Hobbies big and small

[Xanadu]

Now for a less heated discussion, hobbies.
most people have them, what are yours?
besides the card games I raise fish, mostly goldfish-I feel they have a lot of charm. neat colours too! I also paint, on paper (small pieces and miniatures, like historical-right now I am painting French WW1 infantry)
I also write, I'm a graphic novel writer (I'm actually published-I don't do silly fanfics here lol)
for fun I am working on all the religion things for the story (the race has a holy book I decided to write to give, I guess a bit of an idea where it goes when they talk about it)
I play the flute too

[maisetofan]

i aspire to be an author, am studying at the moment for one of my books now
sent away 6 childrens fantasy novels but ya know these things take time so il keep climbing until i reach the top

i am also heavily into my faith, and read the bible and pray daily :D

i cannot live without my music and love coffee and the internet lol DUH

I enjoy seeing friends when i am in the mood

[mystra]

olde books and flutes (along with playing them)

[Xanadu]

i aspire to be an author, am studying at the moment for one of my books now
sent away 6 childrens fantasy novels but ya know these things take time so il keep climbing until i reach the top

i am also heavily into my faith, and read the bible and pray daily :D

i cannot live without my music and love coffee and the internet lol DUH

I enjoy seeing friends when i am in the mood

I like tea :)
I lost my faith in a spiral of bad times and lack of answers
fantasy is my favorite genre :)

[HolyShadow]

Writing
Video Games
Anime
Television
Psychoanalyzing
Hentai
Porn
More hentai
More hentai
More anime
More hentai

[FanMan]

Writing
Drawing
Video Games
Model Trains
Anime
Television
Rollerblading
Biking

@SR: Thats a lot of porn and hentai for a hobbie but then, whose hobby doesn't involve that.

[killshot]

I really don't think this belongs in serious discussion, but I'll post anyway.

I like drawing, music, reading, retro video games, certain anime, and just thinking about things.

[Noah Kaiba]

* I also raise fish -- my 10 gallon tank is stocked with 1 betta, 3 cory cats, and 3 ghost shrimp
* Reptiles -- I own a bearded dragon
* Zoology (more of an interest than hobby)
* Forensic Science (more of an interest)
* Writing -- I write poetry, novels, novellas, short stories, songs, fanfiction, and comics, my English teacher who's a novelist, is helping me get one of my novels published.
* I love fishing (I go just about every day)
* Tubing (Family owns a speed boat)
* Reading
* Surfing the Internet
* Hanging out with friends
* Playing video games (mostly retro titles like Castlevania, Contra, Tetris, Super Mario, and Sonic the Hedgehog)
* Traveling (going to Italy and France soon)
* I like to draw (working on a graphic novel right now)
* Making independent films (have won several awards, not big awards though, mostly special recognition lol)
* Making AMVs
* Anime
* Television
* Comics/Manga

I'm making my hobbies sound more exciting than they actually are, but yeah, that's all my hobbies in a nutshell.

[maisetofan]

you liek making AMVS? same here lol
more to the list

i love drinking Tea, with the teabag left in thank you very much
Television shows, certain ones
going to the movies
reading and writing about history

[Xanadu]

when my mom was younger they had tea leaves in the bottom (she's British you know)
so to this day she won't drink any beverage to the bottom

[kudos]

The title said hobbies, both big and small, so here goes in no particular order:

Reading
writing (poetry, short stories, and I'm working on a novel)
drawing/painting
singing and playing the trumpet (yay for band geeks!)
anime
hanging w/ friends
Bible study
midaeval weaponry
calligraphy/illumination
book-binding
laughing a lot
telling lame puns...

and many other strange and endearing quirks. :)

oh... and since other people mentioned it... I love peppermint tea!

[kudos]

And has anyone noticed that almost everyone in this thread likes to write?
It makes me happy. :)

[PegasusJCrawford]

Rocking Out
Rad Music
Baking (not getting baked)
Working Out (as a result of the above hobby)
Anime (on some occassions)
Soccer (not willingly a hobby, but it's apart of my life so I may as well list it)
Photography (my only REAL hobby that I'm passionate about)
YGOTAS chatroom (practically on there everyday might as well be a hobby)

I'm a lazy dead-beat teenager and don't do much else...O_o;

And for the record, I hate writing!! Bwahahaha!

[Ishikawa Oshro]

I collect human fecies

[musicfreak9000]

music
music
music
and MUSIC!!!! (i should of taken it at school >_>)
art
drawing
ranting (for teh lulz)
talking to myself (im not joking, i hate most people)
the internetz
revolution
childern card games
guitar
guitar
guitar (i have 3)

[kudos]

Rocking Out

And for the record, I hate writing!! Bwahahaha!

killjoy :tongue:

[JesusRocks]

I'd agree that this belongs in Random Discussions, however, it doesn't hurt to bring a little bit of calm to what is otherwise a very heated place, so I'm leaving it here...

Now, on topic:

- Playing Guitar
- Photography
- Photoshopping
- Xbox 360
- 3D design
- Writing
- Leading the music in church
- Law
- Writing songs

I also draw occasionally...

I guess YGOTAS forums and IRC are also hobbies, I'm on here enough...

[Velocity]

- Chess (I've played since about fourth grade, but never in any tournaments, sanctioned or otherwise.)
- Football (American football mostly, but I still have a soft spot for the world's game.)
- Weight training (I don't "work out." I train.)
- Reading (I have a variety of tastes, but fiction is beginning to lose its appeal.)
- Sleeping (It's a great escape. :D)
- Walking (It almost goes hand in hand with the following.)
- Observing people (I like to people-watch; it reveals so much about people, especially just walking gait and body language.)
- Discussing matters of society, the world, government, economic perspectives (It is stimulating and informative, especially when talking with people of opposing viewpoints.)

[Cocyta]

Sleeping rules. :biggrin:

[Zairak]

Hmm...

-Training
-Eating
-Studying
-Competion of most kinds
-Extremely large projects, whether I finish them or not
-Puzzles
-Very rarely drawing

...Yeah, that about covers it.

[Kochiha]

-Drums
-Writing
-Bass
-Melee
-Warhammer 40K
-Holding impromptu Socratic seminars with staunch Christians
-Using Shinto-Buddhist philosophy to solve people's problems
-Head-banging
-Writing music
-Anime
-Manga
-Collaborating with people on written works (anyone interested?)
-Watching strange movies
-Pokémon
-The internet
-Critiquing YouTube Poop

[maisetofan]

MUSIC :D

[JesusRocks]

-Drums
-Writing
-Bass
-Melee
-Warhammer 40K
-Holding impromptu Socratic seminars with staunch Christians
-Using Shinto-Buddhist philosophy to solve people's problems
-Head-banging
-Writing music
-Anime
-Manga
-Collaborating with people on written works (anyone interested?)
-Watching strange movies
-Pokémon
-The internet
-Critiquing YouTube Poop

I used to love Warhammer 40K... I was Tau :3
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/medmapguy/Tau-Warriors-and-dronessmaller.jpg

[Fat1Fared]

I used to love Warhammer 40K... I was Tau :3
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/medmapguy/Tau-Warriors-and-dronessmaller.jpg

Tau fail in face of Dark Eldar:- (my city's finalest 3 times, never won once <sigh>) (though all agree space marines suck)

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww8/fat1fared/dark_eldar_avatar.jpg

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww8/fat1fared/darklord.jpg

Others:-

-Law
-Football
-Gambling
-Drinking ^_^
-Gaming
-Reading
-Writing
-This site

[JesusRocks]

I liked the Tau because they used Ion cannons and Railguns... plus they looked more sophisticated and organised. Incidentally I enjoyed the organised, clean and stylish SAS missions on Call of Duty 4 more than the sloppy Marines. I think you can see a pattern emerging here...

The Eldar and Dark Eldar are second to the Tau in that regard IMO...

The humans in 40K are just utter poo...

[Fat1Fared]

I liked the Tau because they used Ion cannons and Railguns... plus they looked more sophisticated and organised. Incidentally I enjoyed the organised, clean and stylish SAS missions on Call of Duty 4 more than the sloppy Marines. I think you can see a pattern emerging here...

The Eldar and Dark Eldar are second to the Tau in that regard IMO...

The humans in 40K are just utter poo...

I always thought you were cool, but there isn't line in this which isn't win (though my second army is rebel imperial guard army, because find them funny)

[JesusRocks]

I always thought you were cool, but there isn't line in this which isn't win (though my second army is rebel imperial guard army, because find them funny)

Your double-negative confuses me at this time of night =_=

[musigal]

reading
watercolor painting
cross-stitching

wow. I sound like some sort of fuddy duddy rocking-chair type. = (
they're all really fun though!

oh
and playing trumpet
listening to music

[DoubleEdgeSword]

I dabble in a lot of hobbies. I used to raise hens in my 4H club before I retired (they have an age limit on members) and managed to earn 1st and 2nd place every time I entered my two bantams in exhibition shows. It was a lot of fun, and chickens are very unique in both breed and personality.

I'm a writer, and I've written both original fiction and fanfiction and poetry (school assignment...) that I've posted online. The original fiction I was working on a few months ago only got up to about six chapters before I scrapped it. It kinda sucks that I got bored/stuck with it, because I had a few friends who really liked it. I hate bumming people out like that.

But I'm working on a new one at the moment, and along with my fiction writing class coming up, it should be a good one.

I also do gaming, but mostly adventure type stuff such as Okami, the Zelda series and the Sonic series as well. I have a few other genres here and there, but my favorite genre will always be adventure.

I do a bit of artwork, but it's not all that great. I'm better at painting pictures with words rather than pens and pencils. All of my artwork is self-taught, since I have a thing against doing everything by the book. I prefer to play around and see what comes up when I work with things. Discovery is a lot more fun than following a manual, and you learn more about yourself and your working styles that way.

Nature and wildlife have always been a passion/hobby of mine. Even doing something as simple as walking eases my mind. Studying wildlife and animal behavior is something I've done for years, and there's always new stuff to learn in those fields. Birds are also my favorite animals, especially birds of prey. I hope to one day work with these beautiful animals and educate people more about them.