Collection page · selective cabinet in progress
This page gathers books, games, signed editions, research traces, strange references, and objects that have become meaningful enough to keep, question, arrange, and share.
Archive logic
Some objects matter because they are valuable. Some because they are peculiar. Some because they arrived at the right time, refused to leave, or started glowing once they were placed beside the right neighbour.
The collection page treats curation as a kind of mystery work: following clues, noticing patterns, preserving provenance, and letting books, games, media objects, and oddments form their own weather systems.
Expect selective entries rather than a complete inventory at first. The goal is not to flatten the collection into data, but to make its stranger routes visible.
Preview shelf
These are not fixed categories so much as ways into the cabinet. Some objects belong to more than one shelf, because provenance, fandom, research, memory, and survival have a habit of crossing wires.
My Stephen King shelf begins with Misery: the first King novel that truly took hold, and still the favourite. This corner of the archive follows signatures, first editions, adaptations, Dark Tower echoes, and the strange comfort of returning to fictional rooms that know how fear works.
Object story: Misery Loves CompanyA small wing for Weird Al, UHF logic, signed things, concert traces, and the long-running argument that absurdity can be a serious survival technology. Some objects are jokes. Some jokes become artifacts. Some artifacts somehow end up beside a dissertation.
First object story: The Dissertation at Spatula CityGames live here as objects, memories, systems, and little machines for meaning. From old cartridges to creature collecting, this shelf connects play, research, nostalgia, and the stubborn pleasure of keeping physical media in a world that keeps trying to disappear it.
This shelf is for objects with paper trails: signatures, numbered editions, event traces, certificates, inscriptions, rumours, doubts, and the small detective work of figuring out where a thing has been before it arrived here.
Ask the Misery provenance question Follow the dissertation paper trail Open the Kingston ticket storyA cabinet for monsters, haunted houses, cursed objects, impossible adaptations, and books that feel like they came with basement air sealed inside them. Horror sits here as entertainment, atmosphere, metaphor, and occasionally as a very practical filing system for dread.
Read the horror object storyNot every shelf is separate from the work. Theory, sociology, digital humanities, trauma studies, game studies, marginal notes, teaching copies, and dissertation-era books all belong here as part of the same archive: what was read, used, carried, and returned to.
See the dissertation as object Visit the Queen’s/Kingston years objectBest viewed by wandering
The collection will grow slowly from these preview shelves into individual object stories: part catalogue, part cabinet of curiosities, part reading record, and part material history of the things that keep becoming meaningful.
