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Jan. 6th, 2020 08:59 pmToday, I fought the AO3 battle once more. Sometimes technology is hard.
Creating Stuff: Knitting
Knitting is a ridiculous hobby that I picked up because I thought it was very funny and I was a bit of an idiot – oh, ha ha, stereotypical mental image of old women sitting around with needles – and I wanted to challenge myself to do something that I felt was very out of character for me.
Two years later, turns out that I can take any stupid, self-imposed challenge and find a way to do it involving my spending a lot of money on nice things for no reason and doing finnicky work. It's supposed to be meditative, and sometimes it is, but it appeals to the somewhat challenge-starved part of my brain. Considering I find it extremely hard to sustain interest in anything, this has been an interesting excursion.
I've just picked up a colourwork project and now feel simultaneously like a wizard and a muggle.
Circle folk: what do you muck about creating outside of fandom? I'll trade you a talking post prompt if you trade me.
Creating Stuff: Knitting
Knitting is a ridiculous hobby that I picked up because I thought it was very funny and I was a bit of an idiot – oh, ha ha, stereotypical mental image of old women sitting around with needles – and I wanted to challenge myself to do something that I felt was very out of character for me.
Two years later, turns out that I can take any stupid, self-imposed challenge and find a way to do it involving my spending a lot of money on nice things for no reason and doing finnicky work. It's supposed to be meditative, and sometimes it is, but it appeals to the somewhat challenge-starved part of my brain. Considering I find it extremely hard to sustain interest in anything, this has been an interesting excursion.
I've just picked up a colourwork project and now feel simultaneously like a wizard and a muggle.
Circle folk: what do you muck about creating outside of fandom? I'll trade you a talking post prompt if you trade me.