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Origins of the Oncest ship: the history
Travelling in The Once-ler's fandom history | by suemooon
Welcome Oncelings!
to one of my most serious researchers I have ever done before, now, hereās a little explanation:
I wanted to make a fandom analysis using old posts, the way back machine, and other stuff to try to compare the once-ler fandom in its golden age and now, trying to suppose how it was and trying to see what happened there, but it would be later. Because I got a really interesting capture that I got while I was checking the Oncest tag in the wayback machine, and I got this:
IT QUICKLY GOT MY ATTENTION
Someone saying that they were the first ones to show the Oncest ship term.
I wanted to see if it was real and not a joke or something like that, so I copied the url of the tumblr and desired that the blog is still up, and I got it!!!
I explored their tumblr for a little while, and I noticed another thing, thereās a bunch of photos of the once-ler BEFORE the movie of the Lorax came out, this of course means that ye, there was some people who found the once-ler attractive and begun to share his pictures in tumblr (without any tag, if it wasnāt the help of this blog and some other ones, I probably couldnāt got them).
This makes a lot more sense than saying that the once-ler fandom was born after the came out of the movie I can say.
Those pictures belongs to all the Lorax trailers, in which ONLY appears the gray once-ler, not greedler. So we can say that the people who find him attractive in the beginning, the greedler was like a kind of āplot twistā
But the topic of the whole fandom will be for my another analysis, now letās try to focus on Oncest.
2. Possible date of apparition
In my research, it seems that Oncest was born between 19th March, 2012, but where did I took this supposition?
Checking the dates between their first Oncest mentions (and also checking other old inactive once-lerās blogs), thereās some important dates to make a highlight.
link to post: https://theambernerd.tumblr.com/post/19771248254/thank-you-all-you-lovely-people-for-following-me
In this screenshot, someone responds that this pairing has a name, this is from March 22, 2012, so the ship already existed and had a name too, so letās check out the other blogs and their archives.
temporarilycheating
squidmama
Suddenly we see Oncest fanart.
The dates are between 19th and later, is this the origin of the ship?
Of course this is just a supposition, I had to see it at that time to prove it, but itās not the case. All I can do is make suppositions.
You can take it as something true or fake, thatās your opinion.
3. Who was the original person who brought up with the Oncest idea?
This one was one of the most complicated things that you can try to research, we are talking about something that is 11 years old, so some pretty amount of information got lost with the time.
In words of temporarilycheating.
ITāS CALLED ONCEST BECAUSE I SAID SO! Lol but reallyā¦actually, Iām kinda the one who came up with the name in the first placeā¦ The pairing existed, but I think it was originally called twincest or somethingā¦ But anyhow, in month one of the fandom, back when Sirsteeve made some of the first oncest fanart the fandom went CRAZY over the ideaā¦and so did i. So I was sitting in my living room having a feels moment over this new OTPā¦but since the fandom didnāt really have a name for it, it made me thinkā¦ It came to my mind that the fandom was somewhat dividing the once-ler into two seperate people of the same relation-oncie and greed-ler. To me, it sounded like incest. So I played around with that idea a bit in my head. And after saying incest repeatedly in my head I noticed the āceā in the word. I came to the conclusion to 'onceā in addition to the 'estā. thus 'oncestā. I had a fangasm and posted my idea to tumblr ASAP. Apparantly, it caught on cuz itās still called oncest today and is widely known C: That has to be one of my greatest achievements in this fandom.
link to post: https://temporarilycheating.tumblr.com/post/25857778616/why-is-it-called-oncest
There's a small mention to someone named "Sirsteeve" who explains that were one of the firsts ones to draw Oncest.
I searched and their oldest Oncest post I found is this one.
Date: March 19th, 2012 by: sirsteeve ( hour - 5:22 PM )
So we have in our eyes one of the first Oncest post ever.
Is that the original Oncest post? I donāt know, it only says that is ONE of the first persons in the fandom who brought up the idea. Is it made by one person or a group of people? I donāt know.
Other very first posts about Oncest:
Date: March 19th, 2012 by: cartoonjunkie ( hour - 10:39 PM, 5 hours later after sirsteeve )
Date: March 20th, 2012 by: owlapin
Date: March 21st, 2012 by: rutella
4. Who gave the name of "Oncest"?
GUYS!!!! I KNOW WHAT TO CALL THE PAIRING!!!!! Y'know, once-ler/green suit once-ler!???? IT SHOULD BE CALLED ONCEST!!!! GET IT!? Its like incest, but with himself! :D WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK!? If you like the idea, reblog this to spread the word! :D
Date: March 20th, 2012
It seems itās true, temporarilycheating was the one who created the Oncest term, we should give her more recognition for it!
link to post: https://www.tumblr.com/temporarilycheating/19650360910/guys
Conclusion
Second part? who knows. But the only thing I can say isā¦ this one was one of my most complicated things to find, but now I got some important information. I'm here for you to share my knowledge!
I must say, Iām very proud of me for this, you guys have no idea how excited I got when I found these photos and data, maybe is not too much but I think theyāre really important yet; this information forms part of our fandom history, and I think we should keep that information up and donāt lose it.
As a reminder too, as I already said onceā¦
Oncest is like an icon for our dear Once-ler Fandom, whether we like it or not.
We canāt deny its existence, we canāt blame it, we canāt try to delete it, it always will exist as always the fandom will exist and some people like it.
Andā¦ My opinion about Oncest?
Well, I donāt hate it, I donāt love it thou, but I can like some posts about it, I can appreciate art from this ship, and itās idea too.
Any reblog, like, and comment it's appreciated!
I got to participate in another onceler zine this year, from twitter! Here's a little preview for it šš
š„° Audrey Grace, from teen to adult! š±š»
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...š
Feat. Lunch Lady Miru and her darling niece, Audrey Grace! š„° This is Audrey as a little kid again, she's 8 years old here and on vacation at a ski resort this time. Her fluffy unicorn backpack is back, and there are little silver bells attached to her coat pockets, so she jingles as she walks.
End of year art dump, part 2!! Everything from January to yesterday. xP All of this is Let It Flow AU stuff, read more for descriptions, context and credits!
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Another art dump! These ones are all rp-related. :D
1) Barbie and Ken? No, Audrey and Ben! It's mine and @lemonine's OCs wearing the western outfits from the Barbie movie, but with the colours reversed because they prefer it that way. :3 There are just so many parallels between them and the movie in terms of what we've been rping but Lemon's words made me laugh: "shes everything and he doesnt have a job š". Bean you are BENOUGH okay.
2) Audrey and her new friend (?) Mela doing that one parks n rec meme because I like their opposite temperaments. Mela belongs to @rafatello !
3,4) These ones I drew for an rp with @bethanygabrielleart where Audrey had to do a big villain boss fight to save her gal pal. The last pic is a screenshot redraw of Senshi from Dungeon Meshi:
The whole Once-ler family is working full tilt!
Here's my full piece for the VK Onceler Zine! I was very lucky to get to be a part of it...š„¹ I used concept art as my inspiration this time: [link] Keep reading below for my process vid and all my director's commentary!
Thank you for being curious! Here's a video of my WIPs:
Deadlines were TIGHT for this zine! We were given only 2 months (compared to the 6 months I had on the previous onceler zine), so to make sure I could finish on time, I decided to do only base colours and lighting, with almost no shading anywhere. Still, trying to balance all the colours took the longest for me, as you can see in the vid. xP
Also idk if anyone noticed, but for the face I chose to use an already existing onceler doodle: [link] Why? Well, why not! I really liked that doodle and I didn't want it to go to waste. š
Things that I enjoyed sneaking in:
-the golden spiral! Vaguely, at least! At the very least I hope your eyes can follow the order of thneed production, from the fallen tree at the window to the tuft harvesting to the thread spinning, to knitting the thneed and then drawing up plans for bigger and better things, and then ending with him pulling on his iconic glove to show he's going to take control now
-15 cents, a nail, and a great great great grandfather snail, as well as a tin pail since that's where you're supposed to deposit your payment
-combining things from the 2012 movie and concept art, the 1972 movie, and the 1971 book (e.g. that funny wrench he uses to fix pipes)
-Miss O'Schmunce-ler! You can see from the vid that I added the bracelet pretty late, because it was a late decision to have a Miss O'Schumunce-ler somewhere. I chose her to be the one picking up the pencil in the end, since she's pretty good with a pencil in the movie hehe
-a thneed, a seed, and a (grickle grass) weed on the floor. The thneed is just the first of many that will soon create a giant pile. The seed lies forgotten in the corner. The weed is foreshadowing the future.
-hinting that Lorax and Once-ler were actually good friends, like they were in the Lorax musical stageplay. š„ŗ I kept this part of the script in my mind for this piece:
This was aftermath Once-ler talking to the Lorax, reminiscing on their good times...and also being stupid and inconsiderate because the Lorax was in fact there all along as his friend, trying to warn him of what was going to happen. š
So in my zine piece we're witnessing a peaceful time before all the real biggering really starts. I like to think that in this scene, the Lorax had been sitting on the Once-ler's lap, holding his gloves for him and having a nice chat together with maybe some harmless bickering, but then the Once-ler gets a phone call so he cuts their convo short and rolls his chair over to the window to answer it. Putting business over friendship as usual, of course. Inspo for the lap sitting comes from this fanart by Emi that I love: [link]
What else...the parts that I'm proud of the most are the stool (I spent 2 days just drawing this stool), the curtains, and the Once-ler's pose. I was close to giving up on that pose because I had no idea how to draw it but I'm glad that I tried again. I wanted to show him at ease during a stage in his life that we never got to see much: the happier and more innocent days of his biggering when he only had a small shop. š
That's all, I think! Thanks for reading if you did! Once again it was an honour to be part of this zine!!