I find that most people in my life have at least one “thing” they are collecting. It is often an insight into their personality and it is fun to hear people talk about something they are passionate about.
I collect unfinished projects.
Comic books. I learned to read when I was 2, but there wasn’t a ton of reading material for 2 year olds.
Back then, comic books were only a quarter and soooo… 52 years later…
The big one:
I also run the comic books community on lemmy.world. Pop by and say hello!
Hey just wondering if you saw this video about the Donald Duck artist by matttt?
Just happened upon it yesterday so it coincedentally makes me think you and your community might like it.
I like to collect mugs - nothing better than drinking your morning coffee from a crazy mug :))
I collect mugs with my boyfriend (and the rest of my collective) and it is such a nice hobby. I can almost always guess who brought the mug into the house, based on people’s interest.
Yesterday I drank coffe from a Friday the 13th Mug and I know one of my collectivists loves that series :))
the only issue, as with all collections, it takes up so much room in the kitchen 🥲
I’m mostly interested in what sort of collective you mean, if it’s not too personal a question
On topic, I don’t even collect mugs but they just… accumulate. Luckily or sadly we have a pretty small cupboard so that keeps it in check
the “collective” is just me, my boyfriend and two of our friends :))
we’ve lived together for about 7 years and plan on keeping it going. I don’t know if collective is the right word to describe our living situation but I can’t think of a better word either :)
I like collective. Smaller than commune. More cozy than cohabiting.
yeah nice, gotcha :)
used to share a flat with people who i’m still close with a decade later, so i get the concept.
collective is a great word for it
House and techno vinyl records - got about 800 or so and always on the lookout for more.
Also, home shirts (and some away) for my football team, Dunfermline Athletic - got every home top going back to 1986.
What’s your favorite record you have, and is it “Baby Wants to Ride”?
Ha, it’s not, although I do have it (two versions actually, one where it’s the b-side of Your Love)
Favourite record is a tough one. Impossible maybe. One I finally got a couple of weeks ago, that I’ve wanted for ages, is Go by Moby. Probably still not my favourite, but I was delighted to get it :-)
Actually, make that 3 versions - just bought a 12" with remixes including the wonderful House of Trix mix, my favourite version of the tune.
I have a lot of small bottles and vials waiting to be filled. It started decades ago when I found a quaint little glass tube with a stopper in an antique shop at my favorite beach town and thought it’d be nice to take home some sand from my favorite spot, thereafter becoming a tradition for subsequent visits. Now I pick one up whenever I see one to have a cache available for any future adventures.
Thats a really cool idea! Like a science lab of memories. Might have to grab a vial if I see one thrifting/antiqueing
It’s super easy to just collect then when you see them (even at craft stores and plant shops) and then it ends up kinda encouraging you to think up adventures so you can fill them.
I’ve got some with sand, dirt, ocean/lake water, gravel, some with just air (captured a cloud/fog while high atop a mountain), tears, paper, burnt campfire wood, etc.
My secret sauce is that I don’t label them so I have to try to call up the origin story in memory and I get an excuse to tell a tale whenever someone asks me about one.
I used to collect movies on DVD/Bluray but kinda fell out of love with it thanks to streaming, taking up room and being annoying when moving places. They are not worth anything so I don’t want to go through the trouble of selling, so I’m throwing away the cases and put the discs in CD organizers to make them more compact. Most of the labels got sunbleached anyways.
It’s a bit sad. I mean some films are not and will never be available on streaming but overall this became just a nuisance.
I totally get it. I love the extras like directors’ commentaries, and streaming feels like it has lost so much. But I don’t want the hassle/space of dvds, I just want to buy complete digital versions that have all the extra bits. And until they will sell me it…
I collect ttrpgs! I love reading how mechanics work together and I’ve never found value in collecting things I don’t use, so ttrpgs it is. Plus there are some really wild ones out there that are fun to look at. It started with 3.5/Pathfinder but eventually I branched out to a couple other games that I like to play. I spend the most effort on my Car Wars collection, think I’m going to try getting a complete set of ADQ on that front next.
My single prized book so far though is a copy of HōL’s supplement buttery wholesomeness. Specifically the second printing of it with the cover that’s written like BUTTery HOLsomeness which ended up being so hard to track down over like 5 years that I started to question if it even had a physical printing or if it was just in PDF form. Finally found the thing though last year
Always love the feeling of finally tracking down a grail :^)
Any scifi ttrpg books you’d recommend from your collection? I always love reading those.
Depends what you’re in the mood for:
- I personally love Paranoia. It is very much a comedy game but it can be played with a serious take with the right work. Plus it is just a fun read even if you don’t play it.
- Rifts is pretty baller conceptually but I don’t have first hand experience playing it.
- GURPS has a Car Wars crossover making it objectively one of the best games, can be played with any level of tech, and has buckets of supplements.
- The Burning Wheel is more fantasy but the book is basically a philosophy of play which could be adapted to lots of things, and the same author wrote Burning Empires which is more scifi but I haven’t acquired that one so can’t give first hand info on it either.
- Can’t forget Car Wars. It is scifi though it is a mix of ttrpg and strategy/board. If you want to drive a car off a cliff while dropping mines on a helicopter as you go by and have your robot gunner leaning out the window shooting lasers at a tank it is the way to go.
- Finally I’ll pitch HōL because the game is just so unhinged. It is all hand written and scanned, it’s edgy and crass, and is a great parody of roleplaying games. It’s engaging and fun to read with great art but realistically quite difficult to functionally play because the rules are intentionally a mess. The Buttery Wholesomeness supplement added character creation rules which don’t exist in the base game because it is a mess.
Sounds like a dope collection if you have this much of one genre! Thanks for the recs.
I’m rather proud of it. Resolution isn’t great but here we go:
Main roleplaying shelf:
Board games and box sets:
I’ve also got all 3 books for Monsters of Murka, limited covers, signed by several of the people who worked on it. I think my copies of Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Mork Borg are on other shelves. Finally, an unopened box set for Boat Wars which I’ll be opening sometime soon so I can pretend I lived in the 80s and just came home with a box from the lgs.
You could say I collect websites (kind of). I have the world record for the most sites having signed up for. It just sort of happened and then it stuck through maintenance.
I don’t understand “collecting”
Don’t get me wrong, there are a few categories of things I have a lot of, like film cameras, but that’s because I started with cheaper ones, and kept getting better ones as I became more sure that film photography was a thing I wanted to do.
But, for instance, I have friends who collect MLB bobbleheads just for the sake of collecting, and I’ll never understand that.
