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Sit Down Gather 'Roun.... it's time to look at some ehh... moments in my life I may or may not be proud of.

Everyone one of us has gone through all sorts of phases in our lives, whether it be a Disney phase, horses phase or whatever. I've gone through some pretty standard, and some pretty specific ones. And many of them still stick with me one way or another to this day.

The biggest one here would be my anime phase. It all started with some random AMV of Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro Chan. (This wasn't my first anime, my first exposure to anime happened with Sailor Moon, Medabots, and Pokemon years earlier into my childhood) The AMV while being a peaceful sounding christian song about being selfless, was played to the more violent, and gory scenes. I was sold. I was really obsessed with it during the rest of the summer and deep into the 8th grade. Around maybe October-November of 2010 I discovered Lucky Star, and along with a girlfriend I had at the time and we became obsessed together. It got to a point my pet name for her was named after one of the characters (I refuse to say which one). I didn't start going to conventions until summer 2013. The con was Anime Revolution in Vancouver, and since then I had been going to them every year. Except 2014 (Was in California at the time the con happened) and 2020 (cancelled for obvious reasons). This worst of this phase was me acting like characters from anime I was currently into. 2013-2015 I was a walking poster for Hetalia (specifically America). I joined the Naruto kids in 2015 (12 grade) and in that part of the ohase yes I was Naruto running. Only in PE though, since I was trying to my the worst subject less bad. (Also by then I had already had built more tha a good enough reputation for myself among the people in my high school, so that they didn't care so my social standing didn't suffer luckily) 2016-2020 it is not anywhere near done. I am still quite deep into anime, I just don't make it obvious, unless I'm with other friends who like anime. Currently super into Fate Grand Order and starting to get into Genshin Impact. I also hope to be able to have Anime Revolution in 2021. I need my cons, I need my merch I neeeee-

Anyywaaayyyyy now onto... the weird emo phase. This started more when I was in like grade 5-6. Those were the height of my angsty years (especially 6th grade). My parents were not fond of the idea of me growing my hair out at such a young age so they made me have shorter Asian boy hair so I didn't have the look. Well I did wear a whole lot of black. I didn't get to wear all the cooler stuff some my other friends had but still fit in enough. I did listen to the music though. I was most into Green Day, Linkin Park and Fall Out Boy the most. In 7th grade Marianas Trench joined that list(I still do really love them to this day). I remember filling up a personal journal they gave us in 6th grade with lots of really edgy bad 12 year old drawings of people getting cut up, devils torturing people etc all that. I threw it out when the school year ended. The only time my mom got concerned was when I insisted on wearing black shirt and black jeans in the summer of 2010, while on a family trip. We were touring around southern British Columbia and Vancouver Island so it was not necessarily black jeans weather. The emo phase subsided when my anime phase took over. I am not ashamed to say that it has resurfaced around 2016-2018, and has stuck. I am now in charge of my hair and in charge of what I can wear and I am totally making up for what I couldn't do as a kid. (I don't grow my hair as long as stereotypical emo hair because it gets too annoying to deal with for me) I have also kind of slipped into angst again, over the past few years which is probably what restarted this.

Around 2015 I started getting into Kpop. I had been into songs like Gangnam Style and Bar Bar Bar which were from much earlier but 2015 is when it really started. I got into 2NE1, Sistar, Big Bang, and G Dragon. It subsided for a while until I discovered groups such as Twice, BTS, Red Velvet, and BlackPink from 2017-2018. Im still very big into these groups (especially Twice and BlackPink). I've also gotten into Korean movies and drama, which has led to me saying "Aigo" all the time. Aigo is pretty much to me what D'oh is to Homer Simpson. Sadly not many of my friends are into Kpop ( MISF0RTUNATE would know about this lol)

A shortlived phase that still sort of influences me today was an "I'm so random" phase. It's not exactly obvious but it consisted of me messaging random people all the time about the most random things. I'm surprised nobody told me to shut up or anything and just dealt with it. This was coexisting with the anime and emo phases so happened around fall 2010? MISF0RTUNATE would probably know about this, because I always send random messages to her and in a group chat we both are in.

There was also my worst of the worst, Titanic/ship disasters phase. I was super into the James Cameron movie, sang My Heart Will Go On, everywhere I went, and so on. I even had dreams related to certain scenes. The fact I go on cruises every few years always reminds me of this. This has also evolved into my fascination with cruise ship spotting in the summer in the port of Vancouver. (No cruise ships this year)

Some lesser phases include a video games phase. Actually I can't say I have been through or am in a video games phase, but I am super into Team Fortress 2, Overwatch, Fate Grand Order, and probably just entering a Genshin Impact phase. But not video games in general. Some shortlived phases that also don't really affect me today are ones that I had back in elementary school. These include a fascination with cars, Jurassic Park/dinosaurs phase, animal nature documantaries interests, some other video game related ones (Mario, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Donkey Kong)

Today all these phases have really built up into this unholy agglomeration hybrid that haunts the back of my mind, and follows me everywhere I go, and will continue to do so until the day I die. And even then, they will follow me into the afterlife and continue to torment me there. While I do find them all hard to look back on without feeling embarassed I am very comfortable knowing they have and continue to influence who I am, my personality, my interests, and who I keep close to me as friends. So basically, this phase hybrid abomination I've built up is like a necessary evil I suppose.

Yes I know it's a bit late to say this now, but I'd love to wish my fellow Canadians a happy Thanksgiving! (Yes we celebrate it in October, not in November. Why? We celebrate it in thanks for the harvest season which is in october. It's not about pilgrims although I remember watching cartoons relating to the mayflower and pilgrim landings around this time *shrugs*)

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Sit Down Gather 'Roun.... it's time to look at some ehh... moments in my life I may or may not be proud of.

Everyone one of us has gone through all sorts of phases in our lives, whether it be a Disney phase, horses phase or whatever. I've gone through some pretty standard, and some pretty specific ones. And many of them still stick with me one way or another to this day.

The biggest one here would be my anime phase. It all started with some random AMV of Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro Chan. (This wasn't my first anime, my first exposure to anime happened with Sailor Moon, Medabots, and Pokemon years earlier into my childhood) The AMV while being a peaceful sounding christian song about being selfless, was played to the more violent, and gory scenes. I was sold. I was really obsessed with it during the rest of the summer and deep into the 8th grade. Around maybe October-November of 2010 I discovered Lucky Star, and along with a girlfriend I had at the time and we became obsessed together. It got to a point my pet name for her was named after one of the characters (I refuse to say which one). I didn't start going to conventions until summer 2013. The con was Anime Revolution in Vancouver, and since then I had been going to them every year. Except 2014 (Was in California at the time the con happened) and 2020 (cancelled for obvious reasons). This worst of this phase was me acting like characters from anime I was currently into. 2013-2015 I was a walking poster for Hetalia (specifically America). I joined the Naruto kids in 2015 (12 grade) and in that part of the ohase yes I was Naruto running. Only in PE though, since I was trying to my the worst subject less bad. (Also by then I had already had built more tha a good enough reputation for myself among the people in my high school, so that they didn't care so my social standing didn't suffer luckily) 2016-2020 it is not anywhere near done. I am still quite deep into anime, I just don't make it obvious, unless I'm with other friends who like anime. Currently super into Fate Grand Order and starting to get into Genshin Impact. I also hope to be able to have Anime Revolution in 2021. I need my cons, I need my merch I neeeee-

Anyywaaayyyyy now onto... the weird emo phase. This started more when I was in like grade 5-6. Those were the height of my angsty years (especially 6th grade). My parents were not fond of the idea of me growing my hair out at such a young age so they made me have shorter Asian boy hair so I didn't have the look. Well I did wear a whole lot of black. I didn't get to wear all the cooler stuff some my other friends had but still fit in enough. I did listen to the music though. I was most into Green Day, Linkin Park and Fall Out Boy the most. In 7th grade Marianas Trench joined that list(I still do really love them to this day). I remember filling up a personal journal they gave us in 6th grade with lots of really edgy bad 12 year old drawings of people getting cut up, devils torturing people etc all that. I threw it out when the school year ended. The only time my mom got concerned was when I insisted on wearing black shirt and black jeans in the summer of 2010, while on a family trip. We were touring around southern British Columbia and Vancouver Island so it was not necessarily black jeans weather. The emo phase subsided when my anime phase took over. I am not ashamed to say that it has resurfaced around 2016-2018, and has stuck. I am now in charge of my hair and in charge of what I can wear and I am totally making up for what I couldn't do as a kid. (I don't grow my hair as long as stereotypical emo hair because it gets too annoying to deal with for me) I have also kind of slipped into angst again, over the past few years which is probably what restarted this.

Around 2015 I started getting into Kpop. I had been into songs like Gangnam Style and Bar Bar Bar which were from much earlier but 2015 is when it really started. I got into 2NE1, Sistar, Big Bang, and G Dragon. It subsided for a while until I discovered groups such as Twice, BTS, Red Velvet, and BlackPink from 2017-2018. Im still very big into these groups (especially Twice and BlackPink). I've also gotten into Korean movies and drama, which has led to me saying "Aigo" all the time. Aigo is pretty much to me what D'oh is to Homer Simpson. Sadly not many of my friends are into Kpop ( MISF0RTUNATE would know about this lol)

A shortlived phase that still sort of influences me today was an "I'm so random" phase. It's not exactly obvious but it consisted of me messaging random people all the time about the most random things. I'm surprised nobody told me to shut up or anything and just dealt with it. This was coexisting with the anime and emo phases so happened around fall 2010? MISF0RTUNATE would probably know about this, because I always send random messages to her and in a group chat we both are in.

There was also my worst of the worst, Titanic/ship disasters phase. I was super into the James Cameron movie, sang My Heart Will Go On, everywhere I went, and so on. I even had dreams related to certain scenes. The fact I go on cruises every few years always reminds me of this. This has also evolved into my fascination with cruise ship spotting in the summer in the port of Vancouver. (No cruise ships this year)

Some lesser phases include a video games phase. Actually I can't say I have been through or am in a video games phase, but I am super into Team Fortress 2, Overwatch, Fate Grand Order, and probably just entering a Genshin Impact phase. But not video games in general. Some shortlived phases that also don't really affect me today are ones that I had back in elementary school. These include a fascination with cars, Jurassic Park/dinosaurs phase, animal nature documantaries interests, some other video game related ones (Mario, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Donkey Kong)

Today all these phases have really built up into this unholy agglomeration hybrid that haunts the back of my mind, and follows me everywhere I go, and will continue to do so until the day I die. And even then, they will follow me into the afterlife and continue to torment me there. While I do find them all hard to look back on without feeling embarassed I am very comfortable knowing they have and continue to influence who I am, my personality, my interests, and who I keep close to me as friends. So basically, this phase hybrid abomination I've built up is like a necessary evil I suppose.

Yes I know it's a bit late to say this now, but I'd love to wish my fellow Canadians a happy Thanksgiving! (Yes we celebrate it in October, not in November. Why? We celebrate it in thanks for the harvest season which is in october. It's not about pilgrims although I remember watching cartoons relating to the mayflower and pilgrim landings around this time *shrugs*)