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The Laptop Serial Code

Spoilers ahoy! Don’t read if you aren't caught up on Gravity Falls.

So Disney XD gave us small gift to dissect during the Hiatus. I’m talking about Old Man McGucket’s Conspiracy Corner of course! While everything else was pretty much jokes about the fandom between the episodes and theories already mentioned by fans this one here caught my attention.

Now the idea that the serial code is a real place had me thinking. M052584 can be turned into coordinates “M 052 584″. So search on Google Maps and what do I find.

OKAY! Now what does this have to do with McGucket? Gravity Falls is in Oregon and miles away! Well we know Fiddleford is actually quite skilled at engineering and he worked with a visiting researcher. There is also quite a lot of hints about space travel in the series.

For example the portal in the basement has a resemblance to the Stargate from the series by that name and has symbols that refer to specific stars in the sky.

(Above from Disney Wiki) (Below from Wikipedia)

There is also the recurring UFO imagery, in the opening and through out the show but my favorite is this.

(posted to reddit by swimatm a year ago)

We also have the IRL evidence that someone in NASA has probably made a deal with Bill (or is at least a GF fan or Illuminati member or both).

Okay brain that’s enough crazy conspiracy fuel for one night.

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i want to write something nice and meaningful about fiddleford not hating gubby but i have to pack so this is all i have in me

transcript/screenreader version below cut because it's kind of long

image ID: a screenshot of a text file i wrote of a quarter-assed fanfiction about fiddleford and the shapeshifter. many words are misspelled and there are countless grammatical and punctuation errors. end image ID.

screenreader-friendly image transcript:

once upon a time fiddleford was hanging out in the bunker. bunkers are man-made underground spaces so you would think it would be really cold because places that are underground are usually cold. well you would be right but fiddleford was really hot today in the bunker because he was working so hard and sexily. he was sticking out his nonexistent ass as his head was buried in some machine thing i don't know engineering.

suddenly ford came up behind him. "hello" said ford.

"agh" said fiddleford and he was startled and banged his head against the machine and got a huge concussion and lost consciousness for a couple hours. but when he came to ford was still waiting there patiently so they continued their conversation. "what's up."

"look at this thing i found" said ford and he held up a pile of slime.

"that's disgusting waht is that. is that like a dead jellyfish" asked fiddleford. just then the slime moved! and took the shape of the wrench that fiddleford was holding (i forgot to mention he was holding a wrench but trust me it was there the whole time).

"what the hell is that." said fiddleford.

"it's a shapeshifter ❤️" said ford and he held the wrench up to his his lips and kissed it tenderly. for a split second fiddleford felt a little bit jealous of a wrench but stopped feeling that way because it was stupid. "i am going to raise it as my son" finished ford.

fiddleford watched as the wrench changed back into a grub thing and it jumped onto his head and started sucking on his open head wound. "idk it's kind of ugly" he said.

ford frowned. "fiddleford... i thought you of all people would be more accepting of guys who are a little bit different..." he said gayly.

fiddleford felt bad he didn't want to make ford feel isolated. and the grub was actually making his open head wound feel better or maybe he was just getting numb to the pain from blood loss. "well okay 🙂" said fiddleford and then they raised shifty as their child and lived happily ever after. the end. end transcript.

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a fun fact about me is that i've been making monsters inc jokes about these guys for ten years

^ preview to pique your interest

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responding to this reply on my post saying stan and fiddleford don't like each other - i was going to reblog and add it but i forgot you can't add videos in reblogs so i guess this is its own post now; anyway here's stan talking shit about mcgucket for almost a minute from the land before swine hidden commentary track. video description below the cut.

video description: a clip of the land before swine in-character grunkle stan hidden commentary. the episode is playing as normal, but the volume of the actual episode is turned down to an almost inaudible level and grunkle stan is commentating. the video transcript is as follows:

oh, gosh. this guy. yeah, so, uh… y'know, old man mcgucket… he's a bit of a - he's kind of a liability. i mean i guess he helped us save the world with that robot and whatever, um, but, y'know, prior to me realizing he was a genius, he was mainly just a nuisance. like i think i run - ran over him with my car a couple times. he's like a possum, he just runs out in the middle of the road. (laughing) i mean - y'know, everyone in gravity falls has run over old man mcgucket at least once. it's kinda - it's kind of a rite of passage when you're in that town. y'know, obviously i didn't want him on this mission, y'know, mcgucket-ing up the whole thing. he's a liability, i mean, let's face it! various tales that we didn't need to hear. that gold tooth glinting in my eye distracting me all the time. uh, y'know, i'm pretty sure he was responsible for getting us to fall off of this thing - wait, let's wait and see. yeah, there it is. called it! his fault. sometimes i remember things being someone else's fault but in this case i was right! all mcgucket.

end video description.

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me when i platonically tuck my hand into your coat and rest it on your waist

new icon bc idk what i was thinking really this says it all. like what reason does he have to be doing that

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new icon bc idk what i was thinking really this says it all. like what reason does he have to be doing that

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louder for the people in the back

“Fiddleford and Stan did interact in canon, but they really don't like each other very much. Stan is also very emotionally immature and angry and would not be the 'ideal partner for Fiddleford' that people characterize him as,” I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off stage in shame, when a voice commands silence from the room.

“She's right,” I look to the owner of the voice. There in the fifth row stands Mr. Mystery himself, having hit Old Man McGucket with his car twice on his way over and called him possum breath both times

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“Fiddleford and Stan did interact in canon, but they really don't like each other very much. Stan is also very emotionally immature and angry and would not be the 'ideal partner for Fiddleford' that people characterize him as,” I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off stage in shame, when a voice commands silence from the room.

“She's right,” I look to the owner of the voice. There in the fifth row stands Mr. Mystery himself, having hit Old Man McGucket with his car twice on his way over and called him possum breath both times

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i think actually the grossest thing i've seen is ppl being like "au where bill gets sent back to the shack to get redeemed!!" it literally makes me fucking sick. it is never an abuse victim's job to heal their abuser. what the hell is wrong with you people

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Audio: Treasure Planet (Captain Amerlia, Dr. Doppler, Jim Hawkins)

These are really fun to do.

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did you know. ford is just nice and a good person

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happy halloweeeeeen!! i'm still avoiding posting my art but i couldn't resist sharing this frankenford fanart i drew a while ago for @gin-juice-tonic. click this link to see the full image... if you daaaaare oooohhgohwegfhgdfdfdfjgkcough. hack

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list of reasons why you should vote for the aardvarks

the B minus shoved fiddleford in a locker (evil)

aardvarks have long snouts. like fiddleford

ford dresses like arthur the aardvark

an extremely non-threatening animal always makes for a funny school mascot

it was an obscure charming background detail added by one of the best storyboard artists and presumably only cut from the episode for cost-saving measures; the aardvark is the rightful heir to this underwhelming throne

personally i prefer the aardvarks, though that might just be because i prefer the older stuff. either way i'm interested to see what other people think, so please spread this around!

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do you ever think about how ford probably could've gone home, but he didn't think he deserved to

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bisexual fiddleford. you agree

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it's 2024 i'm done messing around. if you think ford wants to ascend to godhood i'm straight up killing you

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the nine notes on this post have gone to my head congratulations you have unlocked my top 3 picks for neil young songs that remind me of fiddleford here they are in no particular order

don't let it bring you down <- 2015 me knew what was up when she put this on her fiddleford playlist "blind man running through the light of the night with an answer in his hand come on down to the river of sight and you can really understand" still makes me crazy

for the turnstiles don't ask me why it's just the vibes

obligatory old man listing for obvious reasons

literally nobody asked but i think fiddleford sounds like neil young when he sings - pitchy and nasal and definitely an acquired taste - so here's a video of neil young playing the banjo