#cecile pines

[knittinganarchist]

Do i have a Type when it comes to my favourite protagonists? No of course not....That'd... That'd be ridiculous.... right?

[tarottss]

i think they would be friends

[fishonable]

eye guys 🔥🔥🔥

[frosted-co0kies]

mmmm crossover episode

[inkblot-embalmer]

I've been SO busy on whiteboard. If anyone ever sees me there please say hi and draw and interact with me I love it to death.

[skysmadness]

when nico did his coming out/confession to will in front of everyone will turned to lou and cecil and stared at them like this

[thee-rat-king]

While I’ve loved watching Gravity Falls, it HAS reminded me of one of my favourite types of relationships (overeager scientist who will do anything for knowledge x the anomaly he should be studying that grows more attractive by the day).

Anyway, I have a new story to plot out. Also, I will be relistening to WTNV forthwith.

[tentacle-therapissed]

Why is Billford evil Cecilos

[halfavampvancey]

no comment.

[lesbianhouseplant]

Okay so do y’all’s think Cecil, Ford, and Jon would be like best friends or do you think they would despise each other? Like I feel like there is no in between

[geronimomo-spd]

once again remembering Ted Strange from Gravity Falls, ie the guy voiced by Cecil Palmer

where is my au where Tad Strange is actually Cecil from welcome to nightvale but somehow gotten trapped in gravity falls and forgot everything, then Carlos having to go to Gravity Falls and team up with ford and the gang to try to figure out where is his boyfriend gone?

[uboacore]

Decided to add to my venn diagram to create this thing. It’s a bit of a mess

[millenianthemums]

i saw that people were redrawing the “we’re gonna have to kill this guy” meme with their comfort characters so i did the same. and i threw in a bonus meme too!

[ethanhuntfemmefatale]

spent a bit of time today writing out some thoughts on ford as a character and thought it might be fun to put them here. I think ford is a really interesting commentary on heroism and his role in gravity falls is specific and pointed. theres a lot more i COULD get into (the way he and Stan act as foils for example) but here I just want to explore the fundamental ideas of his arc which includes parts of his dynamic with Bill Cipher and Dipper.

I really love the way gf combines the ideas of the lone hero/adventurer (a classic hero trope) with the ideas of the mad scientist (a classic villain trope) to reveal the way they're really based in similar lines of thinking and emotional pitfalls. Ford's isolation & paranoia, his tendency to put his own body on the line, his (relative) willingness to endanger others for his cause...it all points out a neat overlap between the guy who wears all black and carries a gun at his hip and the guy who WOULD inject himself with some kinda substance in the name of Science. I think that's part of why from what I've seen the fandom can be pretty conflicted on Ford--even on a basic design level, he evokes strong and conflicting feelings.

A key moment to me in establishing the ideas of Ford's arc happens at the very beginning of Weirdmageddon--a strange point to choose maybe since it's so late in the show, but I feel like those three episodes beautifully encapsulate Ford's failures and his development. After realizing what's happened, Dipper is desperate to find Mabel and make sure she's all right. Ford tells him, there's time to find her later--right now we have to stop Bill before the weirdness spreads. I love the way that the show presents throwaway moments like this: they're not questioned in the moment, but they stick out to you anyway because they run so counter to the philosophy of the show. Through the past 2 seasons, not only has the show proven that saving Mabel is more important than stopping Bill, it's also proven (and proves again after this) that saving Mabel is essential to stopping Bill. Evil isn't defeated by one guy being brave enough to shoot a gun at it, it's defeated by a community that works and fights together. And, hilariously, Ford is captured within the first 7 minutes of the episode, making everyone else's jobs way more difficult.

To be clear, it would be a complete misunderstanding of the character to say that Ford prioritizes stopping Bill first because he doesn't care enough about Mabel or her safety. It's precisely because he cares so much that he doesn't look for her right away. Ford has bought thoroughly into the lie that Bill fed him, which is that devastating personal sacrifice is not only right & good, but necessary in order to accomplish great things. As long as Ford believes that lie, he remains Bill's perfect prey—even with a metal plate in his head, even 30 years after the initial manipulation. Ford will easily give up sleep, food, friendship, family, sanity, and his own life, if he can be convinced he's doing it for the right reasons. And he's very easy to convince! Ironically, despite being arguably one of the most formidable characters in the show, he's also arguably the weakest and most gullible of the main cast, because he's so obsessed with the idea of giving up everything for something greater than himself.

That lie of the moral necessity of self-sacrifice, the lie that makes it possible for Ford to give up his brother, lock himself in his basement, be angry when he’s brought back home, and nearly destroy the world, is heavily in the offing through the Ford-Dipper plotline of Dipper and Mabel vs the Future. Ford offers Dipper apprenticeship and tells him that he’s capable of handling it—but it would require personal sacrifice, giving up his childhood with Mabel to join Ford in his self-imposed isolation. A test of Dipper’s aptitude for that kind of sacrifice occurs in that episode: Ford nearly dies, and orders Dipper to let it happen so that the rift is kept safe. Dipper doesn’t even think before disobeying him. He doesn’t seem to consider it a decision. There's no thought of the greater good when his uncle needs him.

Later, talking to Mabel about the idea of joining Ford as an apprentice, he says how ridiculous it is--sees it for a fantasy. The image of heroism Ford presents is appealing, but it's a lie.

For Gravity Falls, a show with two central protagonists, a show arguing over and over that the only way to change things for the better is to work with, trust, and care for your loved ones, Ford's position is an interesting one. I'd argue that thematically he stands in a more relevant antagonist position than Bill Cipher. He represents everything that the show is poised against. He's set up carefully as the epitome of Cool, with a masterful buildup to his entrance, badass styling, and hero worship from Dipper (the closest thing GF has to an audience insert.) And then, slowly and subtly, the show reveals how the lie of the lone hero has convinced him to hurt himself and everyone around him, nearly to the point of destruction.

I love him dearly. The best awful guy of all time

[fabulalice]

A list of characters that would absolutely wear Decora

Or are borderline already wearing it

In no particular order

Mabel Pines from Gravity falls

Pinkie pie from My little pony

Cecil Gershwin Palmer from Welcome to Night Vale

The distortion from The Magnus archives

Harper from Wizards of Waverly place

Rita from The Penumbra podcast

Arcus from Acceptation

[pizza564738]

when you're so obsessed with a character that you can't stop thinking about them so you start reading fanfiction about them but they dont have enough fics on them so you start reading ships and tags with that character just to get your fill then you resort to reading any fics with them in it even if they just have one line because that is better than nothing you scrounge everything site, piece of fan art and more just to get some more of this character who is never the main character that for some reason you decided to obsess over then you start thinking of your own fanfic ideas which start off normal at first before morphing into something entirely different that could only be created by a crazy person at 3 am in the morning after getting high so you decide to write that crazy fic until you realize you are utter shit at wiring and even if you did you'd stop in a week because now the cycle has started with a new character