/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.