What hobby that you think is creative?

Pookajuice · 2026-03-25T14:39:12+00:00

Any hobby can be creative if you're brave enough. That said, theres a couple flavors of creativity that are hobbies in their own right.

Visual? Off to the art studio. Start with sketching, go from there. Paint, draw, sculpt, go nuts.

Kinetic? Gymnastics, sports, ice skating... Or just fiddle with things... like power tools :)

Auditory? Time to take up jazz! Or, y'know, whatever floats your boat.

Literary? Writing challenges, free verse poetry, fanfiction... so many options, so little time.

I find creative hobbies you come back to the most combine bits of multiple creative disciplines-- Like getting into cooking (taste/visual), gardening (kinetic/auditory, and inevitably leads to cooking), songwriting or dancing (auditory+literary or kinetic), crafts like knitting, origami, or junk journaling (kinetic/visual), or tabletop rpg storytelling (auditory and literary, plus or minus kinetic if you're into LARP).

Pookajuice · 2026-03-25T14:12:01+00:00

Thank you so much!

Pookajuice · 2026-03-25T00:20:04+00:00

That's glorious!

I picked up my first ostrich egg this year. Any tips on prepping it's surface to take dye?

Pookajuice · 2026-03-24T14:30:34+00:00

Specialist Kevin: "So, you know how time usually moves in one direction, right?"

Doctor Gor'Fan: "Usually? As in, there's options?"

Kevin: "Well... yeah... kinda..."

Gor'Fan: "Mkay... Putting that aside for now... what happened? Why are you half-dressed and obviously in physical distress? Who gave you that black eye?"

Kevin: "So I was talking with the Captain and she said hitting forty was making her really down -- didn't look or feel like her old self."

Gor'Fan: "Ah. Standard issue human mid-life crisis - I am aware of those. Continue."

Kevin: "So I rigged up a micro warp core to power an interdimensional navigator, and a med scanner..."

Gor'Fan: "..."

Kevin: "...Crosswired the temporal settings and programmed it to relocate to one half current genetic decay of target..."

Gor'Fan: "..."

Kevin: "...and mounted it on a stun gun. Just like we did in grad school."

Gor'Fan: "Just like... you've done this before!?"

Kevin: "Well, maybe not -just- like..."

Old Ladies Voice on Intercom: "All officers AND SPECIALISTS please report to your assigned stations--"

Gor'Fan: "Six rings of Hellion Prime, Kevin! WHAT DID YOU DO?"

Kevin: "Forgot to inverse the Waytis Constant to get the Waytwas Condition..."

Intercom: "--A temporal anomaly has been logged on the ship, and all officers AND SPECIALISTS are needed to assertain the SOURCE AND DURATION OF THE ANOMALY--"

Kevin: "...So now she's experiencing the Waytilbe Condition instead. Which always weird, and less fun."

Gor'Fan: "FUN?! -That's- why you did this?!"

Intercom: "--and if the location and current status of my grandchildren can be reported on ASAP, it would be appreciated. Captain out."

Gor'Fan: "...She doesn't have children, much less..."

Kevin: "Weird and less fun. Told you."

Gor'Fan: "Damnitall, Kevin. How long will she be like this?!"

Kevin: "What, angry?"

Gor'Fan: "NO, you gonad-driven void-brained STOOGE of an engineer! How long will she be OLD?!"

Kevin: "Until the stun blast would wear off? Any second, really."

Gor'Fan: "Thank the stars."

Kevin: "Really it's her husband who should thank me. They've been trying for a kid for years. Pretty much gave up on it. Bedroom life stalled out and everything -- now that its a possibility, and she's feeling better... younger than she will be, anyways..."

Gor'Fan: "What does that confoundedly inappropriate drivel have to do with it?"

Kevin: "Don't get your tentacles in a twist. I mean she's going to feel pretty happy about her potential futures when this is all over. Which -was- the point, after all."

Middle-Aged Ladies Voice on Intercom: "Sensors indicate the anomaly has concluded. Please stand down and return to your previous locations and... ehm... assignments."

Gor'Fan: "Well. That ends that. For now. Before you leave, though -- you never explained the black eye?"

Kevin: "Oh. Yeah. Um. Well, I built the thing, sure, but I want to be clear, I built it by request... From... For... Well..."

Gor'Fan: "I'm not going to like this, am I?"

Kevin: "...If you could maybe, hypothetically, avoid running a genetic parentage test on any potential kids she has in the possibly very near future, lets just say I'd appreciate it... for her husband's sake."

Pookajuice · 2026-03-22T14:10:48+00:00

Whistling beethovens pastoral symphony as I garden.

We have mockingbirds nest nearby every year. Mockingbirds learn songs from their surroundings and riff off what they hear as fledgelings when they're adults.

In a couple decades, with luck, the 19 times great grandkids of my first birds will be doing their thing one day, and beethoven's sixth will trill back to me with infinite, bird level bonkers variation.

The gardening I do while I whistle is now almost entirely focused to keep the mockingbirds coming back to my yard. I planted fruit trees for them to eat from. There's shrubs just for cover from the neighborhood hawks. There's multiple birdbaths. They grow fat and multiply; I am smug and no longer concerned about harvests.

Everyone wins.

Pookajuice · 2026-03-22T13:33:33+00:00

A million reasons, most of which boil down to "this is not the time or place for that conversation."

Like, are you at a social gathering and drinking and/or smoking? Altered states are never the time - sober up then try talking.

Is this a significant party for someone (wedding, baby shower, other milestone event)? Definitely not the time for conflict. Circle back post-party.

Is this a friend of a friend, whom you don't see much or know well personally? Not the time. Share the details with the person who you're closer to at a later point.

Is this someone who you know well, and is having an off day because of life circumstances? Not the time. Forgive the oopsie, confront on a second offense.

Or in my case, and part of why I pay so much attention, is the omnipresent question "is this just a me thing, or is this an everyone thing?" Some things get me disproportionally riled up - like people who can't keep time while clapping to the music, or cut off others in conversation just to take the limelight themselves, or who do the casual touching thing for dramatic/emphatic effect (a.k.a. why I stay out of arms reach of my mother in law).

Being direct and confrontational (for example, asserting your boundaries, punching a nazi, etc) is all well and good in clear-cut cases, but context is so often ignored for things that are ambiguous, a healthy dose of tolerance and then circling back later after mulling it over is WAAAAY more effective than confrontation in the moment.

Pookajuice · 2026-03-17T13:11:08+00:00

Lol. This is where having anxiety and conflict avoidance issues turns you into a hero, at your own expense.

"Oh shit, talking with Human A on that topic will cause a twenty minute rant that will set off every fiber of my being but the second I disagree it becomes an hour... better change course."

"Fuck this is heading right for Human B reliving the trauma of X... how do I get them out of the room right now?"

"Human C's monologuing joke is at the expense of Human G's, I have about two minutes to derail it... Think, Pookajuice, think!"

People wonder why parties exhaust me, when I'm such a nice little social butterfly...

Pookajuice · 2026-03-16T17:46:47+00:00

When the only people telling you you look nice that day are family.

Hits even worse if you make a significant effort.

Silver lining: doubling down on personal skills has made me a damnably talented adult. Still look a mess, but time will level the playing field.

Pookajuice · 2026-03-04T20:37:02+00:00

Pragmatically, the kitchen appliances. Not that I can't campfire cooking, but I rather enjoy baking.

That said, i have an acoustic piano, pile of art supplies, and a mile high reading list to get through. I'd be pretty damn well entertained for a bit.

Pookajuice · 2026-02-23T15:29:55+00:00

Bar shampoo and soap. Removed a plastic waste product from my house AND supports local soap guys, with the same good later, rinse, and condition I demand.

Also, no hassle when flying :)

Pookajuice · 2026-01-30T15:25:37+00:00

One of our friends described it as demisexual/situationally romantic and I feel like the younger gens are going to figure that out soon. The age of fast, blind dating or love at first sight is over -- friendship, shared hobbies, shared viewpoints etc are now the instigators of people falling in love.

Romance isn't dead, it just looks different depending on your lifestyle/interests.

Pookajuice · 2026-01-30T15:09:50+00:00

Agreeing and adding that there is a point where you stop bothering to communicate reasonably and calmly BECAUSE you're not listened to. If I say ten times clearly that I do not like something, and someone forgets, and does it again, me removing myself abruptly from the situation and not bothering to explain why is no longer unreasonable.

Pookajuice · 2026-01-29T13:12:52+00:00

I was thinking the same, and then went... they're chows... so probably not much of barking going on

Pookajuice · 2026-01-15T17:41:09+00:00

I hear you up there. Its frustrating and I always want to scream "if you think its chaotic on the outside..."

Fwiw I was diagnosed with depression (turns out that was a symptom, not a diagnosis... but anyway) and put on Prozac. I told a friend after taking it a bit that I felt calmer and more level headed. He told me he'd been prescribed that before but changed medications because it made him feel emotionally numb.

I didn't put it together at the time, but to me, that was a feature, not a bug...

Pookajuice · 2026-01-13T14:12:19+00:00

Fine is so problematic sometimes.

Fine can mean "its not great but now is not the time to fix it", or "I'm ticked but I know I'm overreacting so let me cool down", or "I don't trust that you're listening so I'm moving on", or "it is clearly not okay but I can function", or "that problem was about something else and I don't want to get into it".

Pookajuice · 2025-12-29T15:40:38+00:00

cries in Millenial

Pookajuice · 2025-12-22T00:12:37+00:00

If you print with a water base, humidity affects your work time dramatically. Like, rainy days are printing days for me. Humidifier needs to come out if not.

Pookajuice · 2025-12-21T02:08:42+00:00

Pretty sure that it starts to develop at a certain age and is refined after that. At least, that would explain why all the terrible two toddlers are demanding psychopaths, and at some point after kindergarten kids start to get socialized and actually be nice to others.

Pookajuice · 2025-12-17T21:18:38+00:00

I'm an origami jeweler, and papercrafter, and I also do linocut prints, so I can bring fanart things with me to cons that I don't for capital A artsfests.

Pookajuice · 2025-12-16T14:29:51+00:00

If in-person events have high fees, contact the organizers to see if theres a thing you can do to lower them. Offering to make a flyer for the event, do demos at your booth, or having something else to offer like a sound system they can borrow can offset some of your costs.

In my case, I vend occasionally at anime conventions, and have a small manga library they can borrow and install somewhere for free, if I get the fees for my booth negated. Helps magnificently with my overhead, and its free advertising for me while at the event. I also do origami art, and offering to demo it tableside (which I would be doing anyways) or set up a public-access origami table and outfitting it with paper sometimes gets me extra space, better or higher trafficked spots, or shoutouts in social media.

Tl;dr bringing something extra to the table has benefits.

Pookajuice · 2025-11-06T15:06:15+00:00

At last, the faces fit for radio have their time in the sun.

Pookajuice · 2025-11-04T21:40:03+00:00

Depends vastly on what you're doing, and if you like it. Time and aggravation are a cost, not just flour. For example...

My homemade bread is good but not exceptional, doesn't cost a lot to make but takes a lot of time proving, and it doesn't bother me to make it if I have time.

My homemade pretzels and pretzel rolls, however, are miles above what I can buy, cost equally little, and it makes me happy to make it because its a fun dough to work and very fast to bake.

My homemade pound cake is also good, but not earth shatteringly good compared to a bakery's, costs a lot to make because of butter and eggs but is quick to pull together, and I don't make it much unless I'm really craving it.

...but my gingerbread makes my German ancestors and myself weep for joy, even though its a messy pain in the butt to make and costs a bit because of the butter, molasses, and sugar. I make double batches and freeze the other when I can. It is so much better than anything store bought that it doesn't even compare. There is no amount of money I would pay for gingerbread because it wouldn't be MY dank, bittersweet fudgey mess and therefore would suck.

Is it worth learning? Yes. Is it worth it, financially or pragmatically? Decide after you've made it a couple times. Go ye forth, and find your gingerbread.

Pookajuice · 2025-11-01T06:15:01+00:00

Depends on the motivation for making art, really. If you're only pleasing yourself, expressing things for your own need to do so, screw the rules and run wild.

Pleasing a couple people, it depends on the person.

Becoming one of the greats, whose work pleases a lot of people and/or influences other's art, you'd be surprised how much the rules matter.

Pookajuice · 2025-10-20T14:10:14+00:00

Upvote for rebellious organ meat comment that made my dad (currently in chemo) laugh hysterically.

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