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silveradeptSunshine Challenge's Sixth Prompt asks us to talk about collecting and our collections. As with other prompts, this is not supposed to be limited in any way, so if someone has carefully curated rec lists, bookmarks, series, or other things that are semi-tangible. It also includes memories and physical objects (which the challenge is a little more geared toward).
One of the benefits of having a space of your own to live in is that you get to decorate it in the way that you want. And since I was the first person here, and I had a pretty significant collection of things before I had people to share my house space with, I spent a significant amount of time hanging up the posters and the scrolls and all the other things that I had been forced to keep mostly out of view of the guests when they should come to the house.
Plus, I've spent the last couple of conventions buying fanart prints to continue covering the walls, and getting things from Kickstarters and other things to do the same with. And now I have to make decisions about what goes on the walls. I'm not out of space at all, but it is definitely worth asking the question of "where will you put that?" for any new acquisitions that I want to put on the wall. Or for the various stuffed characters, small bits, and other goods that have been collected over the years that aren't art for the walls.
The media room, such that it is, mostly reflects that time in college where I could have animation on a pull list, and collect mangs from the bookstores. And then, y'know, reality ensued, and it wasn't as easy to have money to spend on things, and the collecting stopped, at least until the fanart spree and a few things from the artist alley from these last few years. (Funny enough, I ended up getting a discount on a print at one of the local comic conventions because I recognized the shirt that one of the vendors was wearing from a book series I had read when I was much younger. It's apparently their convention special on Sunday to see if anyone recognizes the series.)
Collecting ties into a few other things. Like wanting, which is difficult to do, and also spending money on yourself, which is also difficult to do when you have a lot of already fixed expenses that eat most of your salary every month. So there are things where I would have liked to continue collecting, but it's difficult to do so because there just isn't the money available to do all the things that you want to do or to get all the things you want to get.
(At least one thing in my collection is from a friend who I helped pass collegiate algebra and they got it as a thank-you for me.)
So the walls are adorned with art of various fandoms, there are some collections in the media space that haven't been added to a whole lot since I stopped feeling like I had spare money to buy things with. There's small bits that get added, but not what I used to do. And these days, there's a certain advantage to having a lot of digital when you don't have the ability to make all of the available walls into book and media shelves.
And there's a lot more critical consumption of canon these days, so deciding what you want to have in physical form, if it should exist, is a much bigger question than it was. Plus, the transformative works collections sometimes are more important than the canon itself, which you need for understanding, but not much more after that.
Which is to say that it's all pretty weird, thinking about what constitutes a collection these days, when there's a whole lot of it that's digital and not tangible. And that makes things interesting when you think about things like "who succeeds me, and how do I bequeath my collections to them when I'm not here any more to enjoy them?" Which are thoughts you don't necessarily want to have to think about, but you do, because there's something about only getting one lifetime, no more, no less.
The walls and the shelves and all the other things are indicative of at least some of my fandoms (there's a Princess Luna from the Build-A-Bear Workshop right next to a miniature of the clown Godfrey Daniels close to a representation of a card from Tabula Idem across the doorway from the Sidekick Quests poster that's next to the board game shelf. Go the opposite direction and you see the plush Gengar, close to webcomic alley and the wall scroll from Fuishigi Yugi, and then the posters continue along all over, before the door, and more posters of artwork and so on. There's a lot.) but there's still plenty more that have no goods nor art nor anything else to indicate their presence (like Aggretsuko.)
Given infinite space and money, I'd probably devote whole rooms to different fandoms and just enjoy being able to have everything I wanted on display, but I do not play the lottery, and therefore will never have the opportunity to see everything that I could ever want all together.
(Nah, no pictures. I'm generally a fairly private person about showcasing anything. Mostly because I'm too used to it being used as ammunition that I'm weird in some way, rather than as a celebration that we're all fans, and old traumas die harder.)
This is the time to share all of the things we have collected over the years showing our love for our favorite fandoms. This can include both things we personally own and things we wish we could add if money/space were no object. It also includes stories and memories that brighten our days.
Have a fandom tattoo? That custom keychain your friend made you 10 years ago? That life size statue of Iron Man soeone made that lights up and you absolutely would center your living room around if you could get your hands on it? Convention stories, internet friendships and the ensuing shenanigans…anything that makes you smile when you reflect on it, we'd like to learn more about it.
One of the benefits of having a space of your own to live in is that you get to decorate it in the way that you want. And since I was the first person here, and I had a pretty significant collection of things before I had people to share my house space with, I spent a significant amount of time hanging up the posters and the scrolls and all the other things that I had been forced to keep mostly out of view of the guests when they should come to the house.
Plus, I've spent the last couple of conventions buying fanart prints to continue covering the walls, and getting things from Kickstarters and other things to do the same with. And now I have to make decisions about what goes on the walls. I'm not out of space at all, but it is definitely worth asking the question of "where will you put that?" for any new acquisitions that I want to put on the wall. Or for the various stuffed characters, small bits, and other goods that have been collected over the years that aren't art for the walls.
The media room, such that it is, mostly reflects that time in college where I could have animation on a pull list, and collect mangs from the bookstores. And then, y'know, reality ensued, and it wasn't as easy to have money to spend on things, and the collecting stopped, at least until the fanart spree and a few things from the artist alley from these last few years. (Funny enough, I ended up getting a discount on a print at one of the local comic conventions because I recognized the shirt that one of the vendors was wearing from a book series I had read when I was much younger. It's apparently their convention special on Sunday to see if anyone recognizes the series.)
Collecting ties into a few other things. Like wanting, which is difficult to do, and also spending money on yourself, which is also difficult to do when you have a lot of already fixed expenses that eat most of your salary every month. So there are things where I would have liked to continue collecting, but it's difficult to do so because there just isn't the money available to do all the things that you want to do or to get all the things you want to get.
(At least one thing in my collection is from a friend who I helped pass collegiate algebra and they got it as a thank-you for me.)
So the walls are adorned with art of various fandoms, there are some collections in the media space that haven't been added to a whole lot since I stopped feeling like I had spare money to buy things with. There's small bits that get added, but not what I used to do. And these days, there's a certain advantage to having a lot of digital when you don't have the ability to make all of the available walls into book and media shelves.
And there's a lot more critical consumption of canon these days, so deciding what you want to have in physical form, if it should exist, is a much bigger question than it was. Plus, the transformative works collections sometimes are more important than the canon itself, which you need for understanding, but not much more after that.
Which is to say that it's all pretty weird, thinking about what constitutes a collection these days, when there's a whole lot of it that's digital and not tangible. And that makes things interesting when you think about things like "who succeeds me, and how do I bequeath my collections to them when I'm not here any more to enjoy them?" Which are thoughts you don't necessarily want to have to think about, but you do, because there's something about only getting one lifetime, no more, no less.
The walls and the shelves and all the other things are indicative of at least some of my fandoms (there's a Princess Luna from the Build-A-Bear Workshop right next to a miniature of the clown Godfrey Daniels close to a representation of a card from Tabula Idem across the doorway from the Sidekick Quests poster that's next to the board game shelf. Go the opposite direction and you see the plush Gengar, close to webcomic alley and the wall scroll from Fuishigi Yugi, and then the posters continue along all over, before the door, and more posters of artwork and so on. There's a lot.) but there's still plenty more that have no goods nor art nor anything else to indicate their presence (like Aggretsuko.)
Given infinite space and money, I'd probably devote whole rooms to different fandoms and just enjoy being able to have everything I wanted on display, but I do not play the lottery, and therefore will never have the opportunity to see everything that I could ever want all together.
(Nah, no pictures. I'm generally a fairly private person about showcasing anything. Mostly because I'm too used to it being used as ammunition that I'm weird in some way, rather than as a celebration that we're all fans, and old traumas die harder.)
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