/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.

i watched the kirby anime when i was like 11 and i ended up shipping dedede and escargon so hard lmao

>>7664
I used to ship them too! It's a shame Escargoon never got to appear in any other Kirby media to my knowledge. The villain/sidekick dynamic is always great and I especially like the contrast of pompous and jaded.

I was 11-12 years old and had just discovered Saint Seiya, one day I was searching something about Shun (my favorite character) and discovered also what fanfictions were.
I thought It was so cool to read stories made by other people about the things I also enjoyed and then… Some descriptions and cover images caught my eye, featuring men having relationships with other men.
I remember I didn't quite admited to myself I enjoyed It, suddenly, I was obsessing with searching things that would led to yaoi in a cryptic way, like searching for fanart about certain characters that were popular with fujos (because then yaoi pairings would also appear).

>>5554
I was reading Harry Potter fanfic on ff.net back when I was 11. I saw the Drarry fics but I didn't click on them, mostly I read gen fics, marauders fics, marauders time travel fics, and anything that wasn't straight up porn or RonxHermione. Anyways one day I started a very mysterious, untagged fic that was structured like an epistolary novel. Two students at Hogwarts start corresponding anonymously through some magical trinket. You understand very quickly the first student is Harry but the second, well, the mystery was much thicker, at least to 10 years old me. Anywys this fic is great and the love between the corresponding students grows as the fic goes, until they reveal their identities to each other… Gasp, the other student was Draco. The rest is history.

>>8322
Ah, porny HP fics - the destroyers of innocence. Happened to me too.

>>8341
Kek there wasn't even any porn. I vividly remember my first porny HP fic though, it was a hardcore Ginny Hermione Snape threesome in the Slytherin dungeons that involved a lot of bondage. I was reading it like others would watch a trainwreck in slow mo.

sooo- I was like nine years old and I had just finished Death Note, searching for memes and stuffI found that a lot of images mencioned the word YAOI and I just googled it to find out what it meant- one thing led to another and SENSITIVE PORNOGRAPH appared in in front of me in the form of some NSFW gifs- At first I had some questions, but then I just went with the vibe LOL

If I remember correctly, Gravitation was my introduction to both yaoi as a genre and manga as a medium.

>>7719
I was a couple of years younger and Saint Seiya was probably one of my first, too. My favorite was Ikki and I paired him with Shun,it was beautiful. It didn't help that Ikki got some short lived love interest (hated her) that the first thing to come out of his mouth was that he thought she was Shun!

But I think officially my first exposure to m/m was a Dragonball fanfic where Goku and Vegeta got together and then that was it,I didn't look back at hetero romance until my mid 30s for a brief period and now I'm back home.

watched death note as a kid and I fell in love with L x Light fanfiction/fanart. [spoiler] even used to watch the corny cosplay videos where L and Light cosplayers would make out [/spoiler] nuff said

>>11375
Shounen Jump homo claims another victim.

I used to be really in to RP on Neopets when I was a kid and I started noticing boards with [//] in their titles. After checking out a few of them my eyes were opened. FFVII and Tales of Symphonia were the first fandoms I was really interested in shipping for, but some of my roleplay friends were kind enough to introduce me to other early yaoi series like Gravitation and Yami no Matsuei.

>>5554
My older sister converted me and she herself was converted by a friend of hers at school and I don’t know the origin story of that friend

>be me
>age 13
>already in my weeaboo phase, aware of yaoi's existence
>repulsed by any kind of romance so other than making fun of yaoi sometimes i didn't think much of it
>the months pass by peacefully
>one random day i decide to drink some water from a bottle found in the car
>it smells sweet, like flavored water
>take a few sips, it burns down my throat
>thats not water
>it was windshield washer fluid
>immediately rushed to the hospital
>have to stay there for a few weeks to check for kidney issues
>confined to a white empty room with nothing to do but imagine angsty fake scenarios
>start fantasizing about my favorite character at the time fighting the guy who bullies him
>the bully beats him up badly
>then forces him to make out
>huh, it feels weird but i guess that's not so bad
>spend the rest of my time at the hospital replaying this exact scenario in my head over and over again

it's been 10 years since ingesting windshield washer fluid. happy fujoversary i guess

>>11811
lmao, what an origin story. Do you think the windshield fluid somehow injected you with the fujo fantasies or were you just that bored? I like bully/victim pairings too, but it feels like a little utilized trope in published works…

>>11814
unfortunately it's probably the latter kek, as funny as it would be if windshield washer were a fujo transformation potion. As for the bully/victim works, you're right, I don't see them a lot…But tastes change with age too so not really looking for them either. I remember enjoying Caste Heaven around the mid-2010s or so, afair it had some shuffling around with bully/victim power dynamics.