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[AquaMarie]

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i have been uh. quite vocal about my disdain for the gorillas lol and so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that when it came to my sanrio cards, rilla’s wasn’t one that i ever planned on using. @WhitBit changed that, though. back in march, she posted a thread stating that she’d be giving rilla a chance and even shared some cute photos of her. at first, i was apprehensive but i was quickly inspired to give rilla a chance as well and so, over two months later, here we are :’). she’s only been on my island for a few days so far but it’s been neat having her around and i’m glad that i decided to give her a chance. ❤

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Awww! I'm only now just seeing this, but it's so sweet! I'm so glad you decided to give her a chance! She's still living on my island, but I've been on a long break from AC and haven't interacted with her a whole lot yet. But she'll be there when I start playing again.

 

[Xara]

its been a hot minute since i’ve posted in here, but hello everyone! i’ve spent the past month going on and off hiatuses while also trying to figure out what i want to do with this thing, and i think i’ve finally got it! i’ve switched up the aesthetic, revamped my introductory post and have decided on the sort of content that i want to share with you guys. it’s been a busy few weeks on my island, but i’m super excited to share a bit of what’s been going on, and am really happy to finally be posting again as well. now without further ado...

said goodbye to some friends...

but made some new ones as well!

Spoiler: island hopping disaster 🐧💔

bros i’m literally so sad about this xjkndod. about a week ago, i went on my longest island hopping session thus far, going through 103 nmts. the session finally came to an end after 3-4 hours when i ran into this cutie!!

i was genuinely so excited to have her but of course, my monkey brain had to go and ruin it ://. in my excitement, not only did i forget to save my game, autosave didn’t come through for me either so uh... i have someone’s voided del instead LOL.

he’s been on my island for about a week now and he actually isn’t all that bad! you can bet your ass that i’ll be hunting for friga once i can, though. ^^

added some more villager pics to my collection.

tested out some design ideas for my main room.

went on a treasure hunt with sprinkle and i-

no wind chimes for beau.

🕶

they angy.

came across shark island for the first time!

i’ve been waiting for this moment.

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[Xara]

besties, i think i may have gone a bit overboard with wedding season this year,,,

to reese & cyrus’ dismay, i did not design a single wedding venue, reception or anything that they actually wanted, but i still genuinely had fun with trying to bring my ideas to life, no matter how unrelated to the event’s entire concept they were. i also used this as an opportunity to fool around with photo editing a bit or a lot, which i really enjoyed doing as well! but regardless, overboard or not, i’m so excited to finally be sharing these with you guys as i’m lowkey quite proud of them! :’)

Spoiler: wedding season 2020

i really hate how little effort i put into my designs last year. >_< though, i’m a bit fond of #4 and #5 as they show who was on my island at the time, which i always enjoy looking back on. it’s crazy how much things can change in a year.

the night before.

a beary colourful celebration.

man, i miss moshi monsters.

new horizons’ cover art.

déjà vu, anyone?

pov: flick has somehow never seen an alpaca before.

decisions, decisions.

and the cow jumped alpaca sat on the moon.

a wedding welcoming party.

since the hunger games have me by the throat rn.

Spoiler: inspiration

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[Xara]

man, i’ve really gotten bad at posting in here LOL, but hello everyone!

nothing particularly exciting has happened on my island since wedding season ended — the daily room decorating and photo editing honestly burnt me out quite a bit, so i haven’t been feeling very motivated to create or work on anything lol — but i’ve still got some stuff that i’d like to share!

over the past month or so, i’ve been trying to pay more attention to my villagers; not hesitating to take photos of them, listening in on conversations, etc as before, i would only really talk to them to see if they wanted any favours done or if they wanted my attention. don’t get me wrong, i’ve been able to bond with my villagers just fine, but me trying to put in more effort has really made me love them even more ... hence why this entry is essentially just a compilation of my villagers being their weird, adorable selves and me loving them for it haha.

some other stuff has happened since my last post, too, but my villagers were definitely the highlight of my july.

a nostalgic gift.

merengue is constantly falling asleep all over the island, but i don’t mind ‘cause look at how adorable she is.

me @ my grandmother.
also we love how audie’s just completely ignoring what’s going on behind her LOL.

sir???

i’m both curious and terrified to know what whitney thought he was talking about.

sir, that is a popsicle.

after months of helping out gulliver and breaking several shovels, he finally gave me the blue tam-o’-shanter!! the tam-o’-shanter is one of my favourite clothing items, so i’m thrilled to have all 4 variants! beau sent me a genuine mystic statue on this day as well.

...am i interrupting something?

i love when my villagers exercise together. it’s so cute!

we’re all just vibing.

del gave me a new nickname and it’s genuinely adorable.

this may or may not have almost made me cry. the cranky villagers are such sweethearts. <3

changed my outfit again, and am currently working on coordinating some more outfits as well!

my villagers rarely ever interact with these, so this was a nice surprise! ^_^

bruce gave me his photo!!

finally 100% completed the ‘flower power’ achievement! i can’t believe that i only have 9 achievements left to complete. :’o

the first fireworks show of 2021!

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[Xara]

if my journal were a person, it would absolutely have abandonment issues by now.

xjsdjkdk hello everyone! august was a doozy of a month for me between going on yet another hiatus, trying to fight my depression and low energy off with a stick and attending camp bell tree, but i’m finally back and am feeling much better now!

august was admittedly way less eventful on axolotl than it was irl, but that’s part of why i appreciate my island and acnh in general so much. whenever reality is unpleasant and dull, axolotl stays hopeful and vibrant. it’s a place of sanctuary for me, even when all i do is go island hopping and attempt to photograph the heck out of my villagers much to their dismay.

ANYWAYS. speaking of harassing photographing my villagers, here’s some of axolotl’s august highlights!

said goodbye to some friends...

made some new ones...

and took so long to post this that one has since moved in and out LOL.

added some new villager photos to my collection!

whitney literally stared poor margie down until she stood up.

these two hit it off instantly.

just two bookworms sitting on a bench together.

oh to be a wolf taking a nap by a river.

i literally almost cried taking this. look at how precious she is!

iM XJSKNDKD???

celebrated this lovely baby’s birthday on tuesday!!

completed milestone #4 of the “diy tools” nm achievement!

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[Xara]

just a lil photo dump of my acnh camp bell tree creations! my mental health wasn’t the greatest at the time and i had no energy whatsoever, but i still had a lot of fun making these! the campgrounds may have been destroyed, but the poliwag besties will live on forever!

poliwag’s fish world (oceanside aquariums)

the legend of bacia (cryptid creek)

Spoiler: written component

name: bacia (meaning: family deaths ruined the home)
behaviours: sullen, harmless unless approached, and appears to have a soft spot for children
size: 3ft
habitat: an abandoned farmland in the middle of nowhere
expedition notes: this sullen creature had once been the adored child of a farmer and his wife; a little girl who loved tending to the tomato garden and feeding tomato chunks to the ducks that swam in the nearby pond. on the day her mother died, she watched as her father, who had fallen victim to madness and grief, offered her life to the gods in exchange for his wife’s. it seems they were listening that day for when she awoke hours later, she had joined the undead, her body transformed into the two things she had spent her short life loving. bacia still spends her days tending to her tomatoes and feeding chunks to the ducks that remain, but nightfall has her weeping in her father’s old rocking chair, her tears full of grief and rage as she awaits an afterlife that may never come.

a very deer disguise (hiking trip)

Spoiler: written component

most people go camping to get in touch with nature or themselves, but not me — i go camping to see deers. they’re skittish creatures, ones that’ll take off at the quietest of sounds, so my outfit for this camping adventure isn’t your typical one; using a custom deer sweater, brown dress pants, reindeer hat, dog nose, brown frilly knee-high socks and black double-bridge glasses to create a makeshift deer costume, i pray that it’ll cause the deers to see me as one of their own and to not flee.

for a while, my only company are the tent that i’ve brought with me to sleep in, the binoculars that i use to see so that i can spot deers without getting too close to them, my pile of intensive deer research so that i have info about them with me at all times and the green leaves that i brought with me for the deers to snack on when suddenly, before my very eyes, a deer emerges and begins to eat the leaves!

poliwag swag (cabin representative)

BONUS: a poliwag fireworks show

note; these are all edited, but i submitted the non-edited versions for each event.​

 

[Xara]

hello, friends! i meant to have this posted weeks ago, but life decided it wanted to kick my ass for the rest of the year instead lol. i’ve also been trying to revamp my journal’s design, hence why it’s currently an aesthetic mess, and i wanted to have that done before posting anything new. however, i’ve decided to say “screw it”, since i really miss posting in here. i’ll also hopefully post a little more frequently now that i’ve simplified my post layout a bit.

september and the majority of october wasn’t all that eventful on my island for the most part, so this’ll pretty much just be another villager compilation post LOL, but i’ll be posting other things soon hopefully with 2.0 coming and me actually having some motivation to work on my island rn. <3

as always, i’ve said goodbye to some friends during the past two months, but i’ve made some lovely new ones as well.

i’ve obtained 5 new villager photos! i’m so happy with how my collection is growing.

unexpectedly caught a golden trout! i haven’t caught one since last year, so this was a very pleasant surprise! i’m hoping to catch 2 more so that i can commission a model of it. i should be able to do that by... the end of the century, maybe LOL. :’)

updated my passport!

found a ghost wandering around my yard one night. i haven’t seen or spoken to wisp in ages, but he’s a cute lil dude.

margie is literally so mean to lazy villagers LOL. she’s done this to almost every lazy villager she’s met.

audie really left me sitting by myself so she could go look at a butterfly. i’d be offended if it wasn’t one of the cutest things i’ve ever seen.

me with tbt collectibles.

margie gave me a second copy of her photo!! it caught me off guard as i’ve never had this happen before, despite knowing that it could, but i’m definitely not complaining!

had a meteor shower.

this is by far one of my favourite nicknames my villagers have ever given me. my parents’ nickname for me irl is beans, so this was actually perfect. <3

she eats, i sleep. it’s a great partnership.

whitney celebrated her birthday on sept 17th!! this gorgeous gal liked the gift i got her, and it warmed my heart so much to see sprinkle celebrating with her!

fuchsia celebrated her birthday two days after whitney did! she loved her present as well, but uh... her guest wasn’t as wholesome as sprinkle was.

i can’t decide on which is prettier in this photo — fuchsia or the rainbow.

me: why does marty always ask to move out?
also me:

i just wanna know who on nintendo’s team came up with all this bug dialogue, because i’m???

sometimes daisy mae just wants to take a break and listen to some k.k. slider, too.

nintendo, i am literally begging you to let me kiss whitney on the forehead. she’s so sweet.

sprinkle’s been ready for halloween since october 1st!

...sir, please get your beak out of my face.

finally completed the “angling for perfection!” nm achievement!!! i’m so happy to be done with it!

my best boys, forever and always.

changed my outfit for autumn/spooky season!

thanks for reading!​

 

[Xara]

was working on my island entrance the other day, and audie and sprinkle kindly decided to get in the goddamn way help me out. it’s very hard to work on an entrance when there’s villagers conversing and hanging out in said entrance, but we made it work.

...and by “made it work”, i mean i spent a few hours trying to come up with ideas and decorate, only to have a fountain and 4 bushes to show for it LMAO.

thanks for reading!​

 

[Xara]

okay, i know i already post about my villagers wayyy too much in here, but i’m begging ya’ll to look at my boi and how cute he is. <3

gardening makes him happy.

squats leggy-bendy exercise

his role model.

thanks for reading!​

 

[Xara]

yesterday was actually somewhat of a productive day on my island (for once). i decided that i wanted to try working on my island entrance again, despite the decision i made last week to wait until the new update drops. i didn’t spend much time on it, but i managed to make a lot of progress!

...i removed the fountain and 4 bushes i put down last week. that’s it LOL.

i’d say that i’m gonna actually leave it alone for now this time, but knowing me, i’ll probably try to work on it again tomorrow *sigh*.

my hopeless entrance wasn’t enough to deter me, though, as i was really in the mood to work on my island yesterday. so, what did i do next, you ask? well... i impulsively got rid of one of my rivers!

it’s probably pretty obvious by now that i have no idea what i’m doing LOL, but i don’t regret it. it’s definitely gonna take me a while to get used to having so much more space to work with, but i think now i can finally start looking at the 1st level of my island as a whole, rather than the sections that it came in (does this make sense?).

anyways, impulsive and potentially disastrous terraforming aside, i also said goodbye to my dear deer friend, zell, yesterday.

as i am with every departing villager, i was sad to see him go, but i was also super excited to hunt for and meet my new neighbour! i was initially going to wait until my series 5 amiibo cards arrived so that i could scan in new villagers that way, but what can i say, i love island hopping. :’)

and thankfully, my island hopping session went a lot better than my decorating/terraforming did, and i found this gorgeous gal on my 13th nmt!!

Spoiler: BONUS: my island hopping companion

thanks for reading!​

 

[Xara]

nothing too exciting has happened on axolotl over the past couple of days other than me demolishing all the bridges on the 1st level, trying to plan out my new river, and preparing to tt midge out. things are gonna be at a bit of a standstill on my island until the update drops, so enjoy this quick lil photo dump/island update in the meantime. :’)

agnes moved in a few days ago, and saying that i already love her would be an understatement. she brings so much warmth to the island already, and her calling me “sunbeam” deadass had me staring at my switch like .

sprinkle’s really been rocking some mismatched halloween costumes this month! she’s barely worn the flashy round-ear animal hat that i gave her months ago, but i finally caught her wearing it the other day! she looks so cute in it.

i also spotted audie doing her daily exercises the other day, and the autumn palette in this photo is just *chefs kiss*.

beau and i had to get a quick nap in — we need lots of rest for friday!

thanks for reading!​

 

[Xara]

i didn’t really partake in halloween this year, but i couldn’t resist dressing up! can you tell us apart?

thanks for reading!​

 

[Xara]

the past week has been a rough one for me personally, but the update has really been helping me cope! i’ve especially been enjoying the DLC, which is a lil surprising as i’ve never cared much for designing any interior that isn’t mine. i’ve only been designing one dream vacation home per day so far, and i’m definitely not great at it, but i’m pretty proud of what i’ve done! i’ve also been given the rank of ‘promising designer’, and have yet to be yelled at by anyone, so i must not be doing too bad of a job. :’)

also, i would gladly die for niko and wardell.

eloise’s relaxing reading room

lucy’s doll manor

stu’s home with woodsy smells

queenie’s contrast courtyard

chester’s dream bamboo garden (i’m especially proud of this one!)

alli’s mushroom forest

thanks for reading!​

 

[Xara]

it didn’t even take beau an hour to ask to hang out after the update dropped — mans has been waiting for this since i stopped playing new leaf lol.

i wasn’t sure what to expect as i’ve done my best to avoid any and all spoilers, and oh my god??? i genuinely had such a fun time hanging out with him — everything about it was so cute!

we first played a card game together (that i of course lost).

he then asked me if i wanted to buy anything from him, and while my first response was “no”, him hitting me with this immediately changed my mind.

i feel manipulated.

but my favourite part was that when i left, he gave me a copy of his favourite song!! i was sobbing.

beau apparently had a great time as well since he barged into my house only a few hours later to hang out some more LOL. he brought me a pear, which may or may not have had me sobbing again.

thanks for reading!​

 

[Xara]

just a ‘lil’ photo dump from the past week. i’m still very much so enjoying the update and dlc! :’)

hmm… i wonder what he’s thinking about.

my first new horizons boat ride! 🛳

my best mysterious tour discovery thus far. ️

why does he lowkey look like he’s glaring at the butterfly in the 2nd photo lol.

top 10 worst mistakes.

it’s called fashion.

my first cooking creation!

i’ve never been so happy to see someone cooking before haha.

the roost’s opening! ️

my love for them is immeasurable.

i was having a hard time deciding which new k.k. song to request first, but agnes helped me out!

not kapp’n making me have an existential crisis.

found redd selling a genuine valiant statue for the first time!

got this nice shot of agnes with the handheld camera!

poor harvey.

had my friendship with agnes analyzed by katrina — turns out we’re closer than i thought!

thanks for reading!​

 

[Xara]

i recently invited my first of the new/returning villagers to axolotl — frett! he’s only been here a few days, but i’m already liking him a whole lot! he’s gonna be fun to have around.

however, i would like to publicly apologize to midge for booting her out. >_<

thanks for reading!​

 

[Xara]

raymond moved out a few days ago, so i wanted to share some highlights from his time on axolotl! he’s still not exactly a favourite villager of mine, but i definitely am starting to understand his hype now. he’s very cute, and he was fun to have on the island! i’m gonna miss him. :’)

also, you’ll all be pleased or disappointed to know that i kept my word and never made him wear a maid dress. i’m sure he appreciated the break lol.

thanks for reading!​