I Like My Men Big and Sad

A Stardew Valley fanfiction

Chapter 7: Bread

After the revival of the nearby farm, the atmosphere in the town changed, everyone is eager for the addition. The arrival is marked by a noted change in everyone’s mood, his own included.

Follows the rough timeline and dialogue set up by the game itself, but takes liberties in adding extra scenes and character development, specifically for Shane’s personal friendship/romance.

He sat there anxiously as she got up and left him in the waiting room. Something about the sterile atmosphere set him on edge, reminded him of the night he gained custody of Jas. All of it was an unpleasant memory that made him thirsty, and he berated himself for being an idiot and coming along. Hadn’t he thought about what going to a doctor’s office and just waiting would feel like? It was all too familiar, along with knowing that the whole point was to see if Val was still in remission made his mouth taste bad. The idea of her getting sick again and having to leave made him feel sick, stomach gurgling in anticipation. Sick and nervous, he clutched her bag tightly for support, an item anchoring him to this reality.

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A Stardew Valley fanfiction

Chapter 6: Spaghetti

After the revival of the nearby farm, the atmosphere in the town changed, everyone is eager for the addition. The arrival is marked by a noted change in everyone’s mood, his own included.

Follows the rough timeline and dialogue set up by the game itself, but takes liberties in adding extra scenes and character development, specifically for Shane’s personal friendship/romance.

Seeing her putz around inside of her house was so different than everything else had been in public. He got a chance to see the little things he’d noticed expanded upon. It wasn’t just the orange in her cherry wood hair; he saw how she checked her face every time she passed by the big mirror in her living room, how she idly rested her hand over the crescent scar on her chest, how she felt the edge of her fingernail with her thumb when she was concentrating on something. It was that she always avoided stepping on the edge of her rug, and that she clearly favored her left side when carrying something, and that she hummed something familiar and wordless when she was distracted. It all felt too intimate to see, like he was intruding on something he shouldn’t be. Like a fly on the wall spying at her life, he was half expecting her to finally spot him and swat him away.

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‘sdv shane’ and ‘sdv’ are good tags to use!

A Stardew Valley fanfiction

Chapter 5: Plum Pudding

After the revival of the nearby farm, the atmosphere in the town changed, everyone is eager for the addition. The arrival is marked by a noted change in everyone’s mood, his own included.

Follows the rough timeline and dialogue set up by the game itself, but takes liberties in adding extra scenes and character development, specifically for Shane’s personal friendship/romance.

Val greeted him at the farm, bright smile soothing the burning desire for a drink a bit. It was nice, wide and shining and crooked, a beautiful compliment to the way the setting sun pulled all the red from her hair. The genuine look of happiness to see him was apparent and he found he needed that kind of approval. So many people looked at him with pity or disdain that he'd just gotten used to it; the comfortable warmth of approval eased him in more ways than he could count.

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Nazira, a half orc for a campaign I’m running with my friends! I did a speedpaint for her, you can watch it here

finally a complete set of the pictures i draw with my mouse in paint to show my friends what my face looks like when they tell me WILD stories during group calls