Making copies of handbags. I'm a guy and have never used a handbag. But I got into leathercraft during COVID and, well, it's kind of gone from making BDSM style basic shit, to Ren Faire items, to making bags.

Here is my latest

No, thanks. The last time I discussed my favorite subject here, I was called names, downvoted, ridiculed, and personally attacked for liking the "wrong" thing.

Y'all have fun though. I'm glad you have a safe space to enjoy.

I feel like all my favourite topics are just repulsive to most others hey. I don't blame them, it's mostly woke pondering about politics, economics, society, history, etc, etc. but yeh, try talking about any of that without triggering people into emotional states. I wish I instead was totally obsessed with something approachable like cars or plants or smth but nope, that's just not me.
Edit: no I do have a normie obsession! Game design, I could talk about that all day and forever.

Aeroplanes

Minecraft modding

3D modelling

And then I see their eyes glaze over and they've lost interest because I've gotten too excited.

Rare is the person who actually is interested with me. I can count them on one hand.

Guitar pickups

philosophy and woodworking. :)

It can be hard, even for myself, to keep track of my current special interests, for my specific special interests keep varying from times to times.Currently, I'd summarize as: I'm trying to somehow rescue and resurrect (or, rather, spin off one myself, as archæology says there aren't records of this) Mesopotamian worship and invocation of Goddess Ereshkigal/Alatu (who's an older identity and name for Goddess Lilith, as per Burney Relief).I went all the way into using ORACC ePSD2 (electronic Sumerian dictionary maintained by University of Pennsylvania) together with David Halloran's Sumerian Lexicon 4.0 and Wiktionary (oh, and FWIW, no AI; AIs aren't even able to output Sumerian and Akkadian with the proper meaning discovered by assyriological archæology, to begin with).I designed an art with Ereshkigal's name (as faithful as possible to scribes' calligraphy seen on tablets such as CDLI's P393779) which is likely going to become a t-shirt for myself (part of the drawing is seen as my current PFP). I want to bear Her name just like I already do with a "tattoo" carefully made on my left forearm after the Seal of Lilith (the one with the symbol of Saturn sitting atop a vertical line and cross-like markings at every extremity, originally inside a circle which I deliberately omitted as the circle is meant by Goetians to "bind" the dæmon to the practitioner's Will and one shouldn't even dare to try "binding" a powerful Goddess to begin with, so the circle-less sigil is meant to call out to Her without the "binding the dæmon" part, meaning She's totally free to do as She Will; ideally I'd do an actual tattoo but I never made a tattoo before, also I can't afford one, so this, together with the urge to do some "things" to my biological garment and to use my "vital chemistry" in an actual ritual I performed, made me do a permanent mark in my own "Poor Man's way" a long time ago; a very faint scar beautifully managed to become permanent on my skin; maybe one day I'll make a tattoo on top of it, making it further visible 😄).Currently, currently (as in, since yesterday), I'm trying to design an actual divination board (a custom Ouija board) with Ancient Near East writing (Latin alphabet got replaced by the 22 Hebrew letters; "Yes" became 𒀭𒈾 an-na which is Old Babylonian for a literal "yes", "No" became ?𒉡 in-nu; I don't have the "in" cuneiform to paste ATM but I wrote it by hand on my drawing, with several actual clay tablets as visual reference; maybe I'll ditch Hebrew and try using Proto-Sinatic alphabet instead), and owl-related symbolism (especially a Bubo virginianus "Great horned owl" drawn at the Moon side of the Ouija board, defiantly facing a Corvus corax "Common raven" drawn at the Sun side, inspired by the fact that owls and ravens have a natural conflict; also, to me, ravens are to Lucifer as owls are to Lilith (I worship both as complementary forces in an ideal union through the unified archetype of Baphomet, although I'm biased towards the Lilith side)).After I complete the design, I'll print it (hoping I can do it in a Brazilian stationery shop without triggering any bigoted questioning from christians) and use its printing as a basis to somehow carve it to an actual wooden board (I have a digital soldering iron which also serves as a burning pen on wood), so gnoses could happen through something other than my mind (maybe I'll also end up getting some clay and somehow making a majestic owl figurine for myself, with my own hands like I digitally did in Blender a few months ago, to further complement my modest personal shrine and to follow me to my tombstone when I finally leave this world behind).(I wonder whether the things I just described are special interests, hyperfixation/hyperfocus, or both, or entirely something else such as Geschwind's hyperreligiosity)!autism@lemmy.world

I find there's a pretty big distinction between an excited info dump and talking too much

I like passion. I'll do my best to listen and follow along to an info dump, even if it's way over my head, because passion is infectious. Some of it bleeds over, and I often find myself learning about something I normally have no interest in. Or I do know about the topic, and I still don't mind because it can still be a real moment of connection and bonding

There's something about the genuineness of it that I think is just lost in neurotypicals

On the other hand, it often set my teeth on edge when people are just talking for the sake of talking. It makes me uncomfortable when I feel held captive socially, and over explaining is the worst. It's so mentally unengaging

My son loves fungi. He reads loads of fungi and mushroom books, the favourite being a handbook to identify them. We see it as a way to enrich his mind and explore the world so we engage with him on this. We go mushroom foraging, not necessarily to gather them to eat, but to photograph and identify. We'll spend an entire weekend doing this but mix it up, like having to cycle somewhere, or explore a new forest, stop at a play ground, etc. We get other people and their kids involved so he can socialise while doing what he loves.

He's converted me. I'm now obsessed too, but not in it as deep as him.

Used to be Skyrim. On a road trip, I once explained the entirety of the assassins' guild ("Dark Brotherhood") quest line to my wife, who is not a gamer. In detail. With dialogue choices, storyline choices, what happens if you do X, what happens if you do Y, full spoilers, where it ends up, who betrays whom, all that good stuff.

We were bored.

I've also explained, at length, exactly what Enderal is. In short, it's a mod for Skyrim, but it's also a whole new game that takes the game engine and some of its assets, but has you create an entirely separate character, uses separate saves, is set in a whole different world you cannot reach from Tamriel (the world space of Skyrim and the country Skyrim is a province of) and vice-versa, and uses elements from Skyrim, Fallout (specifically, radiation), and their original world. It's basically a game within a game. It became infamous as the revered "Skyrim grandma" Shirley Curry tried it, and rage quit because it was too hard, and everyone loves her. She's even been confirmed as an NPC in Skyrim's sequel. (It's not that hard if you're a seasoned gamer. But Curry is an octogenarian grandmother, and Skyrim is an easy game that she enjoys live-streaming casually on social media. No one who knew Enderal should have recommended it to her. That's entirely on them.)

I'm not autistic but I love tanks. Their history, the technical stuff, the politics behind them and so on.

I've driven through all of Germany and back in one weekend to go the Panzermuseum Munster and I've been to the Bovington Tank Museum twice and really want to go again.

My apartment is full of Cobi tank models, I have like ten different tank themed t-shirts and at least two hoodies and a Christmas sweater.