I don’t know if I’m late to the party here noticing this, but @staff what the actual hell is this. This is what I get when I click on the link to my own mantis shrimp post, shared on Twitter. I can see the first half, and then I get forced to log-in to keep reading.

I write a free blog on your free platform, and you’re using link sharing on mobile to try to force people to sign up? Not only is this absolutely not okay - this isn’t a paywalled site and my content isn’t subscription only - but it really fucks me over as a science communicator who relies on posts being shared easily to disseminate information.

Megas and Regional Forms Included :)

First off, for those who are confused on either ends why I’m posting this on a blog about sparklecats, it’s due to a general focus on memories of internet niches I’m working to get this blog onto.

As of now, The Steve Saga fandom is dying because people are leaving and not entering due to the long time it takes to get through the entire series. I have affiliations with this fandom due to my sibling Krash having been in the fandom circa 2018-2019, where it wrote a couple pieces for the fandom which are now lost to time due to the deletion of the account holding the works. Now, this fandom is best described as near dead, like the sparklecat era and Fer.al’s existence, meaning it too is allowed to enter the “Dying Niches” theme of this blog.

So, what are my remembrances of this era?

I remember Galaxy Steve’s introduction. I ended up rewatching it to see if any memories I missed came back from it, and a few did.

First off, I remember the plotline from before the episode where Galaxy arrived, with Faceless. Krash was very invested in the lore at this point, having consumed the entire episode list to the current point it was at in late 2017-2018, and I remember joining them on their bunk bed, of which I had the bottom bunk at the time, and watching the episode with the fake Sabre and how it was figured out who the real one was with one question.

As well, I remember Krash coming to me and telling me to come watch the episode where Galaxy arrived with them because they were so excited to see a new character.

I remember when Krash figured out that the series was fake, but was still happy to watch.

One of my largest memories, however, has to come from the Wattpad side of the community. One of the most popular writers in the fandom was a friend of Krash, and when a new story of hers released, I would go read it because of Krash.

He ending up having me follow all the writers in the community, all 300 he knew, and I did.