#i'm also fond of lockdown keepblr

[bookwyrminspiration]

lowkey why do i kinda miss pre stellarlune tumblr. like, the random keepblr trends were my fav era (totally not biased because i left the fandom and returned post unraveled…)

i remember there was someone - can’t recall who (maybe a blog called lady-cadence-talle?) - who compiled a list of trends each month. ooh, the eye-switching one where we swapped out everybody’s eyes with everybody else’s. hooty vackers. i’m pretty sure someone actually started writing the amsterdam book.

i even miss the 2021-era bloggers. as far as i remember, some we don’t have in the fandom anymore (or people who aren’t as active maybe?) are nova, juline-dizznee (or was it jolie-reuwen? something like that), i remember someone named mellie? and of course, the leader of the sokeefe fics, the unmapped star (nattie) who is still active in the fandom i believe.

i remember the chaos after shannon’s first child’s birth, there was also an era where everyone drew the characters in the strawberry dress, and how can i forget… pink haired fitz. oh how i miss pink haired fitz. there was also a time where everyone made posts about how keeper characters would react if the roles were changed and they were real people and we were the book characters. who they would like the most, who they would ship, etc.

might be silly since it’s been barely 2 years, but i miss that keepblr. (lockdown keepblr, perhaps?) nostalgia seems to be hitting hard since i’m going to go to college this year LOL

You're not the only one. Keepblr is quite transient; people constantly come and go, meaning the environment, trends, and the like are different practically every year. There's always lots to enjoy, but there's also lots to miss

I've seen people missing how prevalent queer headcanons/works used to be. We still have them, but not as many. I've seen people who preferred the time before sokeefe was quite so present. It's always been here, but the last year or so it's really stepped up. And a while back, I, myself, was reminiscing on keepblr lockdown with Ink (soryasongsaa) and Tater (a-lonely-tatertot).

There's also lots of people to miss. cadence-talle did the chaos wrap-ups, but Lynn's not really around anymore and we aren't nearly chaotic enough for wrap-ups anymore. Nova's still here (cogaytes), though most people call them Avi (unless you meant someone else). Not sure about juline-dizznee. Mellie occasionally still does art (lemontarto). And Nattie drops in from time to time. But there's also so many people who have moved on, and so many people who have started to distance themselves. The tag is made up of almost completely different people--though there's also that steady handful who've been here for an eternity

We can't go back and we'll never recreate what was, but we can make the most of what we do have. And make something else to look back on fondly.

So I guess the moral of this story is we need to go feral and start causing more chaos again <3