#detailed vehicle

[danielcalmdown]

early morning, on the way to Martinaise

[toyastales]

M U S T A N G.

[ckret2]

So y'all know the Gravity Falls production bible that leaked three weeks ago. Someone in one of my discord servers pointed this out:

And, naturally, that spawned an entire AU.

AU Concept: Ford was kicked out instead of Stan and takes a job as a trucker to makes ends meet since he couldn't go to college, while still studying the weird and anomalous however he can.

Ford driving around from quirky small town to quirky small town, drifting through the liminal spaces of truck stops, meeting odd people in isolated diners, seeing strange things out on the road—a deer with too many eyes bounding across a two-lane highway, a flirty woman at a rest stop who doesn't blink or breathe, mysterious lights in the sky at night, inhuman growls on the CB or 50-year-old broadcasts on the radio—and taking notes when he stops for gas or food.

Aside from having gotten kicked out before graduating high school, Ford's the same person he is in canon.

He's still an ambitious guy, and here "ambitious" means working hard and saving as much money as he can—so, a long haul owner-operator who spends weeks at a time on the road. (He goes through a LOT of educational audiobooks.) Plus, this is the easiest way for him to get to travel the country; and since it looks like his "travel the world" dreams with Stan are dead, he'll take what he can get.

Since he's never in the same spot long and carries his life in a truck, almost all of Ford's research is in his journal. His bag of investigation supplies has an instant camera, a portable tape recorder, a thermometer, a flashlight, rubber gloves, and a few zip lock bags—and that's about it. It has to share space with all his clothes, toiletries, and nonperishable food when he's on the road. He doesn't have much opportunity to closely examine anything odd he finds, unless he's lucky enough to run into something when he can stop for the night. He has to cram his paranormal research around the side of his full-time job.

He doesn't live in Gravity Falls, but he knows it exists. Every time he moves—to Chicago, to Nebraska, to California—he seems to inch closer. He currently lives in Portland and usually hauls loads between the Pacific Northwest and Chicago or New York. He stops at the truck stop outside Gravity Falls when he can and has gone fishing in town a few times. He doesn't have the benefit of extensive research to know that this is the weirdest town in the world; but it seems pretty weird to him, there are local rumors about the town, and he's had some weird experiences in the area.

Plus, he can't explain it, but it's like the town's calling to him. He wants to move there, but it'd put him over an hour outside of Portland where the nearest jobs are. Maybe if somebody chucked him like $100k to build a cabin in the woods; but what are the odds of that?

He does know Fiddleford. Truck broke down somewhere and Fiddleford kindly pulled over to fix it on the fly. They looked at each other, had mutual knee-jerk "dumb trucker/hillbilly" reactions, and within ten minutes both went "oh wait you're the most brilliant genius i've ever met." Fiddleford's living the same life he was in canon before Ford called him to Gravity Falls—with his family in California, trying to start a computer company out of his garage—but they make friends and keep in contact.

One time Ford stops at a kitschy roadside knickknack store that also sells new agey magic things—crystals, tarot cards, incense, etc. He bought a "lucky" rearview mirror ornament that looks like an Eye of Providence in a top hat and hung it from his cab fan, and ever since then he's had weird dreams whenever he sleeps in his truck.

Things I don't know yet: what Stan's up to; or why Ford's the one who got kicked out. I tend to believe that in canon Stan wasn't just kicked out because he ruined Ford's college prospects, but rather because the family thought he deliberately sabotaged Ford; so in this AU, Ford would've been kicked out over a proportionate crime.

[ihearttseliot]

[loafbud]

road rage Mineru???!

[lost-fool-wandering]

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-L.F.

[springypaws]

Tumblr scrambled the first time I tried writing/sending this post so uhmm… let’s see if two’s the lucky number?

Anyhow, finished drawing of the interisolary commercial liner, the Hanankur!! Not exactly sure how I feel about it considering it kinda looks like a mismatched quilt made up of different styles from the different days that I worked on it, but it exists anyways

I was actually hoping to draw Coalition Airship Archer, but there weren’t any official images of it that I could find 😔

Reference image and additional speed paint under the cut :]

Obviously this drawing was super heavily referenced off of this official art of a Disco Elysium in-world miniature of the aerostatic, even if a bunch of things aren’t perfect and my drawing’s quite a bit messier

Plus a speedpaint just for the fun of it

(TW: FLASHING (I hide and un-hide layers a bunch) and rabies?? With the most minuscule amount of blood maybe??? I snuck in a random tiny sketch in there somewhere that has poor quality stuff like that)

[cairafea]

mirai and shino are best friends, change my mind.

[kingcalimthesnailheart]

I can't express the slight annoyance the motorhome in this thumbnail elicits in me.

[keeps-ache]

well, you can see it!

[waffleshark]

teeny collection of worldbuilding/background work. it feels... good? finally fleshing out a world?? that only gets to exist in my head most the time??? who'd've thunk it

[fruityumbrella]

whatever, annoyance-at-past-self crisis defused by reading a different wip thats making me laugh at how funny my own writing is. sorry im self obsessed yes it will happen again

[toyastales]

992 TurboS in PTS Oak Green Metallic

[missinglaterals]

1960's butch/femme couple out on the road on the butches motorcycle! :D

Roxanne/Roxxie (femme, she/her) & Billy (butch, he/him)

[sga-owns-my-soul]

the shrine is good for a lot of reasons but i think my favourite moment is jeannie looking for seatbelts in the jumper when john says it's gonna be a bumpy ride so be prepared

[gildedlife]

i have been going through an unfathomably (for me! from in my shoes!) difficult time in my personal life - worse than what i’ve mentioned in passing on these sites before - so please forgive me if i’m a little bit inconsistent with posting things i owe, but even more so with keeping up with messages.

i’m sort of leaning on this account and this character for support, so this isn’t an announcement of inactivity - more so of gravitating toward what engages me most at any given moment. once things calm down, my attention will even out.

thanks to everyone for being here. really. i’m glad anyone at all has interest because i know how niche and how dark this whole thing is, but you’ve all been wonderful. it’s so nice to feel this again.