I collect pipes. I like how every culture has its own style of pipe. I like how their ancestors made them independent of each other, because they wanted to smoke some shit. I like how modern pipes are derivative of ancient designs.

I can't smoke them. I'm allergic to tobacco, and I'm not really interested in cloves or weed. I just think their really neat! I have a lot of them, but I can only post ten pictures at a time. Most of them are vintage or antique estate pipes, but I bought a couple of them new. I'll post descriptions/info in the alt text.

I just picked these randomly. I have plenty more to share later. My current pipe goals are to collect the whole set of Medico Casino pipes, and to obtain a genuine gourd calabash.

Yay, pipes!

Kickin' it in the Cambrian

HAPPY EXTENDED SOUNDS OF BRUTAL PIPE MURDER DAY I SEE THE REMINDER ON MY PHONE AND THE TIME HAS COME TO DO ANYTHING BUT PAY RESPECTS TO THE MAN WHO HAD SO MANY FUCKED UP IF TRUE BOOKS

Shockwave, before and after.

"To you dear Helen from..." Holyoke, MA Postmarked 1910

there’s a post on here like “I pretend dated my lesbian friend bc her family is homophobic but her family hated me so much they were relieved when she came out” that’s Keith to me

See the thing is it that, to me, Keith isn’t spiteful enough to pull this off. If my homophobic relatives were to find Keith strange and off-putting, it would be because of his clearly apparent yet ambiguously defined gender and sexuality, and nothing to do with any facade Keith might attempt to pull off

Treasure

My Pipe Collection

No one will remember that I said this because it was ages ago and only one person replied to it, but the reason I like drawing Kaiju with a pipe is because I collect them irl! Fun times :D Anyway, thought it would be fun to show off my pipe collection and share a bit about them. Without further adue: First off, the first pipe I ever got! This style of pipe with the long stem is called a "Churchwarden". This is aesthetically my favorite type of pipe because it reminds me of Gandalf, and I absolutely love anything with wizard vibes. I also really like the name for it. What makes this pipe nice is that the longer stem allows the smoke to cool more before it reaches your mouth, so it's easier to avoid getting tongue-bite with it (a sort of feeling of having burned your tongue a bit; it often happens if the tobacco gets too hot). The main drawback is that, because the bowl is further from your nose, you can't really smell the tobacco as much, which is a bummer because I think the scent is one of the many reasons I enjoy pipes. (If you've smelled cigarette smoke and not pipe smoke, I assure you that pipe smoke smells more pleasant; there's not any chemical additives in pipe tobacco and they burn a little cooler I think. But it's also kind of subjective, anyway.)

(That bit of metal sticking off the front isn't part of the pipe, it's my pipe tamper, which I just used to prop the pipe up with; you'll notice it in a few of the other pics because I don't have a proper pipe stand :')) Don't know the company that made this one, but it's probably the most expensive pipe I have (it was about $80). I remember the day I bought it; I went to a cigar shop shortly after I turned 18 (which was then the legal smoking age in my state). There was a bunch of old guys with big beards sitting around a table and playing poker. Scrawny 18-year-old me felt very out of place, but the gentleman behind the counter was very helpful. I picked this pipe because it was the cheapest one they had at the time. I have since found cheaper ones, but I suppose they only had pricy ones at that store.

These next two I shall present together, as they're both from the same company; these are Missouri Meerschaum pipes! It's a nice company because all their pipes are turbo-cheap (these were each about $10). The corn cob pipe is a classic, often sported by popeye and random famers! I like the corncob because it's lighter than my other pipes, so it's a good "walking around" pipe since I can hold it with just my teeth easier, rather than having to hold it in my hand as much. I think the other is called an "apple pipe", lol. Not much to say about it. It's nice, I suppose.

I don't like the stem color on these; the transparent orange just looks out of place to me. You can buy replacement stems, though, and I plan to get a couple black ones at some point. I bought the corn cob from Amazon and the Apple from Missouri Meerschaum's website. I am docking points from these two because they're a bit of a pain to clean. Where a better-made pipe will be completely smooth inside, you can see the stem in these ones is clearly just jammed into the side. Tobacco gets stuck in the little gaps around it and it can be a tad annoying to clean out as a result lol.

(Corn cob pipe is on the right; did my best to show what i was talking about but it was hard to get good lighting. You can *kind of* see it though) Next up, this pipe shape is called a "Diplomat" I think. This was the third pipe I bought, and I got it off of Amazon. If you look closely you can see it has "Free Boy" inscribed on it. For the brief period where I had a fellow pipe smoker living down the road from me, he poked fun at me for it because it sounded kind of funny (and I agree with this assessment lol)

Not a whole whole lot else to say about it. Some pipes let you use filters in them. You'll find debate on pipe forums over weather it's better with or without them; I always use a filter in my pipes that allow it because it's supposed to get rid of some of the tar and other nasty stuff that comes in tobacco. Some folks claim that filters remove the flavor but I haven't personally noticed a difference. The Free Boy pipe requires these big fancy filters; there's some kind of pellets inside it so it rattles if you shake it. Shown compared to the filters I use in my Missouri Meerschaum pipes (the longer filter), which are just some kind of rolled-up paper-y material.

And that just leaves my clay pipes! I absolutely love these things. I wasn't too interested in clay pipes at first, but wanted to get one after watching a video that talked about the history of clay pipes. I found it really fascinating; I didn't expect to actually enjoy using it, but I thought it would be neat to have in my collection as a cool novelty. After trying it out, though, it became one of my favorite pipes! For some reason I find these are easier to pack right and keep lit than my other pipes, and I really love how small and lightweight they are. I liked that first one so much that I got a second; it's cool because it looks like an eagle claw! :D I find them really easy to clean, too. I've been told that you can apparently "deep clean" a clay pipe by tossing it in the oven and heating it up for a while. I have never tried this but can share the results if I ever do (I probably won't tho ngl). Both of these were purchased from a website called PipesAndCigars, which has since been my go-to site for these sorts of things. For some reason every package I've gotten from that site came with like four coupons for other things, including Doordash and some kind of wine-store site, none of which I ever use, lol.

I have all sorts of fun facts about clay pipes I could rattle off but I will spare you that and maybe save them for a future post. For now I'll say this: the biggest drawback on these is that I have to resist the urge to bite down on the stem. Besides the fact that it feels unpleasant (go bite a rock sometime if you're curious how it feels), it's really bad for your teeth. Fun fact: a large amount of skulls from Victorian-era England have giant gaping holes between the teeth from where people were biting down on their clay pipes. I do not want tooth-holes so I just hold these with my hands. The bowls occasionally get too hot to hold so you have to hold them by the stem sometimes, though. Which isn't a huge deal but feels a bit wrong to me for some reason. Ah well. Anyway, that about does it for my pipe collection. I'm eyeing another churchwarden pipe made entirely out of wood as one of the next ones to get. The wizard vibes will increase exponentially! :D Anyway, for all 2 people who actually read me rambling about my little hobby, cheers! Hope you enjoyed it, and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have about it. Hope you all have a swell day!

After a year of searching and hoping and thinking it most likely wasn't gonna happen, I FINALLY HAVE HIM AND I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER! He's so beautiful and high quality and has this nice weight to him that makes him pleasant to hold! And oh my GOD have I been waiting a good while just to hold him!

And he was just in time for tea! (No seriously, I was making tea when he arrived and no sooner did I have him out of the box than the kettle started to whistle. Jervis "The Mad Hatter" Tetch was, quite literally in time for tea)

Thank you again so much to @riddle-me-ri for sending the listing link that made this possible! And to my dad who helped me with the money(as I was a bit broke due to the season)! I couldn't ask for a better Christmas/birthday! ♥

Pipe Dream Maze Cluster | Monochrome AE Source available to Patreon GUESTS for a limited time

Images of despair [stellaris version]

assorted paraphernalia for todays morning drawing LOL

my desk makes me so happy <3

Late birthday present from one of my partners. 😭🔮💨

She’s gorgeous and magical ✨

disappointed in myself for taking this long to finally listen to tf-2's soundtrack because every track slaps so hard. especially "red triumphs" and "blue triumphs". god those two make me wanna just