What's your current passion/obsession? - Be it a fandom, hobby, person/celebrity/fictional character or object

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I got obsesse with/I am currently obsessed with

  • A particular fandom (like everyone on here)

    Votes: 17 17.5%

  • A particular hobby (meh, depends on what's about)

    Votes: 59 60.8%

  • A real person/celebrity (á la Ricardo Lopez)

    Votes: 8 8.2%

  • A fictional character ( you waifu maniac)

    Votes: 5 5.2%

  • An object/ type of objects (Fetishist)

    Votes: 8 8.2%
  • Total voters
    97
Pepito said:
I do Photoshop stuff. Doing a lot of pixel art lately because its relaxing.


Cool, I have one and I need to know how the fuck to cut her hair properly. Any material you recommend?
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I'm so jealous - I love Schnauzers. Get yourself a decent pair of clippers and some thinning scissors/straight scissors. Top of the body / tail / head & ears go short with the clippers, legs thinned with thinners and beard / eyebrows / skirt nice and straight with the straight scissors. Just make sure to stay on top of the knots in their legs / bellies.
If you don't want a schnauzer-specific style, just take the clippers all over. Just get like a 5 or 7 blade (not sure if it's different for different countries); it'll take it super short tho so I'd probably just stick to the cool style they have. B)
 
I've been getting really into fishing lately. Like it's always been a hobby of mine but lately anytime the weathers nice I've been heading out to my favorite fishing hole near my house. Even thinking about buying a canoe when I have some money saved up so I can take a nice relaxing trip out somewhere to try and catch some new types of fish.

I'm also into studying plants for some weird reason now. I was just looking up some info on poison sumac to see if that was what we had growing on the vine in my yard, and I got kind of fascinated by all the stuff you can learn about them.
 
ADN_VIII said:
Origami. I've been living in a hotel for a while while I find a new place to live and I picked up paper craft to keep from going nuts. Started with planes, now animals. It's engaging enough for me to sink time into and simple enough that it's not frustrating.
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You ever watch Jo Nakashima on youtube? I'm pretty terrible at origami, but I always feel accomplished whenever I follow one of his more complicated tutorials.

As for my current obsessions, I'm always obsessing over some video game or show. Current flavors of the month are Fallout, Dragon Age, OneShot, Bojack Horseman and the Voltron reboot. If anybody wants to sperg about any of these things or more, I'd be willing to lend an ear.

Outside of being a shut in, I'm trying to get into gardening. I've managed to keep a catnip plant alive for 3 weeks. I named it Charlie, lol.
 
I'm currently passionate about military history and it has driven me into a newfound interest of paramilitary subjects and general militaria. I've been reading up on mall ninja tactical stuff, wargaming, more recent military history, World War II and Vietnam War reenactment (I didn't even know Vietnam reenactments were a thing until very recently), and I've also rekindled my interest in two childhood interests of mine: Toy army men and the Soldier of Fortune magazine.

A local supermarket back where I used to live carried the magazine back in the late 1990's and early 2000's, and I remember being a kid and saving up my allowance to buy the newest issue whenever I could, usually purchased alongside a copy of something like Tips and Tricks or the official Playstation magazine.

I really loved that overblown commando paramilitary stuff back when I was a kid in the late 90's and early 2000's (and when I was a teenager in the late 2000's).

Unfortunately, I discovered that Soldier of Fortune has been out of print since 2016, although I have heard they still do online articles.

This newfound interest in military and paramilitary subjects makes me want to find me some of those cheap war novels and other forms of paramilitary fiction. And I'm not talking about Tom Clancy either, although I do like Tom Clancy.

Nah, I'm talking about the kind of stuff that makes Tom Clancy look like Charles Dickens and is just barely one or two notches above Tiberius Rising in terms of quality. Yeah, it's cringe-inducing and stupid, but it's entertaining.

Part of me wants to write a story in a manner similar to those cheapo paramilitary thrillers. Not sure if I want to go all-original or make it a fan fiction for that extra dose of teenage nostalgia. I might even dig up some of the old Deagle Nation videos on YouTube for "inspiration".
 
I've recently been interested in thinking behind moral panics and political extremism.

I've read a few books on the critical theory behind these things and it seems like the two above interests are linked in every way. They both involve the same kinds of thinking and both attract the same kind of people.

I've also taken an interest in the Chinese Civil War, Spanish Civil War and USSR in ww2. The amount of misconception about the Chinese and Soviets is astounding. All of these wars have leaders who are absolute geniuses working alongside people that would be considered lolcows if they were alive today.
 
I've always had a passion for the Nintendo 64, and like to collect games for my N64 that I still have.
 
Apoth42 said:
All of these wars have leaders who are absolute geniuses working alongside people that would be considered lolcows if they were alive today.
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Well, speaking of the Soviets, I'm reminded of the figures who lead the Purges of the Thirties: Yagoda, Ezov and Berija. Practically Stalin made each of these men make the deportations and killings, then supplanted them with their deputy and made them fall victim of the "unpersoning" system they had created. Ezov in particolar was a pathetic figure: he spent his last months on the verge of depression and alcoholism, having foreseen his fate. Berija survived as long as Stalin was alive, once big moustacho died, he was done.

Among the Nazis; Rudolf Heß (number 2 of the Nazi Party) Robert Ley and Julius Streicher were fairly lolcowish. Hell, Heß flew to England in '41 to make peace with the English because a fortune teller told him so!
And althrough they were a bit more menacing, Himmler and Göring also had their share of lolcow moments.
 
Heinrich Himmler said:
Well, speaking of the Soviets, I'm reminded of the figures who lead the Purges of the Thirties: Yagoda, Ezov and Berija. Practically Stalin made each of these men make the deportations and killings, then supplanted them with their deputy and made them fall victim of the "unpersoning" system they had created. Ezov in particolar was a pathetic figure: he spent his last months on the verge of depression and alcoholism, having foreseen his fate. Berija survived as long as Stalin was alive, once big moustacho died, he was done.

Among the Nazis; Rudolf Heß (number 2 of the Nazi Party) Robert Ley and Julius Streicher were fairly lolcowish. Hell, Heß flew to England in '41 to make peace with the English because a fortune teller told him so!
And althrough they were a bit more menacing, Himmler and Göring also had their share of lolcow moments.
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The "Bloody Dwarf" and Beria the pedo (doubt this claim) are good horrorcows.

Kulik is probably my favorite Soviet lolcow though. Kulik botched the invasion of Poland in 1920 and opposed and even sabotoged the production of machine guns, katyusha rockets and tanks. He believed that tanks encouraged cowardice and that the use of machine guns/rockets encouraged waste.

He was quick to anger, arbitrary, fine with wasting lives needlessly and one of Stalin's war buddies.
 
Apoth42 said:
The "Bloody Dwarf" and Beria the pedo (doubt this claim) are good horrorcows.

Kulik is probably my favorite Soviet lolcow though. Kulik botched the invasion of Poland in 1920 and opposed and even sabotoged the production of machine guns, katyusha rockets and tanks. He believed that tanks encouraged cowardice and that the use of machine guns/rockets encouraged waste.

He was quick to anger, arbitrary, fine with wasting lives needlessly and one of Stalin's war buddies.
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Didn't Kulik also sported an Hitler stache? Doubtlessly the ideal man to fight the Germans! :D

The accuse on Beria about paedophilia are commonly regarded as being a demonization on Kruschev's part. He (Beria) did still rape countless women and had a taste for schoolgirls, and was by all account a violent sexual predator.
Althrough he was no saint and probably deserved it, I pity Yezhov. His last months were a un unending torment, and he even divorced his wife to keep her out from his downfall. And she killed herself a couple of months later. Stalin's effectively made his life hell, just for having followed his orders to the letter and being generally "too good". On this aspects, Stalin was worse than Hitler in my opinion.
 
Holden Caulfield said:
:autism::autism: I have a bit of the tism, so I have a really bad true crime obsession. I prefer cryptids over real life monsters, but there’s not many documentaries about mothman as compared to ones about serial killers.

I’ve also started to get into learning about the romanovs and praying mantises for some weird reason
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Mantises are cute little aliens tbh.
 
I go through periods in my life in which I am obsessed with several things, usually it's one to three topics at a time. Hermit crabs was age 15-20 and that's what everyone remembers me for and it was probably the longest obsession I had, mostly because I based my online persona off it.

Gardening is a seasonal obsession, entomology too. In the other months of the year where I can't go outside and harass the native arthropods I usually just get slightly interested in a myriad of topics ranging from learning 3D modeling to that time I rediscovered my childhood love for Bionicles for 5 minutes.
 
The video games and Japanese culture are my passions. The lolcows fuel my interest in psychoanalysis.
 
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