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PSA: Copying is not okay.

You go and you see something you REALLY like. It’s beautiful–it’s what you wanted. So what do you do? GET INSPIRED. Use that to inspire you to make something in your own way. Maybe “I really like the positioning of this” or “I think these look really nice here” and things like that is okay.

But when you take everything–from the layout to the placements to the names of characters to the interiors to the exteriors to everyone in town and use all of it and act like it’s yours… that is not okay. That is copying. That’s not being inspired. That’s not flattery. That’s being rude and telling the creator who you apparently liked so much that what they did is nothing because now it’s yours. That is NOT okay. In fact, it gets CREEPY at that point.

That is NEVER okay. EVER.

Not everyone is artistic enough to be able to make patterns completely from scratch–so they show their ability in a different way. By using what they have to make something beautiful. But it’s still artistic. It’s still creative–it’s just a different way. It’s an idea that is placed and shown–not something to be taken and thrown elsewhere.

You don’t plant a garden in hopes that all your neighbors will plant the exact same flowers the exact same way–an exact copy. You do it in hopes to inspire someone to maybe be like “A garden like that is nice–maybe I should plant some flowers”. Not take everything.

I don’t really have anything else to say–not sure if there is anything else I CAN say other than that it’s the first time I’ve felt this disappointed in years.

The “I want to play with friends again” Update – Please vote on the poll

I just missed playing with people and was sick of being in lockdown, so I decided to do one time travel to get these public works. I didn’t do anything else (So I still need 2 more emotes before Dr. Shrunk’s dance and I didn’t shop at all) as that’d be a bit much–just what I had to do to play with friends.

So, Geyser celebration!

And then, it was lots of attempts to get a Picnic Set from Phoebe. To my surprise, after just 3 attempts and my first request…

Yay! …however, I was then in for a horrible surprise. Originally, your original bridge did not count. I guess this was fixed as I was not allowed to put the Picnic Blanket down as I already had “30” projects.

I don’t know what I’m going to remove… For now, I demolished my first sign earlier than expected, but I’m kind of at a loss here :/

For the record, these are my public works–both built and planned:
2 Stone Bridges
1 Fairytale Bridge
1 Street Lamp
1 Illuminated Heart
1 Park Clock
1 Fairytale Clock
1 Flower Clock
1 Metal Bench
1 Picnic Blanket
1 Flower Clock
2 Faceboards *
1 Sign *
1 Water Pump
1 Drinking Fountain
1 Water Well
1 Geyser
1 Hot Spring
1 Bell
1 Zen Bell
1 Instrument Shelter *
1 Zen Garden
1 Jungle Gym
1 Fountain
1 Lighthouse
1 Windmill
1 Stone Tablet
1 Statue Fountain
1 Cube Sculpture
1 Topiary *

* = What I’m leaning towards removing

As for why each of those are possibilities:
1. Sign – I have welcome mats so I guess it’s a little redundant even if I like it.
2. 1 of the 2 Faceboards – I’d have to move things over and stuff but… :/
3. Instrument Shelter – I don’t use it much anyway so… Even if I do like it and think it looks nice.
4. Topiary – I can’t even get it until April so scrapping it altogether would mean no demolishing besides a temporary sign… but I find it really cute ._.

I just feel…super broken I guess. Regardless, upon going back, I went and placed and paid off the Picnic Blanket…

And here’s a poll… (Click here for pictures)

As stupid as it is, I’m on the verge of crying over this. It’s like I wasted all this time. I feel so stupid.

Oh, and I had a Camper.

And farewell, Miranda.

Day 36

Video Log: N/A
Re-tail Sign: Moth
Turnips: AM: 43 Bells | PM: 38 Bells

As an early start to the day, I stopped by Chananr’s for detectiving! Someone sadly stole some of his stuff (A Golden Chair, A Shaved Ice Lamp, and some other DLC stuff and a Marine Suit) so I stopped by to see if I could help. However, as luck may have it, my surprise gift for him was done today! So I dropped that off :3 We also stopped by his island to check the stock and I played in his carnations.

I also made sure to drop off Rainy’s as well <3 Just need to drop off Zed’s now. Just…THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR HELPING ME WHEN I FIRST STARTED! T~T I wish I could do more to express how thankful I am for you guys <3

Anyway, it was then time to start things in my town when it officially became the next day. As expected, I was given good news right from the Home Screen:

Yaaay~ Now my Main Street is complete!

However, after grabbing a drink at Brewster’s and going to continuing to look for fossils, I ran into someone I didn’t expect…

HI PHINEAS HI 😀

Yaaaaay <3

Redd is also here today!

About time XP

UGH. :/

His house is where the Drinking Fountain is supposed to go AND he killed my Pine Trees… v-v; *sighs* I know who it’s from so I’m just going to say it pisses me off that even if the person moved out days ago–if they never found somewhere to go, SURPRISE. That is just cruel :/ THAT DOES NOT MAKE ME WANT TO PLAY WITH PEOPLE, GAME. At least it’s not a worse location but… *sighs* At least once I get the other parts of the park down, this kind of stuff won’t happen again… But now I have ANOTHER villager who needs to get out. This is just so infuriating. I don’t want to time travel–I really really don’t, but this kind of crud is making me feel like I need to get my town done before I can even play with people and that really isn’t fun. :/ It doesn’t help that he’s a jock so there is literally NOTHING he can offer me. (Okay, technically the stuff anyone can offer but… I have other people for that)

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Day 35

Video Log: N/A
Re-tail Sign: Brown Cicada
Turnips: Forgot to check

I actually had no mail which was…really weird. It’s been a long time since I have had no mail. Regardless, it had been several days and today was “re-try for the Stump I want” day. Unfortunately, in front of my house was Redd’s leaf :/ So another failure. And I received the orange by the campsite so a failure there too 🙁 *sighs* I won’t be looking forward to trying to get the specific pine tree stumps I want near my bench…

Speaking of benches…

I finally have my first bench! So excited 😀

As I continued my fossil hunting, I found a lost item.

Kiki was the only one up so I went to ask her first. It wasn’t hers though, so it looked like I’d be carrying it for a while…

Due to continued frustration with finding my last fossil, I decided to celebrate my new (and only) bench.

I will do Katrina’s project if I get another awful Public Work suggestion.

Unfortunately, I managed to fall into the pitfall I had been keeping hidden as I looked for the last fossil.. I thought I found it, but it was just a gyroid 🙁

After who knows how long though, I did FINALLY find my last fossil. And also stopped at the Cafe on my way to Blathers. Unfortunately, I had all these fossils AGAIN 🙁

With daily chores done, it was now the “wonderful” task of waiting for Re-Tail to open and everyone else to wake up…

The lost item ended up belonging to Joey…but apparently he put it down purposely because he got tired of carrying it 😐 He gave me a bubble tee as thanks. As it hit 9, I also found I now had some letters from villagers, out of the 4 I sent, 3 gave me gifts. Rocco gave me a Floral Wall, Ruby gave me Ranch Flooring, and Miranda gave me a Reggae Tee.

Before I could even get started on my “try to get specific requests” idea since Ruby was still in Re-Tail, Kyle gave me this “lovely” request…

…so, time to go build Katrina’s place. I’m actually pretty frustrated since he can’t even request anything I want anymore. Wish I didn’t even talk to him :/ I mean, there are stuff that anyone could request that maybe he could’ve suggested (Like the Lighthouse or Police Station) but still pretty upset about it. v-v

As per usual, I paid off Katrina’s fortune house immediately so I am looking forward to seeing it tomorrow. This means my Main Street will be complete–even though I still have some Nookling upgrades to go.

I managed to get Sleepy from Dr. Shrunk today.

And not too much happened otherwise–besides more flower taking from the island anyway.

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Day 12: You watering flowers

Day 34.5

Eeee <3 So, besides Chananr's lovely gift of some pink carnations (THANK YOU AGAIN, CHANANR!), I actually received my first random Animal Crossing StreetPass today! ...Well, first where they actually had a house 😛 I actually adore StreetPass so I was REALLY excited to finally get one. I haven’t had a chance to go to any of the cool Animal Crossing streetpass meetings (usually due to work lately -_-) so I had been feeling a bit down that I had yet to get anyone besides the people playing in my house–thus my completely being thrilled upon finding out I received someone while out to dinner.

HI CORRAN FROM STARWARP 😀 IT IS NICE TO MEET YOU! <3 (Yay for Star Wars reference~) I had fun checking out their house. They obviously were new, but their house had a very cute tropical theme!

I hope I get more StreetPasses soon <3 THANK YOU FOR BEING MY FIRST RANDOM ANIMAL CROSSING STREETPASS [that actually unlocked the plaza)! eeeeeeee <3