silver's garden of dreams...

animal genetics

generally, my interest in this tends to be focused on specific things: the genetic component of animal breeds, and the genetic inheritance of animal coat colors, patterns and textures from one generation to the next. other more broad genetics information does also interest me, just not quite as much as these specific parts of genetics knowledge.

astronomy

and pretty much anything related to space or astrophysics. i have neurological problems that make higher math difficult so i can't really grasp the math of the physics of space that well, but the general concepts of what the math means fascinate me and i wish to someday find a way to work around my neuro issues to learn the calculus to understand physics better.
also stars pretty!!

Fire Emblem

one of my favorite game series, especially FE 4-10! this series seems to be treated by a lot of people as a "dating sim" kind of game because of the support conversation mechanics, though personally i enjoy this series just as much for its actual gameplay and the characters themselves. (Lyn and Eirika best lords you Cannot change my mind)

furry / anthro

and pretty much anything talking animal-adjacent whatsoever. "furry" stuff has interested me for quite literally as far back as i can remember, over a decade before i even knew there was a name at all for any of the "humanlike animal" things i immensely enjoyed.

memes

yep sorry not sorry i'm one of Those fuckers who loves this garbage. a little more seriously though, as a neurodivergent person memes do communicate emotions and experiences in ways that are both funny (which is important to me) and in ways that are easy to grasp, as i often struggle with articulating things.

original characters

both mine and other peoples'! anyone is welcome to share stuff about their O.C.'s to me, even if they don't know me or it's completely unprompted. every character is fascinating and cool; i love hearing about them!
there is an exception though, in that f.f.14 is a permanently banned topic for me, and by extension i don't want to hear about other peoples' f.f.14 characters at all unless i've given permission to do so. you're free to ask first if you can, of course, just please don't have expectations i will answer "yes."

Pokémon

especially the Mystery Dungeon series! the main series games have finally gotten to be too much for me to have interest in playing anymore myself, but i still keep up with what's going on in them and am excited for new Pokémon and other things.

Ragnarok Online

old and terrible game that has existed before most other MMOs that i'm still fond of for some unfathomable reason. monk class is a favorite, though i always end up playing more INT/DEX support priest than anything else which is a second favorite. as ridiculous as a lot of this game's mechanics are i do still find the gameplay to be engaging, and have a lot of nostalgia for the excellent world and, in a lot of places, surprisingly good storytelling that surpasses writing i've seen in most other MMOs.
(old iRO Sakray server pride!)

rodents

gerbils by far the most (pictured here of course, and look at how precious and perfect gerbils are), but also mice, rats, squirrels, chipmunks, chinchillas, degus, capybaras, and also rabbits despite that they're not "technically" rodents.
i try to be discerning with talking about my pets as i know rodents are a trigger for a lot of people, but i will NOT tolerate any mean-spirited comments or horrific animal abuse stories about rodents people seem to think are "funny" for some awful reason.

video game glitches

and things related to glitches or stuff you might see as the result of glitches, like out-of-bounds areas. these things have always fascinated me, and it only helps that games i'm already interested in have vast amounts of glitchyness to play with (older pokémon games) or enormous amounts of reachable out-of-bounds areas to explore (WoW). i love hearing about these things for any and all games and even bugs / glitches in non-game software. game glitches interest me the most, though!

Warriors

also known as "Warrior Cats" or "Murder Cat Books". a series about clans of feral cats trying to survive in the wilderness and fighting each other. it's intended for young adults i think but is surprisingly gory and has a lot of character death; i've heard this series compared to Watership Down and find them both to be similar. but it's talking cats so of course i love it.

web design and development

the reason you're seeing this page! this is also a hobby i do just for fun, not as something i can turn into a "marketable skill" which is why my website looks like That and uses no frameworks of any kind. (i understand the value of things like frameworks in a professional development environment, but personally i enjoy taking my time, getting my hands dirty in code, and having a real understanding of how my own site is built and works... rather than little-to-no understanding as a framework has abstracted all the underlying workings away.)

World of Warcraft

yep, that really is a WoW screenshot! this game is something i've played for over a decade and still enjoy, especially as one of the very few MMOs left that allow for incredible flexibility in role and character abilities (i main a druid, for context)... and even more so a game that not only has real furries, but my secret favorite thing even more than furries: quadrupedal talking animals. that you can turn into indefinitely and at will! that you can fight as and your animal form combat is a core part of the gameplay! class fantasy is extremely important to me, and WoW is one of those games that really delivers what i want where most other games fall badly short. aesthetics and class fantasy alone can't keep me playing forever, though, and WoW still delivers on gameplay too: even after all these years, the gameplay is even more fun and compelling to me than it's ever been.

hopefully this is obvious, but blizzard has been a shit company since the beginning, and i condemn everything that has happened with and continues to happen in the company. as with my interest in kenshin i won't recommend this game to other people for that reason, but be aware all large video game companies are like that – blizzard is the norm, not the exception. blizzard suffering consequences for being shit should be where change starts in the industry, not ends as everyone nods in approval at blizzard's comeuppance while turning a blind eye to the creators of their favorite games.