Somewhere along the way I realized I'd gotten pretty good at having a full inner life and a pretty thin social one. Working on fixing that.

A little about me: I'm in my 30s, based in Rowlett but around the Plano area often and eventually looking to live and work around there. I have the kind of brain that connects ancient mythology to geopolitical alternate history and then somehow ends up at furniture flipping. I write fiction and poetry, read more than is probably healthy, follow football and sports in general, and have strong opinions about folk music, classic film, and why the details of history matter more than people give them credit for. I also have strong opinions about Sasquatch that I will absolutely tell you about unprompted.

Hobbies I'm already into, looking into, or actively picking up:

• Disc golf, fishing, kayaking, hiking
• Historical European Martial Arts
• Furniture flipping and antiquing
• Collecting things (records, maps, pocketknives - still deciding where to focus)
• Writing, worldbuilding, brainstorming ideas
• Trivia nights, live music, the occasional museum rabbit hole
• Video games and firearms (the classics)
• True crime adjacent history, biblical archaeology, military tactics, cryptids, and whatever rabbit hole opened up this week (the fun dinner party topics)

I'm an ambivert, which means I'm genuinely good company but also completely fine sitting quietly at a bar/cafe with a good beer/cocktail/tea/coffee and not saying anything for twenty minutes. I'm told this is either very comfortable or very unsettling depending on the person. I'm also someone who values deep conversation and genuinely enjoys sharing recommendations: books, music, shows, films, whatever's worth your time. That kind of easy back and forth is honestly half of what I'm looking for.

I'm also in the middle of intentionally building a more active lifestyle: getting outside more, picking up things that keep me moving without making me miserable. If you're on a similar path or just want someone to drag you off the couch on a Saturday morning, that works too. I am down 75lbs since Halloween of 2025, and have been doing it mainly through diet alone and I think it's time to ease my way back into fitness.

Not looking for anything specific, just putting myself out there to see if there are people in the area who want to grab a drink, ramble about odd topics, argue about something interesting, or find out what HEMA is actually about.

Drop a comment or DM if any of this sounds like your frequency.