zipperize

[yourknightinshiningplastic]

girl help I'm thinking. about that guy again.

[starryemeralds]

pines pines pines!!!!!

(reference is this art by joe pitt)

[Image description: digital art of the Pines family from Gravity Falls, posing for a photo. Stan has his arms around Dipper and Ford, with all of them grinning. Soos is making a peace sign, and Mabel is sticking out her tongue. Wendy has a relaxed smile. End ID.]

[torantuga]

more serious fanart coming soon i promise

anyway heres my daughter

[firesofdainix]

Relativity Falls AU time

This won't be a one on one counterpart for the entirety of Gravity Falls. Since we're not doing this one on one, we're changing contents of some episodes!

Here's the swapped characters:

Ford = Mabel

Stan = Dipper

Shermie is a fusion of both twins

Pacifica = Bill

Wendy = Fiddleford

Euclid and Scalene = Preston and Priscilla

Axolotl = Smile Dip Dog

Shanklin = Waddles

Soos = Abuelita (her name's Maria, or 'Ria' for short)

Bud and Mrs. Gleeful= Gideon

And now, context!

Mason is the Pines brothers' grandpa, who had a falling out with his son Filbrick before the events of the show. The fight is unknown (but will be revealed later on) but Filbrick cuts off all contact- until he and Sherman began butting heads, teenage rebellion and all, so Filbrick asks his dad to 'set Shermie straight.' What happened was the best summers Shermie has, and annually he goes to Gravity Falls to be with his grandpa.

Much to the family's obliviousness, Shermie has been helping Mason cover up any supernatural things happening within the town, while also using the tourist trap known as the mystery shack to give tourists and other townsfolk the benefit of the doubt. Because of this, Shermie has few to several run-ins with the Society of the Blind Eye but disagrees with their methods of keeping the townsfolk safe from Gravity Falls' weirdness.

Mason trusts his oldest grandson completely with working around the house and keeping the supernatural creatures distant from their family, but he hasn't told him anything about his sister or the portal inside the basement. He doesn't trust Shermie enough for this.

In Shermie's 18th year, his parents are finally in their divorce proceedings, and Caryn wants custody of his younger brothers. Since he's been admitted to college, he offers that he and his brothers stay in Gravity Falls with their grandpa Mason for a while, to which both parents accepted.

Shermie secretly keeps the fact that he was moving away from New Jersey to California for the college years for his university, something that WILL be found out by the twins. The twins assume that Shermie is going to be studying in a community college near them.

Stanley doesn't trust Grandpa Mason at first but starts warming up to him when he sees how much Shermie trusts him, and the way Ford is smiling to be with someone as weird as him.

Ford's main gripe with Mason is the fact that he makes a 'mockery' of weirdness, which is then soured by the fact that Gravity Falls is TRULY weird and Mason seems to think they're just 'special effects.' When he found the third scrapbook, he starts trying to find out about the author, and figuring out the many weird things in Gravity Falls, even adding more information in the scrapbooks provided.

Since Shermie is included in the twins' adventures (mostly- if he's not being a distant dumbass most of the time) some of the stuff will not stay the same if Shermie has anything to say about it. He just has a hard time trying to be like... a perfect role model for his brothers. He's not socially awkward, he just doesn't feel dedicated socializing with people. It's a lesson he learns at the end of the series, that being distant won't help him in the long run.

Mason and Mabel have a good relationship. Once Mabel is out of the portal, Mason takes it upon himself to resolve the rift that had formed between the two of them, and grow a stronger sibling bond. Meanwhile, Ford and Stan's bonds are starting to fracture. Stanley idolizes the bond they shared, promising that he and Ford will be like Mason and Mabel when they grow up, minus the portal thing.

Mason feels very guilty about pushing Mabel in the portal. Even if it was an accident, he still managed to rob Mabel 30 normal years. She's always wanted to get married, and Mabel tries to make him feel less guilty over it. He was just paranoid, mad and hurt Mabel was sending him away over again. She takes responsibility, wishing she could've been more direct and explained the situation better.

Wendy is Fiddleford, wherein Mabel asks her to help her with heavy work and heavy lifting, along with Candy and Grenda who were recruited to help with the portal project. She was the one who fell into the portal the testing day and found out about Pacifica's true plans. She tries to get Mabel to stop the project, but she only ended up convincing Candy and Grenda, who admit that ever since the portal project started, Mabel hasn't been feeling herself. Mabel wouldn't budge, so Wendy and her friends left, causing Mabel to be isolated socially.

Mason married a high school sweetheart after he left his house when Mabel was still upset with him over accidentally ruining her discovery that won the science fair. He stayed with her and decided to have a family, because that's what grown-ups do, right? Start a family and raise kids? And he wants to be better than his parents, no fighting with children and whatnot.

But happy endings don't last forever, he ends up being in the same cycle as his parents are, but at least the two of them fight privately unlike what his parents have done. But it was inevitable that they end up divorcing, and his wife won the custody battle with Filbrick. But that's mainly because he had been in Gravity Falls during the entire divorce trials, seemingly not caring about the divorce proceedings and his son.

Mason and Mabel reunited after ten years of no contact on the cusp of winter. Mason is incredibly stressed with the divorce proceedings, while Mabel is paranoid, sleep deprived, and afraid of Pacifica coming to get her, and Mason is eager to get this over with so Mabel can maybe vouch for him in the divorce proceedings so he can gain custody of Filbrick. But then he sees Mabel look so broken and shattered, he stops his motivations, tries to calm her down, but it leads to the portal incident. Or accident! Mason tries to hold onto her, but Mabel still fell, and now he has lost both families in one day.

When he realized he lost the custody battle, he relocates to Gravity Falls fully, becoming some sort of monster hunter and tourist guide respectively, and to work on the portal. He introduced everyone as Mabel's brother, saying she entrusted him to take care of her house while she navigates the Arctic. Then, he fabricates Mabel's death, stating she is forever lost at sea after her shipping vessel exploded, so now Mason has the rights to the shack. Of course, when he is found by Mabel's old friends, his memories of the unknown were almost erased, since the trio ended up making a cult.

Candy is the new leader of the Society of the Blind Eye, however, because of her close ties to the author and Wendy remembering her old friend even a little bit, the twins are a lot more lenient with erasing almost the entirety of her memories. She does face the consequences of her actions about running a cult, though.

That's all I have for the characters as of this moment! As I said before, not everything is gonna be a one-on-one counterpart! Everyone is unique in their own ways!

Here's a few episodes that might be altered thanks to Shermie's involvement (idk some stuff yet ok):

Tourist Trapped: Dipper and Shermie immediately figure out that Stan's new girlfriend Darlene is a spider monster and ushers her out there. Stan becomes rebellious and rendezvouses with Darlene, causing her to reveal her true nature. Ford thinks she's a fairy about to kidnap Stanley to make him her queen.

Society of the Blind Eye: He's going to punch Blind Ivan, RIGHT IN THE FACE-

Lee, Ford, and Shermie vs. the Future: Instead of Mabel asking Ford to be his apprentice, Ford asks Mabel if she is willing to mentor him. When she asks if his brothers would be fine with that, he says so, and she says she'll think about it. When he returns, he finds out that Stan heard the conversation, and Shermie immediately begins to scold Ford for thinking about himself. The ensuing argument forces Shermie to reveal that, since he's going to California for college, the twins should stick together. This makes the Stans feel betrayed, that their only possible role model is now going away from them 'forever.' Stanley runs away, and Ford and Shermie try looking for him.

Some episodes may be different or have a different monster of the week! I want Ford and Stan and Shermie's adventures to not be identical to the Pines twins!

[zestydistress]

They would be best friends.

[gloriouslyscentedwizard]

Just girly things...!

✨️💞Spraying yourself directly in the eye with your 97% alcohol Bath & Body Works body spray✨️🫠💞

[strawburry01]

Life in Technicolor

Ford Pines x Fem! Reader

Summary: After the two of you were stuck on opposite sides of the space time continuum for 30 years- how do you go back to normal?

A bunch of little blurbs because people ate that up last time and it's fun-er to write rn :)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 2.5

Part 3

Part 4

Meeting Mabel and Dipper was truly one of the best things that you'd ever experienced. You loved helping Mabel with her endless crafts and hearing all her boy problems (which was a shocking amount and also of shocking severity). You also loved helping Dipper with his research of Gravity Falls under Stan's nose of course. He'd kept your room of video tapes under lock, so when you finally convinced him to open it ("it is MY stuff Stan"), Dipper was on Cloud 9 going through all of your recordings. Most of them were trashed unfortunately after years of dust and sitting, but a few of them actually ran back and played, which excited you both.

One morning you went to the Gravity Falls farmers market only to feel the intense scrutiny of everyone's eyes on you until Susan, still the waitress at the pancake place questioned where you had been for the past couple decades. "Um, vacation?" you had sheepishly answered. It seemed to somehow work.

Mabel, Dipper, and Soos took it upon themselves to catch Ford and you up on all the worldwide events you'd missed. Ford was distraught over Princess Diana's death.

While Ford was often stuck in the basement working on his devices and journals, you liked to stay in the gift shop and help at the register, working on writing down all your time over the past years between customer checking out. Wendy thought you were pretty cool for doing it.

You caught Soos once trying to Sharpie on a similar heart under his own eye once. You slowly closed the door despite not breaking eye contact with him. Neither of you ever brought it up.

Ford and you went stargazing most nights on top of the shack. Stan did do a pretty good job installing a dubious, but stable-ish, balcony.

Stan and you were a little awkward at first, as he didn't know if you'd share his brother's attitude towards him or not. You couldn't handle it anymore and ended up buying him a 6 pack of shitty beer and driving the golf cart in donuts outside in the parking lot until you were both doubled over.

Ford and you held another wedding ceremony. A more proper one this time. Dipper was the ring bearer, with Mabel being the flower girl. She unfortunately picked some of a carnivorous variety that started biting their ankles soon after exchanging "I do's".

Mabel took you and Ford out to try and update your wardrobes since everything was stuck in the 80's. Ford blushed every time you stepped out of the dressing room.

Stan tripped you (accidentally) into the Bottomless Pit and Ford nearly killed him on the spot.

You got dragged into supervising the girls on their quest to get unicorn hair and nearly threw out your back while throwing punches at those bratty horses.

Being old in this world was the hardest thing, but you were glad Ford was there to commiserate with. When you had been here last as spry 30 something year olds and were flung back as 60 something year olds. Most night's you'd stare at yourself in the mirror after brushing your teeth until Ford would get up from bed and wrap his arms around your waist and look into the mirror with you. "Still beautiful" he'd mumble as he'd kiss your shoulder. It wasn't that though. Sometimes you just couldn't recognize yourself. You were supposed to have watched the both of you grow older in this house. Not blast back here after decades apart.

"Do you ever feel like we missed out on all those years?" you'd ask Ford one day. "Perhaps. But all we can do is focus on the future at this point, and at least we have that," he'd answer.

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[ahkylous]

hey! odd ask, but i wrote the drifting stars fic Senior Season. obviously it's unfinished and will remain that way, but i wanted to thank you for the kind things you've said about it online. in the years since i wrote it, i found myself questioning my abilities as a storyteller and writer. the fact that you said such nice things about my silly story from high school means a lot to me :)

Sorry it's been so long since I took time to answer things from my inbox but oh my gosh, hi.

I absolutely adore your fic, I can easily say it's my favourite drifting stars fic (and possibly my favourite gravity falls fic but I dont read much outside the ford and mabel character tags so that title is still up for grabs). Everything about that fic is so good, the character development and just the way Ford and Mabels relationship is portrayed is literally amazing. I'm not entirely sure what else to say I'm somewhat in awe rn lmao.

I write oneshots and oc fics on and off so I get what it's like doubting yourself. I feel like every creator has those moments, not just writers. But being able to take a break and come back to things is probably the best way to find your footing again. That being said I'm honoured to know that you've found my appreciation posts for your fic, it's nice to know when you've made someone else happy yk.

I swear more people need to read Senior Season it's so amazing. I'm linking it here in case other ppl like this post. I have such a personal connection to this fic thank you so much for writing it.

[journal420]

Also, in light of the new pmmm movie coming out soon (I am also in love with madoka magicia), which magical girls would you assign to each GF character? It can also be characters from Magia Record! I haven’t caught up to the storylines of all those magical girls yet though.

dude. dude. madomagi is my life blood. the new movie trailers made me hyperventalate. ive been waiting for this since 2016 ..... middle school me is crying rn .............

OOOOO THIS SOUNDS FUN OKAY OKAY so.......

favorite character syndrome makes me want to put madoka and stan in the same category. AND THEY KINDA ARE. they both give up themselves to save the world and the people they love (esp because theyve struggled with self worth issues their entire life). BUT ALSO. god stan's whole thing was chaining himself to gravity falls to try and get ford back for 30 years and ... if that aint homura-core ... i dont know what else is...

going off that fanart you rbed from fillerfarts, ford and homura are. very similar esp personality wise. and also being huge criminals with large arsenals of weaponry. ford's quantom distabilizer and homura's nukes are like. the same to me. same energy

the other characters i feel are kinda hard to associate characters with? no one really slots up neatly from the GF cast to the madomagi cast. kyoko and wendy have surface level similarities, but even then kyoko's a hot head while wendy's whole thing is that she's always chill. i think maybe dipper and mabel come close to the sayaka & kyoko relationship? one trying so hard to live up to the idea of a hero and isolating themself while the other reminds them its okay to not be alone. but even then i think maybe its a stretch from me? kyosaya is so good and so specific. if i twist my brain i could see dipper being like sayaka and mabel being the kyoko to that? if youre pickin up what im puttin down? but also i sound like this

mami is such a funny outlier. only girl to not be cursed with yuri instead shes cursed with Insta Death LOLOLOL. god maybe at most i could associate fiddleford with mami? maybe? but thats me also stretching like an olympian

RAAAGHHGHH i just feel like we got lucky with the stans because theyre the only ones with a weirdo fucked up THING going on. the rest of the gravity falls cast are relatively normal, its just the stans are the crazy people. meanwhile everyone in madomagi has something crazy going on

AS FOR THE MAGIA RECORD GIRLS!!!! HONESTLY ??? i uh. erm. i dont really care for magia record (gets boo'd off the stage). ITS A CUTE MOBILE GAME FOR SURE some of the designs are fun but i feel like its just a jank add on to the madomagi story. like im glad its not canon, its just one of the Many Timelines homura goes through that branches off to a happy ending of defeating walpurgisnacht (in the game. the anime is different). i watched the anime and tried to get into the mobile game but it just didnt have the same punch. nothing will ever grab me the way homura and madokas freak situationship did, especially cus everyone in magia record is so Normal by comparison LOLOL

but also this girls design screams candy to me

[ieatgluesticks]

I REALLY WANNA MAKE A GRAVITY FALLS AND TGS CROSSOVER AU CUZ LIKE, THEY'RE BOTH MY HYPERFIXATIONS RN SO LIKE YEAH

It's inspired by some art @definatelymrhyde made :>

So basically my current idea for it is that during the episode "Blendin's Game" while Blendin and the time officers were going through different times to try and find Dipper and Mabel, one of the officers dropped his time tape in 1885 London

Jekyll was out for a walk and saw it, he grabbed it because it looked a bit abnormal and tried to disassemble it back in his lab, but instead accidentally sent himself to Gravity Falls Oregon in the year 2012

(from here on it take place between the season 2 episodes 15 and 16 The Last Mabelcorn and Roadside Attraction)

Jekyll would appear in the woods all confused and would see Ford and Dipper walking through the woods chatting. They spot Jekyll and carefully approach him, since they've never seen him around town and they feel he might work for Bill, but they soon lose those suspicions after interacting with him and realizing he probably isn't working for Bill, cuz of how confused and disoriented he is

They take him back to the Mystery Shack and try to figure out who he is and what happened. Dipper then realizes he mentioned the time tape and realizes it's probably from back during all the stuff with Blendin.

Then during the events of the episode "Roadside Attraction", they let Jekyll stay at the shack with Ford so those two can chat and try to figure out how to deal with this problem, while Stan takes everyone else on the road trip

I only thought of this au idea like few days ago, so I havent really worked out plot holes and such, but like, if anyone has ideas for the au let me know! :3

[kitpanthera]

last one for now!! thank you so so much for answering my questions, this has been so fun. (also, my phone randomly started updating in the middle of me typing this out so if, for some reason, you have an unfinished version of this in your inbox, my bad.)

chapters 26-27 🎉

1. dipper thinking about mabel using the memory gun on him to make him forget bill,,, hm. even if they DID do that, that might honestly make things worse? like, dipper would then be bound to deals that he no longer remembers making or what the terms of them are. i also don't know if a child's mind would recover as well to use of the memory gun.

2. dipper feeling like bill is the only one who doesn't have an idealized version of him is his head... i'm not sure i agree! bill's placed him on a very high pedestal with a very high fall should he get knocked off it... and dipper saying that bill encouraged him to be himself and TAUGHT him how to do that because he's never been able to do that before,,, i'm chewing on glass rn.

3. the entire phone call section,,, stan immediately saying he would keep the twins with him and their parents wanting split custody (a fake out to get the other to back down? did they spend the whole time arguing over who got mabel? neither of them wanting to take dipper...). "they can come up here and tell them themselves" yes please! dipper had his moment with mabel, now he deserves to yell at his parents (as a treat). "hey guys! thanks for coming all the way here 💞💞💞 loved seeing you but i can't wait to never see you again! you don't need to miss my choir recitals anymore because my choir no longer exists! you can go back to just being mabel's parents while i go rule with world with my best friend, the interdimensional demon who's bringing about a new age on earth, you might know him. see you never!"

4. it's such a small thing but ford bending down to talk to dipper so they're on the same page!! he cares so much about these kids and he just met them 😭 him taking the time to reassure dipper that they're family and that he seems himself in dipper!!! him smiling when dipper agrees with stan that he's like ford (though not in the way he expects). that must've been another painful moment for stan!

5. does mabel realize how big of a deal it is that dipper can speak to bill during the day/without being asleep?

6. dipper not seeinging weirdmageddon as the apocalypse because the apocalypse has negative connotation!! weirdmageddon is GOOD to him so it's the bringing about of a new age!

7. dipper's mental form changing to look more like bill's human form instead of pre-gravity falls dipper,,, after he has recognizes how much he's changed,,, right after being compared to ford,,,

8. ford must feel so stupid for showing dipper the rift! i'm assuming dipper didn't just smack the rift out of his hands because bill wants ford on his side willingly? not sure you're going to get that, bill...

9. dipper still caring about stan enough to remind gideon of their deal! and being upset when bud threatens stan! the ghost of dipper-past is haunting dipper's mental house (it's empathy and compassion for people other than bill).

10. dipper letting bill takeover the reins because he's so drained from being involved with the pines,,, him still hoping that someone it's not him and no one noticing,,, NO ONE NOTICING (i'm ripping my hair out)

11. dipper watching the billford reunion,,, guys stop being messy, toxic exs in front of a 12 yo!

12. dipper hiding in the grass/wheat... is the distinction important? both represent different things (wheat as salvation and resurrection while grass can be protection and concealment...). are they a mental representation of the ways ford has tried to protect himself or move on from bill?

13. an eternal night!! stars staying the same even during weirdmageddon!! everyone always being able to see the stars!! is that almost like,, a gift? since they both value the stars so much, and bill wanted to bring the stars to his people, is that almost more of a "benevolent overlord" thing from bill? or really just gifts to themselves?

14. how different that conversation would've gone if dipper hadn't mentioned ford!

15. mabel realizing that he's just been around because he's manipulating ford while ford didn't notice,,, is he that desperate for human connection that he doesn't notice dipper manipulating him? or is dipper just that good at acting?

16. dipper telling mabel it's deals PLURAL. i wonder if she had realized that before, if that's a big thing for her, or if she didn't even notice.

17. "he takes my feelings seriously, unlike you," and "you've only ever dismissed me, mabel" but him still missing her and wanting to be close to her,,, him saying that he doesn't want to only be close with bill but she's giving him no choice,,, i am staring into the sun.

18. dipper comparing mabel to their mom! is that because he sees both of them as "checking out" of their relationship with him? and then mabel immediately saying she doesn't want to think about home and that they don't even know what they're going home to 😭 gravity falls feeling more like home than piedmont has in years 😭😭😭

19. i'm assuming bill saying "pine tree" was him trying to warn him that bill was in earshot? i'm kind of surprised that bill didn't take over during the fight to try to separate them before they could reveal dipper and bill's friendship to ford.

20. did ford hear dipper ask bill to take over and that he didn't want to be there?

21. "i know it's me you want!" well...

22. does anyone hear ford shouting at dipper? that would probably be hard to explain to the tourists lol

24. mabel always being the one to start weirdmageddon... fate again? or maybe something more like a fixed point or "canon event" like in spider verse?

25. did dipper stop wearing his bill jewelry once ford showed up? he mentions starting to wear it consistently, but not that he's stopped.

26. physical effects of using magic showing up soon,,, roadside attraction being the next episode,,, dipper being changed SO significantly,,, can he even pass through the barrier anymore? i'm imagining him in the rv and just SLAMMING into the barrier at 60 mph not going well. but it would reveal that as a problem to bill before weirdmageddon begins...

27. dipper learning to take pain rather than bill flipping the switch,,, is that because bill wants to it be authentic or because he knows flipping that switch would be too noticeable?

thank you thank you thank you sm!!! again, i'm sure i'll be back with more, but that's just from my first read through in a while!

Oh yeah I've been spending all my spare time replying?? Truly I could yap about my own series for days, this has legitimately been so so enjoyable for me!!

1. Yeahhhh, it would not go well, especially with how much more impressionable young minds are. Dipper would have no clue who Bill was, but still have a pact bond with him, still have him able to possess him whenever he wanted... A dark AU to consider.

2. Dipper is sort of aware of this pedestal? But he's determined that he set himself there, not Bill. He has intentionally set himself up to be that way for Bill because of his whole "I can fix him" mentality. He wants Bill to think he can fix him, too (and he kinda does?). But who he is on that pedestal, as far as he's concerned, is still himself.

3. The nature of the custody argument is yet to be revealed... But hooooo boy, can't wait to write that one! We stan Stan as a parent stand in for these kids; he's not perfect but he's better for these kids than their parents are!

4. For as much crap as Ford gets from the fandom, I love my boy! He really does care so much about them. They're just kids, they're twins, and to him, they start as a wholesome reminder of himself and Stan when they were that age. He's protective and caring! He also bends down to their level to talk to them multiple times in canon, and I love that for him! He also is someone I love to whump, so be prepared. :)

5. Not really? She knows his whole relationship with Bill and the way it's escalating is dangerous, but she's not aware of how all Bill works, exactly, so she doesn't know how significant that is.

6. Yes!! They're basically ringing in the New World Order (fitting to use an Illuminati term, no?)

7. :)

8. Pretty much, yeah. Bill still wants to be able to convince Ford to join him, and is hoping by cultivating a bond of trust between him and Dipper, he'll still be able to do that.

9. Yes! Dipper gets the chance to defend his family and show off how powerful he is, so he'll take it! Best of both worlds, really.

10. :)

11. They will ✨ not ✨

12. It is wheat! I'm impressed you picked up on that specific symbolism in it; in canon, it's wheat, but the symbolism is more in Dipper's perception that he's pretty sure it's wheat. Bill helped him be reborn, after all. :)

13. Sort of a gift to themselves. More on this to come. :)

14. One can only wonder...

15. Dipper is quite a good actor and it helps that he actually does like Ford. Mabel is definitely a bit smarter than Dipper gives her credit for, though, and more observant.

16. She won't notice until later. :)

17. :)

18. Yes! And his mom has always been emotionally manipulative,, as well, playing the victim and guilting Dipper into doing things for her. Dipper feels he's received the same from Mabel, though admittedly not maliciously. But yeah, Mabel doesn't even know about the divorce :)

19. Bill found it more important in the moment to preserve the idea that Mabel has no idea Dipper is being possessed, because he thought switching in the middle of the heated conversation might tip her off, and she might say something. Ford is a bit easier to deal with, and Bill doesn't need him, he just wants him. (But yes, it was a warning.)

20. Yes!

21. :)

22. Who's to say? :)

23. We'll see how things play out! Coming soon...

24. Oh, he did! But he'll be wearing it again now that the cat's out of the bag.

25. :)

26. A bit of both?? Switching a flip completely would be too noticeable and would have some negative side effects. He also wants Dipper to mirror him, and he learned naturally, himself.

no problem!! Thank you so much, really, this is sincerely so much fun!!!!

[possumlark]

i feel like i should prob have an intro post but i keep putting it off but now it's been like actually years and,,,,, ok hi i'm kara (pronounced care-uh, not car-uh)!!! about me below the cut!!

------general about me:

★ they/them

★ 18

★ aroace (though i joke about liking dilfs/gilfs)

★ nonbinary

★ audhd

★ depression & gad

★ my fav animals are opossums

★ retired band/choir kid

★ ohioan

------links:

★ ao3

★ neocities

> under construction, no link yet

------tags:

★ #possumlark

> posts by me or reblogs in which i say smth

★ #possumarts

> art tag, though i don't post art on this account anymore

★ #possumasks

> asks tag, but my asks are closed rn

★ #hm[insert whatever]

> each of these tags represent a person i know irl, guide

------fandoms:

★ adventure time/fionna and cake

| fav characters: simon, betty

| fav ships: petrigrof

| fav episodes: holly jolly secrets, simon & marcy, betty, come along with me, obsidian, simon petrikov, the winter king, cheers

★ gravity falls (primary fandom atm)

| fav characters: stan, ford, fiddleford, bill, dipper, mabel

| fav ships: billford, fiddauthor, billfiddlesford

| fav episodes: dreamscaperers, scary-oke, society of the blind eye, not what he seems, a tale of two stans, dd&md, the last mabelcorn, somewhere in the woods

★ sanders sides

| fav characters: logan

| fav ships: intrulogical

| fav episodes: wtit

★ star wars

| fav characters: anakin, luke

| fav ships: anidala

| fav media: rots, rotj, clone wars, esb, anh

★ the amazing digital circus

| fav characters: kinger

| fav episodes: the mystery of mildenhall manor

★ wordgirl

| fav characters: dr. two-brains

| fav ships: amazing cheese

| fav episodes: what's up doc?, the crazy world of doctor two-brains, two-brains forgets, the ballad of steve mcclean, two-brains quartet, a world without wordgirl, dr. no-voice, dr. wordgirl-brains

------music:

★ abba

| fav songs: dancing queen, mamma mia

★ chappell roan

| fav songs: hot to go, pink pony club, red wine supernova, good luck babe, femininomenon, casual, naked in manhattan

★ lemon demon

| fav songs: funky town, cabinet man, eighth wonder, man-made object, it's gonna get weird

★ mitski

| fav songs : i'm your man, abbey, remember my name

★ oingo boingo

| fav songs: running on a treadmill, weird science, no one lives forever, same man i was before, private life

★ tally hall/miracle musical

| fav songs: the mind electric, time machine, ruler of everything, hymn for a scarecrow, white ball

★ the hoosiers

| fav songs: live by the ocean, a sadness runs through him, goodbye mr a, killer

★ will wood

| fav songs: 2012, i/me/myself, love me normally

------games:

★ fields of mistria

★ minecraft

★ phasmophobia

★ stardew valley

[stripedtabbycat]

since I’m rewatching gravity falls rn I thought I’d make a post about my thoughts so far. (I wanted to start on August 31 which is dipper and mabel’s birthday but I ended up starting on September 1 instead. watching 1 episode a night and challenging myself to do the credits code each time)

under a cut because this will probably get long:

first of all this show is so funny. not all the jokes hold up but I really enjoy its sense of humor in general

i remember liking the second season better than the first and not just because it’s more overarching plot-driven, I just think the plot is a little more focused and the characters and their relationships are more solidified

I love seeing the development of Stan bonding with the kids over time. I noticed in “carpet diem” (the season 1 body swap episode) he’s commending dipper (who is really Mabel trying to turn him against dipper) for finally standing up to him and the next episode is the best we see them get along all season. it’s nice but still done in a funny/weird way that fits the show’s tone

dipper and mabel are siblings of all time. I love how clearly the show establishes how well they get along and work together and how often they’re goofin around and having fun at the beginning of episodes and how realistic their teasing and bantering and bickering feels…if you hate on mabel you’re wrong btw

i appreciate that the show doesn’t need to bluntly state the lesson we’re supposed to learn at the end of each episode but still has clear themes for each one. i also like when they kind of have a subverted/parodied version of a typical cartoon moral like in the truth teeth segment of “bottomless pit” when the expected lesson of “sometimes a small lie is okay” turns into “sometimes you have to let your uncle lie to the cops so he doesn’t get arrested for regularly committing tax fraud”

that said sometimes i’m a little :/ at the conclusions of certain episodes. I try not to harp on this bc I think part of what drives the more intense discourse about kids’ cartoons is the idea that they have to be teaching good messages to their target audiences, or at least not teach them harmful ones. I don’t think all kids’ shows should be Wholesome and Morally Edifying but sometimes you’re like. oh this is imparting a particular viewpoint I don’t love

anyway I’m just thinking about how “fight fighters” seems like it’s going to be about how physically fighting over petty relationship jealousy is dumb and immature but instead it kinda comes off like dipper has to learn “you have to fight your own battles” which…idk. I could be misinterpreting

then again I just watched “the love god” which tries to raise the interesting dilemma of “is it right/okay to meddle in others’ relationships [using magic or not] if they genuinely end up happier?” but given all the baggage around using love potions in fiction you can tell they had to walk that back a little in journal 3. I don’t think the element of “it actually wears off after a few hours” would have undermined the question too much but whatevs.

(i will say that stan in dreamscaperers saying he's hard on dipper to toughen him up kind of gets questioned later when we see the stans' backstory and it's clear their dad was not actually that great of a guy. room for interpretation there too i guess)

another reason I like season 2 better is because the show is finally done with the dipper/wendy crush plot that really dragged down parts of s1 imo. mostly because it felt like dipper had to learn that a relationship between them wasn’t happening a number of times before the show definitively said it and it lead to some of those dubious episode conclusions.

(whenever people claim that mabel was selfish and dipper always had to sacrifice things for her sake I just think…most of the time what he was “sacrificing” was a chance to impress wendy or spend more time with her, and I feel like this is more a problem with that aspect of the show than anything else)

(ALSO when people say there are too many "mabel's crush of the week" subplots - i never really got that impression? when she's going over her failed summer romances i realized there were only like, 4 episodes up to then where there was a plot about her liking a guy and it didn't feel overdone to me. however that's also why i was disappointed with her part of "northwest manor mystery" because i thought we were done with that. i guess they figured she and pacifica had already had their bonding episode in "the golf war" but i still wish she got to be involved with the main plot in that episode, even if i mostly liked it. kind of felt like the writers couldn't think of anything else for her to do)

anyway back to positive thoughts! I really appreciate the show’s creativity with the supernatural elements especially when they need a way to do a standard fantasy cartoon trope. need to shrink the characters down to miniature size? crystals that change the size of things that get caught in the light they refract! need to do a body swap? how about a carpet that swaps your electrons when you static shock someone? time travel? the time machine is in the form of a tape measure. they can get pretty outside of the box and it’s always cool

i also like the balance of humor and (kid-friendly) horror it engages in. there are a number of moments throughout the show that seem like a sudden intrusion of sheer horror but because of their suddenness and (relative) over-the-top nature they’re also really funny. I’m thinking of dipper opening the convenience store freezer and seeing a horrifying brain monster, the summerween trickster eating a kid, bill cipher summoning “a head that’s always screaming” and its skin peeling off (or like. anything he does in that episode), a lot of moments from the shorts like the island head in “the tooth” or the ending of “lefty”…

this show is i think a lot of people's first experience with a cartoon that has overarching continuity and encourages the viewers to analyze it for clues to the greater plot and i love how it does that. also love how it still works as a show even if you're not actively looking for clues to the mystery. they knew full well how much the fandom was engaging with it and both the show and supplementary material are just chock-full of details that really reward repeat viewings in a way that very few other children's shows do.

i did a pretty good job keeping track of the end credits codes in season 1 but by season 2 i had to just look up on the wiki what the vigènere key words were because i don't have the time to scour the whole episode for those sorry. especially when they get more and more hidden throughout the season. i'm still proud of myself for figuring out how to decode those messages using the grid of all the letters though

i think i first caught up with this show right when "not what he seems" was airing and now that's next up on the schedule. it's a very different experience watching the episodes all in a row and not having to wait at least two weeks between each one lol. on the plus side it gave the fans plenty of time to pick over every episode and theorize like hell

final thoughts: i love that a disney channel kids' cartoon devoted an entire extra-long episode to the surprisingly realistic and sad backstory of the main kid characters' great-uncles, one of whom had mostly been a comedic side character for the first season, and it's fantastic. once i'm done with this i cannot wait to get my hands on the book of bill

[euclydya]

I do hope this doesn't come off as rude. If I'm not mistaken you said that there are multiple fictives from Gravity Falls, correct? What's it like to have other people from your source around?

Not rude at all!! We do, yes! It's quite nice, we tend to stick together tbh and this goes for all our past rosters (that's what we call our groups of fictives/fronters since we're Circutien; each group stays around for a few months before mass dormancy happens and a new group takes over!).

It CAN get annoying and not everyone gets along (Stan and Bill for example, Stan fuckin haaaaates Bill which is so funny cuz Bill's like. Obsessed with Stan lmfao) but generally we make it work! We consider our group to be very tight knit which does make sense since we're like.... 99% Pines family rn roster-wise lmao.

Hell I daresay some of us even formed Because someone else in our roster missed them. I know I asked Bill if I could yoink Fids into the system which I did do successfully but I do think Mabel and Dipper formed because Stan missed them BUT i digress. It's,,, Very nice having people from the same source around! We don't feel as lonely tbh.

-Flo

[abalovesfic]

Alright, gonna talk about The Book of Bill some now.

Man, some of those dream/nightmares reveals were doozies.

Like poor Dipper having reoccurring nightmares abut a fight he wasn't supposed to overhear, between his parents.

Like mannnn. Poor Dipper. Explains (even more) stuff about Dipper. Like him trying to be mature/acting more mature/feeling like he needs to act more mature. And clinging onto authority figures, like Ford. And not wanting to go back/leave Gravity Falls; to some extent. Maybe explains (even more) about Mabel too.

Mabel having really funny/good dreams, then having nightmares about her pig/pet, Waddles, dying.

Wendy dreaming about her Mom.

Stan having sad (-ish) dreams about his brother, Ford.

And Pacifica's nightmares about her family and a lot of feelings of guilt show in multiple ways.

Etc.

Pacifica's and Dipper's esp. stood out to me, for various reasons (including the stuff I talked about with them in this Ask. And just being quite dark, depressing, and/or really interesting/cool/etc. for their characters). But man, all of these were, just, my goodness, man.

There was some more light-hearted ones though.

Like Ford's was just funny.

Off the dreams/nightmare reveals.

A lot of the stuff in the Book was just funny too.

Like Dipper' search history (lol).

And so much stuff with Bill in the book.

Like he was just, so funny in TBOB.

TBOB was also quite revealing for Bill and Ford's characters.

(And others too. Like the other people I mentioned in this Ask. And/or etc.).

Anyways, it was great. Great art and writing and character stuff.

Hmmmm, do u have any thoughts on this (on what I said here) and/or other thoughts on TBOB?

Anyways, goodbye for now. And stay well!

2/2.

Imma keep it short and sweet.

1. Bill is my son and I love him regardless of any crimes or horrors he has committed

2. He’s just a lil guy who clearly needs people but isn’t sure what that looks like and I sure do hope therapy works for him because I love him

3. I’ve been processing the fact that there is only 1 timeline/dimension where everyone doesn’t die horribly? I love dark and depressing stuff. But I’ve gotten so used to Alex being quirky and hopeful that this really took me by surprise. Like… wow

4. You know he’s my son because he gets drunk and cries in a knock off Taco Bell (what I wish I was doing rn)

[warmshotamilk]

FAULBCDT - for the ship thing Points if you get the reference <3

I don't <3 I'm sorry LMAO

F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?

Well I've been in the South Park fandom since 2017 and I haven't left yet so-

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

Same answers from when someone asked me for my 3-5 favorite ships. Rn, leaning more towards Luca x Alberto just because I recently rewatched the movie

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

1. Kyle (South PArk, obvi) - Because I am in love with him

2. Luca (Luca) - He is a baby boy. Very sweet. I want to rewatch Luca again now LMAO

3. Tails (Sonic) - I am also in love with him and also he is a smart, fluffy little baby boy. My heart is easily won

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you merely dislike. Characters that you absolutely loathe with the fire of ten thousand suns are exempt, as there is no point in giving yourself an aneurysm over a character that you hate.)

I'll do Pip from South Park for my mutual who likes Pip: He was honestly a really funny character and I'm a little disappointed they just sorta killed him off. Like I know WHY but I feel like more could have been done with him instead of just McFucking Murdering him

B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

Mmmmm I could cop out and do literally any incest ship since it use to be a squick of mine but I WON'T

Actually, I will LMAO Dipper x Mabel (Gravity Falls)

It use to bug the hell out of me since 1. I prefer BillDip and 2. incest ships use to squick me out but 1. I am a multishipper now and 2. incest ships no longer squick me out LMAO

C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

Ky//man (South Park) <3

No offense to ky//man shippers but I will NEVER ship it. To an extent I get WHY one would ship it but for me it's too far. You do you but I will not join you

(typing it that way so it won't show up in search)

D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.

Another one of my NOTPs: Cr//eek (South Park.) It's just meh to me but I dislike the ship because some (SOME!!) of the shippers are... too fucking annoying. They killed any interest I would have ever had in the ship and the ship is super duper popular so I WANNA like it but like... all the fandom content makes BOTH character super OOC and I just can't. The ship in canon is purely mid and the ship in fanon is unbearable to me

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending? 

Very South Park specific but I am VERY particular about my eye color hcs for all the characters, especially Kyle (I die on the hill of green eyed Kyle)