#onho fan art

[onthighsbelongtotaemin]

youtu. be/DTRK4HpiTkQ this is so lovely. I'm in love with this song and the "concept". Such handsome boys!

Wow weird :0 you just reblogged that video. Yeah, same as your tags. I teared up the first time and i have been looping it.            

these tags

@shinee-texts did such a good job!  not surprising since they’re the ones who made the crime au videos.

[0nho]

You say the fandom "feels abandoned" and that other ships have active fans/content, but in my observation, all the ships are holding on by threads at this point. Remember Watch out Babe and how the JongKey fandom clung to that for dear life? Because that's just about all they have now. Or how 2min shippers ranted about keeping the tag clear of the new TwoMin lol. One could argue that they didn't know the original 2min was still a thing, given the most recent 2min vids have content from ages ago

So don't feel like Onho in particular is dying, I think it's just that SHINee in general have reached their peak/prime in popularity and people have moved on to newer groups and newer ships. It's not you, it's not them, it's no one's fault but the natural ebb and flow of things. I know it sucks and I get that you devoted years to creating fan works, but I wouldn't stop just because of that. If you still have passion for it, still write because as long as SHINee exists there will be interest :)

I don't know, you go into the ship tags and something tagged "JongTae" is just them merely standing next to each other :/ Of course, SHINee have moved on from their "fanservice" days and developed very true and deep friendships and brotherhood. I think it's something to celebrate rather than mourn. Just my two cents, sorry for so many messages :)

I’ve been in fandoms that have died out before and I’ve been in fandoms still going strong but left due to other interests, so yeah, I am familiar with the good and bad of “time passing and changing”. I know the general fandom has been in decline for a couple years now and everyone feels it, but the “little man” feels it more than others.

the difference for me here is, I was actually an active part of the fandom instead of just a lurker. even if I wasn’t feeling it, I still pushed because, in a way, people needed me for something.

so now they don’t and still haven’t found anything to put my time into instead, and not from lack of searching for two years now.

so I don’t mourn the general fandom and its state or have negative feelings towards shinee’s “in real life” brotherhood. I mourn the loss of purpose and what was once fun.

I still can’t get things done if I do it just for me. I don’t know when or if I’ll ever be able to fix that. I remember what it used to feel like, doing things for myself (mostly art), but it’s been years since I felt that.

creating things for others was coping, discussing story ideas and ships was coping. making people happy was coping. I don’t know if that makes sense to anyone or if they understand that sense of loss.