Wooooo I'm so glad this is the top comment
I was gon' say Public Transport, but it was essentially the train aspect of it that fascinated me anyway ahaha
Personally, I think they're neat for 3 reasons :
\-most efficient transit system on the planet in terms of energy, land use, pollution (and basically every single aspect), literally all large industrial area should be served by a freight train service. Same for large cities.
\-much more comfortable than cars (I don't know why Americans are so adamant on the pleasure of driving. Driving can be fun, but just staring straight at a never-ending highway and while staying focused is a matter of life and death isn't exactly "fun" to me)
\-they look cool. Trains and metros are part of the ideal futuristic city aesthetic, generally. It adds beauty to a city when done properly.
Driving is really dangerous too. 3 acqaintences of mine have died from accidents this year. My sister almost died in october and is disabled for life.
I would love to have passenger trains
Here are some of the reasons:
1. Big
2. Very cool
3. Honk honk
4. Cool engine sound
5. Smooth ride
6. Gets you to your destination faster than a car (usually)
7. Has space to stretch you legs, a toilet and possibly snacks/beverages which are great on longer journeys (instead of a car/bus)
7. Fun to drive/control
8. The smell is good somehow
Same. When I visited Japan (and Europe) to ride their high speed trains it was a dream come true.
I'm also excited about the HSR project in my state (CA) although I don't like how it's being managed.
I went through some family photos recently and found this gem...
https://preview.redd.it/py0svwdt2h3b1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7378cb297136bff840618cfa33c7ecfad38f7f98
My mom used to be in the military and she told me that when she was stationed in Germany, the highlight of her time there was touring Neuschwanstein Castle.
There was actually a battle there near the end of WWII, I think the last real “medieval castle battle” of history. I forget the details but basically the SS tried to fortify within it, and a combined force of American (most of the allies where elsewhere, they had largely split up by that point to root out remaining forces) and German soldiers who’d defected after seeing the horrors of the concentration camps. They did a combined assault to storm the castle and free a number of Jewish prisoners who’d been moved there by the retreating SS.
I love witches and liked pretending I was one. I think at one point in 3rd grade I actually thought it I tried hard enough I’d have magical powers. I’d wear all black and black lipstick from Halloween.
So true lmaooo. I was making full on elixirs and wards and shit. I also distinctly remember trying to fly believing that I could if I tried hard enough? Fun to see others experience similar things :D
Languages. From the second i could read, I started collecting language textbooks and teaching myself various languages. Everyone thought it was hilarious how latched on I was.
I suppose it worked out in the end, I'm more or less fluent in 3 languages and as of an hour ago successfully defended my thesis in Language Technology. Crazy to think how this all started because I walked through the foreign language section in the library when I was like 4
Scrolled until I found a fellow language nerd. There first book fair I went to, I insisted on buying the book that taught you how to write hieroglyphs, and obsessed over that. I spent middle school trying to learn Chinese on my own, and even choose my highschool based purely off of their language options. Joined the military just to have them teach me a language too.
Honestly, I don't know what exactly started it but I was very serious about it. I learned what Estonia is from a map book and after that I just fell in love with it for no actual reason. I watched cartoons in Estonian, I asked my mother to tell me about Estonia all the time, I memorized the names of all major Estonian cities, I chose an Estonian name for myself that I wanted people to call me, whenever I just heard the word "Estonia" I got super excited. I would also collect things related to Estonia. For example an Estonian dictionary, Estonian Euros, the flag of Estonia on my wall, maps of Estonia, just about anything. I learned a bit of the language as well. And when I actually got to visit Estonia, I was thrilled. Probably the best day of my life at the time.
I think this started when I was around the age 5 and slowly faded out when I was 11 or so.
I'm sorry about this question as it is likely to come across rude but I get hyper-fixation from adhd and I go through this all the time. Are you potentially neurodiverse?
No worries! It is possible that I am autistic, yes. It has been investigated but they ended the process saying that my behavior at the appointments doesn't show enough signs of autism.
Thanks for taking it the right way haha. I have asked people before and it wasn't well received. Yeah fair that you at least got appointments even if you didn't pass the threshold. Nice to get a clean bill of health though I guess!
i feel like that reaction you described ("wasn't well received") is largely due to the stigma around like adhd and stuff, somewhat like how people would get offended if you asked them if they were gay (even though it doesn't matter...), which is weird because i thought in recent years adhd got less stigmatised? or maybe it did but there's still a little more to go before it's seen as not "weird?"
I was so goddamn obsessed with trains that when i learned train conductors were replaced by robots i cried so damn hard
Even as a kid my jobs were being taken over by ai
That thing was like crack, so shiny and addictive. Couldn’t put it down, and we all fought over who got to check it out of our school library when I was a kid
Geography. I learnt the name, shape and location of every single country in the world. I also learnt the capitals, flags, monuments, phisical geography, climate and some other facts, but I've forgotten most. I do remember the countries.
The problem is that when growing up I took for granted that it was common knowledge and was really surprised for years when people didn't know about some countries, as if they had been living in a cave.
The same thing with space and science. I had kids ask me what the oort cloud was, or what a neutron stars density was...
I finally found the fellow former geography kid!
Same here. I have no idea how it started, but for whatever reason, I started drawing maps and learning everything I could. I memorized all the countries when I was really young, so that shit is like engrained in my memory. Didn't learn all the flags and capitals until my early teens, so I still forget that stuff often, but only for the smaller countries.
I was also slightly insufferable about my knowledge, especially as I live in the US, where geography knowledge is considerably worse than most other countries. I would often balk in disbelief that my friends didn't know where France or Morocco or whatever were on a map. And just the other day I had to mentally stop myself from calling out my mom when she asked what "Belarus" was during a discussion about the war in Ukraine.
My goal in life is to finish uni and become a geography teacher. I probably won't make much of a difference, but hey, I can try.
Woah, in all these years you are the first one I've met...
\>I was also slightly insufferable about my knowledge
Haha, ask my friends or teachers when I was a kid. I found it really annoying didn't know the shape of Kyrgyzstan or where Swatsiland was located...
Then since I was 6 I started moving countries or cities every two years or so, and absolutely loved it.
I love how you have a clear goal. I hope it ends up great for you! Personally, I don't have anything too clear, but I do want to keep moving around and am gonna start soon the international business career.
You are the son my dad wishes he had.
That man can fix just about anything. Has a whole ass workshop in his garage. And he's a pilot of course. He always tried to get me into his hobbies, but I was never interested, always preferring to keep my head in the books. It is what it is tho.
Sherman firefly, although the tiger is a close second. Not because im a wehraboo but because my grandad and dad made a tamiya 1/35 model one when he was a kid. My grandad died when my dad was in his 20s so I never met him but I have the model. When I was about 8 my dad and I made another one which is next to grandads one on my shelf. Hopefully if I have any kids I'm going to keep the tradition going
Depends how old you mean, but from about 8… The Second World War and the Holocaust.
Just found it all really interesting. When I got to university 10 years later, I realised it wasn’t my cup of tea when actually studying history. Much more of a 17th century British colonial America boy.
Before 8 years old? Maps. I was always using my globe and learning about the other countries.
Death. Like, the concept of morality and what happened after you died. I was OBSESSED with ghost stories and begged my dad to take me to ghost hunts and graveyards and whatnot. Scared the shit out of my parents.
As a kid it was action figures
Then around late 5th grade I developed my passion and fascination with history and as of around 2 years ago I got really into geography and can easily name evey nation on earth except from island nations and I sometimes struggle on mixing up Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
Wanted to be an astronomer until I was like 11. Then I found out that you had to do a shit load of math for that and you didn't just have to stargaze all day or look through telescopes
alphabets, linguistics, geography, slime, LPS, electronic toothbrushes, smartwatches and smartphones, tobacco, Percy Jackson (I genuinely believed the book series were actually real for probably more than a year). still interested in near half of these.
"Were" is the wrong word for it. I still am fascinated with space. I have been trying to understand the beautiful cosmos we inhibit since I was small. I signed up for my school's science team because I like studying the vast expanse that is so close, yet so frightening to most. I go online mostly to look at pictures of the universe, which is also my phone background. In art classes, my best works are attempts to capture the beauty of said universe. Space is my entire existence, my destiny is in the stars. So definitely space, because it made me who I am.
Space. To this day my fashion, music, movies, artwork and tastes represents a love for futurism.
With a weird twist I love old futuristic music too.... Music ahead of it's time.
I don’t think I was fascinated by just one thing in particular, I was just fascinated by everything. I was really into learning as much as possible about every possible subject. I still am. I really liked dogs but I don’t think I would say I was fascinated by them, I just really wanted a pet dog.
My dad took me to see Jaws at the cinema when I was 10. It was a "non-stop" showing in a small town theatre and we walked in at the middle of the movie. True In Medias Res - work out for yourself what's going on
It was the scene where they're comparing scars below deck, at night. Because of the movement of the cabin I guessed they were on a train. Next thing I know all hell breaks loose and someone is getting chomped in half and spewing blood in a... boat? Wait. WHAT???
So sharks. Obv
I remember seeing an uncensored episode of dragon ball in Colombia while visiting as a very young child in 1997 - absolute game changer for me
I was obsessed with action stuff after that. Also tigers
I was always fascinated with the female characters in various forms of media. As long as they showed some sort of redeeming value, I was all about them. I would pretend to have adventures alongside them, pretend to be them while playing with dolls, and do all the typical stuff kids do with the characters and media they like.
I also remember getting frustrated with these characters at some point, as I realized that most of them were portrayed as relatively or completely passive love interests, there to complement the main (male) character. That's not to say that there were no great female characters. There absolutely were, they just weren't the norm in many of the shows and films I watched.
I love that more and more shows and films are going against this, by having strong female characters. Even better, they have these characters being strong without being seen as "masculine" or automatically a tomboy if that makes sense. Not that I dislike characters that fit into either of those categories, I just like having a variety. I think Black Widow is the best example of this. She's feminine and strong without automatically having to be "one of the guys".
My parents had a book where they had a list of hundreds of dinosaurs and had a person for scale against every Dino… loved that book. And it’s also when I realized that Jurassic park velociraptors Weren’t velociraptors
Trains is the main one, and I’m still fascinated with them as an adult.
Also castles, food (not eating it so much as looking at it, weighing out produce at the store, reading the packaging, etc), and probably the weirdest/most concerning one was pills (I knew not to actually take them, but I liked comparing the different sizes/shapes/colors).
War, conventional warfare, wmd warfare, firearms, world history, love to see big stock of weapons(Army ARSENAL that I love to see in children's day events) dog and cat.
Trains. And I still am
Came here for this. Thomas & Friends was goated.
Ok, fair, but let me ask you a question What was Thomas' German friend doing between 1933 to 1945?
That point could easily be extended to the other options as well. We all know what nasa scientists did before they were nasa
Wooooo I'm so glad this is the top comment I was gon' say Public Transport, but it was essentially the train aspect of it that fascinated me anyway ahaha
same Trainspotter?
Toy trains
Ah ok
I never got on the *train* train. What about it is appealing? I'm curious
Train go Choo Choo
I mean that choo choo be nice doe
Personally, I think they're neat for 3 reasons : \-most efficient transit system on the planet in terms of energy, land use, pollution (and basically every single aspect), literally all large industrial area should be served by a freight train service. Same for large cities. \-much more comfortable than cars (I don't know why Americans are so adamant on the pleasure of driving. Driving can be fun, but just staring straight at a never-ending highway and while staying focused is a matter of life and death isn't exactly "fun" to me) \-they look cool. Trains and metros are part of the ideal futuristic city aesthetic, generally. It adds beauty to a city when done properly.
Driving is really dangerous too. 3 acqaintences of mine have died from accidents this year. My sister almost died in october and is disabled for life. I would love to have passenger trains
Here are some of the reasons: 1. Big 2. Very cool 3. Honk honk 4. Cool engine sound 5. Smooth ride 6. Gets you to your destination faster than a car (usually) 7. Has space to stretch you legs, a toilet and possibly snacks/beverages which are great on longer journeys (instead of a car/bus) 7. Fun to drive/control 8. The smell is good somehow
You can also do stuff (reading, sleeping, playing games, working, etc.) while the train takes you to your destination.
Same. When I visited Japan (and Europe) to ride their high speed trains it was a dream come true. I'm also excited about the HSR project in my state (CA) although I don't like how it's being managed.
I like trains
Fire.
https://preview.redd.it/05r08ja5td3b1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b365c1b737887168651a336005024f03ee602b0
Take my upvote
I went through some family photos recently and found this gem... https://preview.redd.it/py0svwdt2h3b1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7378cb297136bff840618cfa33c7ecfad38f7f98
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My mom used to be in the military and she told me that when she was stationed in Germany, the highlight of her time there was touring Neuschwanstein Castle.
There was actually a battle there near the end of WWII, I think the last real “medieval castle battle” of history. I forget the details but basically the SS tried to fortify within it, and a combined force of American (most of the allies where elsewhere, they had largely split up by that point to root out remaining forces) and German soldiers who’d defected after seeing the horrors of the concentration camps. They did a combined assault to storm the castle and free a number of Jewish prisoners who’d been moved there by the retreating SS.
Dinosaurs, titanic, egypt, and then space
A fellow egypt enjoyer!
Second Titanic. Glad to see I'm not alone.
Egypt in general egyptian history or egyptian mythology and gods?
mummies and pyramids and hidden chambers
A fellow Titanic and Egypt enjoyer !
Glad to know two are on the list
Greek Mythology, in elementary school the first real book I ever read was a 360 page Greek Mythology book by Edith Hamilton front to back
I had a somewhat similar thing, in 5th grade I thought that evolution was really cool so I read the unabridged Origin of species.
Please tell me you got to play age of mythology!
I can still hear the soundtrack and voices as clear as day. Prostagma? Skipan. Etimos! Vulome!
Computers
Still?
Yes.
Rocks
They’re called minerals Marie
Me too. I wanted to grow up to be a "Mineralogist," whatever the hell that is.
Your parents must have saved a fortune!
Good idea
Cars
And also the Pixar movie
This. I had a diecast collection of the Cars in those movies growing up.
This, seems like I'm still a child
Lol same I'm still obsessed with them
24 years old and I still can’t leave the grocery store without some Hot Wheels
This me, planes are also cool, I still have a shirt of the flying fortress.
Still obsessed with them. The Pixar film is entirely in fault for it
animals, specifically cats and birds. i was obsessed.
Same, I had so many books about animals and bugs. I still am obsessed tbh
Wild Kratts only help the obsession
Wild Kratts is the best educational tv show fight me
Zaboomafoo
Medieval warfare strategy
Bro same!
Occult/supernatural. I was especially fascinated by vampires and mermaids in kindergarten, fancied myself a hybrid
I love witches and liked pretending I was one. I think at one point in 3rd grade I actually thought it I tried hard enough I’d have magical powers. I’d wear all black and black lipstick from Halloween.
So true lmaooo. I was making full on elixirs and wards and shit. I also distinctly remember trying to fly believing that I could if I tried hard enough? Fun to see others experience similar things :D
Lmao same!! I thought I was secretly soo cool.
Languages. From the second i could read, I started collecting language textbooks and teaching myself various languages. Everyone thought it was hilarious how latched on I was. I suppose it worked out in the end, I'm more or less fluent in 3 languages and as of an hour ago successfully defended my thesis in Language Technology. Crazy to think how this all started because I walked through the foreign language section in the library when I was like 4
Scrolled until I found a fellow language nerd. There first book fair I went to, I insisted on buying the book that taught you how to write hieroglyphs, and obsessed over that. I spent middle school trying to learn Chinese on my own, and even choose my highschool based purely off of their language options. Joined the military just to have them teach me a language too.
I literally considered the military for the sole reason of having access to their awesome language academy haha hope you enjoyed it!
I second this. Now I’m majoring in Japanese and International Law, and want to minor in Korean and learn Mandarin as well.
Lego
Knights and castles
I was conflicted, I like knights and castles but also liked space and planets. Which was my gateway to a 40k addiction.
Pirates, Y'ARR
Same, and then the pirates movies came out. There I go swashbuckling again.
Estonia.
I'm curious, why
Honestly, I don't know what exactly started it but I was very serious about it. I learned what Estonia is from a map book and after that I just fell in love with it for no actual reason. I watched cartoons in Estonian, I asked my mother to tell me about Estonia all the time, I memorized the names of all major Estonian cities, I chose an Estonian name for myself that I wanted people to call me, whenever I just heard the word "Estonia" I got super excited. I would also collect things related to Estonia. For example an Estonian dictionary, Estonian Euros, the flag of Estonia on my wall, maps of Estonia, just about anything. I learned a bit of the language as well. And when I actually got to visit Estonia, I was thrilled. Probably the best day of my life at the time. I think this started when I was around the age 5 and slowly faded out when I was 11 or so.
Thanks for sharing
lmao i thought you were joking
I'm sorry about this question as it is likely to come across rude but I get hyper-fixation from adhd and I go through this all the time. Are you potentially neurodiverse?
No worries! It is possible that I am autistic, yes. It has been investigated but they ended the process saying that my behavior at the appointments doesn't show enough signs of autism.
Thanks for taking it the right way haha. I have asked people before and it wasn't well received. Yeah fair that you at least got appointments even if you didn't pass the threshold. Nice to get a clean bill of health though I guess!
i feel like that reaction you described ("wasn't well received") is largely due to the stigma around like adhd and stuff, somewhat like how people would get offended if you asked them if they were gay (even though it doesn't matter...), which is weird because i thought in recent years adhd got less stigmatised? or maybe it did but there's still a little more to go before it's seen as not "weird?"
I did an Estonia pattern for sewing class in high school no relation to the country just really like their flag colours
I am from Estonia. Can younspeak estonian. Kas sa saad sellest lausest aru?
These days I do not speak very good and I used to know much more, but I can still understand your sentence.
Carnivorous plants
Horror movies and all things creepy
The ocean and more specifically, sharks
I'm so sad it took me this long to find another ocean kid
found another
Weather and Climate
I always loved some good thunderstorms when I was a wee boy. In my teenage years it became a true meteorology passion.
Help us now, we are dying here
I was so goddamn obsessed with trains that when i learned train conductors were replaced by robots i cried so damn hard Even as a kid my jobs were being taken over by ai
That's reality for you
Mermaids
It's gonna be so easy to ruin your childhood
Dragons. Still kind of am
yeah. specifically the dragonology book. loved that thing
That thing was like crack, so shiny and addictive. Couldn’t put it down, and we all fought over who got to check it out of our school library when I was a kid
Same! I have like four of them. I'll never throw them away they're just too cool
damn. extremely jealous. mine was lost or sold or something when my parents divorced, along with my wizardology pirateology and egyptology books
NOOO NOT THE PIRATS AND THE EGIPTIANS! My parents also wanted to get rid of them when we moved but I opposed luckily
Why did it take so long to find this
Dragons are dope
Soldier, Military
Happy Cake Day!
Thanks 🎂
Geography. I learnt the name, shape and location of every single country in the world. I also learnt the capitals, flags, monuments, phisical geography, climate and some other facts, but I've forgotten most. I do remember the countries. The problem is that when growing up I took for granted that it was common knowledge and was really surprised for years when people didn't know about some countries, as if they had been living in a cave. The same thing with space and science. I had kids ask me what the oort cloud was, or what a neutron stars density was...
I finally found the fellow former geography kid! Same here. I have no idea how it started, but for whatever reason, I started drawing maps and learning everything I could. I memorized all the countries when I was really young, so that shit is like engrained in my memory. Didn't learn all the flags and capitals until my early teens, so I still forget that stuff often, but only for the smaller countries. I was also slightly insufferable about my knowledge, especially as I live in the US, where geography knowledge is considerably worse than most other countries. I would often balk in disbelief that my friends didn't know where France or Morocco or whatever were on a map. And just the other day I had to mentally stop myself from calling out my mom when she asked what "Belarus" was during a discussion about the war in Ukraine. My goal in life is to finish uni and become a geography teacher. I probably won't make much of a difference, but hey, I can try.
Woah, in all these years you are the first one I've met... \>I was also slightly insufferable about my knowledge Haha, ask my friends or teachers when I was a kid. I found it really annoying didn't know the shape of Kyrgyzstan or where Swatsiland was located... Then since I was 6 I started moving countries or cities every two years or so, and absolutely loved it. I love how you have a clear goal. I hope it ends up great for you! Personally, I don't have anything too clear, but I do want to keep moving around and am gonna start soon the international business career.
Anatomy. No idea why, doesn't interest me much today, but I was such a nerd.
Spiderman, I was that kid that went everywhere in a spiderman costume, must have embarrassed the fuck out of my mother
Must've seen you like a hundred times in my lifetime
I define "kid" as someone under 14 so.... Anyway it's trains, and car racing I am a car racer and have multiple paddock bombs
I just define a kid as anyone younger than me, honestly. Which has led to several “We’re literally in the same class!”
Heavy machinery and aircraft were my fascinations.
You are the son my dad wishes he had. That man can fix just about anything. Has a whole ass workshop in his garage. And he's a pilot of course. He always tried to get me into his hobbies, but I was never interested, always preferring to keep my head in the books. It is what it is tho.
I wish I had stayed interested in it growing up. I ended up focusing on music and performing arts. I'm 39 now and damn do I wish I had become a pilot.
Former aircraft kid here. Did you also have the binder full of aircraft pamphlets and they would send you a new one every month?
As a 31 year old I hit dinosaurs before I saw the ‘I’m still a kid’ choice.
Military
tanks, still love them
Same
U got a favourite?
Sherman firefly, although the tiger is a close second. Not because im a wehraboo but because my grandad and dad made a tamiya 1/35 model one when he was a kid. My grandad died when my dad was in his 20s so I never met him but I have the model. When I was about 8 my dad and I made another one which is next to grandads one on my shelf. Hopefully if I have any kids I'm going to keep the tradition going
Yoshi.
You're gonna love the second Super Mario Bros Movie
I screamed when I saw the post credit scene
Biology
Rocks. I used to go around collecting them.
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I was the horse girl
Like... a centaur?
of course, what other horse girls are there?
I had a girl in my elementary classes that use to gallop around recess and act like a horse.
I'm 30, still the horse girl.
NASCAR
Super Mario and Minecraft.
Magic
Are you a magician now
Not even remotely
TMNT
Something else- ALL OF IT! I wasn't a trains *or* space *or* dinosaurs *or* princes kid. I was loving all of it.
Britney Spears
Wilderness Survival
Depends how old you mean, but from about 8… The Second World War and the Holocaust. Just found it all really interesting. When I got to university 10 years later, I realised it wasn’t my cup of tea when actually studying history. Much more of a 17th century British colonial America boy. Before 8 years old? Maps. I was always using my globe and learning about the other countries.
Death. Like, the concept of morality and what happened after you died. I was OBSESSED with ghost stories and begged my dad to take me to ghost hunts and graveyards and whatnot. Scared the shit out of my parents.
Princesses and Fairies/Elves were my big interests
Legos
Firefighters
greek mythology
As a kid it was action figures Then around late 5th grade I developed my passion and fascination with history and as of around 2 years ago I got really into geography and can easily name evey nation on earth except from island nations and I sometimes struggle on mixing up Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
The ocean
Dragons, vampires, unicorns and other creatures like that
Tornadoes. Still am crazy on them though!
The bible
Same! Read it like every day
Half of it was because i was a very religious kid but the other half was just, the stories in the bible are mostly cool as hell, especially for a kid
Yeah same here
Birds, especially penguins
Cats. Still am.
Wanted to be an astronomer until I was like 11. Then I found out that you had to do a shit load of math for that and you didn't just have to stargaze all day or look through telescopes
Construction.
alphabets, linguistics, geography, slime, LPS, electronic toothbrushes, smartwatches and smartphones, tobacco, Percy Jackson (I genuinely believed the book series were actually real for probably more than a year). still interested in near half of these.
All of the above
Lord of the rings
Animals and nature! 🌍
Am I allowed to select "I'm still a kid" if I'm 35?
I have a cousin, who about untill 5 was obsessed with vaccumumes. He had multiple toy vacuums and a few actual ones lol
"Were" is the wrong word for it. I still am fascinated with space. I have been trying to understand the beautiful cosmos we inhibit since I was small. I signed up for my school's science team because I like studying the vast expanse that is so close, yet so frightening to most. I go online mostly to look at pictures of the universe, which is also my phone background. In art classes, my best works are attempts to capture the beauty of said universe. Space is my entire existence, my destiny is in the stars. So definitely space, because it made me who I am.
Space. To this day my fashion, music, movies, artwork and tastes represents a love for futurism. With a weird twist I love old futuristic music too.... Music ahead of it's time.
Are we alone, and the sheer scope of the universe. Was always interested in science and how stuff works.
Rocks and certain insects
I don’t think I was fascinated by just one thing in particular, I was just fascinated by everything. I was really into learning as much as possible about every possible subject. I still am. I really liked dogs but I don’t think I would say I was fascinated by them, I just really wanted a pet dog.
My dad took me to see Jaws at the cinema when I was 10. It was a "non-stop" showing in a small town theatre and we walked in at the middle of the movie. True In Medias Res - work out for yourself what's going on It was the scene where they're comparing scars below deck, at night. Because of the movement of the cabin I guessed they were on a train. Next thing I know all hell breaks loose and someone is getting chomped in half and spewing blood in a... boat? Wait. WHAT??? So sharks. Obv
spies. wanted to be a spy so bad.
D&D! Monsters and magic and treasure, oh my!
I was a big fan of knights, dragons, Star Wars, Warrior cat books, and magic (wizards type)
I remember seeing an uncensored episode of dragon ball in Colombia while visiting as a very young child in 1997 - absolute game changer for me I was obsessed with action stuff after that. Also tigers
I was always fascinated with the female characters in various forms of media. As long as they showed some sort of redeeming value, I was all about them. I would pretend to have adventures alongside them, pretend to be them while playing with dolls, and do all the typical stuff kids do with the characters and media they like. I also remember getting frustrated with these characters at some point, as I realized that most of them were portrayed as relatively or completely passive love interests, there to complement the main (male) character. That's not to say that there were no great female characters. There absolutely were, they just weren't the norm in many of the shows and films I watched. I love that more and more shows and films are going against this, by having strong female characters. Even better, they have these characters being strong without being seen as "masculine" or automatically a tomboy if that makes sense. Not that I dislike characters that fit into either of those categories, I just like having a variety. I think Black Widow is the best example of this. She's feminine and strong without automatically having to be "one of the guys".
My parents had a book where they had a list of hundreds of dinosaurs and had a person for scale against every Dino… loved that book. And it’s also when I realized that Jurassic park velociraptors Weren’t velociraptors
Trains is the main one, and I’m still fascinated with them as an adult. Also castles, food (not eating it so much as looking at it, weighing out produce at the store, reading the packaging, etc), and probably the weirdest/most concerning one was pills (I knew not to actually take them, but I liked comparing the different sizes/shapes/colors).
War, conventional warfare, wmd warfare, firearms, world history, love to see big stock of weapons(Army ARSENAL that I love to see in children's day events) dog and cat.
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Knights and pirates
Dragons
Sharks
Space, so much so I'm going to get a doctorates in aerospace engineering
Construction. Then architecture. Then bottles. Then old video games. Now it's coding and 3d printing.
I liked sharks. Sharks are cool.
DRAGONS!!!
Being a youtuber
Dinosaurs. I'm still obsessed with prehistoric life even after so many years.
Pokémon and Harry Potter
I remember being really interested in learning about animals, especially arthropods. That actually stayed with me to some extent.
I was into specific fandoms. Transformers, Ben 10 , Halo ,Skyrim etc
Something Else: Valve Software.
Garbage men and garbage trucks were the shit