#i do just want this to not become the ENTIRE focus of the askblog

[ringingfromthefuture]

jelp i thought of the "periods ah yes i am familiar indeed" for Chip and someone but like. he's actually pregnant now

I DONT MEAN FOR THIS TO BE A JOKEY TOPIC HES A TRANS DUDE WITH A KID PLEASE THE MPREG JOKES ARE SILLY BUT HAVING THIS FUCKING CHILD WILL GENUINELY HELP HIM BETTER HIMSELF SCREAMING AND THRASHING AROUND

[straycalamities]

hello, you are cool, and I like your work! :) <3 I was just thinking 2012 tumblr didn't seem like it had many girl characters, due to everyone making spin-offs of the same ones like Once-ler. I was wondering if you have any girl OCs you'd use if you wrote a new zombie story in the future. =)

(btw keep up the good work and have a nice day!)

thank you very much!

and yes that is true, but also, well, by the time of thneedville/thornville high there were more people trying to make girl ocs but unfortunately the fandom was very overcritical and harsh on them

so it’s not only was it not the first thing people thought to do because of the nature of the fandom, but it became something that if you did do it, there was a lot of stress on you

you had to be better than most of the male askblog charas, you were judged harsher for your mistakes, you were just overall held to a higher expectation than any of the male blogs

my qpp knows this firsthand as they tried to run a girl askblog in that environment: nyx. and they were subject to a lot of bullying, unfair judgement, and other awful stuff while doing so. creating a female chara blog was signing yourself up to a subscription of anon hate

not only nyx but all the others as well at the time especially if you were to befriend or, heaven forbid, have romantic intentions with a male oc or one already involved in a favored mlm ship

like yes i also had mean-spirited people in my anon boxes time to time but it was nothing compared

sheep/quinn, a beloved from that time, anytime she’d ever interact with spook, would be subject to the nastiest messages guaranteed. i’m surprised her mod still wanted to have them interact. though it is worth noting they deactivated and remade that blog multiple times because of this

so yeah…while what you said is also true, this part is also a big factor and definitely needs to be brought up and recognized. it wasn’t so much that it was ALL people more interested in making and writing guys it was also the extra, important question of: Could you endure the constant hate if you made a girl blog?

there’s still an issue, to this day, of female blogs being pretty ignored and under-created, but id say the vicious environment that turned away a lot of people from doing so has calmed way down thankfully

but yes! uh when i was originally planning to make an original comic based off the camp entre run, i did, with my collaborators at the time, make some female ocs to add in as well as adjusted the gender of existing charas. though, that project is pretty much dead right now and needs an entire redo. but i still plan on …something one day. and yes there will be a way more accurate percentage in the genders present lmao 😭

i also have a plan for a new truffula flu story i’d like to tell that i was gonna use for…a thing, i mean i might still but branch it out more. but anyways it does focus around a young woman, my audrey oc Aoife :) i mean she’s become a lot more oc than audrey at this point but that’s how she started lmao

when i get the time to start that? uh. but it is something i wanna do at least maybe before the new year

i also thought about throwing Eren in because both of her main inspos are characters from apocalypses/dystopias so she’d fit right in

[betanyagito]

3 hours left of this decade here and I promised I’d write a sappy post so [ABBA voice] let’s go gays

Oh man. Oh boy. Was this a time. An entire 10 years spent on the internet. I’ve met people, got into new things, forgot old dreams and made new ones. How old was I when I first started here? 12? 13? It doesn’t feel real honestly. So much has happened that I still think about to this day, and as embarrassed as I am of my roots, I wouldn’t be who I am without them, and I likely wouldn’t have met the people I did if it weren’t for the early day join.mes and art streams from Deviantart and Minecraft askblogs on tumblr dot kom

I am thankful I got to know Minecraft, I got to know Hetalia, I got to know Homestuck. I am thankful these things allowed me to meet people who I couldn’t possibly imagine my life without right now. And that’s honestly the part I want to focus on. My friends

Old friends who I don’t talk to anymore, old friends who I don’t even know if are still around, old friends who still message me again and again sometime (honestly knowing that I’m still on their minds after all these years is the single most heartwarming thing ever), friends who I don’t talk with as frequently but still keep in my mind and get happy whenever we do end up meeting, and friends who are still here every day and support me endlessly.

If I were to talk about each and every one of them I would be sitting here all throughout January so I’ll try to talk about everyone in groups because I do want to take a moment to appreciate everyone. Everyone I’ve met shaped me into the person I am today, and while I am not perfect, I am happy. I am happy that I have the friends I do now

I remember the first big group of friends I’ve had when I first felt like I belonged. Kat, Wesley, Meni, Britain - those Whirled Days. I remember spending hours doing sprite edits and staying up late into the night to make sure I stayed caught up with rp and was present for the trials and murders lmao. I know it all ended on a sour note, but I will always treasure the moments we had together, and I’m so glad that after over six years I am still in touch with some of you. You were my first true out of the country friends, and you all helped me open my horizons and realize that the world is much much bigger than I had thought, and I can find friends anywhere who will love me

DR had stayed with me ever since, and I got to meet Mina, Chinch, Erika and Damien. Oh my god you guys. All my admiration for you four for being able to handle the edgefest that my writing and I was. I can’t believe we’ve lived through the peak days of DR tumblr rp. What a fucking Time that was. I would’ve never discovered my love for writing and betas without you all. You stuck with me through my worst years and always supported my dumb ideas. I remember the skypechats, the craigslist edits, the quiche, the zombie apocalypse, the adoption. I know I said I don’t want to address anyone one-on-one but Mina. Mina. If there’s anyone then you deserve a one-on-one. It’s been six (?) years. We’ve known each other for six (?!) years and we’ve seen each other go through so much. I know I tend to be really bad at communication and often fall short at replies but there’s not a day when I’m not thankful that I’ve met you and I still have you in my life. Your influence on me has been nothing but positive, you’ve taught me so much, how to love life, love my creations, how to be excited about anything. If I was half a good influence on you, I would already call that a success. I hope we will remain friends for a long time. At this point, I couldn’t imagine my life without having you in it. I just love you so much I almost teared up writing this ngl

And this one goes out to those Nanbaka SLUTS who also turned me into a slut who can never step foot into another church ever again. I can’t even recall how exactly I ended up in the discord group, but I know that you all were another milestone for me. Nick, Mew, Kristi, without you guys I would’ve never opened up towards people. I was scared back into my bubble where I just didn’t want to interact with fandoms ever again, but I you guys were one of the most accepting group of people I’ve ever met and probably ever will meet. You welcomed me with warmth and excitement and I still keep so many screenshots of the old discord chat that I read back whenever I need a good hearted laugh. Even now when our interests had changed, I’m so happy that we can still find a common note and have fun with each other. I wish nothing but the best for all of you

This brings us to the current era. All these muppet lovers......all these muppet lovers and I find so many friends.....Stella, Michael, Maple, Daco, Kris, Clover, Katie, Nette, Lili, Dani it was all Your Fault that this obsession started. I had such a fun time with all of you that now my brain cannot stop producing serotonin whenever I see a goddamn potato man. But even besides just having a common interest, you are all such wonderful people. You all helped me out of a rut and helped me shape myself, to be confident in my own opinions, to be able to stand up for myself and to have fun without worrying about what other people think. I am so grateful for every conversation we’ve had, every joke we shared, every idea we came up with together. I had no idea that a gag anime could ever get me such amazing friends, but it happened! And even if I don’t talk with some of you as often anymore, or at all, I will never forget any of you

Standing on more stable feet I was able to reach out to other parts of the fandom and start my own big project in the form of an askblog, and even if it’s stagnant now, it was one of the best decisions of my life, as I got to meet the most wonderful group of people. Nat, Athro, Buns, Turo, Jasp, JM, Lulu, Tris, Holly, Eden, Dairy, Ruri, Timey, Zako, Vivi, Ruah - you’re all just amazing. You accepted me into your group and I honestly feel like we’ve grown into a family. I’ve grown both as an artist and as a person thanks to you all, and I’ve never had such a tight knit group of friends before who’ve supported each other quite like you do. I feel loved and I know my voice is heard whenever I speak. I know that even on my worst days, you all will  be here. I know that you will hear even my most outlandish ideas, you will listen to me ramble about media you’ve never heard of and I more than gladly do the same for all of you too. I’ve never been more confident in my content and especially in my OCs. We’ve created something incredible together, and I am just so incredibly proud that I can say that I belong to MVA, that I can say that “hey thats my friend!!” whenever any of you come up, and I am so happy that I could meet all of you. I truly feel like I’ve become a much better person since meeting all of you. I sincerely hope from the bottom of my heart that we’ll be able to spend many more years together, and watch each other succeed in many more things

Despite what I intended this turned into a pretty lengthy post nevertheless whOOPS. I’m sorry if I left in any typos or anything of the sort. The bottom line of everything is- I’ve had some terrible times this decade. Really, awful times when I thought that theres no way, no way I would be able to continue on. But all these strangers online, who I’ve never even seen in person, you all were and are always there to extend a hand and help me back on my feet. There are many ways in which this decade sucked, there were many terrible news and terrible times, but, it was all worth it. If not for anything else, then for the fact that I’ve got to meet so many amazing and talented people. Thank you all for loving me and calling me a friend. I hope the next decade will treat all of us, but especially you well. You all deserve nothing but the best in your lives and I love all of you so so much

[carcharadroid]

One of the many things that sucks about Tumblr screwing its userbase is that a lot of the would-be alternatives popping up now are looking to cater specifically to NSFW content and nothing else. Which is fine! Don’t get me wrong. It’s good to have platforms like that, especially since adult content is the focus of Tumblr’s current asinine ban.

But the problem is that Tumblr can’t even ban NSFW content right. You’ll get pictures of the most wild things -- like rocks or goddamn scenery -- getting flagged. Not to mention the absolute fucking galaxy brain decision for them to flag an entire post because somewhere along the way, it was reblogged by a porn bot or some other thing that the algorithm decided was too spicy. And there’s no clean way to send in an appeal to try and get your post back. And on that note, don’t even get me started on how much worse the porn bot problem has become since the ban.

It doesn’t inspire confidence. It certainly doesn’t make me feel safe posting anything I draw here anymore, even if it’s perfectly clean and SFW. The fact that no matter what I do, nothing I create is ever completely safe, is utter nonsense.

I’m against censorship in any form, so I was already against Tumblr’s adult content ban from the start. But at the very fucking least I might continue using this website for RP and just host my adult content elsewhere if I didn’t feel like everything I posted was at risk no matter what’s actually in that content.

The point I’m trying to reach here is that we need an alternative to Tumblr that allows for all kinds of content and isn’t just trying to poach entirely adult content creators/consumers. My fingers are still crossed for Pillowfort to get off the ground properly one day.

A more personal want for me is something that functions close enough to Tumblr that I can use it for the same sort of askblog/IC blogger style RP I’ve grown fond of doing here. I hope the sort of culture that grew around that can migrate elsewhere comfortably.

Or that Tumblr pulls its head 100% out of its ass and goes back on all of this but yk, I know better than to ask for miracles.

[miru667]

How did you become a Onceling?

Uhhh this got kinda long so im putting it under a readmore!

My first exposure to The Lorax was when my biology teacher read the book to the class in high school. That would’ve been…2006 at the latest. I watched The Lorax 3 weeks after it came out in 2012, cuz i was bored one day but i remembered seeing a trailer on tv for this movie which was based off the book that my bio teacher read to us 6 yrs ago, so i decided to watch the movie on a whim.

I enjoyed the movie and I think I cried at the end but i wasnt crazy about it just yet. I did look up the HBCIB song a couple days later, and then i think i tried googling for pictures of the onceler for reference cuz i wanted to draw him. Almost all fanart was from tumblr, so that’s when i discovered tumblr. Probably the first onceler fanart i saw actually was from this durnk lalonde askblog (nsfw) who has since removed their onceler art lol. And i just kept finding more and more rly good onceler fanart, and i started bookmarking the blogs of my fav onceler artists. I didn’t join tumblr yet.

I eventually found swag onceler’s askblog and he was extremely entertaining and i was absolutely captivated by his rude humour, his popularity, and the moments of genuine care and niceness that would reveal itself underneath the immaturity from time to time. I still hadn’t joined tumblr yet but i was so addicted to this askblog that i sent an ask thru anon anyway. When he answered it [here!] I was over the moon for the entire week.

At the time he also favoured a onceling named Peppermimint and ppl shipped them together as swaggermint. A lot of other fangirls got jealous but that only made me support the ship more, so i got EVEN MORE INVESTED in the askblog kjfdkfjg that’s right folks, my first ship in the fandom? a onceler askblog x self insert. i never shipped classic oncest or normaler.

I’d go into tinychats too to spy on oncelings talking to each other (also Swag would sometimes show up omg) but i was too shy to participate until one day I did and I also doodled the onceler on the whiteboard back when tinychat still had that feature. Ppl noticed and liked my art and Prisma (the tinychat host) encouraged me to get a tumblr so i could share my art with the fandom. I had already been fantasizing about making my own blog, not only to post my art, but so i could more easily follow all the onceler fanart blogs that i had bookmarked, but that encouragement finally convinced me. So after my final exams were over I started my blog on April 20th 2012.

After officially joining tumblr I eventually found an analysis blog called once-ler-fluff, which was deleted but then remade and you can see some of their original posts here: [link] (and OP is [here!]). It was these insightful analysis posts that really made me appreciate the movie a lot more and made me fall in love with the onceler.

THE REST IS HISTORY and if i keep going in the timeline i’ll never stop until we reach the present slfdjgfl but man 2012 summer was truly the happiest time of my life. I quit everything else i had been doing previously that year (which was mostly a ton of FB games, playfish/EA forum moderating, and venting in a secret online journalabt how sad i am over my past relationship breakup) because the onceler fandom was the only thing i wanted to focus on and the only thing i wanted to spend my time and energy on.

Sooo that’s how i became a onceling!

You can check out this post for more important dates/details: http://miru667.tumblr.com/post/45899026044/okay-im-going-to-record-some-historical-dates