♫~~Aria Isle~~♫

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Hello and welcome~

This is where I'll be posting all about my island, Aria!
To start with, I'll talk about where I got the name Aria from. It's actually pretty simple. I love listening to music, so I though a musical term might make a good island name, and after doing some thinking, I decided that Aria would be the perfect name. For anyone that might not know, an aria is "a long accompanied song for a solo voice, typically one in an opera or oratorio."

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Villagers of Aria


WIP!​

 

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Villagers of Aria

Olaf | Cherry | Lily | Julian | Marina
Bianca | Friga | Punchy | Peck | Pinky



Former Villagers

Claude | Chevre | Pippy | Antonio | Buck | Apollo​

 

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Reserved​

 

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4/28/20
I've been slacking on actually journaling anything, so I'm going to start with an entry for yesterday. Able Sisters was selling the royal crown, so I bought one and gave it to Olaf. He gave me a mesh cap in return. Gulliver also washed up on my island again, and I helped him get his communicator parts... again. I really feel like he should just build a house on my island at this point since he's there so much. I wouldn't mind. I also hosted a giveaway and got rid of some of my extra DIYs and various other stuff. My storage will probably be full again in a week though, let's be honest. Celeste also showed up in the evening, and I did manage to wish on a few stars, but there wasn't a meteor shower.​

 

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4/30/20
I ended up changing two of the villagers on my dream villagers list. I really like Lucky and Ankha, but I like it when all of my villagers are different species. Unfortunately, I already have and plan to keep Cherry, so I decided to swap out Lucky for another lazy villager. Punchy is one of my favorites, so I ended up choosing him. However, Punchy and Ankha are both cats, so I then decided to swap Ankha for a different snooty, which ended up being Whitney. As for island news, Kicks was visiting and I chose a spot to move my house to and a sport for a new bridge.​

 

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5/1/20
Yesterday was the start of a new month, so I managed to catch and donate some new bugs and fish. I caught a pondskater, great purple emperor, nibble fish, betta, diving beetle, rainbowfish, frog, angelfish, violin beetle, rosalia batesi beetle, and catfish. It was a rainy day, and I also experience my first thunderstorm on my island. Saharah was visiting as well.

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5/2/20
It rained again yesterday, and I caught and donated my first banded dragonfly and scorpion. The scorpion scared me when I first saw it. I came out of Marina's house after getting a DIY recipe from her, and the scorpion was just standing there... menacingly. I realized that these scorpions are going to scare me a lot more than the tarantulas. I don't know if it's because our class pet in kindergarten was a tarantula, but I've never been that bothered by spiders. Also, I requested K.K. Slider to play Farewell and added the song to my portable record player.

 

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I've been slacking with posting here, so I'll just give a run down of events from the last few days:​

• I caught some more fish and bugs for the first time: golden trout, Queen Alexandra's birdwing, char, and giant trevally​
• It rained for at least a bit every day for the first five days of May, but the sun seems to have returned to my island for now.​
• Olaf and Buck gave me their photos!​
• I had Friga visiting my campsite yesterday and decided to go ahead and get her to move in for now. She's taking Pippy's spot on the island. My island will finally have a snooty villager!​
• Chevre asked to move out yesterday, and I accepted her request. She's in boxes today, so I'll have to go villager hunting tomorrow.​
• C.J. visited yesterday, and I commissioned a crawfish model.​
• Redd is on my island today. It's his first time back after his initial two visits, and this time I purchased the flowery painting from him.​

 

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Lily moved in yesterday! I gave someone 15 NMTs for her on Friday. She's one of my favorite villagers, so I'm really happy to have her on my island! Also, I probably need to edit my dream villagers list again. I like too many villagers, so I keep changing my mind on who I want. Marshal is probably getting cut from the list sadly. I really like him, but I already have two smug villagers on my island who I want to keep, and three smug might be too many for me.​

 

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My dream villagers list is very volatile currently. I went ahead and removed everyone but Punchy because he's the only one I definitely want at the moment. To better illustrate my struggle with choosing villagers, I've decided to make a list of all of the villagers that I might want to invite to my island. It should also be noted that the only ones definitely staying from my current villagers are Olaf, Lily, and Apollo. Cherry, Julian, and Marina are also very likely to stay as well though.

Lazy


Normal


Peppy


Jock

Cranky

Snooty

Sisterly

Smug

 

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Just an update of some things that happened last week:

• I got my first lily of the valley.
• I did the stamp rally at the museum.
• Olaf's birthday was on the 19th. I took some screenshots of the party, so I'll have to post them later when I feel less lazy.
• I've been moving some villager houses around.
• Redd visited and brought four fake pieces of art. I'm not very happy with my cousin at the moment.
• I finally got a purple windflower to grow. I still need a purple pansy, a green mum, and a gold rose.

 

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I haven't posted here in forever, so time for an update! I got kind of burnt out on New Horizons about a month and a half ago, so I've barely been playing since then. I've started to play a bit more in the past few days though, so I'll try to post more entries here.


The Villagers of Aria post isn't accurate anymore, so I'll try to update that soon~​

 

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It's October! I've started growing pumpkins, collecting recipes, buying candy, and so on.

Apollo asked to leave on October 1st. I really like him, but I like to switch out villagers from time to time, so I allowed him to leave. I went looking for a new villager to move in today, and I invited Pinky!

These are all the villagers I encountered on mystery islands today:
Chevre
Shari
Claudia
Stinky
Rex
Hornsby
Ricky
Goose
Frita
Sparro
Leopold
Elise
Zucker
Tutu
Pekoe
Bam
Chevre
Iggly
Victoria
Erik
Zucker
Pinky​

 

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Aria's first pumpkin harvest took place yesterday!

 

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Lately I keep thinking about what path I should use on my island. Currently I'm using this path:

But there are a lot of other paths that I like as well:

Spoiler

 

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Today I worked on putting more paths down around my island. Redd was visiting, so I bought an authentic Basic Painting from him. I also got the Spooky Fence recipe, so I made some fences and placed them around the island.​

 

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It's been over a year since I posted an update here because I barely played during that time. However, I've been playing more in anticipation of the new update. Aria had way too many flowers, so I got rid of most of them, and now I have space to actually design some areas. The first area I want to work on making is a farm. I've also been collecting more Nook Miles to use once the update comes out. I never played Happy Home Designer, but I think I'll enjoy the DLC. The partitions, pillars, counters, soundscapes, and being able to remodel villager homes all seem like wonderful features.

Also, I need to update the villager post sometime