Interests

Some of the things I'm interested in that I don't necessarily talk about elsewhere and links to where I do. The problem is I'm very easy to interest in anything that wisps across my brain. I might need to rank my interests.

• Dungeons and Dragons, TTRPGs generally, and board games. Putting this all together in Games
• Gardening. Specifically growing vegetables. I do blog about this a bit. Such as: Onions (which is not really about onions), An open letter to the birds of my garden, and Tomatoes and other garden pests
• The indie web. The weird wild web of my youth. I've written about this a lot actually, including: Thirty years on the web, My seventeen-year-old self and the Wayback Machine, The Good Ship RSS, several of the links posts, and working on a Calendar of Fun Web Things
• Zines. I'd like to be more into zines. I'll have a page about them soon
• Postcards. I think I collect postcards. I think that might be a thing I do. Mentioned in Microhobbies
• Cartography. It's just so cool. I've listed a few cartography books
• Swimming and wild swimming. For the view, not the racing or the 'cold water benefits'
• Houseplants. I've been informed I have an above-average number of houseplants
• Mid-century furniture. My house is very bachelor pad
• Films. Bonus points if there are ladies kissing
• Interactive fiction. So clever. So creative
• Aunting. This does count as an interest. It's something I want to be better at. I've written about some conversations with my niblings, also Becoming an aunt
• Sustainability. Not as good at it as I should be but I do always try to take sustainability into consideration
• Astronomy. I have a telescope. I try. See: To see stars
• Music. Feels weird to say because isn't everyone? And I'm not in any useful way. Chronicled in Listening
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Composting. Feels like it should just be part of gardening but with all the energy and attention I devote to my compost it deserves its own section
• Consciousness. Neuroscience. The brain. Phenomenology. I don't know
• Victorian etiquette manuals which I've now explained
• Time travel
• Linguistics and language
• French
• History. A bit vague. All of history? Maybe
• Groups of people coalescing into a scene
• Camping
• Tudor houses
• Witches: Witches and highwaywomen, conversations with a two-year-old about witches, and Before I go to see Wicked
• Mechanical keyboards. I have one. Does that make me interested in them?
• Community
• The Commons, both historically and nowadays, digitally and physically, enclosure as possibly the root of much evil
• Libraries and the library/sharing economy
• Solarpunk

Things I would like the time to be more interested in at some point: horology.

Then there are things like calculus which I'm interested in in the sense I like learning about them but absolutely cannot do. I'm not learning calculus, I'm learning about calculus: there's a vital and huge difference.

I'd like to be more interested in useful things like car maintenance or coding or plumbing or building sheds.

Inspired by Chris Burnett's post.

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