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[Cee]

I remember being obsessed with anything Ancient Egyptian as a kid. My uncle took me to the ROM cause there was an ancient egyptian/ancient greek exhibition going on. I think I spent like 2 hours in just the sarcophagus sections. The way you could almost see the actual faces of the mummies was kinda creepy but awesome. Also tried to learn hieroglyphics. Was very hard for a 10 year old...

 

Me too, except it was my aunt who'd take me to museums. She bought me this hieroglyphics book and stamper set with the letters and how to write things and I was the happiest kid. I used to be kind of obsessed with Egyptian mythology. Actually, a lot of mythology, but Egyptian was my favorite. I still have that stamper set on my bookshelf.

 

This is the kind of stuff that makes one dig obsessively into lore and the elven pantheon years later.

[NightSymphony]

I can not get enough pictures of Cole playing with cute little fluffy animals.

http://nyansekai.dev.../Cole-528668959

[MoonDrummer]

I remember being obsessed with anything Ancient Egyptian as a kid. My uncle took me to the ROM cause there was an ancient egyptian/ancient greek exhibition going on. I think I spent like 2 hours in just the sarcophagus sections. The way you could almost see the actual faces of the mummies was kinda creepy but awesome. Also tried to learn hieroglyphics. Was very hard for a 10 year old...

I was always obsessed with WW2 stuff when I was a kid, Imperial war museum and such. I also made demands to some poor canteen worker that they should move HMS Belfast to Belfast when I was about 10.

[BoscoBread]

I remember being obsessed with anything Ancient Egyptian as a kid. My uncle took me to the ROM cause there was an ancient egyptian/ancient greek exhibition going on. I think I spent like 2 hours in just the sarcophagus sections. The way you could almost see the actual faces of the mummies was kinda creepy but awesome. Also tried to learn hieroglyphics. Was very hard for a 10 year old...

I think everybody goes through this phase...or at least it seemed that way to me.  I too was obsessed.  I wanted to re-enact "The Egpyt Game"...minus the whole murder plot.  More the role-play game the kids in the book have.

[Illyria]

Put me down as another 'obsessed with Ancient Egypt as a kid'. Mummification always interested me, and I love the mythology.  I'm still interested, actually, and just started reading up on it again yesterday.

[Sable Rhapsody]

I always end up looking at the skulls and wondering who they were, what their life was like, their family, everything. Their own dreams and experiences. It's overwhelming and humbling at the same time when looking at a wall of skulls, or a pile of random legs and arms and ribcages. They were once as we are, and we will be what they have become. And taking a selfie with the skulls? Awesome way to remember that.

 

Human neuroanatomy was the equivalent experience for me, back in undergrad.  I was having existential thoughts about the nature of mortality and consciousness while trying to find specific sulci and gyri.  Turns out that's rather difficult to do 

[Rabbitonfire]

I like how we're discussing about the dead after finding a collection of pictures too serene. 

[Cee]

I kind of started it. Whoops.

 

Though I do think it  has been an interesting discussion.

 

I think it might be fueling some ideas. Though I should attempt to write something not inspired by morbid and/or sad things or a heavy concentration of feelings.

[BoscoBread]

I like how we're discussing about the dead after finding a collection of pictures too serene. 

It was a good discussion. A+ Solas thread!

[Cee]

Also, death is kind of relevant to Solas?

 

 

 

 

(Well, maybe not all, but it remains to be seen.)

[Elira]

I adore history, period. So things with historical significance peak my interest. I view history with a perspective of that they're like stories, only they actually happened (however misunderstood some aspects may be, and however some things being possible romanticized, exaggerated, etc). Thus I love it. Connected to it is a fascination for dead things and its ilk, enough so that those knowing might find it morbid. I like dead things. I like to contemplate where the feet have walked, what the sensations the hands have felt, what the eyes have seen, and what memories the dead might have had.

 

I had a phase where I was excessively intrigued by Egyptian history. Several years back (five-ish, maybe?), a local museum had an event of sorts, showcasing Egyptian artifacts, mummies, and everything in between from a museum elsewhere. I don't remember what it was called, but it was a one time thing. Goodness, I sound rather stupid with my forgetfulness. But anyway, that set off a period of my Egyptian fascination. I'm still incredibly fascinated by it and interested in it, but my interests lie more in the medieval periods, and Japanese and Japan as a whole now.

 

This is likely late, but oh well. There's my two cents of it, and some of my rambling.

[Heidirs]

Also, death is kind of relevant to Solas?

 

Spoiler

 

[Kestrel]

Solas wears a wolf jawbone. He's got to be somewhat comfortable with the process of death and decay. 

[Tootles FTW]

Haha, I came into the Solas thread expecting to be made sad...but not about death, mortality, and the likes.  

[Cee]

 

 

Sometimes to rescue oneself, dark humor is necessary.

[CapricornSun]

Okay, I stayed up late for this, but I'm finally done with my fanart of Aicosu's Message Sent fic! Spoilered for size.

 

Spoiler

http://sunnyartthing...ellan-modern-au

 

 

And now, I bid you all goodnight!

[Cee]

Okay, I stayed up late for this, but I'm finally done with my fanart of Aicosu's Message Sent fic! Spoilered for size.

 

Spoiler

http://sunnyartthing...ellan-modern-au

 

 

And now, I bid you all goodnight!

 

 

 

It came out great!

 

Now I want another chapter...

[Kestrel]

Okay, I stayed up late for this, but I'm finally done with my fanart of Aicosu's Message Sent fic! Spoilered for size.

 

Spoiler

http://sunnyartthing...ellan-modern-au

 

 

And now, I bid you all goodnight!

 

It looks fantastic. Look at those adorable nerds. 

 

Solas, shockingly, does not have a flip phone or a Jitterbug. I'm so proud of him. 

[Cee]

A Jitterbug.

[Meer]

My own historical obsessions tend to be centered in more recent history, particularly American (1776-1812) and French from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte, though I also dabble in German from time to time. I have an ungodly love of early artillery, I really do. But what fascinates me most about these periods is how completely the world changed in so short a time. Think of how different a place this world was only some 200-odd years ago. Think of how much must have happened, and how much will happen even in the next 50. It's sad, it's fascinating, it's humbling.

[Siha]

I wasn't much interested in Egypt, I was all into astronomy. I spent years in the observatory, even the coldest winter nights. I am convinced, BW included the astrariums for Siha alone.

[Cee]

My own historical obsessions tend to be centered in more recent history, particularly American (1776-1812) and French from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte, though I also dabble in German from time to time. I have an ungodly love of early artillery, I really do. But what fascinates me most about these periods is how completely the world changed in so short a time. Think of how different a place this world was only 200 odd-years ago. Think of how much must have happened, and how much will happen even in the next 50. It's sad, it's fascinating, it's humbling.

 

I'm a city girl and I have a lot of my own interest in cities. Cities grow and change a lot over time, even just within the span of American history. People talk a lot about cities changing, but cities have always been changing. Whether that's demographics, buildings, being built up in the first place. that isn't to say that the past should ever be neglected. I loved doing things like studying or traveling in Europe because of how much older everything was. My interests stretch across time periods and really, cities are a particular focus. As well as the intersection of culture, race, gender, class, and the like. One of my favorite areas to study was Medieval Spain for how all of those things intersected. (Though my actual degree concentration was in 20th c Spanish literature (as well as a second in sociology).

 

I'm a nerd about remnants of history, culture, changes, demographics over time, history, ruins, old places. I could go on for a long time.

 

I find it funny how these simply carry over to being a lore nerd when it comes to games too.

[BoscoBread]

My own historical obsessions tend to be centered in more recent history, particularly American (1776-1812) and French from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte, though I also dabble in German from time to time. I have an ungodly love of early artillery, I really do. But what fascinates me most about these periods is how completely the world changed in so short a time. Think of how different a place this world was only some 200-odd years ago. Think of how much must have happened, and how much will happen even in the next 50. It's sad, it's fascinating, it's humbling.

*hugs tiny history nerd Meer*

 

I'm actually quite smitten with Pre-Columbian history. So the Ancient Americas.  It really wasn't much of a focus of archaeology until fairly recently. So there is a lot of wonderful and interesting and eye opening stuff coming out about it now. Their migration to the Continent - South America and North America.  Then how advanced and interesting their societies were. They had an amazing understanding of ecology and controlled/manipulated the enviroment they lived in - i.e. the rainforest. Essentially making a pretty inhabitable place habitable. 

[Kappa Neko]

I was into ancient Egypt too as a kid. Briefly. I have exactly one book about it. I was interested in a lot of things for only a while... like several different kinds of sports (girl soccer, judo...) my mom had to buy all this gear for, and then I started hating it after a month or so. I remember locking myself in the bathroom when it was time for soccer practice. And wail that I would jump out the window and kill myself before going back to those mean girls. Fun times...

 

I'm still that way, only less dramatic maybe. Which is why I have only basic knowledge of things and never became particularly good at anything. Speaking of astrology: Gemini - jack of all trades, master of none? SO TRUE!

 

I'm master of one thing: making up excuses for my failures.

[Kestrel]

I really like Scottish and Cornish history, but to be honest, when it comes to history, I was always more interested in paleolithic megafauna than people.