#burden falls

[brightbeautifulthings]

Burden Falls by Kat Ellis

"'But maybe ghosts aren't quite what people think they are, not trapped spirits or anything like that. I see them more as … scars.' 'Scars?' 'Hmm … like a mark left on a place by some traumatic event. And maybe they only become visible when that same kind of trauma-energy occurs in the same spot.'"

Year Read: 2024

Rating: 3/5

About: A year ago, Ava Thorn's parents were killed in a tragic car accident, and now she and her Uncle Ty are being forced to move out of the family's manor. Worst of all, the Millers are moving in, a rich family with generations of bad blood with the Thorns. When one of her classmates turns up dead and missing their eyes, there are whispers of Dead-Eyed Sadie, the local urban legend, but it's Ava who turns out to be the police's prime suspect. Trigger warnings: parent/child death, car accident, drowning, fire, eye horror, drugging, bullying, threats.

Thoughts: The beginning of this book is brutally depressing: dead parents, horrific car accident, loss of childhood home, bullying, poverty. Ava's troubles just go on and on, and they're all awful, real-world problems rather than escapist horror ones. I struggled through the first hundred pages while I waited for things to get going. I don't know that the gloom ever lifted, and maybe that's a sign I'm aging out of the genre. Instead of being scared of the legend of Dead-Eyed Sadie, I was mostly just sad for these kids dying so young.

Ellis's urban legend is a lot of fun, and there's quite a bit of mystery and backstory behind Sadie. I enjoyed it, but I don't know that I ever believed it was real. If the book attempts to walk the line between supernatural and human killers (and I'm not positive that it does), it doesn't do it very well, and I was always looking for a human suspect. Ava's development is decent, largely fueled by her enemies-to-lovers arc with Dominic Miller, and I enjoyed their page-time together probably more than anything else. The reveal is a bit weird, but there's some nice tension at the end, and I was satisfied with the way it all turned out. A step down from Harrow Lake, but not a bad read altogether.

[reborn-from-taxes]

The revised version made me think of an AU where they meet in Xianle when they're both teen, Xie Lian as a prince and Hua Cheng as a young noble who's an absolute menace. More of my insanity in the tags

[joyfulhottubfuntik]

Stan thinks of himself as an anchor as in something cumbersome and heavy, a weight that you have to get out of your way in order to set sail.

Ford thinks of Stan as an anchor as in something grounding, something without which you would never be able to rest or let your guard down at all, because your ship would be washed away into the ocean. It's something you could never do without. A weight that could've stopped him from flying too close to the sun all those years ago if it had been there, and that prevents it now.

[charleemoon]

huge ginormous fucking pet peeve of mine in hannigram fics is hannibal not liking will's dogs. FUCK OFF. i dare you to say to my face that hannibal could not bring himself to love anything and everything that will feels love or fondness for. anything that is touched by him or breathed by his voice. will is an extension of him and they are one in the same. his whole control obsession and ritualistic behaviors would not apply to will because his love for him both stems from and is exacerbated by his inability to control himself around him. he cannot keep up his routines and patterns with will, because his desire to be seen and understood overpowers his reason. he wouldn't care about being covered in dog hair or caked in mud or bleeding out if it was in will's namesake. will is his own personal god. he loves those fucking dogs so much, not because it comes natural to him, but because they are part of will, and therefore loved inherently

[starmieknight]

No Burden He Is To Bear (No Portal AU) Masterpost

The Plot

Reunited

Divergence

The Intruder

The Car

Into the Bunker

A New Shirt

Medical Concerns

Missing Teeth

An Unexpected Phone Call (pt 1)

An Unexpected Phone Call (pt 2)

Misc.

Brother’s Keeper

Nap Time

Let’s Nap with Mama

Just Like Jersey

Shifty & Tate

Shifty

Wheels

Future

No Burden He Is To Bear (the fic)

Stan: The Cabin

Emma-Mae: Interlude

Stan: The Basement

[zylphiacrowley]

<previous - next>

[shanklin]

Stan arrives in Gravity Falls when Ford is at the height of his Bill worship.

The brothers meet, fight and get swiftly cursed to 

hold hands or die ♡

Turns out there is a very simple solution to the curse. 

All you have to do is let go first, and you will be perfectly fine and alive.

The other one dies in agony 10 seconds later, though. 

Both Stan and Ford refuse to even consider that option, and bind their hands together to prevent accidents.

Over the next week or two, they do not so much make up as get used to each other's company again. It’s almost impossible to stay mad at someone and ignore them if you’re holding hands 24/7 and have to suppress a laugh every time they make a silly snide comment.

Despite Bill's protest, Ford realizes he missed Stan more than he ever thought was possible and is almost ready to ask him if he wants to stay in Gravity Falls after the curse is broken.

The very next night, Ford wakes up screaming to the worst pain imaginable. 

He is dying.

Stan stands above him with wide eyes and just watches. The bindings around their hands are cut off, and Ford’s hand is free. This was no accident.

With his last bit of strength, Ford reaches out and grabs Stan’s hand. 

The pain is gone in an instant, but the realization of what just happened hurts much more than dying.

Bill has been right all along. Stan couldn’t be trusted.

He wants Ford dead.

[caninescreations]

the many mysterious faces of maurice... and their definitely-not-favorite-spawn stanley

[razzafrazzle]

bill cipher for drag race When

[image description: two drawings of a human design of bill cipher from gravity falls, where he is depicted as a thin, pale-skinned individual with one eye visible and a constantly exaggerated smile. on the left he has his hair in a pointy beehive style and is wearing a shiny yellow gown with a short black hoop skirt over it, along with long black gloves and a bright yellow cane. on the right he has his hair in a short geometric bob and is wearing a bedazzled yellow bodysuit with pointed shoulders, a large red eye on the chest, and black beads dangling off of it, as well as matching boots with red tights underneath and a black cane. next to that is a small comic of bill posing dramatically on the ground while kryptos stands behind him with his arm comically snapped in half. kryptos says "bill i think i broke my arm", to which bill responds "NOT NOW KRYPTOS IM BUSY SERVING". end id]

[wyn0rrific]

I was an angel, but they made me leave

[lesbica-in-decadenza]

I've seen a few jokes about Texas and Lappland being divorced now which are great. Truth be told though, I think that this is perhaps the start of their relationship. Lappland ties her very identity to Siracusa, and envies Texas greatly for managing to divest herself of her own identity. That was the basis for Lappland's "obsession" with Texas, so to speak. And so this game of theirs began, with Lappland trying to drag Texas back to Siracusa to prove that there is no escaping that identity.

That is, however, until she sees firsthand that the people of Siracusa can change. She sees the citizens and mafioso of Nuova Volsinii choose peace with no outside interference. Despite how sure she was that they would choose as ever to commit violence, they instead chose to lay down their arms and revel in the Carnivale. As much as Lappland has been trying to prove otherwise, I believe this is the answer she desperately wanted. It's the final answer to this grand stage that she's set, and despite all of her efforts to set chaos in motion the people have chosen peace.

Lappland's final conversation with Texas here is about herself just as much as it is about Siracusa. Lappland: "They're cheering for you and me, for this new city, for a new life."

Texas: "But I don't mind being part of the event. I don't mind these people seeing some sort of 'meaning' in me."

Texas: "Whether in Columbia or Siracusa, I do, in fact, hope to see a truly vibrant city emerge from the swamp."

Texas: "If the challenge and complexity of building it are beyond what I can imagine, then I will face the challenge with my friends, not run away from it."

Lappland: "But when the obstacles have all been pushed out of the way, how will they-you-change this swamp?"

Lappland allows Texas to grab the mask-her mask-without hesitation, and take it from her. After all

She won the bet, didn't she?

[thefallenangel2008]

You know what I did at school today for that 1 hour I was there instead of paying attention to a video? I thought about Gravity Falls. About Stan, to be exact. And I came up with an AU cause yes, and y'all gonna love it (I'm delulu).

An AU where Stan finds a job in a library. You know how libraries give out food to homeless people? What if Stan while he was homeless went to a library to get some food, and idk, ig he met the owner, a sweet old lady, and they talked, Stan vented a little to her, she comforted him, and badabim badaboom, she gave him a job there. It didn't pay that much but it was a stable job and if he didn't spend his money on drinking and gambling, he would be able to buy a small apartment in a couple of months (but bad habits die hard, yk?)

The owner, whom I'm gonna call Miss Green, would see Stan's car parked somewhere near the library, and see Stan sleeping inside it. She would feel bad for him, a young man like him living such a life. I imagine their relationship being: "Hello dearie, you see, I have some of my son's old clothes still in my house and they take up such space in the closet, why don't you have them? :)" "Oh honey, you look so tired, did you sleep last night? Have you eaten anything today? :(" "You seem to really like this book. You can have it. ^ ^" "Oh, you like this dress dearie? *pulls out her wallet*" Basically her being a parental figure to Stan. And Stan being protective of her because she's the only person who has shown genuine interest and kindness in him in years. He would soooo take advantage of his scary dog privileges. You're being loud in the library? He's gonna walk towards you, give you a glare and put a finger infront of his lips to tell you to shut tf up. You're being rude to Miss Green? God save you man because BOY, he's about to throw hands.

And do you know what would be funny? If Miss Green was a siren. For no real reason, just for shits and giggles. No, no, she doesn't seduce humans anymore, she's an old woman now, she's been in retirement for years and now lives far away from the ocean, deep in the city. But they would bond with eachother while talking about the ocean and such. Stan yapping about the facts his knows about the ocean and Miss Green just silently listening to him and thinking "wow, such a talkative boy, and he sure knows a lot about sea life. :)"

So basically Stan getting unofficially adopted in a similar way as to how he unofficially adopted Soos in canon.

[abirthdayclown]

My partner's dad is a twin and they told me that when he was a boy his family couldn't afford two pairs of glasses so they bought them for one twin but not the other. That is Stan and Ford to me.

[greenbunny7]

So, in the black light edition of Journal 3

But instead of deleting the word 'burden', what if Bill just swapped it with 'sea otter'

Version without text

Based on this image

[cowboybrunch]

weight gain as a sign of healing. save me weight gain as a sign of healing

[masami-kurosawa]

Man, watching how the villagers in Kamura treat your hunter is nerve wracking. I mean, they call you their savior and have held so many high hopes and expectations of you since even before you became an official guild certified hunter. In game, no amount of failed quests changes that opinion.

But in the hunter’s mind, what happens when they fail? Not all failed hunts end in death, but if the villagers see their “savior” constantly fail, then what happens to that faith?

God forbid your hunter has any form of anxiety or imposter syndrome. That would take such a massive toll on their mental state.

……..

Definitely not the thought I had when creating Lynn in Wilds for the first time. It takes her a bit, but she does get better with support from her fellow guildmates.