#nell facts

[homoquartz]

a show doesn't necessarily have to be ABOUT queerness to BE a queer show. it's a cultural dialect that cishets don't quite speak.

edit: i gotta clarify that the shows do indeed still have to have actual queer characters in them to count

[5ivers]

the tension was strong in this scene

[nellandvoid]

to celebrate the pines twins birthdays, i’m gonna make them miserable!!!!!

jkjk i just want to show a wip of my better world au designs for mabel and dipper, a (r o u g h) sketch that just so happens to be (semi) done on their birthday!! (it’s still the 31st. shut up/j)

lore dump under cut cause man am i gonna yap

the main thing i wanna do with these two is keep their fundamentals while still realistically changing their external personalities based on how they were raised (especially since their great-uncle ford is head of the institute of oddology and an estimed scholar in cryptozoology)

design-wise, i wanted to show how mabel's a bit more insecure while dipper's the opposite, so her sweaters don't all have designs on them, her hair is pulled back, and she has shorts and tennis shoes instead of a skirt and flats - dipper, on the other hand, doesn't have a hat since he doesn't care if people see his birthmark, and he has the space tee and button up combo that he was wearing in the valentines flashback in weirdmageddon pt 2 since he wouldn't be as self-conscious about showing off his interests

personality-wise, dipper has probably changed the least: still socially awkward, still has an undiagnosed anxiety disorder (same), still considers mabel his best (and only) friend - the main difference, though, is that growing up he wasn't bullied as much for being interested in the strange and unusual. kids are still cruel, of course, but he always had his great-uncle's reputation to look up to whenever someone made fun of his birthmark or obsession with ghosts. and now, getting to finally spend a summer with his idol, he's more than ready to finally be accepted for all his weirdness. he can finally be loud, be weird, be himself, and not get those looks people in piedmont give him when they think he's not looking. the few times he's met great-uncle ford growing up, the few times he slipped up and said something weird, his great-uncle never gave him the look like everyone else did. he'd just smile, always softly, always distantly, and always tell him to never change.

on the other hand, mabel is much more reserved and self-conscious, especially when she arrives in gravity falls - weirdness has always led to genius in her family, so when she let her mind drift away her parents would always drag her back down to earth, telling her she's just as capable as her great-uncle and brother, why doesn't she just take homework, take school, take life seriously like they do? and so she tries to, and tries, and eventually she learns about the look: the one people give her when she tells them about the time she swallowed a whole bag of gummy worms without chewing, or about the sweater she knit last week that's scratch and sniff, or about anything not serious. she hates the look, and starts to do anything she can to avoid it. especially when she does something silly in front of her great-uncle ford. the look he gives always hurts more, like something she did reminded him of a nightmare or a bad memory. and she didn't want to hurt him.

[fairyhagmother]

Presented without comment

[sorryimlatecapt]

how do you flub a fake chat on a fake phone like that

the contact being buck himself.... the text thread reading "today" at the top with the latest texts on 'read' at 3:02 which is the time the clock is showing. come on guys 💀

[dmc-questions-anon]

Platonic parents my beloved

[fmajorenthusiast]

Columbia: so which one of you is older?

Riff Raff: we're twins it doesn't matter

Magenta: me

[brutal-out-here]

They canceled Renegade Nell!?!?

[fortheloveofwbb]

Do you know if jada did this kind of things when Kate and Caitlin were at Iowa? I don't understand, she fully knows how many eyes are on them now and she simply doesn't care.

I honestly don’t know, I became a fan this year during the time cait and kate got drafted to the WNBA but with what jada did I’m incredibly disappointed and upset with her

But I honestly don’t understand why people are blaming cait and kate when they weren’t even there this is jada’s problem not the girls and it just makes me so upset that they’re bringing both of the girls into it you know?

[nerd-at-sea5]

also the way the shot is set up so nellie can’t see the blood on hugh’s shirt and then just the cut to them sitting outside and him covered in liv’s blood with nell going ‘did you find mommy?’

[martianbugsbunny]

btw I feel I must confess that the reason I decided to watch Renegade Nell was not the trailers nor the ads, and it was not even catching a couple posts on tumblr

it was seeing the cover picture of Thomas Blancheford that popped up during the credits of another show and being like 'alright they got an absolute fop of a man let's give it a shot'

[elizabeth-mitchells]

also that scene of Natalie having a vision of herself in the plane as she's dying, accompanied by Javi, Lottie, and her younger self, really reminds me of the scene in Hill House, when Luke is on the verge of dying, and in his vision he sees young Nell and their mom, who tells him something similar to what Nat tells herself, i think? something about how he was finally home, and how he had been knocking on that door for years → both Luke and Nat struggling with addiction and almost/actually dying of an overdose right when they were finally clean

[8-rock]

Happy Black History Month 🖤

[nellandvoid]

and if i said i was working on my version of the better world au,,,,,,,,, with a main plot thread in 2012,,,,,,,, what then

[sciophobis]

looking at you like a star

from the place the world forgot

[coldflash-corner]

thought about my fandom ocs for so long i momentarily forgot they were my lil guys and almost tried searching fic of them on ao3 :"")