So, gifting holidays have always been kind of a competition between my boyfriend and I. I lost Christmas this year, and I will be damned if I lose Valentines--But there's a problem.I didn't see him buying/ordering me anything, so I thought maybe we were just doing something this year....But then he got a package in the mail, and he's hella talking it up. I have no idea what to do.So here's a list of bullet points that might help you guys help me.I am a 22 year old female, buying (or making) my 23 year old male boyfriend a gift.I have a budget of 200$.He loves TCGs. He plays the Pokemon TCG (which I play with him), Yu-Gi-Oh, and Vanguard all competitively.He's a giant weeb. Lately his favorite anime are Fate/Stay Night (and all the variants), Monogatari/Bakemonogatari, and Is It Wrong To Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?Going off the last one, he's a sucker for typical sexy anime imagery. If he wasn't dating me, I'm 95% sure this man would die with an anime waifu. I also love the 'ecchi' cliche, and something along those lines wouldn't be off limits for me to make/buy.I usually try to get him at least one thing he can use in daily life. A shirt, a wallet... Something.He's really big into the music that he listens to. Like, obsessively into the music he listens to. He knows every single word to every single lyric on every single CD he owns. (And he owns a lot of them.) Coheed and Cambria is his #1 favorite, he even has their logo tattooed on his right bicep.Other bands and artists he loves are Slipknot, Stone Sour, Avenged Sevenfold, Biffy Clyro, Disturbed, System of a Down, Serj Tankian, Thank You Scientist, Chevelle, Rise Against, and of course The Prize Fighter InfernoPokemon has always been a big part of our relationship. One of our first big 'dates' was going out for the midnight release of Pokemon X/Y.He's a power lifter, and he's always talking about wanting to work out more at home, but I have no idea what kind of stuff would be conducive to that. He has a small weight set, but he basically never uses those because they're dumbbells they only go up to ~80lbs on each (or maybe 40lbs each?) and that's pretty light for him. I'm not athletic or even vaguely fit, so that land is a mystery for me.He spends a lot of time playing mobile games like Pokemon Go, DBZ Dokkan Battle, Bleach: Brave Souls. He used to play Brave Frontier a lot, but seems to have gotten bored with it.I have no idea how this could maybe or maybe not be relevant, but he's a giant-ass nerd. Biochemistry major hoping to be a geneticist.I mean there's the obvious choice of 'go out and buy things related to his likes' but I'd really like to make him... Something. Crafty ideas, maybe? I myself am an artist pursuing a MFA with a minor in illustration, so making things definitely isn't out of my realm of capability...I might be a creative type, but for some reason I lack any creative ability when it comes to gifts.For Christmas, I mainly bought him some packs from the latest Pokemon TCG set and made him a T-shirt that had song lyrics on it...I'm not really looking for things I could order online, out of fear that they won't arrive in the 4 days left.tl;dr - pls help via /r/Gifts http://ift.tt/2kyMV27
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