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Well, would you fancy that? An old classic was revisited! Howdy to you, Neighbors! I went back to this piece I did all the way back last August and did it again with fresh skills! Can you believe we have been neighbors for a whole year now? Crazy how time flies while it stands entirely still! We have grown quite accustomed to each other’s company, I would say! We like having you around this factory!

#welcome home au #biggering au #onceler wally #onceler #wally darling #welcome home #biggering #greedler wally #welcome home biggering au #greedler #a revisit! #the past is easier to look at and learn from when your future is so elusive #artists on tumblr

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It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

And what an advwnture it's been, Neighbors! Thank you so much for your time and attention. You've helped to make learning how to draw eyes again a little better, and it's more and more worthwhile all the time 💚

#1 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone

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Once-ler’s guitar hop + other aesthetics considered in Earth’s context, giant ramble

ages ago, i wondered where Once-ler’s guitar hop came from, I was certain I saw it, but I couldn’t remember where.

Then I saw the hop again.

And we know Marty Mcfly probably pulled his moves from somewhere.

Chuck Berry!

It says Duck-walk up there, but Chuck Berry also did that one-legged hop, (and some consider the hop as a type of duckwalk).

And the Once-ler’s hip-moving moves could be influence from Elvis. Elvis was nicknamed Elvis the Pelvis because of how much he moved, well, his pelvis.

The pelvis moving of Elvis among his performances was mildly scandalous.

From Wikipedia:

“Ben Gross of the New York Daily News opined that popular music “has reached its lowest depths in the ‘grunt and groin’ antics of one Elvis Presley. … Elvis, who rotates his pelvis … gave an exhibition that was suggestive and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to dives and bordellos”.[109] Ed Sullivan, whose own variety show was the nation’s most popular, declared him “unfit for family viewing”.[110] To Presley’s displeasure, he soon found himself being referred to as “Elvis the Pelvis”, which he called “one of the most childish expressions I ever heard, comin’ from an adult.”[111]”

So there’s possibly some 50′s influence on his movements.

WARNING: EXTREMELY EXTREMELY LONG AND IMAGE HEAVY POST. Including copy-pasted sections of text (but not including screenshots of text), this entire post clocks in at over 13,000 words long.

To read the rest, click the link to my google drive. I tried putting it on tumblr, but the length of it means Tumblr crumbles under the attempt to save it, so I had to save it as a PDF.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nh019Yxi_31Y5lhNXigjedQ4xJbmpP8w/view?usp=sharing

(or, attempting to use the HTML side of tumblr’s post editor, not sure if it works)

Press this post’s own permalink

https://floooopafloooopa.tumblr.com/post/624818335533727744/once-lers-guitar-hop-other-aesthetics

and hopefully a preview for the document might show up between the stars below if the HTML thing works.

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It’s a really long document so i hope I didn’t have blatant errors like accidentally deleting half a paragraph.

Also, remember this gif of Paul shaking his hair. You’ll need it, since PDFs don’t have animated gifs and I refer to this at one point.

(And if you have read my entire ramble, thank you!)

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It's UP! Welcome Home--the whole first year recap, with the latest update, so newcomers and old neighbors alike can get on in!

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You’re the canvas!

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Another dress!

No, I didn't change my shoes 🤭

Howdy-do, Neighbor! We have been busy, busy, busy as ever here in the Onceler's office! I have made a lot of improvements in how I am able to represent and show you my surroundings! The ways I can show you the people nearest to me! So here I am to more accurately present to you what Mister Onceler looks like!

I tied all that hair back so you could see those totally not magnetic earrings of his! 🤭

The soles of all his shoes have this 4 heart pattern, and he does not change his shoes very often! Regardless of outfit! The exception would be for foot coverings he doesnt have to wear for long. Like slippers or slides!

Here is a sheet that I did with a robe, just for fun! Oh, and feel free if you would like to use any of these to put him in whatever outfits! I know I will be doing more! 🤭💚

Did I mention his middle name? It's Douglas! Walter Douglas Darling!

#welcome home au #biggering au #onceler wally #onceler #biggering #greedler wally #walter douglas darling! #au #more biggering! #dress #put that updated man in a dress!

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I'm back again with another one! Did you think you've heard the last from this Lerkim? Haha! Nope! This time, I'm here to tell you about razors, mustaches, and growing hair!

I thought about the scene where the Once-ler is throwing his things out of his cart, and we see an electric razor shave a barbaloot. A quick, silly scene on the surface! But, then I realized, "Hey, wait.. who did he bring that razor for?? We see him at all hours of the day across pretty wide span of time, and not once do we see him with even a whisper of facial hair. The Lorax even mentions it when they wake up together!"

This means that the baby faced Once-ler brought an electric razor with him when he left home for some reason, which is charged by the end of his journey when he reaches the Truffula trees!

So i think that could mean a few things! Either his journey was not as far as he claimed while talking to Ted, and the razor is still charged from when he left home, or it means he had been using it during his entire journey and keeping it charged! What do I think, personally? Well, I'm glad you asked! Come with me down on a journey in how i analyze a fictional man based on his mustache growth!

The real basic is that when you're trying to grow facial hair, it can help to shave and stimulate those hair folicles so that they grow hair better hair. But if you aren't someone to whom growing facial hair comes very naturally, then your facial hair can look a bit patchy and bad while your skin is learning to grow it! When the Once-ler is leaving home, it very much has an atmosphere of a person who is fed up and ready to prove everyone wrong. So.. what if while he was packing up his stuff, he decided that because he was gonna be spending so much time newly by himself and away from people who mock him, it would be a good time to finally commit to growing that mustache hes always wanted? So he packs up that razor with his big bags of marshmallows and knitting needles! Hes gonna prove them all wrong! He can grow a mustache!

Do I have anything to substantiate this? Well, we sure do see him start to grow a whole lot of facial hair once he finally is left alone again after his family leaves, don't we? The Lorax even comments on it! 🤭

I feel like delulu posting my 2012 Once-ler/ Greed-ler headcanons, so here you go:

The Greed-ler Suit

Is made out of truffula/ is a thneed and absorbs all the filth in the air. That would be why the Once-ler is the only clean looking thing by the end of the movie. What makes me think this? Because we see when he gets rotten tomatoes thrown at him in the beginning of his thneed selling journey, the thneed is able to get the tomato completely out of his vest and shirt (which are 2 different materials). This is the same thneed we saw him use to soak up a cup of water and mop his floor just before he set out to sell them! He also wore this thneed on the walk to Greenville, so that thing was full of sweat too when it cleaned those tomatoes.

The greed-ler suit being a fancy thneed being green would just go to further show their versatility! "Look at this! They can even be dyed to be an unnatural color!" it would portray! He would be a walking advertisement.

Would smell so bad by the end of the movie because of the water pollution lol. Ain't no damn WAY that once the water is that polluted, ANYONE is able to have clean laundry, let alone people who have garments that need special care. I know I sure didn't see any infrastructure to properly care for the water! Just what they needed in order not to look at the shloppity-shlop. So, if the greed-ler suit is made of truffula, there is no way at all that it doesn't need special laundering. Do you think that could be done without clean water? I don't think so!

When it is properly laundered and cared for, the Once-ler smells like butterfly milk because thats how truffula tufts smell. As the suit falls into disrepair, the smell would start to get sour like curdled milk.

Is hand made. You can NOT tell me he didn't make that suit and the gloves himself. You can see by the end of the movie that the lines on the suit are starting to look jagged and not quite right when, in the beginning, it didn't look like that. The more suits he made, the less he was able to hold it together, and the less he cared about what he was doing. I think it's meant to show he got sloppy and uncaring with time when he used to be so passionate and care deeply about what he did and what he put out into the world.

The Once-ler was treated poorly by his family because of his natural affinity towards recycling/ nature

Okay, hear me out. Hear me out!!

When we first see the whole family, what is the most notable thing about the environment around them? It's dead. Every inch of the environment around that family home is dead. But as we follow the Once-ler while he leaves home, we see the environment brighten up and become livelier! The further he is from home, we dont just see him relax and become more alive, we see the whole ecosystem start to thrive (personally, I think the scenery we see him traverse is meant to be places that the family has already been and devastated, but thats just one of my "source: I made it the fuck up" ideas lol! In the book, we get the lore that the Once-lers hop from place to place as the environments they infest can't keep up with them.).

So, with that in mind, think about the way he behaved immediately when he found the truffula trees; he was immediately filled with wonder! He called it beautiful and was moved to tears nearly! He broke out into song ffs. When he was approached by the animals, he was friendly and sang with them! We saw him mindlessly fling his stuff around, but as soon as he realized, "Oh maybe I should reign this in. They didn't like that!" he did! He started learning to live with the animals and in the environment before the Lorax got involved. You can't tell me that the face he makes when he sees how happy sharing his marshmallows with the forest critters wasn't genuine joy. That man loves the forest, and you can not tell me he wasn't doing his best, considering he had no knowledge to build off of when he got there.

When his family comes, we get to see their first impressions of the truffula trees, and it was with disgust, disrespect, disregard, and disassociation in that order as his family got out of the RV. Their reactions are literally not only the opposite of the Once-ler's, but it was directly oppositional to his reaction. The family came in an RV (which is the first pollutant to the forest) and parked WAY too close to the Once-ler's camp; they overshadow him and the environment both literally and metaphorically when they show up. They're throwing the bears, bending the trees, trying to fist fight the forest guardian... they're showing none of the care that the Once-ler was naturally inclined to show. Any time he talks to his mom, his face is shadowed, or he isn't the focus of whatever the shot is. Hes not only not like them, hes not equipped to deal with knowimg that he is not like them, and hes also not equipped to deal with them knowing that he isn't like them.

Once-ler details I noticed that make me giggle and kick my feet

(I need to be sent to a psych ward lol)

His blanket is not just handmade. Oh no. We see he has his baby blanket sewn into it!!! He even picked a thread color that matches both fabrics. But.. the baby blanket is sewn on crooked. This makes me think that this blanket he made was probably a first project or when he was a beginner! Pulling from personal experience with knitting/ sewing, blankets are a very common project for beginners.

He fixes his guitar after that one asshole kid smashes it. We see that the guitar is visibly broken at the beginning of How Bad Can I Be when it was fine before that. After the thneed finds success, the first brand new thing we see the Once-ler buy is a new guitar that looks like his old one that the asshole kid smashed, and he DESERVED THAT NEW GUITAR!!!

We see that he brought those 2 giant bags of marshmallows with him from home. If he didn't set out to the truffula forest and didn't know to expect the animals to love the marshmallows... you're gonna tell me he didn't bring those marshmallows for himself? I don't believe you. He brought those big ass bags of marshmallows because he loved them, and he didn't know when he would be seeing them again. Which makes it even more sweet that he was so willing to share!!!! I will absolutely not be accepting criticism about that!!

He made a table, a chair, and a pitcher out of the trunk of the first truffula tree he chopped down. We can clearly see all 3 of them in the scene when the family first shows up. They are all patterened exactly the same as the truffula trees. So that means he used the whole entire tree, including the fruits, because if he didn't cook with it, the animals would eat it.

My sources are that I have a hyperfixation and that I feel it in my heart, bro

#once-ler #onceler headcanons #hyperfixation #greed-ler #greed-ler headcanons #once-ler 2012 #the lorax #lorax 2012 #old man once-ler #im just a person with mustachioed opinions

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Springtime is here and it looks like the Springtime Beagle has just rolled into town! But will he be able to get Wally ready for the season with the help of Makeship? Enjoy this theatrical performance presented by Howdy’s Place in partnership with Makeship!  

Thankfully you don’t need a magic beagle to get this merchandise! Hop on down to https://www.makeship.com/products/barnaby-jumbo-plush to purchase the Barnaby B. Beagle Makeship plush toy for $37.99! Maybe even grab the Prized Pals enamel pin set for only $19.99 at https://www.makeship.com/products/welcome-home-enamel-pin-collection ! Purchase both at the same time and get 10% off your order!

Happy Springtime, neighbor!

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Wally Darling has a little message for us...

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Heres the updated maid outfit! 🤭💚

Howdy-do, Neighbor! We have been busy, busy, busy as ever here in the Onceler's office! I have made a lot of improvements in how I am able to represent and show you my surroundings! The ways I can show you the people nearest to me! So here I am to more accurately present to you what Mister Onceler looks like!

I tied all that hair back so you could see those totally not magnetic earrings of his! 🤭

The soles of all his shoes have this 4 heart pattern, and he does not change his shoes very often! Regardless of outfit! The exception would be for foot coverings he doesnt have to wear for long. Like slippers or slides!

Here is a sheet that I did with a robe, just for fun! Oh, and feel free if you would like to use any of these to put him in whatever outfits! I know I will be doing more! 🤭💚

Did I mention his middle name? It's Douglas! Walter Douglas Darling!

#welcome home au #biggering au #onceler wally #onceler #biggering #greedler wally #walter douglas darling! #au #maid dress #onceler wally maid dress #more updates! #more biggering!

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Howdy-do, Neighbor! We have been busy, busy, busy as ever here in the Onceler's office! I have made a lot of improvements in how I am able to represent and show you my surroundings! The ways I can show you the people nearest to me! So here I am to more accurately present to you what Mister Onceler looks like!

I tied all that hair back so you could see those totally not magnetic earrings of his! 🤭

The soles of all his shoes have this 4 heart pattern, and he does not change his shoes very often! Regardless of outfit! The exception would be for foot coverings he doesnt have to wear for long. Like slippers or slides!

Here is a sheet that I did with a robe, just for fun! Oh, and feel free if you would like to use any of these to put him in whatever outfits! I know I will be doing more! 🤭💚

Did I mention his middle name? It's Douglas! Walter Douglas Darling!

#welcome home au #biggering au #onceler wally #onceler #biggering #greedler wally #walter douglas darling! #au #this was an overdue update!

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Howdy, Neighbors! We hope you're having a swell weekend! Mister Onceler went to a rave! Or, rather, the rave came to him, I should say. As the parties always do!~

#welcome home au #biggering au #onceler wally #onceler #greedler wally #biggering #welcome home #au #rave-ler outfit!

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Howdy, Neighbor! Perhaps you've seen this charming fella's standee on the website-

-? Well, boy, do I have news for you! I have made a digital recreation!

I even cropped it! So you could see the box better!

Now, isn't that just the m̸̦̹̈́ơ̴̖̖̹͔͗̎͆s̶͇̤̽̃ţ̴̩̞͉̈́ 🤭💚?

#welcome home au #biggering au #wally darling #welcome home #fan art #isnt it so special how we can convert these to digital versions? #and people just touch them with their ungloved hands @:) #welcome home puppet show

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The WH update is here!

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Boo! Did I scare you? @>:)💚

Howdy, Neighbor! Recently, I have been doing a lot of character studying! I have been feeling the need to let my style grow and learn how to do more with Procreate! This is a fan redraw I did of a classic old piece done by Clown! I experimented mostly with different shading/ blending styles for this! What fun 🤭💚🧙

#onceler wally darling #onceler #onceler Wally #au #we just loved this suit so much! #welcome home au #biggering au #biggering #greedler wally

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Happy Homewarming to You and Yours! www.welcomehomerestorationproject.net/entry

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Happy update everyone! Here, have an art piece!