/ffs/ - Fujo Fandom Sperging

>>5554
I used to be really into KPOP when I was 9-10 and the shipping compilation videos awoke something in me. I have zero interest in RPF now though. As for 2D, this is probably showing my age but the first BL ships I was super obsessed over were from Free and Haikyuu. I stumbled upon a yaoi account on Instagram that reposted doujinshi (still remember the exact one to this day) and that was basically my full descent into yaoiland. I got all of my friends into BL at that time too and they blame me for exposing them to degen content kek.

>>5599
And I just want to add on, I would go on my internet escapades and show my friends everything I found the next time they came over, it was so fun. We were discovering shit together, I miss when internet browsing was a group activity and an actual physical place inside your home. The magic is just…gone, now that everything has been centralized and smartphones give 24/7 individualized experiences.

My grandmother knew I loved animu and mango at the tender age of 10. She got me a book about the history of mango.

I found Kaze to Ki no Uta in it. I recall thinking it was very desperately pretty, and wanting to read more. Then I discovered boys at age 13, and also the film and the few translated chapters available online.

Takemiya's boys looked my age, and embodied the stuff I adored about boys at the time. I still love June and works from that period.

>>5554
Good question. I try:
>Lv 1):
Maybe it's bc I am/was a loner and silent but I preferred male characters when I was small. I remember that when I was 4-5 years old Bigwig and Woundwort from Watership Down became the first characters I ever obsessed over. This might or might not have to do with my later fujoism but I mention it because it shows a lot of early signs.

I related to Bigwig to some degree because he was the loner within the group and also silent like me but at the same time a true fighter, so I also looked up to him and hoped to be as cool as him one day. Parallel to that though I also loved Woundwort who is the brutal enemy that fights and almost kills him.

I wonder if this was already very early, subconscious enemy/hero shipping. It was also what made me an artist. I drew them so much I legit learned how to animate by accident when I traced frame after frame of certain scenes from my tv and realised how flicker books work.

>Lv 2):
Anyway, after that, when I was 7-8 I had my first cartoon crushes that I recognized as such. I felt very perverted for it lol

>Lv 3):
Next stage of evolution: I am 13 and have a crush on Frieza. This was the first time that I headcanoned shit for a character and drew that instead of drawing just the character himself. Because I loved him so much I searched for fanart on all angelfire fanshrines I found and one beautiful day I stumbled upon a very pretty doujinshi in which Frieza was hinted to have had sex with Zarbon. I was puzzled but also fascinated. It changed something but I wasn't ready to accept it yet.

>Lv 4):
Time skip another few years. I get obsessed with Ovan and his ex-friendship/enemyship with Haseo from .hack//GU. For the first time I post my art (deviantart) and befriend a crazy US American fujo who is open about gay shipping them. And this was the last push I needed. I started to directly look for yaoi and talked about yaoi afterwards.

Happy end, sorry for textwalls.

I think it was Gravitation? Back then you didn't get a choice of what was available through pirated CDs and people watched whatever they could get hands on. I was sceptical at first, but really loved it right from the first episode!

>>5603
Getting into BL through Dragon Ball is not that unusual, but it's typically involving the main cast (or the main cast x adversary). You're the first one I found whose first exposure was Frieza x (let's be frank) a nobody most people who watched DB would have a difficulty remembering the name of.

I got into anime and manga by the mid-00s and obviously Inuyasha, FMA and later Death Note and Code Geass yaoi was all over the net. I was a little weirded out at first but then I was a fujo within three years of learning about anime. I didn't even know how buttsex worked for a while but I felt my way around.

I started getting into comics and Manga when I was about 10-11, starting off with series our library had like Pokemon adventures, Ranma ½, stray volumes of shounen like Bleach and Onepiece, etc. It gave me a real love for Manga as a medium. I was bound to what was physically there since I didn’t have unrestricted internet access until I was 14. But once I did, I heard about all the pirating sites like KissManga, MangaFox, etc. and went to check them out since I had developed such a strong love for Manga. I had a diverse taste genre wise and would always browse the genre section to find a series with a plot I would be interested in. There I saw it… The Yaoi section. I was intrigued as to what it was. I clicked on it and had a metaphorical, spiritual nosebleed… And from then on I would read as much BL as I could get my hands on, from the classics like Junjou Romantica and Loveless to random one shots I’ll never remember again. I was really into Mei Sakuraga (pic rel) and CJ Michalski’s works for some reason lol. The rest is history…

Because of this, I’m a rare breed (at least from what I've seen on FC) that prefers canon BL properties and pairings and doesn’t ship much apart from my small handful of pet ships (and when I do it’s usually some unofficial pairing of side characters from said BL works lmao)

I was shipping before I knew what it was. The first "yaoi" I ever saw was fanart in Animerica (which I actually tracked down for that nostalgia thread that got lost in the raid) and tripped over fanfiction shortly afterward. It's funny how ravenous for it I was back then, I multishipped like crazy and would try anything once. Now I'm super specific about ships and will block over petty shit like NOTPs (￣ヘ￣)

As for original BL, the first one I ever bought was Eerie Queerie (jp: Ghost!). I don't remember a damn thing about it other than the mild titillation of having it physically in my house.

Some youtubers I liked when I was a preteen were compared to Makoharu from Free! which made me check out the anime and resulted in me shifting fixation to sports anime (and the ships). Later on, I had this app named Mangarock on my phone that had a massive library of scanlated manga and "yaoi" was a genre there, which I checked out of curiosity. In the present, much like OP, I am not into RPS at all and Mangarock is a shell of its former self that does not host scanlations anymore.