what's something you're into that you don't want anyone you know irl to know about?
what's something you're into that you don't want anyone you know irl to know about?
I really like fanfiction. Reading and writing it. Nobody in my life knows and I plan on keeping it that way.
It's really hard but I struggle to tell people about my operating system. I use Arch BTW.
High quality fresh mozzarella sliced thinly into delicate slivers like sashimi, dipped in high quality traditional aged Japanese soy sauce. Eaten with chopsticks of course, similar to conventional sashimi.
I've done a fair share of fine dining and make some very intricate conventional dishes but this weird combo just kind of to gets me. I've never mentioned this to anybody as to not disqualify myself as the "chef guy" but I can't help but like it.
I’d prefer if my family and my coworkers don’t know my wife and I met at a bdsm event. I don’t hide it from friends though
I've been really into early Christianity / Biblical textual analysis. I found a priest I like on YouTube I really like and I've watched 100+ hours of lectures of his, plus a couple podcasts and audiobooks.
I'm not religious at all and kinda the stuff I like is the "huh, this is pretty obviously fake/contradictory, interesting nobody saw through this" stuff. It's like anthropologically interesting.
Obviously a dominant religion, not like a fringe thing to know about, but nobody's into these facts in just this way. Don't want to talk about it to religious people, non-religious people don't want to talk about it to me.
- Fanfics, too. I love fanfics exploring what-ifs of a work, and myself wrote two or three of those, but assumers immediately associate them with the lemons.
- Isekai. Same deal as fanfics, except with escapism instead of porn. (I'm a sucker for fantasy dammit.)
- Machine text generation. Yeah, I don't want to be confused with a functionally illiterate tech bro.
Nice try, FBI
Same with fanfiction except I write it more than I read it. I've been doing it for years now and have a little over 200 subscribers. My partner is the only one who knows I write it, but I've never let him read it, and never will (which he's fine with). I feel like it's such a ridiculous little thing to do, but I also like knowing there's 200+ people out there who enjoy what I write.
I'm not shy about letting my freak flags fly in many ways, but you have to know me IRL for a good while before my deep and abiding love for a good prank phone call or a well-written monster-focused erotica story might come up in casual conversation.
I have quite a collection of speedos and I didn't buy them for swimming
I'm obsessed with learning about particle physics and quantum mechanics. And of course slowly learning all the math that underpins it.
I just find myself to be very curious about how the world works, in many different ways.
It's exhausting having to go into the defensive posture simply for saying I'm interested in a subject that is way over most people's heads. Instantly arouses feelings of inadequacy in people. It never fails to sully the enjoyment of my passion, and create tension between friends.
That and pro wrestling.
Same with the fanfiction. No one knows that I write a bunch of it, but I have 2 friends who know I read it only bc they read it too. But neither know I write. I’d die I think if they ever read my stuff so I just don’t want them to know. It’s my one little anon hobby that’s just for me.
The first thing that comes to mind is there are sites I might beat around the bush about being a member of.
Oh, fanfiction for me, too. My partner does know this about me though. I can't actually think of anything that they don't know about, hmm.