What are your unusual interests?

[scribesunlimited]

ah, dang.

[Dysis]

That's an impressive collection!

[VibrantFox]

When I was a lot younger I used to have a hobby of collecting rocks and just kind of exploring all the weird stuff that'd be buried in the dirt. Nowadays I like exploring random science-y things. Never tend to stay on a single subject for too long but I've been tempted to dip back just a bit into quantum theory or something time related

[Fuzzyman818]

From time to time, I like to watch back cracking videos or videos with ear wax removal. Both are oddly satisfying to me.

[M.ComicFan]

Mine is viewing how superheroes live when they're not in costume. Just the idea of knowing how they live when they're not doing superhero activities makes them feel more relatable to me as a reader/watcher.

[artamazon]

I love, love, love videos and photography of abandoned buildings, ancient/modern ruins, urban exploration and man-made things that have been reclaimed by nature.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/
https://www.reddit.com/r/submechanophobia/
http://www.forbidden-places.net/explo1.php

[Phantomlight]

I love rocks and minerals. I still collect them My favorite is obsidian or a conglomerate rock :3 What was your favorite kind of rock? If you had one, of course xD

[VibrantFox]

I don't think i ever had a favorite kind of rock but i always wanted to see some or the more interesting igneous or sedimentary rocks, like the kind of stuff you'd find in a canyon or near a volcano

[Arieso_Here]

Wow... Gimme High-five bro from afar bro...

[Dane_Sherbet]

So comic-making is an unusual interest? In a forum full of graphic novelists?

[arayakim]

Less the comic making itself, more the obsession with building a lasting legacy with it. I think a lot of people make comics with the express intention of telling a story, but not a lot really care if it's under their name, or have their entire story planned out. Those are the things I care about with my story. Yes, I'm aware of how pretentious it sounds. Part of me didn't want to even answer the question because I knew people would react negatively to it. But then I figured that if I let fear of negative reactions stop me, then that probably reflects even worse on me than just sharing it in the first place.

So yeah, sorry if it pissed you off, I guess.

[Dane_Sherbet]

Leaving aside the part where you seem to think that not one of us cares about our legacies, dude, couldn't you have just said it without:

• posting a link
• uploading three images
• dropping your own name three times
• mentioning that your comic has around six hundred and twenty subscribers and two hundred thousand readers after just three and a half months, and also hit number one in Webtoon Canvas for the superhero genre

It's a bit like asking someone for the time and getting hit by an entire unrelated TED talk.

[gempompadour]

I like looking at human Y-DNA and mitochondrial haplogroup charts. I'm fascinated by human genetics and find it simply amazing how far homo sapiens as a species has migrated just by walking and later sailing. Like seriously, we humans are all just one big family.

[allenT]

Watching Youtubers' videos of their self-drawn childhood comics.
I'm loving it!

[darthmongoose]

Voice Acting. I'm a bit of a nerd about voice actors and love paying attention when I'm playing a game or watching something animated and spotting voices I recognise, like "oh, hey that's Matt Mercer!", "Woo, Jennifer Hale!", "OMG Paget Brewster!" I call the game "Fire Emblem Heroes", "Voice Actor Pokemon" because I can set myself silly challenges like "try to collect characters voiced by the entire cast of Critical Role."
I do bits and bats of it myself on Youtube, but my immediately recognisable English accent has always made me more of a specialist than a vocal Chamaeleon. Mostly it's just something I'm interested in as a hobby.

[Legendofgenii]

Oh wow! Imagine if you came across a dinosaur.

I've only ever found trilobites, echinoids, sponges and bivalves. I live on a chalk coastline now (where I find most of the sponges and echinoids), so the fossils are very delicate.

I've seen in the US you can pay land owners to hunt for gems and gold and stuff too. Wish you could do things like that here. I only seem to find fools gold.

[kennielacroix]

I was thinking of writing a series about the regular/daily life of a villian/hero, or doing like a series on someone who somehow got superhero powers but didn't become a superhero. You know, just a regular guy with superpowers that uses them to his advantage in mundane situations or something.

[M.ComicFan]

Yo, that sounds great. Could you send me the link when you have it ready?

[Phantomlight]

Same, I LOVE recognizing voice actors and love voice acting in general. Making one's voice in a different way is always so interesting and fun to me. And the emotions that can be captured with voice alone. If I am listening to an English Dub rather than listening and watching (because I like multi-tasking) and I can identify the kind of expression or emotion the character is making or feeling just by the voice alone, I really love that. I think a lot of voice actors do great work. I'm extremely impressed by vocal chameleons because their range is so vast and shows what the human voice can do ^^

[ButterflyEmpress]

Rare/Old/Foreign Currency: If collecting money wasn't so expensive I'd totally go for it, but I have to be lucky to find them. So far I have a few Canadian quarters, a Barbados quarter, a 10 pence coin, a bunch of $2 bills and this giant $1 coin that doesn't fit in any vending machine.

Abandoned Businesses/Homes/Parks: There's just something eerie and fascinating about wondering about what was once there and what happened to it. There's a guy on YouTube named This Is Dan Bell who makes videos about dying and dead malls. It's so weird how not too long ago these places were lively.

Old Technology: Any doodad that I grew up with or older is cool. I like looking through old department store catalogs and looking at how different things were back then. I went to a store that sold all kinds of old stuff like rotary phones, typewriters, etc and I deeply regret not buying anything. Although they'd be collecting dust on the shelf. I don't think old things were better, just fascinating. I definitely wouldn't downgrade my Windows 10 laptop to Windows 95.