#Take back the Falls

[sc00bynatura1]

two days late but happy 9 years to weirdmageddon 3 !!! here’s the pines family’s favorite way to celebrate 🎉

[mattciav]

I was there. I remember when that happened

Take Back the Falls? More like...

[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 ☹️💔💔

[cloaked-comet]

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!)

[its-ya-girl-phoeni]

@azure-aeon-dragonica

I really do love how "Eenie meenie miney... you." went from being a funny Stan moment from the first episode to a line that was absolutely chilling and terrifying whenever Bill said it

[ifbrd]

Cipher Zodiac - Holding Hands with Enemies

If I’ve got my dates right, today is the 9 year anniversary of Gravity Falls ending. Consider this analysis and discussion my celebration post! (Not that I care to celebrate that my favorite show ended nearly a decade ago but anyway…)

I recently ran into this really cute little mini Gravity Falls fan comic by @the-meme-monarch. I actually first saw it Reddit (credit properly given) a few weeks ago (and hunted it down today to reblog lol) and people on Reddit were talking about how having Mabel hold Gideon’s hand in the finale was a weird choice.

I want to talk about that, but first I want to clarify a few things:

- This is not supposed to be any kind of like callout or attack or anything like that on you @the-meme-monarch. I love this art you did, it's sweet and adorable and it would have been nice to see in canon. I'm really worried you'll take this post the wrong way and think it's meant to be personal so I just want to assure you that that is not the case.

- I am making this a separate post, not a reblog to your post, because I don't want to hijack it haha. I want your post to just be about your lovely art, not the long winded analysis I'm about to give. So everyone please go check out that post!

- I definetly think this is a fair critism about the finale. Mabel, by no means, should have been forced to hold Gideon's hand when he couldn't just learn from his wrongdoings. With what I'm about to say, I'm not trying to say this was necessarily a good choice.

With those things said, I do want to play devil's advocate a bit for this decision.

Having Mabel and Gideon be next to each and hold hands, does serve a narrative purpose here, albiet said narrative purpose could have been executed a lot better, in my opinion (or, alternatively, wasn’t even entirely necessary)

Let me explain. Let's revisit this scene: Ford takes Robbie's paint can and goes around painting the Cipher Zodiac on the ground. People start figuring out where they are on the Zodiac and getting in position. Gideon makes a big deal about being next to Mabel, despite her asking him not to. Ford instructions everyone to hold hands. Pacifica remarks that she will not hold hands with McGucket's dirty hand, and her father tells her she should do the one thing no one in their family has ever done "touch the hill-billy" (a sentence that sounds terrible out of context). They start glowing and after the extras evacuate, Ford tells Stan to join. Stan refuses, taking this opportunity to have a conversation with Ford that absolutely does not need to be addressed in this moment. Ford passive aggressively thanks him, and then corrects his grammar which is also something that absolutely does not need to addressed in this moment. They start fighting and it all falls apart.

The narrative purpose that's being served by Mabel holding Gideon's hand, is to contrast Stan and Ford, and further emphasize how riduculous they are being in this moment. Mabel is choosing to temporarily let go of her ill feelings towards Gideon, for the sake of saving the world, and she's not the only one to do this. Pacifica didn't want to hold McGucket's hand, but did so anyway to save the world. While Stan is refusing to hold hands, Robbie announces that he has "never held hands this long before" and is "very uncomfortable" but he is also continuing to cooperate in spite of this clear discomfort. These are examples of members of the Cipher Zodiac, members who are children or teenagers with underdeveloped brains and are therefore more likely to act selfishly or immaturely, setting aside their discomforts for the sake of the greater good. Then there's Stan and Ford, two grown ass men, who both know what's at stake, know their family, their neice and nephew, could die if they don't defeat Bill, yet can't manage to put aside their hurt feelings long enough to do whatever the Cipher Zodiac was going to do. The kids can pull themselves together, why can’t the full grown adults?

In what way could this have been executed better? In my opinion, the best way to execute this would be to have has many members of the zodiac as possible be holding hands with people they have or had conflicts with. This would, in theory, make Stan and Ford the only ones who couldn't set aside their grudges, which would have made it more impactful.

Most of us know that the Cipher Zodiac wasn't originally supposed to mean anything, it was just supposed to look cool and mysterious at the end of the title sequence. It was thrown in to the finale because fans had spent so much time theorizing about it. If this hadn't been the case, if the Cipher Zodiac was actually something intentional that was planned from the beginning, they really could have preplanned this and made it impactful. They could have designed the Zodiac to have the symbols have to be in a specific order, and could have written the series with that in mind, to make it so everyone was holding hands with someone they had issues with.

Of course, that wasn't the case, but I still think this could have been done more effectively with the position the writers were actually in. Looking back on the series, I decided to photoshop the finale's Cipher Zodiac to be odered in, what I think, would have made this contrast in actions more impactful. I tried to order it in a way that as many people as possible had a problem with someone they were holding hands with.

The original:

My Photoshopped version:

My explanations, starting with Ford and going counter clockwise:

Ford and McGucket - they had a falling out, although they did make up mere minutes prior to this.

McGucket and Pacifica - what canon did, and the reasoning has already been brought up and was openly expressed in canon. Though McGucket doesn't seem to have any ill feelings towards Pacifica or her family.

Pacifica and Mabel - what canon did, these two did have a rivary for a good portion of the series, although they had more or less resolved that

Mabel and Gideon - what canon did, and I don't need to explain this, it's what sparked this entire post

Gideon and Dipper - these two hated each other. Dipper didn't like how Gideon harassed Mabel, Gideon was convinced that Dipper was coming between him and Mabel

Dipper and Robbie - these two fought over Wendy for half of season 1. And I don't think they every actually made any kind of amends with each other specifically.

Robbie and Wendy - they dated and had a messy breakup, although they did appear to make amends

Wendy and Soos - also what canon did. Look, Soos is the world's most perfect man, he has beef with literally no one, but he's on the Cipher Zodiac nonetheless, so he has to hold hands with someone, this is the only spot left.

Stan and Soos - Again, what canon did, and we can refer to the same logic as above, but I also think this can work to our advantage here. One the one hand, keeping in mind their father-son dynamic, Soos adores Stan and wants his affection, so I could see it being awkward for him to hold hands with Stan, whether nervous because "don't mess this up, Soos" or an overly excited issue. While Stan seems to care about Soos the same, he would never in a million years admit it, which would make holding Soos's hand potentially awkward for him, especially if Soos is being a crazy fanboy over it. On the flip side, like making the complete opposite argument, Stan not being cooperative when he has no problems with one of the people he's holding hands with, while nearly everyone else has an issue with both people they're holding hands with and aren't making a scene, could further emphasize the ridiculousness and immaturity in his actions.

So yeah! That's what I think should have been done for this to be most effective! Or just not putting Mabel by Gideon at all would have also been great!

I'm curious though: Does anyone else have a different way they'd set up the Cipher Zodiac than what I did?

[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...

[tdvotes]

Episode 19 Take Back the Falls Loser Round 1 Poll #2

Valentine's Day is over. Yesterday was about love; today is about fighting. Yes, it's the Gravity Finaleversary. Take Back the Falls Day. The 9th anniversary (WOW I'm old!) of Bill Cipher's defeat.

Anyway, today there are 14 teams that did not receive any votes in the first round. We randomly split them up into 2 polls of 7 teams each. The loser from each poll will go to the Final Marshmallow Poll.

Vote for the team you want to ELIMINATE.

Btw, tomorrow we will have about a 6-8 hour break between polls.

[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.

[hkthatgffan]

Ah, February 15th. It's an important day for so many reasons. Of course, as you all know, today marks the 9 year anniversary of Weirdmageddon 3 airing and with it, the end of Gravity Falls as a series! It's crazy to think when I first joined the fandom in 2017, this episode was not even a year old yet...now it's a year away from being a decade old.

What's more, there's some other important GF related anniversaries today too. 12 years ago today, Boss Mabel aired in 2013, ending the first major hiatus for Gravity Falls and being the first episode to air that year. It's also the 7 year anniversary of the Puzzling Pines event that Alex Hirsch held on Twitter in 2018, through which the cover and name of the then upcoming GF graphic novel was revealed; Lost Legends! I still remember that night so well and waiting to see who would have the next piece of the puzzle. Till last year, it was the closest thing I ever got to experience in the GF fandom to what it must've been like when the show was airing.

Today is also the 60th anniversary of the flag of Canada; my home! I'm so grateful for all that this amazing country has given me the chance to do. I'm proud to be Canadian and always will be thankful for the life I have and never will take it for granted. Shout out to my fellow Canadians. We're lucky to call this beautiful country home!

Oh also, new video dropping at 3PM EST today about Gravity Falls of course, lol. It's about Alex's Tumblr post in 2015 that ended the show and how it still holds up today!

New Video Link!

In the mean time, check out this awesome video by Valkyrie247 from 2017 to mark the 1 year anniversary of Gravity Falls ending!

It's one of my all time favourite GF tribute videos and I always love rewatching it to mark the occasion.

To 9 years of Gravity Falls being over, 7 years of Lost Legends' cover being revealed, 12 years of Boss Mabel and 60 years of one of the most beautiful flags ever!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[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!!!!!!!!!