Leaving the hobby

[TheWolven]

Good to hear you kept up with the hobby for so long. I knew you (online) when you started and you were excited and industrious about learning and raising mantids. I hope your years in the hobby gave you growth in knowledge and enjoyment. I left the hobby for different reasons (too time intensive and I had other acute situations needing attention at home, plus eventually financially non-feasible). But I'll always have a love for mantids and I'm sure you will too. Think of it as a special chapter in your life. Onwards and upwards! Best of luck to you from an old friend.

They still are in the hobby to a degree, but are only rearing species they enjoy. I’d say it’s more so they have stepped back from the hobby socially because of toxicity.

 

[agent A]

Good to hear you kept up with the hobby for so long. I knew you (online) when you started and you were excited and industrious about learning and raising mantids. I hope your years in the hobby gave you growth in knowledge and enjoyment. I left the hobby for different reasons (too time intensive and I had other acute situations needing attention at home, plus eventually financially non-feasible). But I'll always have a love for mantids and I'm sure you will too. Think of it as a special chapter in your life. Onwards and upwards! Best of luck to you from an old friend.

WELCOME BACK! holy crap it's been so long we need to catch up!

 

[agent A]

They still are in the hobby to a degree, but are only rearing species they enjoy. I’d say it’s more so they have stepped back from the hobby socially because of toxicity.

yea
also some mod took down a post of mine for encouraging violence, so let me clarify something
some other hobbies keep each other in line by having people who mistreat other people get harassed, even doxxed and given death threats for their behavior by other people in the hobby. while I don't want to see the mantis people go that far, I'd at least like to see a few people shunned for the way they've been towards a few of us.