childhood nostalgia

skulltimate roller maze lagoona was my first monster high doll, something that set a lifelong love into motion. i'm still quite passionate about monster high, and i still have her along a bunch of my other favourite dolls on my shelf in my room.

like every other gen z (and likely late millenial) kid, i was SO SCARED of this as a child,,,now i look back on it so fondly. definitely helped my love of psas skyrocket.

i remember being a child looking so longingly at the littlest pet shops in the store. i ended up getting dachshund 1306 as my first one and loved her dearly. one day, as a birthday gift, my parents surprised me with the entire collection of someone selling them off on gumtree. i wrote their names on their feet and got upset when my friends would come up with different ones lol

PEAKKK childhood series. i used to go and borrow every single one from my school's library. the one where they went to hawaii was always my favourite :) if you had a favourite sister let me know in my guestbook! mine was pauline :D

i was so hypnotised by psycho girl as a child dude. i don't know what it was about this minecraft girl throwing it back but she taught me feminism so shout out to her. with any luck the first psycho girl song shoulddd be autoplaying here :)

when i was little i was famous around my primary school for being The Steven Universe Girl. it was my first major hyperfixation and it definitely changed me as a person. it lasted roughly 4-5 years i wanna say? i did my final year 6 project on it and how much it meant to me. goodness me

another hyperfixation that managed to coincide with steven universe was gravity falls. i spent a million years cracking every code i could and soon became the resident code expert. i'm still a lover of gf to this day and i'm so convinced that it's genuinely one of the best shows in the world to this day. it holds up so well and it's so peak. if you haven't seen gravity falls please see gravity falls as soon as humanly possible.

i go into a bit more depth regarding this in my music shrine, but goodbye by circus-p was my first ever vocaloid track. genuinely miserable first vocaloid song i know but it definitely ended up getting me through some of the harder times of my life, since it was one i'd always come back to. not a good pattern that the second one i heard was rolling girl huh

i blame wengie for the desire to dye my hair pink. i've spent so much money on dye because of you wengie.

like most kids of my time i also fell victim to 'not-like-other-girls' kawaii potato humour. i have grown from it definitely but i must admit sometimes, to this day, i still feel like a kawaii potato. it's like a werewolf inside me wanting to burst from my chest

i don't know what it was about the pocket princesses comics. i was so hooked on them as a kid. i made my school account background a rotating cycle of as many of them as i could find instead of doing my homework. i wasn't even a huge disneyhead

i did in fact fall victim to the hamilton fandom in the 2010s. i listened to the entire show and had no clue what the fuck was going on because i was in primary school and i was behind all of my friends maturity-wise but i liked the fanart a lot and thought the songs were catchy. now i have media literacy and still love hamilton

my mother managed my online presence when i was little (thank u mama) so i never actually had vine but i would go over to my friends' places and watch vine compilations on youtube. i was so enthralled and was terrified that i'd get in trouble because they had swear words in them. i still quote them to this day, to my little cousins' chagrin

animation meme phase is a rite of passage for any and every art kid. either animation memes or gacha. my best friend was gacha i was animation memes. i was racking my brain trying to think of an image to use for this one but i ended up landing on stariaat because nobody encapsulates 2010s animation memes like she does. linked is her collab with wolfychu :)

i spent a year and a half saving my money for a nintendo switch because i wanted to play splatoon so badly. i never gave up because the thought of playing splatoon kept me going. my switch ended up arriving in november 2018, right as the trick v treat splatoween started. it's something that's really engraved in my mind and will be a core memory for the rest of my life.

another splatoon one, because we ALL remember where we were when the octo expansion announcement trailer dropped. i still get chills to this day. i watched it minutes after it released and spent the entire time freaking out. beating the octo expansion is still one of my favourite gaming moments in history

i used to play nintendogs all the time when i was younger on my parents' nintendo ds. i really loved playing around with the little dogs, and they let me have free reign as long as i didn't touch my mother's dog she'd trained, jackson. i ended up accidentally deleting him and never playing again out of guilt. it took me a year or two to tell her, since they never used the nintendo, and i still feel a little sick when i see the game's ui. if my mother stumbles upon this shrine, i'm so sorry

totoro was one of my favourite movies as a kid. my childhood best friends were both japanese-australian, so their parents ended up putting this movie on for us to watch together. i was frightened at first - it was different to the western movies i was used to, and i was scared that ō-totoro was going to eat mei every time he opened his mouth - but i found the totoros quite cute in the end. my mother ended up finding more ghibli films to watch with me, and we haven't gone back since.

i know what we have now looks so much better, but god i miss old minecraft. it had such a vibe to it that the new one's lacking. i loved spending hours upon hours playing and building and coming up with stories. i've recently been trying to emulate my childhood self's rhetoric; build whatever i want and not worry over it looking perfect. i recently had to explain who herobrine was to a kid for the first time, and it kinda stung.

nobody but me seems to remember this game but it was a childhood favourite of mine. i loved every game in the singstar series, and it definitely played a part in my love for karaoke/singing now. my music taste has been shaped by the singstar games. my aesthetics have been shaped by the singstar games. and nobody ever knows them and it's evil.