The Woman Cave has occupied many different rooms over the course of its short lifetime. Well, only three rooms to be exact, but nonetheless whenever I move I find that my possessions become…jumbled…(read: they become a clump o’ clusterfuck). And although I’ve been comfortably moved into my abode for seven months I once again find myself in the middle of a jumbled clusterfuck. 

Let’s take a look.

The Microsoft/Atari/WTF Shelf

The Nintendo Shelf

The “I Must Have Been On Crack When I Put This Together” Shelf

I. Need. To. Become. Organized.

I’ve tried making game lists. I’ve tried making inventory. It just doesn’t work out. If I remove a game from its respective shelf, leave it somewhere and stumble across it later I have no idea if it’s a dupe or an original. THEN I’d have to cross check aaaaaaaall of my other games, use the process of elimination, etc. to figure it out. Ain’t nobody got time for that. And with all of the game piles I have it’s easy to forget what’s a giveaway item and what’s mine and AHHHH MAKES ME WANT TO TEAR MY HAIR OUT AND FLOP AROUND LIKE A MAGIKARP.

……

I’ve thought about it for a good 37 seconds or so, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m going to organize each respective platform alphabetically. That just seems easy as pie which sounds fucking incredible right now and I still have some in my refrigerator mmmm pumpkin pie.

This…this is going to be a project, isn’t it? ;____;

Let me know if you have any suggestions! Wish me luck, and send whiskey.

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Ladies and gentlewomen and gentlemen, it has been many moons since I have shown thee my video game collection. It’s kind of a slow day, so I thought, “HEY! This would be a good day to humblebrag about my shit!”

I’ve had these photos sitting on my desktop since, shit, January? Destructoid was going to run a feature on video game collections, and after submitting my photos and hearing a “That looks awesome!” the feature has yet to run, so I’ll just get these off of my desktop so that they may live forever on this lil’ ol’ blog of mine.

Again, these photos are four months old, so they’re not entirely up-to-date. You know how I do. I’m adding things ALL OF THE TIME. And plus I’ve ran out of room (again) so I have a few boxes of stuff that are, well, boxed up and not on display. <3

Enjoy!

NOW YOU KNOW WHERE I DO MY PRIVATE BUSINESS. PERVERTS.

Also, uh…this iteration of the woman cave/woman apartment doesn’t have long for this world. It’s going to be moving to another residence within a few weeks. I KNOW. I KNOW. I’ve totally been flip-flopping on this moving thing, but this time I’ve made a concrete decision. But I’ll go into that a bit later. Trust me, it’s going to be AWESOME and I can’t wait for all of you to see it!

Dare I say…Woman HOUSE?!

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::puffs chest out:: Ah, yes. Feels good to be a hoarder. Er, I mean collector. 

In my never-ending quest to own any and everything with the (certified) Dragon Age label slapped on it, I’ve recently scoured the internet and caught up a bit with my collecting. There were a few few things I knew I needed, and, of course, I discovered a few things I, uh, didn’t know I needed.

SO! The Nug and Mabari plushies are kiiiinda new (like, a month new) but the most recent sexpots are the Flemeth statue and the Staffsword replica.

I KNOW I’m still missing a buttload of stuff, but these are the things I know I need in my life:

Dragon Age dice

DA2 Seekers Amulet

DA2 Templars Amulet

DA2 Qunari Amulet

DA2 Qunari Coaster

DA2 Chantry Coaster

Kirkwall Coffee Mug

And of course, there are those nice-ass sword replicas I missed out on back in the day. I’m talkin’ about the Grey Warden and Darkspawn swords. GAH! HOW COULD I LET SUCH A THING OF BEAUTY SLIP THROUGH MY FINGERS?!

ANYWAY. Before I sit on the thought that I will likely never have a IRL Grey Warden or Darkspawn sword in my possession, I shall focus on the above things. After all, most of those aren’t more than $10.

I WILL OWN ALL OF THE DRAGON AGE THINGS.

Except the sword replicas. ::rips hair out:: ::immediately regrets doing that because I spend too much money on my hair and now it is in unusable clumps on the ground:: ::grabs hair:: ::grabs a hot glue gun:: ::attempts to glue hair back on scalp:: ::screams::

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Ahhh…I miss that room.

As you may or may not be aware, that hoarder-esque room you see above was once my Woman Cave. It was a jolly place to blog, work and simply thrive in (except when spiders the size of 50 cent pieces would crawl out of cracks) (yes, to us WA folk those are huge) but I had to tear it all down and upgrade my dwelling.

But now, in my new dwelling, the Woman Cave has evolved into the…Woman Apartment. Yes, due to extreme volume the items and paraphernalia has oozed out of the new Woman Cave and flooded into the living room. And holy shitsticks it’s a lot of work O___O like, I don’t think I quite understood the undertaking that moving would be. I moved, what, several weeks ago but the amount of work that still needs to be done is over-fucking-whelming. >___<

I’ve made some progress though, and thought I would share!

This shelf is by my window, next to the TVs. Unfortunately the shelves are screwed in and I was far too lazy to unscrew each shelf-holder thing, so I had to scour my collection and find stuff that would fit the preset shelves. I’ve had the God of War III CE since launch, but I’ve never unboxed it until now, and same goes with GoW: Acsension’s CE. Obviously we have Saints Row IV beneath that, and I think the Dubstep Gun is the best thing that has EVER come in a special edition. I think I’ve almost run the batteries out.

These shelves are still a work-in-progress. Most of the content from the Bioshock shelf comes from Infinite’s CE. The BioShock 2 Special Edition hasn’t been opened yet (I was going to remove its contents for display purposes, but I think most are posters and whatnot so it wouldn’t work) and I won the signed Splicer mask at PAX East back in the day. Anywho, I have a copy of the original Bioshock I need to get up there.

The WoW shelf beneath that also needs more content. The main reason I chose this place for my WoW stuffthings is because of that statue in the right corner. It’s hard to tell from this angle, but I’d say it’s nearly 2 ft. tall and I couldn’t find ANYWHERE to put it because it’s effin’ huge.

These shelves are essentially an overflow of stuff in the main office. It was important for me to have my favorite games in the office (since that’s where I spend most of my time) but to do that I could only take a few things from each collection and had to put the rest into the living room. So, we have the zombie stuff on the two shelves in the upper left, and below that some Poke-MANz (as I mom would call it). The top right shelf is just filled with handhelds, and the shelf below that is a little Asheron’s Call shrine — which is totally an MMO you should play someday. It’s super old-school, challenging and the options for customization are crazy. And of course, below that is a mini FFIX shrine. Y’know, action figures, Cactuar plushy, soundtracks, etc.

WHEW.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some Diablo III to tend to. Also, my ass has a date with my couch and I heard it could go all day long.

What are your plans this weekend?

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