#Not Sparkly

[lost-times-memories]

My Memories Involving The Steve Saga and its Fandom.

First off, for those who are confused on either ends why I’m posting this on a blog about sparklecats, it’s due to a general focus on memories of internet niches I’m working to get this blog onto.

As of now, The Steve Saga fandom is dying because people are leaving and not entering due to the long time it takes to get through the entire series. I have affiliations with this fandom due to my sibling Krash having been in the fandom circa 2018-2019, where it wrote a couple pieces for the fandom which are now lost to time due to the deletion of the account holding the works. Now, this fandom is best described as near dead, like the sparklecat era and Fer.al’s existence, meaning it too is allowed to enter the “Dying Niches” theme of this blog.

So, what are my remembrances of this era?

I remember Galaxy Steve’s introduction. I ended up rewatching it to see if any memories I missed came back from it, and a few did.

First off, I remember the plotline from before the episode where Galaxy arrived, with Faceless. Krash was very invested in the lore at this point, having consumed the entire episode list to the current point it was at in late 2017-2018, and I remember joining them on their bunk bed, of which I had the bottom bunk at the time, and watching the episode with the fake Sabre and how it was figured out who the real one was with one question.

As well, I remember Krash coming to me and telling me to come watch the episode where Galaxy arrived with them because they were so excited to see a new character.

I remember when Krash figured out that the series was fake, but was still happy to watch.

One of my largest memories, however, has to come from the Wattpad side of the community. One of the most popular writers in the fandom was a friend of Krash, and when a new story of hers released, I would go read it because of Krash.

He ending up having me follow all the writers in the community, all 300 he knew, and I did.

These are only a few memories, the ones I remember. Might have to get a confessional from Krash, now that I think about it.

[lonesomedreamer]

ALIEN LANDSCAPES of STAR TREK

[it-grrl]

💜🚨💜 BWOOP BWOOP ATTENTION @CLEOLINDA THERE IS A BABY PALLAS CAT 💜🚨💜

[steiiaoctangula]

happy birthday slender fella

like the idea that he has no sinister intentions hes just a guy who lost his art in the woods and is also like 9ft tall with no face in a 3 piece. to each their own, though.

[spoopup]

klavier talking to anyone vs klavier talking to apollo

[fiercebitch]

[heartnosekid]

black amethyst heart | source

[foxflamingo]

I wanted to draw more of the fairies being fairies.

Prev fairies being fairies<

More fairies being fairies>

[ckret2]

So a while ago some friends were talking about fans who claim the Same Coin theory is canon. And I made the mistake of saying:

Do you know who also has tons in common with Bill? Mabel. Yet nobody claims Bill reincarnated as Mabel. …wait now I want a "same coin but it's Mabel" AU. Funniest Bill reincarnation option. The all-seeing arsonist is making macaroni glitter art. The omnipotent tyrant is crying because a unicorn called her a bad person.

And then I overthought it for two months.

So—AU where after death, Bill's soul shoots 13 years into the past and reincarnates as Mabel. I'll call it ✨ Sparkly Coin AU ✨

Don't leave yet. Lemme show you why it works. Behold the eerie amount of parallels in their personalities, dialogue, behavior, mannerisms, tastes...

I could have kept going but my attention span ran out. All right, we all on board now? Convinced we could segue from one personality into the other? Great. Now here's why you should be interested: the juicy post-Weirdmageddon angst potential.

As long as a small fringe of the fandom still thinks Weirdmageddon is Mabel's fault, why not amp that up x100 and have some fun with it?

Is everyone sold now? Great. Let's get into the details. I've got 8 more pieces of art under the read more.

So the AU starts the instant Bill dies. Thanks to invoking his deal with the Axolotl—one way to absolve his crime, a different form, a different time—the Axolotl gives him a new shape and shoots him thirteen years into the past. Apparently, the Axolotl thought it would be very funny to stick Bill in the family that defeated him.

Which probably made for a jarring transition.

(It's fine, she's like 10 minutes old, she probably can't even tell who she's looking at. Not being able to tell who she was looking at is what got her into this situation ayyyy)

When Dipper & Mabel come back from Gravity Falls complaining about this triangular jerk Bill, their parents mention that Dipper's name was nearly Bill. See, after they knew they were going to have a boy, one night their mom dreamed about a visitor—some kind of magic pink salamander??—calling her child "BILL." Then at the next sonogram they found out they were having twins, the girl must've been hidden at a weird angle the first time, and they wanted matching names, so they thought, Bill and Bell. But they didn't really like Bell; but eventually they stumbled on Mabel, so to keep the names matching they switched from Bill to Mason. Isn't that the darnedest thing?

(Of course, Mabel and Dipper assume Bill harassed their parents to try to trick them into naming a kid after him. To be a jerk.)

When Bill meets Mabel, he's unaware that she's his future self—Bill's notably bad at doing things like, say, double-checking to see whether he's going to die anytime soon—but like... he can tell something's up.

Naturally, before visiting Gravity Falls, there were echoes of who Mabel used to be—but nothing anyone would be able to identify without context. All her Bill-ish quirks either smoothed out with time (see: how between second grade and fourth grade Mabel went from being the "freak" to the popular girl in class), or else they were accepted by her family as Mabel-ish quirks.

After they meet (and kill) Bill, they have the context to understand some of Mabel's behaviors... and unfortunately, some of Mabel's latent Bill-ness starts surfacing after she's been directly exposed to her prior incarnation.

The part of the Pines family familiar with Bill thinks the worst case scenario is that maybe Bill's survived and is slowly possessing Mabel; but far more likely, they think this is just some weird way of trying to subconsciously process last summer. Mabel doesn't think she's being weird, you guys are being weird, stop giving her weird looks. They get attacked by one triangle and now she can't wear yellow or pick up macrame as a hobby??

(It's not all red flags and uncomfortable triangle imagery, though. When Stan asks her what she'd like as a gift for some important event, she shyly admits that she thinks she's starting to outgrow her plastic gem jewelry and maybe she's old enough to get her first piece of real gold jewelry, if that's not too expensive? And Stan's never been so proud of her. Thirteen years old and already thinking about buying gold!)

But of course, the real fun starts when Mabel finds out.

That's the face of a girl who's just discovered that she tortured her great uncle. Now imagine running into the brother she possessed.

But I've already spent a million words and thirteen images on this post. If enough folks are interested in the AU maybe I'll expand on it later. Let me know what y'all think.

[lost-times-memories]

Ah yes my Steve saga era which litterly less then a week ago. grabbed me by the ankles and dragged me back into the abyss that is wattpad.

I don't remember how exactly I got into the Fandom it was probably vea Fandom osmosis as I was one of the few people in another little known minecraft Fandom and boy, the instant anyone commented on a book of mine, or just wrote one I consumed everything that they ever wrote.

I remember watching some of the really early stuff years before I got truly Into the fandom but I watched everything and caught up just around the Elemental steve Arc just before the Rainbow town was destroyed.

My main memory that stuck with me was Rainbow dieing from Void, I physically screamed and my parents were so concerned about the intire ordeal.

The Illusion/ Reality Arc was so fun as well, I litterly Called the whole "that's not my Rainbow bean" thing, and "Illusion is going to take his Account" God I was so exsited when I called that one.

Steve saga days were incredible my brain chemistry has been majorly impacted by it.. and oh boy I'm in college and nearly 21... but I'm litterly thinking of continuing one of my fanfics.

XDD

Thanks for sharing! I can completely understand getting dragged back into The Steve Saga after many years, it’s basically what happened to me. I primarily consumed The Steve Saga and some fanworks as osmosis, that being my sibling rambling to me about the episodes and oftentimes joining them to watch the newest episode.

When they got into the community I think it was somewhat close to Galaxy’s first appearance. I think Nightmare’s arc was coming to a close as they had caught up and told me all about it. I’ve been looking back at some of those memories and find a sense of community, one that actually respected one another for who they were.

It’s odd to think I was in an entirely different house when TSS was about 6 months from ending. It’s been a few years living in a different house and I’ve really come back to the memories of how it felt to live back when the community existed, really.

I feel that people get pulled back into the communities they were in to some extent because they miss the actual getting along part, even if there was some drama. It’s also because things were a bit better for a lot of people I’ve noticed getting dragged by the ankles into the old communities they were in. In my personal experience, something had happened to me that I never truly thought much of until 2021. It was about that time I started getting into some older communities (that weren’t exactly TSS) I was in, and rediscovering those small things.

I’m glad to see there are other people who have gotten thrown back into the void of community.

[silvermoon424]

Baby-Doll Eyes in the manga is legit incredible

[makowcy]

another very real space mining clip

@kiszoneszczury's au

[egophiliac]

half a warm-up doodle, half consoling myself because I have thrown so many keys at him and yet he refuses to come home. >:( please sir...your stats are so good and your elements are ones I need...please...

[atompalace-official]

Super Mario Wonder Girls! ⭐️🍄🧡💕✨

[ghouliebabies-art]

“We will go softly into the night” 💙✨

Hi everyghoulie!!! I apologize it’s been so long since I posted last so to make up for lost time here’s a fancy Copia piece <33 I love y’all and don’t forget to STAY SPOOKY!!!

[mylifeinwindows]

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