📀 {22/01/26} ✦ "15 years ago one afternoon, at an Anime Convention" 🇯🇵 🎎 ✨ | TBT ✦ 🇪🇸 │ 🇺🇸
✦ I found a treasure friends, and this is the first of many great photos of my group of otaku friends, trips, and manga/anime conventions from at least 15 years ago ! ! ! ✦
🇺🇸 ~ [ December, 2011, Venezuela/Maracaibo City ]
Hello, everyone! 💖 I hope you are all doing well and that this year is full of incredible memories and stories to share on Throwback Thursday.
You may have noticed that I haven't shared anything on TBT or FBF in quite some time, and that's because in December 2025, I lost the last solid-state drive that contained some photos of happy memories.
In previous posts, I've mentioned how over the years I've lost several external hard drives and computers with photos of trips, birthdays, family celebrations, gatherings with friends, and countless happy memories with my group of friends and otaku/cosplayer community from back then (approximately 2005 to 2013).
Let's say that until now, it was a loss that I had accepted and for which I had already gone through the respective mourning process. In the end, what really matters are those experiences, and feeling grateful for having been able to experience all that happiness... BUT SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED:
An external hard drive that I thought was dead has come back to life. I refused to throw it away all these years out of nostalgia, and TODAY IT STARTED UP!
! [SPANISH VERSION]
🇪🇸 ~ [ Diciembre, 2011, Venezuela/Ciudad de Maracaibo ]¡Hola a todos! 💖 Espero se encuentren muy bien y este año este lleno de increíbles recuerdos y anécdotas para compartir en "Throwback Thursday".
Quizá notaste que hace bastante tiempo no compartía algo en TBT o FBF, y eso es porque en Diciembre de 2025 perdí el último disco sólido que contenía algunas fotos de felices recuerdos.
En notas anteriores he mencionado como a lo largo de los años he perdido varias memorias externas y computadoras con fotos de viajes, cumple años, celebraciones familiares, reuniones con amigos y un sin fin de felices recuerdos con mi grupo de amigos y comunidad otaku/cosplayer de ese entonces (2005 a 2013 aproximadamente).
Digamos que hasta ahora, era una perdida que había aceptado y por la que ya había atravesado su respectivo luto, al final lo que realmente importa son esas vivencias, y sentirnos agradecidos por haber podido experimentar toda esa felicidad... PERO HA PASADO ALGO:
¡Un disco duro externo que creía muerto a revivido, me negué a desecharlo todos estos años por nostalgia y HOY A ARRANCADO!
I haven't recovered all the content from the old hard drive yet, but I'm taking it easy even though I'm very excited and happy about this development.
In another post, I'll share the details of how this experience has been so far, but today I want to share one of my favorite photos from the first folders I've transferred to my new memory:
A happy photo of my friends and me at a manga/anime convention in 2011 (I'm the one with the short dark wig and butler costume). Back then, everything was very simple. We were otakus, and conventions meant specialty stores and the opportunity to see friends we only got to see in person a few times a year.
I remember that we were very happy and always got along very well. We were otaku at a time when it wasn't cool, and anime suffered from systematic bad publicity throughout Latin America (you know, Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon were considered devil worship).
I miss those days because every trip to a manga/anime event was a big deal, because that weekend meant buying merchandise from your favorite character or series, wearing the cosplay you'd been working on for months, having sleepovers watching anime, and eating lots of junk food.
Then you would return to “normal life,” to school, college, or work. Before, there were at most three or four events per year, but now there are so many that the annual calendar is oversaturated, although this seems to be a phenomenon that is not exclusive to Venezuela but also occurs in other countries.
This particular event was a lot of fun, with many funny and somewhat ridiculous anecdotes, but that was the point: Everything was more relaxed.
! [SPANISH VERSION]
Aún no rescato todo el contenido del viejo disco duro, lo estoy tomando con calma aunque estoy muy emocionada y contenta con este acontecimiento.En otra nota compartiré los detalles de cómo ha sido esta experiencia hasta ahora pero hoy quiero compartir una de mis fotos favoritas de las primeras carpetas que he trasladado a mi nueva memoria:
Una foto feliz de mis amigas y de mi en una convención manganime de 2011 (soy la de peluca corta color oscuro y traje de mayordomo), en ese tiempo todo era muy simple, éramos otakus, y las convenciones significaban tiendas especializadas y la oportunidad de ver a compañeros y amigos con los que solo coincidías en persona unas pocas veces al año.
Recuerdo que éramos muy felices y siempre nos llevamos muy bien, éramos otakus en un tiempo donde "no era cool" y el anime sufría sistemáticamente mala publicidad en toda Latinoamérica (ya sabes, Dragon Ball y Sailor Moon eran culto al diablo).
Extraño esa época porque cada viaje a un evento manganime era todo un acontecimiento, porque ese fin de semana significaba compras de mercancía de tu personaje o seria favorita, ponerte el cosplay en el que llevabas meses trabajando, pijamadas viendo anime y mucha comida chatarra.
Luego volvías "a la normalidad", al colegio, a la universidad, o al trabajo. Antes había a lo mucho 3 o 4 eventos máximo por año, ahora hay tantos que el calendario anual esta sobresaturado, aunque ese parece un fenómeno no exclusivamente de Venezuela sino que ocurre también en otros países.
Este evento en particular fue muy divertido, tuvo muchas anécdotas graciosas y un tanto ridículas pero de eso se trataba, todo era mas relajado.
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