#Filbrick pines

[comically-blu]

edited: bruises TW!!

cycle of leaving the nest

[greygulfh]

When I was 7, I made my mom a birthday gift- a "free love" mock-membership-card, with a bunch of hearts in childish hand drawing and a big "I love you".

It's been 13 years, and she still has it in her wallet. She ignored me and my siblings being abused, she perpetuated some of the neglect herself. She holds it on her as a reminder she was, or perhaps false hope that she is, a good parent.

Every single time I see discussions about Filbrick never wiping off the "#1 DAD", I think back to this card.

[greenbunny7]

Wait wait wait! Stan is dipper and mables great uncle yes? Who is they're grandma/grandma??? do Stan and ford have a sibling??? IS STAN THERE GRAMPA? WHAT DOSE THE PINE FAMILY TREE LOOK LIKE?????????????????!

PS keep in mind i was asleep for like all of Ford's screen time I do not remember any if the last season was this ever explained?

Well, you asked for this (and yes, this was explained)

The Pines Family Tree

Ok, so, this is the family tree to the best of my knowledge

Filbrick and Caryn had three sons (contrary to what the principal said in atots), Shermie, Stanford, and Stanley

Ok, now we gotta talk about the baby

Hana Hyperfixates made a whole video about ✨��the baby✨️ but I'll try to cover the basics here. In cannon, we don't know who the baby is. so there's three routes it could go

Route one: The baby is Shermie's son (Dipper and Mabel's father), and Shermie is the older brother (my personal favorite)

Route two: Shermie is the baby and a time traveler

Route three: Shermie is the baby, and there's two generations of teen pregnancy (my least favorite one)

The only time Shermie was mentioned in the show was the portal scene

He was also mentioned in the gravity falls game Legends of the Gnome Gemulet for the 3ds

I dug up this old Alex Hirsch tweet to

And, there's this tweet

Grunkle for Grandpa was actually a popular fantheory back when the show was coming out. but no Stan is not Dipper and Mabel's grandpa, Shermie is

I think Alex hirsch himself put it best in an interview with thatGFfan and Hana Hyperfixates (The part about Shermie is at 40:20 - 48:35 There's timestamps in the description)

On to Dipper and Mabel's parents. we know next to nothing about them, we do know that Dipper&Mabel's Dad worked with computers at some point. And it was revealed in TBOB that the reason Dipper and Mabel were sent to oregon in the first place was because their parents were probably getting a divorce, but that's about it

Hopefully, this answers your question

Wait, I just noticed your ask has grandma/grandma. Now that's something, not even I knew about the Pines family tree! /j

[nelsaqift]

is this anything

[brawcolie]

[scurvyboy]

i like to think that they got a talk like that

[the-knife-consumer]

Had a dream last night about a gravity falls game where you play as young Stanley having to sneak around and lie to stay out of trouble with Filbrick. It wasn't really a horror game but it had a lot of horror game-like mechanics and there was a general sense of discomfort the entire time.

The only quest I can remember is one where Stanley gets a bad report card while Stanford gets a good one. Filbrick is out doing business until tomorrow so you have until the morning to try and make it look like you got good grades. There's an option to use white out on Stanford's card while he sleeps and write your name instead.

You could also get future readings from mom, who would give hints on what will happen to you next so you can start setting up lies and stealing in advance instead of scrambling to cover yourself last minute. (If you could figure out what the readings were hinting at. They got progressively more vague as the game went on, going from "I hear" and "I see", to "I feel")

You didn't get to see what happened when Filbrick caught him, it just cut to a game over screen. You could be caught and sent to your room three times before this happens (which ends the quest you're on. Because you failed to lie well enough). There is no way to win. The game would just keep going with scenarios until you lost or gave up

There was a vending machine on the board walk that had warped reflections in the glass that corrected itself when you looked at it head-on

[drowninnoodles]

You know, personally I think it wouldn't hurt me to watch Mercedes get electrocuted a few more times. Just sayin

[dammjamboy]

You're our hero, Stanley.

[simpleart]

Now for some angst

[cryptic-underground]

Please, Not Him

Watched the mirror scene one night and got possessed to draw this. Hehe, enjoy! :))

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

Family Photos

[nelsaqift]

father of the year

[brawcolie]

this dude

[whateverthought]

I know there's a lot of debate about the Stans' age, and personally I've calculated it as 62, so Shermie would have had to have His Son(Dip+Mab Dad) at 16 and then the twins were born when their parents were 18 or vice versa. To me, I like the thought that Shermie didn't escape Filbrick's bad parenting and got a girl pregnant as a teenager and his son only managed to be slightly better and married the mother of his children only for their marriage to not work out. Bill Cipher referencing Dipper hearing his parents fighting.

It's the consequences of Bad Parenting and Abuse afflicted by this man that's haunting the narrative.

[dimonds456-art]

I cannot stop thinking about that fucking reveal on the website. There's no way Ford knew about that, right? Right?

Anyway, what could have happened if someone ACTUALLY bought Stan? Ford wouldn't fucking allow it, that's what

(Edit: Tumblr's eating posts with images so they don't show up in normal tags, but the DO show up on dashboards if I'm understanding that right. A reblog would be super helpful ^^)