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Hi Anon! I know by sharing my art that I potentially put myself out there to be judged or ridiculed. I'm not angry, hurt, or sad and prepared myself for this. I feel like many people who do self ship have to prepare themselves for it especially connecting the self ship to their main blog like I have. A part of me having this confidence is from the love and support I get from my friends and those I met through the fandom. That support really outweighs your comment in many ways. It also outweighs silent judgement and any little passing comment I may get. I am super thankful for those people and having that support! I'm Aromantic and Asexual. Self shipping to me is just for fun and how I feel for this character is something I don't feel for real people. I know he isn't real and am actually really happy about that, I can do things on my own terms and have fun! It's like someone writing a fantasy story, its not something they would ever do/can't do but still dedicate time and effort into making something amazing. What I do makes me happy, and you don't need to explain your happiness to anyone. Life is short so enjoy it even if someone thinks its "cringe" or weird. Have a great day! <3

Hi anon! Sorry for taking a while to reply. I meant to make an official announcement on this, but the server was shut down recently. Nobody was kicked or was in trouble at all! Nor is it one person's fault that it happened. It was shut down because I am not in a position to manage a big server at the moment. It grew super fast which I'm grateful for but I wasn't prepared for that! I had gotten busier with school as well, and the same could be said for most of my mods. I didn't feel right passing it on unless it was a mod. I may try again in the future, meeting everyone and having that community was really amazing. I feel lucky to have met everyone who was there. All of the fans are really sweet and creative, never stop creating what you love <3 I do still have my 18+ server up as it is much smaller and easier to manage, I don't want to keep a link for that public though for obvious reasons!

In a perfect world, the movie somehow has both hahah

Good question! In the original story he was supposed to represent greed, big industry and well capitalism as a whole. Who he was or is doesn’t matter as much as it once did. (haha, get it?) I haven’t done a ton of research into Dr. Seuss is and why he wrote what he wrote or named him that way, and now I really want to look more into it. (If there is much more information on that than what I know!) The 2012 movie of course took a new direction with him. He had a face, a personality, he was more human overall. He had reasoning for what he did and we had a bit of a look on what his family life was like. The movie still leaves several questions unanswered, one of those being his real name. The name Once-ler was used as a family name in the older movie, and if that is his last name, what is his first? You would think since we know so much about him now in this movie, that we would have a name. We are hearing things based off of what he told Ted, so maybe he wanted to keep that information from him. After everything that happened, it really it doesn’t matter anymore, does it?  I believe a few other blogs have talked about this in the past, while doing a bit of research I found this post. I liked that perspective and that is about what I think on the matter. I think it would be nice to see fans make first names for their own Once-ler Ocs! Or their own headcanons on what his name would be.  Personally, I always just reference him as the Once-ler in my fanfictions because I can’t think of a name I would give him. I’ve seen some people call him Ed like his voice actor Ed Helms or having his name be Ted as well (for those who support the theory on him being the Once-ler’s grandson, it could be just passed down?)  As for what -ler means can depends on the language. I think this one fits the most “-ler (v-v?, truncative?)has begun to [verb], is about to [verb], is in the process of [verb]ing“ which is Greenlandic  Source , which also has some other definitions for it.  By that definition above, Once-ler can mean was once doing or something similar. It seems a bit fitting for the situation.  I am SOOO sorry this was so long, I hope I was able to answer your question!! 

Personally, I am glad they went with his current design. I feel like without it he wouldn’t have been as popular as he was. It makes him a more likable and relatable character, which I think is something they strangely wanted for this movie. It is weird to think that all of this led up to what he is today.  I could go on for days about the movie but I’ll stop here for now if you want to know more please feel free to send another ask I LOVVEE talking about the Lorax!!