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Not too quirky or obscure but I really just like to fix shit. Clocks, washing machines, cars, crooked door, hole in a sweater, electronics... Nothing is outside of my interest.
On the more obscure side I like to fiddle with wrist watches by adding aftermarket parts and modifying their overall look.
I train in swordfighting. It's good exercise and trains hand eye coordination as well as good balance.
The funniest part is it's actually helped me a lot in my day to day because I know how to move my body
I kill and butcher animals for myself and sometimes friends together with my boyfriend. Mostly pigs, some sheep and goats, poultry. Sometimes injured animals who are too injured or in too much pain.
The idea is to save the stress of transport to animals who are raised in good conditions as part of diversified restorative small-scale agriculture.
The killing and butchering is just one part of a circle of activities around the farm throughout the year, but probably the most unmentionable in any social setting other than among meat fanatics.
Fountain pens. Honestly, most people look at me more weirdly when I mention a nib's feedback than when I mention the means of production.
In a way, my interest in internet privacy is almost always met with uninterested "ah" IRL. Even when I dont come off as preachy, when I just try to sell it as "watching YT without ads", people often don't care.
There was a time that I thought people didn't understand the consequences. Now I realize that most people are just entirely apathetic.
Talking to people I know about Window and Googles intrusive software they just go "Oh they know everything anyway" like just try? simple things like switching browsers, using frontends and alternative/opensource software and using https://justdeleteme.xyz/ to get rid of unneeded accounts is easy but effective
I was learning Gregg Shorthand at some point just for the fun of it and every time I brought it up people had no idea what I was on about.
I'm old enough to remember when shorthand was a required course for women in secretarial schools. I always though it was black magic and very cool.
Wow. How old are you?
In my 60's. According to Internet sources, shorthand was taught in schools until the 1990's. It's likely that shorthand use declined as PCs became common in offices.
Pretty much all of them at this point, I'm in the construction industry. Video games, reading, computer repair, anime, dungeons and dragons, miniature painting, watch making, chess... There are a few brave exceptions, but most people give me that glazed over look when I bring it up.
Downloading and occasionally playing games from the flip phone era (j2me games). They seem to be mostly forgotten. They're basically the best alternative to the ad ridden, micro-transactions galore of today's android games and there's a surprisingly high amount of very high quality games.
NGL I think the best option for mobile gaming is just to buy a cheap ds/3ds and either hacking or using an r4 card, and have a dedicated device for gaming, this both gives higher quality games and a dedicated gaming device so you don't get distracted on your phone.
I dabbled in a bit of neography (creating your own writing system) and a hint of conlanging (creating your own language). I think I've managed to create a fairly decent writing system for myself, but the conlang went nowhere fast as I underestimated the effort required to even get started with it. I also attempted making fantasy maps, but it was all in paper and quite a while ago.
That's it, I suppose: neography, conlanging, and fantasy mapping.
I also spent an embarrassing amount of time looking at maps and making virtual road trips via Google street view, but that's way more mainstream.
What's a writing system in this context?
In this context, as in the more ordinary sense, it is a mapping of speech sounds to symbols, usually written, but some others have made systems that make use other things such as color (lights, or pigments) or even 3d-shapes. So, for example, the Latin alphabet is a writing system, but so are the Arabic abjad, the Devanagari abugida, the Mongolian script, the Korean script, Gregg shorthand, as well as Tengwar and Klingon. The last two are considered conscripts (a synonym for neography, in hindsight, I should have used that instead) since they aren't used to write "natural (human) languages".
Fellow conlanger!
Haha~ Funny that there's two conlangers in this thread.
Open-source virtual reality, usually just any VR works too lmao but especially FOSS VR
Weather watching (not the extreme kind) - I basically note down the current weather and interpret my own forecast then later see if I'm right.
Lockpicking - it's basically a tiny little puzzle and I can buy different solutions for a few bucks at any store.
Gardening - this is less obscure/quirky and more that I don't want people to think that I'm bragging about how many tomatoes I have because I will in fact brag about how many tomatoes I have.
Dildos, especially Bad Dragons. I genuinely love just collecting them
You should just go work there. Make your own.
I intend to start my own company at some point :)
Of dildos? That's great. Good luck to you! When you do, tell me about it.