My Activity Menu

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 frisbee rings)
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)

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)

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 weird ecologies: queering nature literature class at uni; see Weird-Ecologies-1)
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

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

most of Alexander Wales’ works, favorites are
- Metropolitan Man
- Instruments of Destruction
- Worth the Candle
- This Used to be About Dungeons
Pokemon: the Origin of Species
HPMOR, SigDigs, and Orders of Magnitude (the last two blend together in my mind)
Sedrics 6? (forgot the name, ratfic in which Sedric Diggory suffers from “spontaneous duplication” and uses that, combined w a time turner, to rob a magical casino)
Crystal Society
Practical Guide to Evil
Mother of Learning
Andy Weir novels (mainly The Martian and Project Hailmarry)

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

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

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)

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