Niche interests!

[cute]

I can endlessly dive into these topics - parrots, divination, astrology, websites. Especially websites, the web, the history of personal computing. I see myself as a tech witch which is why I teach web development, for the empowerment.

[Cele]

For over a year I've been obsessed with Baltic Finnic oral poetry and can barely think of anything else. Apparently it's a little bit annoying I sound like I don't have opinions on anything else. But there's like over 100k of them available online, every time I even peek at them I find new exciting things! And then I'm like that meme of the crazy-looking conspiracy guy trying to explain to someone why I think this wizard hero is totally the same as the wasp in this other poem I swear.

[Indigo]

Oh gosh my niche interest just happened very recently all of the sudden and I don't know why. I like collecting retro toys.

I think what sparked it was my intense obsession with wanting and, eventually ,getting the 5 inch strawberry shortcake doll.

Then, as I was digging in my closet I realized I had some small trinkets that fit into my small shelf I have as well as with a small collection of vintage looking toys I had lying around.

The main highlights I have are Strawberry Shortcake, mentioned earlier, along with a mini Care Bear(I Care Bear), a Tony Hawk finger board(My brain just registers that as a teck deck.), Worm on a String, Some new-ish Garbage Pail Kids Cards(The company still makes designs, btw there's a parody of one I have of Miku called Manga Mandy.), a McDonald's Furby, and the Happy Plant Grimace Figure to name most of them.

The next ones I hope to get soon are Rainbow Brite 5 inch doll, a McNugget Buddy Cowboy, and a Vintage style My Little Pony.(But not all at once though. That's insane.)

I think I like collecting them because they both have me connect back to a simpler time with childhood and also have me intrigued with how they design the toys as well.

[sunnyp4rk]

I absolutely love theme park content. Maybe I am biased because one of my biggest special interests is a theme park attraction but yknow. whatever. Can't really think of another niche interest I've got.

[yojoshio]

oh wow everyone, so many niche fields of interest!!

And some that I also have!!

Some of my own include:
- Anything to do with municipal systems and infrastructure -- especially municipal codes and codebooks. I have no idea why. I've asked, and no one has yet to give me a solid answer.
- The post office and postal systems
- Notary stamps
- I do love roller coasters (hi Kie! -- although I am from the US and that is my where my experience is but I would love to see more EU stuff out there!)
- British comedy - ESPECIALLY panel shows (hi shapezncolourz) - I have a page on my fascination with it https://j0sh.dev/humour
- Simulator games - I will play literally all of them
- I have an obsession with DeLoreans
- Church architecture, though I am not personally religious
- Libraries, archiving, and records
- Typography - much like the Ryan Gosling skit from SNL, I have had to address these issues in therapy

There are probably some I am forgetting!

[Plasmon]

Hmmm, I think I tend to overrate how niche my interests are, so forgive me if anything here isn't actually that niche.

• Cellular automata. I think they're really interesting, both from a purely mathematical perspective and because you can make them do cool stuff. I want to make music with them, but I haven't made much time to work on music for the past two years (and I want to change that really bad).
• Stochastic processes. I love studying random processes, such as Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes.
• Computer music. When I say computer music, I'm not just talking about music made on a computer, but music using computational techniques—think like late-period Autechre, Milton Babbitt, that kind of stuff. I just find it really captivating in its own way, even if it's not trying to capture the same kinds of feelings that other types of music do.

[sashasparrow]

For over a year I've been obsessed with Baltic Finnic oral poetry and can barely think of anything else.

not quite as intense but i have a very specific fascination with german expressionist-era poetry!

i'm also SUPER into mapmaking lately, specifically in terms of my dnd games but i think i would branch out if i had time.

i also lovelovelove unfiction/args/reality-warping fiction, and especially meta-analysis of those things, and i have Very Strong Feelings on it and i am correct about everything and everyone else is wrong (/jk). i just really like to look at fiction in frame of the larger societal impact and influence and i think this genre that's so dependent on internet culture is like, endlessly fascinating.