comforts marked with 🌠. favorites bolded. current focuses are italicized. please note that i'm not incredibly knowledgeable on all of these.

• video games 🌠
  • easter eggs and secrets
  • glitches, speedrunning
  • game design
  • game modding
  • game soundtracks
  • i have many favorite games that could be listed...
• music 🌠
  • listening to and collecting music (mostly digital atm)
  • vgm covers
  • performance: currently playing violin
  • composition + production
  • jazz history
• nutrition, health sciences
• psychology
  • clinical psychology / psychiatry / similar
    • hypnosis and hypnotherapy
    • diagnostic focuses: autism, adhd, dissociative disorders
  • learning psychology and self-improvement
  • personality psychology
• technology / digital
  • privacy and security
  • graphic design
  • web design
  • video editing, motion graphics
• politics, activism, advocacy
  • global goals
  • political studies
  • disability studies
  • race, ethnicity, and culture studies
• bible studies, christian history
• drawing
• language learning
  • current: french, japanese
• literary theory; media criticism and analysis
• philosophy
• picross / nonograms
• reading
• sciences
• sociology
• writing

general comforts 🌠

• flowers, flower imagery
• rain
• skies, sky and nature photography
• white noise

things i'd like to get to more

• archival science, preservation
• audio technology, sound design
• biochemistry
• board games, card games
• cellular studies
• classical literature from around the world
• coding / programming
• communication studies
• cooking
• creative writing
• cryptography
• environmental studies
• epigenetics
• ethics
• gardening
• human anatomy and physiology
• instruments: piano, bass guitar, electric + acoustic guitar, drums, viola, cello, string bass, harp... etc
• kinesiology
• lote (languages other than english)
• mathematics
• medicine
• music archaeology
• music history
• narratology
• neurology, neurobiology, neuropsychology
• origami
• pathology
• psychology subtopics: health, media, consumerism, music, religion, school... etc
• religious studies
• robotics
• sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidery
• statistics and research
• vitamins, minerals, other nutrition topics