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Elden Thing | Back & Body Hurts Platinugggggh Rewards Member


Profile pic and banner credits: sharkaeopteryx art by @superkiak! eggbug by eggbug! Mash-up by me!
[Alt-text for pfp: a cute sharkaeopteryx sat on the ground with legs out, wings down, jaw ajar, and hed empty, looking at eggbug and eggbug's enigmatic smile.]
[Alt-text for banner: a Spirit Halloween banner with eggbug and the sharkaeopteryx that Superkiak drew for me looking at it with inscrutable expressions]


I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.

Ask me about language learning/teaching, cooking/eating food, late diagnosis ADHD, and volunteer small business mentoring. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.


I think people deserve to be young, make mistakes, and grow without being held to standards they don't know about yet and are still learning. So, if you are under 22, please don't try to strike up a friendship or get involved in discussions on my posts.


Please don't automatically assume I follow/know/co-sign someone just because I reposted something from them—sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Also, if you think being removed as a follower when we're not mutuals is a cardinal sin, please do not follow me.


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Inumo
@Inumo asked:

How many faves are going to be problematic /lh

More charitably phrased, how important is it for the characters of Friendship Valley to be simultaneously sympathetic and harmful?

I'd honestly say it's the most important thing? The world of Friendship Valley is surreal and painful, designed deliberately to make everyone feel too old and too young at the same time. Everybody born into our world is in some way traumatized; everybody born into that world is traumatized and bewildered. Conveying that honestly through game mechanics means taking every character and simultaneously showing the way they hurt others/themself and why they act that way. You can't fix everyone (debatably, you can't fix anyone) but you can gain understanding and make peace.

So basically every fave is problematic, especially the main character, but that's what makes them fun to write so w/e

Wishlist The Last Days of Friendship Valley today: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2815700/The_Last_Days_of_Friendship_Valley/


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