littledipperpines:

people joke about the once-ler fandom now but like… i was there my dudes

i wasn’t a part of the fandom – i’ve never even seen the movie – but selfcest has always been appealing to me and even if i wasn’t vaguely interested, it was literally everywhere.

chances were at least – at least! – one person you followed would become a part of the once-ler fandom. likely more than that. and from them would come the tide of fanart, ask blogs, headcanons, amvs, playlists, and everything else

because no one in the once-ler fandom was low-key. everything was a high-octane nightmare built around one solitary dude. and when they talk about the AUs? lord, you can’t even imagine.

they became their own characters with their own names. i followed the steam-ler ask blog because the art was amazing and i like steampunk. there was a cannibal one, one-ler i think? my friend fisk had his own that became so much his own character that he was eventually redesigned into a completely original OC. it was the epitome of stretching a character thin because they’re the only “interesting” one.

and then it ended.

there was no big drama explosion; nothing new came out that was similar enough to drag the entire fandom away. it just… ended. the ask blogs went quiet. the fanart stopped. the fandom went peacefully in its sleep and exists only as a ghost of a memory now, something we have to explain to new tumblr users because there are no remaining dregs for them to glean the story from. 

the once-ler fandom was a shooting star, lighting up the sky with billions of selfcest pairings before vanishing over the horizon.