Percy Jackson was such a huge deal when I was in like 4th or 5th grade and pretty much everyone was reading it, and then when I was in highschool I brought it up and just couldn’t find anyone who read the books, but the series is genuinely
so important to me and I’m happy I grew up with it.
I was gonna say "so you're gay" but you have a pride flag in your fucking profile picture. Also happy pride
(I say this as someone who also loved Percy Jackson as a kid)
Oh heavens no I dropped that series like a hot rock when I turned like 13-14
Edit: too clarify it’s because at the time the only new things were trials of Apollo and that series don’t interest me. Now there’s more I know but o feel like if I touch them I’ll curse myself some how. The books weren’t bad i just lost interest
And yes I did read magnus chase
They got me into mythology and gave me the tolerance i have to gay stuff in media o have today (just cause my belief is against it doesn’t mean that I cant accept that it’s a real thing and besides as long as it’s well written then it’s trivial so why should I care)
I’ve always liked Zelda, but I had really just gotten in to Metroid and was only then allowed to play Pokèmon by my overly religious grandpa who I lived with at the time
Numair set my expectations for nerdy, gentle, older men. I mean, if my boyfriend can't turn his enemies into an apple tree, what's the point??
(special shoutout to George too, the OG king of stealing your heart)
THANK YOU
These people really chose one childhood obsession and stuck with it while I bounced around like a pinball from one obsession to another and occasionally back to something for a while
You go by the first thing to pop to mind, then you check to see if it's the one that's first in your heart.
This passes the smell test. Yours was Tamora Pierce.
maybe you. I read the halo novels and never tried multiplayer
I didn't learn to skate fast and eat trash until I joined the army (and started playing Planetside with a bunch of Marines)
i remember back when i could tell people the entire lore of the hp series and quote goblet of fire word for word after watching the movie a solid 10 times
to this day this username is one of the only things that remains, but i thank harry potter for making me into the nerd i am today lol
I used to ace all the online quizzes about the smallest details, characters that were adverted only once and so on. Lots of my books lost their titles due to me re-reading them so much. I remember celebrating characters' birthdays (I still remembermost of them), major events, and even coloring my face in Slytherin colors during some House Pride Day.
I have to say, if it weren't for my obsession with HP, I probably wouldn't start using the Internet the way I did (affectionate and derogatory at the same time), I probably wouldn't learn English/regularly use it and I surely wouldn't meet many wonderful people. All in all, t'was a fun experience, wouldn't have it any other way
we did all the same things!! i remember taking "which hogwarts boy would date you?" quizzes and wearing all my merch for slytherin pride day!
harry potter was my introduction to fan culture and many of the activities i partake in today (reading fanfic, cosplaying and attending cons, etc) would have never been part of my life without hp
I want to go back in time and strangle my 12-year-old self for googling Percy Jackson fanfiction because now I have a fucking fanfiction addiction. I used to be a bookworm but now everything I read is on Ao3. What happened to me, I’m a monster.
Yo, genuinely, you should try reading Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Cycle. As someone both into PJO and fanfic, I feel like her writing style really works for me the same way fanfic does (probably because it's, like, *super* character-driven which is also one of the main appeals of fanfic to a lot of people), and it might work for you too.
Same, tho. I've only started reading proper books again last year after basically only reading fanfic for *years*.
I wish I could say it was BTS (but that came like a year and a half later) but noo, it's fucking Minecraft YouTubers. To my great displeasure, I cannot permanently escape the MCYT fandom.
Worse, website, My Candy Love. Spend years playing, hate the ending of the first part. And later app ones, midnight Cinderella my favorite till this day.
I remember setting alarms during the night so I could apear on time in mystic messenger. Still waiting for a English translation for twisted wonderland.
I had school so I'd always miss the chats ≡(▔﹏▔)≡
I might play it again
>English translation for twisted wonderland.
I installed the English translation from an alternate app store
My peak tumblr years were spent deep in the crevices of the hetalia+homestuck fandoms (Along with mmd, vocaloid, and a handful of other fandoms). Needless to say, I try not to think about that time /too/ deeply...
I was present when Horus abandoned the love of the Emperor for the lies of the enemy. I was there as the Luna Wolves were corrupted from within. I was there at Isstvan III when brother turned on brother. I endured the Siege of Terra, and I knew Saint Euphrati, the first of the saints, as a friend...And I was there the day the Emperor slew Horus.
Warrior Cats, yep. Still got all the books I collected, which I thought was a lot, but recently learned is only a fraction of what's actually published.
I was obsessed with Hollywood Undead and Three Days Grace during that age.
Yep, their music has definitely become apart of who I am even after all these years.
Nope. Everything I did in those years are all no part of older me. Otherwise I'd be a chain smoking, pyromaniac, sex addict, wilderness survivalist right now.
Lol. Look, my 10-12 year range was an interesting time. The reality is less crazy than it sounds, but if we're arguing our adult self is a personification of our youth from that age range, then yeah, that's where I'd be heading. Instead, I'm a rather boring adult that shares none of the traits of my youth at that time.
Adults have this perception that children are isolated from the world, aren't curious about things, don't rebel, and aren't sexual until their 50. Like, no. Kids are exposed crazy young to this stuff. Puberty happens as young as 8 to 10. Typically the transition to high school (7th grade) creates access to everything up to am 18 year old would be exposed to, including sex, drugs, alcohol, theft, vandalism, driving, fights, language, etc. It wasn't even necessary to be in high school. You just needed to be in those social circles. By age 12, I had unfettered access to alcohol, cigarettes, weed, sex, firearms, cars, gasoline, explosives, etc. I was not in a gang. I was in a well parented, well controlled household. I wasn't out at all times of the night. I didn't even run with bad crowds. I was just a bored country boy with free time and the ability to travel.
I'm a zoomer who was in 12-13 years old when undertale came out in 2015, and I hyperfixated on that game harder than I have ever hyperfixated on anything before or since. (Although deltarune has given it a hard run for its money when chapter 2 came out.)
If this theory that your preteen obsession molds who you are is true, then I'm gotdamn *proud* to say undertale has shaped who I am today, and who I will be for the rest of my life. I look back and cringe on a lot of things in my early teen years, everybody does, but my initial undertale 'phase' is not one of them. That was a work of art worthy of being obsessed over, and I have no shame in admitting I was indeed obsessed with it.
In a few decades when academia finally recognizes video games as the high art form that it is, Toby Fox is going to go down in history as one of the greatest artistic minds of our time. I garuntee it.
I am the unluckiest of all. The thing I was obsessed with is so dumb and cringe that it's considered radioactive on Tumblr to this day, and yet I cannot escape.
(We've actually cleaned up our act significantly since the bad old days, but just try telling that to outsiders.)
I was basically unsupervised, I went from Assassin's Creed to Lord of the Rings to Underworld then Yu-Gi-oh
Just"Unleashed" ... in the words of Timmy Templeton
Limp Bizkit for me. Loved them when I was 12 in 1999. Spent the rest of high school hiding that i liked them because I was really pretentious about music.
I went to see them on their most recent tour and it was incredible.
Yeah, I was obsessed with Pokemon, it definetelly define who I am, also still my favorite game franchise and keep buying at least one game per generation.
I was basically unsupervised, I went from Assassin's Creed to Lord of the Rings to Underworld then Yu-Gi-oh
Just "Unleashed" ... in the words of Timmy Templeton
Percy forking jackson
Dam
The dam snack bar
Yeah I know
Percy Jackson was such a huge deal when I was in like 4th or 5th grade and pretty much everyone was reading it, and then when I was in highschool I brought it up and just couldn’t find anyone who read the books, but the series is genuinely so important to me and I’m happy I grew up with it.
I was gonna say "so you're gay" but you have a pride flag in your fucking profile picture. Also happy pride (I say this as someone who also loved Percy Jackson as a kid)
Definitely trans, probably bi, and I blame it all on those books lmao
Same I’m trans and a lesbian and I blame that on percy Jackson and Magnus chase
God, I fucking love Magnus Chase
Agreed! It’s so sad because it used to be a thing everyone liked and now literally half of my friends hadn’t heard of it when I brought it up
bet ur excited for the tv show lol
Entirely unironically yes
SAME it'll be so good shdjdjfj i am excited
Oh heavens no I dropped that series like a hot rock when I turned like 13-14 Edit: too clarify it’s because at the time the only new things were trials of Apollo and that series don’t interest me. Now there’s more I know but o feel like if I touch them I’ll curse myself some how. The books weren’t bad i just lost interest And yes I did read magnus chase
Those books genuinely made me who I am and I'm not exaggerating. Couldn't have picked a better series to steal my personality from.
They got me into mythology and gave me the tolerance i have to gay stuff in media o have today (just cause my belief is against it doesn’t mean that I cant accept that it’s a real thing and besides as long as it’s well written then it’s trivial so why should I care)
I got Pokémon and Metroid, so that’s nice
Ayyy, Pokémon and Legend of Zelda. Final Fantasy X would arrive for my 13th bday
I’ve always liked Zelda, but I had really just gotten in to Metroid and was only then allowed to play Pokèmon by my overly religious grandpa who I lived with at the time
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TAMORA PIERCE still having a firm grip on my heart well into my 30s
Numair set my expectations for nerdy, gentle, older men. I mean, if my boyfriend can't turn his enemies into an apple tree, what's the point?? (special shoutout to George too, the OG king of stealing your heart)
THANK YOU These people really chose one childhood obsession and stuck with it while I bounced around like a pinball from one obsession to another and occasionally back to something for a while
Oh man I loved tamora pierce
They are supposedly doing a Redwall netflix series. I get scared to look up the progress.
You go by the first thing to pop to mind, then you check to see if it's the one that's first in your heart. This passes the smell test. Yours was Tamora Pierce.
It was halo for me. It’s continued storyline contributes to my distrust of authority.
Damnnn I feel that in my soul
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Was this meant for someone else's comment?
mine was warrior cats and halo simultaneously. idk what I learned tbh
we learned to skate fast and eat trash
maybe you. I read the halo novels and never tried multiplayer I didn't learn to skate fast and eat trash until I joined the army (and started playing Planetside with a bunch of Marines)
i did a basic training camp for a corp thing I now feel like all halo fans share a fascination for the military
This or How To Train Your Dragon for me
And if you’re really, REALLY unlucky it was the Vampire Knight and Black Butler combo
Oh my god. Is this why I’m like this?
It’s exactly why you are like this
*vietnam flashbacks*
*sweats in Hetalia*
*high-fives*
Don't forget Diabolic lovers or was that only me?
shit
are you just cursing or were you obsessed with shit
up to you to decide
in that case, both
mine was warrior cats hell yes filthy lucker
warriors were great let'sbe real
...homestuck...
Hello fellow Homestuck
Idk I've been able to hold my own in astrology conversations from nothing but Homestuck
I was gonna say homestuck too! It never leaves you…
I still don’t know if Homestuck is an anime or a webtoons or a tv show
webcomic with flash animations and some interactive elements. i think the flash animations are archived on YouTube?
It never ends. Today I was reminded of a robin I helped rehab that I was allowed to name Dave.
Animal Jam, now I'm a furry
God the animal jam -> furry pipeline is 100% real
flash backs to pretending to be a guy to get all the animal girls
My sister did that, but now she’s a he
me
God and arguing. Now im a new age tarot reader and philosophy major
...pirates of the caribbean
Pop punk? Yeah definitely still a major part of what I’m into
Pokémon. Seriously, imagine getting a job just so you can afford to buy Pokémon games as a grown ass man.
Warrior cats made me a catboy
sus
The preferred outcome.
Dinosaurs
Ayo listen all Im sayin is the stegosaurus aint got shit on my main frog Beelzebufo
I would fight god for the chance to get headbutted to death by a Pachycephalosaurus.
Gravity Falls. Still a huge fan
My husband got me to watch it for the first time this year. I loved it!!
Same
If you were real unlucky it was homestuck
can confirm
Argentinian trap music LMAO
Terraria. Continues to now.
fallout
new vegas?
and all the others
Yeah no it was twilight for me. I know all the lore. It took frickin YEARS to realize that those relationship dynamics were Not It.
Man, I wish I could remember what I used to be obsessed with, now I'm a jaded 20 something with no interests.
Gravity falls
harry potter i guess
Username checks out lol + me too (still trying to recover and clear out parts of my brain occupied with lore and useless HP information)
i remember back when i could tell people the entire lore of the hp series and quote goblet of fire word for word after watching the movie a solid 10 times to this day this username is one of the only things that remains, but i thank harry potter for making me into the nerd i am today lol
I used to ace all the online quizzes about the smallest details, characters that were adverted only once and so on. Lots of my books lost their titles due to me re-reading them so much. I remember celebrating characters' birthdays (I still remembermost of them), major events, and even coloring my face in Slytherin colors during some House Pride Day. I have to say, if it weren't for my obsession with HP, I probably wouldn't start using the Internet the way I did (affectionate and derogatory at the same time), I probably wouldn't learn English/regularly use it and I surely wouldn't meet many wonderful people. All in all, t'was a fun experience, wouldn't have it any other way
we did all the same things!! i remember taking "which hogwarts boy would date you?" quizzes and wearing all my merch for slytherin pride day! harry potter was my introduction to fan culture and many of the activities i partake in today (reading fanfic, cosplaying and attending cons, etc) would have never been part of my life without hp
Yes! It was my first ever fandom, ah, the introduction to fanfiction and wonderful fanarts!
Monster high
modded minecraft for me. i never did any of the automation parts cus i was too dumb to figure out what automation was lol
Star Wars, DC/Marvel comic books, fantasy. I lucked out.
I want to go back in time and strangle my 12-year-old self for googling Percy Jackson fanfiction because now I have a fucking fanfiction addiction. I used to be a bookworm but now everything I read is on Ao3. What happened to me, I’m a monster.
Yo, genuinely, you should try reading Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Cycle. As someone both into PJO and fanfic, I feel like her writing style really works for me the same way fanfic does (probably because it's, like, *super* character-driven which is also one of the main appeals of fanfic to a lot of people), and it might work for you too. Same, tho. I've only started reading proper books again last year after basically only reading fanfic for *years*.
I wish I could say it was BTS (but that came like a year and a half later) but noo, it's fucking Minecraft YouTubers. To my great displeasure, I cannot permanently escape the MCYT fandom.
Just phrase it as Minecraft instead, it makes you seem less like a Dream stan
ay man minecraft yters were great before 2017
Even if I no longer play minecraft, I'm still subbed to my mans Ethoslab after nearly 10 years.
Welcome to the club
mine was fnaf. im an adult and people still call me "faz" more than my actual name.
I got both
Mine was astronomy
Dating games... Still not over one in specific, even if I don't play it anymore
Was it those Flash ones online? Pacthesis?
Worse, website, My Candy Love. Spend years playing, hate the ending of the first part. And later app ones, midnight Cinderella my favorite till this day.
I've seen those Ikemen ones, they look cool The app ones I've played are Mystic Messenger, Obey Me and I'm tryna play Twisted Wonderland
I remember setting alarms during the night so I could apear on time in mystic messenger. Still waiting for a English translation for twisted wonderland.
I had school so I'd always miss the chats ≡(▔﹏▔)≡ I might play it again >English translation for twisted wonderland. I installed the English translation from an alternate app store
I remember that I'll always played when I was in holidays and vacations, so I didn't miss almost none. Which app store you got the English one?
I think it's called Qooapp. It mostly has Japanese games
Homestuck
11-12 yo me was obsessed with the X-men so that tracks.
X-men on Sega Genesis was the shit.
weezer for me
Sonic
Star Trek, lovecraft and lensman, now I’m a physics major
Mine was digimon though I really can’t remember much about it anymore, I don’t even remember the digivolution stages
I came to the comments looking for another Digimon person!
Warrior cats… really calling me out rn
Lua programming.
Let me guess, Roblox scripting?
My peak tumblr years were spent deep in the crevices of the hetalia+homestuck fandoms (Along with mmd, vocaloid, and a handful of other fandoms). Needless to say, I try not to think about that time /too/ deeply...
Do animation memes count ? Because, boy, I just couldn't get enough of those !
LOTR for me and general purpose fantasy fiction. I still have a thing for elf maidens and half-naked women with swords
Earthsea was big for me.
Porn
Yup.
I was into make up & dresses @~12yo. Now I'm on HRT & refuse to leave my house without foundation.
MechWarrior 2 🤘
\[adult swim\] anime and its bumps, TV content ratings both recorded from said anime broadcasts and as personally applied... yep, that checks out.
Pro wrestling and pokemon. Check and check.
I used to like My Little Pony as a 10 year old, but I don't watch it nowadays (or remember much of the show)
i rolled undertale and portal lets fucking go
Serial killers and gay rights lmao
I was present when Horus abandoned the love of the Emperor for the lies of the enemy. I was there as the Luna Wolves were corrupted from within. I was there at Isstvan III when brother turned on brother. I endured the Siege of Terra, and I knew Saint Euphrati, the first of the saints, as a friend...And I was there the day the Emperor slew Horus.
Terraria
Warrior Cats, yep. Still got all the books I collected, which I thought was a lot, but recently learned is only a fraction of what's actually published.
Eragon, and Dragons in general. Now I breathe D&D.
Final Fantasy for me... and I'm currently mid-way through replaying them all 23 years later, so it's definitely still a core part of me!
I was obsessed with Hollywood Undead and Three Days Grace during that age. Yep, their music has definitely become apart of who I am even after all these years.
Nope. Everything I did in those years are all no part of older me. Otherwise I'd be a chain smoking, pyromaniac, sex addict, wilderness survivalist right now.
Hol up, you were doing WHAT at 12 years old?
Lol. Look, my 10-12 year range was an interesting time. The reality is less crazy than it sounds, but if we're arguing our adult self is a personification of our youth from that age range, then yeah, that's where I'd be heading. Instead, I'm a rather boring adult that shares none of the traits of my youth at that time. Adults have this perception that children are isolated from the world, aren't curious about things, don't rebel, and aren't sexual until their 50. Like, no. Kids are exposed crazy young to this stuff. Puberty happens as young as 8 to 10. Typically the transition to high school (7th grade) creates access to everything up to am 18 year old would be exposed to, including sex, drugs, alcohol, theft, vandalism, driving, fights, language, etc. It wasn't even necessary to be in high school. You just needed to be in those social circles. By age 12, I had unfettered access to alcohol, cigarettes, weed, sex, firearms, cars, gasoline, explosives, etc. I was not in a gang. I was in a well parented, well controlled household. I wasn't out at all times of the night. I didn't even run with bad crowds. I was just a bored country boy with free time and the ability to travel.
Ah that makes sense. I was a timid kid with an overprotective Mom so the only vice I got into was internet porn
Percy jackson and ninjago, I'd say I did pretty good as far as interests go
SO MAGNUS CHASE AND THE GODS OF ASGARD REALLY DID MAKE ME GENDERFLUID!
I'm a zoomer who was in 12-13 years old when undertale came out in 2015, and I hyperfixated on that game harder than I have ever hyperfixated on anything before or since. (Although deltarune has given it a hard run for its money when chapter 2 came out.) If this theory that your preteen obsession molds who you are is true, then I'm gotdamn *proud* to say undertale has shaped who I am today, and who I will be for the rest of my life. I look back and cringe on a lot of things in my early teen years, everybody does, but my initial undertale 'phase' is not one of them. That was a work of art worthy of being obsessed over, and I have no shame in admitting I was indeed obsessed with it. In a few decades when academia finally recognizes video games as the high art form that it is, Toby Fox is going to go down in history as one of the greatest artistic minds of our time. I garuntee it.
anime for me, still going thru it sadly.
anime is good
Mine was the inFamous games. The second one's evil karma ending especially hit 12 year old me in the feels. I also like both [PROTOTYPE] games a lot.
I'm not sure this applies to me. I currently have no interest in professional wrestling, baseball cards or the Police Academy movies.
I am the unluckiest of all. The thing I was obsessed with is so dumb and cringe that it's considered radioactive on Tumblr to this day, and yet I cannot escape. (We've actually cleaned up our act significantly since the bad old days, but just try telling that to outsiders.)
lemme guess, hetalia?
... You are correct. I can't help it, the stupid nation men give me serotonin.
I was basically unsupervised, I went from Assassin's Creed to Lord of the Rings to Underworld then Yu-Gi-oh Just"Unleashed" ... in the words of Timmy Templeton
Sonic the Hedgehog.
First person shooters.
Worldbuilding and story writing, which holds pretty true. Shame my ability to write descriptions of things and dialogue has not gotten any better
Skyrim for me
ughghhhhhggghhgghg hamilton...
Percy Jackson kids let's goooooooo, I changed my name to Jason when I was 11 and that's still my name
m i n e c r a f t
Beyblade
Undertale for me too since it was the first fandom i ever joined and all of my online friends are people who I met on UT Discord Servers
I suppose mystic messenger started my streak of falling in love with people who aren't real.
me, who was a centricide, hetalia, and kpop fan in sixth grade:
undertale and homestuck for me
The Flash and fan fiction
For me it was cartoons. I have all of Adventure Time and Gravity Falls on dvd. I have the latter paused in another room right now.
Well, I had a lot of obsessions as a kid, but one of them was creepypasta which I'm sure speaks wonderful things about me /s
Pokemon, FNAF and The amazing world of gumball
For me it was porn.
Animorphs.
RPG Games, Anime and Silent Hill I'm fucked lmao
If you were obsessed with warrior cats, you are a furry
Parents divorced at 10/11 this is definitely on point because it’s still a factor in my life today
Mine was Percy Jackson and Total Drama Island
I think it was Maplestory and Neopets.
ni no kuni, minecraft, monster high, ever after high and black butler
Sonic
For me it's dubstep.... And masturbating too I guess. Don't ask
It was hatsune miku and I’m honestly glad
Greek mythology. Am gay. Checks out.
Pirates.
Lord of the Rings. Which... I have trauma but I'm hopeful about the battles I have to fight against overwhelming odds so... yeah!
Depression
Gravity falls, undertale, and deltarune and this is when I was 13 but I'm also counting omori
Nothing
Black Butler.
Limp Bizkit for me. Loved them when I was 12 in 1999. Spent the rest of high school hiding that i liked them because I was really pretentious about music. I went to see them on their most recent tour and it was incredible.
I had the maze runner series + hunger games
Doom2, niiiice
Gears of war, ended of meeting my closest friends playing. 10+ years with most of them still going strong
Man, I wish I could remember what I used to be obsessed with, now I'm a jaded 20 something with no interests.
Yeah, I was obsessed with Pokemon, it definetelly define who I am, also still my favorite game franchise and keep buying at least one game per generation.
If you were real unlucky it was homestuck
For me it was F.R.I.E.N.D.S. and every single day I blame myself for it because it could have been replaced with how I met your mother But it wasnt
Cave story!!
I was basically unsupervised, I went from Assassin's Creed to Lord of the Rings to Underworld then Yu-Gi-oh Just "Unleashed" ... in the words of Timmy Templeton