{"id":2858,"date":"2013-01-16T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2013-01-16T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:20:00","slug":"collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/01\/16\/collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakesville.com\/2013\/01\/question-of-day_15.html\">open thread<\/a> on Shakesville about what people collect. Then I started wracking my brains about my own collections.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually not much of a collector. This may seem like a hypocritical statement, given the sheer numbers of my doll population; however, I don&#8217;t consider my dolls a collection. To me, the term &quot;collection&quot; denotes a group of objects that mostly just sit there being admired. While some of my dolls sit there, looking pretty, I play with most of them. They&#8217;re my toys, of which I happen to have amassed a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in the past, I have collected the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stamps<\/li>\n<li>Amusing epitaphs<\/li>\n<li>Books about twins<\/li>\n<li>Labyrinth memorabilia, especially ephemera<\/li>\n<li>Pulp paperbacks from the 1950s and 1960s about queer women [&quot;lesbian pulp&quot;]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I currently collect the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Songs about queer and\/or trans subjects<\/li>\n<li>Rements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have a small selection of my Labyrinth ephemera [novelization, Labyrinth Photo Album, French lobby cards, Japanese program, Goblins of Labyrinth, comic adaptation {I&nbsp;think}] on my bookshelf, but that collection is no longer active. I also still have a few of my lesbian pulps, but that collection is no longer active either.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I think about it, I could easily sell or give away most of my Labyrinth ephemera. I have, can find or can make digital copies of a substantial portion, although I would keep the Photo Album just for nostalgic reasons. As for the pulps, I can scan the covers [sometimes the best parts!] and find some special collections in which they could be preserved and referred to as a part of twentieth-century queer history.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also thinking that I don&#8217;t use most of my Rements either. All those detailed 1:6 scale models of specialized food etc. just sit in my storage containers. When I <em>do<\/em> use some of it, it&#8217;s the basic stuff, like plates, cups, bowls, silverware, pots, pans, kitchen utensils. If I do use the food, it&#8217;s fast food, sweets, drinks of all types.<\/p>\n<p>Okay&#8230;time to clear out the Rements!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And my closet too, while I&#8217;m at it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1444504.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1444504.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1444504.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an open thread on Shakesville about what people collect. Then I started wracking my brains about my own collections. I&#8217;m actually not much of a collector. This may seem like a hypocritical statement, given the sheer numbers of my doll population; however, I don&#8217;t consider my dolls a collection. To me, the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/01\/16\/collections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Collections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}