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Writing-November-2025

Sports & Active Activities

  • Rapier fencing practice Monster Huntress Training
  • I enjoy doing basic school sports type stuff w friends as an activity to do together, but don’t care about these for themselves much
    • badminton
    • volleyball
    • table tennis
    • beach ball
    • etc
  • Frisbee (or aerobie rings1)
  • I tend to enjoy a friendly back-and-forth more than full-on and serious competition, but if the skill levels are close enough I can enjoy them too
  • Inline and ice skating
  • Enjoyed but too expensive (and natural resource intensive):
    • skiing
    • golf
  • Aspirational:
    • free running (urban or in nature)

Games

  • Board Games:
    • most friends I have are only into the most basic, rules light types, but would be happy to also try more rules heavy games
    • my neck injury will likely limit the duration I can play per session without doing non-desk activities
    • I usually prefer team-based (team A vs team B or players vs game) games
    • I can’t play social deduction games
    • I also like to learn historical board games like Tafl/Hefnatafl or Royal Game of Ur
  • TTRGPs
    • most familiar w 5e, a bit w pathfinder 2e
    • would love to try out various systems
    • I have copies of soo many systems 😅
  • Flat-Screen Video Games
    • I don’t play myself so much anymore, last things were LiS: True Colors, Celeste
    • Pokemon ROM hacks are fun, e.g. playing as a team rocket grunt
    • w friends:
      • coop games
      • FPS (eg overwatch)
      • open to try pretty much any non-horror game
  • VR Games (quest 3)
    • would like to try multiplayer w friends
  • Escape rooms
  • Laser tag (haven’t yet tried paintball)

Media Engangement

  • Book discussions (although I mostly listen to things and if it’s been a while I’ll probably not be able to come up w interesting things on the spot; don’t have much experience w it but I enjoyed my queer literature class at uni)
  • Urban sketching; digital or ink + water colors
  • Occasionally digital art or design stuff, when my muse holds me hostage
    • designing logos mostly, have also done stickers and a font
  • Trying other art things (although need motivation)
  • Interested in learning more about prose and fiction writing
  • Museums: no, unless interactive or otherwise better than just watching a documentary on the topic (I do not accept standing in front of signs, reading them and looking at some item behind glass as a free time activity anymore! and so many museums have great videos done by their curators and conservators now); see also Why I don't like Museums
  • Movies (and anything that has the same genres)
    • Documentaries
    • Adventure movies
    • Heist movies
    • Also other kinds, see Media I enjoyed
    • Not so into romance, but if done in novel or queer ways I’m happy to try
    • I prefer sub 2h movies
    • I have higher quality requirements for anything serial
    • I don’t like
      • horror: NO! I’ll have nightmares for years to come :((
      • marvel: haven’t watched their stuff for a while, but I’ve been bored by their all-spectacle approach
      • reality tv

Media I enjoyed

With many of these I’d be happy to watch them again in company.
* Favorite comedy things
** Omg those animations and choreographies!!!

Movies:

  • KPOP Demon Hunters**
  • Scott Pilgrim VS the world*
  • Adventure movies, e.g.
    • Loupin the Third movies
    • The Adventures of Tintin
  • Tucker and Dale VS Evil
  • some Studio Ghibli movies
  • Across the Spiderverse**
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish**
  • Enola Holmes
  • Clause
  • A Silent Voice
  • Your Name

Series:

  • Pantheon
  • Black Mirror
  • Nichijou*
  • RWBY**
  • Taskmaster, QI, WILTY*
  • That Mitchell & Webb Look*
  • James Acaster standups/appearances*
  • ATLA and Legend of Kora
    * Omg those animations and choreographies!!!

Rat-Fic (ish):

Other Fiction

  • Children of Time series 45
  • short, niche, nice:
    • infect your friends and loved ones
    • open throat
  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club 45
  • Lessons in Chemistry 45
  • Turtles all the way down 45
  • Kangaroo Chronicles 45

Non-Fiction:

  • atm mostly to learn more about communication, queer and trans things and history
  • as well as articles, mostly EA or rationality-sphere related, and about narrativemancy

VR Games (quest 3)

  • In Death: Unchained
  • Dungeons of Eternity
  • Broken Edge
  • The Light Brigade
  • less often, but occasionally: pistol whip, underdogs, until you fall, beat saber

How I spend my time and current interests

  • Study Project & Thesis on investigating barriers & enabling conditions to urban climate action in the global south; comparing that to what the literature has identified for the global north
  • Activities
    • trans, inter, and non-binary book club (aspirational, only managed to go twice so far)
    • Monster Huntress Training (i.e. rapier fencing practice)
    • trying new recipes (planned for next weeks)
    • taking walks
    • phone calls
  • Development
    • audio books and physical books
      • mix of mostly rat-fic, historical non-fiction, other non-fiction
    • learning more about communication
    • writing and introspection for self-development
    • transitioning things (therapy, voice training, laser hair removal, learning more about gender, etc.)
    • starting to figure out what I’ll actually do after my masters and what to dedicate my 80kh to
    • figuring who I am and who I wanna be(come), what is important in life (and life parts like relationships)

Other & Misc

  • generally prefer smaller groups and 1-1 settings over medium to large groups (although large groups often tend to cluster into smaller groups again); the better I know the people, the larger the group can be
  • 75%-80% chocolate (70% is too sweet, 85% too bitter)

Footnotes

  1. I find the Wikipedia explanation delightful: “An Aerobie is a flying ring used in a manner similar to a flying disc, for recreational catches between two or more individuals.” ↩

  2. published for free ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  3. available as a podcast ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  4. also published as a (e)book (typically professionally edited for higher quality) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  5. also released as an audio book ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

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