I'll admit that I'm a girl of peculiar tastes. They may not be extravagant, but they are downright eccentric. So for Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Winter Solstice/Saturnalia/*insert generic winter festival here* this year, I'll try to keep my wish list as simple as possible.
Pffffft, yeah right.
Thankfully, to facilitate the gift-giving process this year I've made three intriguing (though not-necessarily-connected) self-discoveries this week:
that like every other hot-blooded chick on this (once-)green Earth, I do have a fashion-savvy bone in my body;
that I've been suffering from compulsive trichotillomania since around high school (but then anybody who's known me long enough must've already caught on by now... *shudder*);
and last but not least (and this may be related to my hidden feminine side again), I have something of an obsession with small, intricate objects. Specifically, amassing ungodly legions of them.
As it stands now, my current "Wish List" falls into five broad categories, with numbers 4 and 5 respectively being fingerless gloves (actually any gloves that fit great are fine with me... fingerless are just cool-looking, that's all) and a nice pair of real, honest-to-goodness knee-high (or thereabouts) boots (I swear, this must be the only article of feminine footwear I actually love to death).
... but those are obsessions for another day.
(Incidentally, numbers 4 & 5 on my Wish List both involve my Self-Discovery # 1, while numbers 1-3 on my Wish List both involve my Self-Discovery # 3. Please, don't anyone get any funny ideas with Self-Discovery # 2, the only gift that would mesh with that would be either a wig or a new psychoactive prescription.)
So without further ado, here are the Top 3 Things I Really Wouldn't Mind Getting For The Holidays This Year (If You Are Ever So Charitably Inclined) In No Particular Order:
Buttons. Pins. Badges. Whatever!
(my modest button/pin/badge collection, as of September this year)
It turns out these round little declarations of hipster subversiveness have quite a storied history. I guess I could always invest in getting my own button/pin/badge-making machine (oooh, pretty Flash animation demo here)... if only the damn things weren't so hard to find and capital-intensive; as I'm still in that parent-mooching-broke-student phase of my life, I just don't have that kind of dough.
So for now I'm just gonna go with getting cool ready-made buttons/pins/badges for Christmas (or whenever I actually attend some major cultural/political event dressed to the nines with propaganda merch, I guess).
As far as buttons/pins/badges go though, my Holy Grail would be either an official or a really good replica of this:
Who watches the watc-(BOOM)
Wacky-looking zipper pulls
You can tell they're zipper pulls by the cute little necklace clasps they use to attach to stuff instead of those ho-hum keyring thingies.
Forget those pussies who hang these from their bags, cellphones, wallets, charm bracelets and whatnot: I just discovered that these are wonderful to hang from your neck as a spiffy testament to how uncompromisingly weird you are.
And noone try to copy my idea. Or else I will hunt you down.
Seriously. I. WILL. HUNT. YOU. DOWN.
Minimates Anonymous
If you haven't noticed already, my unhealthy love for these 2-inch pieces of plastic awesome is well-documented on this blog.
Of course given how tricky these are to actually find here (except to the most experienced of Minimate hunters *wink wink*), I'm not really expecting people to actually getting me these for Christmas... this is really more of an FYI-type post to firmly establish the fact that I EFFING LOVE MINIMATES.
So in lieu of actual Minimates, I will also accept Minimate-scaled vehicles, accessories, and other miniature world-building implements. The 1:24 scale or thereabouts works fine for Minimates, though if you have any 1:36 scale bikes or ATVs and stuff I'll appreciate those for my future mini-motocross rally too. Us aspiring evil overlords have to start small, you know.
To get a better grasp of exactly what sort of weird shit I'm into, look no further than these here photo albums.
As a final word, here's this year's prerequisite holiday-themed borderline cheesy content/inevitable holiday-related hormonal geekgasm:
Merry Christmas, everybody*!!!
___ *greeting only applies to Christians and secular scenesters going along with the crowd
