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I moved back home from college today, officially marking the end of my third year of college (yahoo!). It wasn't my best packing job, but I'm also just chronically bad at packing (it's the probable adhd, I have to go in circles and pack different things or else I just don't do it) so it was kind of my L for losing my computer cable for a bit because it got shoved in my laundry bag. Summertime is when I sacrifice as much of my bedroom floor space as is humanly feasible because this is just the consequence of trying to fit an entire apartment's worth of Stuff into a single mortal bedroom. Shoutout specifically to the giant, over half empty bottle of soy sauce that's currently living on my floor, you win the most ridiculous item award.
In the past year I failed in my goal to not acquire more prints, because I'm the guy who likes to frame the prints I buy at conventions and not only am I running out of wall space, I just kind of want to buy less frames. So my strategy this time is that I'm simply starting to rotate out prints. It's kind of a weird feeling, since I think that all the art I've acquired over the years, whether digital or traditional, is inherently valuable. Like, I can't draw for shit, any kind of art is so impressive to me, whether it's a beautifully rendered digital piece that I bought a print of at a con, or the sketch of a hand that I received from the banker who helped me set up my account. Both pieces are really valuable to me.
Even I have to admit my collection has kinda aged with time though. I bought a print of Pidge from Voltron from one of the very first Comic Cons I ever went to, because Voltron was big and I wanted to try getting into it, and I just thought it was a cute art of Pidge. I didn't end up getting into Voltron (thank god lol), so she got retired. I had a print of the main cast of BNHA season 1 (I think Todoroki even had his original outfit yikes) but you don't see me looking back to that fandom, so it was retired. The smaller print I got of Tsuyu and Ochako at a later point can stay though just because the vibes are so cozy, it's what I bought it for, so it's what it can stay for.
It's been a different kind of feeling phasing out prints for fandoms that are closer in memory, though. One of my BSD prints bit the dust because I admittedly never loved the art even when I bought it, but it was my main fandom at the time and it was literally all the artist alley had. I bought it in like 2019 btw, I think that my past self would look at BSD being mainstream today and their head would explode. I have another one of one of the full-color illustrations from the manga that's stayed up for longer though, because I've always loved Harukawa35's art and still do. But I like to refer to BSD as my ex-wife whom I've bitterly divorced, so I admit that even Harukawa's art makes me feel pretty jaded now. It's not long for my wall. So too have two of my Persona 5 prints bitten the dust. They've been replaced with a new one from just this year, which is an adorable rendition of the month of November from in the game. I loved it for all the activities it depicts with the little chibi drawings, but ultimately I am a simple man and the fact that it has a little drawing for "honey, i'm home" day was what sold me. Old loves die hard, I suppose. I'm trying to come around to Persona 5 again, mostly since a good friend of mine has been on a Persona 3 kick recently and I'm trying to drag myself back to Persona in one way or another so I can hopefully play P3P or P3R and actually feel excited for it, but it's an uphill fight. Pray for me lol
To kind of conclude my thoughts on the prints thing though, I kind of want to find a way to re-home all of the prints that I don't necessarily want to display anymore, but some of the things that have aged out for me have also aged out for most people (i.e. Voltron, sort of BNHA). Still, I don't want the art to rot in the back of my closet for the rest of time. I guess it'll just be something in the back of my mind as I move forward. I have a lot to do this summer, both creatively and as a person, and I really am excited but for now... I rest.
In the past year I failed in my goal to not acquire more prints, because I'm the guy who likes to frame the prints I buy at conventions and not only am I running out of wall space, I just kind of want to buy less frames. So my strategy this time is that I'm simply starting to rotate out prints. It's kind of a weird feeling, since I think that all the art I've acquired over the years, whether digital or traditional, is inherently valuable. Like, I can't draw for shit, any kind of art is so impressive to me, whether it's a beautifully rendered digital piece that I bought a print of at a con, or the sketch of a hand that I received from the banker who helped me set up my account. Both pieces are really valuable to me.
Even I have to admit my collection has kinda aged with time though. I bought a print of Pidge from Voltron from one of the very first Comic Cons I ever went to, because Voltron was big and I wanted to try getting into it, and I just thought it was a cute art of Pidge. I didn't end up getting into Voltron (thank god lol), so she got retired. I had a print of the main cast of BNHA season 1 (I think Todoroki even had his original outfit yikes) but you don't see me looking back to that fandom, so it was retired. The smaller print I got of Tsuyu and Ochako at a later point can stay though just because the vibes are so cozy, it's what I bought it for, so it's what it can stay for.
It's been a different kind of feeling phasing out prints for fandoms that are closer in memory, though. One of my BSD prints bit the dust because I admittedly never loved the art even when I bought it, but it was my main fandom at the time and it was literally all the artist alley had. I bought it in like 2019 btw, I think that my past self would look at BSD being mainstream today and their head would explode. I have another one of one of the full-color illustrations from the manga that's stayed up for longer though, because I've always loved Harukawa35's art and still do. But I like to refer to BSD as my ex-wife whom I've bitterly divorced, so I admit that even Harukawa's art makes me feel pretty jaded now. It's not long for my wall. So too have two of my Persona 5 prints bitten the dust. They've been replaced with a new one from just this year, which is an adorable rendition of the month of November from in the game. I loved it for all the activities it depicts with the little chibi drawings, but ultimately I am a simple man and the fact that it has a little drawing for "honey, i'm home" day was what sold me. Old loves die hard, I suppose. I'm trying to come around to Persona 5 again, mostly since a good friend of mine has been on a Persona 3 kick recently and I'm trying to drag myself back to Persona in one way or another so I can hopefully play P3P or P3R and actually feel excited for it, but it's an uphill fight. Pray for me lol
To kind of conclude my thoughts on the prints thing though, I kind of want to find a way to re-home all of the prints that I don't necessarily want to display anymore, but some of the things that have aged out for me have also aged out for most people (i.e. Voltron, sort of BNHA). Still, I don't want the art to rot in the back of my closet for the rest of time. I guess it'll just be something in the back of my mind as I move forward. I have a lot to do this summer, both creatively and as a person, and I really am excited but for now... I rest.