#grunkle stan

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

Pokemon AU my absolute beloved 🙏🙏

(Translation for Ford's cursive/complete image description in the ALT text ❤️)

Made a companion piece to this!! See it here ❤️

[flower-zombiee]

Something I think about so much is just how different the Stanley Pines we see in ATOTS is from the Grunkle Stan we know in the rest of the show.

Like, have you ever noticed just how much more expressive Stan is in 1983? The guy wears his heart on his sleeve so much more than he does later on. At almost every moment you can tell exactly what he's thinking and feeling just from his face, something that will become a lot rarer for him. Even setting aside the portal incident scene itself, have y'all ever watched the Dusk 2 Dawn scene and just watched Stan's face? He looks so… openly sad.

It's not just his expressions. Here's a detail that only just occurred to me: you guys ever think it's weird that Stan doesn't just try to steal the bread from Dusk 2 Dawn? Like, you'd think his stealing habit would've originated from his years on the street stealing to survive, but no— he tries to pay for the bread, and then when he doesn't have any money, he figures out how to get some. It's surprisingly honest.

And just like… I don't know, his whole vibe is so different. He's come from this life of hardship completely willing to talk things through. He's emotional, he's open, and not exactly what you'd expect to see when you imagine what a younger Grunkle Stan might have been like. In fact, his vibe is so different that, in Journal 3, Ford writes that when he first saw Stan, he assumed he was just in another alternate dimension rather than the one he came from.

Anyway, it just makes me think about the transition of how, exactly, he went from one to the other. How we go from the "stubborn, frostbitten vagabond" to the "carnival barker" he is by the show's present. I think about that in-between Stan a lot. Realizing that the hole in his heart, the one he thought was caused by his circumstance for so long, hadn't disappeared even now that he had money and a steady place to live. Growing more bitter and grumpy by the day, learning that maybe it's just better if he shuts himself off from the world so nobody has a chance to hurt him. Seeing himself aging and finding himself no closer to saving Ford. Ship of Theseus-ing himself into the carefully curated asshole that maybe even he thinks he is.

[synodicsoma]

[mrpuzzle]

Everyday I think how his own FATHER legit made him homeless. Poor dude was going through so much, and changed to become a better person.

settling is the sign of a dying man

[paintedcrows]

Ever think about how Bill Cipher has canonically threatened every member of the Pines family, except Stanley, with suicide? I think about that a lot... Kid's show villain everyone!

Individual Panels below the cut!

[such-a-daydreamer]

Grunk art dump/ headcannons

Ford thought he was so cool for finally being able to use that saying. Too bad no one can understand him. Stan always thinks he's being cursed when Ford speaks alien languages

Compared to Soos, Stan is ass at video games, but compared to everyone else? Stanley is a god. Also Ford is really predictable.

Even though Ford had a translator given to him by the alien refugees, I imagine that he'd still go out of his way to learn any language that was compatible with the human vocal chords. Y'know... just cause it's cool?

[meowdyjac]

[Tw: Alcohol]

Two broken men celebrate the night

[blooms-in-april]

Literally agony and perfection

You took away my friend

[connie-calypte]

Y'all ever think about how Stan totally called the mystery shack "the murder hut" at first bc he feels like he killed his brother

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

Click for better quality, I'm begging

Companion piece to this!

[starmieknight]

Omg i love 17 again Stan! I wonder if Ford tried to Ask him how on earth that happened and if Ford would treat him like a small kiddo (protective big brother style). And how would Stan feel about it?

I think… it could go two ways.

One, Ford turns into the most protective big brother ever and is always making sure he returns the effort and dedication Stan put into getting him back. It’s all rainbows and sunshine.

Two… it’s another opportunity for a Stan Twins misunderstanding. Ford thinks he’s showing how much he cares when he tells Stan they’ll find a way to fix this. Stan is only hearing his own insecurities being voiced by his brother. Mainly that there’s something inherently “wrong” with him that needs to be fixed. He just wouldn’t be able to accept that Ford actually cares about him and wants to help him with his deaging situation since it seems to be affecting his mind and has definitely affected his life and relationships. Stan feels like he just found another way to mess things up and has left Ford to figure out how to clean it up. And when all of that finally bubbles to the surface and overflows, Ford is left feeling like the scum of the earth because his brother doesn’t seem to believe that he actually loves him and wants to help. And they’ll be stuck in that feedback loop until they actually start communicating better and learning to trust each other again. And THEN they get to have that brotherly relationship again. And it’s all rainbows and sunshine 🌈 ☀️

[gryffinartt]

Uggghhh finals are taking up all my time and i cant draw much BUT i managed to get some free time between studies

they’re whats keeping me going atp

[somdxr]

FINALLY DONE WITH THIS PIECE YAY!!!!!!

(reblogs appreciated on this!)

[suck-too-hard-on-your-jaskier]

Gods I love him

my humble collection of grunks (+ the og images under this text)

[sqines]

Steve pinington my beloved. + silly ford doodle jjsjs

Sorry I died 💔💔

[lkfarrout]

Headcanon that before weirdmaggedon, while cleaning out the basement, Ford finds a box full of his PHD dissertations, printed out:

F: That's it, Stan. You can take my name and my house, but distributing MY research and claiming it's yours is a whole other level of insulting.

S: What the hell are you talking about? I didn't "distribute" anything of yours.

F: Then why do you have these? *waves the papers in Stan's face* Where did you get them?

S: I paid for those, Poindexter. Printed them off the online database your college has.

F: For what purpose?

S: Because I wanted to read them? Did it ever occur to you that I might have missed you all these years?

F: Oh... well, which one was your favorite?

S: Beyond the Known: A Study of Cryptids, Anomalies, and the Unseen Forces of Nature was pretty good.

F: You think so? I was always proud of that one... wait did you say you had to pay for them?