#college fiddauthor idk

[arapaiknow]

books are for eating silly billies

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

Study break

[rystiel]

hey google what do i do if my roommate won’t stop unintentionally (?) getting into suggestive positions right in front of me

(+ a readjusted slightly better version)

[stnlymble]

little doodle to celebrate november 1st :)

[pisshandkerchief]

they say write what you know so I'm writing ford pines smoking weed and having a panic attack

[thedarkgevilgubby]

So sad

theres like no fiddauthor stuffing fics

[birks-latest-obsession]

Mystery Trio

More mystery trio drabble help me I've fallen into this hole why can't they just be happy:

Okay so I feel like in college Ford and Fidds would still be roommates cause the roommates are randomly picked but like Stan would basically live there too

Like he wouldn't even knock in the first two years, he'd just barge in and scare the living hell out of Fidds everytime

Fidds would have a full heart attack everytime

And Ford would just look up from whatever batshit random thing he was doing and greet him like this was completely normal, cause it was for Stan

This stopped in the third year when Stan walked in and found out they were dating in the most jarring way possible (they weren't fucking just kissing, we stan our ace Ford) (Maybe I'm projecting ace vibes...)

Stan had to teach them what the necktie on the door handle meant (and to fucking use it)

Idk I just think Stan having the realisation that HE is the third wheel out of all of them is really fucking funny

Bro really thinks he's got game till he finds out he's the single one in the friend group

This has all been fiddauthor so far omfg I'm sorry

Okay anyways one day Fidds walks in on Ford setting his face on fire cause it's "quicker than shaving" and freaks out and scolds him

He asks Stan later and all he gets is "he's always been like that"

Ford innocently offers to prove to Fidds how much more "effective" it is by setting Fidds's face on fire for him

Ford had to sleep outside that night

Sometimes Stan and Ford swap with each other and go to each other's lectures

THEIR MUM COMES OVER SOMETIMES WITH HOMECOOKED MEALS FOR THEM WITHOUT TELLING THEIR DAD CAUSE THEIR DAD SUCKS ASS

Ford and Fidds don't tell anyone they're together cause they're still figuring it out themselves and also it's old so definitely a homophobic society

Ford gets drunk one night and there are lots of fun shenanigans that go down

in the first year Fidds is about the same height as the twins, but when the twins grow taller they tease him so fucking much for being shorter

But like affectionately

[ukegenius]

something abt fiddauthor yuri scratches my brain in a specific way and i shall explain

i think the idea of Ford as a woman trying to prove herself in the early 80s late 70s as someone who is smart and works through college to prove it while she has her country girl roommate who also wants to be a workin woman as a mechanic but is also a semi open lesbian in college and dresses more stereotypically masculine (aswell as ford but she just does because of sensory issues internalized homophobia has her in a chokehold) then later on after fidds settles down married her husband and has a daughter she is then asked by her college roommate who she DEFINITELY has explored the body of to go all the way to Oregon to build a portal and Ford just is confused because of the fact that Fidds is now so Feminine and a stereotypical loving no nonsense hard working family woman

pipeline of exploring sexuality in college to internalizing it because it is wrong in the eyes of god and society especially as a woman hits kinda hard for me idk

[hypnautic-cereal]

I friggin love seeing Ford^2/FiddAuthor on my feed

Not them in their college years (though that’s quite enjoyable to see too :D), but at their current ages, pushing 70 together

I love seeing Ford in a relationship that genuinely makes him happy, and I love seeing McGucket find the same while doing so much better in his recovery :)

(Also McGucket’s beard always looks really fluffy in these fanarts, like, idk if he’d wash it but I wanna touch the beard)

[bluryy-face0]

Gimme your Fiddleford headcanons?

🥺🥺🥺

omg omg omg 😨 okay first off:

1) he has freckles, cuz i need him to

2) hes actually not that much of a scardy cat, mainly nervous, and hes like stupid af

3) he was homeschooled untill college

4) he was big on rodeo, and was like rly good at it

5) even tho hes rly slim hes muscular, and like JACKED lol

6) i used to headcanon he was trans ftm but i dont rly like it anymore, sometimes i do just cuz i feel like it fits him, but other times i just dont feel like it lmfao 😭

7) obviously ship fiddauthor and they are cutie patootie, literally brokeback mountain

he wears a cowboy hat and boots always cuz he can

he also walks around holding his buckle

hes tanner than ford but still kinda pale

hes slightly redheaded, like strawberry dirty blonde

he does makeup in his spare time, and likes wearing long older skirts

after he goes into the portal, he erases his memory of ford all together, but sometimes when he sees certain things (stan specifically, but other things apply, like things that remind him of ford) little flashes of college come back to him, but nothing of the cabin

fidds never wanted a wife to begin with, he was just scared of what the world would think, two scientists, living alone together, with no partners (except themselves if ykwim 😏)

he worries ford lost all feelings between college and when he moves into the cabin

he sees ford a lot in Tate

i feel like him and tate would be rly close, until he goes like fully insane yk

when i do thi k hes trans, i feel like he struggles a lot with self worth, and thinks of himself less of a man if he loved ford

when bill possesses Ford, he tends to taunt Fidds, and it makes his insecurities of not being enough worse, and (i saw this in a fanfic) bill refers to him and fiddleford as "the wife and the mistress"

he is also extremely jealous of Bill, and bill would taunt him MORE with how ford loves him more, because, i mean fords made a whole room of worship for bill, not fiddleford

ywah :3 idk ive never been asked any headcanons before so if they are weird or anything or like 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ idk lol. anyways, if u(or anyone) have any specific questions or suggestions i love gravity falls(lowkey might make a comic or writing) just send an ask and i WILL respond :33 it makes me rly happy when people send me asks cuz i feel ✨recognized✨

[southparkthetwosidesofacard]

I am listening! I am invested! Please yap about your au idea!!

AHHHHHHHHHIIWJHDIEHDIANRRUFIFBFIEBF HFHDB I GET TO YAP ABOUT THIS YAYYYYYY

ok so, I honestly don’t have much of an idea as to where exactly this would go, but just for the basics (which I’m mostly coming up with on the fly, I’ll be honest) here we go:

(this ended up being quite long so everything else is under the break, sorry!)

obviously, ford and bill were not always… separated, as it were. growing up and into his teens and early twenties it was just stanford pines, no “alter egos” or masks or anything of the sort (much as he would’ve loved to be able to hide who he was).

then, when he moved up to gravity falls and began his research, he began to realize that there were so many things that he wanted to do, couldn’t do, because of his reputation. he needed to keep his record clean because if he didn’t, he could easily have his grant money revoked, and any future opportunities in the pursuit of science dashed due to one small slip up. so, he began to look into, well, changing who he was, splitting himself, so to speak, as to be not one but two at the same time.

eventually, it worked somehow (probably through a potion, as jekyll uses in the original book), and he found himself as not just one, but seemingly two people in one body. there was the stanford pines most people knew, the eccentric, odd mad scientist that lived in the woods at the edge of town, and then there was another, completely new facade. bill cipher, named for his often frustratingly vague double speak and extreme use of overly complicated metaphors (yes I’m giving bill’s name a reason, it sort of annoys me that theres no reasoning for hyde’s name in the book but thats a rant for another day).

to begin with, bill seems content with simply switching back and forth at ford’s will, being the way for ford to kick back and let loose with no fear of the repercussions. at least, until ford begins to have trouble getting back to himself. thats when he begins to doubt the true intent of his other self, of bill. its around this time he calls fiddleford. the man may have studied engineering, but in this world he also knows a little something about psychology, and paired with his brilliant mind, ford’s very precise notes of the situation (ahem the journals ahem), and the fact that hes basically ford’s only friend, it felt like the best course of action.

of course, in actual gravity falls, ford does his best to hide bill from fidds but here bill is exactly why ford called him. anyone else would’ve called him crazy, tried to experiment on him or worse, but fiddeford would never do any of that and ford knows it (just to be clear, I do think that if I ever wrote anything for this au college fiddauthor would be heavily implied here).

fidds does his best to help but when bill goes on a rampage one night, going so far as to kill the heir to the northwest family, preston northwest, he knows ford is beyond fucked (just a heads up, the person bill kills being preston may change but idk, we’ll see if I ever actually come back to this au haha). the reason fiddleford originally makes the memory gun in this au isnt for himself, its actually to try and erase the memories of what bill has down from the townspeople’s minds. the only problem is that the next time they see bill all of the memories return and everyone is back at square one. its just too much for fidds, and he begins to turn the memory gun on himself in an attempt to get rid of the fear, pain, failure, and regret that helping his friend brought him.

ford on the hand is mortified by what hes done. I highly doubt that there would be a confrontation type scene, it would be closer to how the book goes, where ford quickly begins to be unable to switch between stanford pines and bill cipher. the au would probably “end” (as in if I turned this into a fanfic/comic/whatever the story would end there) with ford figuring out where stan is, calling and begging him to come up to gravity falls and help him, before ultimately turning the memory gun on himself and ridding himself of “bill” once and for all.

the only problem is that in order to remove bill, he has to remove stanford pines and all that he is as well. now, we all know how this goes in both the show and most aus; stan or ford or whoever it is that is possessed by bill erases themselves/has someone erase them, is weirdly blank for a bit but ultimately regains their memories. well here it… wouldnt work like that. bill(/hyde) is an integral part of ford(/jekyll), to remove bill(hyde) is to remove stanford pines (jekyll), theres no way around that. so, ford sort of ends up in that “blank slate” state for the rest of his life. he called stan prior to erasing himself because he knew stan would take care of him no matter what, and he was right. for the rest of their lives, stan takes care of his brother to the best of his abilities, and while they never get to sail the seas together, and some nights bring unimaginable sorrow for stan, knowing he’ll never speak to his brother again, despite the fact that very man sleeps just a few doors down the hall, they make it work. ford (or, well, whats left behind when you remove everything that makes a person who they are) sees that his blankness hurt stan but he cant do anything about it, and to begin with almost avoids stan, at least before they finally have a talk in which stan reassures “ford” that he’s sure whatever reason ford may have had for erasing himself, it was worth it.

as for fidds, well it mostly works out in a similar way to canon, he does eventually regain most memories but of course some bits are still fuzzy. the fuzzy bits are never fully recovered, as the one person who may have been able to fill in the blanks no longer exists, but fidds is still mostly alright.

the journals… sort of exist? but not in the way that they do in the show, and what does exist stan had from the very beginning. ofc the twins still have to deal with monsters and spooks and whatnot in gravity falls, just not anything that has to do with bill (which means that, of course, weirdmageddon physically cannot happen). at some point, dipper begins to insinuate that the weirdness of gravity falls might have something to do with “ford’s”… situation, which is when stan finally fully comes clean with all he knows about the situation. its not until fiddleford begins to regain his memory, however, that any of them learn the truth of what was going on.

oh yikes, I wrote a lot more for this than I meant to, whoops!

oh yeah, I’m naming this au the “Dr. Pines/Mr. Cipher” au for now, but if anyone has any better ideas or if thats already been used for something else, please let me know!

also, @aaabatteryy I LOVE MARINEFLAMES’ CONFRONTATION ANIMATIC, THAT WAS ACTUALLY WHAT I WAS REFERENCING WHEN I MENTIONED OTHER ANIMATIONS USING A SIMILAR CONCEPT TO THIS AU

oh, and I just want to say that I’ve never watched the musical so thats why this doesnt (intentionally) incorporate any elements of that.

[abyssalzones]

I would love to hear more abt your college pre-egg-breaking fiddauthor thoughts if you'd be open to it

oh BOY would I

so when I think about college fiddauthor nowadays I mainly think about both my own experiences with ~navigating identity~ and how I would approach a gay FTM relationship from a semi-realistic 1970's angle, where you start to see a lot of what you'd call "milestones" I guess in LGBT history and public awareness. wait okay here's something I said to mer that can set a precedent for what I'm talking about

when it comes to me and my own journey of self discovery irt sexuality and transness, I feel like those two things are very intertwined, because the concept of identity in my eyes is very socially motivated. I've previously identified as a nonbinary lesbian and a transgender gay man respectively before getting to the point I'm at now, and don't feel like either of those things were incorrect necessarily, just how I felt at the time (and what I wanted out of a relationship, really). I think I literally got an ask ages ago questioning how I went from one to the other but Idk I don't think the gender journey is as simple or "logical" as people coming from a hetero-patriarchal perspective (that's a mouthful) seem to think.

and, And, from a Historical perspective, FTM experiences and butch lesbian experiences have Always been very intertwined, especially back in the early 70's when more people were starting to have some awareness (even in LGBT spaces) of this thing known as the Transgender Lifestyle. I'm flattening things quite a bit here and I know for a fact there's a lot of variation between experiences, especially depending on your social circles, but from what I can glean a lot of the time transgender men weren't very well known and so a lot of the time you would just ID as a butch lesbian and/or present as a man socially, sometimes for safety reasons. and there's a lot of overlap there too that continues into contemporary transmasc spaces today :]

historical justification aside I basically think college would be a major turning point for self-discovery in both of their lives, but more-so for fiddleford than ford? I've always assumed based on everything we've seen that fidds was basically the only friend ford had in college, which definitely would have influenced him in important ways, but other than that I think he invested most of his time in studying and developments in gender were an afterthought. ford's FTM identity starts from a place of "failing to be a woman" and then develops with his pride in being a huge weirdo. in my mind that can only really happen once he's in gravity falls and has basically sacrificed his connections with other people/the world to live as his truest self, whether that's researching anomalies or living as a man.

fiddleford, however, I always think of from the perspective of someone bucking to societal expectations for safety reasons. this is because of a lot of things: ford's possible feelings of abandonment in favor of Normalcy (who can forget "Go back to your doting family and a life of fear and compromise!"), his jumping into a nuclear family immediately out of college, But also packing up and driving to oregon in a matter of days after ford asks for his help... when he has a kid who could be no older than 5 or 6 at home...? I sort of see his presentation as a foil to ford's, trying to mimic cishetero ("hetero") normalcy vs. being the Lone Transsexual Freak. I've gotten horribly off topic from the college thing hang on

basically I imagine them in their uni days like two weird butch gay women that are just, totally socially unapproachable. fiddleford is the more outgoing of the two as he's been voted "most likely to actually have other friends" in my mind, so if anyone was going to gay & lesbian student association meetings it would've been him, but otherwise ford is too busy ignoring his feelings. "I don't care if I'm a man or a woman I'm too busy studying. go away." but of course they find enough solace in eachother's company and their different-but-distinctly-similar weirdness that it forms an unbreakable transgender bond. freak4freak if you will. fidds settles on a bisexual identity without thinking about it too hard because honestly the conclusion here is that it doesn't matter if his roommate is a woman or a man he just knows he needs to do terrible things to him over d&d&md (sorry) (not really that sorry though.)

it's actually funny you bring this up because I'd been workshopping a short comic set in their college era that touches on this stuff a lot. not sure when that will ever get done but I can tell you it's. uhm

yeah they're kind of weird.

[damnghouligans]

Rewatching GF may have saved my brain from complete annihilation….. but I miss the rush :(

I offer post-series headcannons as consolation:

- the Stans had a GREAT time having to explain to the family wtf happened with Ford…… they basically said they were in witness protection and Stan broke the rules. If you say it with enough conviction, people believe you.

- the Pines return to gravity falls in the summers throughout Mabel and Dipper’s high school years to spend time together…. Things change, however:

- Wendy finally did move to Portland! She left for college and stayed, but she comes and visits her family often.

- we have little sooslets running around!! Stanley, Laura, and Lucia. They’re all girls. :)

- Pacífica eventually opens her own restaurant and cuts her family out… mostly. Their relationship is complicated

- all the kids all have frequent communication via social and text and video calls… which is great because eventually everyone leaves or changes or has different schedules. Yall know what it is. Time is fleeting and all that jazz.

- the Stans take the kids with them on their adventures when the kids are adults. The whole Paranormal TV show thing??? Takes WAY off. The Pines are world famous. Sort of like a weirder crocodile hunter situation

- McGucket’s hut is pretty much entirely honkified!! Fiddleford throws a big hootenanny cookout every summer for the town, and uses pretty much the entire mansion as a lab/playground.

- He and Tate run McGucket Labs Enterprises together. They’re pretty much what Musk and Jobs wish they were …. But way more fun

- mcgucket is pretty billy gibbons coded now. Still as fun and unassuming as before but with better teeth and nicer overalls. And occasional shoes. But only well worn ranchers boots. He’ll be damned if he’s gotta wear them fancy foot prisons.

- When Fiddleford’s not making the world a better place through his inventions, he’s basically the worlds best OP artificer to the Stans

- Ford was kinda….. weird when seeing Fiddleford again for the first time after the Stans sailed off. Because they were back in town to ask for something and Fiddleford was all too happy to oblige. Which is great…. But ford still feels bad about all of the hurt he caused.

- Stan pressed him on it and Ford talks out loud with no real point… just talks about college and their time in the lab together. The gloves Ford’s kept all these years. The globe. Frilliam. All of it. How the guilt absolutely kills him inside. How excited he is to see his friend anyway. He nervously talks about the gifts he’s bought Fiddleford across the globe in hopes of somehow making it up to him. In hopes of ….. idk, salvaging a glimmer of what was somehow….

- Stan clocks Ford’s crush immediately. Fishing out the backstory was to figure out how that crush came to be, and now….. well it sounds like the feelings are mutual. Or at least WERE once upon a time. McMillionare’s rich now, and he’s actually really nice from what Stan knows of him. Beats the shit out of the triangle, anyhow …. Fuck it. He’s playing matchmaker now. 12 year old Mabel would have been proud.

- yes this is ABSOLUTELY a fiddauthor fic idea. They’re end game and you won’t tell me otherwise.

[sleepsentry]

for the ask game, number 8: unpopular fandom opinion(s) regarding gravity falls. also, love your work. ^_^

Thank you! ^^

Of course these are based on my assumptions about what's popular and these are takes I haven't seen around in the wild.

This kinda just devolves into a headcanon list towards the end. haha ^^'

OK so hmmmm oh boy there's a lot:

Gravity Falls is NOT the best thing ever it just had a bunch of really talented people working on it who made it super fun. But it's far from a golden standard and I don't think it should be held up as a standard, that idea is reductive and creatively stifling.

I don't like comparing Amphibia, Owl House, Duck Tales (2017), Inside Job and many others to Gravity Falls. The similarities are superficial and those shows shouldn't be living in Gravity Fall's shadow. They deserve to stand tall and cast their own.

On that note Alex Hirsch is just some guy and I don't like his stuff on its own that much. He's not that funny or interesting to me, but he is just some guy. Hope he doesn't turn out to be a shitty dude. *shrug*

Stanley is overrated (I love him but jeez guys. He's not that endearing.)

Rick and Morty x Gravity Falls is a terrible crossover, tonally, technically and thematically. (I also am just very unimpressed by rick and morty in general)

Stanchez is bad. Rick can eat my shorts. Stan "deserves better". Obviously the fan creations are good. But they don't change my mind about the base idea.

The stans both did nothing wrong ever and I love them deeply without comparing them. (joke I know they fuck up, but they fuck up together.)

Fiddauthor is mid and boring. It comes off as amatonormative and people overall are very exclusionary over it wich is just being a dick and using a ship preference to justify it. (I dont mean to be mean but yeah, you guys are doing fine you can take some salt.)

Ford and Fidd are more like siblings than a couple.

Ford and Fidd both dismissed eachother and the miscommunication was on both of them. (Similair to stan and ford it's no one character's fault)

Ford and Fidd's relationship has more emotional weight viewed through the platonic lense of fidds being older than ford by two or three years and "adopting" him as a "little brother" in college, and how that followed them into their 30s even when the age gap had long become irrelevant. Rather than just "gay sad nerds have marital issues" as fun as that sounds.

Fiddleford is a crazy, scary, adorable, kind, stupid, genuis. This man contains multitudes, I try my best not to flanderize him into one over the other. He can be all those fun things.

Fiddlestan is inherently more funny and compelling than fiddauthor. (To me, to me.)

Fillbrick wasn't the devil incarnate he was just a shit dad, wich fair enough is very bad. Haha (idk there isn't enough of him for me to truly hate and I'd rather not assume the worst, I deal with abusive parents enough in my day to day I don't need to add one to my fav silly show haha)

Billford isn't "toxic" it's too bizarre for that, and much is left to be inferred about both characters and their dynamic. (Again, assuming the worst instead of something more fitting and fun) It's obviously bad for ford but I thought everyone hated him when he isn't nice to stan or being shipped with fidds so it should be cool. (Sarcasm)

Dipper and mabel fuck up equally and mabel is generally more empathetic and aware of the world around her than dipper who hyperfocuses. (Been there pal.)

Mabel is more similar to Ford and Dipper is more similar to Stan

Dipper is a good boy but a bit on the boring side for me. He's fine. I like him well enough.

Mabel is more relatable to me, but I relate to dip's anxiety disorder so bad.

Dipper would NOT grow up to look like Ford. He'd look like shermy or stan.

Mabel would grow up to be bigger and broader than dipper. She'd also be the one to get glasses and look more like ford. She's already halfway there with the hair and jumpers (sweaters)

Jokes about ford failing to impress girls are cringe, heteronormative and bad. And ford doesn't like anyone. (Bill is his own can of eldritch worms)

Dipper doesn't like girls in the way he thought he should and that's why his crush on wendy played out the way it did, it was never really about her, it was about his relationship to her. How she helped him find someone to admire, and was kinda his first real friend who he felt was cool and understood him, heteronormativity made him think he liked her romantically. He so obviously didn't that it hurts my soul.

Mabcifica is underrated as hell and more interesting than dipcifica. That being said.

I do ship dipcifica but in a queer way. You guys don't get it. They're queer.

The cis/heteronormative takes where pacifica and dipper have children together and dipper looks older but Pacifica is just her kid face on a sexy lady bod make me uncomfortable.

And that's why Dipper, Mabel and Pacifica could grow up into a polyamorous "Vee" relationship. [When one person is dating two people who aren't dating eachother, in this case obviously cause they're twins. It forms a "V" from Pacifica to the Pines twins ^^]

What was this ask originally about?

[sturmhunde]

Starting to think I dug a hole I can’t climb out of

I really want this college fic to meet expectations but my knee-jerk reaction is to make something that follows Ford for basically the entirety of his college life and I have no idea how I’d go about that. Maybe I’ll just do a collection of one-offs or do some time skip stuff to cover typical college moments that would be interesting.. idk I don’t want to make myself suffer but also I want something that u guys will actually enjoy :/ maybe putting some art at the end of chapters every now and then will help

In other news I’ve been informed that fiddauthor/ford squared is winning the poll by three fourths and dear god I didn’t know it was that serious omg I get it u guys want college yaoi okay okay

[mythomagically-delicious]

Fiddauthor

“Buddy, Fiddleford?” A hand, light, on his shoulder Concerned employer

“What? What did you see?” Eyes intense; eyes unfocused A frantic partner

A pause--withheld breath “Fear the beast with just one eye” A lost, confused friend

“I quit!” and he’s gone Time and memories alike Lonely man again

“Trust no one” mumbled Between whispers that torment Scared, cornered, burned twice

“Fiddleford, my friend” Distracted, mourning his loss Mindless, insane, gone

“Old Man McGucket?” Intelligent, inventive The man he still loves

“...I’ll try forgiving” Warmth hugs the end of the world Reunited ‘Fords

“I love you my dear, Now until the end of time,” Fiddauthor, at last.