearly missed!!
good luck out there, Jitters <33
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Zucker, what did you say to the nice man on the internet
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miscellaneous things update! here’s what’s happenin’ around the island:
- Graham finally decided to move out after a long ... LONG time of me trying to motivate him to pack his things and go. I unfortunately couldn’t find him a new home in time, but I’m sure he’ll find a good home for himself out there in the world.
- after touring across many islands, I found Pinky and fell in love IMMEDIATELY. she’s so cute! I adore her!!! she’s been living on my island for a couple days now and I’m so happy I let her move in. this does mean that I have an overpopulation of peppy villagers on my island at the moment but I honestly don’t care, they’re all incredibly sweet and lovely <3
- I’ve been decorating some more! I think the area around my house is turning out super pretty, getting access to flower bushes really made a big difference. I also made a little fountain area where I grow money trees, so it’s like a wishing well! Drago seems to be a fan. and also, something that’s been in the works for a while - I made a little secret area where I set up a picnic date for Marina and Dotty. the record player is playing K.K. Love Song.
- finally, some of my villagers have started asking me to change their catchphrases! I foolishly made Agnes say ‘babe’ because ... it’s a pig pun ... and she seems like the type who’d say that ... and now I regularly have to discourage my other villagers from picking it up. when both Dotty and Zucker asked me to come up with a phrase for them, I instead chose ‘rosebud’ for both of them, because I figure if it’s gonna spread, I might as well make it thematically relevant to the island and also a pun that works for everyone.
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animal crossing allowing me to pick custom greetings for my villagers was a mistake
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the populated areas of my island are coming along wonderfully! both the upper and lower halves of the residential area are nearly finished, and I’ve finally properly started construction on the shopping district! so far, Nook’s Cranny and the tailor shop have been moved to their proper locations, and I’ve set up a cafe and a little cinema. closer to the museum, I’ve also set up some little areas for learning! I imagine the villagers will regularly invite various science people to come give lectures on our island so we can learn some things.
during this whole process, I’m asking myself what I’d want to have on a deserted island if it was my real life ... so far I’m just missing a sushi bar lol
(I also designed the little movie poster for the cinema myself, I’ll probably rotate which posters will be up over time as different movies come and go)
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a mixed update with various going-ons. there was a double rainbow over my island not too long ago, I got my very first lily of the valley (5 star island, baby!!!), Mr. Nook is trying to dispose of his enemies in a subtle fashion using the recycling box, and I FINALLY found roses!!!! HECK YEAH
now I just need to breed a whole bunch of pink roses <3
AND, in even more exciting news, we have a new friend on the island - after Pippy moved out, I found Drago on a miles island! I’d saved up a ton of miles, but he showed up on the first one ... slightly anticlimactic, but I’m extremely excited about having a mythical villager! welcome, Drago!
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Graham got sick the other day and he kept looking at me like he thought I’d poisoned him
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local girlfriends give each other a little kis before going about their day
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some more progress pics from my island! as you can see, I’ve gone absolutely ham on the terraforming. I’ve also started building my shopping district, though that one’s gonna take quite a while. and finally, I upgraded my house enough that I could change the exterior and I really like how it came out! cozy little cabin on the cliffs <3
I still have a lot more things planned, and I really want to add a lot of detail to the areas seen here as well, but I’m taking my sweet time and not grinding too much, so over time, the island will slowly but steadily become even prettier. it’s so exciting to have a game that’s meant to be a long-term project, I love knowing that I’ll likely still be playing every day many months from now!
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a handful of pics from the other day when @shtiyajust4you joined @thenearsightedmicroraptor and I for the first time!!! Raptor and I had some technical difficulties setting up the wifi in our apartment, but now it works and we can finally play with our other friends online!! <3
the two of them were kind enough to bring gifts for Agnes’ birthday party also, which was the sweetest thing ... it’s what she deserves
I hope we’ll be able to play with even more friends soon!
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decided to do another big villager-centric update, because I’ve been getting some wonderful dialogue lately. <3
among other things, Pippy decided to move out and I encouraged her. I do love her a great deal, but it’s time for her to go out and see the world! I managed to find a person on an Animal Crossing discord server I’m a member of, who wanted to take Pippy in and give her a loving home, so that’s wonderful. Pippy is the first villager who has left my island, so there was a a bit of sadness surrounding her departure, but I’m sure she’ll be happy on her new island!
on the same day Pippy left, it also happened to be Agnes’ birthday! I gave her a drum set and she was super happy!
I love all my little villagers so much ... and I’m very excited to introduce a very special villager who moved in after Pippy moved out. will update on that soon. >:3c
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