Okay then, I’m unintentionally attracting pageviews while I’m playing around with this blog, so I might as well do a proper intro. To be honest, I seriously can’t wait to get started on it >_<
Buuut I’m going to have to wait just the same, because… this will be my Animal Crossing 3DS blog 
It’s still not set in stone though. If you know me, you’ll know I am terrible at keeping at something consistently 😛 Anyhoo…
Lily of the Valley
To be honest, I always felt the blog name ‘ACWW Happiness ^_^’ was a little awkward (no kidding, it even comes with a smiley whose mouth disappears every time it gets put into a link -_-). After all, I didn’t put much thought into the name when I hardly even knew what I was doing or how seriously I would take blogging at the time.
Well, the name Lily of the Valley struck me about a year ago, and I thought it would be very appropriate if I were ever to create a new Animal Crossing blog. It’s the name of the flower that got lost in translation, the “Jacob’s Ladder”.
I don’t know if there are Lilies of the Valley in AC:3DS. But when I first learned of the actual species of the flower that signifies a town’s perfect status, I thought it had a lovely name and that it was a shame it was no longer used in the English version. So even if they continue to be localised as Jacob’s Ladders, or even if AC:3DS doesn’t have them at all, I wanted to have my own little “Lily of the Valley” right here 🙂
My Blog Theme
I spent a while going through Themes and settled on this one, called Oxygen. My other blog, for AC:WW, has a very dark theme that helps enhance the colours of my pictures. Subsequently, I wanted to try a light theme for a spacious, clean feel for this blog.
I also think the Oxygen theme layout is good for my blogging style. When I post, I post lots of pictures. My AC:WW Hemingway theme always annoyed me because it simply lists the title of each post, with no sort of preview whatsoever. On the other hand, using a theme that displays entire posts in a list would probably frighten half my visitors away, so I really like Oxygen’s approach.
Hmm, that’s it for now, I think. Oh, and look at the date. I did actually have this blog set up and waaaiting for AC:3DS since the start of the year 😛 Well, I knew it wasn’t coming out then but I knew I would be getting it. BUT WHO KNEW IT WOULD TAKE THIS LONG!! Haha 😛
Oh well, see you round. I think.
~Teru
21.10.2012
I admit I was a few of the views, lol, I saw that one of your posts had been reblogged and I was curious. 😛 Sorry about that, it probably seems nosy… I’ll get to be this blog’s first commenter, though. 🙂
Aw, I’ve always liked the blog name AC:WW Happiness. I’m not too happy with mine either, AC Town Record, meh… But I wanted to have a sort of official sounding title rather than going with ‘twiskacww’ or something like that, and it came to mind. I think I also considered “Forest Life” and I like that a lot better, after my favorite K.K. Slider song in AC:WW, which is based off of the theme for Animal Crossing GameCube that I love. Plus, forest life also kind of sums up Animal Crosisng nicely, but the domain is taken in WordPress.
I didn’t mean to post the comment, I wasn’t done yet. >_< Well, I was going to continue by saying that I really like this blog's name and theme! The picture previews for the posts look lovely, and I notice that this theme comes with automatic previous/next post buttons (a feature I wish my theme had, it's wonderful) so you won't have to make your own anymore.
When you google "jacob's ladder" you get a lot of paintings and some purple flowers, but they don't really look like the Animal Crossing jacob's ladders, that's weird… the lily of the valley images do, though, so pretty! ^_^
Have you thought about what you will name your Animal Crossing 3DS town/island?
Oh sweet, I have 2 comments already, lol 😆 And my first commenter, woohoo!!
It’s not nosy at all! Like I said, I can’t wait to start using it x3 Though right now it’s just a completely empty blog.
Don’t worry, at most I would have called it “AC:WW Bliss” instead 😛 I was so disoriented while starting my blog that I couldn’t think of the right word and so I ended up writing ‘happiness’, haha (which isn’t far off, so it’s not like I regret it at all).
Ah dang, that’s exactly how it was with “Lily of the Valley”; I had to add ‘AC’ in front of it because the domain was taken. And the cool domain names are always either abandoned or deleted T_T
Yes I think this theme is much more user-friendly ^^ I guess I kept the black Hemingway theme pretty much just for its appearance. I just tried out the comment box in this blog though, and it didn’t seem very easy to use (it didn’t let me scroll through my message once I wrote more than the height of the box).
They probably localised the Jacob’s ladder as such due to a character limit. The original Japanese name for the flowers was Suzuran, which does translate to lily of the valley.
Aaand I am really clueless about my town name ¬_¬ I thought my AC:WW town name was perfect because it was a real place I knew and I liked that that made it feel less superficial to me (as opposed to my original ‘Nicetown’), but I never counted on getting a 2nd AC town! 😛 I have no more interesting place names, lol. What about you? (And do you mean you can name the island, as well?)
It wouldn’t be bad at all to reuse the name Bundeena, I think many people do keep the same town names across different games. Yeah, I have a feeling we’ll get to name our island! I think it was that way in AC:GC, and with all the new customization options in AC:3DS, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t leave that out. I even think it’s a possibility they might increase the character limit this time, I hope so! Eight just isn’t really enough, they should at least make it 10.
I have two ideas for town names/island names:
Starmere – I like the way it sounds and the idea of it. Mere means lake, so it’s like star lake… stars reflected in the water I guess. 😛 I got the idea from a lake in the Lord of the Rings, Mirrormere (which is better but too long for the limit >_<).
Ys – After the mythical city swallowed by the ocean (so maybe it wouldn't be a bad name for the island). With the new outdoor furniture and things in this game it would be fun to landscape it like an beautiful old-fashioned city.
But if we will be able to use more than 8 character letters this time, I'll definitely make use of that and think of something else 😀
I really hope they increased the character limit for this. I already get the feeling they didn’t increase the item limit per room from my counts while watching the preview videos >_>
I could reuse ‘Bundeena’ but I do sort of want a more creative name for this one, like yours (and believe it or not, AC:3DS became too modernised for ‘Bundeena’ to apply anymore :P). But in that case I just simply can’t come up with a cool name 😛