my ancient Egypt phase was alongside my general mythology phase

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podle5:

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ronandhermy:

it is so strange to me when people tell me they never had an ancient egyptian phase…like, what did you even do during your childhood?

this is oddly specific?? and over 3000 people relate???

That egyptology book was too golden and shiny to resist

Come on, isn’t there an age where every kid in America learns about how the preparation for mummification was to pull the brains out through the nose and thus starts their Ancient Egypt phase.

I mean, they may not all come in the same order, but it’s like: dinosaurs (complete with dinosaur sheets), space/astronomy (must stick at least one glow-in-the-dark sticker to your ceiling – may have been triggered by Star Wars or Trek, but that’s not mandatory,) Ancient Egypt (as mentioned,) and Harry Potter (newer addition but let’s be serious here, deciding your House is like the MASH of our day.

This is delightfully accurate (although I would have to switch out Harry Potter for C.S. Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles because I am old).

Fair, and while C.S. Lewis’ Narnia was definitely important, I don’t think it was quite formative the way that Potter is for kids these days.

For me, that was probably The Hobbit or LOTR or whichever other fantasy series I was working my way through at the time (but I was trying to keep the categories as broad as possible – I feel like being a Potterhead has brought together all the different books/movie fandoms that used to get kids into fantasy and magic and stuff, but in one giant monolith of a fandom, so large that they all go through it.)