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[reipan]

In response to this post, ask me about the first time I did something. It can be anything--the first time I ate Italian food, the first time someone I knew died, the first time I left the country, the first time someone of the opposite sex saw me naked. I'll answer in the thread. Then (if you like) put it on your journal and I'll ask you questions.

Things seem to be looking up a little. More on that story later.

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[insteadofdeath.livejournal.com]

First kiss! Those are always fun :]

[reipan.livejournal.com]

Naw, man, my kissing history is lame D:

Well. Uh. Hm. There are arguments in many directions here - I suppose in all technicality my first kiss was with R at the age of twelve, in a purely Truth or Dare situation. It was perfectly chaste and innocent, and therefore makes a terrible story (unless you go into what happened afterwards), so we'll discount it. There was a certain young lady who drunkenly attempted to take my less-chaste-and-innocent-kissing virginity on New Year's Eve, 2006, but this failed. My first kiss with a guy (I know! And I didn't even fancy him! OHHHH I SO BAD) was another Truth or Dare situation in 2007; his sister was a better kisser than he was.

If you'd like a proper romantic, stars-fizzling-in-the-sky, can-you-feel-the-love-tonight first kiss story, then...that would be the beginning of September, 2008. (Yeah, that's right. Eighteen years for my first proper kiss.)
She was the friend I had been so confused over all of that summer. (Tragic sigh.) For her nineteenth birthday she asked me to accompany her to dinner, and also requested that I dress nicely (less romantic, but we'd had dress code misunderstandings in the past). Gasp, shock, confusion. All was duly done. We wandered the streets of Grove Park after the meal talking bollocks, as old friends do, and finally ended up sitting by the river, the moonlight and the occasional passing car the only witnesses to our presence. The conversation came around to relationships. She told me that I was wonderful, and that I could go to all the gay bars I liked (which is a whole other story) but that eventually I would find someone special, and that she thought that person would be in the place I least expected them to be.
"Alright, um, I wasn't even going to mention this," (quoth I) "but I like you." Pause. "Um. Sorry." (They call me Casanova when they're not calling me 'Rei, learn how to freaking enunciate.' Really.)
"Why are you sorry?" (Quoth she, with a glint in her eye.)
"Well." (Quoth I, turning to look at her in fine high-drama style.) "That's never going to happen, is it?"

A pause that shook the night. She looked at me. I looked at her.

...and, uh, then she kissed me.

It's a really good story if you forget about the part where I actually turned out to be right.
(You probably weren't looking for that much detail ^^; Apologies.)

[insteadofdeath.livejournal.com]

No, no, it's a good story! :] I love talking about first kisses. They almost always turn out to be less awkward than, say, losing your virginity, mostly because both parties actually know which bits go where. This entire comment made me grin like crazy :D

[reipan.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you got some enjoyment from my teenage angst. *sniff* (=D)

Am I the only one who was scared they weren't going to enjoy their first kiss? The chaste, innocent ones were nice but sort of...bland? (No offence to anybody who has kissed me chastely.) So I was scared I was just doomed to not enjoy kissing. I mean, it was nothing like I expected it to be - there were no fireworks and by the time we got around to the actual kissing I didn't have butterflies in my stomach - but the idea of doing it again nevertheless obsessed me for many days afterwards and made me all tingly. (Postscript: I did not actually get to kiss this particular girl again.)

[insteadofdeath.livejournal.com]

*grin* I think first kisses are about, well, being first kisses. Doesn't really matter if you enjoy it or not, they're awesome 'cause they're *first*.

But I'm lucky! My first "proper" kiss was bundled up with my first-first kiss, so....

[reipan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's probably easier if you don't take the twisty route to get to your first kiss. At least it makes a good first-time meme story ;p

[yond-cassius.livejournal.com]

hurray for twisty routes to first kisses! I thought I was the only one. (Mine is a very twisty route which involves first not proper kiss being with the only person I have dated, two years before we started going out, in a spirit of literary and scientific experiment)

[yond-cassius.livejournal.com]

First time you finished writing something? Not terribly original. Also first time you tried to use/get people to adopt your name?

[reipan.livejournal.com]

The last time I finished a work of fiction was so long ago that I - no, wait. Last summer. But I don't think that was the first time. It was a character monologue, very deeply angsty. The first time I finished a work of fiction was so far back I don't think I can remember it, unless you count the "creative writing" essays I used to do in class...

No, wait! My first ever finished piece of writing was about a cat! It was also the first ever time I'd written something on a computer. I was in year...two? three? Yes. It had all these different layers - the cat was being fed, and it hesitated for a second but then wolfed down the food even though it was a cat...

...yeah, I'm hardly up for Child Genius Writer of the Century.

I tried a succession of nicknames when I was about nine, but none of them caught on, and anyway I never really liked being called Ju that much. The name Rei found me when I was twelve and a friend of mine got into Sailor Moon and started saying "you're so mean to me, Rei!" to anybody who looked at her funny. She was (is? we haven't spoken in a while) pretty touchy, so it was a treatment I received quite a lot and I liked how it sounded, so I stole it from her habit, like the kleptomaniac nicknamer I am, and it caught on.

I've told that story more often than you might think. It has varying degrees of success at parties.

[hippyjolteon.livejournal.com]

What was your first gig?

[reipan.livejournal.com]

I was the Star of David in my school nativity play, aged ten. It was wild, let me tell you.

[lazyclaire.livejournal.com]

First NaNo!

[reipan.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, I still have it and all!

2004. I started blind; I had only the fact that my main character was going to be called Satoshi. Started out as a semi-serious work - he was trying to become a god, it would have been a heartfelt exploration of the human condition, or something - but as I'd also just created a ridiculous pretty-boy of a god for a different 'verse I ended up crossing the two over and writing a parody of m/m romance clichés, starting with cultural displacement and ending with a car crash. (No, the pretty-boy god was not the one slashed with Satoshi, although in retrospect that would have been very effective.) I called it Dangerous Driving, and four years on it's still one paragraph away from an ending.

[cryforthemoon.livejournal.com]

The first time you had an interest in Japan/Japanese? :)

[reipan.livejournal.com]

I was twelve, and just getting into the full glory of the Internet. A friend gave me access to her account full of animé streams; I picked the one that had the nicest-sounding name (turned out to be Fushigi Yuugi, if you've seen that) and started watching. I was about twenty episodes in when my sister took to occasionally hovering over my shoulder through an episode 'cause she thought it was cute. By the time I was about ten episodes in I was trying to piece together sentence fragments and see if I could work out the basic words and phrases by matching what was being said by the voice actors to the subtitles.

It took me nearly two years to convince my parents that I wanted to try learning Japanese after that (during which time I got my "annoying fangirl Japanese-speaker" phase out of the way); they were skeptical, but eventually my dad found a lady through a university..colleague? student? of his who was willing to try me out as a pupil. She was awesome. And I've never looked back =)

[cryforthemoon.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's nice. ^^

[seemeshining.livejournal.com]

The first time you masturbated?

[reipan.livejournal.com]

Ohh, man, I'm doing this one first. As it were.

The first time I ever actually tried to touch myself in a sexy way I was...I think...thirteen. And nothing much came of it (no pun intended). I was in the bath, and I sat there for almost fifteen minutes before going "...nope. This is boring." That was back when I had this naive assumption that masturbation meant fingering yourself AND NOTHING ELSE, which, uh, really didn't do it for me.

First time I ever masturbated to orgasm? I was sent a vibrator for my seventeenth birthday. Originally it was a display item to freak out the cleaner, but I figured since I had it and the batteries were included I may as well try it out. Trying it on my bare skin frankly hurt (turns out I'm more sensitive than I think I am) but I played around with it a bit and realised that it was actually pretty pleasant through a layer of fabric. That was at about midday on a fine, spring day. (Claudia, if you're reading this, you will doubtless be pleased to hear that there was nobody in the house.)

I'm sure anybody else on my friendslist who's reading this was just dying to know that. ^_^

[safaraz.livejournal.com]

I would have been tbh, but I already knew it ^_^

...ok, sometimes our friendship is rather scary xD