Snowflake Challenge 2025 #10

[bedes]

I'm having Not The Best Mental Health Time, so I'm gonna keep this one short!

Challenge #10

In your own space, talk about one of your fandom firsts. This could be your first fandom, your first fandom friend, the first fanwork you created, the first fanwork you interacted with... The options are endless!

I went to my first fan convention at around 14! It was an anime convention that I went to with my best friend at the time (we're still in contact!). I went cosplaying as the Hetalia character, Romano. Except my mom really hated that I wanted to cosplay a male character, so I just told her, actually, I'm cosplaying the genderbent version of him! (I did not do the genderbent version of him.)

I remember I got a few buttons of Hetalia characters, a Chibiusa print and a plush cat! I didn't go to any panels that I can remember, instead just shopping around and talking to other fans. I had a great time, but my mom apparently despised the whole thing so much that she made my aunt go with me instead to my next con, haha.

Comments

[catgiri]

i really hope you start feeling better soon! sending support...

man, i didn't really go to any cons as a teenager, i only really started going at around 18, so it's really fun to imagine what going at a con during my peak hetalia phase would've been like, haha...

my first con was a "japanese culture festival" organised by my city's japanese immigrant community (you KNOW it was hijacked by weebs and turned into an impromptu anime con on day ONE /lh), i didn't wear cosplay but i bought a lot of jojo goodies, that was my main fandom at the time~

[bedes]

HA! Yeah, I can totally see that sort of topic being overtaken by weebs. That sounds like fun!! I'm thankful to have lived in an area where it's very popular for fandom events and other such conventions to take place, due to the state's high population.

[muccamukk]

(I did not do the genderbent version of him.)

That's fantastic. Go you!

[bedes]

Haha thanks!