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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.
I speak Esperanto and I am quite active in the movement and write for the Esperanto Wikipedia. In 2011 I had quite a cool trip to an Esperanto Youth Congress in Kijiv. But it's hard to talk about it because most people see it as a failed project from the early 1900s, not as a modern subculture.
mi ankaΕ parolas la internacian lingvon. Δiuj miaj amikoj ne volas, ke mi priparolu Δin
Vi ne estas sola, mi lernis iom da esperanto, sed estas malfacile lerni, cxar gxi sentas sin⦠senutila?
SalutonΒ ! Mi klopodis apreni la lingvon per Duolingo kaj Lernu, sed beaΕrinde mi restis komencanton.
I genuinely like to engage with video games as an art form and I think some of them are among the actual best works of art there is.
It lands like absolutely nowhere. EIther people see you as a capital G gamer, but even the capital G gamers hate you because they want to enjoy product, not art
I love fixing up classic iPods, and as much as I enjoy it, any mention of it comes with "but why?", then the person asking refuses to understand why I still like using iPods even in this time of streaming music.
Guns. People assume I'm a Republican
Naw, left leaning gun owners exist..there are literally dozens of us!
We definitely exist, but to the average American, a lefty gun owner is a unicorn.
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.
Fellow conlanger!
Haha~ Funny that there's two conlangers in this thread.
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".
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.
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.
Dildos, especially Bad Dragons. I genuinely love just collecting them
You should just go work there. Make your own.
Open-source virtual reality, usually just any VR works too lmao but especially FOSS VR
Care to elaborate on this? I love both open-source and VR, but have never really thought to pair the two.
There's a lot of projects working to make VR on Linux a reality, although SteamVR technically works on linux it's really only if you have a Vive/Index or third-party drivers. That, and SteamVR on Linux is a buggy mess anyway lol. I'm definitely not an expert in any of this though, I'm only just now going into college to pursue this stuff further lmao. Here's some projects I've been following if you wanna look further:
There's tons more but I can't think of all of them lmao, but there's definitely cool stuff going on in the space and worth checking out.
Each quirky hobby mentioned here, deserves its own Lemmy community!
Cat juggling.
Jacking off. I'm really good at it and have a lot to share, but every time I've tried the police get called.