My hobbies

As most of you I have gotten into hobbies that to "normal" people either seem weird or strange, or is something they look down on. I get a lot of weird looks, and questions about what something is by those people. Mainly because they it is something they have never heard of and its something they don't really understand. For those reasons I decided to write a little about each hobby to give those not familiar with it a better idea of it.


I will start with the common hobby, video games. As most people know its a electronic game. Most people think that its for kids and that they are turning kids violent. Both things are untrue. People of both genders of all ages play video games, and there are many different kinds of video games. If your worried about the level of violence in a game just do your research, and most games should came with a rating.

I often use comics and cartoons as a way of describing anime and manga, just because its easier to explain what some thing is when you have something that the other person knows to liken it too. One thing a lot of people don't realize is that there is more to anime and manga than super heroes and kids shows. Well ok there is super heroes and anime for kids, but a lot of the super heroes and kids shows can be rather different to what your use to. There are anime and manga covering anything and everything, and targeted at all ages and both genders.

Cosplay is one word made up of two. The cos from costume and the play from role-playing. It means to dress up as a character and acting like them, but a lot of people just use it as a term to mean dressing up as a character. You can either buy or make your costume, or a combo of both.

Lolita is a street fashion that became really popular in Japan and has since spread from there. It is based on Victorian-era fashion. It features knee length dresses and skirts, with a cupcake like shape, its very modest and very girl, and can be very cute as well. There are many different styles of lolita but they all keep to the same outline.
I would also like to point out that lolita fashion has nothing to do with the book or movie of the same name.
Here's a photo of one of my dresses to give you a bit of an idea.

Finely Ball Jointed Dolls or BJDs for short. Like the name suggests they are dolls that are ball jointed. You can do a lot with those dolls and they come in a lot of different sizes. The smaller ones can be around 20cm and they can get up to 70cm or more. You can customize those dolls, by making clothes and props, changing their eyes and wigs, swapping heads and wiping off their faces and redoing it. A lot of people also like to take photos of their dolles.