🇬🇧 How BDSM helped me have a more meaningful love life and strengthen my self-esteem

This is a text about how BDSM helped me have a more meaningful love life and strengthen my self-esteem. The influences of this reference appear subtly in the artworks of the project “The Many Nuances of Love”, which is in the fundraising phase and you can contribute to its implementation. Find out how here. You don't need to understand or agree with my experiences to contribute, because I make art - and content - to generate reflection, not to define how others should live their lives. I know that my experiences and points of view are valid, and that, for some, they may mean something very different from the reality they know, generating reflections that contribute to their personal development.

Knowing what BDSM is is irrelevant to understanding the context of this post. If you are curious, follow my profiles on social networks and I can talk more about the subject at other times.

I am Nycka Nunes, a visual artist and in this blog I share my life experiences, reflections, travels, inspirations and other issues related to my artistic work.

1. BDSM was my first step towards learning about ethical non-monogamous relationships and finding relationship references that made sense to me. When we only know one option, we think we are living a choice, but in reality we live without choice. I never saw any sense in monogamous relationships, in leaving a person we love because we also love a second person. I have had this in mind since early adolescence and while I tried to be monogamous due to a lack of knowledge of other options and a lack of self-esteem to position myself and express my thoughts, my relationships did not last and were empty.
2. BDSM was also the first step towards me putting my pleasure first. Coming from a partially abusive family, and unfortunately living much more with the abusive part, this means a lot.
3. BDSM helped me have a more creative sex life. Until then, sex with men was something mechanical and boring because most of them use a porn-based script as a reference and do not consider the pleasure of the woman they are with. They just act as if we are all the same. I still didn't allow myself to experience things with women and I didn't have much knowledge about what gave me pleasure to guide them.
4. Once, when I was talking to a Domme, she mentioned that she wanted to wear leather clothes all the time. Being a stylist at the time, I didn't understand what was stopping her. Maybe the type of leather clothes she had in mind was different from what I knew was appropriate enough for her professional activity (which required formal attire, and there are formal leather clothes!). That conversation, combined with other things related to my healing process from family abuse, made me realize that I don't want to live in hiding, to be a Domme whose boyfriend pretends to be macho in public and becomes a puppy behind closed doors, or who has subs who only serve me in casual encounters. I don't even like the stereotype of a macho man. And I also don't like that kind of theater and I like real emotional involvement. A man who is submissive to his partner is not a man who is submissive to everything and everyone, he is a man who puts his partner's pleasure first and enjoys it.
5. I am not particularly attracted to crossdressing. I like men who have their feminine side well-resolved, who do not try to appear macho, nor are fixated on a stereotype of femininity. A man who is not afraid to be authentic, does not worry about “what will others think?” and does not stick to stereotypes, to a manual on “how to be a man” taught by parents with limited mentality. I see crossdressing and transsexuality as ways of stereotyping genders and this goes against any notion of authenticity (my work “Unyckeness” deals with this topic).
6. By expanding my repertoire through knowledge about ethical non-monogamous relationships and BDSM, I had clear examples to reinforce the belief that being the way I am is perfectly normal and acceptable, and that following the crowd without making it a real choice, just to fit in, is disrespectful to oneself.
7. Overcoming the feelings of not fitting in, I realized that love alone is not enough for a relationship to work. Other important elements are needed. And I started to evaluate these elements when I meet someone.

I believe that expanding one's repertoire in various areas of life is important for any human being to have a meaningful life, and not just the life of a robot who only knows how to follow the crowd without knowing where it will end up. And appreciating art has to do with appreciating critical thinking and the ability to expand one's repertoire and make conscious decisions.

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For those who think that talking about my romantic and sexual experiences is oversharing, I think that not talking about it is repressing yourself too much.

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🇬🇧 Overprotective parents do not exist

Overprotective parents do not exist.

I am Nycka Nunes, a visual artist who works with photography, 2D digital painting and digital collage. In this blog, I talk about my artistic work, who I am, my lifestyle, what inspires me and what makes me reflect.

As emotionally immature people have a bad habit of taking everything personally, if you feel offended, seek out a psychologist to resolve your emotional discomfort instead of getting angry at me for having touched on a subject that you never dared to question. If I do not mention your first and last name below, this is not a text about you.

What some call overprotective parents is nothing more than a sugary name for parents who see their children as their property, as beings (anything but human) without any capacity to reason on their own. And they act this way because they have never had the capacity to reason on their own, they have never questioned their own parents' attitudes and simply repeat them.

When a parent prevents a child from making a decision that the child is capable of making, such as what to wear or what color they would like the walls of their bedroom to be, that parent is not thinking about the child's well-being. They are only thinking about themselves. They are repeating patterns imposed by their own parents, because they did not have the decency to seek professional help to deal with such limiting beliefs, and they are transferring them to their own children.

Having children before seeking professional help (at least a psychologist) to deal with their own limiting beliefs, their own traumas and other issues that may affect the child's education is an act of irresponsibility and negligence. It is common, but it is irresponsible and negligent. Following the herd is a sign of low intelligence.

People learn to make decisions by making decisions. If someone's son wants to go to school dressed as Rapunzel, and the father wants to forbid it because Rapunzel is a female character, and the father is bothered by the idea that this means his boy is gay or trans, the father is the problem. If the father is bothered by others bullying him, the father is the problem. It is his limited ability to deal with gender roles, understanding them as if they were something fixed, and his need to believe that there is only one right way for boys to dress that is the problem. If that were not the case, someone bullying his son would be something he would be able to deal with and support the child so that he can deal with the situation in a healthy way.

If a girl wants to sit with her legs open and feels comfortable doing so, instead of forbidding her, why don't the parents start dressing her in shorts and pants instead of filling her closet with dresses and forbidding the girl to sit in a way that is comfortable for her? Idiocy, inability to reflect and seek creative solutions, the need to cling to stupid labels without questioning them.

Art exists for those who seek to see things from other angles, for those who seek to exercise critical thinking, for those who dare to confront absolute truths. One of the important roles of art is to shake out those old rugs under which people try to hide issues that their inner child has been forbidden to question.

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🇬🇧 What am I really glad I learned before it was too late?

What am I really glad I learned before it was too late?

I am Nycka Nunes, a visual artist currently working with photography, 2D digital painting and digital collage, and in this blog I talk about my artistic work, what inspires me, what makes me reflect, about who I am and my lifestyle.

Something I was happy to realize in time to avoid mistakes that many people make is that love alone is not enough for any relationship, whether with family, friends or boyfriends/spouses. And not everything we think is love is.

If there is no respect, it is not worth it.

If there are significant incompatibilities, it is not worth it.

If one does not take care of the other, if one does not support the other and does not inspire the other to expand their horizons while feeling inspired by the other, it is not worth it.

If there is excessive control, it is not worth it.

Relationships are like team sports, such as synchronized swimming or pair figure skating. Each person has to do their part.

When a friend of mine was fighting breast cancer, I joined a group of women who were treating the disease to understand a little and be able to support her. In this group, some rejected me because I sometimes posted Buddhist encouragement in the same way that many posted Catholic/Christian encouragement, and they felt attacked instead of encouraged. And some others approached me and we created closer bonds. One of these women carried her family on her back before she got sick, she was the kind of woman who did everything at home, and when she got sick no one knew what to do. That had a big impact on me.

I've been working since I was 5 years old and I ended up being forced to believe that my value was in what I did because my maternal family never encouraged me to play, I only received demands, and in adulthood there came a point where this destroyed me and I had to rebuild myself.

After I moved from my hometown, I cultivated hobbies, like going to the movies, but some were more of a socially acceptable form of escapism. Reading, for a long time, was my drug... I read so I wouldn't have to talk to those unpleasant people on my mother's side of the family. I read because I didn't know what to do in a given situation and I had no one to talk to about it. I read non-stop because I felt lonely, even when I was surrounded by people, and books (and cats and dogs) always gave me good company.

When I met that woman, I started to rethink my belief about my worth, and although I like helping people, sharing experiences, etc., I don't want to be around anyone who only sees me as someone useful and when I need support or don't have money to have a coffee at the mall, I stop being an interesting friend and am left aside like an old toy. I ended up distancing myself from a lot of people because I saw that they saw me that way, not valuing me and even trying to belittle me, invalidating my feelings and my dreams. Unfortunately, both my friend and the lady who carried the family on her back passed away. And that reinforced my decision not to allow people with limited mindsets to affect my life.

I don't need to feel bad to see who truly supports me, but while everything is going well we can fool ourselves into thinking that everyone loves us, and that's not always true, as Leoni used to say in that brazilian song from when I was a teenager...

I have a friend from college who, even though I got first place in the entrance exam, encouraged me to study English. I've always liked foreign languages. My family was too repressive for me to have the courage to ask, because they never accepted anything that was important to me, but when he encouraged me, I asked and got it. This kind of friendship is important to me. We studied together frequently during college, until I dropped out to study advertising, and we keep in touch to this day. Those who support us encourage us to do things that we didn't have the courage to try, even though we wanted to. Things that will help us grow and broaden our horizons. Another friend, more recently, also encouraged me to let go of my work in fashion. He himself was in transition, wanting to leave the band where he was a guitarist, and today he is a photography assistant in the country where he lives, which I see as an incentive, because I also work with photography. Maybe I encouraged him, because when we started talking he was trying something else (singing), and when he posted some nature photos I was delighted. I really want to be able to work with him on some artistic projects in the future.

I like friends like that, who seek to grow, in the sense of expanding their horizons as human beings, and inspire me to grow too. Throughout my life, I have always been easy to make friends with everyone, and this experience of meeting that lady and going through difficulties after my maternal grandmother died, as a result of seeing that my entire maternal family saw me as an expense and not as a human being, as something that was only important if they could exploit me without giving me anything of value in return, ignoring everything that was important to me and overstepping my boundaries, made me rethink that, and today I am less cute, less friendly with people who have a victim mentality, controlling or anything that distances me from being who I am or vaguely reminds me of the toxic behavior of my relatives on my mother's side. I am more focused on those who want to grow and contribute to my growth.

If this text has in any way made you think, I would be very happy if you could contribute to the realization of my artistic projects, as a patron, sponsor, purchasing art that I have already created or hiring my services. Some of the works I have already created have love as one of the central themes and one of the projects currently open for financial contributions from individuals and companies has love as its central theme.

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🇬🇧 27 toxic references of love

Many things that some of us grew up believing to be love, because we saw examples of “love” in our family, in movies, on TV, in music, etc., are toxic, disrespectful behaviors that do not foster a healthy relationship. This is probably why the divorce rate is high and the number of people from the new generations who are not interested in getting married is also considerable. But no one needs to live as a slave to these limiting beliefs.

I am Nycka Nunes, a visual artist and in this blog I talk about art, what inspires me, what makes me reflect and who I am. I practice ethical polyamory, so when I talk about love, I am not limiting myself to the love of romantic relationships, I am talking about all types of love, because for me there is only one type of love, and what differentiates a friend from a boyfriend are other things, which include sexual attraction, but are not limited to it.

Below are 27 toxic references of love that may be preventing you from having an authentic and satisfying life.

1. Feelings of possession are not love. Many people raise their children as objects, usually seeking only to be obeyed and satisfied by their children, and so the children grow up thinking that treating others as objects is a sign of love. It is not.
2. Frequent fights are not signs of love. They are usually signs of incompatibility. Again, it is a false reference to love that may come from the way the person was raised by abusive parents. 
3. Avoiding disagreeing with the other is not a sign of love. It is a lack of self-love.
4. Excessive control of the other, of what they do, with whom, what they wear, etc. is not love. It is a feeling of possession.
5. Not knowing how to imagine your life without the other is not love. It is emotional dependence, low self-esteem, rejection trauma, among other possible causes.
6. Lack of privacy (such as wanting to know the other's passwords or sharing yours) is not love.
7. When the other distances you from your friendships or interferes in your friendships is not a sign of love. Wanting to distance the other from their friendships or interfere in their friendships is not either.
8. Keeping you from your hobbies is not love. Wanting to keep the other person away from their hobbies is also not love.
9. Wanting to define what is best for the other person is not love. It is a variation of the feeling of possession.
10. Thinking that you need a boyfriend/girlfriend to be happy is a sign that you do not know what love is and do not have self-love.
11. Not offering support to your partner when you know that he/she is having problems is not love, it is neglect. The same goes for when the person having problems is a friend. You cannot consider yourself someone's friend if you are not capable of supporting them in times of difficulty. Wanting the person around only when they are well is a form of objectification.
12. Not talking about your problems to your partner is not love. Read the topic above and, if you have reasons not to tell them, you also have reasons not to be in a relationship with that person anymore.
13. Getting into a relationship with someone without having in mind what you want for the future, for the relationship, without evaluating whether that person fits your vision of the future, your compatibilities and incompatibilities, is not love. This applies to all types of relationships, including friendships.
14. Starting a relationship without a clear vision of your goals, expectations, limits, etc. is not love.
15. Neglecting yourself to please the other person is not love, even though a healthy relationship has room for each person to develop, change, grow, and adopt new habits. Knowing the limit between sacrificing yourself and seeking to expand your repertoire is essential.
16. Psychological abuse (swearing, humiliation, threats, etc.) is not love. In the context of consensual BDSM, this is valid. Outside of that, it is not.
17. Financial abuse (controlling the other person's finances and assets) is not love.
18. Physical violence or the use of physical force to control the other person or interfere in the other person's relationships is not love.
19. Negligence is not love.
20. Disrespecting the other person's boundaries is not love. Boundaries should be respected even when you do not love the other person. Disrespecting boundaries is a sign of a lack of character.
21. Playing emotional games is not love.
22. Saying no when you mean yes and vice versa is not love or a sign of interest. It is a sign of immaturity.
23. Having no boundaries is not love, it is immaturity, low self-esteem and desperation.
24. Caring about the age difference in a relationship between adults is not love. Age is not relevant in a relationship between adults. Age is not synonymous with emotional maturity. Emotional maturity requires effort. Age only requires watching time pass.
25. Thinking that whoever has more money in the relationship, even temporarily, owns the other person and has the right to control or humiliate them is not love.
26. Meddling in someone else's life to "help", without asking if the person wants that kind of help, is not love. This includes things like trying to force the person to get close to someone they hate, or trying to get the person a job without knowing if they want that kind of job, for example.
27. Putting a hierarchy on love is an outdated belief. Thinking that a boyfriend or girlfriend is more important than friends (or vice versa) is a mistaken view of love, from someone who has never experienced it and just follows what others say, without thinking.

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🇬🇧 Artwork: Unyckeness

Today we are talking about “Unyckeness”, one of the latest artworks I have completed. You can see the artwork by clicking here. To purchase it, visit the “Buy art here” page.

I am Nycka Nunes, a visual artist and personal style, marketing, branding, personal branding and fashion business consultant. In this blog, I only talk about art. For other services, you can hire me by visiting the “Services” page, as all my services are personalized and my clients can count on the expertise of a professional with decades of professional experience and an enviable personal repertoire.

At the time this text was published, I am raising funds for a photography project. If you would like to contribute, please contact me. To collaborate financially with the realization of other projects, read the “Maecenasship” page on this blog.

“Unyckeness” is about dualities, especially gender dualities. That’s why I used blue and pink as the main colors.

We are used to seeing the world in black and white… I mean… in pink and blue… because we know that human beings are usually born with male or female reproductive organs. Rarely is anyone born with both options. And many of us grew up with the idea that what we have between our legs determines how we should behave. And this has certainly generated countless conflicts throughout history.

At some point, we may realize that something we like does not fit that standard. In my opinion, this says nothing about our sexual orientation or our gender identity. I remember a few years ago, I served a client who was reluctant to wear a shirt with a blue print of stylized tulips, because they were flowers. After putting the shirt on with the blazer I had in mind to wear with the shirt, he liked the idea and ended up taking the shirt. He is certainly not the only man in the world who grew up believing that flower prints are for women. There must still be some people out there with this mentality, coming from a repressive education based on stereotypes, not on understanding the individual who came into our lives in the form of a child.

Note that the work is composed of alternating rectangles of blue and pink, like a chessboard. I did not try to emulate a board with equal squares and the same number of squares, but one of my references was a chessboard, like a struggle between the beliefs imposed on us by our parents and those that are part of our essence.

The reflections linked to this work concern the extent to which we accept our tastes, behaviors and other characteristics that are stereotyped as masculine and the extent to which we accept our tastes, behaviors and other characteristics that are stereotyped as feminine. Do you accept yourself as a whole, or just the part of you that matches the stereotypes linked to your biological gender? And, if you are a trans person, do you accept yourself as a whole or just the part of you that is the opposite of the stereotype of your biological gender? In both cases, how important are stereotypes in your life, including stereotypes not linked to gender? And how important is what your parents and family have transmitted to you in relation to your beliefs as an adult human being? How many of these beliefs and values ​​have you questioned?

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🇬🇧 Artwork: Jam Jars

Returning to the habit of talking about my artwork, today it's time to talk about Jam Jars. You can see this artwork by clicking here (you'll see it on my Instagram profile).

I'm Nycka Nunes, a visual artist, and in this blog I talk about my artistic work, inspirations, projects, and related topics.

I don't like to fit in. This artwork is based on my vision of people who diminish themselves to fit into stereotypes, such as the stereotype of needing long hair to be feminine, or needing to dress or behave in a certain way to fit into certain social groups. This need to fit in makes me see such people as jars of jam in a supermarket, who need labels to describe themselves.

My goal is to provoke reflection, to make those who see the art think about how much of their truths and values ​​are really theirs. How many different references did they seek? How much did they question such beliefs and stereotypes? Just as personal style has no labels, it is very limiting to try to be guided by stereotypes to fit in. And at the same time, I believe that it is necessary to have a balance, where our individuality does not violate the rights of others.

The binary thinking in relation to things, in seeing everything as right or wrong, as if life were a multiple choice test where each question only allows one right answer and all the others are wrong, is a limiting view.

Yesterday I saw a question on a social network where someone asked if a man who likes to wear women's clothes is gay. Could it be that the person limits himself so much that he is afraid to admit that he likes something because it would be a sign that his sexual orientation is different from what he believed? What if he really liked other things that the stereotypical straight man “shouldn't” like? What's the problem? Does he see himself as inferior if that happens?

For a long time I managed a Facebook page (and previously an Orkut community) dedicated to women with short hair. Several said they were dying to have short hair, but were afraid their boyfriend or husband wouldn't like it or that they wouldn't look feminine. 🙄 On the other hand, trans women generally seek the stereotypical image of being feminine, with long hair, among other stereotypes.

Imagine that one day I visit your house, and you ask me my favorite dessert, so you can serve me something that pleases me. I say I love Black Forest pie. You serve Black Forest pie when I visit. Over time, we become friends. And every time I go to your house, the dessert is always the same Black Forest pie. At some point, I'll get tired of it, because I also like other things and eating the same thing every day gets boring.

And I'm not just talking about desserts and visitors. The reasoning is similar for many other situations. Serving Black Forest pie for dessert is also not the only way to make me feel welcomed and loved. There are other ways. Because I know who I am, and understand the complexity of my personality, I can understand where these limitations arise. After all, I had to fight against many of them to be who I am today. And by understanding this complexity, I can understand that life is not a multiple-choice test with only one correct answer for each question. How deeply do you know yourself? How many of your beliefs and values ​​have you tried to question, seek alternatives, meet people with different experiences in relation to that topic, with the willingness to listen without judging?

If you liked this reflection, purchase the artwork "Jam Jars" by clicking here.

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🇬🇧 Self-acceptance and labels

Today I want to talk about self-acceptance and labels. I'm working on a piece of art that "talks" about this, and I felt like writing about self-acceptance and this process of recognizing myself, realizing things I want to improve, and taking action on them. It's good to celebrate my progress in this regard.

I'm Nycka Nunes, a professional with multiple talents (learn about the services I offer on the services page), and in this blog I talk about everything I want, because I see it as a channel of communication with people who admire my work and want to get to know the human being behind it. In addition to being a visual artist, I'm privileged to have several other skills that I also use to help people and companies, for a fee (and I have more experience in these other activities than as a visual artist). To learn more about them, read my LinkedIn profile.

The privilege of having multiple skills came at the cost of a lot of study and a focus on constant improvement. The ability to self-evaluate and curiosity about multiple topics are part of who I am.

Since the beginning of 2024, I have been gradually changing the way I deal with content creation and the organization of my work. The first step towards this change was to create a detailed plan for my artistic projects. The next step was to plan in advance the paid content on the blog and social media and create a plan of topics to be covered. I am working on changing the profile of the content without sponsorships. The change will scare some, but it is necessary.

I decided to write this text because I have worked in marketing for years, but I have always been very intuitive when managing my personal brand. I thought this was important to let innovation flow. Now I see that a dose of organization and direction are important, keeping space for new ideas, new opportunities. I decided to use my knowledge in my own work. And the strategic part is easy. What gave me the most work was visualizing ways to reconcile objectives and reality, seeing feasibility in what I had in mind. A constant challenge in the minds of innovative people. And now I can see this clearly.

At some points during this professional reorganization, I hesitated between making all my services available or just some. I decided to make them all available because I like to share knowledge with those who pay for it and I like to contribute to the success of those who contribute to my success.

I have read a lot about giftedness and this has helped me deal with these doubts regarding whether or not to make all my professional skills available as services. I do not seek a diagnosis of giftedness because, in my opinion, having a name to be the way I am would only be a way of justifying myself to the world. I do not need that. I am the way I am and naming it makes no difference in my life. They say that gifted people are born that way. I have enjoyed reading since I could read. But being the oldest daughter and having grown up in an environment where most of the time I had no emotional support, maybe I am like this because it was more interesting to seek support in books than in the people around me. Having Dona Benta by Monteiro Lobato as support could be better than having an adult from my real world. Paying a psychologist for myself without the adults doing therapy is nothing like emotional support. And if your opinion on this is different from mine, it is not of interest to me. What I needed from the adults around me, I didn't get most of the time, and that's a fact.

The artwork I'm working on right now speaks to this issue of how some people attach themselves to labels, as if we were products on a supermarket shelf. I generally don't mind others calling me this or that. I don't feel like labels describe me, because they're too reductionist. I'm a human being, not a jar of jam. We can only get to know human beings by talking to them, not by judging them based on our beliefs about the names we use to describe them. It's a shame that so many adults still don't understand this and don't even invest in self-knowledge, they just blindly repeat the "truths" that were passed down to them by their parents as if they were absolute truths, as if life were a multiple-choice test where there is only one right answer for each question. People like that are boring! I want more of the brilliance of people who seek to discover who they really are and to be sculptors of their own personality, like I do.

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🇬🇧 The artist's hobbies

Some people tend to see art as a hobby. For me, it's work. And what are my hobbies?

I'm Nycka Nunes, a visual artist with a focus on photography, a degree in advertising, and in this text I'm going to tell you a little about my hobbies.

I started working when I was 5 years old. From a very young age, literature, music, and cinema were hobbies that I loved. And also spending time with my pets. These 4 interests have always been part of my life.

During my childhood and adolescence, I had a huge variety of pets. Cows, horses, guinea pigs, rabbits, Australian parakeets, goats, sheep, fish, and, of course, dogs. There were cats on the farm, but they weren't docile. They would come to eat, and then go about their own business. Cats as pets came into my life in 2011. Dogs, cats, and horses are the animals I love the most.

As a child, I studied piano, my great passion in music, but I stopped the course unmotivated because I didn't have a piano at home to study. I also studied ballet, recorder and acoustic guitar. The latter, when I was 14 years old. Of these experiences, only the piano attracted me.

As a child, I played soccer with the neighbourhood boys. I also played dodgeball with the boys and two other girls. At school, I avoided playing sports. I loved walking with my dog. Or without him. It was always more fun with him. I also love riding a bike. I recently discovered bikejoring and since I'm interested in having a large dog to accompany me when I go out to take pictures, it could be an interesting option to practice with him too. After stopping doing regular physical activities during the pandemic, I still haven't gotten back to my normal rhythm and I'm missing it. I think that just going to the gym would be boring. Things to do with my next dog excite me more. Something from the gym too, possibly weight training. I just don't want to do only that and limit physical activities to a closed space.

I'm researching the dog breed that best suits what I have in mind. At the moment, the Kuvasz seems to be my ideal photography assistant. I'm willing to launch the trend of acquiring dogs thinking about the behavioural characteristics of the breed, seeking alignment with the owner's lifestyle, and not just a cute appearance.

In addition, playing video games and attending cultural activities are other hobbies that I enjoy. And also cooking, when I can use my creativity to create recipes, or when I try recipes that I haven't yet tried. It's not something I like to do every day. I prefer to eat at good restaurants. But when creativity comes into play, I let it run wild.

I have several interests that I haven't put into practice yet, and I like to be open to learning about other possibilities. Share your hobbies in the comments. Maybe they'll inspire me or someone else.

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