river
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Welcome to my island journal, where you can find the long, winding ramblings of a nostalgic Animal Crossing player, constantly apologizing for not posting enough even though this thread has around 80 posts at this point. Also random screenshots of the same four locations in different times of day lol
Truth is, I love posting here, and I love reading other people's posts in here too, so I'm just really grateful for this space, and I do hope you enjoy the time you spend here...
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For a better introduction of how this journey started, I'll leave you with the ramblings of a slightly younger River, from when I first created the thread:
First off… An introduction of sorts…
I’m River, and I’ve decided to try out this journal thing. Mostly because I only found out about this section a couple days ago and it really inspired me.
I’m currently in a kind of damage control mode in my game, after weeks of terraforming, re-terraforming, decorating, re-decorating and a LOT of time travelling it all became too stressful and I started feeling uncreative and ungrateful and I found myself constantly comparing my town to others on social media.
I suppose I thought that looking at towns here would give me those same awful feelings, but I was wrong.
I’ve always loved the community here on The Bell Tree, it’s always been warm and welcoming, in my experience, and the journal section is a true gem.
Seeing the way everybody writes about their towns with so much love and appreciation made me see that I should probably not be so hard on myself and made me want to find a play style that worked better against my tendencies to overthink and compare myself to strangers on the internet.
So I thought I would start my own journal to post experiences and some photos and try to find that care, patience and appreciation in me.
Now, I’m not as aesthetically conscious or as talented with words as most writers here, but I’ll do my best to make this cute lol
And I would love to receive any comments or feedback here! Really, tell me anything!
River, 05.22.2020
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