meta on hobbies of Magda's!
Magda’s hobbies are actually fairly mundane. They’re the product of growing up in abject poverty and with very little to her name. To a certain extent she’s quite happy to just indulge in the more domestic variety of household chores. She loves to cook (although not always to eat), especially when it comes to incorporating colour and spice into her cuisine. She likes the excitement of it, the expression that trial and error creates. Her approach to food is very much like art, it’s subjective and open to interpretation, but it’s something she very much enjoys putting herself into.
She also find sewing quite enjoyable. It’s as much a necessity as it is a pastime. Granted, she might take considerably less enjoyment in darning socks than she does in say, piecing together a dress for the first time, or embroidering something of her own design, but there’s a very real comfort and pleasure that derives from crafting something herself. It’s that kind of useful practicality that makes you feel needed and worthy - two things which work wonders for her impaired sense of self-confidence.
Beyond that, on a more specific scale, Magda is a sucker for gardening. Again, it boils down to colours. She likes the expression of herself that can be conveyed in a garden, in the significance of every flower and every plant. Some of them are once again practical, like herbs or medicines to contend with household ailments, but she also likes to tend to flowers that remind her of people, or of places. Happy throwbacks to things she wants to immortalise, whether by respectful design or because they touch on very specific and very personal aspects of her life.
She has some more eclectic hobbies too, like collecting thimbles and she’s got a thing about postcards from around the world, that she likes to stick on the wall. They’re places she wants to visit moreso than places she’s been, but there’s something aspirational about having a bit of somewhere new, in the place you feel at peace. There’s a mild indulgence in terrible karaoke, and a love of old school film noir. She likes parks and people watching, likes the anonymity of being near civilisation but also far enough from it to still feel free and not confined.
But for the most part everything has some kind of practical undertone, she enjoys useful things and the broadening of an already varied skill set.
