Welcome back to the blog! With the dying of Twitter thanks to the manic reactions of a rich man with thin skin, my usual place to talk about things seems to be going away eventually as a certainty more and more each day instead of a possibility. So I wanted to bring this back online to get some thoughts out & share with the world somehow. So I figured I would dig into what I know best…collecting.
Not my best photo, but a great look at the Samus helmet I got recently.
My intent for this is to talk both the micro detail as well as the macro for the world of collecting. Not just for videogames, but for comic books, Transformers, cards, etc…all of the things that I have collected & curated over the years.
And as I am turning 43 this Christmas “years” doesn’t really cut it…this is a view & advice coming from DECADES of collecting & searching. Finding things locally, traveling from place to place, learning to buy things online with the rise of the internet, then rediscovering the fun of “hunting” out in the wild, & the challenges the pandemic brought to the hobby I love.
So in the end the point of this blog will be to share my collection with others…but more importantly to share the knowledge & experience around it with those both seasoned & new to this endeavor. And if all goes well, I’d love to feature some guest posts to get others views on their own collections to continue the discussions.
I want to dive into both the good & the darker side of collecting. The ideals of knowing your limits (financially, spacially, responsibility, etc) so that your collection doesn’t overtake your life & connection to others.
I intend to have posts based on single pieces, to sets of things, to entire collections, to the ideas behind collecting, my ideals behind what to do with said collections, & how I feel they should be shared to be truly appreciated.
I hope you join me in this journey & help keep me in line to get them posts done because another feature of this whole thing I want to cover is my severe ADHD & how that helps/hurts my collecting. While not a bad thing by any means…it’s a feature of my life that will have to be addressed & discussed as well.
So with that I will close out this initial post by asking you to follow & share this post to help build a group to talk, to offer suggestions on what types of things you want to see or hear about, to continue the talks over on Twitter (while we still can), & to be patient as I work out ways to share on Youtube as well.
Happy hunting my fellow afficianados!
Jeremy Powers, Sr.
Twitter: @Zenspath