#no one gaf about pacifica..

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I am in love with your Gideon and Pacifica timeskip designs!!! Absolutely inspired. If you have any crumbs (art or writing or thoughts, anything really) I would LOVE to see them. No worries if not, I just wanted to let you know that there is an audience for it, if you would like to share :)

Have a wonderful day!

awwwww tysm :))

I have a billion thoughts on the more side-ish characters in gravity falls because. theyre all sort of connected and i think thats really fun to explore. like (mostly) everyone has had their memory erased, everyone experienced weirdmageddon together, and theres just so many points where they cross paths narratively. for paz and gideon i like giving them a good ending and (in at least my idea) figuring out how they actually want to live.

i have thoughts so ill probably make comics or more fleshed out things later .. we will see what brainrot takes hold of me next

anyways. here you go

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Saturday

home -> half moon bay -> home. Last week after biking to Filoli, I decided that I would bike to Half Moon Bay next, because I’ve never been there, and it was a reasonable distance, and I could take my newly built-up road bike. Also I thought it would be nice to ride PH1 (depending on weather). strava: there & back snapchat story playlist: (shuffled/repeated) in case anyone gaf

verdict: the weather was terrible. it was cold and gray and foggy and wet. PH1 was still pretty beautiful, but I stopped 0 times to admire it. I stopped at the closest beach which seemed fun, for the many people who showed up to barbecue, but I had no reason to be there, and the beach was cold. I also forgot to draw despite bringing supplies. The “downtown” of Half Moon Bay seems to have nothing. Would go again on a nicer day, and probably not alone.

packed: sketchbook + watercolors + pencil, bike lock, 1L of water, hat (in case sun came out) wearing: tshirt (didn’t feel like wearing my jersey), new UA hoodie (excited to test it out), blue marmot windbreaker cuz it seemed cold, carbon38 tights that i’ve used and abused (wanted to wear bike shorts for the chamois but i don’t have leg warmers and it seemed cold (and it was cold)), converses! (because road bike has platform pedals and in case i wanted to walk around), bike gloves that are not even bike-specific gloves, and are falling apart because they are 5+ years old.

there: 1) fog af 2) going down skyline dr is like, the worst shit ever. no fucking idea how i ever did this brakeless. i was a true hero. lord. 3) literally no uphill suffering of any sort happened thanks to gears. once again, no fucking idea how i ever did this on a fixed gear. 4) everything up to pacifica was a breeze, and also familiar from last time. 5) road bike also started squeaking quite noticeably and i was not sure why. 6) got up to higgins, and saw a fuckin trail entrance?!??!!? and was like OMFG WTF?!!?!? I CAN’T DO NO DIRT!!!!! there was a group of mtbers and i asked them if it was advisable to go on this trail to get to half moon bay, and they said yes. 7) so i followed them on old san pedro mountain road which was this horrible terrain of cracked pavement and rocks and dirt until we split ways. they went to more trails and i continued on. 8) the climbing was not noticeable at all, either due to the fact that i was on the lowest possible gear, or because i was freaking out at every divot in the path, or both. also i was repeatedly thanking the lord that i did not attempt to do this last time (when i rode brakeless to pacifica). 9) after some point, i got to the downhill part of the road, which was INFINITELY MORE TERRIFYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was afraid to use brakes because a) i am unfamiliar with braking HAHAHAHA, and b) there was hella sand and gravel and i am afraid to do anything on that except roll through that shit without changing direction. also there was a lot less pavement/pieces of pavement, and a lot more patches of straight up dirt/sand/fine pebbles??? at this point i was invoking god's name, very much in vain, cuz the terror did not subside. (does it count as a religious experience if the experience makes you turn to religion?) 10) after a particularly harrowing section where it was ALL SAND/DIRT AND VERY STEEP (alright probably not that steep), WHERE I DID SOME SKIDDING BECAUSE I USED THE BRAKE WRONG OR MAYBE JUST NO TRACTION SO BRAKE DONT EVEN WERK WAT WHY, i encountered this couple who was very amused by my terror, who gave me directions and ensured me that there would be no more terrifying sections like this for the rest of the path. 11) i followed their instructions and eventually came upon highway. BLESS YOU, HIGHWAY DESIGNER. BLESS YOU, INVENTOR OF PAVEMENT. 12) from there it was smooth (literally) rolling to half moon bay. 13) gears are fun! i think i kinda got the basic gist of how to shift effectively.

hmb: 1) impressions of hmb: there is nothing here. i went to a bookstore and an antiques shop, found nothing of note, and then cruised the main street, where i found rich people and boutiques targeted at rich people. 2) however there was also a dunkin donuts nearby! very exciting. i got half a dozen donuts and ate 2.5 of them and then hit up this cafe that was on the highway (good, because it's not one of the rich-people-targeting businesses) and got a latte and spent a good deal of time solving a puzzle. felt dumb for not solving it faster.

back: 1) decided that i WOULD NOT!!!!! go back the way i came, so i took highway 1. pretty straightforward ride. 2) shifting down to the lowest possible gear is like, cheat mode x1000000, but it got me swiftly up the many turns in which there is no bike lane, so i'm sure the cars that i was blocking were happy about that. 3) the incorrect sizing and fit of this bike really came into focus when i was going through the tunnel (which i have previously driven through before, with emily!). the right side of my back was cramping up like crazy, and i wanted to stretch, but was afraid to ride no hands (this is why i need to practice this). 4) went down quite fast in the curvy bit between the tunnel and pacifica, which was less terrifying (but still scary). cars behind me were able to pass me without any honking. this pleases me. 5) riding through pacifica was good. no issues at all. 6) but then i came to skyline motherfuckin' drive. dude. how in the hell did i EVER do this brakeless. HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW i dropped to lowest gear, and those 4 hills... man. i had to pause after hill 1 (arcadia), and then after hills 2 and 3. i was sweating so much after hill 1 that i wanted to take off my hoodie, but i was literally drenched in sweat, and was afraid i would catch a cold, so i took it off for a minute, and some guy in an SUV stopped at the stopsign and was like, are you trying to go up that hill? i can bring you up the hill if you'd like. i politely declined, and of course this made me feel quite indignant, which is why i did not take a break after hill 2. it still wasn't as bad as going down (on the way to hmb). anyway, after the hills, i had to go downhill, which was ok, actually! there wasn't much traffic and the fog had mostly lifted. there was a car behind me and it didn't even get close, so i probably made decent time. 7) skyline blvd: not bad. easy. 8) great highway: wanted to go faster but back was cramping up again. and bike was screeching a lot, so i mostly focused on evening my pedal stroke, which seemed to quiet it. 9) ggpark: some outsidelands foot traffic, but nothing too obstructive. biking up that tiny thing from lincoln to chain of lakes was hell, though. i went to 2nd lowest gear (refused to go to lowest gear because pride) because fuck it. 10) got home, it wuz gud. also stopped by spoke easy to say hi and also see if they could diagnose the screeching. anson fixed it by tightening my QR levers.

other thoughts: 1) thank. god. i did not attempt this route brakeless. i cannot even describe the absolute terror i felt going through the dirt (this segment on strava is called Planet of the Apes). 2) how the FUCK did i do home -> pacifica -> home brakeless. HOW. HOW!!!!!!!! but also i think some of the segmenets took me super long, and this time it took a reasonable human amount of time. 3) this was only 60 miles but it felt longer. i've sweated so much that my shirt is transparent. and soaked. 4) super glad i got some donuts. yessssssss. dunkin donuts makes a fuckin' bike ride, yo.