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Stan denies it but he’s, so soft? Like, Gideon falls laughing in the middle of trying to kill him? He encourages him and tries to comfort him, he hears Grenda once and his first thought to her deep voice is if she’s alright, Mabel tries to get him to face his fear of heights and he knows what she’s doing and follows her anyways, and when he opens his eyes on top of the water tower? He’s not mad, he’s scared, yes, but he doesn’t get mad with her for bringing him there, and then he’s concerned when she’s scared.

He’s definitely not a good guardian, but that’s mostly to lack of experience, because he tries so hard!!! He took them fishing because he thought the could do something fun together, and when they went away, yes, he was a little frustrated, but he wasn’t angry. I just, love Stan Pines so much.

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i dont think i will ever forgive gravity falls for making me emotional over a boat

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I know I’m a few years late to the Gravity Falls party, but I can’t get over how effectively the Ford reveal flips the switch on Stan’s character. From what little I’d seen of the show on Tumblr before I watched it, I’d always assumed Stan was a pretty one-dimensional sleazy con man. And since it was a series aimed toward kids, I kind of assumed Stan wouldn’t get that much development or story outside of Dipper and Mabel. I figured if he did have an arc, it would be the pretty common “gruff bitter loner guy who doesn’t like people gets kids and learns to love them” storyline. 

And for like the first half of the show, this kind of seemed to be the case, aside from the mystery surrounding whatever Stan was hiding in the basement.

And then the Ford reveal / backstory happens and you see Stan in a completely new light. 

Stan isn’t a con man because he wants to be. He’s a con man out of necessity - first because he was kicked out of his house and forced to make it on his own at 18, and then because it was helping him work to bring his brother back. He doesn’t just run the mystery shack because he likes to lie to people and swindle them out of their money - he does it because he needed a way to make money and keep the shack while trying to figure out a way to reopen the portal. He has a fake identity because he needed to keep people from snooping around looking for Stanford and the easiest way to do that was to take his place.

All the things that make you think he’s selfish and shady throughout the first half of the series are revealed to be because he’s a desperate, heartbroken man who wants to bring his brother back. He isn’t the traditional gruff guy who doesn’t love anyone until some rambunctious kids come into his life at all - he loves his brother so much that literally everything he does is to get him back. And he lies to the kids in an effort to protect them and keep anything bad from happening to them like it did to his brother.

Great twists / mystery reveals don’t just take the story in a new direction - they cast new light on everything that has come before. And Gravity Falls does that so well.

Just look at one of the first episodes in the series where Mabel makes a wax figure of Stan and Stan appears to fall in love with it and mourns it when it melts, going as far to host a funeral for it. Without knowing Stan’s backstory, this whole storyline just feeds into our view of Stan as a self-centered, ridiculous person. It’s ridiculous he would cherish a wax figure of himself. It’s so egotistical that he would host a funeral for it when it died and get honestly choked up about it.

But then you learn that Stan lost his twin brother and that whole storyline doesn’t really feel like the story of a selfish, egotistical man anymore. It’s the story of a man who felt like he got his brother back again momentarily and then had to lose him all over again.

That’s an effective twist. You can’t learn about Stan’s backstory and then go back and view him the same way you did before it. 

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summer and winter

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This has been a Mullet Stan appreciation post 

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dipper, to stan: this journal was written by a genius, by someone who’s smarter than YOU’LL ever be!! me:

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stan calling mabel kid and kiddo at first and then switching to sweetie and pumpkin as time goes on only for him to call her kiddo after he loses his memories. i dont know where i was going with this post but it gets me every time

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Gravity Falls Screencap Redraws

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I think a lot about Stan’s 30 years in Gravity Falls. He lived there for longer than he lived in Jersey. For half his lifetime! He (and the Shack) was a fixture of the town! He knew everyone there and they knew him and it was a home he might not have wanted or ever expected but it was his home! He stumbled into a place for himself and put down roots.

I feel like he spent so long wanting to leave because he felt trapped there by what he had to do, but once he leaves he finds he misses it. He misses the weird townspeople and the weird holidays and the smell of pine trees and even the daily fight with the gnomes trying to raid his garbage. He misses it even more than Ford does, because Ford can find anomalies anywhere but Gravity Falls will always be a home to Stan in a way it never was for Ford.

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the reason ford was there at the end of face it was because stan called him after seeing mabel. i can only imagine what that call was like

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this part actually makes me cry

thinking about the stan twins comic in lost legends again

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thinking about the stan twins comic in lost legends again

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Some grunkles speedpaints

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It’s been 3 years since I’ve posted my very first comic for Gravity Falls. I figured it was time to redraw an old piece of mine and see how much I improved and what better way than my first comic (which looks awful in my opinion anshdjka). And of course, my first comic had to center around angst. I had this idea that Stan was pretending to talk to Ford when he said he was talking to his reflection to the kids in the Gobblewonker episode.

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heres your reminder that in some deleted story boards for sotbe its shown that stan likes straight blanchin

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a little montage of stan calling mabel sweetie, pumpkin, etc. requested here by angelictactics!