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jacky-rubou · 11 days ago

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💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

Oh, that's easy when Ford's my favorite character, lmao.

Everything!

I'm exhausted by all the takes I've seen about him being purely selfish and evil and who doesn't give a fuck about his family when that couldn't be further from the truth!

like he gets mad at Stan for breaking his trust and opening the torment nexus that will destroy everyone and their dog if opened just to save him and everyone screams that he's the devil for not giving him any thanks. honestly, who can blame him?! what's the point of opening the torment nexus for one person if everything else is destroyed, y'know? like damn, the man didn't even get an apology first!

also, the 'ego'. idk, having poor self worth and seeking validation to cope with that feeling of being worthless otherwise must look similar enough to egotism for people to get confused i guess. his intellect is all he thinks he has for him to have value. he doesn't actually think he has inherent value just by existing, so he seeks it out using his smarts. that's why bill was able to manipulate him so easily, man.

also, the victim blaming... i could go on and on about the victim blaming. how many times do i have to say that Ford was Bill's victim and the apocalypse wasn't his fault? How many times do i have to remind people of how manipulation works? how many times do i have to say that it's not anyone's fault but Bill's before they get it? how many times do i have to say that Ford is not stupid for what Bill did. He didn't know. Not knowing is not a fucking moral failure.

god there's so much the fandom gets wrong with him that i'm going to end it here before i give you an 100 page essay lmao

anyway, thank you for the ask, it was fun to write out my frustrations ^^

#gravity falls #ford pines #stanford pines #grunkle ford #askjacky #ask game #rant #sorta #this fandom is genuinely fucked #they don't understand that ford is supposed to be considered part of the heroes who can be redeemed #instead they treat him like he's the devil and doesn't deserve it #also those fans who act like ford is being favorited by the fandom and get defensive over stan all of a sudden... where have they been #like babe #stan's the fan favorite #by a landslide #there was a poll on here asking who the best grunkle was and stan won #and not by a small margin no no no #stan won by a fucking mile #it was BRUTAL #had to filter the runner's tags because everyone was getting NASTY about ford on that post #also because the pitting the stans against each other is a very fucking tired debate at this point #but anyway #the fan favorite is stan and anyone who says otherwise is lying to themselves #and trying to look for another way to defend a character already very well defended to the point of uwuification #ford being defended ain't an attack on stan babe #we're actually nicer about stan than you think #because we fucking know what it feels like for a character to be constantly demonized for no good reason #anyway this is too long a ramble #that's why it's in the tags lmao #okay bye

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