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What do you collect?

Tag meme on tumblr, tagged by seikilos-stele :D I'm actually quite a minimal person in general (partly out of necessity with tight living spaces, partly out of liking a clean area), but there's a few minor items that pop up now that i think about it ...

 * pantone mugs! my very first freelance design client gave me the first one, and I'm probably up to 20 or so now. They go quite well with the eclectic mid-century look I've got going for long term furniture, and are a great conversational starter at work (remotely). I tend to focus on the brighter rainbow colors - it's a known fact so much that my favorite grandboss gave me one for the birthday not too long ago.

* every illustration that exists of zihark online ~ admittedly i've fallen off a little since i refuse to touch twitter, but there genuinely was a point in 2012 or so where I could confidently say that considering that was pre-social media and personal sites/deviantart's golden era.

* VHS tapes / DVD's - ironically this is half of my parents, but all three of us are major VHS/DVD collectors simply because we unanimously can't stand streaming for many reasons and we've always had one of those VHS/DVD combo players. ironically watching movies this way has been way cheaper lately. :v  I also plan to get one of those small CRT TV's (again) soon for nostalgia reasons.

* imported artbooks from japan but just a lot of books in general (genres split between that, mil-history, crufty animation history, and a hodgepoge of other stuff). the only real piece of furniture I've allowed myself is a large bookshelf behind my desk that acts as a backdrop for video calls and also a home for all of them. by far the biggest fun-money expense I splurge on ahead of food/clothes/etc.

* contemporary glass paperweights

* every illustration / manga panel / anime screenshot that interests me and stored in the hydrus network; there's some images easily dating back to 2002 or so (older than some people reading this? wild). I go less for sheer amount (9k images in there now) and more for exact inspiration that make me want to draw. I cannot tell you how thankful I am for my younger self for doing this especially in the socmed collapse of the last few years...

tagging anyone who wants to show off collections! more specific the funner ~