My hobby is building cosplay weapons/props or just building shit in general. I get to look at the thing I made and go “holy shit, I made that with my crafting skills and my own 2 hands!”. I made Guts’s sword from Berserk before and I get to swing it around. I tend to enjoy hobbies that requires hands-on work the most like woodworking, helping my dad fix engines/car/boat stuff, playing with legos, and such.

It challenges my creativity because I also like doing prop design in visual development/drawing/illustration. So when I design my own weapon(s) and I can make it into 3D art for display. My whole room will be filled with cardboard swords and guns one day.

Any (shounen) anime opening/ending songs- One piece, Naruto, Fairy Tail, Angel Beats, Noragami. Yu-Gi-Oh (dub) doesn’t have any lyrics, but it still goes hard AF even after 15+ years.

Graduated high school in 2021; I was about 16/17. For me, my senior year of HS wasn’t that bad. Sure, we all couldn’t physically be with one another, but I didn’t really mind. I’m a person who likes to hang out by myself than with other people most of the time. But if my friend wanted to hang out, we go on video calls. I actually prefer online classes. I didn’t need to wake up so freaking early to try to stay awake for 6 hours everyday and come back home to study for 4 more hours. I got to walk on stage when I graduated (all wearing masks tho). I’m just glad I got through high school because I didn’t really enjoy it (people there were okay/nice. It was the curriculum that made me dislike HS–in America).

Currently, I’m in my 5th year of Uni studying studio arts, but is thinking about going to trade school at my community college for welding because it’s harder for people who just graduated to get into (entry level) creative positions, the studio job isn’t what I want anymore, and visual development for animation is oversaturated/extremely competitive. I survived the pandemic, but I’m struggling to survive this current semester because of feeling jaded in studying the arts, still depressed, and lost my passion for creating stuff, but is slowly regaining it back. Overall, trying to figure out young adult life (now 22) and trying to keep my worrying about my future/career to a minimum.