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Gravity Falls AU where young adult Stan actually does make a fortune, like becomes richer than the Northwest family by a far-cry, but refuses to go back home. He's too scared to reunite with Ford after what happened, but he still loves his brother, so he starts anonymously sending Ford college tuition money. He buys a mansion and calls his mom up and invites her to live with him and get away from Filbrick. Filbrick gets something in the mail. When he opens it, it's just a picture of Stan in front of his mansion waving his middle finger, with a note that says "Hey dad! I did it! Also, FUCK YOU! -Love, Stanley"

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Can't remember if I've said this or not so ignore me if I have

Remember in the Book of Bill when Bill implied the twins parents were fighting?

Has anyone ever considered that maybe that's part of the reason Mabel spends the whole summer looking for an idyllic summer romance?

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I'm suddenly finding myself so curious about Soos's mom. Where is she?? On the surface, it seems like the most likely answer would be that she's dead, but when Abuelita said she wanted to see Soos settled before she "ascend[s] to Heaven to live with the angels" Soos replies "and with Grandpa!" not something like "and with Grandpa and Mom!"

So is she a deadbeat parent like his dad??

Is she like a missing person or something and is part of an unsolved case????

Where the hell is this woman?? Why is Soos being raised by his grandma and not his mom???????

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this probably happened on their second day there or something

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Me: Animaniacs hasn't effected my sense of humor at all!

Also Me:

Leader, examining parts of an assembly I'm having trouble with: These pieces feel odd to me Me: Odd how? Me: Odd in that they don't feel even? Leader: ....

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Stan and Ford have suspected that Dipper and Mabel have been keeping secrets from them. Stan decides to attempt to use bribery to coherse them into spilling the secret

Stan, with candy: Who wants candy?

Dipper and Mabel: We do!

Stan: (rips candy away from them) tell me what's been going on first!

Dipper: What do you mean?

Mabel: Nothing as been going on

Stan, now resorting to guilt tripping: Lying?! To your Grunkle Stan! Shameful! How could you kids lie to your favorite uncle?

Kids: ....

Mabel: Pretty easily actually!

Dipper: learned from the best!

Stan: ...

Stan: Flattering will get you no where, kid!

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Another great rediscovery in my vault of digital notes:

Stan bribing the kids:

Stan: I will give you each $5!

Dipper: Ten!

Mabel: and 16 cents!!

Dipper and Stan: 🤨🤨

Stan: 14 cents!

Mabel: Deal!

Dipper: ??????????

And then there’s a little note that says when I told @newsiegirlscout this, she pointed that Stan’s exact wording implies that he’ll only give them 14 cents, as opposed to $10.14, so we’ll just call that a learning experience for the kids

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Okay so I rarely look at my tumblr dash anymore these days and just casually decided to look today...

Can someone please explain to me in simple terms what's going on with Tumblr and AO3 I've seen so many posts about it and I don't understand 😅😅

Bless me with your internet current events knowledge!

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Have been reorganizing the notes on my computer and came across this gem that I forgot about:

Dipper and Mabel did something they were told not to do. Stan and Ford caught them

Mabel, looking cute and sweet: we're so sorry! Dipper: we won't ever do it again! Promise! Stan: … Stan: oh okay fine! Ford: Stan! They broke a rule! Stan: what? They're sorry! And look at Mabel's sweet face! Ford: Stan, they're manipulating you! Stan: I know! They did a good job! If they can manipulate their Grunkle Stan I think they deserve to be let off the hook!

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I just had the epiphany that Stan spent more of his life as "Stanford" than as "Stanley" because most of his life he was going by other, fake, names

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Alex Hirsch creating a canon timeline for Gravity Falls, whose fandom he has trained to be eagle eyed to every single detail in his show:

Me planning fanfiction, that technically I don’t even know yet if people will read, for Animaniacs, a show that absolutely does not take itself very seriously:

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I feel like if I could just nail down the exact ending for my Animaniacs fan fiction that I’ve been planning (for an embarrassingly long time) I could probably go from rough draft to starting to post the final product in like a month

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Theory(?): Bill made Ford forget his birth date

Okay originally I was going to post about how I'd like clarification on whether Stan and Ford's birthday is June 15th, like it says in Journal 3, or June 16th, like it says on thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com, but in trying to get images to show as evidence that we were given two different dates, I've come up with a theory.

Honestly, it's probably a theory that has already been thought up, hell it might even have been confirmed canon for all I know, but I haven't seen it, so I'm gonna say it just in case.

I will start this by saying I never deciphered any of the ciphers in...any of the Gravity Falls material. Scandalous, I know. The most important ciphers always seem to get back to me through the fandom so I never felt the need to put effort into it, and heaven knows these ciphers are heavily documented on the internet. So upon realizing that in Journal 3, their birthday was written in a cipher, and knowing someone else had already decoded it, I simply googled it instead. Here is my source. And as I look through the other decoded ciphers on this page, I noticed a pattern that I'm sure I am far from the first one to catch: All the ciphers in that particular code, the one that the birthday is written in, seem to be written by Bill. So it isn't Ford writing that his birthday is June 15th, it's Bill. Further confirmed by the fact that in the same deciphered code, it says "Deathday sooner than you think" which Ford should not know and I doubt would write if he did know. Meanwhile the date of June 16th, graciously given to us from thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com, appears to be an actual legal document. With this in mind, I am more inclined to believe the legal document from the website is real, over whatever potential lies Bill is spewing out.

We know that Bill was actively messing with Ford's mind and memories, in the Book of Bill there's an interaction between Bill and Ford where Bill wipes Ford's identity from his mind and makes him forget who is, and then allows him to remember, both with a mere snap of his fingers. Therefore, stating that Ford's birthday is June 15th when it's actually the 16th was likely another way Bill messed with Ford's mind. This was another tactic for Bill to keep control of Ford, advanced gaslighting him into believe he had a different birthday.

Has this idea been theorized already? Is there a canon explanation for this inconsistency? This seems like something someone would have already thought up and I'm shocked I've found nothing on it. Maybe I wasn't searching right?

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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Sometimes I forget that Dipper and Mabel are part of my generation. I've been kinda hyperfixating on technology from when I was young, when I was using my ipod nano and DS Lite, and when that hyperfixation crosses with Gravity Falls, I briefly think Mabel and Dipper are potentially too young to have had such tech as kids. Or alternatively I think about the shows I watched as a kid, like Hannah Montana, and think that they wouldn't have seen those shows. And all of that is wrong. They were born the same year as my brother. Mabel was likely just the demographic for Hannah Montana while it was airing, They probably both had DS gaming systems (how do you make DS plural? DSes?) I'm not sure they would have had iPods, but maybe!

They probably played similar computer games as me and my brother did. Jumpstart, Freddi Fish, and Putt Putt (side note, you have no idea how long I was vaguely remembering Putt Putt but couldn't recall the name before finally googling it)

I always associate Mabel and Dipper with currently being the age they are in the show, as opposed to associating them with the actual year they were canonly born. Thus leading me to forget that Mabel was likely one of the first generations of young girls begging her parents for that GirlTech password journal. Or that Dipper probably wanted all the Spy Gear brand toys. This was supposed to be how I keep forgetting the twins' actual age and it ended up being a nostalgia trip, so hope everyone enjoyed that 😂

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For anyone who's seen the show "Friends" I wanna ask: What are your thoughts on Monica and Richard vs Frank Jr. and Alice? And have either or both of these opinions changed as you've gotten older? I have thoughts but I don't want to influence other people so I'm gonna share them under the cut

TRIGGER WARNING: Grooming

Okay so when I ignore the beginnings of each relationship, I don't mind either of them, and the only reason I can ignore the beginnings of each of their relationships is because it's fiction. When I first watched Friends, I really didn't think too much about either of these. However, becoming more aware of the dangers out there, the more these relationships seem...sketchy, to say the least.

The show presents the main issue with both relationship to be their age differences, but that is not the main issue with either relationship, although it does play a major role.

The main issue is that the older partners knew and spent time with their younger partners when they were adults and their partners were children. Richard was a friend of Ross and Monica's dad, and I think he might have been their eye doctor? So he was around Monica all the time when she was growing up. Alice was Frank Jr.'s home ec teacher. These are both very sketchy and concerning to me. But I am willing to give a little more grace to Richard and Monica, because there was a bit of time between Monica becoming an adult and them getting together, enough time that Richard didn't even recognize her when he was first introduced. So while still VERY weird, I don't see any evidence of grooming on Richard's part.

But Alice and Frank Jr.... It's a wonder that Alice didn't immediately get fired. She literally married her student. He was 18, according to Phoebe, when they got engaged, so basically right after he graduated and became a legal adult, they got together (and frankly....I don't recall any confirmations that they weren't together before.

Again, they're fictional relationships, and not having any personal trauma with this topic, I can let it go and suspend my disbelief, when I think about these relationships critically, each of their histories are weird and concerning to different degrees, and it's even weirder that these histories are hardly addressed as being the problem with the relationships. Also, I love Alice as a character, and if it weren't for her being Frank's teacher I'd have no issue with them together, but realistically, she probably should have been arrested....

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Every time I question how Mabel Pines can wear sweaters in the Summer, or I see someone else asking that, there is, inevitably, at least one person who says “well, it is Oregon, after all! It’s not very hot there!”

And this drives me insane because I live in Oregon, I’ve lived here my whole life, and I don’t know a single soul who would wear sweaters, in the middle of the day, under the beating sun, in JULY. Outside at night, sure, I’m fairly confident that out in central or eastern Oregon, where Gravity Falls is located according to various maps in the series, it gets decently chilly at night. Also sweaters or sweatshirts will protect you from mosquitoes at night. But wearing a sweater in the middle of the day? Only if you’re at the coast.

Granted, the past decade or so, the Summers have been hotter in my opinion, so by that logic the Summer of 2012 could be cooler. However even as a kid, when I felt like the Summers were a tolerable temperature, I never, in a million years, would have worn a sweater in Summer.

Therefore, the comment “Mabel can swear sweaters in Summer because it’s Oregon and it’s not hot there” annoys, and confuses the heck out of me.

And then…

I came across a variant of this comment that explains it, but also shakes me to my core:

(Paraphrased, I saw this months ago)

“Summers in Oregon don’t get very hot, only about low to mid 80s”

Okay, that does explain it, that is accurate to what I remember as a kid, although these days Summers seems to stick to mid 90s, leading me to spend my Summers cursing every global warming denier. And I can understand why someone who’s used to 90 and 100 degree days in Summer, would consider 80 degrees to be cool, heaven knows after a string of 90s and 100s, I think 80s are just lovely temperatures..

But now this makes me beg another question that I’m a little scared to know the answer for:

Are you people saying you wear sweaters in 80+° sunny weather??????? It stops being sweater weather for me at like 60°, if I wear a sweater above that I’d probably pass out! Are there people who check the weather, see the high is 80+ and think “that’s perfect! I can wear my sweater today!?” Do you just…power through heat stroke??????????????????

I have heard in some circumstances it's better to wear to long sleeve in heat because it essentially shades you, but I swear I've heard that you only do that in dry heat, never humid heat. Now, I've known Oregon to be particularly humid, at least not compared to what I assume Florida is or something, but I did have a coworker from Arizona say recently "I'd rather it be 115° in Arizona than 85° here in Oregon because of the humidity here." So that logic doesn't really apply here either.