Hey kids. :D Long-time listener, first-time caller. I'm Jill; I'm 20. My room probably doesn't look it. I terrorize live with my aunt in Brooklyn. Come inside; mind the robots.



I live in a narrow little room that needs to do a lot of things, so it's not really decorated so much as it is a feat of engineering. The loft bed was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Before I had the loft bed the computer chair I had was wedged against the bed and you had to climb across the bed to get to the window (my cat loved the runway effect and would run and take a flying leap at the chair, making it roll down to the window. no one else enjoyed it). This room was just the computer room before I moved in, and made a lot more sense that way-- but I'm finally getting it to work for me. View from the door:


The disco ball has no motor, but it's rigged to spin freely, so if you give it a push it'll spin. It makes the room pretty in the early morning.


Despite the awkward size, mine is the best bedroom in the apartment because of the fantastic enormous window. I love sunlight like a plant. Speaking of plants, my baby, Margarita! (and the scaffolding that's hurting her :| ) She is the love of my life.


This is what it looks like at night, with the shutters closed. The window faces East, so they are fan-tastic for sleeping late or taking a nap in the middle of the day. :D


Behind my door:


I did this in kindergarten. My favorite is the spiky dinosaur by the tree.


Also, a helpful map.


My nickname is Wet Paint, so I collect Wet Paint signs. I have about 400 more of these in shoeboxes in my closet.


The Skull Tank is probably the best military vehicle ever.


One side, this makes a regular flat puzzle; the other side makes this! Do you love '80s ingenuity? I do.


I love my desk. It's the kind of desk I imagine a world leader spreading important papers over and staring at with a deep, important frown. Mine is always covered in comic scripts and sketches, though; or textbooks.


The thing that looks like a birthday present is my turntable's cover. Below it, classy storage solution for the ages: the wonderful milk crate, where I keep schoolbooks and comicking stuff.


Maybe I like the Flaming Lips. A little bit.
Also, these buildings were built in the wake of the Tenement House Acts that required adequate ventilation in apartment buildings, to stave off things like cholera. Apparently this was some overzealous planner who took that a bit too much to heart, or someone with a brother in the door industry? Every wall has as many doors and windows as can possibly fit. My closet has a door into another closet. I don't know why anyone would ever have these doors open, but there they are. No cholera, either.


G assumes the other big red blocky dude must be on their side. But no!


The big picture is one of the best things I own. $10 at a garage sale years ago. I almost had to fight a woman for it. It's dated 1956 (surprisingly early) and I can't find out anything about it, but it's amazing. Some of the colors in the room are picked from it. Below that is an Octopus Pie strip and a Questionable Content print. On the facing wall, that's me (when I had longer hair) by Jeph Jacques. :) The cow is Alex Trebek. Also, a femur.




Flyers for the "be-in" from the Shakespeare in the Park production of Hair. :D


This was my mom's and my aunt's toybox when they were kids (from 1956). It was in the basement being sad and not mastering space and holding old Christmas ornaments; I cleaned it up and sealed the rust on the bottom and made it a new cover. The original cover was long gone, but I managed to find this incredible repro wallpaper that matched perfectly and covered a piece of plywood in it. And now it can master space again! It holds my art supplies and craft stuff and spare notebooks. Poor pyjama lady doesn't even get a raygun.


The best map (which I wish I had a better spot for), a loon, and a small but helpful evil-fighting fleet: a Vespa, a Little People doomed airplane that doubles as South Pacific Air 121 (the Snakes-on-a) or Oceanic 815 (LOST) as needed, a tiny replica of my dad's firetruck, and a penguinwheel.


I have books packed in like Tetris blocks, and this is only a fraction of them. :( I have another bookcase in the hall closet, and the rest in boxes. Or piled all around the house. D:
Me and my mom, and two cats that are like doppelgängers several decades apart. The one with the >:| face was my Lucky, and the one with the :) face was my mom's and my aunt's cat, Fink. I have Lucky's paw print and whisker, and the ball from his favorite toy there.


Me and my brothers (not a current photo), lots of kitties, also my best friend with a mall Santa.
Next shelf: Panthers, ominous crow, and Playmobil Dead Thing™; Playmobil Jaws playset, er, I mean, "Diver With Shark." I am this close to scrounging up a Playmobil Quint lookalike for Bruce there to rend.


Goo putting an eel on Brooklyn's Borough President. The little red guy is Henry, my spleen. He wears spats and he lost a hand in the war.


This is the best pic I have of the bottom shelf, sorry. Some hungry hippos hang out down there; you don't want to get too close. Hippos are dangerous!




Catullus-bunny and friends. Also my childhood baseball glove, autographed by Mr. Met! It is the pride of my life. Sandy the Seagull gets to hang out in it because all the Mr. Met toys are terrifying. Waldo's stare kind of follows you around the room. D:


You can make this count down to the next millennium if you want to, but it gets upset about the digits.




While I'm recovering from hand surgery, my guitar gets to be Voltron.




Sometimes I have my guys arranged in little scenes that almost make sense. (Daltanias gets to hang out with the Voltrons because he is the robot equivalent of a Care Bear Cousin)


But usually not. Al Di Meola rockin' out for our Joes. or maybe the giant glowing guitar-playing panther is attacking the Turtles. Epic jazz fusion either way!




Ravage: master of subterfuge.


Sorry these pictures are so bad.
Aslan don't care about interplanetary law, Judoon.


I always feel bad for poor Panthor in the box, but the flocking attracts dust like a black hole and it is a pain in the ass to clean him. as evidenced by 2002 Panthor. Can you imagine? PATHOR ASTHMA ATTACK! He-Man: cough cough, oh no! /allergens!/


Also, the most visible Azrael. There are 5 of them around the room (+ Gargamel and 2 smurfs). I don't think you can see all of them from these pictures, though, so don't go crazy looking. :)
In the back, the most epic action figure ever, Dr. Claw. (do not look up what this figure's face looks like. it is very disappointing.) Dr. Claw and Captain Hook and I are buddies; we share an infirmity. And are villainous.


Backwards Devo corporate salute.


This is a graboid-free zone.


Send more Betamax!




Rocky and the second most epic action figure ever, THE MEAT; also Dorothy hoping the Doctor can get her home; and Turtles vs. Doom. The vehicle on the left shoots plastic discs that could probably take an eye out, and the one on the right I am not allowed to play with in the house because of the extremely loud obnoxious noise it makes that scares the cats half to death. What is a laser gun if it doesn't make scary obnoxious noises, I ask you?


My shelf o' bizarre Voltron merchandise. I collect nice Voltron stuff and weird Voltron stuff. The "Action Crayon Holder" is the most magnificently useless thing I have ever seen. The ridiculous Voltron camera really works-- it "transforms" and it takes 110 film. :D


Yeah, I have a Voltron pillowcase too. Silver says hi!




My mom's wall. Also where the ladder hangs out during the day and my filthy filthy shoes. Cookie says hello.


My room enjoys the services of the Plastic Dinosaur Relocation Brigade.


Officer Mickey is also in charge of neutralizing threats by chewing on their plastic weapons. Officer Cookie specializes in a more direct approach, putting a stop to evil plots by walking through my shelves, Godzilla-style. Just look at that Captain America look in his eyes. This cat? He can see FREEDOM.

I am not sure who hired them, but they do a good job.

Thanks for looking. :D