Being into history and talking to people as a liberal leaning lady has been a crapshoot for sure
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Norse mythology.
Warhammer 40k
Especially German and Roman history and alt history literature, those can be real minefields if you’re not careful with those intro conversations.
Wrestling fans, at least online, are more towards the left on the whole.
Wrestlers and wrestling companies, not so much.
Anything adjacent to or associated with “homesteading”, which is annoying because I like woodcarving, baking, and gardening, and I recently learned how to make my own goat cheese and am really proud of that. I am not right wing, and I don’t have some “subsistence farming, but in a romantic way that consists entirely of social media-friendly aesthetic moments” fantasy, I just like making stuff, especially useful stuff, and also having useful things I made myself.
I’m so fucking tired of nazis existing in my nerd hobby spaces
Baking or “housewife activities” usually result in me having to side eye people.
I’m sad I can’t really wear my Punisher shirts any more because I’m a huge fan of comic books but lately the type of people who wear punisher shirts are uh…
Can’t be autistic about guns without it getting political 🙁
ham radio… mostly old white guys from ohio. i get some really weird comments when they hear my voice and assume im a girl, and i have to politely tell them that that’s just how i sound and im a dude
I do a couple of martial arts.
I work in progressive politics.
Almost no one at the gyms I go to knows what I do for work and it will always be that way.
Magic the Gathering for me. Even gaming to a lesser extent
Weightlifting/bodybuilding stuff is definitely in this category
Good goddess, the homesteading/cottagecore communities have this BAD. It sucks going from looking at ,say ,a quilting pattern or a bread recipe only to find out that Mary-Ann The Canning Queen thinks that queer folks should be h*nged and Feminism is a evil harbinger of Satan or some ish.
Related, but not quite the same – I don’t often talk about my interest in motorsports in real life, for fear of looking like a redneck.
Thank god it’s becoming more mainstream to be into F1 now.
I’m a weeb with a history degree, a minor in political science, whose favorite course was about modern German history who is into alternate history fiction and Warhammer 40k (specifically an Imperial faction). And I liked Star Wars.
The internet’s not a very fun place to discuss any of my interests.
Yeah, it can be pretty wild talking to someone about D&D and then suddenly getting hit with something like, “I just wish they’d stop doing all this woke shit”
Anime’s gotta be the king of this right
Fountain pen users definitely have their weirdo traditionalists who got into the hobby to evoke “the good old days”.
Which is funny to me as a collector who knows that fountain pens are relatively new, as writing instruments go. You want “traditional”? Learn to make a quill. Or better yet, learn how to cut and shape a reed pen!
Comic Books on the last 10 years…. I could swear we used to swing a bit more to the left back in the 00s and the 90s, or maybe it was just the internet that showed me who this hobby really attracted…
Talking about engineering and tech without attracting techbros (especially AI bros) is extremely difficult.
Today, in real history that happened today:
“I have a DM? Why do I have a DM?”
>Wow, a trans girl into Magic the Gathering?! My holy grail!
“Uhhhhhhhhhhhh”
[ignore]
I have never seen somebody stack land mines like that in a DM. Are you a chaser? Are you weird about Magic? Are you perchance both at once? Find out never I’m not replying to that shit lmao
Been into archery since I was a kid. Big can of worms every time. I’ve been wanting to get into firearms for… political reasons recently, but the thought of interacting with most gun hobbyists puts the fear of god into me, and I don’t even believe.
This is how I feel about loving the band Tool
Man, since GamersGate being a progressively minded person who enjoys video games can be frustrating. The amount of chuds whining about Woke, DEI, and whatever other bullshit has sprouted from their peabrains is ridiculous. Meanwhile us game enjoyers, since calling myself a gamer might imply I am in with the chuds, are fighting actual real fight against a hugely scummy and predatory industry that is tanking quality while trying to squeeze every last fraction of a cent they can from us. So now we are fighting a two front war. Luckily the chuds deliver themselves a lot of Ls and save us the effort, they just make fighting the AAAs so much harder and confuse the messaging allow the AAAs to divide us against each other.
Used to be into history as a kid. Wanted to be a historian, even wanted to major in history my first quarter in college. I ended up conditioning myself out of it because there are SO MANY NAZIS who are into history. Not so many historians who are nazis, but the amount of people who heard “oh you’re into history what do you think of XYZ Wehrmacht campaign” or who would slowly espouse more great replacement stuff to me because they thought I was ‘safe.’ *Absolutely* ridiculous. I honestly believe if you’re not a Nazi but you’re already into Nazi history shit then that’s a *fine* but manageable line. That is an existing, regular niche. But many of these people (mostly men) were not like this. They were proudly a fan of learning about the Holocaust but not learning about why it was a generational tragedy that scarred hundreds of millions of people for decades…. They wanted to hear about how the Nazis crushed X military or listen to sketchy power metal (not Sabaton, trust me) about the Nazi stormtroopers.
I even ended up hating history-adjacent stuff. Played the shit out of Crusader Kings but had to stop because of this kid in high school who was a *self-professed* National Socialist (he hated the term Nazi) who wanted to be friends with me over it. Couldn’t play Call of Duty because he was into that too, especially the older World War II ones.
I don’t like military history! I don’t even like recent history! I like reading about normal cultural shit people did not about Hitler’s rise to power for the 34th time…. If it gives you any idea, we did a Greek history unit in elementary school and the mythology was way more boring to me than hearing about daily life of Ancient Greeks. I wanna learn about their sports and their relationships and stuff. That’s cool.
Looking back on it I probably could’ve gotten away with getting into Anthropology but one boring Anthro class made me swear it off naively.
edit: Also wanted to get into collecting old currency but the amount of people in that who are very much just Lost Causers into Confederate currency as a surrogate for being into *the Confederacy* is… frightening. It’s one thing when you’ve got an old Confederate $5 in your collection among other stuff. It’s another when it’s *just* Confederate currency, and then battle flags, then uniforms… yeah, nah man.
My interest rn is plane crashes. Not right wing but everyone thinks I’m really fucking weird
I love ww2 German experimental weaponry because those things mulched through test pilots/users and there is something deeply funny and poetic about those hyper mechanization obsessed fascists feeding themselves into death traps of their own doing, but I feel like a lot of others interest in the subject comes from somewhere more… sympathetic towards the Nazis which fuckin blows 🙁
Being a fan of classic cartoons, I’m talking like old theatrical shorts and 50s-60s TV cartoons. There are cool fans but others are just people who complain about “woke modern cartoons” and get real pissy when you point out racism and sexism in old cartoons.