Interests

Some of the other things I'm interested in and links to where I talk about them. The problem is I'm very easy to interest in anything that wisps across my brain. I might need to rank my interests.

• Dungeons and Dragons, TTRPGs generally, and board games. Putting this all together in Games
• Gardening. Specifically growing vegetables. I do blog about this a bit. Such as: Getting growing for 2026 garden plans, Onions (which is not really about onions), An open letter to the birds of my garden, Tomatoes and other garden pests, and Prize for the tallest lettuce
• The indie web. The weird wild web of my youth. I've written about this a lot actually, including: Thirty years on the web, My seventeen-year-old self and the Wayback Machine, The Good Ship RSS, several of the links posts, and working on a Calendar of Fun Web Things
• Zines. I'd like to be more into zines. I've got a secret page about them and made a zine about joy
• Postcards. I think I collect postcards. I think that might be a thing I do. Mentioned in Microhobbies
• Cartography. It's just so cool. I've listed a few cartography books
• Swimming and wild swimming. For the view, not the racing or the 'cold water benefits'
• Houseplants. I've been informed I have an above-average number of houseplants
• Mid-century furniture. My house is very bachelor pad. Covered a bit in Old things I own
• Films. Bonus points if there are ladies kissing
• Interactive fiction. So clever. So creative
• Aunting. This does count as an interest. It's something I want to be better at. I've written about some conversations with my niblings, also Becoming an aunt
• Sustainability. Not as good at it as I should be but I do always try to take sustainability into consideration
• Astronomy. I have a telescope. I try. See: To see stars and It's the stars
• Music. Feels weird to say because isn't everyone? And I'm not in any useful way. Chronicled in Listening
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Composting. Feels like it should just be part of gardening but with all the energy and attention I devote to my compost it deserves its own section
• Consciousness. Neuroscience. The brain. Phenomenology. I don't know
• Victorian etiquette manuals which I've now explained
• Time travel
• Linguistics and language
• French
• History. A bit vague. All of history? Maybe. Collecting some history and heritage thoughts
• Groups of people coalescing into a scene
• Camping
• Tudor houses. Some recommendations in history and heritage
• Witches: Witches and highwaywomen, conversations with a two-year-old about witches, and Before I go to see Wicked
• Mechanical keyboards. I have one. Does that make me interested in them?
• Community including Thinking about community
• The Commons, both historically and nowadays, digitally and physically, enclosure as possibly the root of much evil
• Libraries and the library/sharing economy
• Solarpunk

Things I would like the time to be more interested in at some point: horology.

Then there are things like calculus which I'm interested in in the sense I like learning about them but absolutely cannot do. I'm not learning calculus, I'm learning about calculus: there's a vital and huge difference.

I'd like to be more interested in useful things like car maintenance or coding or plumbing or building sheds.

Inspired by Chris Burnett's post.

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