Also grew up on the ocean and in the water, and I love floating with my ears underwater to block out the surface world and tune in to the water. I could fall asleep like that if I wasn’t always hyperaware of other people and worried they’ll fuck with me lmao

For sure! I love the whole gadgetry aspect, especially how it bled into pop culture with things like Get Smart and Spy vs Spy.

I was actually born at the “end” of it. I generally am interested in US-Soviet relations and how the Cold War/Communism became a major factor in political campaigns after WWII, specifically the Dewey-Truman upset.

It’s funny, all through college I had either older people looking askance at me about why I’d be interested in “ancient” history or peers teasing me about being a Russian asset just for the interest… I just never thought the Cold War actually ended, and when I was in college in the late 2000s, that was a wild take to have lmao

Curious what is says about me that my answer has always been “the Cold War.”

… Other than the fact that history feels far too present these days.