Do You Hide Your Hobby?

CorpseGoddess · Post by **CorpseGoddess** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:35 am

Heck no. All the anime stuff is out and about, along with all the Halloween stuff, the Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl Stuff, the generally weird stuff...

The nice thing about being old (36) and having no kids is that I don't give a flying rat's ass what anybody thinks about what I choose to like and spend my time on.

OropherZero · Post by **OropherZero** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:12 am

CodeChrono wrote: It's generall not in the best interests of me as a college student to have tohru honda on my desktop, holding a cat and a rat on display in the library.

Today in my lab at Uni. "Hey thats a nice Nagisa mousepad you have there, where'd you get it?" "Singapore "Awesome". I've seen people watch anime on their laptop in the middle of nowhere on campus by themselves.

Erm back on topic. No I do not.

Also I'm a bit surprised about your statement. Do you not have an anime club at your college? I was thinking it was pretty standard in the world :/ In my city 3/5 of the universities have anime clubs. Heck I'm going to go see Sword of the Stranger in a lecture theatre tomorrow :/

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:21 am

OropherZero wrote: Also I'm a bit surprised about your statement. Do you not have an anime club at your college? I was thinking it was pretty standard in the world :/ In my city 3/5 of the universities have anime clubs. Heck I'm going to go see Sword of the Stranger in a lecture theatre tomorrow :/

We had an anime club, but it got disbanded over the summer session. Apparently they had like 10 members, but 6 of them graduated, and none of the other four wanted to run the club. I was thouroughly irritated.

Unfortunetely, I live in a pretty rural area, so anime isn't as well known around here. In fact, when people see it, they just automatically assume that I'm worshipping Satan or something. I hate ignorance. O_o

Sukunai · Post by **Sukunai** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:35 am

Ya know, to be honest, each and every last one of you that "hide" it and avoid acknowledging it, frankly the problem is YOU.

You obviously think there's something wrong with anime, otherwise you'd treat it as nothing worth even acknowledging.

Would a person that goes bowling all the time be ashamed to have dozens of atypical bowling trophies on a shelf?

Does have a model train set in the basement make you some kind of oddball?

Maybe you like making plastic models, even though some think models are for kids too.

What about UFO "stuff" does an interest in Area 51 make you some sort of whacko?

Does just being clearly computer literate brand you a nerd?

People without hobbies are in my opinion almost certainly f**king boring in all likelihood.

Anime, it's just a hobby. Thinking otherwise, means the only one with a hangup, is YOU.

Pas · Post by **Pas** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:46 am

Sukunai wrote:Ya know, to be honest, each and every last one of you that "hide" it and avoid acknowledging it, frankly the problem is YOU.

You obviously think there's something wrong with anime, otherwise you'd treat it as nothing worth even acknowledging.

Anime, it's just a hobby. Thinking otherwise, means the only one with a hangup, is YOU.

Hahah oh wow.

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Did you not stop to think that maybe they don't enjoy having people stir shit up about them due to their hobby? Just because they choose to not blatantly flaunt their hobby does not mean that they question it's integrity.

Some interests are just not widely acknowledged in the eyes of the general public, and for those who maintain those interests, the choice is theirs if they want to hide it or not. This does not in turn imply that the person with said interests thinks that there's something wrong with their hobby, but rather that they have acknowledged that other people might not feel the same way towards it as they do.

Scott Green · Post by **Scott Green** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:43 am

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

NO

And srsly if other people harass your hobbies/habits they are retarded big time cause they have a small dick.

k?

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:37 am

To be honest, the whole anime thing is easier for me to explain to other people than some of my other hobbies. I personally don't really need to hide it - I used to actually be adamantly promotional of it, but I've chilled out and I've certainly never had that much stuff to show off anyways. I tend to get weirder looks for my much more obvious obsession with ships and airplanes and such.

I don't really like explaining these things to people, either way, unless they seem genuinely curious about it. I have been asked a couple of times about this and that, but unless the person showed a real interest beyond asking "oh what's this box set here?" I mostly just tended to sideline the topic with a really short response. If they don't want to pursue it beyond that, I let it be. Conversely, if someone comes in and seems enthusiastic about it and has something to relate, I'm more than happy to discuss it with them. Otherwise I just save it for cons and LAN parties, beyond which (and besides the Internet, of course) I honestly don't tend to associate with people by interest all that much, and I try to de-emphasize mine in general. Not that I have any particular stigma about it, but I honestly don't rank any of my hobbies as being defining to my identity and whatnot, so they're generally not the first things I want people to know about me, be they my anime DVDs or my airplanes and tanks or my video games. So, I tend to de-emphasize them as appropriate. Or just not let people into my room

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:22 pm

I don't tend to talk about anime / AMVs so much because Magic is a much more prominent part of my life and that's what most people tend to notice more.

LeapofFate · Post by **LeapofFate** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:10 pm

Pas1990 wrote:
Sukunai wrote:Ya know, to be honest, each and every last one of you that "hide" it and avoid acknowledging it, frankly the problem is YOU.

You obviously think there's something wrong with anime, otherwise you'd treat it as nothing worth even acknowledging.

Anime, it's just a hobby. Thinking otherwise, means the only one with a hangup, is YOU.
Hahah oh wow.

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Did you not stop to think that maybe they don't enjoy having people stir shit up about them due to their hobby? Just because they choose to not blatantly flaunt their hobby does not mean that they question it's integrity.

Some interests are just not widely acknowledged in the eyes of the general public, and for those who maintain those interests, the choice is theirs if they want to hide it or not. This does not in turn imply that the person with said interests thinks that there's something wrong with their hobby, but rather that they have acknowledged that other people might not feel the same way towards it as they do.

Pas.

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Unlimited Rice · Post by **Unlimited Rice** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:28 pm

I don't hide it. I only talk about it if someone brings anime up or if in a conversation, a point comes up where I could reference a scene from an anime to it, like, "yo, that reminds me of this anime called ____ where they did _____ also" or something along those lines. Or the other way around, I bring up a scene from an anime to talk about, etc.

Well, you know, I just talk about anime like any other tv show.

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