Ah! Here’s separate answers from both of us!
Elde’s answer:
To pin down an exact date on being a lolicon is kind of difficult. I feel like I popped out of the
womb constantly seeking young girls like young Disney girls or pkmn girls. I just thought if it as
a normal thing to be interested in lolis bc uhhh well they’re cute right? Who could hate them?
I felt I was fairly open about it until like 2015 tumblr when I started to get callouts about my
spicier pokespe fanart and tbh I didn’t react very well and I tried to keep that interest low key.
Just thought it was stupid for ppl to get weirdly aggravated about it all off a sudden and it did
not do my head any good. It’s just nerve wracking to see ur follows casually reblog how loli and
yaoi is the ultimate evil bc uhhh.
Started to open up about it when I got into ok ko but I was still feeling hesitant bc tumblr brain
did not ease up at all even when ppl moved to twitter. I felt like eyes were on me at all times. I
wish I can say I was built better but a mix of that, highly stressful irl matters, and being
unmedicated will do that to you.
Stf I felt was the series where I become more comfortable with being open about being a
lolicon. I was still nervous bc you still had ppl spouting tired statements about how it’s ok they
ship cedfia bc they have Sofia as an adult unlike the sickos. but whatever screw off. loli forever.
As for how I got into stf I saw rly cute fanart when it started around like 2012 and i thought
Cedric’s design was adorably charming and perfect lol. Didn’t bother to start watching until like
2020 tho. My friend font was pitching the show extremely well making some tantalizing posts
that I had to look into it. Perfect time to get into a series bc I felt I was getting tired of pkmns
everythin and lockdowns and reduced work hours = binging!
Stf cleansed my brain I feel. I feel like back then I was just a weird toxic mess not rly able to
actually enjoy myself in fandom and have fun picking apart the text as text and not some weird
wishful thinking to forcibly try to conform when to my line of thought ahaha. Funny thing to say
about a Disney Junior tv show but yep. Allowed me to let me use my head and cock simultaneously

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My answer: I watched Sofia the First after seeing how much elde seemed to like it! It looked very cute so I wanted to play with and talk to elde about it! It did not disappoint and was very easy to get into! It was a big surprise that the interest stuck so long cuz we were both rly into pokespe (the rbgy chapters the most) for years beforehand. The cedfia dynamic simply hit in a very cathartic and fulfilling way! It was unexpected to find that in a baby show lmoa (I grew up in a time when even cartoons for older kids had a habit of being too simple or too unforgiving in the way villain relationships were handled so it’s like oh wow this was just already out there??? It’s a more common thing nowadays to see such subversions but I think it’s still very impressive for the time and especially for the demographic!)

Idk when exactly I got into loli lmoa I have always simply liked young girl characters and wanted to see them fawned over and to be kissed! When I learned of the terms loli/lolicon I was probably like 10 or 12? while looking up manga terms and genres on Wikipedia lmoa. I don’t remember when “taboo” interests came around either since I had always been thinking of weird and off putting stuff since I was a kid (it started more as a “ewww wouldn’t it be grossed if this happened?” Type fascination when I was small and then those weird what ifs just turned sexual as I entered my preteens lmoa) Then I found I got on the internet and found the words for such things and was like wow! other ppl also think about the same weird things I did.

There was a phase during my tumblr years where i wanted to try to be “less problematic”. It was mostly in just shying away from incest and lolishota because ppl I looked up to started to look down on that kind of stuff. (It had me coping in such an embarrassing way now that I look back at my art during that phase aaaaaa) Eventually I learned it’s ok that I can’t be for everyone so the most I can do actually is just make sure there’s warnings at the least and hope ppl who need them will heed them. Even after that it still took a while to get fully comfy in being fully free on main again. Finding a circle of artists on twitter that were very open and free creatively was very inspiring and helpful to me personally cuz I was like “wow they’re so cool and their arts so beautiful! I want to be like them!”