✒️ - What sort of hobbies do you have outside of writing? 😏 - What's something you want people to know about you?
Munday Questions
✒️ - What sort of hobbies do you have outside of writing?
I have several hobbies that I pay attention to from time to time. I enjoy sewing and crafting for cosplay purposes. Other times I'm reading, watching movies or playing games. I also like to listen to podcasts about history, folklore or horror. I often tend to watch youtube videos with deep dives about cults, crimes, history, movie reviews, book reviews and comic books. I'm not much of a comic book reader but I tend to pick up what interests me from the library, X-Men, Ms Marvel with Kamala Kahn, Batman or The scarlet witch. Other things I read is folklore, fantasy/urban fantasy, dystopia, young adults novels, historical fiction and litterary classics such as Les Miserables, Carmilla and the portrait of Dorian Gray.
😏 - What's something you want people to know about you?
Hmmm. I'm not sure what would be interesting to share. Okay. I can talk a bit about why I rarely roleplay canon characters anymore.
I have a hard time being fully devoted to one hobby or one subject and I keep bouncing between several ideas instead of getting deeper knowledge about one thing. It's probably why I have a hard time with entering fandoms. I just can't devote my whole being to one thing and I'm not good at learning everything to know about that one special thing. It becomes especially hard if it's a fandom that is very large with extensive lore. As an example, I like to watch Jurrasic Park but I don't have the energy to fully read everything to know about the franchise or about palenthology. As soon I begun dipping my toes into learning I suddenly have the urge to watch a five hours video about how gay Barbie is. I get very overwhelmed and it's also a reason why I'm getting terrified about roleplaying canon characters within a fandom. In roleplay spaces there's been so much discourse about canon characters and following canon versus canon divergent roleplayers. I'm not sure how much it's talked about anymore but I used to hear a bit about it and began to doubting my own writing abilities as well as how well I followed canon or not.
At times I feel this urge to roleplay specific characters from a fandom I like but then I avoid it in favor of my OC's. I always feel trapped to follow canon and it takes a lot of time and energy if I constantly need to do research about what kind of world the characters live in, what powers they have, the lore of their powers, power scaling and so much more. I feel like it stumps my creativity and my writing feels very stilted. When I do step info a fandom centric roleplay I tend to wing it and use characters without powers to see how they would live in that world. Other times, with leniant roleplayers I just make things up as I go with some guidelines to keep my character make sense in some capacity. If I'm roleplaying One Piece I would simply make up some unknown places and species because the wast lore welcomes creativity within it's world building, the same with Star Wars.
This became a bit like a ramble about fandoms but I hope it felt somewhat interesting to read about.
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