#collection update

[the-pikachu-hat]

Aussie Mail day! My friend in Australia has been helping me gather a bunch of Aussie exclusive care bears fore my collection and her package just arrived! They are so cute and cuddly! Australia has a lot of really really awesome exclusives so im really excited say i finally have some of them!

Last update is im currently doing some heavy maintenance on my collection. Got a lot of work done last night on it and it looks great so far. Posts about that progress VERY soon!

[pastelfairytears]

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[soltheinkwizard]

New doll alert! They're going to be turned into my Sky: COTL character.

This is 1/6 Imomo Doll Toppa in Chocolate skin color. I can't wait to give them a face-up. More rambles below the cut.

Sometimes you just need to get a doll. This is my second Imomo Doll, the first is Coco (Imomodoll Apsu, 1/4 scale) and I have to say, I really like this brand. They make perfect project dolls! They are affordable but don't "feel" cheap in my opinion-the material they are made out of is really nice to the touch. The joints are squeaky (a bit like joints in Pullip stock bodies) and the posing isn't top tier but for this price, I really can't complain. They are cute and well made enough for me and I want another one😅

[nyankewlll]

here is whats for dinner now EAT IT!!!!!

[buglps]

Another haul from a penpal!

[dollpocalypse]

SHE CAME!!!! OLIVIA IS HERE!!!!

I had to wash her hair, which is becoming routine with these dolls. I'm happy Olivia has a bit more ability to move. She was a birthday present from my abuelo! Thanks, Pops! The only complaint I have is that she has hair coming out of her eye??? I never had this issue with my other dolls. This is my first online order doll, so maybe it's just the seller?

Her nails are sliced up, her brow is half gone, her nose has random green splotches, and she has a scuffed lip.

I'm definitely going to have to do a photo shoot at some point for each of my dolls but this is just a collection update!

[gspaepro]

Small Collection Update

Hiiiii it’s me, Phil, If you didn’t know I am now collecting figures bc why not… IT IS VERY SLOW THO CAUSE I AM IN FACT BROKE (I have not purchased a figure in over 4 months due to lack of money/all of my spending is on food or gas)

Anyway I recently finally got two figures I’ve waited over a year for. The two larger Mikus in the back of my cotton candy shelf were purchased in August and December of last year, and only came to me recently 😭 (Spring Miku was bought in Dec 2022 and came in Aug 2023 || Ribbon Miku was bought in Aug 2022 and came in Nov 2023)

And just because- I thought I’d also share my second detolf shelf (no you do not get the other two detolf shelves 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕) I was able to add to it quite a bit when my copy of The Eyes Of Hyrule zine came in!!

So anyway I hope you like my stuff :3

[sillybeanies]

🌛🌜 current beanie display 🌛🌜

[animehouse-moe]

Manga Collection Update #2 (End Of) March 2023 - The 1000 Volume Milestone

"Hey, this isn't your collection, this is a haul!" - people reading this. And those people would be correct, I just thought it'd be cool to save this haul here because it's what got me to 1000 volumes in my collection. Yeah, 1000 volumes of manga, LN, and art books. Really insane stuff when you stop and think about it (I beg you do not think about the retail value of 1000 volumes of manga).

Anyways, the point of me making a collection update post about is to sort of ramble aloud about some questions and preconceptions I had about what a 1000 volume collection would be.

Does It Seem Like A Lot?

When I tried to quantify what 1000 volumes would be, even just last year I wouldn't have thought it would be what I have. A thousand of something seems like an incredible amount that you wouldn't be able to visualize easily. Like shelves going on and on forever almost, but it's not. In total, it's only about three of Ikea's full size Billy shelves (due to space constraints I don't have full sized ones for every shelf). But when you think about that, "Only 3 shelves", 1000 volumes seems almost comical. Even more than that, when you think of listing 1000 volumes (or the series that comprise that number), it makes you think that it's a lot, so much that you wouldn't be able to name them. But when I stop and think about it, I'm pretty comfortable that I'd be able to name 90% or even a bit more of the manga in my collection.

I guess at the end of it, it really feels a lot smaller than the number "1000" makes it seem like it would be. It's all stuff I've read (or am reading), and it's all stories that I can remember to a somewhat decent degree. It's a ridiculous accumulation of money, but at the end of the day it's a hobby, I'd find something else to spend the money on.

Does My Collection Meet My Expectations?

A weird question to phrase, but it's all about whether or not my collection is like what I thought it'd look like at 1000 volumes. And I'd say, yes and no. There's things I figured would be here, but at the same time loads of things that end up missing. I would have swore up and down I'd have Love Is War in my collection by now, but I don't! I would have thought I'd have That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime or Overlord in here as well, or even something like Death Note or maybe Naruto. But they're just not here.

In terms of what is in the collection that I'd never have expected: older shojosei. I didn't think I'd ever have something like Wallflower or Kare Kano in there. Not that I'm not a fan of either, but that they're incredibly rare and typically exist outside of what I pursue. But when they're offered at 5 dollars a volume I'm not gonna say no. Further outside of that is stuff like Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei or all the NGE side stories. Some of these things cost an arm and a leg so they were pipe dreams for me, but stars have aligned for more than a few moments in my time collecting, and allowed me to have a shot at them.

It's hard to say what's in my collection that I would have thought odd, because I don't have any sort of hindsight on that and I think they're all perfectly normal and interesting now. Like Heterogenia Linguistico, a series about a linguist wandering a world full of different types of species with different forms of communication. Or Himouto Umaru-Chan, a peculiar slice of life about the unseen side of the class princess as she nerds out at home with her older brother. There's a lot of things that I probably didn't expect when I was beginning, but now they feel perfectly normal.

What's My Favorite Thing Out Of All 1000 Volumes?

Wow, what a loaded question me! Well, a bit of a boring but also somewhat uncomfortable answer is my Berserk Deluxe Volume 1 (which I'm still yet to continue collecting). I bought it slightly after my birthday, the day that Kentaro Miura died, which coincided with my great-grandmother's death. As many people receive from grandparents, I was given a card with some crisp bills inside, and was told to "spend it on whatever I liked, don't listen to your parents". I was undecided for a few days on just what I should get with it, a full set of Hunter x Hunter that I found used online, or a Berserk Deluxe edition? As it happened, Fate ended up choosing the latter for me. It's also part of why I've been apprehensive/slow about continuing to collect those deluxe editions. Right now it's 1 of 1 in my collection, something that stands out, but if I put it beside a bunch of other volumes that look almost the same I feel like it'd lose the value and sentiment it holds for me.

Where To Next?

I'm someone that always chases goals, I never really revel in my achievements or milestones. When I completed my degree and got it in the mail, I just sorta smiled before tucking it away neatly. There's never been anything that I've basked in. With my collection though, I feel slightly different. I want to show it off a little, I want to excitedly share it with my friends and swap notes and compare collections. It's not that I didn't choose most if not all of what I've done in my life, but this is something else. It's a part of my adult life, something that I'll carry forward with me, rather than it being done. You can only go so far with other aspects, only climb a corporate ladder so high, only go so far with post-secondary education. So maybe more than the elation of reaching so high, it's the excitement at the fact that I have so much more left to go.

[sylvannise]

this set is incredibly cute i wasn’t expecting to love it so much but wow it is gorgeous :’)

[the-pikachu-hat]

JELLYCAT MAIL DAY! I had to hold myself back spending way too much money on the most recent jellycat drop DX. I could have easily dropped $1000 if i had the budget for that. Highlights here are the sky dragon which gives STRONG Rainbow Dash vibes which i love, the huge woody bear who made me melt when i first held him. And the smudge bunny backpack, who when i adjust the straps just right, i can feel hugging me on the back of my neck which is sooooooo cute and comforting.

[wishing-well-art]

Hermits in 1.21!

[maximura]

[magicpiano]

Batfam AU: Bruce figures out Jason is alive because he updated his fanfic on ao3.

Bruce never told Jason that he knew his ao3 account because he wanted to give him privacy. But he is also super paranoid and overprotective, so of course he checked all of his kid's social media accounts.

Anyways, Bruce regularly rereads Jason's stories while crying and mourning. Then one day he gets an email from ao3 telling him one of Jason's stories has been updated. The writing style even feels the same! He investigates the IP address and finds his way to the league of assassins.

Also Jason's author's note says something like, "sorry for the late update, I died. The ao3 author's curse, am I right?"

[buglps]

another haul update !

[bamsara]

Hey

is solar lunacy discontinued?

Nah I just stopped sharing the chapters publicly because people were being weirdly hostile about my update schedule, so rn the only people who's seen the updates is myself plus one other person. I'll prob continue to wait to share the writing tbh until I feel like its chilled out more