KIRBY COLLECTION (as of 21/12/2025)

I've been a Kirby fan since I was about 7 or 8, I discovered the franchise from this video and the rest is history... I would spend hours reading WiKirby articles, drawing the characters and playing Kirby's Mass Attack and Kirby Squeak Squad. Being a Kirby fan in Australia was rough in the early 2010s, as there was little to no merchandise of him, even in EB games. This led to my mum crocheting me a Kirby plush, he's been by my side ever since he was made. I used to be bullied a lot for liking Kirby during my school days, even teachers would mock and degrade my passion for the series. Despite this, my love for the series has only gotten stronger. My favourite mainline game is Triple Deluxe and my favourite spinoff is Air Riders.

BIG MAN COLLECTION (as of 21/12/2025)

Even though I have several f/os, Big Man is my one true love out of all of them. He was the one who made me realise that my crushes on fictional characters and selfshipping was something much bigger. Initially, I was in deep denial of being in love with him, embarassed that I had fallen in love with him before the game even came out. After the game released, I accepted that he was one of my f/os. A few months went by and my interest waned in him (which usually happens with my f/os), as my attention began to shift to My Life As A Teenage Robot, until my love for him swung into full force in the latter half of November 2022 and beyond. As things became more stressful for me, though, I began to use my love for Big Man as a coping mechanism, which quickly became incredibly unhealthy. I became possessive over him and this led me to feeling physically uneasy upon seeing him romantically involved with other characters due to overwhelming jealousy. Now that I finally graduated (high) school, a place that has caused me a lot of trauma, I've finally had time to fix how I am towards him, as I have become signigicantly less mentally unstable. I still feel uncomfortable imagining him romantically or sexually involved with other characters, but not as viscerally as I did when I was younger. It's more of a "why are you kissing my boyfriend?" type of ick. I do kick myself from time to time for being so awful about him, but I'm glad that I can love him properly now.
I don't know what it is about my Manny-Poo that I love so much... Is it his smile? His devotion to making his partners (I see him, Shiver and Frye in a queerplatonic relationship!) proud? His nerdiness? That almost flirtatious look in his eyes sometimes? The idea that I could be there for him when he's overwhelmed from his clan duties and Deep Cut compositions? I'll never know how he won me over.