I love this idea for a thread but I don't particularly know how to answer this? I am
absolutely the kind of person who gets into hyperfixations and obsessions, it's thankfully not unhealthy for me and I like to think I manage it properly. But I'm unsure if I even have one right now?
There are definitely things I would
consider fitting this description, Love Live is like the thing I'm known for (at least I like to think so) and FFXIV has been a big constant in my life for multiple years, but I feel there's things stopping me from saying it's one of them. Love Live is something I love but I'm not currently in one of those phases where I'm
really into it, and I'm not really caught up on its newer content, and while I've been big on the FFXIV grind it's sort of gotten past the point of obsession and just become a natural thing in my life, sort of like a bell curve I suppose? It's just the thing I'm doing with 80% of my time right now, while my life is kind of... in pieces.
If I get really into a new video game, anime, or manga, that can become something I'm really into, but I don't think I get invested enough into it to call it the obsession. Borderlands and Persona 5 are both things I've gotten
really into again this year, and there are anime and manga I've gotten invested in this year as well, but none of them have really taken over my brain in that kind of way.
I think the closest answer I can give is maybe the most recent thing I've felt that way towards, which was Yamada-kun to Lv999 no Koi wo Suru which I read last October. Maybe I haven't really reached out enough to get that kind of intense interest in something recently, but that's the last thing I can think of where something was new and incredibly exciting for me.
I don't write anywhere near as often as I'd like, but it's usually that kind of feeling that drives me to write about something, and I've had those kinds of thoughts for some different things recently, but not enough to actually follow through properly. When I really and truly find that fire again, that's my answer.