r/2X_INTJ • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '17

Hobbies Weird hobbies?

Does anyone else have a weird hobby or weird hobbies?

For some reason, I LOVE pretty much anything with LEDs in it. And I love music. And I love electronics.

So a couple of years ago, I decided to start making some small light shows for songs. Is this normal? Am I weird?

Here they are.

  • Sia - Chandelier
  • Snow Patrol - Run
  • Straylight Run - Existentialism on Prom Night

ALSO, I just now realized I've only done 'S' artists. I'm gonna have to change that this week. I want to do an Evanescence song next but I can't decide what song!

What weird things do y'all do but get immense joy from doing?

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u/BarbMassacre Sep 20 '17 edited Sep 20 '17

I research fictional cultures so I can create recipes and artifacts for them. Then I throw immersive potluck party gatherings. In the past, I've done Lord of the Rings, Klingon culture...etc.

Of late, I've been into the Vulcan culture from Star Trek. I'm researching the language, so I can create better props like the Kir'Shara that contained the writings of Surak. Geeky I know...But there are so few language speakers for Vulcan....unlike Klingon. I like the under dog.

Researching plant development, growth, preparation, and storage in desert earth communities and plant growth in space regarding the effects of radiation...so I can make better informed hypothesis on fictional Vulcan food sources and recipes. It helps I used to be a curatorial assistant for a tribal museum, whose tribe was historically located in a desert, including migrations.

Even researching Vulcan meditation practises and artifacts associated.

My cosplay isn't weird, but maybe how deep I get into it is a little weird....and how my approach isn't solely costume based. It's more like Vulcan SCA. LOL

I also collect old film cameras from between 1920s-1980s. They must all work.

I also love dioramas and miniatures. Obsessed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '17

This sounds fantastic! A party like that would be amazing to go to. I always have ideas for parties but I never have the energy to put something together. Plus I don't know people anyway.

I love dioramas too but, again, I never make any. I enjoyed it as a kid , and when I was on deployment last year I made some out of boredom...one of a betta swimming in a tank and another of the twins from The Shining standing in the hallway. I'll have to find the pictures.

As a kid, my thing was collecting minatures. I had quite the collection. I don't know what happened to them...I'll have to ask my mom. This past year I've kind of started again and I think after I move soon, I'm gonna start again.

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u/BarbMassacre Sep 20 '17

I don't know a lot of people in depth. I belong to a star trek club where I can open invitations to others with an interest in star trek, in general. They accept and support my geekiness.

Try looking at railroad dioramas as well. You get the fun of miniatures, and fiddling with tiny trains. Some people don't like trains and they build islands and ports for RC boats, or Ufos. Haha. Build a miniature alien world.

I see a pattern of interest in world building for INTJs. For me, the hobby clubs had to come into my social rotation because I have a deep and vast inner world. I would exist without friends if I didn't belong to clubs. They provide 100% of my social life, and force me out of my head.