#if Ford can be attracted to a triangle why can’t I

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

Obligatory human Bill Cipher design

[monstrousmuse]

See, THIS is why I think that Bill and Mabel should have been friends. (some silly musings)

If only Bill had put aside his arrogance and evil-schemes-involving-dimensional-conquest-and-eternal-partying for like. ONE episode…A real bond could have been established between them. They could have been the World's Most Fabulous And Chaotic Dynamic Duo. Ford would be even more done with Bill at this point.

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I am aware that Alex Hirsch has stated on numerous occasions that there are deliberate parallels between Bill and Mabel; in the DVD commentary for Sock Opera, for instance:

"Bill genuinely believes that Mabel's kinda like him. He sees Mabel as a chaos agent. Like, Mabel has got a little bit of a seed of anarchy in her, she's a little bit selfish, she likes to have fun at whatever cost. And Bill is all those things times a billion. (…) And he's not wrong in seeing that side in Mabel but Mabel is a better person than Bill Cipher.”

This is as good a time as any to also mention the fact that many people have also picked up on the thematic links between the Nightmare Realm and Mabeland, and have written some pretty awesome metas on the subject.

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It just makes me wonder what would have happened if Bill and Mabel were given the chance to interact more, without the overt antagonism and conflict. Other than being kindred spirits with a shared love for all things eccentric and Absurd (yes, in my mind, I do differentiate between Mabel’s Absurd and Dipper and Ford’s Weird), I am sure that Mabel would love to have asked Bill all sorts of questions about life, artistic expression, pop culture, town gossip, girl talk, etc, etc. Mabel is a natural extrovert and friendly interrogator, and Bill is a natural talker and unhappy-loner-who-lies-about-being-unhappy-and-lonely; they would get along like two glitter-coated peas in an alien space pod.

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Oh, and how could I forget? In the Bottomless Pit segment ‘Truth Ache’, we see that Mabel is not averse to reading through Ford’s Journal on her own and formulating ideas and plans based upon what she reads, i.e. replacing Stan’s dentures with the Truth Teeth in order to prevent him from lying so often. Where am I going with this? Well, I headcanon that over the course of the summer, Mabel spent some amount of time looking through the Journal, either with Dipper or on her own, and most definitely came across the entries that detailed Ford’s encounters and connection with Bill.

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Now, Mabel being Mabel, I can almost guarantee that she would have had immediate questions about why the Author kept referring to the Evil Triangle that had been on their case all summer as ‘(his) Muse’, or why the Author claimed that he was ‘attracted to the strange’ and ‘preferred dreams with (his) Muse’, or why he named a freaking constellation after ‘(his) Muse’. Because to Mabel, all of these things would just sound like the sort of cheesy, elaborate and often hyperbolic romantic gestures that one of her Dream Boys would act out in her favourite romance films. (Side Note: these things could absolutely be viewed through a queerplatonic or alterous lens, but for the sake of comedy, we’re going with romantic.)

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She would automatically want to know more about this mysterious relationship between the Author and the Triangle; why it seemed to end in such tragedy; whether or not Bill was lying about how he felt towards the Author, later identified as her very own Grunkle (he was, that much was obvious); if there was anything she could do to fix things because yeah sure Bill has committed some terrible, terrible atrocities but maybe, just maybe, some part of her could get through to him because her Great-Uncle Ford used to write about him with such tenderness and reverence and seemed to genuinely admire him and had borne witness to a kinder side to him once upon a time (tea…chess…gum…magic…it can’t have all been a lie) and Bill himself seemed unable to work through his own feelings surrounding the whole situation so perhaps she could help because she’s Mabel Pines and that’s what she does and no one else will-

And thus, the Bill Pestering would commence.

“Scrap-book-ortunity”

as Mabel would say.

[writingsbysam]

Under the Stars

The stars twinkled together; endless jewels scattered across the night sky. Lyra’s eyes were dark mirrors of the heavens, lit up by the clearest view of the Milky Way that an LA boy like him had ever seen. She gazed up at them with a longing he’d never seen before set on her face. The hood of the broken-down Chevy was cold beneath them, having stopped a little over 8 hours ago. She heaved a sigh and spoke quietly,

“You know, my mom would’ve loved this,” she turned to face Ty, “She always told me astounding stories about the stars and space and when I was a kid, I often thought...” Her face hardened suddenly, “It doesn’t matter, actually.” Ty looked at her for a long moment, holding his gaze to her eyes while she gazed skyward.

“Do you think she’s worried that she hasn’t heard from you?” he asked. Lyra choked out a bitter laugh.

“She’s been gone for more than half my life, Miller. I can barely remember her face,” she scowled. He huffed in sympathy.

“I get that,” he replied, “she’s not dead but she might as well be.” Lyra looked at him for clarification. “She disowned me when I was 13 for kissing my first boyfriend. I haven’t seen her in 10 years.”

“Two bisexual disasters get stranded in the desert,” she joked, raising the shitty beer they’d stolen from their kidnapper up to her lips.

“Who was it for you?” he asked. She smiled wryly.

“Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, I may have a thing for genius women who could kill me,” she laughed, “You?”.

“Mmm,” he hummed, “Gregory Peck.” Lyra raised an eyebrow. Ty laughed and continued, “my mom made me watch ‘Roman Holiday’ in an effort to make sure I didn’t turn out ‘wrong’,” he gestured to himself, “it clearly backfired. I watched ‘The Big Country’ about seventy times.” He raised the bottle to his lips.

“That’s not a bad one, actually. I think I watched ‘Gilda’ until the VHS tape broke,” she laughed, “though I never really found Glenn Ford that attractive.”

“It does have that weirdly homoerotic love triangle with Johnny and Ballin though” he pointed out. A laugh escaped her lips, and she tilted her bottle at him,

“Fair.” The moment turned somber for a second, and she looked over at him.

They both spoke at the same time.

“I li–”, he started.

“You kn–”, she began. They busted out giggling.

“You first,” Ty said. She nodded.

“You know I don’t really hate you right?” she confessed. It sounded as if she was confessing to a terrible crime, as if there was a gun at her back or a disease in her veins.

“Ditto,” he admitted, taking a large swig of the alcohol in his hand.

They sat in silence for a long time after that, the only noise the sound of crickets and their own breathing.

“I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid,” she spoke up a time later.

“What?” he was puzzled.

“You asked me earlier, about what I thought about the stories my mom told me. Well, I wanted to be an astronaut. My mom told me science fiction stories and so I wanted to be an astronaut,” there were tears in her eyes as she whispered, “I wanted to escape.” He looked at her like she was a stained-glass panel, so beautiful, so fragile, as if one tap could shatter her into a trillion pieces, glittering like the stars above them.

“So why didn’t you?” he found himself asking. She glanced over at him before looking back up at the heavens.

“I’m not good enough for that,” she laughed bitterly, “the Devil can’t get back to Heaven, Ty, and neither can I.”

Ty simply looked up at the stars and sent a silent prayer for his newfound friend to any listening universe.

The night moved on around them.

 

[brotherskywalker]

Ship meme

Since no one ever sends me asks, I’ll just answer everything. :D

what is your absolute favorite ship?

Obviously Luke/Leia.

what ship do you hate most?

In Star Wars Reylo. On average, I dislike rivalry pairings. Anything where two characters who canonically hate or dislike each other are inexplicably one of the largest ships in fanon defying all logic. (Harry/Draco, Hermione/Draco, Doctor/Master, Kylo/Rey, etc.)

what was your first ship, and what fandom is it from?

Billy/Kim from the original Power Rangers, probably. Though I like Star Wars before then, I didn’t “ship it.”

explain why do/don’t ship [pairing]

Since I’m answering this for myself, I’m going to go with “do” and “Luke/Leia.” For me, it’s because they’re so good to each other, and for each other. They make each other better people, and that’s always a huge plus for me in pairings I ship. Additionally, they have such an intense connection that I think is just beyond compare to any other pairing--connected through the Force and connected because they’re twins. It makes their relationship able to become so intense and deep.

how did you start shipping [pairing]?

Once again going with Luke/Leia. I shipped them as a kid. I liked Luke and I wanted him to get the girl. I didn’t (and still don’t) understand why Leia would be interested in the scoundrel that constantly belittled her, insulted her, and disrespected her. I always thought that once Luke matured and grew up and dealt with his Daddy Issues he and Leia would hook up (and she’d realize her initial instincts about Han were right). I thought it’d be a really nice growth arc for both of them. When it turned out that they were twins (as an attempt to resolve the love triangle) I thought, as a kid, that it wasn’t a good enough reason for them not to be together since they were clearly the healthier pair... and turns out I still feel that way.

is there a ship that you used to ship, but don’t anymore?

There are ships that I  used to be passionate about a lot but which I’m not super passionate about anymore, but I don’t know if there are any that I stopped shipping... Maybe Willow/Oz from Buffy. Not because I don’t think they were great together (they’re still one of my favorite pairings) but because canonically they broke up and Willow came out as a lesbian, which makes me still shipping Willow/Oz... complicated.

what’s a ship you like that most people don’t?

lol... Luke/Leia? I also liked Kirk/McCoy from the TOS which is uncommon among Spock/Kirk and Spock/McCoy shippers, I guess.

what’s a ship you hate that most people like?

Tenth Doctor/Rose. Also, every ship listed in “what ship do you hate most?”

what is the most underrated ship, in your opinion?

LUKE/LEIA. I get why it’s not huge ship in the face of Han/Leia, but the fact that it’s so small is really baffling to me. I think if Star Wars came out today it’d be a much bigger ship.

what is the most overrated ship, in your opinion?

Of all time? I have no idea... Reylo is definitely up there. Maybe the Twilight characters.... all of them....

do you prefer [pairing] as an otp, brotp, or notp?

Ugh, some of these are so hard to do on my own lol. Pass. Feel free to send me an ask if you have a specific pairing for this you want to ask.

why do you think [pairing] is so popular?

I’ll go with “Reylo” for this. Honestly, I wish I knew. Han/Leia I think is popular because Harrison Ford is attractive and Carrie Fisher is attractive, so they’re easy to see together. Men can self-insert into Han and “get the girl” and women can self-insert into Leia and “get the hot dude.” And since they’re canon it’s handed to you on a silver plate (so long as you don’t think too hard about it)... Reylo... idk. Daisy is attractive, but Adam Driver is not. But I guess he’s attractive enough for lots of people to want him? I think there’s a large group of women out there that into the “bad boy” (as evidenced by the popularity of stuff like Hermione/Draco, Twilight, 50 Shades, etc.). They’re all permutations of the same thing. For some reason that stuff is popular, and I think Reylo is a variant on that... It has no basis in canon (just like Hermione/Draco), but the fans want to see their self-insert save the bad boy, and maybe be corrupted into sexual funtimes as well. I’m sure someone’s written a dissertation on it. Maybe the women want to be corrupted in order to be allowed to enjoy their sexuality since society tends to give women shit for being sexually promiscuous. I honestly have no idea.... everything about Reylo is vile to me.

why do you think [pairing] isn’t popular?

I’ll go with Luke/Leia here. I’d say is 1 part “ewww incest”, 1 part “but Han/Leia are canon!!!!111″ and 1 part “Luke is a whiny gayboy.”

rate [pairing] from 1-10 and explain why

Ugh, pass. Feel free to send in an ask for a pairing if you want.

what’s your favorite headcanon of [pairing]?

I’ll go with Luke/Leia. I have so many headcanons... A favorite for me is that they both feel like they’ve been searching for “something” all their lives and that “something” is their other half/twin, and they’re constantly trying to feel whole. One of the only times they really feel whole is when they make love together.

what’s your favorite canon moment of [pairing]?

Going with Luke/Leia again. So many great moments. My choice would probably change any day of the week... but the one that immediately comes to mind is just the moment on the Death Star II when Vader threatens Leia and that’s what pushes Luke over the edge. (But I also love all the soft touches between them--Leia kissing him on the Falcon after he loses his hand on Bespin, and the way her body presses into him at the Endor party after he sees the ghosts.)

favorite AU ideas for [pairing]?

Luke/Leia again. Lots of AU ideas, but one I’ve thought about a lot is the timeline had extended just a bit--Luke and Ben got dropped of on Alderaan before it was destroyed and Luke and Leia could’ve met in a more natural (but still serious about-to-go-to-war setting). Luke trained as a Jedi on Alderaan under Obi-Wan, Luke and Leia got to become friends (with Bail and Obi-Wan freaking out about whether or not they should tell them the Truth), and then Plot happening to prevent it. Also Han gets his money on Alderaan and goes and pays Jabba and lives happily ever after.

rant about [pairing]

Send me a pairing if you want, but I can’t go off on nothing.

what’s a meme/quote that reminds you of [pairing]?

Send me a pairing, but I’m really, really bad about stuff like this.

what song(s) remind you of [pairing]?

Did I mention I’m really, really bad about stuff like this? Don’t send me this one, I won’t have an answer, not even for LL.

what kind of dates do you think [pairing] would go on?

For Luke/Leia it would depending on whether other people knew they’re twins and/or if other people know if incest is super taboo. In a perfect world, I think they’d do sweet dates... like strawberry picking or the space equivalent. I’m sure occasionally they’d go to trendy restaurants and stuff, but I think they’d both be most happy at like... a farmer’s market, dancing around the hay bales, buying fresh roasted corn, sharing a shaved ice, maybe a little ice skating, etc. Simple life after the war.

realistically, do you think [non-canon pairing] will ever be canon? why or why not?

Let’s go with Reylo. No. I really don’t. There’s no way. It’s unsatisfying on every level, and narrative makes no sense. If they wanted Kylo to have a redemption arc, they blew it with The Last Jedi. The ending of that movie is Rey running into Finn’s arms, so the only realistic romantic that could happen in IX is Finnrey.

have you ever written fanfiction/drawn fanart of [pairing]? would you consider it?

For Luke/Leia, yes. Yes, I have. I’ved posted most of the art I’ve drawn of them under #my art, though I’ve only done like... three pieces.

any other questions?

Feel free to send any in if you have any.

[harrish6]

Accidentally spelled Lapses wrong....Oh well! My dyslexia got the better of me here it seems.

Bill angering thinking to himself: I thought the Fountain of Youth would stop him! Not make things worse! Why can't he give up already?!

Void calling out happily: Daddy, I found a crystal! Can I keep it?

Error answering Void nonchalantly as he reads: SuRe.

Mabel talking to Void excitedly: I'll help you! My sweater had pockets!

Null cooing at all the different crystals they found: Ooh~! They are so colorful! So pretty!

Error, not looking up from the paper in his hands notices Stan tugging on his coat: YES STaN?

Stan, blushing and still tugging on Error's coat: Error?

Stan gulps when he notices he has Error's attention: I got something for you...

Dipper, away from the group and watching Error and a younger Stan: Gruncle Ford, I thought Gruncle Stan lost his memories, with him only remembering the first 17 years of his life?

Ford, also watching Error and a younger Stan with unreadable eyes, answers Dipper: That's right. It's like we plucked 17 year old Stan and placed him here. But while memories are gone, feelings from within the SOUL stay...

Dipper notices Ford trailing off, now a bit worried something was wrong: Gruncle Ford?

Ford snaps out of it: Oh! It's nothing. Let's get the others.

This was just a little idea I may or may not write in the story later. Please remember that things in the story can change as it is not out just yet, especially as this picture is after Weirdmaggedon. Gravity Lapses is going to end differently then Gravity Falls, that much is for sure, but I'm not going to spoil anything there too much as it can change.

In this picture, Bill somehow either tricked or did something so that Stan got in contact with the Fountain of Youth that is in Gravity Falls. Bill wanted Stan to regress younger, that way he wouldn't remember meeting or falling in love with Error.

But the thing is that while Stan doesn't remember meeting Error, the feelings are still there. While his mind and body got younger, his SOUL didn't. So Stan feels certain emotions with people he doesn't remember.

Null, Void and Mable are not too worried here because they know and believe that everything is going to work out okay no matter the outcome. Null and Void especially believe that their Daddy will make things okay in the end no matter what. What Error is reading is a piece of paper with information on the Fountain of Youth, trying to understand just what is going on really and find the dang thing so they can get Ford some samples to study.

Dipper and Ford are more worried, as they fear this is not going to go away. Ford also has mixed feelings watching his now younger twin trying to woo Error, and also just seeing him so young. Stan is at a age before he was kicked out of the home by their Father.

Younger Stan is more brash, emotional and forward then Older Stan.

Still, in the end, Error is Error - said skeleton wonders just what is his life and why must these things happen to him. At least it wasn't one of the kids, he would kill someone if anything happens to them.

Bill knows this, and that is one reason he doesn't even try with Error's kids at this point. As this is after the series in this picture, the triangle dream demon knows by now just how over protective and deadly Error is. While this attracts him to the skeleton, he likes living thank you very much.

But I like to think that Bill makes plans to get ride of the competition for Error's love, only for it to backfire in multiple ways every single time.

[burritodetodo]

Burrito Reviews: Gravity Falls

Gravity Falls, Alex Hirsch's baby, is certainly one of the best animations of this decade. It was short for a series, with only two seasons that hit really hard on popular culture. Like a boxer who has three chances to hit his best punches to his rival, GF hit a jab, a cross and an uppercut on time. The story is about twins named Dipper and Mabel Pines who go to a town in the middle of the woods in Oregon to spend the summer in their great-uncle's shack, but everything turns funny because Gravity Falls has a bazillion mysteries and creatures.

At first sight, you see the episodes as random stories that happen on wacky town summertime. As the first season goes by, an arc develops quietly. Finally you figure out that the season finale is very strong, resolving some aspects of the characters (like Stanley, but I'm going to talk about they later) but foreshadowing others. The second, and last, season is the power-up of Gravity Falls awesomeness because the first one showed a promising series that could be big. Hirsch decided to end the summer on that second season (it was his decision) and he and his crew put all their effort to make it big for real.

Second season has two parts: the first one develops the twins' relationships with their friends and grunkle more. Wendy tells Dipper they can't be together despite she thinks he's very cool. Pacifica admits her family is horrible. Mabel realizes she can't crush with every beatiful boy she sees. Soos learns to move on and talk to girls. Stanley that he can make people like him with his heroism and not scamming them with his hypnotic personality. And the Twins that they have to move on with their lives. The second part is about a massive download of revelations: Stanley's experiment, Stanford, McGuckett's backstory, the experiments and lairs around the shack... and Weirdmageddon, a three-parter series finale that was one of 2016's big events.

Through 40 episodes, a lot of whacky things happen in that town: from evil gnomes, selfish unicorns, dinosaurs or an abandoned UFO to anti-gravitational experiments, Feds, a portal to a multiverse and a all-powerful demon who is 1000% chaotic evil. But these events couldn't be possible if it isn't by their main characters:

Mabel Pines: a complete sweetheart. To me, she steals the show due to her kindness, her possitive attitude towards things no matter how hard they are (with the exception of what happens on Dipper and Mabel vs The Future), her happiness 24/7 and of course her cuteness. She even made a little pig cute and cool!

Dipper Pines: a full time curious guy who could annoy with his paranoia. Despite that, he is really heroic and can do anything for the ones he love. He can even forgive horrible persons (ahem, Pacifica) but act super awkward to her crush, no matter if it's Wendy or Candy.

Stanley Pines: the other guy who steals the show! Come on, Grunkle Stan has such a personality that can buy anybody. No surprise the Mystery Shack and its fake attractions have a lot of visitors. And he makes money with it! I admit he is a manipulative scammer and cheater, but he could survive. I think Stanley is the best alternate-universe version of Evil Dead's Ash Williams, that's why I love this antihero.

Stanford Pines: great uncle Ford is like watching Dipper but much more older and wiser. If he wasn't, how could he write the three journals? He is unsure like his grandnephew, that's why he got trapped into the multiverse or losses against Bill.

Soos: the multi-clerk of the Shack is a lovely guy. Despite having a sad backstory, his possitive attitude made him go further. Don't let his abuelita apart of that development. He is a friend who is where he is being needed, but also Soos can be very naive.

Wendy: the kickass cashier of the shack isn't a regular teenager. Raised by a family of lumberjacks, she knows more than one thing when action comes. Besides, she's a super cool and nice character that could get along with almost anybody. Fun fact: Wendy is quite similar to Regular Show's CJ, both voiced by the same VA.

Bill/Gideon: both villains have something in common, which is their charm. But the evilness of the kid doesn't compare to the triangle demon. They are really mean and have different purposes that involves the Pines. In fact, Bill Cipher reminds of Loki: a Scandinavian god that tricked people with his promises and winning over them.

The secondary characters have their own too. They make Gravity Falls (the city) special. More than a common small town, lost in Oregon's forests. You want a super smart hobo to build you a mecha, or having a pie on Lazy Susan's diner. Even the gay (?) cops are really cool!

On Gravity Falls it's not all about mysteries and rare creatures. Many times it turned very emotional, mainly the young twins relationship and their support on hard times, or when we know about Soos' childhood, or even the excellent A Tale of Two Stans!

In my opinion, I can't not relate with Dipper and Mabel relationship. No one who has siblings could not. Another thing I loved from GF are the inception of TV shows and TV ads into this TV show. They were very original and funny that reminds of Rick and Morty's Interdimensional Cable saga on a PG show. And the post-credits scene, like Marvel's movies! It wasn't over 'till it was over.

Alex Hirsch assembled an incredible team (animators, writers, voice actors/actresses, etc). In fact, on voice acting he mixed people who worked on Adventure Time and Regular Show (Niki Yang [also storyboarder], John DiMaggio, Linda Cardellini, Sam Marin, Justin Roiland), casually shows created by his pals Pen Ward and James Quintel respectively. Even Hirsch himself did great as Stanley and Soos. Gosh, he also got JK not quite my tempo Simmons to do Ford or Jennifer Stiffler's Mom Coolidge for Lazy Susan!

As said in the beginning, Gravity Falls is one of the best TV shows of this decade, even animated and in general. It followed the tone that had Adventure Time or Regular Show, a "kids" show that is not for kids only which many teens and even adult people could feel atracted to. That's why its series finale, Weirdmageddon, was one of the best events of 2016. Although having problems with air dates and some sort of mismanage by Disney on the final episodes, this series will be remembered as one of those who paved the way to reinvent animated storytelling.

[bekaroth-reads]

Dipper vs Bill (Gravity Falls)

Dipper and Mabel were ecstatic. Stan and Ford were going to be porting in a harbor the next town over from them, and the young teens' parents were letting them go stay with them. They were going to be spending the night on the boat and the next day sailing around in it. "Oh, my gosh, Dipper! I'm flipping out here!" Mabel cheered excitedly as they made it to the docks to start looking for the right boat. "I know, right?" Dipper agreed as he scanned the area. "It's been almost half a year since we left Gravity Falls. Let's see here- it should be- there!" He exclaimed as he pointed to the vessel that said, "Stans O' War" in sloppy paint letters on the back of it. "I told them they should have let me paint it." Mabel said as she eyed the words with a slight disapproving look. "Well, it's their ship, so they were the ones that should put the name on the back. Besides, I'm pretty sure that they wanted to make sure that you wouldn't make it glittery. Sparkles wouldn't really go with the tough guy sailor vibe they're trying to get across." Dipper answered with a shrug before knocking on the door to the cabin. "What? That's not a thing!" Mabel started with a huff, "Plenty of sailors like sparkly stuff! They're always looking for treasure and what not." She placed her hands on her hips to stand akimbo as her head leaned toward Dipper with a disbelieving look on her face. Before her brother could answer, the conversation was interrupted by the door opening. "Kids! How've ya been?" The gruff voice of Stan erupted from the doorway. "Gruncle Stan!" The twins yelled happily as they almost tackled him in a hug. "Hey, I'm gettin' too old to be ambushed like this." He chuckled as he regained his balance. "What were you two goin' back and forth about out there anyways?" Stan asked them as they went the rest of the way into the cabin. Mabel gasped as she remember the debate that she and Dipper were just having. "Oh, yeah! Gruncle Stan, do sailors like sparkles?" She asked as she tilted her head to the side as she waited for an answer. "Kid, I don't know where you heard about that, but you're too young to hear any more." Stan replied with a slightly concern face. "Hi, Great Uncle Ford!" Dipper called to the other man sitting at a desk in the corner. "Well, hello!" was all he replied before jotting something else in the journal on the desk in front of him. Once he was done he placed a book mark down on the page, closed the journal, and turned around so he could actually be part of the group that was now in the small cabin of the boat. "So, what should we do now that we're all back together again?" Stan asked after they had all talked and caught up a bit. "Let's go to town! We can window shop since Gruncle Stan is too cheap to actual shop!" Mabel said excitedly as she pointed out the porthole and down the docks toward the town. Almost as soon as she suggested that, Ford got a look on his face that everyone could tell meant he had major reservations about the idea. Of course Stan was the first one to confront his brother. "Alright, Poindexter, what's with the face?" He asked with slight irritation in his voice. "Stanly, we just got into port, and I think it would be a better idea to stay and rest here rather than run ourselves ragged by going all over town." Ford replied as he adjusted his glasses. "No," Stan started back, the irritation showing more now than it previously was, "you just want to be a hermit and not interact with people as per usual, but that's not fair to the kids. We're gonna be on this boat all day tomorrow, so let's go into town today." Suddenly there was a loud crash out the deck, and the sounds a man on the dock panicking. "What the-" Stan barked as he went to the small porthole on the cabin wall to see what was happening. "You've gotta be kidding me! That idiot just spilled a bucket of somethin' all over the deck!" And with that Stan was out the door to have a few choice words with the man outside. Ford walked to the door and closed it. "Kids, we need to talk while Stan isn't around. Besides, I'm fairly certain you shouldn't be hearing the majority of what he would be saying." He said before turning to them. Mabel and Dipper got a little laugh at the comment that their uncle made about his brother, but then stopped and became very attentive when they saw the somber look on his face. "Look, there's been something going on with Stan, and it's becoming increasingly more worrisome. You see, he's started to regain his memories at an increasingly fast rate." The twins looked at each other as if to ask each other why that was a bad thing. Ford saw them, and answered their question before they had a chance to verbally ask him. "I know, that sounds like it would be a good thing. The problem comes from the fact he's not remembering thing like family, friends, or anything like that sort. It all has to do with the supernatural encounters that have happened over the past year. At first I thought that it was harmless, but then I realized that there is the potential to be a problem. No, a catastrophe!" Both Mabel and Dipper knew that if Ford thought there was going to be something going south then there was little chance that he was wrong. Ford took a moment to collect his thoughts before continuing. "The one of the things I'm trying to keep him from remembering is anything to do with Bill. Bill was contained inside of his mind, and I think that the only thing keeping him prisoner there is the fact that Stan doesn't remember him. If we aren't careful Bill could be released, so that's why I decided to port here and why we shouldn't go to town. I'm trying to avoid any sort of situation that might trigger any memories involving that dream demon. We all have a tendency to attract odd things and situations, so we need at least some form a isolations from largely populated area in order to be sure to not encounter something." Both Dipper and Mabel understood what their uncle was talking about and wouldn't want anything to happen to Stan, or let Bill Cipher be free to roam the earth, but that didn't mean they weren't bummed about being stuck on the boat instead of actually getting to go do something with their uncles. They were also aware that if there was a mess on the deck then they were probably going to have to help clean it up. "Ugh! I can't believe that we came out here just to do chores! I thought this thing was called, "Stans O' War," not, "Stans O' -Bore-!" Mabel said as she threw her hands in the air in frustration after Ford had walked out of the cabin (she was upset with the situation, but didn't want to make him feel bad). "Mabel, that pun was awful." Dipper said flatly to his sister. She stomped over to a chair in the corner, threw herself down with a huff, and practically yelled, "This situation is awful!" Later that night after the deck was cleaned and the four of them had talked and laughed about many different things, (a bit about Gravity Falls, but the subject quickly turned to all of Stan's misadventures during his younger years), the kids went to sleep in the cabin while the two men went out to talk on the deck for a little bit longer. Dipper started out sleeping fine. It was a calm, dreamless sleep. It was when he started to dream that things started to get complicated. He suddenly found himself back at Mystery Shack, the way it looked before Soos took over, (not that Soos changed many things, but there were differences). "What the heck?" He almost whispered as he looked around at the surrounding forest. With nothing seeming to really catch his interest outside, Dipper decided that he would go into the actual shack to see what was in there. Once inside, he confirmed everything was still exactly the way it had been over the previous summer. The shop, the museum area, the kitchen, the living room, all of it was the same. "Well, maybe if I can't sleep in real life, then I can at least go to bed here." He huffed, still feeling some of the tiredness of real life in his dream. After making the small trek up to Mabel and his room, he flopped down onto his bed and closed his eyes. While he lay there trying to fall asleep, a thought suddenly hit him. "Wait, if I have the Mystery Shack all to myself, then that means that I could go look through all of Great-Uncle Ford's lab!" He was excited to say the least. He knew that it was a dream, and that he would probably be making up half of the things down there, but he didn't care. It was more the thought of being able to do so in the first place the excited him. When he sat up to go back downstairs, something caught his eye. The window between the two beds had what looked like sunlight coming through it. It wasn't clear sunlight like you would see during the morning or afternoon, though. It had a light orange, almost yellow tint to it, like one would see at sunset. That didn't make any sense though. Because of the placement of the window the sun only shone through it directly when it was early morning, there would be no way that the light of a sunset could get through. There was somethin else that made this whole thing seem off. Aside from the fact that the light wasn't there when he first entered the room, the fact that there wasn't light outside was to be taken into account as well. It wasn't like it was pitch black or even night time, but everything seemed like it was more of a picture of things that were actually there. Come to think of it, everything was sort of washed out, almost black and white looking aside from the plane splashes of color here and there like when he was in- "Oh, no!" Dipper almost whispered as he quickly backed away from the lights that he now recognized as a yellow triangle on the floor. "Oh, yes, Pine Tree!" An all too familiar voice replied as the light compacted into a single area on the floor that he started floating in the air. "Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha! I can't believe you thought I was gone for good." Bill said as he turned around and stretched his arms and legs as his trademark hat materialized above his head. Dipper was speechless. If Bill was trapped inside of Stan's mind then how was it that he was here? "Great question, Pine Tree." Bill responded without even needing to hear it ask. This bugged Dipper to no end because he was sure that Bill could find the thoughts of the person who's mind he was in. That could mean that he was in Dipper's mind now, or that he had somehow gotten the ability to read everyone's mind, neither of which sounded like good things. Dipper decided that the best corse of action would be to push theories aside for the moment, and ask Bill about it. Weather or not he was going to get a straight answer from the demon was another fact entirely, but there was no harm in trying. "I didn't even ask you anything. How would you even know that I had a question?" Dipper asked with clear frustration in his voice. "Aw, come on!" Bill started as he leaned back like he was lounging in a chair. "It was written ALL over your face, which you should see right now by the way because it is priceless!" He laughed as he pointed to the topic of conversation. Dipper turned his face in an effort to get away from Bill, but Bill simply floated over so he could still be seen. "Look, kid. You wanna know how I got out of Stanly's mind? The answer is: I haven't." Bill said with an ever so slight hint of annoyance showing through. "But, how are you here if you're still stuck in Stan's mind?" Dipper asked, more confused now than ever. "As sharp as ever, kid!" Bill said as he snapped his fingers and some daggers appeared next to him. Dipper dove out of the way quickly, narrowly missing the daggers as they came flying in his direction. One of them caught his sleeve, and put a shallow cut on his upper arm. "Anyways, I have a proposal for you." Bill said as he adjusted his bowtie. Dipper didn't answer him because he was too busy attending to his arm. "Look, I'm willing to let YOU let ME into your mind, like permanently. You see right now I'm just projecting my subconscious into your subconscious. It's like that one movie with the guy from the broken ship!" Before Dipper could answer, a large, unseen force that sounded like someone playing an entire brass section in his ears sent him flying across the room, and slammed into a wall. Dazed, short on breath, ears ringing, and arm still hurting, the young teen was more aware than ever that the triangular figure in front of him was not happy the see him. "Ah-ha-ha-ha! What's wrong, Pine Tree?" Bill cackled as he looked at the beat up boy that was slumped over on the floor in front of him. "Get over yourself, Bill." Dipper mumbled as he stood up with a hiss because the pain that he was in before he continuing in a clearer tone. "Why would I ever let you all the way into my mind? I don't want you here to this extent!" Bill rolled his eye and crossed his arms. Boy, humans could be so annoying! Especially if their last name was Pines! All that aside, he still had big plans ahead and he wouldn't let them ruin it from him. "Well, you see," Bill started as he floated closer to where Dipper was, "I want a do over on Weirdmageddon. Who knows, maybe I'll even go with that other name you guys had for it. What was it again?" Bill turned back to the window in the room as he lost himself in thought trying to remember what the other name that the people of Gravity Falls gave to his brief reign. Dipper took this opportunity make for the door and get away from his tormentor. He went as quietly as he could, but was more concerned about getting out of the room quickly. He was right by the back door when Bill yelling in realization rang through the house. "Odd-pocalypse!" Bill said with a snap of his fingers and turned around to see that Dipper was no longer there. "What the-PINES!" He roared as he became gigantic and started to glow red, his eye turned pitch black and the pupil within turned blood red. The latter of his exclamations was what Dipper heard. There was no time for subtlety now, and Dipper bolted out the door in an effort to put some space between he and Bill, even though he know that it probably wouldn't do much good. He looked around briefly to try to get some sort of plan. Whilst looking, Dipper's eyes caught sight of the back porch. "That hole I found with Gompers! I can dive into the lab, and hide there, or maybe even try to find something to help me!" He thought as he ran towards the spot in question. Dipper bounced off of the lab wall opposite of where he entered and tumbled on the floor as he landed. He quickly got himself up and into the other room. The only people that knew about the entry to the lab were Ford, Gompers, and himself. Bill couldn't have found out from Ford because he couldn't get into his mind, and, unless Bill had decided to invade the thought process of a goat, there would be no way that he would know where Dipper was. Even so there was the possibility that he could find the hole and figure out where Dipper went. There was only one solution to this situation, he needed to find something to defend himself from Bill. There was the usual things that could be found in the lab, but most of the things that could have been of use to him were under lock and key. Suddenly, he saw a jar with something that he knew he could use. He ran over to the shelf that the jar was on and grabbed it. It was just in the nick of time too, because as soon as he did Bill's voice rang through the lab. "Well, well, well! I've got to say; you really had me going there for a minute." Bill fazed through the ceiling a short distance from where Dipper was standing. "You know, I'm not even sure how you got down here so quickly, but apparently you found some way, so colored me impressed!" Bill finger gunned in towards Dipper, who dodged out of the way even though nothing actually came towards him. He didn't want to take any chances with Bill. "Wow, jumpy aren't we, Pine Tree?" Bill said with a degrading look. "Anyway, I didn't get to answer your question earlier. You want to know why you should let me into your mind? The answer's real simple. You see, I'm not too powerful in Stan's mind because of all the barriers that erasing his memory has put up. I need to be in someone else's mind so I can get out." Bill gave his reason like it was a totally justified thing, like Dipper should trust him regardless of what he had done in the past. "No way! I'd never let a maniac like you into my mind OR into the world!" Dipper snapped angrily as he pointed at Bill in a manor that seemed to be calling him out for everything he had done. Bill's expression changed from amused back to angry. "I wouldn't get cocky, Pines! You aren't the only one I can try to persuade." Bill's threat didn't frighten Dipper, who immediately knew the best response. "You can't get into Ford's head! That's just an empty threat!" Dipper beamed with pride at the intelligent comeback he just delivered. Bill, on the other hand, would have thought the answer amusing if he wasn't already past the point of wanting to kill the teen with every fiber of his being. "I'm well aware, and I wasn't talking about Ford!" The demon yelled, his voice starting to distort. Dipper stood there bemused for a moment, but not for long before he realized exactly who Bill was talking about: Mabel. There was no way that he would let this triangular freak do anything to his sister. Without any hesitation or thought of strategy whatsoever, Dipper threw the jar that he had been holding. It flew into the air, hit the ceiling, and shattered. "You idiot! You missed-"Bill's taunt was cut off when the cycloptopus that was in the now broken jar jumped from the ceiling and straight onto Bill's eye. This gave Dipper time to form an actual plan. He tried to think of an option whilst Bill was bouncing about from wall to wall screaming profanities. There would only be a limited time to do so before Bill got the cycloptopus off and regenerated his eye, so he had to think quickly. "There are plenty weapons and objects of Great-Uncle Ford's that I could use down here, but they're all locked somehow." Dipper thought as he looked around at the different cases and shelves that were around him. "There's no way I can get to any of these things! The glass is bullet proof, so I can't break it. And, for the life of me, I can't think of any of where he would have put the keys or what his security codes would be! I-" Dipper stopped suddenly; part of his last inter-ramblings making him remember something that would have been extremely helpful earlier. "I'm in my own mind right now!" He actually said out loud because of how excited he was. When Bill was finally able to get the nasty monster off of his eye, and regenerated said body part a few minutes later, he was met with a rude surprise. He was sent flying across the room by a burst of energy. When Bill was finally able to see what was going on he saw Dipper standing on the other end of the room with a rather fancy looking laser gun. He was taken aback to say the least. Not that he should have been, but the fact that the Pines family without fail managed to become even more annoying almost every time he saw them was almost more than he could bare sometimes. "Bill, get out of my mind." Dipper said firmly, working desperately to keep his voice in check so it didn't crack like it was known to at times. "Oh, right. Like I'm going to listen to a pathetic whelp like you." Bill sneered as he got himself back up into the air. "Yes, you are! This is my mind and you're not welcome here! Also you're not as powerful as you once were, so you can't fight me on this!" Dipper yelled in an attempt to assert his dominance. "Listen, Pine Tree, if you think you're going to kick me out with that thing-" Bill pointed to the gun in Dipper's hands and then stopped. "Where DID you even get that from?" The demon asked with frustrated confusion in his voice. "I got it from the lab." Dipper answered curtly, not wanting to go into detail. "You did not!" Bill said more angry than confused this time. "I've been down here plenty of times, and I never saw anything like that!" He continued while his eye started to turn black and red once again. "Will you just shut up and get out of here!" Dipper yelled angrily as he shot the gun again, this time holding down the trigger so a continuos stream of energy shot out. The longer Dipper healed down the trigger, the brighter the room got. Finally, it got to a point where he couldn't se anything, and he had to let go because the intensity of the light was hurting his eyes. When the light had faded, Dipper's eyes had adjusted, and the dust had settled Bill was gone. There wasn't even a trace of the demon left. With a sigh, Dipper made his way up the stairs of the lab, and into the main part of the house. His idea was to go back up to his room, but he did not have the energy to even make it that far. He settled on going and sitting on Stan's big chair in the living room. Once there, Dipper practically threw himself in the general direction of where he wanted to go. Luckily, he actually landed where he intended, and just scooted himself the rest of the way onto the chair after a little while of lying there limply. Once seated properly on the chair, he let out a sigh of relief. "I can't believe that I actually got rid of Bill. I thought it would be harder." Dipper thought out loud as he sat there in the quiet. He knew that something like an imaginary laser gun wouldn't have really done anything to Bill in the past, but it seemed to work this time. Come to think of it, Bill said that he was merely projecting himself from Stan's mind, so maybe that made him weaker than usual. Right as he started to fall asleep, an all too familiar laugh made him wake up instantly. "Ah-ha-ha-ha! You really thought that you could make me go away that easily? Wow, Pine Tree, that's unbelievably stupid, even for you!" Bill's voice seemed as though it was actually coming from everywhere at once. Dipper looked all around the room the see where his adversary could be, but everything looked like how it should. He went through the entire house, upstairs and down until the only rooms left were Ford's room and the bathroom. He decided the check the latter first. When he got there he froze in horror when he saw himself in the mirror. He was extremely beat up looking, but that's not what frightened him. The true horror came from the fact that cut on his arm that he got earlier was now Bill Cipher's eye. It looked every which direction until it made contact with Dipper's. "You'll never get rid of me, kid! I'll always be there to ruin your family's lives! I'll always be there! Always!" Bill continued to yell threats and other ominous phrases while the veins in Dipper's arm that were by the eye progressively turned black. Not being able to take anymore, Dipper passed out as the black substance started to spread throughout the rest of his body. Dipper sat up with a gasp, and was relieved to find himself back on the boat. Quickly, he looked over at his arm where the eye had been, and was even more relieved when it wasn't there. He was starting to settle down his breathing when he heard Ford from his desk at the other side of the cabin. "Dipper, are you alright?" He asked as he walked over to the young teen. "Yeah, I- where's Gruncle Stan?" Dipper asked, not wanting to be the one to talking about Bill too much in front of him and make him remember too much. "Stan's still out on the deck. Why?" Ford asked slightly perplexed. When he was sure that the coast was clear, Dipper told his uncle what had just happened. Ford sat there in a very stoic manner as he listened and analyzed what Dipper was saying. "He said that if I wouldn't let him into my mind that he would go after Mabel." Dipper said more worried than ever as he looked over to where his sister was sleeping. Ford sat there for a moment while he tried to think of what to do. "Well, I think for now we can-" "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Mabel's scream made the two of them jump and Stan rush into the cabin. They all ran over to see what was going on. "Mabel! Mabel, are you alright?" Dipper asked his sister as he put a hand on her shoulder. She sat up quickly with a stuffed unicorn hanging off of her teeth. "No!" She whined, he speech being somewhat hindered due to the unicorn. "I fell asleep with my mouth open, and Princess Lovicorn's hear got stuck in my braces!" The others stopped and laughed for a moment before they started to find way to get Mabel untangled from her doll. Stan thought the whole thing was hilarious, but Dipper and Ford mostly felt relieved that it was just the unicorn and not Bill going through with his plan to target the girl. Either way, both of them were going to keep an eye on things for awhile. Dipper, though tired as he was, stayed up the rest of the night to keep watch over Mabel. He wanted to be sure that nothing would happen to her. Besides, there was absolutely no way that he was going back to sleep tonight.

[theconservativebrief]

For all the nostalgia they can inspire, school yearbooks are often full of things we’d rather forget: unflattering pictures, suggestions from people we may have liked more than they liked us urging to “keep in touch” or “have a good summer,” and awkward memories of who we once were.

Rarely do they serve as anything more than a sometimes bittersweet record of a very specific time in our lives. But in a major exception, the meaning of yearbooks and what young humans write in them, or rather used to write in them, is currently at the center of a national conversation with history-making repercussions, because of what Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his longtime friend and former classmate Mark Judge wrote in corresponding 1983 senior yearbook messages.

Three women have brought allegations of sexual misconduct and assault against Kavanaugh, describing drunken acts they say Kavanagh committed in high school and college. Kavanaugh has flatly denied those allegations, including in a televised interview with Fox News in which he presented himself as a virginal square. Now, there’s a debate over what type of person Kavanaugh really was in high school and who he is today, and his yearbook entry has become an artifact that might help discern the truth from fiction.

Of particular interest is the phrase, “Judge, have you boofed yet?” which appears on Kavanaugh’s senior yearbook page and seemingly corresponds to the phrase, “Bart, have you boofed yet?” which appears on Judge’s page. Judge, as Slate explains, published Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk, a 1997 memoir about his experience with alcoholism in high school that featured a character named “Bart O’Kavanaugh,” a reference to his real-life friend with the strikingly similar name.

Many have subsequently wondered what it means to “boof,” and the definition may now underpin the argument that a man who’s being considered for a seat on the Supreme Court might also be someone who has demeaned and assaulted women.

There’s certainly no shortage of entries for “boof” on Urban Dictionary, which frequently comes up in internet search results for anyone Googling the term. But the key to the etymological puzzle behind the word is knowing how it was used in the 1980s, when Kavanaugh and Judge included it in their yearbook entries. And most of the available evidence seems to point toward it being a slang term for anal sex.

One of the most concrete examples of it being used, though in a different context, is in the cult classic movie Teen Wolf. The movie was released in 1985, a couple years after Kavanaugh and Judge wrote their yearbook entries. In it, Scott (Michael J. Fox) has two love interests, the blonde dreamgirl Pamela Wells (Lorie Griffin) and the brunette girl next door, Lisa “Boof” Marconi (Susan Ursitti).

Who Scott chooses isn’t as telling as the shock felt by some viewers — there’s actually an old message board conversation about it — that the movie featured a character known as Boof.

To some who were familiar with the term at the time, boof was slang for anal sex, hence the shock over Teen Wolf’s Boof.

There’s also another, totally different instance of “boof” being used in the 1980s. In 1981, two years before Kavanaugh’s yearbook entry, a man named John Paul Bonser was born. Bonser would grow up to become a professional baseball pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, and the Oakland A’s. If the name John Paul Bonser doesn’t ring a bell even to baseball fans, it’s because he legally changed his name to Boof Bonser in 2001.

Bonser has said that his mother gave him the nickname when he was a child, but never explained what it meant. “I don’t really want to know why, to be honest with you,” he told the New York Time in 2006. “I guess I had no reason to go up and ask her. I just left it at that.”

It’s very difficult to find established usage of “boof” in publications of the era, which is understandable given its risqué apparent definition and that it was slang. But in that message board conversation about Teen Wolf, a user who self-identified as being from the East Coast provided a corroborating account that “boof” grew out of “Bu-Fu (pronounced boo-foo), which was in turn short for butt fuck.”

There’s a similar account, posted in 2006, on this kayaking message board. In the kayaking world, “boof” is the name for a technique kayakers use when paddling toward a waterfall, and has nothing to do with sex of any kind. Kayaking aficionados who participated in the discussion were tickled to learn that the maneuver had another, very different meaning.

A recent community post on Daily Kos, written in response to news reports about Kavanaugh’s yearbook entry, affirms the anal sex definition. And earlier this week, John Lomax, an editor at Texas Monthly, noted that even though he is younger than Kavanaugh and from a different geographical region, the word also had “bufu” origins and a similar meaning when he was in school:

As a Jesuit school boy, albeit of a slightly later era, and far from DC, for us, “boofing” did not refer to anally ingesting drugs or alcohol. Back then it referred to anal sex exclusively, deriving from “buttfuck,” down to “bufu,” and finally “boof.”

— John Nova Lomax (@geronimolomax) September 25, 2018

The most sensible guess, then, is that when Kavanaugh and Judge each appeared to ask via their public yearbook entries if the other had “boofed yet,” they were two friends joking about whether they’d ever had anal sex.

Today, the slang version of the term has mutated slightly. It still involves one’s rear end, but it now appears to mean ingesting alcohol or drug through one’s butt. A simple search on Reddit, Quora, Urban Dictionary or Twitter confirms as much (and yields multiple tips and tricks for doing it, too).

Trying to talk about anal sex is like trying to talk about a lot of things involving the human body — just think of all the slang involving genitalia — in that it can be embarrassing. Coming up with a nickname like boof adds a layer of comedy and allows people to more comfortably incorporate a mention of it into casual conversation. But in Kavanaugh’s case, it’s actually quite serious.

Trying to read between the lines of someone’s senior yearbook page is a strange exercise. But it’s not unlike the way, in 2018, we write our own narratives on social media, or piece together stories about other people we follow on social media.

We regularly share things that we think define us — from a cause we’re volunteering for to a joke we find funny to a political argument we agree with to a picture we think we look attractive in. We may have a desired outcome in mind, but we can’t control what the people who see our updates think. The way outsiders interpret the way we present ourselves is completely up to them.

On one hand, it’s easy to compare Kavanaugh’s senior yearbook entry to a Twitter or Instagram feed and write it off as a kid being a kid. Kavanaugh undoubtedly put forth a specific persona in his yearbook, just like any modern teen would do today.

But on the other hand, Kavanaugh is now up for one of the most powerful positions in the United States and his senior yearbook entry, along with a wall calendar he maintained at the time, is one of the only concrete things we have to refer to when processing serious allegations of sexual assault that have been brought against him from that time. Like it or not, they paint a picture of what he was like a teen and a young man.

Christine Blasey Ford, who attended an all-girls high school while Kavanaugh attended Georgetown Prep, says that Kavanaugh pushed her down on the bed, covered her mouth to muffle her protests, and tried to remove her clothes. She says that Kavanaugh’s friend Mike Judge was in the room at the time.

Deborah Ramirez, the second woman to come forward with an allegation against Kavanaugh, says that in college, he thrust his penis into her face while laughing.

And Julie Swetnick, the third woman to come forward with allegations against Kavanaugh, says that she witnessed Kavanaugh and his friends take advantage of inebriated women at parties and that she was assaulted at one of these parties. (She did not directly say that Kavanaugh assaulted her.)

Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied all of the allegations made against him and presented a very chaste version of himself as a teenager:

“I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects, and friendship,” he said in his Fox News interview. “I did not have sexual intercourse or anything close to sexual intercourse in high school or for many years thereafter.”

And to be clear, one can still go to church, perform service projects, and not have sexual intercourse, yet still commit sexual harassment or assault. But the disconnect here is that when he was a teen, Kavanaugh presented himself in a very different way, in part through a yearbook entry that appears to be rife with jokes about heavy drinking (“100 kegs or bust” and “Beach Week Ralph Club”) and sex, including “Have you boofed yet?” among others (“The Devil’s Triangle” and “Renate Alumnius”).

None of these things confirm that Kavanaugh committed sexual assault, nor do they confirm that he isn’t the man that he says he is. It’s possible that they were empty brags and jokes.

But Kavanaugh hasn’t really provided a compelling reason to believe who he says he is. And regardless of what he actually meant by “Have you boofed yet?” it’s no wonder, in light of the allegations made against him, that many people searching for answers have questioned his intentions in using the term.

Original Source -> Brett Kavanaugh’s yearbook: the “boof” joke, explained

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