#portal!stan pines

[comically-blu]

Shermie,stanley,Stanford meet portal shermie,portal shermie, portal stanford

For this post, Canon-Compliant TL would be interacting w/ their portal counterparts of PW;ALTL!

Short answer: they all would be chill w/ each other, but they would be avoiding contact with their counterparts as possible.

Sketches down below (includes a bit of spoilers to journal 3):

At first, CCTL would be absolutely alarmed about some random portal popping into their world. Then, pops out their portal selves.

Considering the entry “A Better World” in journal 3, Ford would take initiative to separate everyone from their parallel selves.

All due to this experience:

Ford would know this more than PPC!Shermie since he has spent more time outside in the portal. PM!Stan may had attempted to avoid staying in parallel universes much due to his experiences on the run, so he also knows this.

In comparison to his brothers who are fine with this unusual happening, CC!Shermie would be absolutely perplexed. Shermie practically missed out on the crazy shi in canon lmao- But eventually, he relaxes himself to not having a heart attack. Somehow.

Mini comic ft. the double trio: just Shermie’s being a lil morbidly silly

They probs would comment on each other like Shermie does with himself here lol-

Unfortunate that parallel selves can’t really interact with each other. They all would’ve made one massive unit of a team lol

[noodles-and-tea]

Last one from the archives

[skipppppy]

Also damn y’all REALLY liked him huh

[trekkerac]

he's like a faulty lightbulb

[heph]

The tech guy in movies

[blabberoo]

"You have 72 hours."

Left alone in the consequences of his obsession, he let desperation get hold of his intellect and come up with a plan. For the world. For himself.

[nenoname]

hunting down a specific image but finding miscellaneous storyboards/some cut panels from the stan comic story instead

[horrible-little-critter]

brotherly movie time

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

Suddenly, bell bottoms aren't so bad

Bonus sketch, because I had to vv

"Stop checking out my assistant, Stanley."

[scurvyboy]

not as much memory loss timeline fiddleford you're so cool

[meatgrinder-0]

me at the interdimensional ramen bar of past regret

[barbaricjester]

I'm think so hard about Stanley Pines I'm gonna fucking cry. Have you guys ever noticed how he talks to Ford even before he got him back. In Carpet Diem he scolds Ford and says his carpet is ugly. He asks the wax lookalike if he wants anything from the kitchen. He tells Ford to shut up when he's reading his journal. He tells the kids he talked to his reflection while fishing alone. He needed his brother so fucking much and I'm

[noodles-and-tea]

twins in time continuation of that blue doodle comic thingy, but fidd is forced to take care of stan when Ford gets into the portal stuff, leaving him behind.

I reckon he teaches him math…

[skipppppy]

This has to be an AU already right? I’ve never seen it. I’m doing it. My city now

The angst potential alone haunts me. How long do you think he waited for Ford?? When did it start to sink in that nobody was coming to save him, that nobody would miss him? Would anybody even want him back? How long did it take for his anger, his heartbreak, his grief to turn into acceptance and a belief that this was divine retribution? How long did he work, how many jobs did he take, how much wealth did he accrue, how many brushes with death did he have until he believed he’d “earned” the right to go home and see his brother?? Many such questions. I need to go deeper

[artsymeeshee]

Finally finished the big drawing idea I had ;w; I wanted to draw a timeline-lineup of the boys and certain points in their life. Feel like I could have added a bit more but I think this works out for the most part.

(Click for better quality)

Close-ups under the read more

[flower-zombiee]

Something I think about so much is just how different the Stanley Pines we see in ATOTS is from the Grunkle Stan we know in the rest of the show.

Like, have you ever noticed just how much more expressive Stan is in 1983? The guy wears his heart on his sleeve so much more than he does later on. At almost every moment you can tell exactly what he's thinking and feeling just from his face, something that will become a lot rarer for him. Even setting aside the portal incident scene itself, have y'all ever watched the Dusk 2 Dawn scene and just watched Stan's face? He looks so… openly sad.

It's not just his expressions. Here's a detail that only just occurred to me: you guys ever think it's weird that Stan doesn't just try to steal the bread from Dusk 2 Dawn? Like, you'd think his stealing habit would've originated from his years on the street stealing to survive, but no— he tries to pay for the bread, and then when he doesn't have any money, he figures out how to get some. It's surprisingly honest.

And just like… I don't know, his whole vibe is so different. He's come from this life of hardship completely willing to talk things through. He's emotional, he's open, and not exactly what you'd expect to see when you imagine what a younger Grunkle Stan might have been like. In fact, his vibe is so different that, in Journal 3, Ford writes that when he first saw Stan, he assumed he was just in another alternate dimension rather than the one he came from.

Anyway, it just makes me think about the transition of how, exactly, he went from one to the other. How we go from the "stubborn, frostbitten vagabond" to the "carnival barker" he is by the show's present. I think about that in-between Stan a lot. Realizing that the hole in his heart, the one he thought was caused by his circumstance for so long, hadn't disappeared even now that he had money and a steady place to live. Growing more bitter and grumpy by the day, learning that maybe it's just better if he shuts himself off from the world so nobody has a chance to hurt him. Seeing himself aging and finding himself no closer to saving Ford. Ship of Theseus-ing himself into the carefully curated asshole that maybe even he thinks he is.