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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 6h

Here are two of the four, the other ones are tucked behind these in their own sleeves inside the bigger plastic case, quality looks like it could get a high grade to me, but I don't know what I'm doing.

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 6h

I saw a sale on the mox diamond graded at $2k, so for those it might be worth it. I don't know though 😂

Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah that one seems off, but some of the other high value cards seem right. I was just trying to figure out which box to put things in and what to sleeve on my first pass through 😂

Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 20h

After about 4 hours of scanning cards, here are the top value ones I have! I have a few more to scan, but I don't think there are many more at that level. I paid about $40 for those mox diamonds when the set was new.

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 1d

I don't have any complete sets, but some of the individual cards popped up as $600+ in the tcgplayer scanning app.

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! I just started scanning with the tcgplayer app and it started making a list.

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 1d

So... I just opened a box of magic the gathering cards that I had saved for 25 years while cleaning up and selling things in my house. I looked up the values of a few of them... holy crap. Anyone know the best way to sell these things now? Is it worth getting some of these professionally graded?

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 1d

Just crossed 100k monthly listeners for the first time on my spotify artist profile!

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 6d

Here's what that luck looks like visually, first time above 10k listeners in one day on spotify:

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 6d

I had some incredible luck this week when a new original lo-fi collaboration for halloween got picked up by a huge halloween playlist. Relationships that I worked on starting three years ago eventually led to that collaboration, and now thousands more people are hearing my work every day!

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 16d

Someone in Japan is (or maybe two someones?) listening to my Chrono Trigger album three or four times a day for the last few weeks. None of the tracks have gotten 1k streams yet for the spotify royalty pool, but there's actually a chance if they keep it up.

Thanks, whoever you are!

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 19d

It ultimately doesn't really matter that much. I'm glad some people heard what I did. They just showed me that there is more value in putting my music to animations from other artists instead of doing performance videos and that some day I should look for more visual artist collaborations.

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 19d

awwww thanks!

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 22d

Mutual for sure, I'm looking forward to the next time!

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 22d

My track with @msevelynrivera.bsky.social on her "Hyrule Cafe 3" album is out today! I was so excited for the opportunity to work with her on this. She's such a fantastic musician and shares so many of my feelings about music. Check it out!

open.spotify.com/track/2UN0Lj...

Tal Tal Heights

open.spotify.com

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · Sep 4

I made a really awesome Chrono Trigger album this year. Someone gave me a $300 tip to put it on Bandcamp because I said I had no reasonable expectation of being able to recoup that cost.

When I order the mechanical licenses, would anyone be interested in a physical version too?

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · Sep 3

First day back at school for the kids and I recorded for 6 hours! Two and a half songs recorded on my way to unburying myself from summer backlog collaboration work.

I have 6 or 7 to go and then I'll be able to add more collab work or do something for my channel again.

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · Sep 1

Someone recently stole my music and another artist's animation for their channel and 60k views on it. YT didn't notify me that my music was in the video. It's a pity that other people can earn 10x more with my music than I do.

And that's just one that I found out about because someone told me.

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · Aug 29

New Clair Obscur video! Monoco is a sax feature that stands out as most different from the rest of the soundtrack.

The incredible @joedifioremusic.bsky.social and @yusefkelliebrew.bsky.social played Sax and Drums respectively: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCF...

#clairobscur #vgm

Monoco - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 [Sax and Violin Cover]

YouTube video by Shea's Violin

www.youtube.com

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'm back from vacation and I have even have a video coming soon again! Sorry for the (checks watch...) 85 day break from posting. 😅

At least I'll have a new video before losing YT monetization for not posting every 90 days!

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · Aug 8

Congrats Ten!

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · Jul 24

*schattig

Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · Jul 24

Als je wilt konden wij ontmoeten, duidelijk hoeft je het niet! Ik wil ook tenminste een keer naar Valkenburg gaan. De terrasen daarin zijn ongelooflijk schatting

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · Jul 24

Ik zal het niet vergeten! Ik heb (als verkeerd... maar niet volstrekt mislukking 😆) naar België laatste keer gefietst omdat wij in Maastricht waren gebleven. Woon je in Vlaanderen?

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · Jul 24

Dank je wel! Ik zal binnenkort op vacantie daarnaartoe reisen (wij hebben ongelooflijk goedkope vlieg kaartjes gevonden!)

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