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itszorrito67 · 18 hours ago
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HEY EVERYONE!
So, around two years ago I made this comic for a zine about what kinds of adventures the two Grunks might go on after the end of Gravity Falls. I finally got permission to post it, so here it is!
It’s pretty old, so I’ve learned a lot since then, about comics, layout, color, and pretty much everything! So I don’t love how it looks now, but I felt it would be a shame just to let it sorta rot away on my computer haha. Hope y’all get some enjoyment out of it!
Here’s a link to the zine’s Tumblr page: http://gfpostfinalecomicbook.tumblr.com
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itszorrito67 · 7 days ago
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imagine you’re a tiny thing. your mama is big and strong so you follow her everywhere. she’s very strong, which is why when she falls asleep on the floor you sit with her. you sit with her until she starts to fall apart. but its ok because she’s strong. and then you get really, really, really thirsty, and you think if you sleep it’ll be okay. and then you wake up surrounded by water and you see a face beyond the water and its blurry and you dont know how to feel about it so you go back to sleep and then you keep seeing the face beyond the water and they talk to you in soft words you dont understand and you’re still so small and confused but you know the face beyond the water is helping you. maybe it loves you. but you’re a tiny thing. and then one day you decide you’ve had enough water, and then you start to move. and you see the face beyond the water, who is so happy to see you and they do something you’ve never seen a face do, their mouth curls at the end in a smile and youve never seen it so you do it too and you keep doing it because you love the face beyond the water so much and they love you too and they’re strong like mama and they feed you and pet you and love you and one day you grow so big they can ride you. and they make you a hat and goggles to protect your eyes and they show you all sorts of wonderful things and YES this is about the happy ghast from minecraft im OBSESSED
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itszorrito67 · 10 days ago
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figure painting: dead man
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itszorrito67 · 11 days ago
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“Already tired of trying to recall when it all fell apart…I just want to love you well…I just want to learn how to somehow, to be loved myself - Sleeping At Last
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itszorrito67 · 12 days ago
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Audhd Stanley Pines getting into trouble at school because everytime a teacher would sarcastically ask "Need me to draw a picture?" He'd reply "Yeah! :D" and teachers mistook it as him being snarky
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itszorrito67 · 14 days ago
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AU (yes another one deal with it) where Stanley saves up enough money to attend college. (Ofc first he sort of settles in a takes night classes to get his GED). He lives in a shitty apartment and while I do love making things a bit accurate maybe he just a needs to get one job, but also I want to make it a bit harder and have him have two jobs (like me-).
He’s tired and his clases are hard for him to understand and basically any free time he has is spent relearning all the material his own way. (Sue me yes it’s audhd/ dyslexia Stan) He’s practically running on fumes and coffee and one day while getting some books he accidentally bumps into this guy, muttering a quick apology as he continues walking. He hasn’t slept in days having worked clopens while attending class and his vision seems to be getting worse but he can’t afford glasses at the moment, his headache is making his head pound, and he’s just so ready to go home and finally take a nap.
What he’s not ready for is for a six fingered hand to grip his arm yanking him toward his twin brother who he hasn’t seen in almost 4 years.
Aka Stan joins college during fords last year of school. And neither of them are prepared for any of it.
(Other notes: I like to think ford gets mad thinking Stan is doing this just to annoy/distract ford or ruin his chances at getting his grant, only to quickly realize how untrue that is, and how poorly Stan is doing. He has no support system, he’s living in a shitty run down apartment since it was cheaper then a dorm, he’s constantly working since he was unable to receive any scholarships which leaves no time to rest (and at times eat) , his brothers mental health is at an all time low with all the stress, Stanley did unfortunately still mix with some bad people which caused his brother to be paranoid from the trauma (sometimes even go non verbal), and overall ford just sees his little brother suffer in real time.
Ford sometimes goes to Stan’s jobs and occasionally poses as a customer that just happens to look very similar just to get Stan to rest a bit, and maybe sneak him some food.
Both fidds and ford take turns tutoring Stan as to help lessen his load.
At some point Stan’s catches up to him and he ends up showing up to their dorm sobbing because he’s going to have to leave college and he’s upset because all his hard work would be for nothing. INSERT STAN AND FORD TALKING TO AN ADVISOR TO TRANSFER STANS CREDITS TO GRAVITY FALLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE! (Although not all credits will be transferred and he will be forced to retake some stuff. )
There will be more.
Someone should stop me.)
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itszorrito67 · 21 days ago
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comic to the fanfiction "Hold on" by verysorrytobother
PART 2/3
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And yes, about the text... I know it's a strange, completely impractical decision, but I just didn't want to remove my russian letters, 'cause I've been drawing it for too long. Please, look at it and admire it even if you don't understand it.
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itszorrito67 · 23 days ago
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Ford’s love for & view of Stan pre-memory erasing: a lenghty analysis
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A big misunderstanding going on in this fandom is the idea that Stan was the one yearning for Ford while Ford was too busy hating Stan (at worst) or at least thinking he hated Stan (at best), too focused on his research and academic accomplishments to pay his repressed/heavily denied love for Stan any mind, up until Stan’s sacrifice in Weirdmaggedon. Ambitious, self-centered Ford, who would be shocked at the preposterous idea that he still loved Stan deep down if, say, his post-Weirdmaggedon future self revealed it to him. “I thought I hated you, but I was wrong,�� old Ford says to Stan, remorseful... and painfully out-of-character!
Another very popular idea is that Ford genuinely values the greater good over Stan, to the point he wouldn’t have rescued Stan if their positions were reversed. This idea is so rooted in people’s minds that when Ford’s most dedicated fans attempt to defend him, they argue that he was right to be angry about being rescued from the portal because Stan was acting irresponsibly (as if Ford wouldn’t have done the same thing). This is not about anyone in particular—it’s a tendency I’ve seen repeated again and again and again, in different ages of this fandom.
The gap between Stan needing Ford vs Ford needing Stan is so big in some people’s minds that they seem to think that poor, guilty Ford ending up with Stan all alone on a boat wasn’t the best ending for him. That was just Alex trying to make a point about “family above all” in a show about family, teaching Ford a lesson, and rewarding Stan’s unhealthy codependency...
It’s just incredible how Ford’s own love and yearning towards Stan is shoved under the rug by the fans!
I understand why, of course. Ford is arguably the most complex character in Gravity Falls. His love for Stan is shown more subtly than Stan’s love for him. You have to actually pay close attention, and often enough people aren’t invested enough in the Stan twins’ relationship to do so. Sometimes because they’re more invested in the relationship of Stan and/or Ford with other characters, and this is not throwing shade, either—on my part, I can admit I am so invested in them that I don’t care as much for other characters, and that’s natural.
My most controversial takes here are: 1) Ford has always known he loved Stan. Yes, even at his most bitter. He just didn’t think Stan was worthy of that love. 2) Ford valued his family, including Stan, over any noble ideal of greater good. 3) Ford missed Stan and yearned for his company just as much as Stan missed Ford and yearned for his company. I have dedicated this particular meta to pointing out not all moments (that would make it longer than Tolstoy’s War and Peace, just by the amount of times Ford mentions Stan in his journal) but the most telling ones re: Ford’s repressed but obvious love for Stan and their implications. I’ll break it into a few different subjects that I believe drive my point across.
Ford’s sentimentality over Stan:
A good place to start as any. Stan is in literally everything Ford does, sometimes in ways so subtle that people miss it, and in ways that Ford himself would love to deny, even if it meant lying to himself. Ford is very, very sentimental, and that is reflected in his relationship with Stan through the decades, with all the different paths he takes to cling to his past and the idea of his brother.
Let’s explore some examples, shall we? We don’t need to go far.
First of all, the Mystery Shack cottage, commissioned by Ford and built by Dan Corduroy according to Journal 3, is clearly based off a childhood toy he shared with Stan.
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It doesn’t stop there, of course. Ford loves his boat motif decorations. (At least the boat on top of the shelf is very likely Ford’s choice of décor, and not Stan’s, given that it’s placed beside Ford’s shrunken heads referenced in Journal 3; we know that the boat painting belongs to one of the Stan twins and not Dipper, since it was already there in Tourist Trapped as Dipper arrives. I think it’s fair to assume, given the boat on top of the shelf, that it was also Ford’s.)
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And would you look at that, his favorite place in his beloved Gravity Falls, a town full of wondrous places full of fantastical anomalies and literally a weirdness magnet, is, for some reason, a lake. A very weird lake? A very cool lake? No, a lake that reminded him of his childhood, aka Stan (as seen by the drawing of a boat and the codified message). “There is no other place in Gravity Falls I would rather be than the lake.”
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But that isn’t enough for Ford. He must keep, still, pictures and videos of Stan. I won’t even focus, here, on the picture of the Pines family that Ford stares at in the beginning of his college days, despite Stan and Ford being at the very center of it and it being a visual parallel to Stan’s own picture of him and his brother. That one included Filbrick and Caryn, and the speaker had just mentioned making one’s family proud. But what about the rest?
People usually focus on the overall adorableness of, say, Ford leaning his head on Stan’s shoulders or Ford’s apologies (again, in Journal 3) to notice the implications of what Dipper says: “Ford even found an old film reel of them as kids, which he amazingly saved all these years.” Even Dipper himself is amazed. I’ve seen people assuming that Ford had these and forgot about them, or that Caryn was the one to send him these and he simply agreed to avoid a fight (there is a tendency in this fandom to think of her as a very loving and/or affectionate mother, but we have no evidence to think so). Years later, TBoB was like, “nuh-uh, that was all Ford Pines!” In TBoB, Ford not only does remember some of these itens, but he makes a conscious effort to hide them from Fiddleford, worried that his friend was getting “too close” (to what? to the inner depths of his heart and mind, where Stanley was?) “I’ve quickly re-hidden here, away from prying eyes.”
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And a picture of teenage Stan (as seen below), too! You would think he would just attach himself to the idealized version of baby Stan in his head to feed his nostalgia and completely ignore teenage Stan, the traitor, the one who destroyed his science project. But no, Ford wouldn’t be Ford if he acted consistently about Stan. The funniest thing to me about the ripped yearbook page is that it implies Ford made the conscious decision to include Stan as he ripped the page off, when he could have just focused on his own picture. And then we also have his drawing of Stan, a perfectly accurate portrayal of Stan’s face as he got kicked out, implying that not only he paid an enormous amount of attention to his brother and how he looked like back then (after he closed the curtains), but that particular image was living rent free in his brain. Very vividly. With details.
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Now, folks, do we have any doubt whatsoever of the power Stan had in Ford’s psyche? Seeing that this is how the bedrock of Ford’s mind looked like? The boat, the swing set? I’ve seen it suggested before that these items represent Ford’s greatest regrets—I don’t know if I fully agree with that take, seeing as the swing set is fully intact, unlike in Stan’s mind, but one thing is true: they represent what Ford deep down thinks is most important, and two of three are directly related to Stan. Even the portal, from a certain angle, is connected to Stan.
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Now, another thing that I believe to be related to that, is the claim that Ford didn’t spare Stan a single tought in the many decades they went separated. But here is Ford, casually confessing that he spent the last thirty years thinking of Stan:
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But back to pictures. According to Alex in the commentary of Weirdmaggedon 3: Take Back the Falls, that picture of Stan has always been in Ford’s coat pocket, through all the decades, even before Bill’s betrayal. That’s why it’s so damaged. He was dimension hopping with it. I don’t think I even need to make any comment here, hahah.
I almost imagine if McGucket found that photo in his, you know, coat while they’re working on the portal or something... [imitating Fiddleford’s creaky voice] “What’s this? What’s this here?” And Ford says, [imitating Ford’s deep, very serious voice] “OH, yes. That’s a very important moment, that’s when I, um, first decided I wanted to be an adventurer.” [...] There would be NO reference to... the real reason he’s keeping it [...]. “Oh yes, this is about, uh, science, as a horizon, as a frontier to reach towards. You know, like a boat, like a ship, like science. It’s about SCIENCE!”
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Ford’s protectiveness:
Stan Pines is very much ones of Ford’s weaknesses. Ford knows this and accepts this with shocking ease. How so? Well, first of all, the nightmare he had. As he tells us about it in Journal 3, even though he attempts to make light of the situation, his hand is clearly trembling as he writes, making drops of ink splatter on the page. The climax of his nightmare, the peak, the scariest moment was when Ford realized he was not the one at risk; rather, Stan was. “I realized my hand wasn’t chasing after me at all—it was chasing after my brother, and it was going to squeeze him to death!”And then, may it be noticed, there was no hesitation whatsoever on Ford’s part about whether to save Stan or not, nor does he try to hide his protective reaction. It was immediate and instinctive. “I tried to run to help him, but my feet were frozen.” It’s very telling that the Dream Hipster, the nightmare inducing ghost, thought that Stanley Pines would be the most effective thing to make Ford shake in his boots. Not even, say, failing and being ridiculed by other scientists, considering how ambitious he was.
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And you know who else has noticed this weakness? Bill Cipher, of course. After psychologically, emotionally, and physically abusing Ford in horrific manners (including but not limited to: forcing him to eat spiders, driving a nail into his hand, and making him wake up on the snowy roof of the Mystery Shack as a symbolic threat of forced suicide), Bill involves Stan, as the grand finale. “But then he crossed a line.” Why was Ford’s brother that line, after everything Ford himself went through? “No. He wouldn’t.” Ford couldn’t even believe Bill’s audacity in involving Stan, even though he very much already knew Bill was as evil as evil could get. Because Bill knew, having free access to Ford’s mind, how terribly important Stan was: the person Ford loved the most in the world, more than himself.
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You could still argue, then, that Ford wasn’t very protective of homeless Stan. After all, how could he have allowed his brother to be homeless in the first place?
Simple: he didn’t know. There’s a lot of things about mullet!Stan that Ford didn’t know! From canon, namely TBoB and Journal 3, we can deduce that Ford didn’t think of him as homeless, thought he was doing well for himself, living a well traveled charlatan/adventurer’s life, perhaps even a friend/member of the mob:
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As Stan was kicked out, he told Ford (and the rest of the family), “Fine! I can make it on my own! I don’t need you! I don’t need anyone! I’ll make millions and you’ll rue the day you turned your back on me!” The way I see it, Ford took that at face value. Stan didn’t seek Ford out in those ten years, either, presumably out of a mix of pride, shame and self-hatred, so Ford could only assume Stan truly didn’t need him. Despite the many, many crossed out mentions of Stan in Journal 3, I think Ford at least tried to not let his mind linger on thoughts about Stan too much, because that hurt.
In his most recent interview, by HanaHyperfixates and ThatGFFan in 2023/2024, Alex talked about Ford’s issues:
He’s aloof, and distant, and he’s too perfect. And it’s like, “oh! I think he’s also aloof and distant from himself.”
I think he is, uh, deeply deeply hiding from his real feelings about things, because at some point early on, he decided that he could run from hurt by achievement and by creation, and has dug that hole so deep that he has no relationships.
If he sees achievement and creation as distractions from his real feelings, no wonder Stan didn’t get a call (or a postcard) from him earlier.
We also have Ford’s condescending, but protective, attitude towards Stan in TBoB as he considers asking for his help. Condescending protectiveness, if you will:
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Notice how Ford briefly looks at Stan when Stan rants about his life:
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A very ☹️ face. He’s probably surprised and concerned about what he’s hearing.
And then Stan, unfortunately but understandably, starts insulting/accusing him of selfishness:
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You can notice the ☹️ face slowly becoming 😠 as Stan started attacking.
Again, when Ford accidentally hurts Stan by branding him:
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That’s not even ☹️ anymore, it’s almost 😩! Things would probably have deescalated and perhaps even been fixed if Stan, unfortunately but understandably, hadn’t punched Ford in the face as retaliation.
“Oh, but what about old Ford kicking Stan out after everything, then?”
I think a lot of people who talk about this moment operate under the assumption that Stan was, well, completely and thoroughly screwed if Ford followed with his original man. An old man, no place to go, no money...
But Stan did have money. A lot.
No, really, he had, per his own words, in the extra commentary of Land Before Swine:
I do have a son, Benjamin Abe Hamilton Washington. This pile of money I’ve collected over the years! That’s my true family. Y’know, I can sorta glue it together into the shape of a child, maybe… Eh, I dunno. I do my best, right? And I do have—I do actually—not to brag, but I have an obscene amount of money. Uh, y’know, all the years of collecting and etcetera—and also grifting!
I’m not defending Ford’s actions here. Ford is my favorite character, but I’m not a Ford defender, hahah. You could still argue that what he did was an ungrateful, jerky move, and I would agree. I’m just against painting it as a “Ford doesn’t care at all about Stan’s safety” moment. Especially because, when Ford told Stan he wanted his house back, sufficient time had already passed. Enough for Ford to change his clothes, visibly, and enough for them to have had a talk, in which Stan could have revealed this little fact about himself.
Another thing I’d like to address is that Ford doesn’t hesitate at all to save Stan when he gets into trouble and acts natural about it, which is way more that we can say for Stan (as seen by how Stan reacts when Ford is kidnapped by Probabilitor the Annoying and when Ford is turned into a golden statue by Bill):
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Again, not saying that Stan wasn’t justified in not wanting to help/save Ford after Ford’s blatant ungratefulness (I’m also sure he didn’t know Bill was actually torturing Ford). Not the point.
Now, back to Bill.
What I always loved about his little victory moment in Weirdmaggedon 3: Take Back the Falls is that upon surprising his enemies with his appearance, he proceeds to turn everyone into tapestry, including even Fiddleford (whom we know Ford cares a lot about!) but forces himself to spare Stan and the kids and place them inside the cages, even though they didn’t know the equation and would have zero usefulness to him. That could only be because he thought he could use them against Ford, so Stan was obviously included (instead of turned into tapestry or outright killed) for that very purpose. From a Doylist perspective, of course they couldn’t have excluded Stan, since he was one of the main characters; for the sake of character analysis, though, this is the best explanation in-universe.
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That is why, when Stan-as-Ford tells Bill, “My only condition is that you let my brother and the kids go!” Bill easily believes him. Because he thought that it would be in-character for Ford. And Bill wouldn’t be wrong, not at all. He wouldn’t, because Ford himself was the one to tell Stan, just a moment earlier: “We need to take his deal. It’s the only way he’ll agree to save you and the kids.” It’s blaffling to me how many fans seem to forget Ford’s own words, and the fact Ford was very, very much willing to damn the whole universe (with seven billion people living on Earth at the time) to save three (3) people, including Stan. That Stan himself was the one to oppose and stop him. I think that happens because people buy Ford’s facade of Cold Responsible Greater Good Guy, which couldn’t be more deceiving. At this point I’m begging you guys to look deeper!
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One common misconception about Ford’s character—not only Ford, but many, many fictional characters I have had the pleasure of considering blorbos—is that people take his facade at face value and judge him based off that. You’re falling for his bullshit. You’re looking at Ford and seeing exactly the man he wants you to see, instead of the man he is.
Ford demonstrated being hypocritical many, many times through the show, the comics, his journal, and even TBoB. I would go so far as to say it’s a Known Personality Trait of his. He chews Stan’s ass for being selfish, reckless, a criminal. Then proceeds to be: selfish and completely unaware of it, ten times more reckless, and a much more dangerous kind of criminal. He reproaches Stan for risking the world for only one person, but would have done the same thing.
Now, the last point of this particular subject: Ford and the erasing of Stan’s memories, which is sometimes interpreted as Ford prioritizing the greater good, or the kids’ safety, over Stan.
Dear reader, Ford erased Stan’s memories because he had literally no other choice. This is what Ford said to him: “He’ll be able to take over the galaxy and maybe even worse, but at least he might let the kids free.” Emphasis on the might, here. Might! Perhaps! Maybe! Perchance! Ford, in this line, was referring to Bill’s immediate threat to the kids’ lives—Bill had, after all, ran after Dipper and Mabel with a terrifying threat of disassembling their molecules as their grunkles were forced to watch inside their cage, powerless to stop him. After reflecting about their whole situation, he included Stan’s safety in the deal, too, now more certain than ever about his decision to sacrifice not only himself but, in his own words, “the galaxy” (and later, “the universe,” as he was pretending to be Stan) to, again, perhaps (!!!) save his family. Ford had literally no guarantee Bill would follow through with his words. Given Bill’s track record, it was way, way more likely that he wouldn’t. Bill is a liar and a manipulator through and through, one who takes great enjoyment in people’s suffering. Ford’s suffering, specifically, above all, since TBoB painted Bill as this toxic and possessive ex obsessed with his pet scientist. What were the chances?
Even if Bill, through some miracle, did end up keeping his word, we saw Bill’s plans for Earth in his daydream fantasies: taking a bite off the planet, drawing a smiley face on its surface as millions died... What a guy, that Bill! If the Earth was wrecked beyond repair, where would Stan and the kids live? How would they survive among all the chaos and destruction of the literal apocalypse? With nightmarish creatures lurking in every corner? With what food, what water, what shelter? Answer: they likely wouldn’t. The probability of human survival would be abysmally low.
Ford, tragically, had no other choice but to sacrifice Stan’s memories. It was that or risking the possibility of having to watch his family, including Stan, die horribly painful deaths at Bill’s sadistic hands or to condemn his family, including Stan, to a slower but still certain death after the entire human race perished.
Ford being aware of his love for Stan:
I have faith that most people already knew, to some extent, that Ford never stopped loving Stan, even at his angriest. A much lower percentage of these people, I believe, know that Ford himself was very much aware of that, and not in denial at all. He never even thought he hated Stan.
First, I choose to point out how young adult Ford, still in college, with his bitterness and resentment still very fresh, admits to missing Stan. He wrote, “MISS YOU” in their Bro Code, the code he memorized and never forgot. He not only thought about Stan, which would be understandable, since all of us have intrusive thoughts, but he took the time to write it down, and in code, which would be even more difficult than just writing it in English. That requires at least some level of acceptance. You may not be able to filter your thoughts, but you are able to filter your writing.
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Ford does attempt to filter his writing, I know, by crossing out a lot of lines in Journal 3, most of them about Stan. But he does not cross out all of it. He freely admits to having a nightmare about Stan, to wanting to protect Stan from the giant six-fingered hand, to having the lake as his favorite place, to missing Stan. I think that Ford, if asked about his love for Stan back then, would also freely admit to it, as well. Stan is his twin brother, so of course he loves Stan.
One thing that always caught my attention is how Ford still refers to Stan as his “family” in the Journal, even after Stan’s attempt to disown him. Stan makes it pretty clear that, from now on, his “family” is just Mabel and Dipper:
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Days after this, Ford didn’t seem to have taken this to heart, as seen by what he wrote in his Journal:
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It’s way more likely than not that he IS including Stan, here. He says “the rest of the Pines,” instead of just “the children” or “the kids” or “the twins,” and even singles out Dipper as someone he trusts (contrasted with Stan and Mabel, whom he doesn’t).
I wonder if that’s just Ford being stubborn or if he really thinks his relationship with Stan is in a somewhat better place than it actually is.
I mean, for instance, this is their swingset (symbol of their relationship) in Stan’s mind:
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And here it is Ford’s mind:
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Still ominous, but very noticeably intact.
It’s ironic—I think that Ford was aware of his own love for Stan, but not aware of how damaged their relationship was from Stan’s POV.
Ford and stubborness:
I’ve also seen people saying that, if Stan hadn’t sacrificed himself, Ford would have continued, quote unquote, “hating” him. Or that his happy ending with Stan was a byproduct of his guilt over the same sacrifice, and not out of a genuine desire to reconnect with Stan. According to Alex’s commentary on this scene in Weirdmaggedon 3: Take Back the Falls, that isn’t true, either:
This whole sort of conclusion here is—what we needed to happen in this scene was—we needed pressure to be at the point where Stan and Ford recognize their lifelong rivalry and Ford does a sincere apology to Stan. And almost more importantly, he acknowledges Stan’s intelligence. Like, he says, “you wouldn’t have fallen for Bill’s nonsense,” like, he recognizes his brother has a kind of intelligence that he doesn’t. [...] And even though it’s Stan who agrees to—“I’ll be the one! Erase my mind! It’s fine. It’s worth it.”—like, it’s a sacrifice for both, like, Ford at this point is willing to get his brother back and has to lose him again. Like, both of them were... just doing what they have to do here.
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This means that Ford was already wanting to reconnect with Stan before Stan offered to sacrifice his own memories. His comment about how Stan wouldn’t have fallen for Bill’s flattery wasn’t just self-reproach or some comfort to Stan, but a conscious attempt to soften things between them.
Which also means Stan’s offer to sacrifice himself wasn’t actually necessary for Ford to forgive him (or switch the blame entirely, more like, and start blaming himself instead) but just came at the worst possible moment. It was too late for them, now.
Reconciling Ford’s love for Stan with his treatment of Stan:
Now, we arrive at the last problem, which is something I’ve seen a lot of people struggling with. How to even reconcile Ford’s love for Stan, something we see hints of again and again, with his treatment of Stan?
First, this infamous line in Journal 3, which is arguably the most vicious (towards Stan) Ford ever was in canon:
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That’s probably also related to Ford’s control freak tendencies. If Ford admits to himself he is not in control, that he needs help from other people, that he is really that desperate... Well, he can’t admit that, so he rationalizes his way out of that conclusion by convincing himself he would be the one doing Stan a favor (offering him the chance to prove himself to Ford), and not the other way around. He doesn’t need Stan, he doesn’t need anyone; Stan is the one who needs him and his forgiveness. (This is the moment I get the urge to reference a manga protagonist with a very similar control freak mindset, Light Yagami from Death Note. Why am I always attracted to characters with deep cogntive dissonance issues who desperately shape their own narrative to convince themselves of their full control over it? Like a moth to a flame.)
Don’t get me wrong, I do believe Ford looked down on Stan—on people in general. There’s plenty of evidence for that in both Journal 3 and Word of God, if you count Word of God as evidence. Ford himself admits to that after Weirdmaggedon. And let’s not forget what is probably the biggest elephant in the room, the 2016 TVInsider interview (if you’re nerdy enough to read such a long meta, you’re likely nerdy enough to have seen this quote already):
In terms of Stan and his brother’s conflict, we always wanted a moment where Ford saw that he was wrong. Ford’s spent an entire life imagining himself as this lone solitary hero and imagining his brother as this bumbling leech. From a narrative point of view, for Ford to see Stan be the hero finally lets Ford see the true side of his brother that he’s been too blinded by pride to see.
Ah, yes. Ford looking down on Stan enough to think of him as a “bumbling leech.” To most people, this sounds way harsher than “selfish jerk,” the term Ford himself used in Journal 3.
Fittingly enough, that was in the same interview Alex said Ford would have deserved to lose Stan:
If Stan had lost his memory for good, that would [have] provided some interesting narrative places for him and his brother to go, but ultimately the show is about the kids. Stan and his brother are meant to be a parable [that show] what can go wrong in a family relationship, [but also] show that, with hard work and sacrifice, the riff can be repaired. If Stan’s memory had been fully erased, it wouldn’t punish him so much because he’d be gone, but it would punish Ford, Dipper and Mabel most. Even though Ford might deserve that punishment, Dipper and Mabel do not.
The interesting thing here, though, is exactly that: losing Stan would be a punishment to Ford. Why? Because it would hurt. Why? Because Ford loved him. Enough, it seems, that he would suffer more with it than Stan himself would.
I think what confuses people so much is that they conflate love with like with admiration with trust with respect. They think of it as the same thing—a confusing, amorphous mass of positive feelings towards someone.
The way I see it, though, Dipper was someone Ford loved (considering love a deeply rooted, complex emotion), liked (felt general fondness/amiability towards), and trusted (to be capable of handling all the mystery stuff). Mabel was someone he loved (she was family), liked (she was weird and creative and pure-hearted!), but didn’t trust (due to his constant projecting; before anyone attempts do deny this, I’ll remind you that Ford himself admits in Journal 3 that Dipper was the only family member whom he had come to trust). Stan was someone he didn’t like nor trust, not anymore, certainly didn’t admire and—let’s be honest—barely respected (or didn’t respect at all, depending on your point of view), but still loved with the fierce intensity of one thousand suns.
I do believe Alex is at least mindful of the difference between love and respect, as seen by his commentary on Stan’s condescending love for Mabel in Land Before Swine:
But this idea that Waddles is sort of a metaphor for what Mabel loves. And Stan loves Mabel but he doesn’t—he doesn’t really think that anything she thinks is necessarily smart or right. You know, he loves like her, ah, she’s my sweet niece, but [Stan’s voice] “she doesn’t know anything.”
In the same interview by HanaHyperfixates referenced earlier in this post, Alex revealed his view of the Stan twins’ relationship:
Those characters at sea—it was so rich. They’re really really funny, because they both have major major blind spots. I can kinda write stories about them as a duo forever, because you can always excuse them both getting hyped on a bad idea for their own reasons, and then you can always come up with a reason for them to disagree about it, and it’s always sweet to see them come together again, because they’re so full of themselves, but they are also both so damaged they desperately need each other.
As you can see, the codependency is genuinely mutual, not something imposed on poor, guilty Ford after Weirdmaggedon. One thing I find really interesting about Ford is his black & white mindset, the fact that the only way he knows how to be with Stan is a codependent way. They’re either separated and estranged or sailing completely alone on a boat for the rest of their lives. Either rivals or best friends forever. There’s no middle ground for him.
Dipper tells us in Journal 3: “Still, it’s taken about a week of intensive scrapbook therapy to get Stan fully back to himself. [...] Ford’s been working at it the hardest.” Ford was the one putting the most effort in getting Stan back. Despite all, I believe Ford is the person who loves Stan the most. Not the one who loves Stan better—that one would be Mabel, I believe, or Soos, who are non-judgemental and understanding. But Ford is the one who loves him with the most intensity, which is fascinating because for most of the show he doesn’t even know how to love Stan, as exemplified by his treatment of him. Too fierce, too selfish, too much of everything.
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itszorrito67 · 23 days ago
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Another fic idea.
There’s probably something like this out there already so please drop the link if you know of it.
I would like to see a fic of Stanley having to learn to be normal about being alone.
He isn’t clingy, but he just needs to be around people.
It’s not so bad on the Stan’o War II because he and Ford are in a confined space at all times. He knows there’s nowhere Ford can go off to. It doesn’t stop the nightmares about him waking up to find he’s all alone in the middle of the ocean.
It’s when they’re at port that those anxieties really come out full tilt. Ford will leave and go off by himself, do things without him.
Stanley understands of course, it makes sense that people need alone time or time to just not have someone hanging around all the time, even in silence. The insecurities and anxious thinking are what gets to him more than anything.
What if Ford is getting bored with him?
Has he been too clingy this month?
Has he been giving Ford enough space?
He just doesn’t want Ford to remember why he resented him back in high school, why he wanted to go so far away in the first place. Those insecurities keep him on the boat unless Ford comes with him.
He doesn’t want to come back to find that he’s been left behind.
Ford eventually questions why Stan doesn’t venture out on his own and Stan, the liar that he is, says that he’s an old man and he doesn’t wanna have a heart attack in some strange city.
Ford accepts the answer at first, but, his observant nature has him keeping tabs on what Stan does to take care of himself. If his brother was that worried about heart attacks, then surely there’d be signs of him trying to take better care of himself.
Ford asks again then next time they’re at port and Stan gets defensive, relying on old habits to try and keep the truth buried or to completely deny what the reality is. They fight as all siblings do and in his anger, Stan goes to leave the ship, to prove that he CAN leave if he wants, that he CAN be by himself and not feel like it’s going to be forever.
He can’t even step foot on the dock. He stands there, frozen like a deer in headlights because his mind is going insane.
‘He’s mad at you. He’ll leave you here, you know it. He’s tired of you constantly needing him around and being dead weight. He thinks you’re being clingy again. If you step off this boat and leave him on it alone he’s gonna act fast and get as far away from you as possible’
The memory of their father slamming the door in his face and Stanford turning his back to him and shutting that curtain plays over and over in his head.
Stan drops to his knees, clutching his chest as his visions swims. He can barely suck in a breath and he feels like he’s about to pass out.
Ford sees this and immediately FLIPS. In his mind he’s like ‘oh god. He’s having a heart attack’ and he had denied that that’s what Stan was really worried about. He’d accused his twin of lying about his worries and now here he was, actually having a heart attack as soon as he goes to step off the boat.
Yeah. 60+ year old Stanley Pines having a panic attack and Fords dumb ass thinking it’s a death sentence.
Once the blind panic from both men is over and Ford realizes that Stan isn’t dying, it’s time for Stan to come clean.
Blah, blah, blah, happy ending where they are both hugging and have a heartfelt conversation about how they’re always with each other and Ford would NEVER EVER leave his best friend and favorite twin brother behind.
After this, next time they go to port, Stan goes out by himself and gets absolutely hammered and comes back to see the boat is still there and Ford is waiting for him to ask about his day and help him onto the boat.
RAAAAAAAHHHHH🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
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itszorrito67 · 24 days ago
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itszorrito67 · 26 days ago
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I'm obsessed with tall Penelope and short Odysseus, I fully believe she looked down when Ody got back. Ody's short ass was looking up the whole time.
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itszorrito67 · 27 days ago
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drawn a lot of fluff with stan (and fidds), so here's some Stangst instead :)
btw this is my first tweening animation that I've been working on for a few weeks, so I'll be glad for your feedback🥺
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itszorrito67 · 28 days ago
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no swearing in front of kids policy
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itszorrito67 · 29 days ago
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Alexithymia 2.0
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itszorrito67 · 29 days ago
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Mission: Save Stanley
I might make more parts for this but idk yet since I literally wrote this at 3am after coming home from a flight soooooooooo (might also crosspost this on Ao3 once this is done
Idea/prompt by @babyblankyerror
heavy inspiration from Omori and Undertale and a dash of D&D eventually
Welcome to your research lab.
You’ve been staying here for as long as you remember.
Stanford Pines woke up lying on his back. Everything felt weird. 
First, he was black and white—not morally, but in the truest, most literal sense. His whole body had become monochrome.
Second: Everything had turned black and white. Again, quite literally.
Ford didn't know what to make of it. What happened? Was this a dream? Where was his journal–
There was a thump at the back. 
Third: The entire room turned into an endless expanse.
Ford stood up as he made his way to the journal.
Ford picked up the journal.
Now, Ford was excited. This was just like his and Fiddleford’s campaign back in college! One where they had to save a lost member of their party before the member lost their memory!
He couldn't help the giddy jumps he made as he opened the door to see Fiddleford in front of him. 
Unlike himself, his roommate had color, though it wasn't his natural color. Nothing was natural here. Any color darker than the light spectrum had turned into a shade of Purple, the grass light green–almost teal, and it smelt of child-like wonder. Fiddleford’s hair–previously dirty blonde–had turned into almost the same shade as the grass.
“Stanford! There you are!” Fiddleford came up to him, a hint of worry painting his words, “No clue how this happened but all I know is I woke up in this pastel picture before you came along!”
That was certainly a bit of a cause for concern but nonetheless, it didn't dampen Ford's newfound enthusiasm for what could be a brand new endeavor.
“Fascinating… What have you seen before I got here? Any new creatures?” Ford, ever the researcher, inquired.
His research partner thought for a moment, “Well, I did see the most peculiar thing other than the scenery lookin’ like the embodiment of childhood innocence,” he looked into forest parts and into a place that looked to be a swing set, “It was you.”
Ford blinked, “Well… I do look quite peculiar…” even in his fantasies, he was still the freak of nature, the anomaly, “But perhaps this could serve a purpose-” “But it wasn't you at all. That is unless you somehow gained color and a mullet only for you to completely change everything.”
“A mullet? Me?” 
It couldn't be… 
“He passed by me almost like a ghost.”
Could it?
Only one way to find out.
Ford walked into the forest, Fiddleford trailing behind him and into the town.
THE TOWN
The two of them entered and were met with a similar color scheme as the house, mostly in hues of purples and teals. Everything looked like how it always was apart from the almost blinding shade of pink that was some townsfolk's skin color.
One thing felt out of place, however.
A swing set.
Ford smothered any sort of nostalgia he felt at the sight. Just because it was a swing set didn't mean it was their swing set.
But that didn't stop the tugging sensation he felt once he saw it. Like it was calling him. 
Instinctively, he walked over to it and sat on his side. He didn't know why, it wasn't like anyone else would sit next to him. He did feel a part of himself heal, which was nice.
While on the swings, he took a look at his journal. It hadn't changed much, aside from the usual color shift. Its contents are still the same, his documentation, his plans, some photos, they were all the same–
Wait.
He took a closer look at one photograph. The photo booth one. Stan lost a tooth in that photo, but the one he’s looking at did not indicate a lost tooth–not even proof it was tampered with. 
He flicked through the pages. Ford remembered mentioning his brother in a handful of paragraphs in his journal, but some of them had been altered or outright removed.
They all painted him in a much worse light than he’d remembered Stan from. 
A photo dropped from the back of his journal. It's one he’s never seen before.
“Stanford? What's wrong?” 
The photo was of a newspaper clipping of a car crash. 
“The man you saw… Stanley… he’s–”
Ford saw the white ceiling again. There was no door.
No, it couldn't end there! He had to go back! Ford stood up to look for that door. That stupid door that started all this. 
He walked straight. And kept walking.
And walking.
And walking.
And walking.
Until he was back to where he started.
He opened his journal. His blood ran cold.
A sketch had appeared. It was one he had never done before, never even seen anything like it.
One eye. It looked almost like an open wound.
Ford didn't know what to do. He hated not knowing what to do. Frustrated, he smacked his head on his journal.
“C’mon,” smack “What does it mean?” smack “Think!” smack!
And all the color in the room turned back to normal
Was it all just a dream? Surely not, right? Was smacking himself the answer? 
Ford got up and went to the kitchen for some water.
Upstairs, out of his study, the moon shone through the window. Distantly, he was reminded of an old classical piece he had learned in his piano lessons. 
He stared at his hands. Six fingers as usual. This was real. This wasn't a dream. The cold water calmed him down, even if it was by a little bit.
Maybe it was a sign to sleep in a proper bed, Ford thought to himself. He might as well, right?
The researcher went upstairs for the first time in a while and slept in his bed.
Welcome to your research lab.
You’ve been staying here for as long as you remember.
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itszorrito67 · 29 days ago
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thinking about how the scrapbook was ford's and stan kept it safe for all those years but didn't open it....
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itszorrito67 · 30 days ago
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this post was the catalyst for this comic, and i was also thinking of a desi song lyric (tere dil ke sheher mein ghar mera ho gaya / in the city of your heart, my home is made) and just... hmmm.... leaving your mark.... making a house into a home..... when the marks a child inevitably leaves behind (messes, scribbles, and in this case stickers) eventually fade away as they grow older and you're left with the memories stored in what hasn't been erased....
im not verbalizing it very well but catch my drift?
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