#All in the mind tgamm

[tgammsideblog]

Analysis of the symbolism from ¨All In the Mind¨

¨All In the Mind¨ is an episode that left the fandom quite a lot to talk about since it involves the duo going inside Scratch's mind and finding many things about him. The episode has a more serious tone, filled with metaphorical imagery that is up for the viewers to intepret it and see what they represent for Scratch's character.

In these post i'm going to discuss this imagery and analyse what it means for Scratch and his human past. Since there is a lot to analyse, i'll go point by point, talking about different aspects from the episode.

The surface level

The first level of the mind Molly and Scratch find themselves into when they first go through the portal is what i would like to call ¨the surface level¨.

This level doesn't have much going on since it is basically a distorted version of the Mcgees house with gray color. Molly is able to jump from one room to the other randomly in this part. It doesn't seem to have a clear path as one room connects randomly to another.

Most things are gray in color, except for the monkey character that shows up multiple times across the episode, Molly's stuffed animals and food related items. There aren't any particular memories nor imagery that could be connected to Scratch's life as human if one excludes the monkey.

This level seems to represent who ¨Scratch¨ is, as his ghost persona and not his human past life. It's heavily implied that Scratch repressed the memories of his human life on purpose. It is possible that after dying/ repressing, Scratch created a new identity for himself as a ghost.

This would mean that the surface level represents the identity he build himself as a ghost until now. That's why the duo finds themselves in place Scratch considers his new home (the Mcgees house) and most things moving are things Scratch is familiar with, like his obsession with food and Molly's plushies.

His huge obsession with food seems to be part of his current persona instead of his human self. It could be considered as something he uses to distract his mind with, since he mentioned eating food when he gets nervous.

An interesting detail is that the pink ghost glow shows up in the song sequence when Molly ends up in her bedroom, which is where Scratch's doll house is located.

The duo finds out that the pink glow is coming from the doll house, shaped as a star from all the places it could be in the house. The doll house would be where Scratch has the most ¨privacy¨ for himself and the glow coming from inside it could be seen as a metaphor for Scratch having to open up to Molly to go deeper into his mind.

The bottle level

After going through the door in Scratch's doll house, Molly and Scratch find themselves in a boat made out of cardboard. They notice that they are inside a giant bottle and they are floating in what it is strawberry soda, the same one that brought a part of Scratch's memory in ¨A Soda to Remember¨.

Molly mentions of how this level could represent how Scratch is ¨emotional adrift¨ and ¨how he is bottling up his emotions up¨, showing that Scratch has been trying to avoid thinking of the flashback memory he got in ¨A Soda to Remember¨ and now those emotions are ¨bubbling up to the surface¨ manifesting as bubbles in Scratch's ghost body.

Based on this, this level could be described as Scratch's ¨emotional level¨ since it is about him having to be honest about how he really feels. It is when he lets out these feelings that he has been repressing that they are able to move to another part of the mind.

Some aspect that are worth of bringing up are: 1) The boat Molly and Scratch are in is the same boat that Scratch and Adia are sit on in the flashback 2) The soda seems to be what Scratch left in the bottle in ¨A Soda to Remember¨, avoiding drinking more out of fear of what other things he could see from his past. Considering all this, the bottle level is an allegory for the general anxieties and fears that Scratch has of facing his own past and finding out what is really inside his mind.

The building level

The third level the protagonist find themselves into is what it is a black space at first that has a trunk with a pink star surrounded by light. When they try approaching it, a huge tall building emerges from the ground and they both have to climb leaders to reach the top of the building, which is where the trunk is. Scratch can't float up, when he does, he falls into the ground. In result he has to climb the leader like Molly does.

The building resembles the Chicago building from Adia's memory. Inside of it looks very business like, filled with offices. Molly and Scratch even stop at one moment to point out how the strange monkey is working in one of the offices.

Seconds later a huge version of the same monkey starts throwing bananas at them, trying to stop them from climbing higher. The monkey is very angry and is also wearing a business suit like other versions of him.

It's a bit harder to guess what the building and the monkey throwing bananas at them could be an alllegory to, but, it is possible that it is about Scratch having a family that had too high standars for him to reach, probably they expected for Scratch to become a sucessful business man when he became an adult. It could be other societal pressures included as well. Another way to see it is that it is part of Scratch's life as adult when he was working in a very busy job that made him miserable. Since the monkey character is rarely seen happy with his job, it could be an indication of Scratch not being satisfied with his job.

Molly brings up that Scratch's mind is stopping them from reaching to the top. Scratch admits to Molly that he doesn't like thinking about his past and confesses that he got a memory from the time he took the soda in ¨A Soda to Remember¨. Based on this, this section of his mind could be where Scratch repressed his own memories. It is where he saves his own memories.

Once Scratch is ready to face his own memories the huge monkey character goes away and lets them climb to the top of the building where the trunk is.

The memory level

This isn't much of a level as it is the memory that Scratch has been repressing about Adia: It is about Adia and him (as a kid) playing in the cardboard boat and Adia talking to kid Scratch about how they are going to see all these different places when they grow up. Adia mentions how they are going to mark every place they visit using pink star stickers, which are the same pink stars that Molly and Scratch have been following during all the episode.

This gives hindsight of why Scratch usually is seen into navy related things, like having decoration in his room or pretending to be the captain in the ¨All Shark No Bite¨ episode. It comes from this childhood dream that he and Adia had about travelling the world together on boat.

Given all the thing we know about Scratch's character so far, it isn't too far to say that Adia was very likely one of the few friends he had, if not one of the few people that cared about Scratch when he was a human. It was one of the few things that he didn't fully repressed from his past life, as he mentioned that he could recall the soda in ¨A Soda to Remember¨.

It wouldn't be out of place neither to say that Scratch may have tried to work in the navy growing up, inspired by this childhood dream he shared with Adia, or maybe as an attempt to find her after she moved away.

The room they are playing in the memory is clearly the attic from the Mcgees' house, meaning that same house was where Adia used to live before she moved. This explains why Scratch was living in the attic as a ghost and was so protective of it when the Mcgees moved in at the start of the show (The Curse). Scratch was haunting and protecting something that he considered very important from his human life, even if he couldn't remember what it was.

What is with the tacos?

One common element that is mentioned a few times in the episode is tacos.

The image of a Scratch ¨brain¨ is shown twice in the episode, both times mentioning he loves tacos. It shows up during the song sequence when Molly is trying to check Scratch's ¨brain¨ and one of the spaces gets filled with tacos. Scratch is later seen grabbing a taco from a box that says ¨taco memories¨.

Having this in mind, tacos seem to have an important meaning behind them the same way the Surly Sid Soda is related to Adia. It's likely that tacos have to do with ¨memory repression¨ since they are mentioned when Molly asks Scratch about the things that are inside his mind and the tacos filling an empty brain space in the song sequence.

Another interpretation is that they are related to some personal memory from Scratch's past life. Scratch mentions ¨tacos of my past¨ in the song scene. Maybe he has to eat an specific type of taco to be able to recall certain memory the same way he did with Surly Sid Soda.

What is with the monkey?

The monkey character that shows up multiple times in the episode is the most unclear symbolism from ¨All in the Mind¨. He is shown doing different things like typing, making calls, driving the boat in the bottle level, throwing bananas at Molly and Scratch in the building level and giving therapy to Scratch during the song sequence.

What it is interesting is how he shows up in almost every level, including the first surface level. It is like something that Scratch can't repress, unlike Adia's memory.

The monkey is seen wearing a business suit and shares some resemblance with Scratch, like having the same bangs in his hair. He always looks at Scratch in disapproval, as he was dissapointed and annoyed by him. Scratch is shown to be annoyed and scared of the monkey in return. He backs away when he sees him in the bottle level and confesses to Molly that he is really scared of him.

A giant version of the monkey throws bananas at the duo in the building level, trying to stop them from going further. He is very agressive and angry towards them until Scratch confesses that he is scared of facing his past. The monkey changes his expression when Scratch mentions this to a more sad one and appears to be somewhat proud when Scratch says that he is going to face his memories.

It has been discussed by fans that the monkey in the suit represents Scratch or different stages of his human life, like working in the navy or in a business job. He could be an allegory to his parents' high expectations of him and pressuring him into be something that didn't want to be. Scratch is disturbed and scared by his presense, almost the same way a child acts when they don't want to dissapoint their parents. The fact that Scratch is so disturbed by him indicates that it was someone or different people that were negative experiences to him and he wants to avoid them.

He is clearly important since Molly brings him up near the end of the episode and Scratch avoids answering about it. The title end card with the Adia bubble hints that he could be a darker part of Scratch's past and he is going to show up in a future episode.

Conclusion

¨All In the Mind¨ is an episode that has a lot of symbolism and allegory that is worth of analysing, giving more exploration to Scratch's psyche and hints of what his human life was like. Hopefully future episodes are going to dive deeper into these allegories as well as showing Scratch's past life and why he repressed it.

[theknucklehead]

Something I actually didn't notice before

The attic that Todd and Adia are playing in

Is the exact same one that Scratch was living in that would then become Molly's room.

This means when Adia moved away and Todd eventually became a wraith,

The thought of missing his best friend caused Scratch to then move into her old house just to feel close to her again.

And the house would remain abandoned (likely do to people finding out it's haunted) until the day the McGees moved in

at which point they ended up becoming Scratch's new friends and family.

Seriously, it's moments like these that highlight just what a great show Molly McGee is and why some people don't give it enough credit. It's also why I'm still praying for a season 3 because of how much more potential it has to offer.

[dodelidoo]

“All in the mind” was wild

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[ladymiraclewings]

Take a moment to think of Just

Flexibility, love and trust

Take a moment to think of just

Flexibility, love, and trust

Here comes a thought that might alarm you

What someone said and how it harmed you

Something you did, that failed to be charming

Things that you said are suddenly swarming

And, oh, you're losing sight,

You're losing touch

All these little things seem to matter so much

That they confuse you

That I might lose you

Take a moment, remind yourself

To take a moment and find yourself

Take a moment to ask yourself

If this is how we fall apart

But it's not, but it's not, but it's not, but it's not, but it's not

It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay

You've got nothing, got nothing, got nothing, got nothing to fear

I'm here, I'm here, I'm here

[art-ificial-sweeteners]

[candydos]

The Ghost IS Molly McGee/All in the Mind

https://mega.nz/file/cLpTxTgA#p2Qez3fz_sgQRRyJPx-b1LT8ZCnRmLetUOnOdBB7hTY

(if that doesn’t work, try https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PpIXPGIS1GGxJEnFSKGB4sBiHdyFuexM/view?usp=sharing)

[frogsndogs]

Idea that has been rotating in my brain since seeing "Frightmares on Main St.":

Ollie is getting bullied at school for believing in ghosts and Scratch is having none of it. I'm thinking his reaction would be similar to the one he had to Tammy making fun of Molly in "The (Un)natural". Like "I'm the only one allowed to make fun of Ollie Chen". Cue Scratch scaring the bejeebies out of the kids.

[the5n00k]

Which triad do you like better: The Enhappify Trio (Molly, Libby and Andrea) or The Unhappify Trio (Scratch, Jeff, and Geoff)?

Now don't get me wrong, the girls were adorable in period piece and I love each of them so much but I'm biased towards the ghosts sorry 💀

Always been a non human fanatic plus shapeshifting and maybe a little body horror as a treat? Sign me up

Plus Geoff and Jeff are just so fun to watch on screen! (Scratch is the third wheel again 💔)

It feels a little unfair to compare both sets of friends since both have their strengths and weaknesses. It's very hard to choose!

[sweetsleepymoon]

words can't describe how much I love this episode.

[ladymiraclewings]

AKSJSISKPKKIII THIS IS AMAZING !!!

THANKS YOU FOR DOING IT ahhhhh....

Was inspired by this post ❤️

[tornrose24]

Did some more TGAMM humanized redraws for the fun of it, but in color (most of them being from the season 1 finale, and one of these is a redraw of a redraw). Also I was more focused on the characters which is why the backgrounds aren’t so great.

I knew eventually I’d have to do the Ghost Council and The Chairman. But the weird thing is, my mind was thinking ‘Well the hair on most of those guys would look like judge’s wigs’ and then ‘Ah hell, I’m already following the rules of musical theater costuming, I’ll just have all their hair look unnatural.’ Also, I admit it’s hard to imagine The Chairman looking human or even anything close to human, so I opted for a very unnatural/grotesque design. I also tried to tweak Molly’s wraith dress so the bottom would look more like a flower/resemble the lower half of a ghost a bit more.

(For anyone wondering why there’s a huge rip in Scratch’s clothes in most of these drawings, it’s thanks to Jinx’s scythe.)

[tgammsideblog]

Credits to @the5n00k for pointing out how the Mcgees house used to be Adia's as it was shown how some things from the flashback in ¨All in the Mind¨ were still in the attic when the Mcgees arrived at the start of the show. (The Curse)

[bennydwight]

A dialogue snippet that turned into this:

Standoff (TGAMM Oneshot: Spoilers for season 2)

Summary: Half-feral, trapped in a snare barely big enough for his fluctuating form and Oliver Chen's gun trained directly at his head, Scratch is out of options.

So why isn't Ollie taking the shot?

Intrinsically, Scratch was a pretty simple, lazy guy. He liked an easy routine, a familiar path. The hardest work he did most days was figuring out how to avoid hard work. He didn’t have the patience for strategy (why, when cheating was faster and easier?) and trying to think in multiple directions at once just sapped his strength and made his head hurt. All that variety, all that junk humans did to ‘better their mind’ was just so hard.

Astonishingly, it was made ten times harder when he was near bursting out of a containment unit, a wide barreled gun trained directly between his eyes.

He couldn’t even pinpoint where everything had gone wrong, too much focus funneled into clamping down on a base instinct: trapped in a snare barely large enough for his normal size and his afterlife on the line, Scratch’s scare form had started to take over.

He strained against the effort of keeping his ectoplasm intact, phantom breaths coming in rapid huffs even as his teeth lengthened, spines burst from his arms, his shape swelled and pressed dangerously against unyielding steel and electrons. Somewhere, quietly in the back of his mind and underneath the screaming need to SCARE SCARE SCARE SCARE, he realized dimly that he’d never been afraid of being crushed until now, after he’d gained the ability to phase through objects at will. Well, most objects. Go figure.

So it was here, desperately trying to reign in his higher processes, that through an animalistic red haze Scratch glowered into the eyes of his captor. Ollie stood mere feet away, that biohazard-yellow gun a shield between him and his helpless prey, and Scratch acknowledged a terrible gleam of satisfaction as even now the weapon trembled in the boy’s hands.

Across the other side of the warehouse, behind the orangey shimmer of the Chens’s forcefield, Molly lay prone, the tiny movement of her breaths the only reason any of the Ghost Chasers were still alive. Esther knelt next to her, first-aid kit in hand, expression one of barely-contained terror. Not his doing, but he’d take credit. Maybe next time she’d learn not to chuck a knockout bomb at a child. Well, at him. Molly had taken the metaphorical bullet (not a pretty mental image, given the circumstances), and if anything happened to her then Scratch was going to make all their lives a living hell.

Provided he got out unscathed. Somewhere, out of the thick of battle, Andrea fought to take the snare’s electronics offline, and no doubt June was blocking every attack with equal fervor. And even with legs as long as Libby’s, it would take too much time for her to reach the McGee’s house and bring back Pete and Sharon. Time Scratch didn’t have.

Imprisoned, half feral with the urge to survive, and one finger twitch away from total erasure, Scratch was out of options. Just him and Ollie, and the trap and the gun.

And the father.

Ruben stood, face and hands pressed against the forcefield, vibrating with adrenaline. His attention laser focused to his son, caught on the opposite side with the enemy (that was Scratch, he had enemies now), the shouts of excitement and encouragement died at Ollie’s hesitation and veered distinctly into confusion and urgency.

“Finish it, Ollie, it’s trying to take attack form! End it before it escapes!”

Ollie’s only acknowledgement was the hitch of his shoulders, eyes locked with Scratch in a way that felt like he was missing context. Scratch had seen this boy’s hatred firsthand, he put things on the internet that should not be there, so what stopped him now?

A memory flashed to mind: Molly throwing herself in front of the knockout bomb, and someone shouting ‘NO’ nearby, and Scratch swelled painfully against the snare as a fresh wave of rage tore through his ectoplasm like the hiss from behind his fangs.

Ah. So now he knew.

“We’re so close, Ollie,” Ruben continued to not shut up, voice like fingernails down Scratch’s strained self-control. “Our family’s whole legacy has led up to this! You can give us everything we’ve ever dreamed, just pull the trigger!”

The monster was caged, and still fear shone like a beacon behind Ollie’s eyes. Everything they’d worked for at his feet and he still didn’t move. Didn’t look away.

Scratch was not a smart man on the best of days and now, claws scoring uneven grooves in the ground as their length oscillated with his concentration, he was grossly, hilariously far from his best. “Do it kid,” Scratch snarled, sucking harsh breaths from between gritted teeth. “You know what it’ll cost ya.”

“Do it, Ollie! This is our only chance!”

A long beat passed.

Ollie’s hands shook, but his trigger finger didn’t waver.

From outside, a roar, and then a scream. Good old Geoff. The Chens’s heads whipped towards the door, and their combined fear-smell nearly whited out Scratch’s mind for good.

“Go help June!” Ollie’s voice pitched high with terror, and something else that tugged Scratch’s mind back to clarity. Surprise registered through the darkness clouding his mind as his parents obeyed, gathering a limp Molly into their arms, and a strange quiet settled over the warehouse.

And then, there were two.

Most of the threat and the fear-smell were gone, but Ollie still had a gun to his head and Scratch was still angry. His hue shifted, deepening to a sickly green, mouth stretching wide in a grotesque grin. “So what’ll it be, Ollie? Gonna finish me yourself? Or gonna make your daddy do it for you?” The snare creaked ominously as his growth strained the limits. The ropes of plasma burned fierce red lines through the green, but he barely registered the pain. “Either way, she’ll never talk to you again. Won’t even look at you. She thought better of you, y’know. Tried her darnedest to change your mind. You want her to wake up and find out she failed?”

Ollie’s eyes hardened, and Scratch’s temperature dropped several degrees. He really should’ve known better by now than to make calculated risks, this one might’ve just cost him his life.

Ollie’s hand moved, and Scratch bit back a flinch before watching it dip into a pocket and emerge with a square device. As he pressed the giant, terrifying button right in the middle, Scratch braced for pain.

Instead, the pressure around him retreated, and Scratch floated up into the air. Free.

Free, and alone with the Ghost Chaser, who kept the gun trained on his head even as scared tears pooled at the corners of his eyes.

They stared at each other in a stalemate, Ollie unwilling to put down his weapon and Scratch wobbling between forms as he considered whether to put his uncomfortably pent-up scare energy to good use. Or at least entertaining use.

“Run,” Ollie whispered, and Scratch couldn’t tell if it was a threat or a plea.

The instinct-induced haze lessened. If Ollie took the shot, he’d be disappointing Molly. (Who was he kidding, life without Scratch? He’d be devastating Molly!) But if Scratch proved the Chens thoughts on ghosts right, he’d be doing the same thing.

Ollie hefted the gun higher, looking no keener to use it. “Run,” he repeated.

The easy way out. No lie, Scratch had considered it immediately. Molly was safe enough with the Chens, and all he wanted was to disappear into a dark corner and forget this whole nightmare ever happened. He could run, and they’d be more careful, and this whole debacle meant Molly would stop hanging out with Ollie, and Scratch’s life could go back to normal. Save being on the run. Forever.

(Or until the Chens died out, and with Scratch’s luck this would absolutely turn into a multigenerational blood feud.)

Facts were: he was outed, and so was Molly’s connection to him. They’d never be safe, not while the Chens were determined to cleanse the world of ghostkind.

Scratch took a deep breath and thought of his family, and the last of his spines smoothed and his colour returned to its natural blue and his shape stabilized. It might’ve been easier to go underground, but even these past few months of avoiding their (many, many) ghost traps had triggered an exhaustion that would’ve been called bone-deep if he’d had bones. He didn’t want to put his family through that, and frankly, Scratch was just damn tired. All he wanted was to sleep for a century.

He'd finish this first.

“Look, Ollie,” he started, relieved to find the bass in his voice had returned to normal. “As far as ghosts go, I’m a pretty lazy guy. Rather take a nap, y’know? All that exercise ain’t good for you.”

Ollie’s eyes darted to the side, face screwing up in that ‘um actually’ wince that Molly liked to adopt whenever she annoyed him enough to bring up the flat-earth theory. The first flicker of character he’d shown since this whole standoff started. “Not how that works, but what do you mean?”

Scratch smiled at his mortal enemy, and somehow it felt natural. “Means I’m tired of running, kid.”

 END

[toomanyhyperfixations]

TGAMM FINALE SPOILERS

Obviously, the TGAMM finale hit me hard (if you somehow couldn’t tell) just like everyone else. Like…harder than any show finale has ever hit me. Even AMPHIBIA didn’t destroy me this much, and I could barely function for days after that ending.

For some reason, I just can’t get over the ending of TGAMM. Don’t get me wrong, I think it was amazing and so well done and sent such a great message, but damn does it hurt. Like I almost get sick to my stomach thinking about it. Every time I think I’ve moved on it pops back into my head and it’s all I can think about.

And I’ve been wondering why. Why is the silly ghost show the thing to break me? I thought maybe it was because I’ve been with the show since it first premiered, which I didn’t do for Amphibia or Owl House. I wondered if it was because I just never expected an ending with this much emotional weight from a show like this.

Those might all be contributing factors, but I think I realized why it hit me so much harder, specifically why it hit harder than even Amphibia.

Scratch doesn’t remember.

In Amphibia, even though Anne and Sprig were separated at the end, they still remembered each other and all their adventures. Everyone in Amphibia could remember the calamity trio with fondness and vice versa. They lived their lives apart but knowing that they were still in the other’s minds.

And that’s where TGAMM differs.

Not only does Molly have to live without Scratch, she has to live with the knowledge that everything that happened between them is forgotten to him. He doesn’t know her or anything they did together. All of their time is just gone from his mind. And GOD that idea hurts. Imagine knowing someone who had this huge impact on you and that you had a huge impact on as well doesn’t know you anymore.

Scratch had his life changed for the better and obviously he’s happy now, but I hate that he doesn’t know the person who helped him get there.

I could ramble about this for days, but I’m gonna cut myself off here. Basically, The End is still personally attacking me.

[ladymiraclewings]

We know that the monkey businessman in Scratch's mind can be up to multiples interpretations of what he represent (such as anxiety or something) but what if he a sort of "Inner Scratch", like the inner Willow and Belos in The Owl House ?

[jackie-gremlin-ghost]

Here’s a post-finale TGAMM headcanon/crossover idea I have

A couple months after the finale, while out to lunch with her family, Molly notices two strangers hanging around in Sam’s Diner. They appear to be tourists; a boy and a girl, probably siblings, who look to be around college age or a little older. The boy is very casually dressed, looking over a map while writing something down in a blue book. The girl, meanwhile, who’s dressed very colorfully, is looking through photos in a pink album covered in stickers. It’s then that Molly catches a bit of their conversation.

“…If what I’ve gathered from the locals is true, there’s been quite a few eyewitness accounts of paranormal activity in this town, specifically of the spectral kind.”

“Yeah, I’ve heard that too. Apparently there was a huge thing that happened a little over half a year ago. A large cloaked figure with smaller beings nearly decimated the whole town, leaving people around them feeling drained and even depressed. Do you think the cause might’ve been similar to what happened back at Pacifica’s old house?”

“No. This wasn’t your basic haunting caused by unfinished business; this was clearly much more malevolent, and whatever did that was only in it for control. Not quite as bad as… you-know-what… but pretty close.”

“Still, it would be pretty cool to see some nice ghosts for a change. Sure, that couple in that old abandoned convenience store back when we were 12 were okay, but did they really need to use me as a scare tactic? I was already out of it on the Smile Dip as is, that just made it worse!”

Molly can’t help but insert herself into the conversation at this point, apologizing for eavesdropping and asking them what they knew about ghosts. The boy is a bit suspicious at this, which Molly responds with her own suspicions. She’s already barely managed to change the minds of one ghost hunter team, she’s not sure that she can do it a second time.

The girl is thankfully much more friendly towards her, and explains; her brother is a paranormal researcher, and since the two of them have recently graduated from college, they’re currently on a cross-country road trip, exploring different places and investigating whatever supernatural mysteries they might hold. They’re not hunters at all; they just wanna learn about the unknown ever since a very eventful summer they had when they were young.

Molly is relieved by this, and always eager to make new friends, she sits with them and introduces herself.

“I’m Molly McGee. And you are?”

“Name’s Mabel. Mabel Pines. And this is my twin brother.”

“Hi. My name’s Mason. But everyone calls me Dipper.”

“Nice to meet you both. So… can I see some of the stuff you guys have seen? I noticed your scrapbook, and I can always appreciate a fellow scrapbooker who believes in a generous use of stickers.”

“Dipper! I’ve found more of my people!”