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Post by nucleusofswarm on Nov 10, 2018 0:58:36 GMT
So, we mainly talk about Who, BF and a whole lotta movies and TV on here. But outside of media and etnertainment, what are some of your other pursuits and interests?
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 10, 2018 11:18:42 GMT
I am an archer (barebow recurve) and shoot normal targets as well as 3D parcours in the woods (it is a "simulated hunt" where you shoot at foam animal targets in a forest setting).
I love walking and hiking and bird watching (biologist who worked on wild birds in New Zealand).
I also play tabletop games like Warhammer and LOVE painting figurines while listening to Big Finish (see my avatar).
I also dabble in writing and write science fiction and fantasy and right now I have one of my books finished and try to find out where to best publish it. Sadly I am a bit more limited because I write in German (not a native English speaker).
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 10, 2018 18:52:07 GMT
Gaming on my Ps4, Watching movies & reviewing.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2018 21:30:48 GMT
I love writing and drawing. At the moment I'm working on a picture of a friend's dog! As for writing, I've never had a thing published. That side of it is an uphill struggle. I've got a list of rejections and 'no responses' as long as your trousers. Maybe one day. I'm a bit of a reader too - at the moment it's The Owlmen by Sarah England, The Films of Jess Franco by Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Ian Olney (Pretentious? Moi?) and Thrill-Power Overload: 40 years of 2000AD by David Bishop.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Nov 10, 2018 21:37:18 GMT
outside of books, comics, audios, TV, movies, etc videogames
paper-and-pancil Role Playing games (though not as much as I used to since I moved away from my old groups)
birdwatching (though not as much as I would like -at the moment, mainly keeping my eyes open rather than actively looking)
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Post by newt5996 on Nov 10, 2018 21:56:29 GMT
I play the trumpet, love performing in pits (get just enough recognition but never enough to be noticed)
I also read a lot of fantasy, currently Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archives and The Wheel of Time.
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Nov 10, 2018 22:11:21 GMT
Well, reading, reading, and reading, the works of David Lynch, TTRPGs, (for the last umpteen years), and attempting to listen to as wide a variety of music as possible to avoid imminent "things were better in my day" bollocks. I don't say I'm liking stuff, but I am trying stuff
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Post by Hieronymus on Nov 10, 2018 22:54:31 GMT
Digitizing literature and proofreading the scans (and making them free for use of public)
Reading - science fiction mostly, but also some 19th century literature and classical drama
Board games - both competitive and cooperative strategy games
Mathematics - both puzzles and learning maths that I did not have in school
Onomastics - researching the origins and spread of names
Botanizing - hiking while seeking and identifying local flora
Music - singing mostly these days, but I have played violin and recorder with a Medieval/Renaissance dance group
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Nov 10, 2018 23:26:44 GMT
Reading mostly. The last couple of years I've gotten a bit into gardening, partly because we moved into a house that has fruit trees in the garden, partly because I need a space to catch up with listening to podcasts and audioplays.
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 11, 2018 10:29:39 GMT
Oh & occasionally i paint or do illustrations.
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 11, 2018 10:40:21 GMT
I love writing and drawing. At the moment I'm working on a picture of a friend's dog! As for writing, I've never had a thing published. That side of it is an uphill struggle. I've got a list of rejections and 'no responses' as long as your trousers. Maybe one day. I'm a bit of a reader too - at the moment it's The Owlmen by Sarah England, The Films of Jess Franco by Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Ian Olney (Pretentious? Moi?) and Thrill-Power Overload: 40 years of 2000AD by David Bishop. Yeah, this is what I am afraid of, that is why I have not even tried to publish my first book yet. I thought about going the Ebook route, maybe Amazon, but having a friend in the local fanclub who is a writer and does this, she is not too happy and successful with it, either.
I think in general it might be really difficult.
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 11, 2018 10:43:36 GMT
outside of books, comics, audios, TV, movies, etc videogames paper-and-pancil Role Playing games (though not as much as I used to since I moved away from my old groups) birdwatching (though not as much as I would like -at the moment, mainly keeping my eyes open rather than actively looking) Awesome, another bird watcher. Where are you placed?
I was really active while I lived in NZ and visited Australia on occasion, but have not done anything recently.
I even did the annual bird counts in the local lowland rainforest reserve as a summer job while in NZ. Best job I ever had, getting paid for walking through the forest for 8 hours a day for 8 weeks looking for birds...
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Nov 11, 2018 13:56:12 GMT
outside of books, comics, audios, TV, movies, etc videogames paper-and-pancil Role Playing games (though not as much as I used to since I moved away from my old groups) birdwatching (though not as much as I would like -at the moment, mainly keeping my eyes open rather than actively looking) Awesome, another bird watcher. Where are you placed?
I was really active while I lived in NZ and visited Australia on occasion, but have not done anything recently.
I even did the annual bird counts in the local lowland rainforest reserve as a summer job while in NZ. Best job I ever had, getting paid for walking through the forest for 8 hours a day for 8 weeks looking for birds...
England -Midlands/East Anglia - though I have been around much of England and Wales (I'm not really much of a traveller) The reintroduced red kites are doing well in my area and I'm often having wonderful views of them
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 11, 2018 14:09:17 GMT
Awesome, another bird watcher. Where are you placed?
I was really active while I lived in NZ and visited Australia on occasion, but have not done anything recently.
I even did the annual bird counts in the local lowland rainforest reserve as a summer job while in NZ. Best job I ever had, getting paid for walking through the forest for 8 hours a day for 8 weeks looking for birds...
England -Midlands/East Anglia - though I have been around much of England and Wales (I'm not really much of a traveller) The reintroduced red kites are doing well in my area and I'm often having wonderful views of them Awesome!
When I get back home (Germany) I need to spend some time in the local wetland reserve where they put up hides- the bitterns, kingfishers and the storks have come back. I already spotted the kingfishers last year, they were hunting at a small wetland with ponds near my families' orchards. They certainly are amazing.
But certainly nothing compared spending time on the offshore Islands in NZ being surrounded and working with some of the world's rarest birds...
I was just asking because I have friends who travel the globe with birding guides in their pockets and try to tick off everything in those books. I never quite understood that type of craze to be honest.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2018 17:35:50 GMT
Eating .. er, I mean cooking, Sking, 60's TV and sputnik stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2018 20:50:41 GMT
Writing is definitely one. By the metric truckload. Researching what I can only describe as the genealogy of fiction is another (i.e. how and why chunks of media inspire their successors). Travelling is always a delight, I enjoy picking a direction and letting the road take me wherever it wants to go. I love writing and drawing. At the moment I'm working on a picture of a friend's dog! As for writing, I've never had a thing published. That side of it is an uphill struggle. I've got a list of rejections and 'no responses' as long as your trousers. Maybe one day. I'm a bit of a reader too - at the moment it's The Owlmen by Sarah England, The Films of Jess Franco by Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Ian Olney (Pretentious? Moi?) and Thrill-Power Overload: 40 years of 2000AD by David Bishop. Yeah, this is what I am afraid of, that is why I have not even tried to publish my first book yet. I thought about going the Ebook route, maybe Amazon, but having a friend in the local fanclub who is a writer and does this, she is not too happy and successful with it, either.
I think in general it might be really difficult.
It's slightly easier now that self-publishing exists, but it's a young platform -- fifteen years old, at most -- with everything that entails. Be aware that if you self-publish, you have to do your own marketing as well and that can end up being a second job in and of itself. Alternatively, if you go to a professional publisher, they will try to alter your book to suit the market. There are advantages and disadvantages to whatever avenue you choose. What may work for one book may not for another and vice versa. My advice is to always write the book for the sake of writing the book and treat any form of publication as a bonus. There's an old custom about writing up your worries on pieces of paper and burning them for release, I look on the submission process as much the same thing. Every so often, you write up a proposal for your manuscript, send it off and then move onto the next thing. A rejection from a publisher often comes from nothing more than it not fitting the prevailing trend of the time, not because of any lack of quality. Far from it. I haven't heard good things about Amazon, a lot of people I know who've used it have been really dissatisfied with how the algorithm sorts book content in general. There are also a few shady practices in regards to publication rights, which I don't think I'll get into here... I think you're better off seeking out another online platform. I've heard good things about Wattpad and Lulu, most recently. I'm sure there are others floating around that are worth looking into as well. Whatever route you choose, persistence and acceptance are key. Accepting that there will be rejections and persisting on through it regardless.
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 28, 2018 8:31:43 GMT
Writing is definitely one. By the metric truckload. Researching what I can only describe as the genealogy of fiction is another (i.e. how and why chunks of media inspire their successors). Travelling is always a delight, I enjoy picking a direction and letting the road take me wherever it wants to go. Yeah, this is what I am afraid of, that is why I have not even tried to publish my first book yet. I thought about going the Ebook route, maybe Amazon, but having a friend in the local fanclub who is a writer and does this, she is not too happy and successful with it, either.
I think in general it might be really difficult.
It's slightly easier now that self-publishing exists, but it's a young platform -- fifteen years old, at most -- with everything that entails. Be aware that if you self-publish, you have to do your own marketing as well and that can end up being a second job in and of itself. Alternatively, if you go to a professional publisher, they will try to alter your book to suit the market. There are advantages and disadvantages to whatever avenue you choose. What may work for one book may not for another and vice versa. My advice is to always write the book for the sake of writing the book and treat any form of publication as a bonus. There's an old custom about writing up your worries on pieces of paper and burning them for release, I look on the submission process as much the same thing. Every so often, you write up a proposal for your manuscript, send it off and then move onto the next thing. A rejection from a publisher often comes from nothing more than it not fitting the prevailing trend of the time, not because of any lack of quality. Far from it. I haven't heard good things about Amazon, a lot of people I know who've used it have been really dissatisfied with how the algorithm sorts book content in general. There are also a few shady practices in regards to publication rights, which I don't think I'll get into here... I think you're better off seeking out another online platform. I've heard good things about Wattpad and Lulu, most recently. I'm sure there are others floating around that are worth looking into as well. Whatever route you choose, persistence and acceptance are key. Accepting that there will be rejections and persisting on through it regardless. Thank you very much for your insight. Yes, this is what I thought. Amazon might not really be the way forward. At least, as a scientist, I am used to rejection letters. Soooo many rejection letters. To job applications, grant applications, peer reviewed papers, lab funding from university, travel funds, teaching support... and on and on. You are right, finding a publisher will be the way to go, but that is like winning the lottery... there is a reason I have not progressed much beyond the writing stage just because the task of getting it out there is so taunting. I also write purely for the joy of it. It is like water behind a dam, it demands to come out and when the flood gates break, I can write hours and days on end without much sleep. The characters become alive in my head and do their own thing, sometimes different from what I had planned and it is as if the story is alive. This is the bit I absolutely love.
I hope when I start my new job and have acclimatised and the burden of negative stresses is lifted a bit that I have more mental capacity to get things rolling and see if I can get my first book out there. It will be part of a whole series which I have already planned out in my head in the past 25 years. And it only continues growing.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 9:09:00 GMT
Writing is definitely one. By the metric truckload. Researching what I can only describe as the genealogy of fiction is another (i.e. how and why chunks of media inspire their successors). Travelling is always a delight, I enjoy picking a direction and letting the road take me wherever it wants to go. It's slightly easier now that self-publishing exists, but it's a young platform -- fifteen years old, at most -- with everything that entails. Be aware that if you self-publish, you have to do your own marketing as well and that can end up being a second job in and of itself. Alternatively, if you go to a professional publisher, they will try to alter your book to suit the market. There are advantages and disadvantages to whatever avenue you choose. What may work for one book may not for another and vice versa. My advice is to always write the book for the sake of writing the book and treat any form of publication as a bonus. There's an old custom about writing up your worries on pieces of paper and burning them for release, I look on the submission process as much the same thing. Every so often, you write up a proposal for your manuscript, send it off and then move onto the next thing. A rejection from a publisher often comes from nothing more than it not fitting the prevailing trend of the time, not because of any lack of quality. Far from it. I haven't heard good things about Amazon, a lot of people I know who've used it have been really dissatisfied with how the algorithm sorts book content in general. There are also a few shady practices in regards to publication rights, which I don't think I'll get into here... I think you're better off seeking out another online platform. I've heard good things about Wattpad and Lulu, most recently. I'm sure there are others floating around that are worth looking into as well. Whatever route you choose, persistence and acceptance are key. Accepting that there will be rejections and persisting on through it regardless. Thank you very much for your insight. Yes, this is what I thought. Amazon might not really be the way forward. At least, as a scientist, I am used to rejection letters. Soooo many rejection letters. To job applications, grant applications, peer reviewed papers, lab funding from university, travel funds, teaching support... and on and on. You are right, finding a publisher will be the way to go, but that is like winning the lottery... there is a reason I have not progressed much beyond the writing stage just because the task of getting it out there is so taunting. I also write purely for the joy of it. It is like water behind a dam, it demands to come out and when the flood gates break, I can write hours and days on end without much sleep. The characters become alive in my head and do their own thing, sometimes different from what I had planned and it is as if the story is alive. This is the bit I absolutely love.
I hope when I start my new job and have acclimatised and the burden of negative stresses is lifted a bit that I have more mental capacity to get things rolling and see if I can get my first book out there. It will be part of a whole series which I have already planned out in my head in the past 25 years. And it only continues growing.
Happy to help and that all sounds like exactly the right attitude to me. Just keep doing what you're doing and you'll be fine.
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Post by Ela on Dec 5, 2018 18:44:08 GMT
Dancing. Yoga. Reading.
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Post by mrperson on Dec 5, 2018 22:02:32 GMT
- Reading. Sometimes fiction. Sometimes biography/history. - Occasional TV/Movie watching. - Hiking, the more brutal the better. (ie, we got up Mt. Washington via one of the harder trails in about 4h....granted, my wife had a bit of a rough landing once we reached the top). - Walks around town/parks/etc. - Exploring restaurants, wines, and whiskies. - Exploring new cities by foot. (Though the wife tends to complain more these days, we used to march ~15-20 miles a day on vacations).
- Cooking (well ok, it was more of a hobby until I got quite good at it, at which point my wife stopped other than occasionally doing something. So I stopped doing other things. I suspect I'm still spending more time with all the cooking, but perhaps it's because I tend to not only cook for dinner, but cook so that there's a couple lunches for each of us after).
- Worshiping our cat, whom I have deemed worth of an honorific: The Kitty. (Many many years ago an old friend moved to an apartment and tried to sneak her in. Landlord found out, threatened to file eviction papers. We adopted her. He had officially named her "Persephone" on adoption but only called her "cat." I figured that sticks in the craw, so I/we instead started referring to her as "kitty". But then she earned an honorific. She is The Kitty, the friendliest animal I've ever known in a lifetime of pet ownership).
And the following is not so much a hobby as it is a necessity for mental and physical health: intense weight workouts, intense runs. I really do not do well if I, say, get the flu and cannot run for a week. I need to do something at least once every other day or I simply do not feel right, in a number of different ways. I must move. Basically, the worst thing that could happen to me would be paralysis though, I suppose, if I could still use my hands/arms I could get a good enough workout. I suspect I share a set of genes with one of my grandmothers. She was sharp as ever right up until 91, when suddenly her balance went and she started falling regularly on her many-mile-long marches. She must've been the mentally strongest person I've known. You know, she moved in with us after her husband died. I was maybe in 6th grade at the time and we lived there for another 3 years. Only after pressing her about some medical issue she mentioned, my father (M.D.) knew she had previously torn her rotator cuffs, but learned she also partially fracture her hip more recently. She had been walking something like 3-4 miles to a Krogers (supermarket) the town over and back, carrying many bags of groceries for months. Her hip had healed on its own. She'd never told anyone about the fall that caused it. She put the pain down to the aches of old age. You can probably tell by now that to say she was an inspiration would be understatement. Anyway, I visited her a number of times over the next year after she finally had to give up going on long walks - and then any walks except around the care facility - and the deterioration was painfully obvious. By the last time I saw her, she just wasn't there. She didn't know me or my father. Then she recognized us. Then she confused me for him. Etc. Thankfully, the end was quick and during sleep. There was an amusing moment though, a few months before that. My father and I visited. During her confusions, she ended up asking how old she was. "Mom, you're 91" my father says. Her mouth opens. She stares at him, at me, and then away......then says at just short of a yell "91? That's STUPID!"
Ok, that was more than I was thinking of saying when I started typing, but so it goes with me.
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