Do You Hide Your Hobby?

The Origonal Head Hunter · Post by **The Origonal Head Hunter** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:26 pm

What everyone else has said. Don't hide it like a grown man's teddy bear, but neither do I flaunt it like some kinda gay pride parade.

Sukunai · Post by **Sukunai** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:18 pm

Hide? Your kidding right?

My Haruhi poster is positioned specifically so that it DOES get viewed from outside the hobby room.

My desktop wallpaper has anime girls wearing clothing only because the wife would be annoyed otherwise (she expects me to at least be at least that under control

).

I don't keep people as friends if they would make dumb ass comments about my anime.
And frankly you can make your friends, family you're stuck with

, although my family knows better than to give me a reason to rip them a new one.

Gotta keep in mind though, I think smoking is for losers with no will power and vulnerable to peer pressure, Religion is for people afraid of the dark and suffering a crisis of reality, and I prefer politics at the end of an assault weapon.

Most people aren't stupid enough to laugh at me because I like anime.

That, and being "popular" hasn't been important to me for hmm at least 30 years.
Wait, it wasn't important to me then either.

My advice to anyone dealing with someone laughing at your anime hobby, laugh right back at them, and ask them straight faced "what makes you think your opinion ever meant bugger all to me?".

LeapofFate · Post by **LeapofFate** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:28 pm

8bit_samurai wrote:For me it's more of a "don't ask don't tell" thing. Nobody really asks, so I don't really tell.

x2 on that statement.

Even if people knew I like anime and edit to it[some of my friend do know that], they shouldn't care. It is your life.

8bit_samurai · Post by **8bit_samurai** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:09 pm

8bit_samurai wrote:For me it's more of a "don't ask don't tell" thing. Nobody really asks, so I don't really tell.

To expand on my statement (since I was on lunch break at the time) I hide my anime in plain sight with my other DVDs. There are times when someone asks to borrow a DVD (it's a small town), they see an anime I have and may or may not ask what it is, so I tell them what it is if they do ask. Sometimes they ask what it's about so I tell them what it's about. Nobody has borrowed one yet, so I guess I don't give good reviews on anime :/ One of my friends was interested once and said he might borrow one later, but he hasn't yet. He's the same person who I showed a sub I had awhile back and said he'd watch it if they were talking in English. He's also the same person who has the Spawn animated series I been meaning to borrow but I haven't yet :/

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:18 pm

I don't hide it, but I also don't advertise it. I've got no reason to.

wurpess · Post by **wurpess** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:55 pm

Actually, I do hide the yaoi. The physical DVDs/Manga/Doujinshi stay hidden under my desk (though the light shounen-ai stuff will generally stay on shelves), and it's something I generally won't talk about with people, even those who know I'm into anime, unless I know they are also interested in that. But as far as regular anime/AMVs go, while I don't usually go around with large neon signs, I also don't see any reason to hide it.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:30 pm

I hide it. I've also officially heard all my friends make various derogatory comments about anime and the people that watch it at various points in time, so I just assume I'd rather avoid the subject in general. How I wound up in such a position I'll likely never know, but I live with it. =\

Lame, I know. But I guess that's why I come here. <_<

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:05 am

Eh, like a few others I don't hide it but don't advertise it. I bring a portion of my anime to college with me, and nobody really asks about it. Nearly all of my friends like anime (in fact, that was a big reason of why I got into it in the first place.)

The anime club at my school is one of the largest (and most diverse) clubs on campus. As long as I have someone else interested to talk to I'll carry on a conversation on anime without caring who listens. Working the recruiting table is the only place where I advertise.

I have a different stance when I'm in pretty much any other public setting. When someone asks me what I'm into I'll tend to shy away from anime, or phrase it in a way that doesn't get me comments along the lines of, "so you watch pokeymans?"

If someone is interested I'll go further, if not I'll just leave it as is.

Chiikaboom · Post by **Chiikaboom** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:13 am

I dont really talk about it at school but somehow everyone knows.

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Pas · Post by **Pas** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:39 am

CodeChrono wrote:Do you hide your hobby? If so, explain why.

No. It's not like I'm doing anything illegal |:

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