welcome to saturniidae!

new horizons was the first animal crossing game i got Really into, not counting the tiny bit of new leaf i played a few months before it came out. i was one of the people who played copius amounts of new horizons during lockdown and then dropped it after a year or two. recently i've been getting back into it and sprucing my island up a bit more, though! it isn't exactly youtube tour worthy but i do think it's coming out pretty :]. this page will be a tour when i can be assed to get my capture card out bc innate switch screenshots are... very blurry.

about the island

my island is called saturniidae (technically called saturniid because the full one didn't fit but shh.) and it was established on may 27th, 2020. my native fruit is apples!
i've caught every fish and dug up every fossil, and with some time travel i'll be there with the bugs and sea creatures soon (i'll... get to the art gallery at some point). last time i checked, it had 5 stars :]

residents

i have a bunch of human residents via alt accounts on my switch for the purposes of decorating their houses eventually.
(that's a lot of bells, though >_<). my resident rep is just.. me of course, but i've been trying to make characters out of the rest! in my head they're like overexaggerated cartoon characters or something. they come in pretty handy if a friend wants to just like.. briefly drop in for party play, too.
and of course, the animals :]




i'm pretty happy with my islanders! as i type this i have a full set of the sanrio amiibo cards on their way so i might let somebody go to move one of them in, but i'm not sure... probably ione because she was hastily amiiboed in to remove someone i was eh about and didn't mind using as target practice and i'm not that attached to her. and i'm interested in moving in the normals so if i took out anyone else i'd have FOUR normal girls on my island. which seems a lot considering how much i hear the same dialogue over and over again from tangy and audie. her or lionel. if i let lionel go i'm inviting him to paradise planning first because his house request there is really funny to me.
marina is one of my favorite villagers so i'm very happy she's here ^w^. diva was in my new leaf town and then was my sisterly starter here so i'm attached to her. similar boat for lionel but he was the campsite smug villager you're forced to take in the tutorial. they're like old friends...

a side note on pocket camp

pocket camp complete is a.. strange game. i say this lovingly. it reminds me of that post with a silly theory that the mainline games were enrichment for a captive human being attended to by aliens in a world where we're going extinct.
i played the orginal to the best of my ability in.. 2018-19ish? going off the character i opened complete to. she was going by a username i stopped using in 2020 and had the garish outfit of a microtransactionless girl doing her best to look cute in a freemium game.
i bought complete because i was bored and away from home one day in my current fixation and thought "god, i really wish i was playing animal crossing right now.." and then was pleasantly surprised that my old account was still there.that's the point of it, i suppose, the ds games aside. it's a complely offline version of the original that removes all the microtransactions, which makes you notice just how many microtransactions it had. it throws the former premium currency at you like isabelle's using you to launder it. there's a mechanic where you can appoint one of your campers to follow you around and help you with your jobs which i spent a very long time thinking was a cute new update they'd added in the years i was away from my camp before realising it had always been there probably, just locked behind a paywall.
its the constant dopamine a freemium mobile game tries to toss at you for a one-time payment. very satisfying game. i could see it get boring if you played it for too long, but you aren't really supposed to play animal crossing games like that.