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I base it on his quote during his two hearts event with George when Harvey mentions his eight years in med school. If he were much older, I believe he would emphasise his medical experience, i.e. that he has spent a decade as a doctor (or even better – as George's doctor). From my point of view, Harvey focuses on his school years because he's still too young and inexperienced as a doctor, and he knows George won't be impressed if Harvey says he has spent two or three years treating people.

So I think he spent his twenties in med school, residency or whatever his country requires, came to Pelican Town when he was about 30 years old, and has been there just a few years as he keeps to himself a lot. I think if he had spent many years there, he would talk to other people more.

I've read some arguments based on USA school system, which is something that should go straight to r/USdefaultism. Stardew Valley isn't in USA, it isn't even on Earth (and if it is, then apparently it's in Russia, according to Harvey's coordinates). So we simply don't know what schools, colleges, med schools or residencies Harvey has in his CV.

And I doubt he lost any years trying to become a pilot. His fear of heights is strong, he would know very early on that it's out of the question.

I find the discourse about original characters in fanfiction rather baffling.

Some people tak about them as if they were not characters, but something entirely different, like self-inserts or some sort of "playable" characters that you come up with once and then can insert into any type of story. I find "I have an OC" statement very strange. What do you mean, "you have"? In my opinion, original characters – like any other characters – make sense only in a story. You can have a story – with any kind of characters.

There's also discourse about writing original characters as if it were something completely different from writing canon characters. If someone writes terrible original characters – one-dimensional, overpowered, unrealistic, unoriginal – the same happens to canon characters: instead of nuanced characters, they become squashed into flat stereotypes. OC problem is the same as OOC writing.

shorts with tights,

a jacket,

a bow at the top of the blouse.

My stories: To find out the character's age, you need to solve a maths problem.

For example, in Portsmouth, to find out Mr Campbell's age, you need to:

wait till Chapter 7;

find out that Mr Campbell is six years older than Miss Campbell ("Fanny knew very well that it would not be the first time it had ever happened and the situation was familiar: a six years older cousin...");

find out that Miss Campbell is the same age as William ("I remember him talking about the assembly, when he and I were nineteen years old...");

remember that William is a year older than Fanny;

and then and only then you may find out that Mr Campbell is seven years older than Fanny!

In The Ribbon, in the first chapter you may learn that John has served four years in the militia:

“I am glad to hear this.” Mr Darcy smiled. “In a few days you could be a proud ensign or… Please tell me, Mr Pratt, how long have you served in the militia?” “Four years.”

But then you need to wait till Chapter 4 to learn that he was 18 years old when he joined the militia:

When he had joined the militia at the age of eighteen...

Voilà! He's 22 years old when he gets married!

Isn't it fun?

(Yeah, I'm not fun at parties.)

Przez wiele lat sądziłam, że Borejkowie mają być typowymi inteligentami i dziwiła mnie nieco zmiana w ich przedstawieniu w ostatnich powieściach Jeżycjady. Ostatnio coś mi kliknęło i zrozumiałam, skąd to się bierze — że to było tam od początku. I wszystko nabrało sensu.

Firstly, some people seem not to understand that most doesn't mean all. Sure, in Georgian and Regency Eras (any era, I guess) most men engaged in premarital sex, but it doesn't mean that there was not a single male virgin in whole England.

Secondly, even today, when premarital sex is widely accepted in so called western societies, there are still some male virgins. And I don't mean incels, I mean virgins by choice. In Georgian and Regency Eras, religion was much more widespread and while of course most people treated it performatively, there were still some people - just like today - who were truly religious. For them, premarital sex meant eternity in hell.

Thirdly, it was a world without antibiotics and birth control. Sex meant babies. Of course, many men didn't care much about their children, even their "legal" children, but still, some did. Also, sex with a promiscuous woman meant a high chance of (untreatable) STDs - which meant pain and terrible death.

(People keep writing about "descreet" widows and mistresses, and it sounds like something Mary Crawford would say xD)

Yes, that world - especially London - was full of Henry Crawfords and Willoughbys who slept with harrassed maids, visited brothels and kept mistresses (and contracted syphilis, and gave it to their wives and children, and died terrible deaths later), but there were some - even though few - men who stayed virgins. There were practical reasons to do so.

According to the popular calendars of the novels...

Elizabeth Bennet is a year younger than Fanny Price.

Mr Darcy and Edmund Bertram are the same age.

Mr Bingley and William Price are the same age.

William Price is 25 years old during the events of Persuasion; Captain Wentworth is 25 during the events of Mansfield Park.

Anne Elliot is three years older than Fanny Price / four years older than Elizabeth Bennet.

Catherine Morland is nine years older than Fanny Price / ten years older than Elizabeth Bennet.

Marianne Dashwood is a year older than Catherine Morland / ten years older than Fanny Price / eleven years older than Elizabeth Bennet.

Mrs Bennet's problem isn't her middle class background. In the very same novel we have ridiculous Lady Catherine and perfectly kind and polite Gardiners who are literally in trade. Mrs Bennet could be a daughter of a wealthy landed gentleman and still be terribly stupid.

Darcy was a snob, not a rake.

No one calls Miss Bingley "Caro" in the novel.

Henry Crawford is not handsome.

The Prices have two servants (Rebecca and Sally).

Mr Price is a lieutenant of the marines, not the navy.

He's not physically abusive.

It was the Admiralty that decided who got promoted in the navy.

William Price does have a friend, who is a surgeon; but he's often replaced by a captain, because it's more prestigious, I guess.

Speaking of William, when someone writes about "William Darcy", I always think at first it's an Elizabeth Bennet/William Price fic.

While I believe Fanny Price can get over Edmund, she needs time and a reason. She won't suddenly forget him when someone else is nice to her.

A "compromise."