/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Behold the saga of my quick rise and fall from weebdom.

Middle School phase:
>would sometimes fake sick to stay home and watch Sailor Moon on the public access channels in the morning
>remember being so pissed when emergency news was on for 9/11 because "I'm missing muh Sailor Moon!!!" because the gravity didn't hit me as a kid that young
>used to color streaks in my hair in marker because I couldn't dye it
>was a Toonami after school addict, went and actually bought Sailor Moon manga from Books a Million
>spent an entire Saturday each week in there catching up on Peach Girl, Shounen Jump volumes, and other late mid/late 2000's popular mangas
>got into gyaru/kogal/ganguro through GALS!
>become obsessed with the kogal/ganguro look back in the days of panda makeup and tropical fashion
>did ParaPara nearly every day, would go to the mall and do ParaPara dances to my other weeb friends doing DDR in the arcade
>got so fucking sick of the Where's My Samurai and Captain Jack songs, jfc
>girls in group would LARP Sailor Moon, I always wanted to do the Amazoness Quartet
>raged that their stuff supposedly got censored because "Kids would see them using the pool sticks and hurt other children with them!" as was the rumor at the time
>listened to them old school anime MIDI files online
>would get recorded Sailor Moon movies from friends on VHS
>dem awful subbed Tenchi in Tokyo VHS I got for my birthday and thought were TRULY FROM THE ANIME MOTHERLAND!!

High School phase:
>was into shounen-ai in middle school, didn't realize it was a thing but I KNEW that Tai and Matt from Digimon were together because they were always holding hands and when they'd fight they'd roll around on top of each other and straddle each other
>was content to read 'Taito' and 'Yamachi' fic for that pairing, everything was rated Lime and Lemon
>then, Gravitation comes out and blows my mind

-cont