#but i like to think if dipper did have it

[cantgetworsethanthistbh]

out of pocket horny micro kink guy here. glad you liked it im an insane person. and yes you can absolutely add it to your fic i think i would die for real

i could talk for hours about stan and tiny ford leaning more and more into a very gentle 24/7 D/s relationship. Bc your au is making me crazy and im so starved for micro gf content. i have no idea why there's not more of it when they literally get small in multiple episodes!!!! the plot devices are right there!!

and id also like to offer for your consideration, old ford and tiny mullet stan. old ford being protective and possessive and so so soft w him.....

to anyone wondering, its this ask!!

and GOD YEAH especially on the 24h D/s relationship they have rhis way, ford either being totally pliant for once in his life to appease stan or acting like a little (hah) brat for stan to try to control back, all excarbated by their size difference and how for the first time since they were teens, stan actually has an advantage over ford again (and thats hot af dhdbrurndi)

and also anon THANK YOU FOR LOVING THE AU. gotta admit im shocked people liked it sm, i didnt know everyone had such a micro/macro kink here dhdbdubddu

and youre SO right on how theres really not enough micro/macro gf content which is CRAZY. did little dipper mean nothing to us freaks?? or ddamd (there IS a really hot fic for it tho dhdbuen)?? how about a little mindscape shenanigans where they can literally imagine anything to be real— that has way more than just micro/macro potential but you know what i mean lmao

tbh even us freaks dont utilize a lot of what gravity falls offers us on a plate but thats a post (and a fanfic) for another day lmao

and god anon i hear you SO hard on old ford x little mullet stan. i spent a good few days trying to answer this but i couldnt stop thinking of it now that you put it in my brain and im so fucking happy oh my god they are literally everything. my hc here is that big ford went to a dimension to grab another brother w the size crystals to kidnap a stan easier but got too attached to his tiny 30 year old brother, whos absolutely terrified of everything now, the poor thing dbdhdndj

[omnipresent-menace]

Working on my fic and just noticed while looking at a scene from the Tale of Two Stans episode that Ford didn't install the 3 key mechanism that Soos, Dipper, and Mabel activate in Not What He Seems. Ford only had the big lever. STAN installed the keys. So that begs the question, who did he think would be there to help him start the portal? He'd been mostly alone up to the point before Dipper and Mabel.

So there's a few likely options.

1. He installed the mechanism after meeting Dipper and Mabel. He planned to explain and have them help at the end with the last step, but then the CIA shows up and throws his plans off balance (could be likely, but he only planned to explain right before being arrested. If that was always the plan it wouldn't have felt so impulsive narratively)

2. The mechanism was meant for Soos. Soos had been close to him since he was 11 years old, basically a pseudo father figure. The mechanism only TECHNICALLY requires 2 people since one person can use 2 hands. So I think that Stan mightve told soos if the kids hadn't shown up. (Seems like the more likely candidate)

3. Stan has a 3rd arm we've never seen.

[callipraxia]

What do you think of Dipper and Ford’s relationship? I definitely see it as a positive thing, and it benefits them both in many ways. They find kindred spirits after years of feeling like loners, they enjoy their time together, and Dipper helps humanise Ford and helps brings him into the family, while Ford boosts Dipper’s confidence and treats him with respect.

But there are some possible issues there. That Dipper’s hero worship might blind him to Ford’s flaws, and that Ford might be so focused on seeing Dipper’s potential that he forgets he’s still a child and might be unintentionally pushing him before he’s ready.

That could cause problems in the future, especially for Dipper. He’s got enough stressors without struggling to live up to his hero’s expectations.

I’m never one to shy away from arguing with Mr. Hirsch’s interpretations of his own characters, but I do sort of agree with one thing he said about Dipper and Ford: that if Dipper had stayed behind as Ford’s apprentice, it would have been McGucket all over again, sooner or later, or at least something similar. An interesting thing about Ford is how he’s perhaps not traditionally charismatic, but once the occasional person is drawn in, their lives can very quickly start to revolve around him, and how things are going in his world becomes how things are going in their world. If things had played out as originally planned, in a circumstance where the Rift was contained but not permanently sealed and where Bill was still alive, this could not have ended well, no matter how well-intentioned anyone was in the beginning. Killing Bill was not, in and of itself, enough to resolve his many, many psychological problems, but it was probably the clearest route he had to an opportunity to do so. While Bill lived – that was some ‘neither can live while the other survives’ kind of stuff, to steal a line from elsewhere. There wasn’t really a lot of room in his life for other relationships until that one was resolved. It would have been worse with Dipper than other people, though, because Dipper also had a history with Bill. Add in the hero-worship from Dipper, and, well, to borrow from Bill himself on the TBOB website:

“The truth was, [Ford] was half a genius. The other half seemed to be frozen at the age of 18, still a child, totally dependent on outside praise”

One of the reasons Stan and Ford can both get on so well with children is due to the ways in which their emotional and psychological developments seem to have arrested at some point in adolescence. And Dipper would, for at least a good while, have been a pretty constant source of that praise, and…well, we saw what happened the last time Ford had someone who fulfilled his need for outside praise. In a case where I did argue with Mr. Hirsch:

“He’s aloof, and distant, and he’s too perfect. And it’s like, ‘oh! I think he’s also aloof and distant from himself.’ I think he is, uh, deeply, deeply hiding from his real feelings about things, because at some point early on, he decided that he could run from hurt by achievement and by creation, and has dug that hole so deep that he has no relationships” (Hirsch, “Alex Hirsch Interview Transcript”).

One thing that almost immediately becomes apparent upon even a casual examination of the texts, though, is that Ford does at least very much want to have relationships...Whenever he has the chance, this supposedly aloof, relationship-less character can’t seem to stop himself from trying to form relationships…[redacted is a massive list of examples]. We are told by the writers that Ford is a loner, but throughout his life, the parts of his actual behavior that we are shown seem to betray a fairly consistent desire for collaboration, and one which is strong enough to override his belief in the solitude of great men (Hirsch and Renzetti) far more often than not.

Someone who understands at least a glimmer of what he’s been through, who reminds him of everything he likes about himself and not that much of the things he doesn’t like about himself, who wants to impress him more than anything in the world, and who, in that circumstance, would be basically the only person who he interacted with for long stretches of time? Recipe for disaster, one way or another. Eventually ceasing to see Dipper as a child would only be one of the issues.

Not, of course, that I disagree with your statement about the relationship ultimately being good for both of them. Dipper needed the ego reinforcement of being treated with more respect, which both Ford and the town itself give him, which has increased his confidence immensely by the end of the summer; Ford needed a sort of ‘starter relationship’ to ease him back into the world of, well, relating to anyone after thirty years as an outlaw and fugitive. I even think they could work well together at some point in the future, once they’ve both sorted themselves out a little, and when Dipper has the perspective and maturity to deal with Ford as a fellow human being instead of as this Ideal that Dipper can never really live up to or stop trying to live up to. Otherwise…well, Dipper understood about getting tricked by Bill, but eventually, Ford would disappoint Dipper in some way, and even at the very end of the show, I don’t think Dipper’s quite mentally ready to deal with that. We see a lot of growth in Dipper in season two – he takes to the role of town hero very well, and by the end of the summer is even becoming something of an orator/natural leader-figure; I’ve never seen anyone discuss it, but if Weird Science doesn’t work out, I could see Dipper having a future in politics or activism of some kind – but he is, after all, still a young kid, and one who is still to an extent growing into a better version of himself. At the very least, I think he needs to confront Piedmont, where it's implied he's been pretty unhappy his whole life, as the new, more assertive Dipper and prove to himself that he can still be that person without the outside reinforcement of being surrounded by a public that by that point pretty much universally thinks well of him.

[tower-reversed]

i can go back and forth with bill cipher's feelings on the individual pines family members for big amounts of time because on one hand: bill was literally going to kill dipper if he'd succeeded in sock opera, and he threatened to do the same to mabel with a letter he probably knew she'd find. but also, when he tricked mabel into giving him the rift, he had every opportunity to just kill her then, but instead he put her in a bubble where all her dreams come true? okay, plot armor, but also alex hirsch's input in the sock opera commentary exists and he says bill sees himself a little in mabel (makes sense, because mabel parallels stan and stan parallels bill so they're narrative cousins). i kinda doubt that him seeing similarities within himself and mabel means much, though; the way i see it, their shared traits are just things that he can exploit, which he did do. of course he does literally say "now THIS kid i LIKE!" in tbob. game recognizes game. being liked by bill probably isnt a compliment but its still noteworthy. maybe he DID sympathize enough with her to deliberately give her a nice little party world she commanded (similar to what he himself wanted) as long as she never got in his way again.

dipper is less complex because yea he hates that kid. he was obviously gonna kill dipper first in weirdmageddon 3 guys, come on, that eeny meeny miney mo was NOT SUSPENSEFUL! i just think its ironic how: bill hates stan more than mabel, bill hates dipper more than ford. like a seesaw. what he sees in stan that reminds him of himself, he despises, but what he sees in mabel and himself, he kind of respects? and then alternatively, bill is obsessed with ford, gives him the chance to be a hench maniac, uses his one phone call in the theraprism on him, and then when it comes to dipper that kid is just ANNOYING! DEDICATE TWO WHOLE PAGES IN YOUR BOOK TO HOW PATHETIC HE IS! i chalk it up to the circumstances in which they met. dipper was never under the impression that bill was a Totally Stand-Up Guy and finger gun laser blasted his bowtie off, embarrassing bill after he ranted for twenty five minutes about how he was the boss of the mind scape. ford on the other hand, was buying everything bill was selling because he didn't have the benefit of a forewarning (unless you count the thing on the cave wall that said "do not summon" but i think we all would've broken down in that situation).

anyway yea. its just interesting to me.

[dark-lord-of-awesomeness]

Jurassic Park made me love Emma-May even more somehow! She deserved to feed at least couple of enemies to her creations! Also I love how she both felt guilty because her family also got hurt, but still 😔 dinos 😔

So young! Haven't gotten to eat even a single enemy!

Also in my heart, the flashlight loving velo accidentally ran by a growth-changing crystal and survived. People think it's a very odd lizard with battery acid addiction. Stranger things happened! Mostly because I want Dipper to stumble upon it someday and get a pocket-sized dinosaur of my dreams. And a few bitten fingers, but one has to make sacrifices (for pets and science!) If Mabel can have a big pig, why can't he have a tiny velociraptor?

Why did it live that long? Flashlight battery acid gives you magic ✨

Stan would not be amused, but Emma-May would be dangerously delighted.

That's excellent! I understand why she wasn't in the show, because the story is about the mystery twins and not the older generation, but it still leaves a hole. We don't know anything about her! Woman deserved to feed her at least a few of her enemies to dinos. Yes it was sad and people died, but none of them were on her list! What a waste!

An amazing idea. Truly, who knows how many of those dinos found alternative ways out of the mines before they sealed it.

Emma-May would weep tears of joy to know it escaped, then the episode would revolve around making sure she didn't regrow it and send it after her enemies. Stan would hate it forever and be trying to make it run away. He will never like the tiny menace.

[starlovincowboy]

Gravity Falls but dipper has dyslexia and can barley read ford's handwriting.

Like I think it'd be so funny bc a lot of ppl like to say stan has dyslexia but what if dipper (the dork who likes to read) does and he's over here not only trying to decipher these fuckass codes but also ford's cursive handwriting and stressing tf out over it.

Especially in like dire situations when they're under like gnome attack or smth and he's like "WHAT DOES THIS EVEN SAY???"

I just think it'd be neat guys ok

Pls tell me u guys understand my vision

[rystiel]

would things have been different if stan told ford? will things be different since mabel told dipper?

[sunburstsandmoonshadows]

ok so i was thinking of making handcrafted stan a statue if im including him in the curse/spell/dimension screw-up/WHATEVER and naturally my first thought was a stone statue

but what if

wax stan, but for real this time?

i can't tell if that's very funny or very stupid

[thebestusernamepossible]

I think a really underrated character duo in gravity falls is Dipper and Stan. Like one, I think they are way more similar than people give them credit for. Like Dipper is definitely the one who feels like the ‘inferior’ twin (internally on his part), something reflected in Stan. Also Dipper is generally pretty cunning and willing to throw punches in a Stan-way, you can see Stan rubbing off on him as the show progresses. Dipper in the Stan costume, and that one scene where Stan and Dipper both cross their fingers at the same time for the same promise, both live in my head rent free. In my heart of hearts I think Dipper picks up a bit of Stans con-man tricks in the future (and Mabel goes on some bonding missions w/ Ford, but this post isn’t abt them). Also I just want to say I bet Dipper reminded Stan of a young Ford and that informed some of their early dynamic. Anyway bye just needed this brainworm out

[nenoname]

i know people love their aus but man. folks writing mabel as someone who would forgive bill still really does rub me the wrong way urgh

[the-real-couchrat]

Some REALLY messy doodles of the fic The Many Pets of Tyrone, which I now love to death. I don’t think I’ll ever end up finishing these, but I wanted to post them anyway.

All the forms together:

The image that appeared in my mind before I finished reading that all the birds reseller ravens:

And a cowboy Alcor with his cattle (and “horse”)

The horse design was inspired by this, and the cowboy outfit was taken from here.

[triptychcryptid]

Sooo...rewatched Carpet Diem the other night. Mabel throws up after body switching with Dipper for the first time. As a woman in her 30's, my first thought was "...that bathroom hasn't been cleaned in 30 years. That toilet's going to be NASTY." 🤣

[xerith-42]

Going onto the internet and finding out that people hated Mabel Pines (a literal 12 year old girl who is also not real) might have been one of the first times I felt truly disillusioned with the rest of the world

[gummypaint]

happy birthday you three

[tbob-enthusiast]

Messy school doodles HAHEHHE

Season 2 Robbie (not canon Robbie ofc, but rather the "S2" of my own fic which I may or may not ever finish). The lore is that his hair was MUCH longer than this, but it got shaved off due to Lore Reasons™ and now it's growing back :]

NOT STAN. That's my beta Dipper HAHEHHEE. My notes are just emphasizing how similar they look. Me, earlier today, drawing beta Dipper: "STAN PINES ?! 😨😮😮😨😨😨"

Perhaps. Gay people. I am thinking about it really hard fr

[creativesplat]

That scene from A Tale of Two Stars, from Stan's perspective.