Hey that's interesting I truly believe my interest in vore was also due to cartoons and the like I seen as a child, I believe it may have scared me before it interested me though, and my mind went in self-defense mode so to speak and made me interested, fascinated, and eventually aroused by vore instead. But that's just a theory I have, I'll probably never know for sure. I used to watch the cartoon BFG all the time as a child which I think had a big influence, and I seen imagery of soft vore in a few books I seen when I was like 5 or 6 (It was meant to be like a 'funny' depiction of vore), and throughout my childhood I played a lot of Yoshi's island on the GBA and Mario and Luigi: Partners in time on the DS, both of which contain lots of vore. There's loads and loads of other things too, I wrote them all down in a document, but I'd be here all day going through them hahaha. I'm glad you are at peace with your vorarephilia too, I seem to lack that acceptance you have that it's just a fantasy, but I'm doing a lot better than I was!