#Take back the Falls

[hkthatgffan]

Happy 25th birthday, Dipper and Mabel 🥳

It's crazy to think Gravity Falls itself is now as old as the twins were that summer and in turn, that same amount of time has now past since. Though we may all grow old as time goes on, our love for them and Gravity Falls will never end!

It's been quite a summer. From the Book of Bill, the website, Gravity Falls having a resurgence in popularity not seen since it ended and so much more. It's been an incredible adventure to see and like every summer, we end it celebrating the birthday of, to quote Alex Hirsch, "the cartoon babies that live in my brain."

I say it every year, but who knows what is to come till the next summer (ours...not GF's as that's not happening, lol). Will we get a new Gravity Falls book announced with BoB's success showing Disney it's worth it? Will Alex Hirsch's Netflix projects finally get out of development hell and happen? Will I still be here? Will Gravity Falls' fandom still be as thriving or will it decline back to the semi popular state it was before? Who knows. But whatever happens next, I am grateful to have experienced yet again a chance to see the GF fandom feel like it was alive again to the same extent as if a new episode was airing.

I was not here for those days. I barely got to experience that in 2018 with Lost Legends. So, in a large sense, this whole experience was as new for me, a now 7 year long member of the fandom, as it was for a fan who just joined this summer. Despite the ups and downs, I'll take these memories with me and cherish them for many years to come and till the end. From the book of Bill PR, the codes and deciphering them, helping Alex Hirsch curb leaks (I'll discuss that in a future video, lol), waiting for the website to reveal its secrets and more. It's been amazing.

Happy birthday, Dipper and Mabel. Here's to another great summer and for another amazing season of memories made.

Gravity Falls is real and it will NEVER die!

[ctghost]

WAIT NO.. WAIT

When weirdmaggeddon ended, everything was restored to its former glory, including buildings and other properties that have been destroyed by bill right, like because of the reversal of the effect and all

BUT THE MYSTERY SHACK STAYED RUINED.. even after the weirdness reversal (it was protected by the unicorn spell initially but bill eventually manage to somehow get through that too) and when the pines family got to the shack to see its ruins, stan looking around not regonizing it and just calling it "a real nice place" mabel trying to use the only one thing left intact and what remains of their home, which was the scrapbook in hopes to jog his memory .. The ruined mystery shack possibly just symbolizing stan losing his memory.. AND in a devestating sense its like they won't get him back UHM I'M UNWELL. I'M SICK. UGHHHHH ☹️💔💔

[comet-soda]

Probably never gonna clean this up properly, but Mystery Twins!! Finally able to make fan art of 'em, even if I'm eight years late :P

[Image description: digital art of Dipper and Mabel from Gravity Falls. They're standing side by side, seen from a high angle and looking roughly at the viewer with their fists clenched and determined expressions. Bill appears behind them, with his eye wide open. End ID.]

(Ty anistarrose for the image description!)

[jacobrewind]

Oh, don't mind me. Just, you know, paying respect to t h e f l a g on flag day. You know how it is. t h e f l a g is just so important and powerfull that it's important to just take a moment out of your day once a year... preferably once a month... and show t h e f l a g your appreciation. And if you're lucky, you may even be chosen by t h e f l a g to breifly become part of t h e f l a g and finally understand wholeness thanks to t h e f l a g.

love t h e f l a g

touch t h e f l a g

buy t h e f l a g

respect t h e f l a g

[violetjinxed]

I've got some children I need to make into corpses-

See ya real soon 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 what a wholesome kids show THIS TOOK FOREVER HREKLP EHRJGEWTUBF frick

[bobauthorman]

Something I picked up on...

[monstrousmuse]

Gotta love how the central conflict of ‘Take Back The Falls’, or what I like to call the Equation Situation, literally boils down to being one giant game of ‘I know something you don’t knowww’

Oh, but this time the integrity of the entire multiverse is at stake, so you Pines Twins better not loose your nerve-!

[callipraxia]

I was just thinking about the finale and…what on Earth must have been going through Stan’s mind, in those few minutes we don’t see between the hugging scene and the return to the Mystery Shack? Bad enough to realize you are surrounded by strangers in the middle of nowhere, then to realize they all seem to know you when you don’t know them, and then to realize you don’t know yourself, either…and then, apparently, Strange Weepy Suit Man demands your clothes and glasses?

Like, I know why, from an animation standpoint, Stan and Ford were back in their usual attire by the second scene. I also know why the show did not acknowledge this switch back in any way - it couldn’t help but introduce the scene to at least some degree of farce, and while real life has those farcical interludes in the midst of tragedy, it would have just been in poor taste to stick one in *there,* in *that scene,* in literature…but I just can’t help but wonder about what it all looked like from Stan’s point of view. First this total stranger, who is apparently dressed completely inappropriately for the middle of a forest, declares probably-you (‘Stan’ rings no bells, but people keep looking at you when they say it…) a hero and gets weepy-huggy about it. Uncomfortable. Then in the midst of it, he asks for his sweater and glasses back, and after a five-second delay you realize he’s referring to your things and also, therefore, trying to persuade you to wear a suit jacket in the middle of an overgrown forest in the middle of nowhere, as if that made any sense….

Or maybe Stan complained about the crack in ‘his’ glasses and this led to attempts to explain that ‘his’ things weren’t actually his. Either way, though…dang.

So, yeah. These are the kinds of pointless details that keep me awake at night.

[rgu-episodes-bracket]

Round 5 - Finale

[illusioncanthurtme]

Ooohh my god, I just finished watching take back the falls. I'm pretty certain I only watched it one other time, when it first aired. I can see why I only watched it the one time, it's a PILL!!!! I didn't cry, but I was staring at the screen like 🥺 the whole time. The goodbyes at the end!!?@?!?@,!, I fucking cant!!!!!!!!!

[icanlife]

New Gravity Falls fans, especially after The Book of Bill, will never know the eyes-popping-out-of-head sensation of watching Take Back the Falls and seeing Bill hold the Pines twins and gleefully, casually say “I think I’m gonna kill one of them, now! Just for the heck of it!”

[hkthatgffan]

The Birthday Mystery Twins!

I made those birthday hats back in 2017 for a collaborative project I did on GFA where me and other members on there made a card for the twins. It was a lot of fun and I've kept them since to bring out every August 31st. It's a little connection to my early days in the fandom.

[eldragon-x-moved]

Can you believe Gravity Falls ended 7 years ago today?

[bixels]

The final TF2 issue really got to me. Spoilers, but it’s the reveal that all of this suffering and murder and war over gravel and shitty land was for nothing but senseless, bottomless hatred. That the administrator can’t even remember where this revenge plot started as she flashes through different false memories of her parents’ deaths. There was never a tragic backstory or justification, only terrible people doing despicable things. And despite how crass and stupid and unserious TF2 is, the story subverts every expectation by showing the survivors and inheritors willingly breaking the cycle. Ms. Pauling lies to the administrator and chooses not to save her, and finally lets her die. (Hurts even more if you read into the subtext that Ms. Pauling is in love with the administrator.) She lets the final cache of Australium go and walks away from the burden and legacy of a century-old bloodfeud. Hale lets Gray’s daughter go and live her life freely. Spy is the first to arrive at Scout’s house and meet his big family, finally takes off his mask, and helps with the kids. Even Merasmus exhaustedly makes peace with himself and Soldier and chooses not to curse him or something. There’s nothing to finish, no promises to keep, and no one to avenge. The only thing to do is break the cycle and walk away.

It feels odd how happy and warm everything is, but it feels so right and earned. These bloodthirsty, awful, violent men were expendable cogs in a machine of endless violence, and they found a way out. It’s a genuinely great message about letting go the past that burdens you and finding the will and a way to hit the bricks, change, and be happy. Maybe they don’t technically deserve happiness, but they’ve got it nonetheless, and they’re not gonna let it go to waste. They’re still all crazy and violent, but on their own terms now and with people who love them! Smiles.

[katsinspats]

Thematically appropriate comic for Make a Terrible Comic Day!!

I saw the original post this morning and it made me get out of bed to make something, so thank u Pseudonym Jones mission accomplished

[aridatinas-art]

something something ... Stanford "Why didn't Rudolf just kill the other reindeer?" Pines and Fiddleford "I create death-mechas when my feelings get hurt" McGucket