#magical grunkle

[definitelynotclever]

*Gasp in a anime way*

Oh my! My favorite magical twin girls, Stanley and Stanford!

Together they are the かわいい不思議な魔法のおじさん (Cute Mystery Magical Uncles) ! 💕✨

i just used google translate for this one.

Go Go! Save our planet with the power of science and money in a kawaii way ‼️🏵

THE MAGICAL GIRL STAN TWINS IS HERE TO SAVE THE DAY!💥✨✨💖

Designs credits: @.saturns_kee (Ford), @.osadleys (Stanley) [on twitter]

[raptorbricks]

Come and see him!

[rynnthefangirl]

Me when someone is a Ford hater: I mean, yeah I understand why you feel that way. He really made a lot of awful and selfish choices. He’s such a compelling character though and has a better heart than people give him credit for, I’d really encourage you to put aside your frustration with him and try to appreciate his nuances.

Me when someone is a Mabel hater:

[chilineskinn]

Here's the Ad Astra Per Aspera AU!

When I saw Ford and Mabel in the website, this AU came to my mind and I wanted to draw it!

What it's about: After Ford and Mabel return from Bill's statue, they find themselves in a different dimension where they can do magic. And the reason is their hats that are magical.

Ford and Mabel kind of symbolize sun and moon, their magic is based on them.

This AU was mostly for you @artsymeeshee because of your love for them and your drawings this AU came to my mind, thank you for giving so much love to me! ❤️

[time-and-spuds]

A man and His six legged Raccoon possum thing (a Gravity falls and Owl House Crossover based on Stan and Ford finding a Portal to the boiling isles)

Little Bit of Backstory

During their voyage around the world, Stan and Ford find a mysterious Portal. After making Sure it's stable and doing some Other Tests they both descide to jump in.

After who knows how long of being knocked out from being unceremoniously spat Out of the Other End of the Portal, Stan Wakes up and finds Himself in an unknown forest and Dimension. Ford is Nowhere to be Seen. After a while of Roaming around the forest Stan notices a little critter that has taken interest in him (and/or the Snacks he keeps in His Pocket). Stan doesn't mind His new companion and lovingly names him Shanklin Jr. (Although He will soon find Out that the little Guy isn't your average earthly Kind of critter).

[nunca205s-art-gallery]

THE THREE TIMELINES

2. DIVERSION TIMELINE (Reverse Portal AU)

Stan saves Ford but it ends up being him the one to get pulled into it (with the 1st journal).

[Rubs her hands] Now here's the good stuff. (You can tell this is my favourite timeline.) This timeline is basically my AU mashed up with the reverse portal AU.

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After Stan gets pulled into the portal (mind you, he still has the burn), he manages to escape Bill (he just knew/sensed he was evil) and his minions. He hides in the asteroid shield, and then in an asteroid's crater, just like Ford. Then encounters the refugees, the people help him (by giving him the translator, and a recap of where is he, who is Bill, what is the multiverse and such, they also give him some equipment for survival and explain to him the basics of how to travel between dimensions. They also take care of his burn, but it will take time to fully heal). He escapes the Nightmare Realm and his travels begin.

Little facts and important plot points, cuz there's no way I'm redacting 30 years of dimension travelling:

His sole purpose is going back home, even though he has no idea of how to do it.

His hopes to return shatter when he encounters another Stan that got through the portal and tells him that their kind rarely ever makes it back (this would happen like, at year 2).

He almost takes his life that night, but he remembers what the Stan he encountered told him and decides to embrace this life, to live for himself and not to prove anything to anyone. (Even if he may not really think he's worthy of that, that his value relies on others' opinions of him.)

So he just wanders, looking for places to stay, but never for too long (2 years max). He's used to that lifestyle after all.

He comes across a few Stanford's too, some have better responses to him than others. He travelled with one for a while, but he died saving Stan from some bounty hunters (he has never felt more guilt over anything ever). He lost an eye here (year 6).

He's a criminal, but not a renowned one. He's a bit like a Robin Hood, but always looks out for himself first. He likes the idea of being a hero, or maybe something more like an antihero, so he helps people with small stuff wherever he goes.

He did contraband between dimensions for a while. (Deep down he hoped to come across his.)

He tried to rob the device they used to hop between dimensions, but let's just say he was lucky to leave alive from that situation.

He spent a lot of time in Lottocron Nine.

He feels glad that it was him that fell through the portal instead of Ford.

Sometimes he thinks about giving up, but he never does for too long.

He meets the Oracle at some point, they chill and become friends. (Bonding over future sight, she explains to him how is it that he got it.) (Year 14)

After 18 years he has a vision, a guy with what he says is a "portal gun". He gets super exited and thinks that he'll finally find a way to get back.

After a few weeks he encounters Rick Sanchez, he immediately knows that the guy is not someone you want as an enemy. They make a deal, Stan does (an extremely risky) infiltration mission to steal some info for Rick and he builds him a portal gun (and tells him how to make portal fluid).

Stan does it, and spends six months in a high security prison. He gets the info, starts a rebellion as a distraction for his prison break, gets out. (Rick helped him on that last part.)

He gets the gun from Rick and starts hopping between dimensions.

For the first time in forever he has hope.

Years pass, at some point he gets sick of it and just goes back to his old lifestyle for a bit. Then he steals some technology to identify dimensions and it helps him narrow down the number of places he has to go.

He has a list where he crosses the ones that are not the one.

More time passes (year 24), he encounters Rick again and he needs a favour. This time he has to get something some other criminals stole from him, some kind of alien biker gang.

They do it together this time and on the fray Stan loses his right arm. As a "sorry" Rick builds him a robot one (with a lot of secret little compartments, tools, and six fingers at Stan's request).

Time flies and suddenly 30 years have passed. And surprise, after all this time, he comes back home.

(He ages a bit slower btw, that might be because of the blessing or because the massive amount of portal hopping / multiverse travelling he did.)

What was Ford doing?

Getting depressed, that's what he was doing.

Running only by adrenaline, paranoia and an overwhelming sense of guilt (oh my god, he just killed his brother) he somehow pulled it off. Bro got an eureka moment and managed to get some unicorn hair to protect the house. Then,  after he managed to get some sleep he followed his original plan (it didn't go exactly as expected, aka, he didn't find anything at all except from the zodiac).

Not knowing what else to do a devastating feeling of hoplenessness came over him, leaving him on an almost catatonic state of depression. And since Bill couldn't do anything to him because of the spell he was just laying there.

And then, like the saving grace of god, Fiddleford came to the rescue. Or something like that...

He was going to make Ford stop by force, but when he got to the house and saw the state in which everything was in he was like "uh oh..."

He found Ford, and even though he was still mad at him he helped him. Ford told him everything that happened, continuously apologising to Fiddleford for not listening to him. Fiddleford was like "About damn time!!" and "I told you so!!".

So, Fidds helps Ford recompose himself, clean the place and find a way to get out of the shack without fearing Bill. (They find a sketchy doctor, BOOM, metal plate.)

They decide to stay low and not bring attention to the town.

They blow up the Bill cave, and get the 2nd journal away from the damn primary school (burn the Bill invocation spell).

(Ford forgot where the third one was.)

They start their own version of the mystery shack, but with accurate representations of the real stuff. AND a repair shop (that's where most of the money comes from).

They also work as protectors of some sort, a bridge between the normal world and the fantastical one. They look for signs of Bill's presence, more for security than anything. They also put barriers in other parts of town (the ones of unicorn hair).

They dismantle the Society of the Blind Eye (Fiddleford admitted that he started it, and that it was probably a bad idea). They discussed about breaking the memory gun, but they decided it could be useful in the future, so Ford hid it somewhere (he just put it under the floor on his room).

They seal the portal room, leaving it as it was. Fidds wanted to dismantle it, but Ford never let him (because of Stan this time, not the portal itself).

They heal, yippie!! Or something like that, Ford has to live with the crushing guilt of "killing" his brother; Fiddleford's wife divorced him and he lost custody of Tate. So they kind of only have eachother. (Fiddleford still has some memory problems, but nothing too serious.)

I hereby declare Fiddauthor canon in this timeline. (Even though I am more of a Fiddlestan gal.)

Bill decided to discharge this dimension, after all the portal is unusable and won't be repaired. He still has many dimensions to choose from anyway.

Years later the twins come for the summer and work on the expositions and tours. Dipper finds the journal, and the plot goes on.

The show begins:

The twins go to Gravity Falls to spend the summer, they will stay with their grunkle Ford and his colleague (wink wink) and work at their little museum. They soon find out that that's not the only thing their grunkles do.

A few days after they arrive (after Dipper finds the third journal) Ford takes them on an expedition as a bonding activity. He tells them that there's amazing things here, but there's also danger.

Ford and Fidds explain their purpose in this town, that they make sure that nothing evil gets to the town or the world. To make sure that humanity and magic stay apart and cool with eachother.

Soos and Wendy work there (at the same jobs as before, handyman and cashier at the giftshop). But Soos also works at the repair shop under Fiddleford's guidance (now Fiddleford has a son again and Soos has a new dad).

Guideon still is a menace in this one, but he doesn't have the book so he's not as dangerous as in canon. (At some point Fidds tells Ford "Imagine if you didn't dig out the journal at the school and this kid found it.")

Some adventures go the same, some different. Ford is more akin to Dipper, but Mabel has Fiddleford in this one. So it kind of balances it out. (And Fidds makes sure that Ford doesn't make Mabel feel left out, being a bridge between them and helping in communication.)

It doesn't take long for Dipper to realise who the author is (let's say, like a few weeks). And after being a bit indecisive (Mabel gives him courage) he decides to ask.

Fords admits that he's the author, and thanks him for finding the book. When Dipper asks for explanations about what happened (since he has read the journal two times already) Ford only tells him to not worry about it, that he fixed every back then (refusing to elaborate when Dipper insists).

Then he takes the journal from Dipper. The kid obviously gets mad at this. (This causes some resentment, and Dipper to be more secretive around the adults.) Ford tells him that is for his own safety.

Ford ends the conversation with the life lesson that he learned back then, that you can't do everything alone, you need family and friends in your life (the one he learned on the end of the show, basically).

At the end, this exchange causes a rift between Dipper and Ford, one that Ford isn't really aware of (and when he notices how the kid is not on board about doing nerd stuff together as much as before he feels bad, but he doesn't think it is anything too serious and that'll pass).

After the fight things are tense around the house for a bit, mostly because Dipper keeps making sharp and angry remarks at Ford (between other things). So there would be an episode about Mabel and Fiddleford trying to help so they can fix this.

It does help and things go back to being ok (but not the same as before, for Dipper won't idolise Ford anymore).

They still live adventures, with and without the grunkles.

Dipper starts his own "journal" out of spite. And to have a place to solve his own mysteries and record all the weird stuff on Gravity Falls. He sets himself the mission of learning what really happened thirty years ago. He noted down all the useful information he could remember about the third journal.

Everything moves on, and then one day Dipper and Ford were having another fight. Dipper and the others went did something reckless trying to find out the Old Mystery™ and got caught (maybe they went to the bunker, idk; but someone did get hurt).

So, they were all getting scolded, and Dipper was trying to fight back, when a small greenish opened in the middle of the kitchen and someone came through.

A loud beep reverberated through the room, Stan knew he was home.

The twins, Soos and Wendy kind of freak out and start asking who is he and such. Fiddleford has an idea of who it could be. And Ford is in shock to be honest.

Stan screams Ford's name and runs up to him to hug him. Ford stays still, in shock. He then lets out a fragile "Stan?", and his brother goes on to tell him super exited that he finally made it. After a rushed and almost incomprehensible (because of the speed in which he talks to and how he jumps to one thing to another) recap of what happened to him he pulls the first journal out of his backpack and gives it back to Ford.

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I'm not sure how things go on from here, I haven't given it much thought. But I probably add more things to this one, at least more facts. Wether they are about Stanley's adventures through the multiverse, Ford and Fidds on the last few years, or the kid's in Gravity Falls.

Maybe even develop the relationship between the characters more, something like describing what everyone thinks of eachother would be good.

And now, I do have drawings for this one.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was a magical girl who became friends with Markiplier and I ended up running from a demonic version of Stan from Gravity Falls. I ended up being bitten by a small swarm of weird bugs and it hurt everywhere.

[rosiesdisneydrama]

It actually took a while until Stanford found out what his brother was capable of.

Stanley refers to his work as being a "Handyman for Hire." He doesn't specialize in any one particular skill, but he can fix most smaller problems that most folks deal with. Lots of low-key jobs to help folks who can't afford professional help or don't really know what the problem they're dealing with is.

And even then, it's not 100% In-Your-Face magic most of the time. It's mostly subtle work for small-time issues. Big Magic is saved for Big Problems.

Which, considering the chaos of Gravity Falls, does show up eventually.

Stanford was not ready for how things went, since he thought most of what Stanley had was Old-Wives-Tale/Old-World magic that just happened to work out.

Like how a grandmother would give you lots of magic (herbal) tea when you were sick without knowing that lots of water and the vitamins from the herbs were the reason it worked and not bc it was magic.

[gryficowa]

You know what I hate as a creator? That you can't give a character before the arc without seeing hatred for that character, and often even after passing the arc he will be hated…

Seriously, I saw someone attacking Lumity and calling her "Toxic" because Amity was so bad… Because she rejected everyone… Yes, she literally hates a character who was a victim of abuse from her mother and had to develop a fucking defense mechanism… But you know, if you are a child and you can't cope with the trauma, it's better to kill yourself, because your change for the better means nothing

This is how I feel when I see the fandom and how it treats multi-dimensional characters…

Mabel Pines and Dipper Pines… Just those two…

I know it doesn't fit but it pisses me off that Mabel is hated in the fandom for being a fucking child

So what if Ford was at fault for not telling Mabel about the crack? It's obvious that it's her fault because as a child, she couldn't handle it mentally due to the excess of negative stimuli from that day…

And I'm not saying I don't like Ford, it's just that people don't blame Stan or Ford, they blame a 12 year old fucking child

Stan joked and mocked Dipper, Mabel only repeated his actions but the fanodm forgave Stan because not only did they love him, but in one episode he said that he was a dick to Dipper because he wanted him to be strong… Bullying doesn't fucking lead to that

Can you fucking blame the adult characters and not the fucking children?

I have the same problem with the miracolous fandom that hates Chloe and defends her father who was a fucking corrupt politician

I'm just fucking fed up with the fandom siding with the torturers and not the fucking children…

I know these memes are different (Not about blue MAGA and Zionists but as a creator I'm irritated by all this)

[thisispersonal]

I can’t sleep so here’s another shit post. he‘s an author they’re all dramatic!

[dropoutconfessions]

Continued from another confession about all the 'I could never see Sam/Evan' as romantic posts.

I do truly think I would be less bothered if people actually did just talk about the things they do like about Sam and Evan's platonic relationship without feeling the need to signpost how much they would dislike or hate it if that relationship turned romantic because the way these posts are framed often reads to me like they are trying to justify their dislike of the romantic ship rather than actually enjoy or celebrate elements of the platonic relationship.

Romantic and non-romantic feelings are not mutually exclusive dynamics that can exist between two characters. You can read their relationship as platonic and someone else can read it as romantic and neither of those readings has to disqualify the other.

Also shipping is such an omnipresent part of fandom, I wouldn't be surprised if some people somewhere shipped Evan and Tad. People on Tumblr have shipped floating triangles with fifty year old men, what is surprising about a couple of people shipping Sam and Evan?

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[xmascritter]

Conmen conwomen solidarity

[vannypies]

INTJ AWARDS! Who's your favorite INTJ?!

[frogartist-alex]

Real XD (idk how to caption this)

[regwishesshehadmagic]

Watching the sunset

[hexarcana]

**The man who ran my last haunt job was like Grunkle Stan if he was real, deadass

**Would have fired all of us if he could

** “forgot” to give us breaks

** “forgot” to feed us when it was promised

**hired people who were such massive red flags and liabilities but hey they’d work for cheap (literal criminals who made the space unsafe as well as a man who was drunk every single time he was in the building CONFIRMED)

**let his seven year old stepdaughter (a rotten child) run around the 14+ and often NSFW and gore centric haunt UNSUPERVISED and got MAD if anyone said anything about it and even fired people over the crit. I’m sure she wasn’t paid lol

**big difference tho is that Jimmy wasn’t enthused by the theatrics he was strictly business, so he was BORING and everyone hated him but dammit he runs a successful haunt despite the many flaws in its walls

**The guy I considered my actual boss, a bronx guy named Nick, was the real heart of the matter. He was Stan coded in other ways:

**can, will, and has punched out guests for harassing his actors and physically removed them from the premises. I saw him scruff a guy like a kitten and drag him out of the building.

**paid actors (me) under the table to avoid taxes (legit the kindest thing ever)

**was very passionate about the theatrics and the overall look of the haunt

**WAS GOOD AT SCARE ACTING he was effortlessly scary

**made it the family business, his son worked there too. And he was a grownup. ACTUALLY he only got into it BECAUSE of his son. A FAMILY MAN.

**often joked that we were a pain in the neck but he loved us and he loves his job and I miss him a lot

**smoked cigars (Jimmy VAPED like a freak)

**would sit outside with the actors at 2 am after the haunt drinking beer and laughing at our stories about making people piss their pants