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lmao discord saying that brings me war flashbacks of the onceler tumblr era back in like 2012

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Anon, I'm a bit dumb so I I'd like some clarification hahaha Also war flashbacks ;w;? I've heard that people had so much fun back then! Although I wasn't there for it ^^;

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hey. onceler

Onceler...

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Would you happen to know the ship name between the Onceler and Lorax?

It is called Oncelax!

I didn’t know off the top of my head, actually. I had to consult the fandom historian hahah (a big thank you Miru667 ;w;)

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Not an Ask as such! But, you are the best person I have ever met! I love you so much! And Bunny-Ler is gonna be great!!

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AISJSKSJSJ oh my gosh you are so sweet <3 I love you too! I'm so glad we met and became friends. I thank the Once-ler fandom for that!

Yes bunny-ler is so adorable and sweet I hope everyone likes her as much as we do :D

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do you prefer biggering or hbcib?

That is a hard one! I really like both! HBCIB gets stuck in my head pretty often while Biggering has better emotion and lyrics. I guess if I had to choose, it would be Biggering!

I think I would choose that one because it brings more depth to the situation. I feel more connected to the issue, if that makes sense. Although I'm sad that Biggering isn't in the movie, I'm still glad we have HBCIB!

In a perfect world, the movie somehow has both hahah

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I want to know about your “useless” knowledge about the Lorax

HECK YEAH!!! My favorite bit of information to share is there is a storyboard showing the Once-ler trying to leave after getting rid of his Thneed. He tells the Lorax he is right and tries to leave, but Melvin won’t budge and Pipsqueak wants him to stay. He tries to pull the wagon himself, hahah. I won’t spoil it too much, take a look for yourself! :D I really enjoy this storyboard, and for the past while it has been one of my biggest inspirations.  I think it would of fit in really well in the movie its fun and silly. I also feel like it develops his relationship with the animals and the Lorax more so I am sad it wasn’t included! But like all movies sometimes you need to cut some good parts out. For the Lorax it seems there is a lot of this. I mean, just look at Biggering for one of the biggest examples. So many fans adore it and it was really good but was replaced by How Bad Can I Be?  Also, did you know that the Once-ler wasn’t planned to be human from the beginning? The movie has tons of concept art available to look at, and there is some concept art of him drawn as a Seuss-style animal and some like a monster of sorts. As for his human concept designs he looks a bit sillier haha. Here you can see more images of concept Once-lers and other characters. 

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!!

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why is the once-ler called that? like is he the once and future king? where did he get that name??

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!! 

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The onceler told me..he rlly loves you and he wants to give you a bunch of kisses ❤❤❤❤❤

I had this sitting in my ask box for a long time.