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(and happy new year!)
For Yuletide I got two fantastic gifts, one in the main collection and one in Madness.
the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright (1575 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Leah (Stardew Valley), Penny (Stardew Valley), Maru (Stardew Valley), Abigail (Stardew Valley), Haley (Stardew Valley), Emily (Stardew Valley)
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Bittersweet, Flower Dance, Platonic Relationships, POV Leah, Yuletide 2019
Summary:
I spent most of July happily playing Stardew Valley, which has an impressive amount of depth for what looks to be on the surface a simple farming game. Disappointed with your life and work at a souless megacorporation, you (a 32 bit art character) inherit a small farm, but in addition to clearing ground, tending crops, and attempting to fish via a ludicrously difficult gaming mechanic, you meet and get to know the villagers, who all have their own stories, and over time you can develop relationships. Each season of the game there’s a town event, and the summer one - where migrating, luminescent jellyfish come up to the surface of the sea before departing - made me cry the first time I played it.
My gift is about the Flower Dance, the Spring event, and shows the game’s female single characters getting ready, from the point of view of Leah, who is also an outsider to the village. It’s sweet and touching, and again there’s a lot more under the surface.
Not a gift, but also great, is this epistolary/found documents story that attempts to explain some of the characters’ backstories and get (at least) two of them together:
Roman à Clef (7138 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elliott/Harvey (Stardew Valley)
Characters: Harvey (Stardew Valley), Elliott (Stardew Valley), Leah (Stardew Valley), Abigail (Stardew Valley), Wizard | M. Rasmodius, Female Player (Stardew Valley)
Additional Tags: epistolatory, Fictional Media, Sculpture, Pining, Worldbuilding, Oral History
Summary:
and how she gave me life (645 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Some Velvet Morning- Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Phaedra, Nameless narrator
Additional Tags: Snakes, Western, Embeing somewhat traumatise bedded Images
My second gift is for the determinedly weird song by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, and gives an explanation for it that is suitably strange and atmospheric - and it comes with a haunting selection of photographs!
( Other recs: )
For Yuletide I got two fantastic gifts, one in the main collection and one in Madness.
the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright (1575 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Leah (Stardew Valley), Penny (Stardew Valley), Maru (Stardew Valley), Abigail (Stardew Valley), Haley (Stardew Valley), Emily (Stardew Valley)
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Bittersweet, Flower Dance, Platonic Relationships, POV Leah, Yuletide 2019
Summary:
Leah invites the bachelorettes of Stardew Valley to get ready for the Flower Dance at her cabin, and wonders if they're as happy in the valley as she is.
I spent most of July happily playing Stardew Valley, which has an impressive amount of depth for what looks to be on the surface a simple farming game. Disappointed with your life and work at a souless megacorporation, you (a 32 bit art character) inherit a small farm, but in addition to clearing ground, tending crops, and attempting to fish via a ludicrously difficult gaming mechanic, you meet and get to know the villagers, who all have their own stories, and over time you can develop relationships. Each season of the game there’s a town event, and the summer one - where migrating, luminescent jellyfish come up to the surface of the sea before departing - made me cry the first time I played it.
My gift is about the Flower Dance, the Spring event, and shows the game’s female single characters getting ready, from the point of view of Leah, who is also an outsider to the village. It’s sweet and touching, and again there’s a lot more under the surface.
Not a gift, but also great, is this epistolary/found documents story that attempts to explain some of the characters’ backstories and get (at least) two of them together:
Roman à Clef (7138 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elliott/Harvey (Stardew Valley)
Characters: Harvey (Stardew Valley), Elliott (Stardew Valley), Leah (Stardew Valley), Abigail (Stardew Valley), Wizard | M. Rasmodius, Female Player (Stardew Valley)
Additional Tags: epistolatory, Fictional Media, Sculpture, Pining, Worldbuilding, Oral History
Summary:
Elliott takes a sculpting class and writes a novel.
and how she gave me life (645 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Some Velvet Morning- Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Phaedra, Nameless narrator
Additional Tags: Snakes, Western, Embeing somewhat traumatise bedded Images
My second gift is for the determinedly weird song by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, and gives an explanation for it that is suitably strange and atmospheric - and it comes with a haunting selection of photographs!
( Other recs: )
