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An Invisible Inquirer · 6mo

Do you own any fan memorabilia or fandom merch?

Not much, just a couple of things. I've never been much of a collector and fan merch needs to really speak to me for me to get it. I've often wanted more because I like a certain fandom, but most official merch for my favourites has been kinda meh. I don't want anything I won't actually use.

But I do own a print T-shirt which has a 4-panel anxiety comic by one of my favourite comic artists, Hannah Hillam. I also have an American Horror Story T-shirt with the text "normal people scare me" which someone has described as the "live, laugh, love" of emo's. Don't know about that, but for me the meaning is that because everyone is basically just as normal or abnormal, it's all the same if it just read "people scare me". Because social anxiety. Both shirts are in regular use.

My spouse got me a War & Peas comic book as a gift a while ago and that came with a bookmark and an enamel pin. Haven't yet found a use for the pin though, it's kinda big. The bookmark is currently in a knitting design book.

A few years ago spouse got me two Star Wars easter chocolate eggs with a toy inside. They had those kinda decorations you can stick at the end of a pencil? Maybe called pencil toppers? I dunno. Anyway, the other was a stormtrooper head and the other R2D2's head. Every year I put one of them at the tip of our miniature christmas tree in place of a star.

That's about it. Two things I bought myself and a few I got as a gift 😄

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