Fandom meme day 7

[type_wild]

G: What was your first fandom?

The Pokémon anime, and specifically the Team Rocket-centered parts of it, at ca. 2000-2002. I eventually played the games and got a bit into the Adventures manga, but my main interest was was always the anime and the anime-adjacent manga (the one where Rocketshipping was canon, obviously). I eventually got more and more into the "twerps", and it was the home of the very first pairing that by all accounts was crack but which I found myself taking very seriously because it would be very adorable (ref. adrichat) - thirdwheelshipping AKA nevermetshipping AKA Brock/Tracey.

Yes, I had websites (yes, plural). And I'm old enough to be the original Eevee on both FFN and AO3 - but not DW. But sure enough, the username I ended up with was still very much oldskool Pokémon

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[type_wild]

Pokémon was what made me aware that anime existed, ironically, so my life would've been very different indeed without it. I was fifteen and definitely too old for Saturday morning cartoons, but there was SOMETHING about this one that made me watch, and in a happy combination with our first computer with internt access, well.

I play the games mostly for my sentimental connection with the anime and the love of the world it depicts; I'm not sure they'd be the first games I'd rec anyone, but they're cute and honestly, I very much enjoy how the mostly 2d world lets me embellish the world in my head, rather than taking what the anime gives me (even if I love it)

ETA: Can I ask about your friend's online handle, if you knew it? There's a good chance I might recognise it *g*

[kalloway]

They're usually some version of ket_makura, and have been for the nearly twenty years I've known them. So maybe?