#i’ll never be loved

[chrissy-kaos]

Don't you leave me…

With the hope and belief that you're coming for me..

[liesmultixxx]

there are three things i know for sure

1. my life is a mess

2. no one will ever find me attractive/ be attracted to me (dying alone wohoo)

3. i’m listening to music 24/7

[sp00kysk3lly]

I’ll never get to know this feeling. Where someone actually loves me and wants me to live… 🥺🥺🥺😢😢

[stompandhollar]

Honestly the most revolutionary thing about Gravity Falls to me is its commitment to sincerity.

I’ve been listening to Alex’s podcast where he goes into the details of each episode with different storyboard artists and writers who worked on the show, and it just baffles me how… cared for the story is. Right now in media there’s been an uptick in satire, and shows making fun of themselves for existing, or taking the piss at their own content to “win” fans to their side. It’s like whimsy is gone from so many pieces of media. But Gravity Falls just doesn’t… do that. It completely embraces itself. Weirdness and all. And so does the team behind it. I’m not used to something I care about being so cared about by everyone surrounding it.

Here’s this cartoon, written and illustrated by an entire team of people saying, “no, we’re serious. we mean this. we made this on purpose and we made it important.”

Throughout the podcast, Alex discusses little ins and outs of each character, offering so much deep internal struggles and enriching the story even farther. And listening to him unpack it with the utmost sincerity just warms my heart. Each character is so dynamic because they were cared for by people who imbued them with sincerity.

That’s exactly why we get quotes like “Shame is powerful, but it grows in the dark,” as Ford realizes the trauma he’s hidden for so long is being embraced by his family, diminishing it’s weight on him through their immediate support.

It’s why we get Alex describing Stanley with quotes like; “I always in my gut thought of him as somebody with a huge well of sadness, a loss of human connection. And that need to please? That need to get laughs from the crowd, and putting on a big show? He’s trying to get from them the affection he never got from his family, and that he lost with his brother.”

Or detailing how Mabel might be a goof… but half the time she’s doing a bit, because she’s really more mature than her brother and doesn’t want him to grow up too fast. She’s trying to help ground him and bring lightheartedness into his life. Because she knows otherwise, he’ll become too self isolated.

And those two mini character studies he dropped so casually in these podcast episodes just… color the show. It’s why the show survived so well even after ten years. It’s gruff-old Stan always calling his niece “Pumpkin” and “Honey”. It’s the family always holding hands without it behind laced with a joke, and falling asleep on one another in the car. It’s Alex explaining that people toyed with other endings, other plot lines, other twists, but it was always going to end with Stan and Ford mending the family tie they severed thirty years ago. Because that was their story. Messes and family and care.

Ten years ago, watching it for the first time as it came out, I felt all that. But now, as an adult, knowing that all the other adults who made it felt the exact same way? :,) What a special story we all got to grow up with, and get to continue being apart of.

[isaleilia]

i’m not a love. i’m a kiss, i’m a make out, i’m a hook up, i’m a mistress, i’m a fling, i’m a distraction. but i’ve never been a love, and i fear i never will be.

[milkcurdles]

Fancy seeing you!

[fully-functioning-pigeon]

I know someone must have done this already

[an-albino-pinetree]

Warnings: New Digital Circus vid spoilers!

Crogodile-

[star-cloves]

As an apology for my last post, a quick comic of Fiddleford and Tate being happy :)

[chloesimaginationthings]

Oooo I love the way you draw Jeff he's cute <333

I hope I did Jeff justice.. gotta love tired men

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Homer!Odysseus and Epic!Odysseus would try to kill each other if they ever met

[ducktracy]

there are a lot of evil people in the world and a lot of darkness in the world and so it’s very important for me to stress that now more than ever is the time to spread kindness and compassion. combat the evil by not only not partaking in it, but actively refuting it. destroy the notion that being compassionate or generous or kind to someone is uncool or embarrassing or even scary. be the change you want to see. start a chain reaction. positivity only breeds more positivity. do an act of kindness for someone so that that person who is too afraid to do it themselves can see you, realize that they’re not alone, and perhaps sheepishly follow your example. and then the next person who is too afraid but sees that person can do the same. when bad news comes out about bad people or horrible atrocities in the world it’s such an easy impulse to despair, and obviously it’s important to feel what you need to feel. grieve. be angry. be sorrowful. be empathetic. but dust off your pants and get up and be a part of a chain reaction that, no matter how small the scale, and spread compassion and love and care. all the reasons why you might not—“it’s hard! it’s scary! people will make fun of me! it’s useless because there’s too much evil!” are all grade A arguments as to why you should. you have no idea how many people you could inspire to do the same. even if it doesn’t get you anyway far, you can at least say you have the nobility of trying. please choose love and please choose life. you are worth loving and you are worth inspiring others to love

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

bad day need hug

[morecrearty]

can you believe i still think about this mess of a show in the good year 2024??

[bruciemilf]

Supervillain who finally has Batman cornered: Ironic, isn’t it? The most beloved hero in the world. And no one’s in your corner.

Bruce, sighing in relief because It’s Over, Finally:

Nightwing, walking in, saying absolutely nothing, ready to fight:

Red Hood, throwing away his guns and just squaring the fuck up:

Robin, hissing and snapping his teeth while pulling up with TWO swords:

Harley, happily walking in with the angriest smile you’ve ever seen and her hammer ready:

Selina, who somehow acquired three tigers:

Alfred, sleeves rolled and shotgun ready:

Batwoman, crashing through the building with the Batmobile:

Batgirl, somehow glaring so strongly you can feel it through her mask:

Talia, ready to snap a man’s neck with her bare hands:

Clark, blasting through the building with the rage of 100 suns:

Harvey, no guns, no weapons, just pissed off ex husband energy:

Wonder Woman, getting her shield and sword ready:

Green Arrow, taking the most lethal arrows in his arsenal out:

Ghostmaker, strutting in, ready to kill and piss Bruce off:

Thomas and Martha’s ghosts possessing two random civilians:

Supervillain:

Supervillain: please tell them not to kill me

Bruce, sighing harder: I’ll try