Ever had some band, artist, Actor, franchise you thought "geesh, where have you been all my life?!"

[Vanessa28]

So I think most of us experience it. Discovering an artist or band we thought of "why didn't I listen to this any sooner?". Well it's never too late now is it I had it quite a lot of times. I had it with AC/DC (I love them for nearly 10 years now but damn I wish I liked them 20 years earlier) and recently with Dragonforce. I discovered them accidentally when I was searching for a song on youtube and they showed up in the feed. So I listened to them and was like woow!
So what about you? Got any cool stories to share with Vee and the rest of the crew?

 

[Spirit]

Evangelion. It had been going 18 years when i got into it.

It was something i'd seen in shops etc throughout my life, the title and box art etc were things that stuck with me until i was sick of seeing it around and took the plunge.

Then i wish i'd bought it when i first saw it. Hell, 'Evangelion day' (when it was first aired) is also my damn birthday!

So i spent a year completely fangirling. Watching the show, buying the manga, buying the movies, reading up on lore and reading the fanbase, buying merch...

Then on the year following i was nerded up and able to celebrate the 20th aniversary. Still would have liked to have celebrated the other 19 since i'd known about it that damn long...

 

[Cfrock]

Felt this way when I first played Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (aka Why Was I Not An Industrial Goth in the Early 00s: Oh God I've Wasted My Life - tfw no qt3.14vampgf to keep me cool on hot days and kiss my neck).

I've always liked vampires in a very general sense, and I've always liked gothy things (other gothy things, I guess), too, and this game slams them together into a beautiful nightmare of bloody eyeliner. The tone, themes, atmosphere, style, aesthetic, and setting all hit the exact right chords in my brain space until I was all but hypnotised with how much I loved playing it, but also how much it hurt that I hadn't been playing it for the twelve years I could have. I honestly think it would have had a huge impact on my life if I'd played it when it first came out when I was fourteen. Now I have a mix of pleasure that I have this glorious thing to sink into and, I'll say it, pain at what I've lost from not having it sooner.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some kohl to re-apply. I have something in my eye...

IT'S EXISTENTIAL ANGST