For example, I play the drums and tend to think of myself as a drummer. Do you love games, consider yourself a gamer? Are you a chef, a bodybuilder, maybe an artist? What is it that you love to do?
I’m a nerdy hippie! I love video games and random facts, but I’ll talk for hours about psychedelics and go to music festivals and talk about how opening it is. I play percussion, but it feeds into the hippie vibe I try to convey. :)
My current interests are yoga, succulents, reading and painting but having adhd makes this list ever changing. I think yoga has stuck the most, seventeen years and counting, but I don’t think of myself as a yogi.
I’m a performing artist. I do fire, sideshow, and burlesque.
Oh awesome, that sounds super neat! If you have the time and energy at some point I’d love to hear more. Especially about what you do with fire, I’m intrigued 😁
Nowadays mostly fire eating. It’s hard to do big things where I live but I also spin fire (staff, swords) and build custom props, like an exploding flail. I sell flaming nipple tassels too, which I never intended to get into but my shop does pretty well lmao.
Kite flyer, kite maker.
I’ve been flying multi-line, controllable sport kites for over half of my life. I attend kite festivals very frequently and occasionally travel throughout the US or internationally for kite festivals.
About 6 years ago, I started building my own sport kites. Now days, I have a workshop with 5 sewing machines, 2 3d printers, and other equipment, all of it revolving around kite making.
I can’t really imagine my life without kites involved.
Neat! With a workshop like that is it your job too or does it remain hobby/side pursuit.
I know a few people who have setup workspace for fishing and fishing related thing (lures, rods, etc) but still do it on the side.
It’s still a side pursuit. I have a full time job as a software engineer. I do sell the kites I make on occasion, but I have no intention of making it a proper source of income.
I call myself a film nerd. I particularly enjoy movies with surrealistic or psychological elements. I prefer older movies or movies that depict older periods, such as the ~1880s-1980s. I had a fixation on the 20s-40s a while ago and discovered one of my favourite actors, Charles Boyer. Watched a bit of Ingrid Bergman, too. Currently, I am fixating on the 2018 Das Boot (the first 2 seasons at least…).
I hold movies dear to my heart. I have ~250 movies on hold in my “watchlist,” and I seldom find the motivation to sit down and absorb new materials. However, once I do discover something I like, chances are I will incorporate it into my personality or daily life some way. I feel that movies encourage creativity within me, as I often take inspiration from movies / shows / characters when creating my own work (I write in my free time).
I have never met a person in real life who is just as passionate about this as I am. I don’t really have anybody to talk about movies with for hours, so I turn to the internet. Even then, it’s difficult to find such people, I think.
I’m a cat lady if my cats count as a hobby (and I count them as a hobby). Also I play a lot of video games but have been socialized not to call myself a gamer because of gatekeepers.
Sounds like a gamer girl to me 🤷
I collect flashlights and am registered as a flasher…
I love to ride and rebuild motorcycles. It’s so satisfying getting a crusty old bike and making it a reliable machine again.
It does influence how I think of myself. I’m proud of being able to disassemble and reassemble an entire motorcycle.
It’s an amazing feeling going down the highway on two wheels, knowing that the machine underneath me used to be a pile of parts in boxes.
The Zen and art of motorcycle maintenance.
I study rhetoric as a hobby and think of myself as a writer sometimes.
I guess maybe mushroom hunting.
I really identify with instruments as well, my drummer friend. I would call myself a guitarist, mainly, but I can play drums and produce music as well so maybe I could expand that title to just ‘musician’. Keep on slamming those skins.
Oh hell yeah! Guitar is my second instrument, I’m not nearly as good at it as drums but it’s really fun too! I can’t produce at all though yet, my experiments there have been a disaster 😅
I’m curious though, what kinda music do you tend to gravitate towards?
Honestly, metal and hardcore music is my bread and butter, but I am pretty ADHD when it comes to music. I’ve also made hip hop beats, and edm tracks. I listen to just about anything except pop and country(I love some bluegrass and hyperpop though).
I am like the opposite to you where I am not nearly as good at drums as I am on guitar, but drums are so much fun. What kind of music do you like to play and listen to?
It’s mostly just metal or rock for me lol. I don’t branch out much to be honest, I listen to some punk, hip hop, and pop too, but not a lot. I don’t think I really dislike much of anything though, I’ve gotten a lot more tolerant of country after being made to listen to it in the car a bunch 😝
Wood. I fancy myself a carpenter, and I’m officially allowed to, that was the trade I originally learned - and never worked an hour later as one. But when my house would burn, I’d rescue my Japanese tools first. Then my family. Don’t tell them…
I’m a Sufi hillbilly.
Saving the rest of you a search: Sufism
Are we all just too proud to start identifying first and foremost as a masturbator?
It’s definitely allowed. I’ve met lots of people who gave me the distinct impression that they were wankers.
I’m not sure if you mean for me to take that personally. But I did take that personally. I laughed anyway, totally agree.
Not at all. Love your username btw. Though I believe Ook was an orangutan, not a gorilla.
I will claim that an orang-utan is often mistaken to be an orangutan, but is in fact a cousin of Gorilla gorilla called Gorilla otang-utan.
That’s because I have found that I was wrong, there is a character limit, orangutan is a long word, and I’m a retconning wanker.
I love password generators, and so I use them to generate unique usernames for everything online.
