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This might be a weird take, but I feel like people's recent hate of Ford and ignorance of Bills crimes in the GF fandom says less about the fandom and more about how well Ford and Bill are written.

It's a well-known fact that most people online can't comprehend complex characters. It's going to happen, like, everywhere. But why is there not as many people blaming or hating the complex character who actually is a villain of the story? The one objectively more in the wrong?(Y'know, Bill)

Because Ford feels real. Bill doesn't.

Bill is a supernatural entity that nobody expects to ever meet in real life, it's easy to disconnect from his flaws because he's a walking talking triangle. And most importantly, despite being openly evil, he's charismatic in terms of personality and stupidly entertaining to watch.

Not to mention that before the book of Bill, everyone was already blatantly aware of Bill being evil, what they discovered upon reading the book is the opposite - things that would make you sympathetic towards him, his hurt and inner thoughts, something people could relate to. So, of course people would focus on those more. And exadurate it. And frankly, it's exactly what Bill wants. He's manipulated everyone into liking him by showing this, because now he wants something from you, the reader. You're no longer the passive audience, Bill has reached to you directly and is trying to make a deal. He's performing for you specifically. "See, I ain't so bad:)". Obviously he kinda fails in his usual ways due to his misunderstanding of humans and emotional instability making him vulnerable. But ultimately, he still got what he wanted from some people...

Then what about Ford? Well, frankly I think the book of Bill pushed him more "in the front" and people have started to actually analyse his character rather than overlooking it on the surface level.

And discovered that, oh wow, Ford has flaws.

He's always had them, but they're hidden in his behaviour and the framing of the show that's seen through the eyes of Dipper and Mabel just doesn't paint him in negative light. And seeing as there isn't even that much of interactions between Mabel and Ford, it's more so through Dippers eyes, who deeply admires Ford. You need to dig to see the flaws and well people haven't collectively done so until now, focusing more on the characters with more screentime.

And now that they have it's like. "Oh wow, this guy is kinda... morally gray". And more importantly, they notices that he's self-centered(not selfish, self-centered, big difference!). Ford is stuck in his own head, he's distrustful and paranoid, he has unhealthy coping mechanisms. And it shows. He's not a blatantly terrible person, but he's made terrible choices and decisions and he's hurt people. And some of it is because he was manipulated and abused by Bill, but some is just because of his core flaw. The self-centeredness. It feels like Ford doesn't see past his nose, he deeply believes that everything revolves around him and the only truth is his truth. He needs to feel important, to matter. Desperately. It doesn't just mean that he sees himself as the hero, the saviour and the genius. It also means that in the low moments he sees himself as so much lesser than and that he's absolutely convinced everyone does. That he's convinced all his paranoia is at all times justified. He fundamentally cannot put himself in other people's shoes. And yes that hurts others, and it also hurts him because he jumps to the worst conclusions (such as about Stanley and his intentions) and he becomes convinced he has to be right.

Ford is also, and I'm sorry for saying this, questionably likeable. He's socially awkward and nerdy and many people like that, but it's just objectively not as charismatic. His attempts at being cool, are, well... dorky. And it's endearing in a way, but it's not raw charisma. It doesn't captivate and capture as many people as Bill's fun personality, it doesn't distract from who Ford is. And that's on purpose, because Ford's personality is real. And Bill is performing constantly as part of the act to conceal for bad he is.

If you've had the misfortune of meeting a master manipulator like Bill, oh boy am I sorry for you. But I bet for a very long time you were convinced that person is cool before you escaped them, the experience was almost surreal, right? You can swear they were so fun to hang out with, you didn't even notice when it's gotten so bad. Or maybe, you never even got close to them and on the surface they were just so fun and then you find out how horrible they are through the grape vine, and you ask yourself "wow, really, that guy?".

And truly, most people won't even meet a person like that.

But Ford? You've met a Ford.

In a way, at least.

You've definitely met someone who's so in their head they aren't always pleasant. And that guy doesn't care about appearances - he's not lying to you. Just doesn't see things in a different way. And they're open about it, they will tell you that they're right.

And I bet that, if you got close to a person like that, they unintentionally hurt you. They're not... all that, no. But they're dismissive. They don't understand. They hold grudges because they just can't believe your perspective, not even because they do not want to. They will fluctuate between never taking accountability and defending their actions to death and apologizing and agonising so much that you have to comfort them about their own mistakes because suddenly they're the worst person in the world and everything is their fault. And you know, it hurts. It hurts because you love them, because there's so many genuinely good things about them. But it's so mentally exhausting to keep up with their emotional issues that you slowly start resenting them anyway.

And if you have never gotten close to someone like that, perhaps if you didn't find a part of them charming immediately, you've still met them - you just found them mildly annoying. It's the "Um, actually" guy. The "correct your grammar and pronounciation" guy. Even if they're right it's just so. "God, they're a stuck-up asshole." Even if that's objectively not true because they volunteer to rescue kittens every weekend and have invented the cure for cancer.

And it's so much easier to dislike the real problem. You've never met a dimension destroying monster, nor someone who could control your body in a literal way, nor, you know, a "demon". (At least I fucking hope so?). You've met someone who didn't mean to hurt you but couldn't help it. You've met an annoying kinda stuck-up smart guy. And now you see that guy in Ford and you cannot unsee it and you're projecting your feelings.

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How my Stanley/Reader(2nd person OC POV) fic is going I'm so far from where I wanna put the smut and it's missing descriptions between dialogue in places. This will be... so much.

Uh.. Follow me if you wanna read it when it's done ig. because honestly no clue who I'm writing this for I have no friends in the fandom ahaha. I might wanna make it into a "dating" sim if my creative battery doesn't die on me when I'm done with the fic.

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Discarded sketch of mullet Stanley. I wanted to make a full drawing but the pose isn’t posing. I’ll pick another pose and do more later.

PS, if you found this, I’m writing a fic with mullet Stan and I need headcanons for where he’d have scars. Please tell me yours.

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If the post where you complain that you should draw Sam Walls properly sometime gets noticed by Little Bat Games, you goddamn draw Sam Walls properly. So, here's my depicton of everyone's favourite Vampire Comboy♡ I don't know why he's in a field, but I just wanted to draw him happy goofing off with someone, stumbling back and catching his hat to keep it on his head. People and characters get so much brighter when you imagine you're in love with them, and perhaps just a little bit of it is the real deal for me with Sam. I adore this game with my whole heart, and fun fact, it released on my birthday this year and it was the best birthday gift the universe could have given me.

I also cannot get a silly Vampire Therapist and Gravity Falls crossover idea out of my head now, but I'm still working on it and it deserves another post anyway.

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love is in the air... in the form of bullets <3

I'm like, mid chapter 28, but this image just refused to leave my head

if you don't know, this is about TAMN made by @uhohbestie

also thanks to my friend @mischivousvoid for coming up with Pops's line~

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I ran out of time and motivation so have a coloured sketch only, but

Behold, Fiddleford H. McGucket cosplaying Sam Walls from Vampire Therapist. I have a more original design for cowboy-vampire Fiddleford cooking, but my inspiration for it was Sam anyway so I wanted to draw this first for Halloween.

I should just draw Sam sometimes ahaha I love vampire therapist it's practically my favourite game

Also,YES, he's meant to be wearing cowboy boot crocs, if I had more energy it'd be more clear. crocs are like the only shoe I can imagine Fiddleford wearing after he recovered from insanity, and this is technically him from my AU where some of the characters have their physical bodies get younger by few decades for spoiler-to-possible-fic-reasons because I want to explore what they would do having to reflect on their life now that they have a semblance of a second chance to re-live it.

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Oh god theres more

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You will get none of the context, but here's a dialogue that sums up how I'm handling Bill's "redemption" in my AU:

:Uncle Bill, are you evil in every timeline other than this one?

Bill:Other than this one? Kid, I'm still evil, I'm just trapped in this meatsack

:But, if you're evil, why are you so nice to me, and, well, to everyone?

B: Ugh, because, and I'm disgusted just saying this, but 'cause I love ya. Stupid brain chemicals made me docile. And because it'd be pointless to hurt you, it won't get me what I want, but if I'm nice, then your loser Dad keeps buying me the trinkets.

:So what would you do if you had your powers back?

B: Ha! Rebuild the world to my design, of course! And trap you guys in a mind bubble, the most perfect reality you can imagine tailored to your needs by yours truly!

:whaaat, but I'm happy in this one!

B:Then maybe you're already in the bubble kid!

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You know you have it bad when The Guy With Weird Tastes™️ that you know doesn't understand your character crush 😔

But that's okay, at least the Internet understands

At least the Internet understands

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I have a conflicting opinion on FiddAuthor, because I don't ship them bc I don't like it and I firmly believe Ford is sapiosexual and too far on the aroace spectrum (with a tinge of only being attracted to the mythical/divine) for it to be possible.

But I also don't believe that anyone would leave their wife and kid to work on a shady science project in the woods with a guy they weren't in love with.

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I'm slowly planning out a gravity falls AU with a Bill redemption arc that I might write, but the redemtion pretty much happens at gunpoint.

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Coloured doodle of Stanley, Fiddleford and my OC chatting about inventions and such. If you're wondering why Stan isn't wearing glasses it's because it was stated a few times that he doesn't like them and I felt like leaving them out of the drawing lol. Fiddleford looks a little healthier bc I don't believe he wouldn't fix some of his health issues after both regaining sanity and getting rich.

If you squint and ignore my OC you can pretend this is FiddleStan.

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Ah yes, let my first tumblr contribution be a dumb meme edit