#grandpa shermie

[csodaturmix]

So basically, Ford's back, and I've been pretending to be him for the past 30 years, also I faked my death -

[ID under cut]

[Image description: digital art of Ford and Stan from Gravity Falls. They're smiling as Ford waves to Dipper and Mabel in an offscreen bus, and Stan wears his goodbye sweater. Stan's smile dissipates as he suddenly says: "Wait..."

Ford turns to look at him, and Stan exclaims: "Shit! We forgot to tell Shermie!" The last panel cuts to Shermie, who has gray hair and a mustache, sitting up in his bed in a dark room. He's holding the phone up to his ear with a weary expression, and his dialogue bubble just has a "..." (ellipsis). End ID.]

[the-shy-lonely-weirdo]

The Twin Noogie is Shermie’s big brother signature move.

[diggerofbricks]

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The Pines Family by DraftyDraws

[voicentes]

GRANDPA SHERMIE!!!!

[thenoellebird]

Forgive me. There is not as much fluff as I thought.

Shermie design:

some expressions. I like his flompf hair. He's got a flompf. Its a floof, a flop and a flomp. A flompf. He looks like an army grandpa to me idk why. I like the idea of older brother Shermie Pines.

[starsfic]

Grandpa and Great-Uncle AU: The Beginning

Summary: An hour after Shermie agrees to go to Gravity Falls, his son asks him to take his grandchildren.

AO3/ Ko-Fi

-_-

An hour after he hung up the phone, it rang again.

"Hello?" Shermie said. He wondered if it was Stanley, wanting to hammer out some last details or canceling the plans. "This is Shermie-"

"Uh, hey dad," Mark didn't sound as steady as he usually did. In fact, he sounded on the verge of tears. Shermie straightened up, concern rising. Mark calling upset was so common by now that his back didn't hurt after two years. "Uh, it's Mark... something happened..."

Ah, shit. With the state of his son's marriage, Shermie had to guess. "Did you or Ariel leave with the kids?"

"No," His daughter-in-law spoke up, her voice muffled. There was a sob in her voice that made Shermie want to hang up and drive over. However, it was ten in the evening and Piedmont was an hour away. "I fucked up and I said something really nasty to Mark and Mason..." There was the faint sound of her blowing her nose. "Mason overheard me saying something nasty about him and Mabel to Mark."

Oh. Oh boy.

"This is why I told you-"

"I know, Dad," Mark said before Shermie could start on again about marriage counseling and divorce. Everyone in the family knew that this relationship was a ticking bomb that would hurt the twins. "We know. That's why we called."

"We were hoping that you could take them for the summer," Ariel said, sounding much calmer now. "We don't want them to get caught up in the middle of us being shitty about each other." The foul language made Shermie raise a brow, but he stayed silent. At least they were taking responsibility and getting the twins out of the blast radius. "I- We know it's a lot to ask..."

"But, I would say yes," Shermie had to interrupt. "But I'm actually staying the summer with Uncle Stanley."

There was a pause. "Really?" Mark said, sounding baffled. "I thought he didn't want any of us visiting because of how dangerous the supernatural stuff could be." That decision had been made after the one and only visit to Gravity Falls that Mark had when he was three and nearly got abducted by fairies. It hadn't solely been Stan's decision, but Shermie had agreed.

"He...He said he needed backup because of how old he's getting and how busy the Shack is, plus how the portal's coming along," Shermie tried not to tremble at the memory of Stanley's voice, thick with so much regret and anguish that he was tempted to drive to where Filbrick was buried and smash his gravestone. "But, he's not doing well mentally. He didn't say it, but I know he's having a hard time, especially with how long it's been." It would be thirty years tomorrow. "I'm going to go to see what I can do, if I can maybe talk him into walking away."

Probably not, but he had to try. Stanford Pines wasn't worth this.

"Maybe the twins might help?" Ariel said, interrupting his thoughts. "You know how excited he got when he visited them in the hospital."

Oh, yeah. At the memory of Stan's elbow in his face, his nose ached.

But Stan had been delighted when he realized that there was a second pair of twins in the family. Shermie's favorite picture was of him holding the twins, their mom hugging him.

"I'll have to ask him. Give me a second." He hung up and his fingers trembled as he typed in Stan's number. Shermie wasn't sure if it was hope or anxiety, but he held his breath as it rang.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Stanley, um...Here's the thing. Mark and Ariel want Mason and Mabel out of the house during the summer," Shermie said, trying not to panic as he said it all in one breath. "I told them that I was going to be visiting you and Ariel suggested I take them with me to-"

SMASH.

Shermie jolted at the noise, dropping the phone. He scrambled to grab it, his heart racing at an uncomfortable rate. "Stanley?!"

"Sure, bring them!" There was another smash. "I've missed the little gremlins. I can take them fishing." Another smash. "I didn't really get to do that with Mark when he visited."

"What are you smashing?"

"Oh, my beer." There was a thump. "Anyway, let me know when you guys are coming. I have to set up the attic and find the spare bedroom and find my cigars." And with that, the line went dead. Shermie blinked before he started dialling Mark's number.

Well, that was a hell of a yes.

"Hello? Dad?"

"He said yes."

[megarhyssa-sp]

I have to ask about the grandpa Bill au. Did Steve adopt... Mabel and Dipper or some other characters you haven't dropped yet? Or is it completely overhaul au where Mabel and Dipper are Ford's bio grandkids?

[luckyshinyhunter]

And here's an another drawing pile I did, including my own crittersona! Along with with familiar faces too, what you think?

[sockfus]

me watching people still debate about who shermie is as if alex didn't confirm he was the baby and just needed a random grandpa he didn't want in the show

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

Btw I want you to know that I showed my last post to my dad, who has indeed watched Gravity Falls, and he was analyzing the art work and asked “is that our solar system in the background?” And I, in my I-haven’t-eaten-in-several-hours-because-I-went-comatose-drawing-this state responded like “I don’t… I don’t know man. Probably not.” But he’s still looking at it and pointing out each planet he sees when he gets into a debate with me about whether one is Jupiter and I tell him “that’s WAY too small to be Jupiter” but he says “maybe it’s just far away” and I’m like “Jupiter’s that far away but we’re right next to Saturn???” And his response. Hold on I need to break this text up because this is great

His response is “well this isn’t earth, it’s gravity Falls.” I just decided to blindly accept that sure, maybe Gravity Falls is just not on earth BUT THEN HE SAYS “and grandpa is an alien.”

“What???” I have no fucking clue what he’s talking about. He just repeats it and because I’m so confused he says “yeah… is grandpa not an alien?” I tell him no and he says “well he found the alien book. The journals!” I informed him that no, “grandpa” *wrote* the journals and he says “well yeah, but the first one! The first one was written by an alien.”

So I *say* that my dad has watched gravity falls, but who really knows what he watched 😭😭😭

[csodaturmix]

get Shermed idiot

[sunsestart]

For the gravity falls au, dipper and Mabel have their grandpa shermie/ the brother of the grunkle Stan’s, do you have someone in mind for that role?

Nope

Mostly because,,, well it makes no sense for the skeletons to be related to a human and a goat kid aiwhaksjsj

So I'm imagining that they're not related to the skelebros

Let's just say the families are old friends and they trust them to take care of the kids for the summer idk

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[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

do you think the stans would relate to oro and mato from hit game hollow knight

[skipppppy]

Highkey one of the funniest parts of Gravity Falls is how obnoxiously close they come to revealing Ford’s existence in the early seasons but never do out of just. Cosmic levels of dumb luck

Episode 1 Stan nearly catches Dipper with the journal and it’s passed off as a gag about Gold Chains for Old Men magazine. In Time Travellers Pig they go back to the Shack 30 years in the past and miss Ford opening the door on them by literal seconds. In bottomless pit Mabel gives him a set of truth teeth that make him incapable of lying and he tells the twins TO THEIR FACES that he regularly commits massive tax fraud and if they had asked him to elaborate he would’ve told them who he was impersonating. In one of the shorts Dipper and Soos find a sentient omniscient mailbox that will answer any question in the universe, and right before they can ask it who wrote the journals Mabel shows it a video of herself snorting gummy worms and it kills itself out of disgust. The entirety of Dreamscaperers is them delving into the depths of Stan’s psyche, going through his memories, all while fighting his brother’s ex-boyfriend and it somehow just. Doesn’t come up. Bill never mentions him. Their grandpa Shermie never said anything. Their parents never said anything. Either the universe was conspiring to cover it up or they are genuinely all that oblivious

[localcanadiancreature62]

I see a gold tooth lol. Also OUGHHH MAMA'S BOY. HE LOOKS JUST LIKE HIS MOMMY.

I wanted to compare Sherm to Caryn for my own sake cause I did base his design off her features more than Filbrick's. I like to think he was a Mama's boy being the first born. She also being a big part of his life and so forth. Thinking I should probably draw him compared to Filbrick as well? Not sure.