Retrotech Princess

It was "Ette", short for "Cassette", never Cass/Cassie, full name Cassette Echo Decker, and yes, she'd picked her name herself. She'd been interested in retro technology even before her transition, but afterward, that interest had been cranked up to 11.

But cassettes were only the tip of the iceberg. She collected it all, functional and non-functional, never opened and very used, brand and knock off alike. All of it piled, with love and care, in her overstuffed bedroom. Cords flowed out from cardboard boxes like waterfalls, tangled to all hell, piling up on the floor. VHS tapes stacked on a VCR stacked on an old CRT. A vintage phonograph in the corner, on which played an 80's rap vinyl record. All of it lovingly tracked and categorized in a massive spreadsheet she updated almost every single day.

On this day in particular, she was currently sitting on her throne (beat up computer chair), looking over her kingdom (aforementioned spreadsheet of all of her retrotech collection), and hemming and hawing over whether or not to add a new toy (an insanely low priced cassette of her favorite album of all time) to her fiefdom (her retrotech collection). On one hand, she'd NEVER seen it this low priced, and the seller was offering her specifically a special deal! ...On the other hand

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