tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:152693 Picking up what others have left behind K 2020-01-07T04:04:22Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:152693:291577 2020-01-07T04:02:22Z 2020-01-07T04:04:22Z public 18 Today, I fought the AO3 battle once more. Sometimes technology is hard.<br /><br /><strong>Creating Stuff: Knitting</strong><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />I've just picked up a colourwork project and now feel simultaneously like a wizard and a muggle.<br /><br />Circle folk: what do you muck about creating outside of fandom? I'll trade you <a href="https://karanguni.dreamwidth.org/288887.html">a talking post prompt</a> if you trade me.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=karanguni&ditemid=291577" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments