I don't see "an increasingly difficult to ignore urge to bomb an oil pipeline" on here.

I'm turning into a bog witch

I've let like half my yard grow out and turn into a de facto butterfly garden. I've got a birdbath where I leave shineys for the crow. It's going pretty well, I recommend it.

My midlife crisis: I bought a ten year old car and started fixing it myself.

I have bloody knuckles and bruised forearms and now a pretty bad oil leak but I replaced that goddamn turbo.

You forgot about bouldering / rock climbing

I guess running. About 4 years ago, I started on the treadmill with an exhausting 30min/mi. Earlier this week I completed my first 7min/mi. Along the way, I added a 28min/5k@1.5% and am working on a 60min/10k (today did 62min/10k).

BDSM. I have integrated pretty quickly into the local community, and I'm a regular at munches and play parties.

Which AI generated slop are you?

Japan? Does that just mean travel?

Le sigh. Grad school

Where is the drinking and BBQing one?

Where is the one for dating someone 15-20 years younger than you?

Fucking math.

Yes give me sudden urge to self-study linear algebra for shits and giggles. Ima go look at math memes now.

I nearly failed math my entire life wdym it will suddenly become interesting for no reason.

I'm only 33, a bit young for midlife crisis, but I've gotten into ham radio. I think it's probably the most I've spent on a hobby. Even budget radios that can communicate over the horizon are pretty pricey.

Edit: The most I've spent on a hobby to get started on a hobby, that is. I've definitely sank much more money into video games and when I played it Magic the Gathering.

I started collecting Lego again.

... and running.

As a gen-x, I feel attacked that millennials are already having midlife crises.

You are young! Save it for your fifties, kids, I haven’t had mine yet!

Thrifting should be an option.

I can tell I’m the target demo because the Goodwills all play music I like.

I know it’s a thing, I see kindred souls with the same millennial dork vibes all of the time.

I have ADHD. All of the above.

Grad school but I can't afford it. Or running but my knees hurt so I got way too into bicycles

Well I'm forty now and about 6 months ago I decided that after nearly 30 years of listening to metal music I was going to finally learn how to do harsh vocals/metal screaming. Still an enormous amateur, and I have a lot to learn, but basically just this week I finally got to the point where I don't hate listening to my own screams.

So uh, whatever you wanna call that midlife crisis, that's mine.

Motorcycles!🏍️🏍️💨💨

What about the stereotype of buying a flashy car? Arguably that’s the one I fell into: spending far more on a car than I ever have to get something flashy and different, and purely thinking of me for what felt like the first time in my life.

Music 🎼🎵🎶

More specifically: playing the instruments: drum, piano/keyboard, clarinet, guitar, whatever else 🥁🎹🎸🎷🎺🎻🪗🪘🎛️

Bonus points for "getting back to", as in: something you got a start as a young fella but then life happens and you stopped doing it, and now that your bone aches when it is cold your mind went to old times when life felt brighter.

Japan?? Ummm, wut? Damnit... I'm still going.

As a elder millennial, I am slotted heavily into the running category. Everyday!

I’m not quite there yet but i would probably just keep on cycling. It’s a great sport and even better for a midlife crisis. There’s even a word for it: MAMIL (Middle-Aged Men in Lycra)