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I do not have tiny humans of my own, but I am well aware of this game. It is the best game to get you on your feet after five seconds of silence.

I love this topic. I'm really happy to see so many other dancers in the crowd! Seems like belly dance and Zumba are very popular, too, which are for sure among my favorites.

I do leatherwork professionally, so that's not really a hobby! I also write and draw, the former still a hobby (though soon it will be part of my business too) and the latter semi-hobby, semi-professional. Sometimes I make dorky webtools for writers in javascript (and if you ever have any ideas for new ones, PM me!). I also am in two weekly tabletop campaigns--one of them has been ongoing for six and a half years, and we hope to wrap up the whole story at around the seven year mark this fall. Another of my hobbies is medieval fantasy costuming, though some of my stuff is more or less period accurate. Infrequently I play old video games.

I also paint Warhammer miniatures sometimes! I finally finished the base for my model of Taurox the Brass Bull (who isn't in Age of Sigmar apparently--booooo) and got a pic.

woah that's neat -- where i live we in the uk have a huge re-enactment group that come to our local castle, and the group always includes some blacksmiths and leatherworkers. they make the costumes for the people fighting. they do an amazing job.

so, as far as my hobbies go i'm an avid antique collector, restorer and seller; i specialise in grandfather clocks. as i'm writing this i'm surrounded by bits and bobs from dig sites that are well over 600 years old. there's a WWII bayonet in my drawer & two skeleton clocks down the corridor. my family once bought a giant erotic laveaux sculpture -- which turned out to be the original -- and made some money on that.

we also had a couple of original walt disney drawings to sell on behalf of someone. it's never a dull moment.

i talk to my beautiful gf and good buds every day i also listen to music and work out daily, play around a lot with make up.

I work on cars for a living! As most of you already know. Heres what you might not know. We are commission. Not hourly.

At any rate! I roleplay on the side, starting a book, hiking, camping, SCA, Dystopia Rising, and play other computer games as well watch shows!

And reading....when I got nothing better to do

My biggest hobby is knitting, which I'm sure is a massive surprise to everyone and nobody saw that one coming whatsoever!

I'm also a big time gamer, I've logged thousands of hours on Steam and hundreds on my DS and I'm adding to them daily. I love roleplaying as well, and while I've barely drawn in the past 2 years, I still enjoy the occasional doodling. Cats are a hobby lifestyle for me. I love messing around with computers and generally troubleshooting.

I have two IKEA bookcases full of books, and another 1,000+ books on my tablet. I can't live without reading stories, even if I read them a hundred times already. My favorite book is a Dutch YA novel from Thea Beckman that I got as a gift from my aunt when I was barely a teenager. I still have it and still read it.

I try to contribute to charity through my hobbies and am looking into a local art gallery right now to volunteer for their IT department.

Well, I love making art in my spare time, even though I'm not a very good artist. I just love coming up with new characters to draw. I also like to play video games, too.

Work. No, it's not a hobby, but my regulars make it seem that way! I enjoy gaming immensely, and I have logged many hours of my time to them. I love my cats -- they and the wife are my absolute everything!

I thoroughly enjoy the typical hobbies: reading, writing, drawing, RP, etc. I also used to focus most, if not all my free time to martial arts and hope to get the time and funds to pick that back up again some day. But nothing calls out to me more than taking a trip with the one I adore. If the expenses don't weigh me down, I want nothing more than to just exlpore the world on an academic standpoint and learn as much as I can about cultures, languages, ways of life, their economic views, their literature and ways of thinking. I just really enjoy people watching.

I think that about sums me up, I suppose. I do like to keep up with the latest news on animal laws, ALS, and I contribute when I am able to Alley Cat Allies. As much as I possibly can, I speak out and contribute in favor of and for the Freedom From Religion Foundation as well.

Now I know this isn't just a hobby for me -- it is a source of income through the creation of logos and the like, but Art / Illustration / Painting have been a huge aspect of my interests outside of RP / Writing for numerous years. Especially trying and adapting myself to new mediums - first it starts off as a hobby then metamorphoses in to something one can make bank on ; i.e painting and crafting vinyl toys from kid robot.

Out side of Art/Illustration and crafty things like Crochet & bad attempts at embroidery, I do a lot of stuff, a lot of things - sometimes those things deal with stuff and the stuff is in things.

Out Doorsy active things!:
I grew up in a huge outdoorsy family; camping, hiking, horseback riding, Kayaking, fishing, Hunting, swimming and the like were a pretty normal thing for me. (Hell this summer I am going to be going on a month long camping trip to Grand Mesa). I also am prone to doing Yoga 3 to 4 times a week or in general go to the gym. I used to swing dance and belly dance and surf a whole hell lot before I was working a regular 9 to 5 // stressed out. Now I am slowly getting back in to the saddle.


Nerd / Indoorsy things

Gaming! Gaming, gaming gaming gaming and more gaming. Whether it be actual video games like FPS /MOBA/MMO/RPGs I play a good majority of them and starting to get in to the Let's Play / Streaming community. I have clocked almost 2 thousand hours alone in to Civilization 4 in steam along with playing copious amounts of League and Over watch. Currently MMO wise I am in to playing GW2 since it isn't a financial burden. + friends.


Cats & Birds. This isn't a hobby like any one else can say - having a pet is a huge responsibility and having multiples of said pet's are even larger responsibilities. I have four cats. 4. Albeit one of them isn't mine, the other three are and they all have huge egos/personalities. And all of them are rescues. Now with Birds! I used to have a flock of 10 budgies, 2 Green Cheek Conures, 2 Lovies and 1 Jendaya. Due to the change in my living situation and just time / constraints of my previous job not giving me time to pay attention to them or in general old age and defects I have re-homed them or they have passed over the rainbow road. HOWEVER! Every time a Cat or Bird (specifically parrot) thing shows up, my friends bombard me with paraphernalia of them and call me the bird mom.


Watching Cartoons & Anime. (This is self explanatory. I am a huge nerd and enjoy these things even if some of my friends do not.)


Watching Disney films whether for nostalgia purposes, because the film is new or because I......love disney a lot.


Reading the News and trying to understand what is going on with our world and with our own country.


Derping around with tumblr themes and tumblr it's self + making character specific tumblrs for inspo purposes.

derping with pinterest.

watching YT.

Pretty much this, haha. With the addition of a few things like scuba, rock climbing, etc. and a huge emphasis on kayaking, hunting (bow, rifle, and at one point falconry), and horseback riding. Shared love of the outdoors is what I suspect brought Clove and I together as friends in the first place!

My parents have a large property on both sides of a major river here so it's nice to have a semi-private get away where I can fish, float, rock-climb, watch critters, and otherwise get lost. I'm really lucky to live where I do in that the wilderness is very accessible. Here, I'm surrounded by people who enjoy it in different ways and are excited to share those things. In my life I've been a buckaroo, volunteer firefighter, a pilot, and more recently I'm trying to start ASA sailing classes on beautiful blue Lake Tahoe.

There's only a few areas where I get competitive, but fencing, trap shooting, and horseback riding would be it.


I don't do much indoors other than look at tumblr, obsess over dogs, and decay at work or rotary club.

EDIT: I've just been informed that I do a lot more indoors than I thought. I guess my cooking and baking count, I also make organic cosmetics, and I'm very big into the personal finance and investing world. And... gaming. ¯\_﴾͡๏̯͡๏)_/¯

I'm an equal parts gamer and artist outside of RP! Though I treat my art more as a second job, I hardly do stuff for myself anymore.

As for games, I'm strictly PC and I buy only Pokemon games for my 3ds. I've got two for mass trading, breeding, and evolving. I love breeding competitive Pokemon and shiny hunting.

I also recently picked up jewelry making. I like to use natural materials like leather cord, stones, bone, wood, and two of the main things I center my jewelry around is dinosaur bone and amber. I spend a lot of time hunting for good materials be it outside or on eBay.

I like to collect things as well. I have several Godzilla figurines and action figures, Digimon toys, Pokemon toys. I love high quality action figures like the figuarts line. I also have a life sized Gollum statue in my living room!!! My house is littered with random stuff from all kinds of genres and fandoms LOL.

Outside of roleplaying, my biggest hobbies are art and video gaming.
I've always been a huge video game nerd (my username comes from one of my favorite franchises).
As for art, I've been doing some freelance stuff for the past year or so now but I've always been a doodler, and in August I'll be attending college to study art, which I'm super excited for.

For a second I thought your username said "Vintners" and I thought, "How on Earth did I miss a game about wine???"

- watching movies and shows (anime or not as long as its good)
- drawing
- gaming, lately a burst of DayZ, Battlefield 4 and XCOM 2 (noticed a lot of gamers here so thought I'd throw it out there to message me if you wanna jam something on PC or DS )
- paintball
- listening to music

I draw, all my art on my profiles I did myself (if not I always say who drew what).

I also research my family tree and have done so on and off since 1999. I've followed one branch to Switzerland and another to a village in Germany (though much of the work has already been done by close and distant cousins for these branches). My other main German branch I can't get back to Germany as I don't know the place in Germany they came from and nothing I have so far gives a place other than 'Germany' which isn't very helpful as Germany mostly likely wasn't even a country when they left or had just become a country(I don't know the exact year they came over but it had to have been between 1880 - the first time they show up in U.S. records that I know of and around 1871 - when the youngest child that was born in Germany was born.) The immigrant in this line had mostly daughters which makes it harder to follow them in the records though I did recently find the eldest German born daughter's husband and children in the records living in Illinois - her parents had settled in Missouri but her husband's family was from Illinois best I can figure.)

I do a lot of reading, mostly fantasy stuff.

I used to write a bit sometimes but not as much anymore now that I RP.

I like to listen to music and I spend a lot of time on Youtube. I watch a lot of let's plays of games I'd never play myself(too poorly coordinated and too much of a scardy-cat to play the Amnesia series(it needs a good sequel the pig one had a good story idea but the game itself was not that good from what I've seen of it from the let's plays) or any of the FNAF games, or Limbo or the Walking Dead series (So glad they're staying with Clem in the new one). I did buy Undertale with but it's hard too so it may be a long long while before I get anywhere in that game(I was bad and already know all the secrets before playing the game.)

I also watch MLP:FiM. I am a Brony even though I'm a girl. I never watch the old shows as a kid but I did watch the old movie over and over as my grandma had it recorded(this was back when only one person in the family had cable, those were dark and probably better times.)

I used to watch a lot of police dramas but know I only sometimes one that still has new episodes and it's gone really downhill in quality in my opinion in last few years so eventually I may stop watching it.

I don't really watch a lot of T.V. most stuff I watch is on youtube or online somewhere else.