I just finished a pic of a dragon resting on its hoard, and the thing is super-detailed, so while I was drawing it I was thinking, "MAN, this is a LOT of gold coins and stuff!" It really reflects a certain archetype of the dragon as, first of all, this creature of immeasurable AGE, and secondly, obsessive-compulsive in the extreme.
What a LUST for shiny things it must have! What a raging compulsion, to be triggered at the merest glint of the objects of desire...
Then it occurred to me how familiar this is sounding. Yes, that's the exact same feeling that washes over me EVERY TIME I visit the gravelly area near our local coffee shop and deli which has TONS of fossils in it. I cannot seem to set foot in it without being irresistibly drawn to search for them, and before I know it I'm sitting plopped in the gravel sifting for crinoid stems!
I've got an embarrassingly large hoard of them.
So, how about you? Is there anything that makes you feel particularly dragony? Any large hoards around your house?
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Well, the only thing I'm still actively collecting is plants, but I still have a fairly big hunk of CDs (I've not yet crossed over into mp3sville.), a collection of superballs with a population somewhere around 1800-1820 last I knew, and lots of books.
Hee! My husband had the superballs hoard, too! And the CDs. One of these days, I hope to get back to plant-collecting, when I have the space for it. Right now I've just got the Oncidium var. 'Hawaiian Sunset' (in full bloom right now, whee!), the Chlorophytum and the Philodendron I've had since college, and the obligatory Spathiphyllum gotten as a funeral gift. Basic plants! :)
Although, on one of my fossil hunts in a stream bed, I did end up with a little fragment of what I think must be a type of Selaginella, which I water occasionally and it lives, zombie-like, in my kitchen!
Comic books.
Which, given the current economy, we will soon be burning for warmth.
And they said comics were a bad investment! Ha!
Photos. Digital photos of insects. In the spring, summer, and fall I carry my camera around with me everywhere, and whenever I see even a small patch greenery I have to stop and look for interesting bugs. I have probably ten thousand photos sitting on either my computer hard drive or my external one, and I can't delete any of them, even the blurry ones.
Do shoes count? ;)
Comic books-- the hoard you can sleep on/under!!! :D
JLK-- you betcha! :D And hey, SHINY!!!
IntrinsicallyKnotted, ooooooh how I wish I could peruse your insect photo hoard!... waitaminute!!! You've got an online gallery!!!!!!! ::Perky disappears Rip Van Winkle-like into the net::
LEGO is the current one. Right now the floor of one room is practically covered with them. I also used to collect CCG's (collectible card games). I have thousands of Spellfire cards. I used to know when the local comic book store would be getting in shipments and buy cases. My girlfriend at the time (now my wife) unfortunately enabled me in this obsession by playing/collecting herself. As soon as the boy can read a little better I'm breaking them out again.
I also never throw away a book, no matter how terrible it was and I used to have to be restrained from buying old, broken computer parts from garage sales. There's just something about those beige boxes I find hard to resist ;-)
Let's see, I've got every Robotech RPG book written and multiple giant 3-ring binders of character sheets from various RPGs in the past. Then there's the dice collection, the mouse collection (computer, not live), all those Warhammer 40K miniatures I painted. And I've got the CDs for damn near every piece of software I've ever installed.
I could go on. *sigh* I really don't throw much away :-P
@intrinsicallyknotted - I've got pictures of bugs too! I was inspired by InsectPOD, which has unfortunately gone silent. When my wife hears "Where's the camera?" her first response is "Find another bug?" ;-)
books - they mark stages of my life
I'm trying to become less dragony but alas all of you will have to sort through way too much stuff!
Oh shit, I forgot about books.
I don't see how that happened, seeing as I've been staring at a 14ft high wall FULL of them all day wondering what the hell I'm going to do with them all...
Yarn. This dragon hoards yarn. Bins and bins and bins... and yarn patterns. And the results of mating the two. Want an afghan? O.O
Take books as a given. I absolutely can't pass up old medical books, though.
Other than that... carved wooden fruit... anything shaped like a pear... interesting bits of metal... sticks... rocks... seedpods... vertebrae...
I managed to burn my oppressively large and organized collection of pine cones, much to my husband's joy. I also used to have a neat little collection of exotic succulents, but a pet rabbit ate them all when I wasn't looking, and I gave up.
MP3s.
I love music, and grew up in the age of vinyl when, in a record store, if you happened upon the rare German printing of The Cure EP that has Pillbox Tales as its B-side, you had to snatch it up, because it would be hard to find again. Basically, I was raised before the age of "every bit of data is available to everyone everywhere at all times." As a result, I have tons of music that happened to be on albums that I liked, or are by artists who played with artists that I like, or are remixes or variations of songs that I like.
Fortunately, disk space is cheap enough that I can just keep moving music to bigger and bigger drives.
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