What are your favorite non MLP hobbies?

Sparkleworks909

Sparkleworks909

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Mine are the real ponies:
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A plethora of other animals:
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I also really enjoy cooking, reading, occasionally hiking, and gardening.

What are my fellow TP members doing in their free time outside of MLP??
 
Those are some wonderful animals! Are those your horses? I also love animals. I had a horse when I was little, named Candy.
In my free time, besides MLP I love dungeons and dragons, folk music, drawing, baking, sewing, and video games. I’m also a comedy writer and editor for my university’s satire magazine
 
I enjoy spending time with horses and going on long drives with my boyfriend. Sometimes I cut up apples or carrots and feed the horses at my local pony club.
As well as ponies, I collect dragon statues/figures, fashion star fillies, and also lanard fakies.
I am a (100% SFW) furry with a fursuit so sometimes I go suiting. I do furry art to make money, but I don't have a proper job yet. I would do more pony commissions, but it's super niche and hard to find buyers.
I like to sew but my machine has an issue which will be getting repaired eventually. I like to make custom clothes for my ponies and make fursuit parts like paws, heads and tails.
I like playing video games, some of my favourites are Ark Survival (ase/asa) and Planet Zoo. I especially recommend planet zoo as it's a really nice and chill game with great graphics where you can build a zoo and pick what animals you want to have. I would consider ark to be the opposite of nice and chill but I can't stop playing it.
 
Yoga, going on walks with my husband around our neighborhood or local parks, meal prepping, playing with my 2 cats, drawing, listening to music, reading, going to conventions/shows/festivals, and I also collect Super Dollfie and Rainbow High and enjoy interacting with their associated communities.
 
We had horses for a few years but there was so much heartache. The kids (early teens) wanted them but wouldn’t help take care of them and so mostly it fell to me. I liked them before owning them but the waterworks and guilt trips when we finally had to rehome them turned the whole experience sour for me.

I love to read, roller skate and make homemade soap. I play a lot of pinball, with a league which I run.
 
AzaleaArt said:
Aww adorable animals ^_^

Mine is Art :) in all kinds of different forms, drawing, painting, sculpting, animation, sewing, crafting, toy customizing and occasionally knitting too
Also thrifting with my mom, reading, and playing guitar badly
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Thank you! We have a big herd lol. I wish I had more artistic ability when it comes to drawing/sculpting, etc. I get so frustrated and just don’t have the patience- but very much envy those who do! I do like sewing though. Making things for my real horse to wear is another thing I like to do! I also knit here and there and needle point! What types of things do you like to sew and knit?
Music is also fun to me- I played piano since I was young, and tried to pick up guitar at one point but it never stuck the way piano did. I know a few, very limited things.
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Those are some wonderful animals! Are those your horses? I also love animals. I had a horse when I was little, named Candy.
In my free time, besides MLP I love dungeons and dragons, folk music, drawing, baking, sewing, and video games. I’m also a comedy writer and editor for my university’s satire magazine
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Yes they are, and thank you! I’d love to see some pics of Candy if you have any- what a sweet name :satisfied: We have a group at my job who plays DND and I know a lot of people who do! I’ve always wanted to learn- it looks really fun!
 
I enjoy drawing, writing, watching cartoons, collecting in general (aside from MLP, I also collect Transformers, Care Bears, marbles, and of Pop Soft plushies), doing new crafts, and listening to music (I’m really enjoying Caravan Palace currently).

But, of course, MLP is by far my main interest! :tongue::greenheart:
 
RallraxAuri said:
I enjoy spending time with horses and going on long drives with my boyfriend. Sometimes I cut up apples or carrots and feed the horses at my local pony club.
As well as ponies, I collect dragon statues/figures, fashion star fillies, and also lanard fakies.
I am a (100% SFW) furry with a fursuit so sometimes I go suiting. I do furry art to make money, but I don't have a proper job yet. I would do more pony commissions, but it's super niche and hard to find buyers.
I like to sew but my machine has an issue which will be getting repaired eventually. I like to make custom clothes for my ponies and make fursuit parts like paws, heads and tails.
I like playing video games, some of my favourites are Ark Survival (ase/asa) and Planet Zoo. I especially recommend planet zoo as it's a really nice and chill game with great graphics where you can build a zoo and pick what animals you want to have. I would consider ark to be the opposite of nice and chill but I can't stop playing it.
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That’s so sweet, I’m sure the ponies love getting the treats!! Hopefully you get your machine fixed, I know it’s a big pain when they have an issue. Finding someone to work on them is tough. But so cool you can make your own suit parts! I’m not nearly that talented with sewing, but hope to be one day.
I don’t do much gaming, but love watching. I’ve tried playing Arc before- I get so stressed out when things are coming after me and completely panic :rofl:
Flitter said:
Yoga, going on walks with my husband around our neighborhood or local parks, meal prepping, playing with my 2 cats, drawing, listening to music, reading, going to conventions/shows/festivals, and I also collect Super Dollfie and Rainbow High and enjoy interacting with their associated communities.
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Love yoga, yin is my favorite! It helped so much with my hip mobility and riding :) Do you like going to classes or taking at home? Any suggestions on videos to follow or ones you like?
dysfallacy said:
besides my little pony i really like a 2015 game called undertale. :coolpony: has a lot of bright colorful characters too. the walking dead, both the tv show and comics!

of course drawing but that’s always ponies too :smile:
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I’ll have to look that one up! I haven’t heard of it before. My husband is the gamer in our fam- and I love watching here and there-but I get too panicked and the hand eye coordination doesn’t function under stress lol.
 
Daintress said:
We had horses for a few years but there was so much heartache. The kids (early teens) wanted them but wouldn’t help take care of them and so mostly it fell to me. I liked them before owning them but the waterworks and guilt trips when we finally had to rehome them turned the whole experience sour for me.

I love to read, roller skate and make homemade soap. I play a lot of pinball, with a league which I run.
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I’m sorry this was your experience, they are definitely tough animals to care for, and I don’t think any animal ownership comes without heartbreak. They require so much time, and especially if you’re doing it all yourself-it’s a lot. Right now I board mine which makes care a bit easier-but it’s a hefty expense. If I was caring for them fully, and working (so that I can afford them lol) there is no time left to enjoy riding.

On a different note, any great soup recipes to share? I have a lovely Dutch oven that I would like to give some more use to. I love cooking, but don’t do much with soup besides a chili here and there around this time of year.
March Meadow said:
I enjoy drawing, writing, watching cartoons, collecting in general (aside from MLP, I also collect Transformers, Care Bears, marbles, and of Pop Soft plushies), doing new crafts, and listening to music (I’m really enjoying Caravan Palace currently).

But, of course, MLP is by far my main interest! :tongue::greenheart:
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So many collections! I bet your room is super cool with all of those on display. What kinds of crafts do you like to do? I haven’t heard of Caravan Palace-but will have to check them out. My music taste is all over the place- too many genres to even name!
 
Sparkleworks909 said:
So many collections! I bet your room is super cool with all of those on display. What kinds of crafts do you like to do? I haven’t heard of Caravan Palace-but will have to check them out. My music taste is all over the place- too many genres to even name!
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I have a display in my closet and I love looking at everything! :ponylove: When I get my own house, I definitely plan to have a room dedicated to my collections.

Honestly, any fun crafts or project ideas I find at Micheals. Sometimes they’re the premade ones (I enjoy doing those during the holidays), and other times they’re just random ideas I have haha. I recently turned a unicorn toy into my partner’s ponysona as a gift for the Halloween Swap. That was quite the project! I wish I got a good photo of it before sending it off.

Some of my favorite songs from Caravan Palace are Mirrors, Reverse, and Black Betty. They also sound even better when the music is slowed down!
 
I like collecting dolls. Monster high bjd and various other dolls. I also love reading. I love the paranormal.
 
Crafts, reading, video games, animals, collecting

I craft a little bit of anything but recently have really found my niche in doll customs. It's like everything I put half hearted interest in before comes together in this one thing! The other one that has stuck is cross stitch, although I do go through bursts where that's all I want to do and then bursts where I don't touch it for months lol

I am a huge Star Wars fan and most of my reading anymore is Star Wars! My other favorites are the Lunar Chronicles series and anything by Carl Hiassen. I'm always open to book suggestions!

I like cozy video games, I mostly play Disney Dreamlight Valley and Lego games. Also got back into Animal Crossing recently. I really like the Jedi Fallen Order games and the Hogwarts Legacy game

I collect other things as well - Monster High, enamel pins (especially Disney, Star Wars, and animals) some Star Wars action figures and dolls.


And finally - I currently only have two cats, which is the least amount of animals I've had in a while. I love reptiles and usually have a few but it's hard when the closest thing we have to a vet for exotics is an hour away.

Here's my babies - Penny is the all orange and Chester is orange & white
 

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When I'm not collecting MLP I collect plushies. When I'm not collecting I sometimes dabble in digital art. I like doing crafts the most and little projects. Sometimes its fixing something, sometimes it's sewing., I consider myself rather crafty. Sometimes I binge Youtube like my favourite MLP restorer or my favourite Jellycat Youtuber or maybe I want to laugh until my cheeks, jaw, and tummy hurt, I have a Youtuber or two for that too. I also like learning new things.

Hoping to get my hands on a McDonald's Minty or another g3 Flower Flash so I can make a baby Minty. My brain seems to want and need a baby Minty lol this will probably be a big project though but sometimes I get an itch, like this, in wanting to do something.
 
Cute animals! :smile:

I have some hobbies in common with other people here haha. Besides collecting ponies, I love making art (primarily drawing) and writing. I also love video editing and make youtube videos (Overly long video essays, usually about video games. I also have some pony stuff on there too). The hobby I'm lookin' ta turn into a career is voice acting (I have been studying it for over a year and have been building my vocal booth for it!) And I love watching specific shows (I love dungeon meshi and digimon), playing video games (My faves are fnaf, sonic, pokemon, though I have a huge game collection with all the playstations, tons of nintendo handhelds, old sega genesis with 32x, cool retro stuff!) and reading books ^^ (I love the fazbear frights books but also just reread the hunger games series for the first time since I was little and I am obsessed with it heheh).

What a long varied and rambly answer from me lol. Having fun reading what you guys like doing :)
 
It seems I'm pretty much the same as most. lol

Art, crafts, music, reading (mostly manga and manwha lately), and video games. And I've fallen into collecting some dolls.

My spouse and I also have a whole room game collection.

CharmsPonies said:
though I have a huge game collection with all the playstations,
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Do you also collect all the model number releases? I still need to get a 90000 ps2 and a test model.

That's sort of my level of game console collecting, I like model variants. Fixing ps3 capacitors is difficult, though.
 
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I have so many hobbies and not enough time…if only i didn’t have to work!! But somehow I still crazily accomplish quite a bit or that’s what others tell me…I guess I set my goals too high.

I’ve been a cat mom/aunt for decades. My current cat child is Sophie, she’ll be 7 in December. She’s got a great purrsonality! She loves going on walks with us in the backyard and plays with her two cat friends (my cat niece and nephew) who live upstairs. Torties love living belly up…don’t know why but they all do it :lolpony:
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I love art, don’t draw as much as I used to so getting rusty plus my hands cramp from a career of computer accounting. My grams taught my sister & I how to quilt & sew plus her quirks & humor :happyhearts: save all buttons and fabric…scrap fabric is for scrap quilts! This wall hanging quilt photo is from the 90’s but one of uncountable items made. We made a bunch of donation scrap quilts for charities.
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I love beading but the intricate work which I love doing the most I haven’t been able to do as much because of my neck/back pain.
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In 2009 I discovered birds! I’ve identified just over a hundred, many I’ve only seen once as most discovered were during migration. I still love to watch & listen to them.
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Herb & veggie gardening have been my newest hobby starting last year. Plus I love baking & cooking. I’ve acquired many cooking utensils & devices the past few years. Bake my own bread (bread machine as my hands are incapable of that labor), love trying new recipes and Dutch oven soup season has already kicked off!! Yesterday potato soup next weekend chicken pot pie soup with biscuits.
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Hobbies I need to bring back yoga, general exercise and would love to get back into mountain biking!
 
I like collecting other things, like books and DVDs and enamel pins and board games and plushies and coins and cards and sea shells and rocks and figurines and... lol.

I haven't traveled far, but I like traveling places around my home state. :blue: My husband and I are trying to visit every state park here and we are about halfway through, but they just added another one or two recently!

My husband likes D and D but I do not. But I do like a few video games. I just haven't been playing any on my own for fun now since I usually just end up playing ones he wants to play with him.

I like watching people play indie horror games, and cartoons, and I've started binging sitcoms now that I have a lot more time alone at home.

I love singing and learning songs and listening to music in general, and will occasionally play an instrument of some sort. I used to do piano in elementary school and was in chorus for a while.

And I love doing arts and crafts projects! Mostly paper stuff, and some embroidery. Occasionally drawing and coloring.

I used to read a lot more, and write short stories and poetry and journal a bunch, but nowadays after work I need a mental break and don't do it as much.

I would say I enjoy spending time with my family pets, but now that I've moved into my own home I just have my husband's cat. Though he does like watching TV with me :redheart: Which is really cute, but only until I start trying to pet him because he's not a very snuggly cat!
 
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