hey there, i thought it would be nice to make a thread even though i've been here since the beginning. i think it's important to have a friendly relationship with staff!
my name is jade and i too love this funky lil' indie game known as Stardew Valley (i know, shocking!) and the first thing you should know before reading this thread is that I AM A VERBOSE PERSON SO THIS IS A BIG THREAD
i'm currently 24, i have a fluffy black cat and a bulldog mix, and i play all sorts of games in my free time. i'm trying to get back into reading with varying levels of success, i love all kinds of anime and manga, i enjoy horror and suspense, and i also am a big creepy-cute buff. i was born a sonic kid and will be forever, and had my start on the internet roleplaying my original characters with sonic characters via neopets
i'm an older fan of SDV, got the game for my birthday during spring break in 2016 (which was in march i think) and was absolutely hooked. it's funny because at first i didn't like any of the bachelors, but then i got sebastian's first event and i was attached to him. i feel bad for my friends at the time because i did not shut up about this game, and i certainly didn't shut up about sebastian. of course i've mellowed out since then, but those are my humble beginnings for the game.
2016 was around the time where discord was a thing but it wasn't nearly as widely used as it was today. i was an avid forum-goer for the chucklefish forums, which is where i expressed all my stardew adoration. in may of 2016, i started my first fanfic ever titled 'a farm in the forest' which at the time i was proud of, but my writing has changed a lot since then so it is very, very hard for me to read the beginning of the fic. i'm still working on it several years later, but i hope to finish it soon. it'll be not only my first fanfic complete, but my first complete written story. it's pretty rough to start off with (and the farmer's name is my own name, which i wish i didn't do), but i do enjoy later parts and i'm trying to look forward, haha. there's still a lot i have to improve on in the world of writing, but my fanfic was one of the pushing points for me to think of pursuing writing for real, so in college i changed my major to professional writing. my dad got very sick and i was feeling a lot of pressure, so i ended up not getting my degree. i do hope to go back one day eventually!
i definitely do write for fun though, and same with drawing. i've done art since i was a kid, so i kinda grew up with the expectation that i would be an artist in some capacity. i ended up accepting that i would probably end up hating my work if i treated it as a job, so i consider it a dedicated hobby. writing is a little different, where i feel like i can do it in a professional capacity and also just do it because i enjoy it. one day i would like to fully write my original stories and make games out of them, but that's waaaaaaaaay down the line.
one day, i saw an invite to the Stardew Valley Discord in the chucklefish forums and I finally decided to get discord. it replaced skype pretty quickly for me and i basically lived on discord. some time passed and i eventually became a moderator on the SDV discord, then a year later the previous owner passed his ownership to me. it's always been such an amazing community and i've felt very lucky to be a part of it. since i was a big forum-goer before, i was hoping we'd one day get dedicated Stardew Valley forums... and then we did, and I got to work here!
Stardew Valley has been so weaved into my life at this point that i can't imagine a world without it. it's gotten me through a lot of tough days in college, it inspired me to work on my dreams, it introduced me to an amazing community of people, and it even gave me a job i really enjoy. and this all started because i was an excited fan wanting to talk on the forums in 2016, so i hope that there are people here who will have similar and positive experiences 2020 and beyond.
anyways, thanks for reading and i hope y'all have a good one! hopefully now i seem much less scary when i post everywhere on the forums
my name is jade and i too love this funky lil' indie game known as Stardew Valley (i know, shocking!) and the first thing you should know before reading this thread is that I AM A VERBOSE PERSON SO THIS IS A BIG THREAD
i'm currently 24, i have a fluffy black cat and a bulldog mix, and i play all sorts of games in my free time. i'm trying to get back into reading with varying levels of success, i love all kinds of anime and manga, i enjoy horror and suspense, and i also am a big creepy-cute buff. i was born a sonic kid and will be forever, and had my start on the internet roleplaying my original characters with sonic characters via neopets
i'm an older fan of SDV, got the game for my birthday during spring break in 2016 (which was in march i think) and was absolutely hooked. it's funny because at first i didn't like any of the bachelors, but then i got sebastian's first event and i was attached to him. i feel bad for my friends at the time because i did not shut up about this game, and i certainly didn't shut up about sebastian. of course i've mellowed out since then, but those are my humble beginnings for the game.
2016 was around the time where discord was a thing but it wasn't nearly as widely used as it was today. i was an avid forum-goer for the chucklefish forums, which is where i expressed all my stardew adoration. in may of 2016, i started my first fanfic ever titled 'a farm in the forest' which at the time i was proud of, but my writing has changed a lot since then so it is very, very hard for me to read the beginning of the fic. i'm still working on it several years later, but i hope to finish it soon. it'll be not only my first fanfic complete, but my first complete written story. it's pretty rough to start off with (and the farmer's name is my own name, which i wish i didn't do), but i do enjoy later parts and i'm trying to look forward, haha. there's still a lot i have to improve on in the world of writing, but my fanfic was one of the pushing points for me to think of pursuing writing for real, so in college i changed my major to professional writing. my dad got very sick and i was feeling a lot of pressure, so i ended up not getting my degree. i do hope to go back one day eventually!
i definitely do write for fun though, and same with drawing. i've done art since i was a kid, so i kinda grew up with the expectation that i would be an artist in some capacity. i ended up accepting that i would probably end up hating my work if i treated it as a job, so i consider it a dedicated hobby. writing is a little different, where i feel like i can do it in a professional capacity and also just do it because i enjoy it. one day i would like to fully write my original stories and make games out of them, but that's waaaaaaaaay down the line.
one day, i saw an invite to the Stardew Valley Discord in the chucklefish forums and I finally decided to get discord. it replaced skype pretty quickly for me and i basically lived on discord. some time passed and i eventually became a moderator on the SDV discord, then a year later the previous owner passed his ownership to me. it's always been such an amazing community and i've felt very lucky to be a part of it. since i was a big forum-goer before, i was hoping we'd one day get dedicated Stardew Valley forums... and then we did, and I got to work here!
Stardew Valley has been so weaved into my life at this point that i can't imagine a world without it. it's gotten me through a lot of tough days in college, it inspired me to work on my dreams, it introduced me to an amazing community of people, and it even gave me a job i really enjoy. and this all started because i was an excited fan wanting to talk on the forums in 2016, so i hope that there are people here who will have similar and positive experiences 2020 and beyond.
anyways, thanks for reading and i hope y'all have a good one! hopefully now i seem much less scary when i post everywhere on the forums
