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Into the woods we go

A little witch, a long journey, and one unamused hat.

I asked for cozy

Gentle

It delivers. A new one for the rotation.

(Also, girl, you are not supposed to be that excited about the train breaking down, at least not out loud. 😂)

#gaming #the story garden #hobby hopping #campfire moments #garden logs #story seeds #little witch in the woods

Being a hobby hopper because of ADHD is interesting because the love of the hobbies never usually really dies, it just sort of… goes away for a bit. On a vacation. It's at the farm.

I like to think that I bury all of my previous hobbies and fixations in a sort of Hobby Cemetery, where they will inevitably reanimate at some point in the future to once again devour my brain.

#fairy's posts #i love queue #adhd #hobby hopping #hobbies #neurodivergence #neurodiverse #hyperfixations #tw necromancy #personal #ask to tag

Just Living My Best Life (With A Side of ADHD)

So for those of you that don’t know, I have faced a fair few challenges when it comes to mental health. I’ve had depression and anxiety since I was a teenager and have recently been diagnosed with ADHD. It’s a lot harder to diagnose in adults and took a couple of years due to moving around, but once I was diagnosed a lot of things began to make sense to me.

People often think that if you…

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Took a short break from writing today

#hobby hopping #i'm trying here #I can draw a person's profile better #so this was a miracle #back to writing now #fan art #tom cavanagh #harrison wells #my sketches

Turning my life into a soft little rpg continues to be one of my favorite decisions 🌱

today’s joy: making the backend of my in progress V2 dashboard look cute… even though I’ll barely see it 😌

something about giving even the smallest actions a little intention (and a cute icon) just… works

#the story garden #hobby hopping #notion #notion workflow #virgo brain #digital garden

If I say I like to try new things, I'm cool, adventurous, and open-minded, but if I say I'm a hobby hopper, that's bad and irresponsible.

Hot take: Hobby hopping is literally only problematic under either or both of the following conditions:

1. It's becoming a hoarding situation.

2. The supplies you're buying to try new hobbies are destabilizing you financially.

Really tired of something relatively harmless being portrayed as a shameful quality of flighty, unfocused people because guess what? Every super creative person I know does this. 100% of the people I know working on interdisciplinary projects that might change the world are hobby hoppers. Because guess what again? They're the only people with a large enough background of knowledge and skills to connect the dots like that.

Like I met this dude working on a project to disassemble printers to get the servo motors out to create STEM engineering kits for local kids. He got a $30,000 grant for this project, which combines his background in entrepreneurship and engineering with 3-D printing, and skills he gained volunteering to help a professor disassemble electronics. He then proceeded to also host a junk art show where people (including him) used pieces of the printers we couldn't recycle or reuse to create sculptures. He even once said "Yeah, I'm a really bad hobby hopper," and I just shook my head and said "You like to try new things. That is good."

Also, hobby hopping is kind of inevitable if you are an adventurous person who likes to try new things? You can't keep like 40+ skills in active practice all the time??? Did you "hobby hop," or did you simply learn a new skill and then store that skill?

Ex: One summer I really wanted to learn to embroider, so I got all the stuff to do it and basically embroidered all summer. Then I didn't embroider again for like four months. I never completely abandoned that hobby; I was just out of time and inspiration. Fast forward to four months later and I'm embroidering sweaters for my Mom and grandma for Christmas. Eight months later I'm in the damn woods with my embroidery thread, sewing somebody's tent back together after it got ripped in a storm.

Ex #2: When I was 13, I took a class in linoleum carving. Bought all the supplies, carved through the class and a few weeks after, then basically didn't carve anything for like three years until I wanted to make myself a custom stamp for stationary and realized I had all the tools to do it. Then like five years after that, I wanted to make custom stamps for printing shirts, I did, and I made over $300 in one week from them on my Etsy.

Also, you don't have to stick with every hobby you try??? I took a stained glass making class once. Cool stuff, but it's super time consuming, takes a lot of expensive special equipment, etc., so I didn't keep up with it after my access to the class tools was gone. Would also have been completely valid if I just decided I didn't like doing it and quit. But you know what? Fast forward seven years, and I'm soldering BNC connections for a lab because way back then, I learned to use a soldering iron.

You can't be that cool friend who knows how to do everything or reach your maximum creative potential if you let everyone brainwash you into believing you have to stick to every hobby you try and do it at a certain frequency to avoid being a bad person. Negative talk about "hobby hopping" is just so normalized and internalized in places/people I really wouldn't expect, and I find it a very odd mentality.

#hobby hopping #adhd #hobby #creativity #hobby hopping is not inherently bad #jack of all trades master of none but better than being the master of one