Dotty and Robin are now both wearing deKay’s “I LOVE ANAL” design. I despair.

On a happier note, writing letters in this game is a joy. Not to actual people, but to the animals. You know they don’t actually understand it on a code level, but Animal Crossing is as much about the attitude you bring to the game as anything Nintendo have created. So it’s possible to create great storylines just in your head, using the tiny scraps of information actually generated by the game. But my letters this evening weren’t about any great overarching story – I write letters in Sausages for that sort of thing – but just playing around with short tails and odd forms in the four line format. I wasn’t exactly creating art or poetry – “Down, deep, beneath this town an ancient evil lurks. No! Not Tom Nook! Gah!” and “ONE – DISEASE.. TWO – DEATH. THREE – FAMINE. FOUR – MOTHS.” aren’t anything to, er, write home about – but I was having fun. And that’s probably the important thing, don’t you think? And now those letters are probably lost forever. There’s a small chance an animal might show one off to a visitor, but it’s unlikely. They’re just like, I dunno, tears in the rain, or something. Just little random thoughts gone and then left behind.

Mind you, I might develop the idea of ancient evil sleeping under the town… waiting for its time to rise once more…

No! Not Tom Nook! Gah!

(Phyllis. Obviously.)