Pins!
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I'm one of those weird people who collects enamel pins and wears them on my clothes. This is a page showing them off.
The Vest
These are the pins I generally wear on my vest. I keep statements on the right side, and general nerd things on the left.
A closer look at the pins on each side.
Fangamer Pins
Two Megami Tensei pins: Jack Frost and a Velvet Room badge.
Some Metal Gear Solid codec pins. Each portrait is holographic with two different faces!
Two FromSoft pins. A Bloodborne saw cleaver and a Dark Souls bonfire. The saw cleaver folds out!
A chibi Alucard pin.
A ++Finely Crafted Dwarven Pin++
Strike Gently pins
My mom bought these for me.
Two anti-authoritarian pins.
A rat in a cowboy hat.
A Baphomet and an eyeball in a jar.
Sealed pins
Pins I keep in their packaging for collectors' reasons
Some Megaten-themed pins that were a pre-order bonus for Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse. Buying these bundled with the game itself was not cheap, especially during Covid. Their value has gone down since then, but I keep them sealed anyway for display on the Megaten shelf.
A set of Metroid Dread pins I got as a pre-order bonus from GameStop. I didn't expect these, and I also didn't expect GameStop to send me two copies of the game on accident. I keep them sealed alongside that second copy, on the off-chance that they become a lot more valuable in the future.
Misc pins
Pins that I got sporadically from different places.
Two Sunstone pins. These were exclusive to San Diego Comic Con, which I did not attend, but my FFXIV Free Company leader at the time was able to middleman them for me. In the time it took to get them delivered, they were made public on Top Cow's online store.
If strangers ask about it, I tell them it means freedom of love.
Twin Palico pins from Monster Hunter. I bought this in a mall store.
Old ZONE pins I bought off SharkRobot. If you didn't know already, hentai is punk.
If strangers ask about it, I tell them it means freedom of art.
A dying Mario and the Gunshow dog. I bought two SNES reproduction carts off Etsy and these were bundled for free!
An Eric Andre Bird Up! pin. I got this from the merch booth at one of his live shows.
Zelda pins. I got these on a whim while doing regular department store shopping.
Three Final Fantasy pins. The center Black Mage pin I got from Square's store, and the two Mage cats I got off Etsy in a last call sale.
A Rise Against pin, bought from Rise Against's website. I don't think they sell this anymore.
A mysterious floppy disk pin. I'm still not sure where this came from.
My dad got this for me. It's a quote from John Carpenter's The Thing.
A pin of the Smartypants Society; my favorite Dropout show. Bought it off Dropout's official store.
A pin representing my home state of Minnesota. I found this at a souvenir shop in White Bear Lake.
A trans flag I bought off Ebay. I swear I thought it'd be bigger.
A latex flag I bought off Etsy.
If strangers ask about it, I tell them it means freedom of fashion.