#orange pine

[paintedcrows]

Preparing for your first holiday season with your griblings is hard. Especially when your grand niece insists on celebrating Every. Single. Holiday.

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Meet the Errand Boy.

Team Fortress 2 × Gravity Falls crossover AU because the two canon timelines sorta match, yipeee!!!

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1971 (2 years after being kicked out at 1969)- Recently turned 19 and short on money, Stanley Pines gets hired by The Administrator as MANN.CO's errand boy alongside Miss Pauling (since the latter was falling behind on her work due to her excessive overworking).

He is saddled with various grunt work such as accompanying Miss Pauling to her arrands of burying bodies, killing and eliminating witnesses; delivering supplies and packages to the mercenary teams; and occasionally even gets to replace some of them for a few battles if they happen to be unavailable on short notice!

[coolunspokenforname]

The most interesting part of the FrankenStan au, at least in my opinion, is the aftermath, and its absolutely heartbreaking that so few people talk about it.

Imagine you're Stan. Your brother, that you thought hated you (and in some cases literally killed you), brought you back to life. Now you have to live with the knowledge that you died. You may not even be entirely you anymore, depending on how damaged your body was by the time he started piecing you back together. Imagine waking up with skin and organs and bones that aren't your own, and now you have a good idea about what happens after death, more so than even those who had near death experiences. You were cold. Your heart stopped pumping for weeks, months, maybe even years.

And now imagine you're Ford. You've spent all your time since your brother's death trying to bring him back to life. The man you thought ruined your life. The man who always was there for you, ever since you shared the womb. Your best friend. Your other half. His blood is on your hands figuratively and literally. You have all the time in the world to consider every mistake you've made, every choice that's led to him laying there on the metal table of your lab, cold as your heart on the day he was kicked out. But, after putting your blood, sweat, and tears into bringing him back to life, he's there. He's alive. There's so much you want to say. So many apologies you want to make.

And then you realize. He's alive, but the world is dangerous. It took your brother away once, whose to say it won't do it again? You've seen his blood, his organs. You know first hand how fragile his body is. The world isn't safe for him. You couldn't protect him once. That's not going to happen again.

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Cross Section of a Pine Needle, Magnified

[onestellarghost]

twelve-year-old me and twenty-year-old me are shaking hands and losing their mind over gravity falls

[milkivikk]

lookadem big ol eyes

[arttsuka]

ford and stan as catdog

You unlocked memories I didn't know I had

[nenoname]

stan breaking the trust his most favourite people in the world had in him and fixing it by punching a slit eyed monster

[doritodemon13]

What’s it like in the Theraprism?

What can I say…

They forced wanted me to wear some stupid orange suit with my name on it. :(

(Orange isn't even my colour)

They also banned me from the only activity that I enjoyed.

(I only painted me torturing the pines family three times, and the other two were drawings of me killing Stanley)

So, I had to switch to group therapy circle…

Which means I'm sitting in a circle with a bunch of idiots.

(Note to self: get yourself banned from that and go to solo yoga)

That's why I started this Blog

(because the axolotl said it would help)

☝️I'm also doing this in my room when I'm bored

(It helps more than the stupid group therapy circle)

At least I have my stanford plush :)

(The only great thing here beside my blog)

[heynhay]

for if I am not yours, what am I?

[gmanmedias]

Ford Pines with warm colors for @starboystation !!

💛 💛 💛

🌻 🌻 🌻

💛 💛 💛

[walmaker-artist]

Grunkle Stan's newest attraction!

[emh-photos-art]

Fall tree color images taken today, from northern Mn.

[thoughtartistry]

Be different.

[is-it-cute-gf-au-edition]

The Rating System

Hi! I saw a couple of people ask about the Cute Scale, and I'd like something to link back to when some rockswallower decides to tell me that I misrated something.

Here's the scale:

CUTE

All animals are cute!!! Most humans, too!! A post is rated "cute" when it depicts an animal in a safe and healthy environment performing activities that are natural and pleasant for it. There are a couple of exceptions, but most stuff should be in this category.

MAYBE CUTE

Sometimes, something seems fishy, but it's not obvious what it means. A post is rated "maybe cute" when the content itself looks fun and enriching, but there are circumstantial indications of abuse or neglect. Examples include a dog playing in a dog park where the dog has seemingly untreated mange, or a pet in a situation where it can only be safe with proper monitoring. Basically, whether the post is cute or worrying depends on something off-screen.

NOT CUTE

This is our rating if something is obviously wrong. We all like to laugh at cats hissing, but cats hiss as a sign of distress. Most people are bad at reading animal body language, too, so they might post a picture of a "smiling" monkey not realizing that the monkey feels very threatened. That's not cute, that's sad.

UNSURE

Sometimes, I just don't know. Usually, I'll rate a video with "unsure" and then @ a field expert who understands a particular class of animal better. For example, I am not equipped to tell if a moth is in distress.

SOME OTHER NOTES:

I incorporate the safety of any handlers or photographers involved into my rating! I will never mark a video cute if the cameraman is unsafe!

I also do my best with due diligence. If a photo is of a healthy, happy looking animal but the owner has known scandals attached, I won't rate it cute.

[nordegrafz]

yaaaay tiny imgs