#scrapbook of the unexplained

[thethistlegirlwrites]

15 for all of them?

15: Is your character dangerous? Do they think they are? ...for the squad!

Thank you so much for the ask!!!!

--- Compass

Sierra - Yes and yes. Sierra was a vigilante vampire hunter before she was recruited by an agency, and she is the sort of person to shoot first and ask questions later. She's honed her skills and is well aware of what she's capable of.

Pete - More than he thinks he is, actually. Pete doesn't see the results of his work as often, given he's on the forensic accounting side of the hunting process, but he's capable of unleashing a lot of chaos on an organization if he finds the right financial pressure points.

Shay - Yes, but he's LESS dangerous than he believes himself to be. Like most vampires who are not turned hunters, Shay doesn't really know what vampire un-life is like, and thinks that he will remain in the bloodthirsty fledgling phase permanently. Thus, his lack of resistance at being taken to what is basically a death sentence.

Saanvi - Saanvi is dangerous if cornered, and she doesn't always realize that until the time comes. She reacts in a moment, without a lot of planning as to her responses to danger.

Wren - Wren is very dangerous, but occasionally overestimates her intimidation factor, which is how she sometimes ends up on medical leave. She's a master manipulator, though, and doesn't often need to rely on her brute strength.

Joey - Joey thinks she is much more dangerous than she actually is, with the caveat that if you are a threat to her family or the people she considers family, she is the shadow you don't see coming until it's too late. But in terms of how dangerous her vampirism makes her, Joey is much like Shay in that she doesn't fully understand how being a vampire can progress and how it can be controlled.

Nico - Nico is dangerous, but keeps it under control. He was a hunter before he turned, and working with a bit of a rogue type of agency besides, so he has a skill set from that as well as his vampire powers. And never, ever, underestimate a threat from the cleaning crew. They KNOW how to sanitize a crime scene.

--- Magic & Silver

Robin - Robin's opinion of how dangerous he is shifts over time. Sometimes, he feels like his fae powers are a curse, and he's wondered if he's in some way responsible for his mother's death, but for the most part, he understands his spot in the natural order and where he falls on a 'food chain'.

John - John is dangerous and definitely knows that. He's been trained since he was a child to know how to hunt and kill vampires, and he likes his dangerous side, actively pointing it out whenever possible.

Kira - Kira made herself dangerous. She taught herself to kill vampires, and gained a reputation as a vigilante before being folded into an agency. She's a force to be reckoned with because she's never let anything slow her down, and as a black Deaf woman she's had plenty of things standing in her way.

Emma - Emma is dangerous and proud of it. It's an asset in her line of work. She's got more morals, and more of a soft side, than she shows the world, but she actively projects the image of a heartless, power-hungry vampire to everyone but her closest friends.

Cody - Cody is probably the least actively dangerous to anyone but himself member of the M&S crew. He's been known to make snap decisions and to trust people without a lot of reason given, but that's also how he and Robin met, so it's worked out okay for him.

Maira - Maira is a master of political manipulation. She doesn't need to be physically dangerous to be intimidating. She's good at reading people and using their secrets against them at the right time. Thankfully, she uses her powers for good.

--- Scrapbook

Lina - Lina is dangerous if you do something to make her see you as a threat. She's a journalist, so she's good at playing the long game, but once you are in her books as a villain, it would take a lot to get you back in her good graces, and she WILL dedicate herself to taking you DOWN for good.

Matti - Matti is technically dangerous by nature of what he is, but he's grown up knowing what he is and how to control it. He's like a big dog, looking scary but really just wanting to be friends, even if sometimes that means you get a bit squashed.

Jim - Jim is potentially dangerous, because he has fae magic he doesn't even know he has, much less how to control, but for the most part it's benign stuff like glamours and plant affinities that the danger is in knowing how to use and actively manipulating. He doesn't want to hurt anyone with any of it, so unless it was defending his life, even his lack of control won't do much more than cause some weird looks. If he's put in mortal danger, or one of his friends is, though, there's every chance the magic will break free on its own.

From this ask game

[thethistlegirl]

HE'S BACK ON MY DASH YESSSSSSS

[heartmaddie]

paraselene woman ft. sakusa kiyoomi opposites attract , grumpy/sunshine , fluff ; 469 words

"and i'll wait for you as if i'm waiting for a storm to stop, i've heard them talking 'bout how i'm gonna put you off. tell me, how could i put you off when you're a matter of urgency, i've got a million things that i need to do but they're all secondary."

sakusa kiyoomi who had built a reputation as someone quite broody and composed, and decided he preferred it that way. it was much easier for him to disregard his classmates, only to interact with the people he chose to surround himself with. which is how he became subject to gossip, countless rumours about him spread through itachiyama like wildfire. although he’d never interact with them, there was one rumour which, in the eyes of his peers, was just too seamless to be fake. the way he had treated you, compared to everyone else, was so foreign to their perception of him. with gentle touches and soft words, it was evident to everyone that sakusa’s friendship with you stemmed deeper than just platonic exchanges.

sakusa kiyoomi who found himself quite infatuated with you. while rumoured, it was unbeknownst to everyone that the two of you were indeed a couple, and he was pleasantly surprised by how much his life had changed for the better since involving himself with you. maybe it was your charismatic and outgoing personality which charmed him, but there was something inside kiyoomi which transformed in it’s entirely when he was with you. his signature pout would drop, his creased forehead would disappear, and the heaviness which adorned his heart would slowly dissipate - he finally felt light again. it was an unmeasurable happiness in which he’d bask, his empty, white wall becoming a scrapbook of memories and tokens of you, glancing at them would fill him with unexplainable warmth. 

sakusa kiyoomi who acted completely unfazed when you stopped denying the relationship accusations and confirmed the status between the two of you, but he couldn’t help the achy swelling in his heart when he heard that people believed that he wasn’t treating you well. sure he didn’t particularly care for other people outside his circle, but that didn’t mean that he’d dismiss you too. it didn’t make sense to him, why on earth would he want to hurt the one thing he’d truly love? he would prioritise you over anything if it came to it. his only goal was to protect you from anything that could potentially harm you. in fact, he quite enjoyed spending his time doting on you.

sakusa kiyoomi who was enigmatic and mysterious, completely contrasting you, but somehow the two of you had worked out to become two unlikely peas in a pod. the both of you were absolutely enamoured with each other. but maybe to others, his intimidating presence was like the moon, alone up high in the night sky, a symbol of independence, a status of superiority over others.

if it meant that sakusa kiyoomi was the moon, then you would be the paraselene which radiated around him, extracting his unnoticed beauty and exhibiting him to the rest of the world as his true self.

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[fangirlingpuggle]

Mable and Ford's guide to home pyrotechnics.

Ford sees that Mable loves "nerd stuff" if its maximized for chaos.

(Bill encourages this. Sixer could stand to go a little more feral. As a treat. A treat for Bill.)

Mable showing Bill her scrapbook and art ("see, I like drawing too!).

Bill tries smile dip? Or he's Very Concerned for Mable's welfare because of The Beast/Das Flavour Pup.

YES!!!

Mabel does so may more episodes of Mabel's guide to with both Ford and Bill...so mcuh chaos...so mcuh property damage and so much glitter.

Bill revels in the chaos. This is better than world domination so mcuh fun bonding with kids.... and he thinks Ford looks every handsome while setting everything on fire.

They also both help Dipper with guide to unexplained, lots of exploring mindscape and other dimensions.

Mable and Bill drawing together, her seeing all the red and blue triangles and finding out about Bills parents (Her 'grandparents') and makes a college for him with triangles and stars.... Bill gets very emotional. (She also does family portrait with all of them) she does this while he's still at the theraprism. His wall ends up covered in these pictures (As well as letters from Dipper, like his own journal entries) Bill not frantically drawing red and blue triangles all the time drawing new stuff, pictures for dippers journals or scarp booking for Mabel (Also letters to Ford)

The axolotl watches on smiling.

Bill taking smile dip... things get.... bad and weird and then worse. Weridmageddnon only weirder and more intense and only for an hour until the sugar crash... collective agreement we never talk about this again. Bill doesn't even remember the sugar crash is as bad as the hangover form that one karaoke night.

Stan has to stop Ford from trying some for science.

[callofdudes]

What’s your HC of König reacting to someone having a crush on him? And Him vice versa? I’d love to read your thoughts! :)

Big boy with lots of big feelings. That's it, that's the headcanon. (I'm kidding, here are my actual thoughts)

I'm going to treat this as y/n x König

König is nervous every day. He lives and breathed anxiety (same bro) so when he meets you he's nervous. When he starts to catch feelings, he's nervous. He genuinely has no idea he's attracted to you. Like yeah you're good looking but that's as far as his mind usually lets him wander before he turns into a nervous pile of goop.

Your compliments affect him in ways others usually don't. Again, he's always nervous so he doesn't see the connection right away. Or for a while in that regard.

"Oh König you're so huge, I'd love to see the world from your perspective!" One compliment that makes his heart twist and melt. You want to be like him?? To see the world like he does??

He would die for you. No second guesses. No second thoughts. You need someone to lay down their life for any reason he is right there.

Unexplainably whipped.

He doesn't understand why, but he is.

He loves to watch you fight, it makes falling in love with you just that much easier. How you stand up for him when he's feeling caught up in himself.

All of a sudden really wants to impress you. Whether it's showing off his strength of sparring others while you watch. König wants to do everything he can to make you see what he is capable of.

He's totally ok with the others talking to you at first. When he sees you hanging around and talking with them it's fine. But when his feelings become deeper rooted the love and infatuation turns to frustration. He's doing everything he can to show off to you, to impress you. And yet you want to talk to the others??

He's is devastated that his anxiety holds him back from conversation with you a lot. He's capable on the field, he can push through like the tank he is, but he couldn't ask you out if he got a million dollars with it.

He gets reprimanded after a difficult mission when he ran back over a field littered with mines just so they wouldn't have to leave you in the danger zone.

He does everything he can to protect you. Even from little things. You're completely capable but he's so nervous he doesn't realize his 'knight in shining armor' act also starts to include stuff like picking you up so you don't have to walk through the mud.

"Good morning, I made you some coffee/tea", "If the recruits ever give you any trouble I promise you can come to me", "Why would I ever let you get hurt??", Some of the things he's said before.

While these things wouldn't seem like a big deal, König is afraid of offering up his help, scared it'll be dismissed and disgarded. But he trusts you, telling you he's always got your back.

His simple admiration and wishes to show off, quickly becomes somewhat of a competition. It's unhealthy, but König hasn't had very many good influences in his life and to lose you would kill him. So he fights for you.

You're very attractive so if another soldier attempts to express affections or fondness, König will either scare them off, or jump into the conversation.

You assume this behavior is just friendly at first. And then you catch on.

König, along with liking your personality, could stare at you for days. He gets anxious when his dreams become you, and only you. And eventually it becomes painful to be around you and not tell you how much he loves you.

The kind of guy to take "I feel the same" as an invitation to show you the giant scrapbook he'd put together of your potential wedding.

He never wanted to confess, until you, classically, got injured and when he was allowed to see you he burst into tears, telling you he was so worried he'd lose you and he couldn't fathom losing someone he loved so dearly.

As for someone crushing on him:

König was very rarely complimented in his childhood. Often hiding his face when people called him a monster until it became a part of him. Mocked for his height and told he couldn't accomplish his dreams of sniper duty with how huge and fidgety he is.

Who could ever fall in love with him?? He's a monster.

So he's pretty dense.

He's used to mockery and such so you being very kind and loving to him is pretty much foreign.

He couldn't put together you loved him if you smacked him over the head with a frying pan and called him yours.

However, when he does figure it out he's flattered. So flattered and a bit confused. I hate to say "why would you love me?" But it's exactly what he'd say.

He's the guy who melts under your compliments. Even before he likes you or know you like him, your compliments just make him feel loved.

He's never dated. Hasn't done anything with anyone ever. But of course, when he finds out you like him his first thought I'd immediately "but I'm so tall?? How could that work? Would they still love me if I couldn't please them??" He's so worried he'll fall short.

"Would you love me if I was a worm" kinda guy.

And same with wanting to impress you if he likes you, it's the same vice versa. If you have a crush on him, he will do everything in his power to impress you. Even if standing in front of you is all it's ever taken.

Baby thinks he can't be loved, I've made that pretty clear. But if you ever treated him to a nice dinner no questions asked no strings attached - you are the most amazing person on the whole planet.

König finds it endearing that while you have a crush on him, you're also protective of him. Keeping other teammates from getting too close or up in his business.

He's flattered when you offer to help with recruits and training. But he's certainly not upset to have you along.

It's most of the same thing.

However, when he finds out someone has a crush on him, for real, it's not a joke. There is like this little protective mode that goes off in his brain. When he isn't so nervous.

The logic is like "they like me, so there shouldn't be any fear?" And he will get cocky. Again, showing off, grabbing your attention, getting close to you as possible.

Not too sure when it switches for König but once he really settles into the fact that he knows you have a crush on him, he is gonna make your blush a permanent fixture on your face.

Just don't flirt back. Oooh don't flirt back. You. Will. Break. Him. Anxiety? Gone. Cockiness? Gone.

"What does it take to get in your bed, big boy?"

König is broken. His brain is stuck. He can't move. When he is flirted with, especially with blatant bedroom talk it melts his brain.

I hope you like it. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it, but I did my best 😅

[foggyaquarium]

Mabel doodles

When I was like eight years old I didn't have disney/didn't know how or where I could watch gf so I just watched the specials on youtube (you know, Dipper's guide to the unexplained, Mabel's guide to etc) and when I watched Mabel's scrapbook and got to the ending with the mutant... abomination... cow thing I was so scared I never watched anything gravity falls related again until I was eleven and learned the story properly

[disneydarlin]

Gravity Falls Shorts —Aesthetic

Animated Shorts Description

Follow the Pines Twins on their little adventures in Gravity Falls. Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained. Mabel's Guide to Life. Fixin' It with Soos. TV Shorts and Mabel's Scrapbook.

[perfectionistkilling-me]

Hazbin Hotel Paperwork

An observation about fandom that I have never been able to unsee is that "Original Media is usually taking place during a disruption from the main characters Day-to-day life. Meanwhile a lot of fanfiction takes place in the downtime. Meaning unsuspecting fanfic writers have to come up with what these characters actually do in their boring adult jobs. Often with little experience in what these jobs are like. The end result is a lot of fanfiction starting with our main characters staying late in the office doing miscellaneous, unexplained paperwork"

So, with that in mind. Here are a bunch of miscellaneous paperwork/paperwork adjacent tasks for each Hazbin Hotel Character.

Charlie

Property Taxes. There is no way property tax doesn't exist in hell.

Planning group therapy sessions. Probably with several behavioural psych books and self help books and So So many sticky notes and highlighters.

Generally freaking out surrounded by crayons, loose paper, several bulletin boards and red string.

Vaggie

Planning and reviewing training regimens. Looking for where she can improve.

Maintaining her weapons. Also maintaining any other weapons in the hotel because poorly maintained weapons are a safety hazard and under absolutely no circumstances is she letting Niffty or Alastor do it.

Being a soundboard for Charlie's planning, and probably consoling her about property taxes.

Alastor

Actually doing the taxes when Charlie gives up. Also every other bill payment. He is the accountant.

Managing whatever weird network of smugglers and killers required to get a whole forest and a deer into his room. This probably required a lot of weird phone calls.

General tinkering. Everyone knows old technology is a fickle mistress. Alastor absolutely has at least one radio that has to be poked, prodded and shaken to work just right.

Angel Dust

Probably has the most actual paperwork.

Reviewing filming schedules, scene requirements and special requests.

Learning lines. Script writing in Porn Studios is also most often done by the director or whoever says yes. Considering Val has maybe 3 braincells and shit eyesight. Angel has probably written a script or two as well.

Making marketing content for upcoming projects. Filming whatever hells version of Cameo is. (Cumeo?)

Husker

Bar inventory and orders. Date and Time labels on the perishables. Please imagine him with his clipboard right in his face and brow furrowed.

Sealing anything sugary in about 10 layers of cling film. (Do you want hellants. This is how you get hell ants.)

Cutting limes, longing for the days when he had barbacks. Pouring himself a glass of whiskey and then going back to cutting limes.

Sir Pentious

Drawing diagrams of inventions. Having a long drawn out internal debate about whether he needs to make a specific part custom or if he can just order the part. Vocalising this conundrum to the Egg Bois only to be met with "Fingers are just Toes with delusions of grandeur"

Looking at a perfectly functional small scale prototype. Looking at a full scale version of the same prototype, built to the exact same specifications, wondering why it doesn't work. Looking back at the small scale prototype, holding it lovingly, asking it why it's brother doesn't work.

Honestly, just document any weird shit you see your engineer friend do and it's probably Sir Pentious.

Niffty

I was going to say Niffty does not have paperwork, Niffty has an ongoing war against dirt and roaches in which she is a valiant soldier. But thats too easy.

She is Alastor's paper shredder.

Updating her scrapbook of bad boys with photos, hair, teeth and occasionally other. . .things.

[pinkrose787]

Trolls: A Twist in Time Chapter 2 Sneak Peek!

The entire chapter is done. I just refuse to post it until Ao3 is back up. Probably will be posted in a few hours. Maybe noon EST (no gurantee, depends on class and when I wake up).

Anyway, here's part of the chapter.

Sneak Peek:

It’s been a week since that wind blew through the bunker. Branch has checked and rechecked everything a thousand times since then. Everything is in order. Exactly as it should be.

Well, not exactly.

There’s been some unexplained phenomena happening.

Sometimes, for just a brief moment, a room or area in the bunker will look different. Usually, from far away.

When he glanced at a wall there was a picture hung on it. It was hard to tell from the distance, but it looked like a photo of him with his brothers. When he blinked, it disappeared.

Another time one of his storage shelves looked like it was filled with scrapbooks. All of them were different colors and sizes. When Branch approached the shelf, they warped back to the ration jars that they should have been.

There aren’t any pictures on his walls, especially not any with his brothers. And he never has had a shelf filled with scrapbooks. He’s only ever had just one scrapbook, the one with him and his grandma. There’s never been more than that.

Not to mention, Branch has been having strange thoughts.

Yesterday, he went to go grab something from one of his storage rooms. When he grabbed the doorknob he thought, “Wait, this is Floyd’s bedroom. I should knock.”

Which is wrong. Completely. Entirely.

He hasn’t seen Floyd since BroZone broke up. Plus, Floyd has never been in his bunker much less had his own room in it.

Then there’s been these strange dreams. Normally, his dreams are nightmares. A confusing horrifying montage of every single trauma that Branch has gone through in his life.

But these new dreams are sweet and pleasant.

These dreams show him a world where he went with Poppy to Bergen Town. Where Bergens are no longer a threat. Where he ends up making friends. Where he dates Poppy. Where he sees his brothers again after so long. Where he’s happy. Where his life is great. 

But these are all dreams. Nothing more.

Just his brain cruelly taunting him with images of what could have been had his life gone on a different course. If anything, they’re crueler than any nightmare he has. With them, he has to wake up and face the depressing bleakness of his life.  

Maybe, it’s all the time he’s spent in the bunker getting to him. It has been a couple of weeks since he last saw the sun or other trolls. As much as he hates admitting it, he does need to be around other trolls, even if that is just him watching from a distance.

And he is running low on some supplies.

He grabs a backpack and heads towards the elevator out of the bunker. 

[zilabee]

Sticky Fingers, by Joe Hagan:

- I love that Jann Wenner hired Joe Hagan to write his official biography, and then agreed not to have any editorial control over it.

- I love that he made a whole career out of interviewing people and then writing down things they didn't want him to write down, and he still went into the whole thing sure it wouldn't happen to him.

- I love that he handed over all these letters and records and contracts and taped conversations (there was a bit in the seventies where they just taped every phone call) from this enormous archive, dating back decades, and gave the author access to almost everyone involved. I love that they were all just honest about what a shit Jann was and Joe Hagan wrote that down.

- I love his mother. And his wife. And Annie Leibovitz. They're easily the three most interesting people in the book.

- I love the bit where he is having an affair with Art Garfunkel and his wife is having an affair with Paul Simon and it's very unclear who is trying to hurt who the most.

- I'm sad that Paul Simon refused to be interviewed, I assume he assumed that an official biography wasn't the place for all his feelings of writhing hatred, but it was, it really was.

- I love that it makes it so clear what a shit magazine Rolling Stone always was, and how zero care Jann Wenner had about any of the politics. Rolling Stone was never actually a voice for anything more than very needy men wanting to seem very cool in their wanky little minds.

- I genuinely love how actively he was against the political side of it all and didn't understand why he would care. I love that he purposefully decided it should be a gossip magazine full of drivel.

- I love the bit where the few political writers at Rolling Stone who still hoped it might stand for something, rebelled. And they published stuff they wanted to publish while Jann was out of town and it was their best selling issue and he immediately gladly took all the credit for it, while his writers seethed gently. I love that it happened twice.

- I hate that it felt like every time he was on the cusp of ruin a major star would die and boost sales and everyone would pretend he was wonderful again.

- I love the bit where Jann was probably having an affair with Richard Gere and he pasted shirtless photos of him into his scrapbook.

- I love that he keeps a scrapbook of invitations, letters, photos and articles as proof that famous people love him and like him. I love that Joe Hagan describes it as: The physical evidence of the story Jann Wenner told about himself. <3333

- I love how often people fall out with him and then NEVER speak to him again. I love that there's almost not one big thing you can point to about why he's a dick... I mean no, there are things, there's a moment early on, where he has sex with a girl and then has a dinner party the next night and uses their stained sheets as a table cloth in order to embarrass her, you know, there are a lot of things you could point to. But I think what I mean is there are also just SO MANY different ways he's just dreadful that it's almost unexplainable. He's incompetent and needy and horrible and just excruciatingly wanky. But he's not like a cartoon villain. He's just a bubble of disgusting ego.

- I think there was maybe one bit where I started to feel a bit sorry for him, like I guess if you tell someone everything about yourself, and how wonderful you are, and then they interview all your friends and you expect them to write about your magnificent business empire and how golden you are then... it's hard if this is the book they write. But whatever. I don't care enough to care, I just sat back and enjoyed the truthiness.

[we-are-inevitable]

going back to that tattoo artist/actor au. i think that davey- the actor, if you havent seen the og post- would get the tattoo as a little act of rebellion to remind himself that, even with this influx of fame, he can still be his own person. he’s not just playing a part in his own life.

because davey was quick to be on the big screen after his first few auditions, which he only did as a quick way to make a little cash. at the time that david is cast for his first huge role, he’s a college student studying to become a teacher, and really only auditioned because he could barely afford rent and one of his roommates ran away and dropped out of college and now he and his other roommates have to pay the landlord the runaway roommate’s portion of the rent and david can barely afford food for himself let alone pay another person’s share of the rent and he sees an ad online and thinks why the fuck not because otherwise he’s homeless and shit out of luck. and that’s when he goes in for an audition with only two years of high school theater under his belt.

he wasn’t going for a huge role- he was auditioning for a small role as a waiter in a scene, maybe, or maybe some sort of secretary background character- but he was captivating and had a natural charm that the casting director really enjoyed. push comes to shove, they ask for him to read for a different character, and that’s what gets the ball rolling for him to be cast as a lead in a different movie. it’s a whirlwind that happens so quickly over the course of a few months, and then comes the actual filming portion, and the post-production marketing, and interviews and press conferences and red carpets and this isn’t his world, it wasn’t supposed to be his world, but the movie does *so* much better than he ever expected and suddenly he’s hollywood’s new white boy of the week.

he loves it, but it’s an adjustment, and the tattoo is almost a reset for him.

because he’s a sentimental guy, the tattoo would likely be something inspired by his movie, and yes people may think of that in a very arrogant, self-important way- but truthfully, it’s because davey knows his life is never going to be the same, and he wants to commemorate that.

his next tattoo, again done by jack, is something important to his family. but for the most part, davey gets a tattoo for every project he feels proud of; he’s like a walking scrapbook of where his career starts and progresses, and it’s always fun debuting his new tattoos for his fans.

also, because i got a lot of asks about it— davey does a lot of coming-of-age roles when he first starts, like Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird style. dramatic, melancholic, perfectly encapsulating the fear of growing up and longing to stay who you are but know there’s a change coming. he also dabbles in comedy, but they aren’t his favorite roles; he really just loves heartwrenching dramas!

i imagine this is because he kind of,, yearned for it when he was growing up, the drama and the pain. he was blessed with a great family. every time he wanted to rebel, like when he decided he was emo in middle school, or when he was caught smoking weed as a 16 year old, his family never cared, they just made sure he was safe. and that was so great, he appreciated it so much, but what is david jacobs without the unexplainable sadness sitting deep on his chest? he would feel better with a reason for being so depressed, because then he would have an explanation. he wouldn’t just be an ungrateful fuck up like he thinks he is. so he takes the heavier roles so he can pour all of that untapped angst into them and finally have the emotional releases he’s dreamed of.

anyway yeah davey is a regular Jack Kelly client <33

[thethistlegirlwrites]

Lab Rat Fox

Went with an alt prompt today and an OC I haven't played with for a bit (who was hoping I forgot him), Will Bauer!

It was almost easier, when the nightmares were something he could believe he woke up from.

He knows, now, it didn't change anything. Wasn't going to erase the magic in his blood, or magically turn him into the human son his father wanted.

All hiding his real nature from him had done was cut him off from the truth. From his chance at learning to control it before it controlled him. Before it turned him into something feral and dangerous.

He can almost understand the cage.

It didn't have to be this way. He's seen the others, now. Others like him. Who don't have to fear the other side of who they are, who know it and control it and maybe even love it.

But he's too far gone for that.

He's never fought to get out, not like the wolves here with him. The others think it's because he's afraid of his father, or because he doesn't believe he can escape.

He's not afraid of his father. He's afraid of himself.

He might be able to escape these bars, but he can never escape the monster in his blood.

He wants his father to be right. For there to be some way to undo the wild side tangled in his DNA, for some trick that pulls on the threads and unravels it all like a snagged sweater.

But maybe, even if it worked, he'd unravel so far there'd be nothing left.

Maybe, that's the only fate left he can hope for.

@nade2308 @whumptober @catwingsathena

[subwaytostardew]

(Last one I promise, just an idea that I had right before I fell asleep.) Maybe Emmet takes us out to scenic locations around the Valley for a photoshoot! The Beach, The Secret Woods after we clear out the slimes, Cindersap Forest, etc.

Ooooo I think Thylak will like that! That sounds nice too! I know one of the reasons why Emmet is making a scrapbooks and stuff - is to show his friends and family what he and his brother have accomplished.

He also always wants somthing to look back on - so yeah! That could work! Bravo! Fiction!

Though I think the farmer would have say on all the best spots because after all - they know the valley like the back of their hand unlike Emmet who... would probably get ambushed by a slime... (Poor guy.)

But that just means the farmer gets to show all the wonders and (Eldritch Horrors) of Stardew Valley.... like saying hi to your friendly neighborhood Shadow creature Krobus!

Don't worry Emmet you're in good hands... Just don't go behind the Railroad. Or in the mines. Or deep in the forest. Or anywhere else where weird and the unexplained things occur. Be for an interesting scrapbook though.

Like Gravity Falls books. LOL.

◁ - Station Stewardess Kade

[radio-guts]

about to do a tandem interest run

Sherlock & co. X journal 3 + tales of the strange and unexplained X Marcys journal (I need the scrapbook, comic book, and book of Bill,)

wish me luck

[quixilvers]

thesis statement

hey, i'm peebs/bee. this is my oc blog where i might also talk about personal writing projects. the jury's still out. i've sort of always wanted to archive all my oc posts in one place like a scrapbook but i don't have the pinterest-user's temperament, so tumblr it is. enjoy if you browse!

rough tag explanation under the cut -

i like emojis. i think they're cute and fun. sue me.

🍰 - my "slice of life" ocs. i dreamt up a lot of these characters in high school and they've done a lot of growing with me over the years, but i don't have any particular story for them. i just sort of shake them around in a jar every few months.

👑 - AFT, aka "abstract fantasy thing," the first attempt at a fantasy novel i ever made. i had a lot of grand plans about shady political plots and faked deaths and forest witch macguffins that never quite came together, but i was also 15, so.

💀 - "necromess" (can you tell that placeholder titles are killing me?), my high school necromancy novel. the rough outline is that a band geek with necromantic powers (largely unexplained, a la pushing daisies) accidentally hits the star lacrosse player with her car in the middle of the night and is forced to bring him back to life, but he doesn't come back quite right. to fix him she has to get to know him through the popular crowd he hung out with, and she might uncover a more sinister plot by the school's queen bees along the way.

🌲 - the coparenting emoji. all of these ocs actually belong to my best friend snail, but we've been writing together for over a decade now, so the line of who actually owns whom is in constant flux.

🔍 - mystery girls. this is a small-college murder mystery i started developing while attending a small college. go figure. when max's boyfriend justin turns up dead, she's forced to link up with justin's sister jessamine, justin's tutor yvette, and rylan, the last person to see justin alive, if she wants to figure out what happened to him. they all kind of hate each other in a homoerotic way.

✨ - "refraction," my magical girl group. this is another one that never got off the ground, but i wanted to try my hand at writing epic fights and conceptualizing fun and unique powers.

🔮 - "noire," my urban fantasy detectives. i'm talkin dingy smoky office with a frosted glass door. i'm talkin run-ins with the mob except the mob is comprised of gatormen. i'm talkin magical freelance autopsy. this is a vibes piece first and foremost.

⚔️ - QST, or "quest" if you're regular. high-fantasy prophecy story in which the chosen one must march toward his death knowingly, because he's just that selfless of a guy, while the wizard guiding him forth and the rogue tagging along to "make sure he doesn't fuck up" fall deeply in love with him. and each other.

🪦 - "spectral distancing," a short story i wrote during pandemic isolation. it follows cleo, a college kid with a summer job cleaning up graves, and the ghost of a dead woman who follows her home. having recently lost her older sister to a car accident, she handles this new visitor in an extremely well-adjusted way. her friends murphy and will exist in the background to support her and also so i can dream up increasingly indulgent ot3 scenarios with them.

🌙 - "a night in castle de lune," aka "whoops, all monsterfucking!" nell needs a magical cure for her brother's illness and sneaks into the creepy vampire castle on the outskirts of town to steal it from his hoard. a whole host of creatures stands between her and her goal—but she'd do anything to save her brother.

to reiterate, mostly i'll be archiving my main blog's oc posts and categorizing new ones here, but if the spirit moves me i might post writing excerpts too. thanks for reading if you made it this far 💚

[cheemscakecat]

This. I don’t hate Mabel, but I find her character hard to watch because she makes Dipper feel like he has to accommodate her needs, ignoring his own.

Given how quick she was to say “And I’m not gonna let you ruin it with one of your crazy conspiracies!” In episode one, I bet the parents do the same thing. All the time. Favoring Mabel and her crafts over Dipper and his theories.

Now he’s back in Piedmont and probably clinging to the idea of seeing Gravity Falls next summer, since that place actually feels like home. But if the parents found out about the events of last summer, Dipper may never get to see his uncles and his friends, like Wendy, Pacifica, Candy and Multi-bear.

Now that the Book of Bill has been revealed to appear to certain targets, with different content depending on the person, I honestly think Dipper is going to give into temptation to read it. Bill absolutely hates his guts, but he knows how useful Dipper would be if manipulated. He’s done it before.

Bill went mad because of knowledge his people didn’t understand or accept. Dipper already feels superior to “small minded” people who don’t believe in the supernatural. It’s written in code on the certificate in Dipper and Mabel’s guide to the unexplained. Bill could spin it as “Oh, we’re the same!”

I’m not sure how the book is going to pan out but I have a some potential ideas based on this scenario [its long]

Bill gets Dipper to do some sort of ritual now that they’re “friends”.

Mabel knows Dipper has the Book of Bill and tries to stop him reading it. If Dipper attempts 1, Mabel may show the book, her last summer scrapbook, or Dipper’s journals to the parents to get this stuff taken away. But he snaps at her for controlling him yet again, and falls deeper into madness.

Bill related to Mabel over escapism, and the Axolotl said he’s lying about being happy and misses home. Maybe the powers that be want Bill to interact with Dipper because he’ll actually bond with him. [Probably not].

Dipper runs away from home because he thinks his parents will never let him go back to Gravity Falls. [2] And because being “the smart twin” isn’t good enough, they favor Mabel for being the normal one. Causing Mabel to have to think about that.

Dipper runs away to Gravity Falls and tries to say goodbye to everyone he’ll never see until he’s grown and free. He also tries to bury his journals and/or the Book of Bill, depending on what his parents confiscated. He knows he’ll be tracked down, so he wants to see the town one last time.

Instead of running to Gravity Falls, Dipper goes to a local park and tries to do Bill’s ritual again. His family would have to save him from whatever he turns into as a result, or the version of Bill that emerges.

In either 5 or 6, Ford and Stan meet up with the parents and Mabel, revealing the truth about Ford and anomalies. This would tell the parents that they’ve been dismissing something real and driving their son away. Meeting Ford would show just how many secrets Dipper was stuck keeping, and how much he wanted to be in Gravity Falls.

In 5, the family manages to hunt down Dipper in Gravity Falls, with Ford and Stan’s help. His parents agree to let him keep the journals, but not the Book of Bill, and Dipper accepts these terms. Mabel apologizes for making him feel like he had to go along with what she wanted to do.

In 6, weirdness is unleashed on Piedmont, but there’s still time to contain it. Dipper is going to be doing one of three things; 1. Bill isn’t back yet, so he still needs to do another ritual to summon him into reality. 2. Dipper gets contained by Bill in something like Mabel-Bubble, and the family sees his true thoughts and feelings when they go to free him. 3. Bill takes control of Dipper’s body and the family has to stop their kiddo from getting destroyed in the process of Cipher’s second attempt at a physical form.

In 9.2, Stan sees how much teasing Dipper was hurting him and feels guilty; Ford realizes that Dipper did need an adult who went through a similar string of mistakes, to keep him away from Bill and other monsters who would prey on his curiosity. Even if it wasn’t the pair of them alone in Gravity Falls, Dipper needs someone who “gets it” to give him good advice and protect him. Mabel realizes that Dipper felt like he could never do his own thing, or she’d freak out again. And that he doesn’t have Piedmont friends like her; he has Gravity Falls friends.

Dipper and Mabel’s parents realize that favoritism drove Stan down his path of committing crimes and Ford to try to fix everything himself. And they’re causing the same problems by favoring Mabel and complimenting her interests, but not giving Dipper’s interests the time of day. I also think Mabel and the parents would see that Dipper goes by Mason in the bubble, and have the stunning thought that they haven’t called him that in years. They haven’t used his real name in years.

After the resolution of all three 9 scenarios, it’s decided that Dipper should be kept in Gravity Falls. To the people of Piedmont, it’s like magic house arrest and keeping him from ever wrecking their town again. But to the people of Gravity Falls and the family, it’s a way to justify letting people process weirdmaggedon and to help Dipper get the help and support he needs. The book of Bill would stop targeting Dipper, though the other copies still exist and are looking for other people to manipulate.

For the record, I don’t hate Dipper and Mabel’s parents, but I think they don’t see how much they favor their daughter. They probably feed into her co-dependence by rewarding her with more attention and supporting her interests. But they see her as the twin that hasn’t grown up, not the better twin.

Because Dipper is considered more mature and wants to be mature, they almost… forgot that he’s twelve/thirteen and still needs someone who cares about his dreams and interests. To them the supernatural is like a stumbling block on Dipper’s accelerated path to growing up, not an important part of his identity and his aspersions.

I also think they took one look at his matted hair and lack of hygiene, realized Stan didn’t enforce proper hygiene, and yelled at him over the phone. Which Dipper or Mabel overheard, leading the poor kid to think they would cut off access to Gravity Falls in a heartbeat.

Mabel couldn’t comb the mats out of his hair, and she knows pretty much everything about getting candy, gel, and other messes out of her own. It might actually have been bad enough that they had to shave him like a neglected cat.

For those who don’t binge pet grooming or Animal Cops, if the fur looks like a solid mat, like in the middle, it’s gotta be shaved off. The hair gets twisted and tightened enough to get heavy and leave bald patches. The groomer didn’t do a bad job shaving, those light spots are from the matting pulling the hair away.

Now, the police in Gravity Falls are pretty bad at their job, they wouldn’t press charges. But in California, in a prissy neighborhood like Piedmont, the parents could get in massive trouble for letting the hair get that bad, even if they weren’t the ones in charge over the summer.

I don’t think they want to cut ties with Stanley, or that they’ll be looking for a reason like Dipper would fear. They’re just genuinely appalled and angry that Stan didn’t make their son bathe, wear clean clothes, or come his hair. Mabel ate all that candy, but she keeps herself well groomed and clean, so I bet she brushed well enough that they didn’t notice.

Finding out that Stan was trying to find his twin would help ease some tension. An old man pushing 70 isn’t sleeping enough at night, and keeps falling asleep in his chair between tours. And the reason is because he’s trying to save Ford, who may or may not be dead or unreachable, and has been for the last 30 years.

That, and Stanley was dead and buried as far as any Pines knew. Him wanting to see his great niece and nephew despite everything, despite the mental health strain he was going through would be more sympathetic in their eyes. At least I think. It’s not like they’ve been established to be Filbrick 2 and 3, I hope I didn’t made them sound like they are.

Looking back the ending of Gravity Falls while thinking about endings of other series like Amphibia and The Ghost and Molly Mcgee, Weirdmageddon has a message that is underwhelming when it comes to Dipper and Mabel's relationship and Mabel's potrayal in the show.

This isn't about Mabel getting tricked by Bill. She is a 12-13 years old that in that context she was feeling really bad and not thinking well what she was doing. That isn't relevant to the topic at hand and honestly it isn't a problem she did that, it does makes sense in the episode it happened.

What i have an issue is how the narrative makes Dipper feel bad about considering staying studying with Stanford. This is something that Dipper was interested in and he was very fascinated by anything that was paranormal related. Stanford himself told Dipper he had a lot of potential and the kid was digging into it.

Mabel lashing out and not liking the idea of Dipper staying with Stanford is understandable in the episode Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future. She doesn't seem to have much friends back in her home and her parents are implied to not be the best. She gets scared of Dipper leaving, that's a reasonable fear for a kid to have.

However, as i mentioned before, Dipper is made feel bad about considering choosing something he wants to do. It isn't Mabel who has to learn that things change and sometimes this brings things we don't like. She doesn't exactly consider what Dipper wants for himself, she mainly cares about how ¨she is going to be alone¨ and making her brother feel selfish for choosing his own path or do something that could make him happy.

Yes, she learns that things can't stay the same forever and they are growing up, that itself is a pretty good development for her and overall a good message to teach.

Yet her being codependent on Dipper doesn't get brought up nor addressed, in fact the series seems to praise this behavior of hers. In how Dipper has to do what she wants if not he is a bad brother. Mabel's clinginess and controlling behaviour to an extent isn't called out, which that itself is a problem.

Small: I want to add an extra point here that Mabel does have a short scene near the end of the episode that she tells Dipper that she won't get in his way if he wants to stay with Stanford and she was ¨acting nuts¨ in the dream bubble. This is good for her but it does still feel in part that her issues weren't fully acknowledged and it doesn't help she didn't say until after Dipper told her that he was going to stay with her and not be with Stanford, which is rather questionable in my opinion.

In contrast in Amphibia, Marcy Wu has a similar arc about change. The series explores how she can take her escapism too far and how she can be very selfish in plenty of ways, something that is potrayed as an aspect she has to learn from and realize that it isn't healthy.

Her being too codependent on Anne and Sasha and their overall friendship is potrayed as toxic and the series explores this relationship a lot, having the girls grow over time and think about different aspects they have to work on.

In ¨True Colors¨ it is revealed that Marcy Wu learned about the Calamity Box the same day she got told by her parents that they were moving away. Very afraid of having to leave her friends behind and having to be alone in a new city, she found the Calamity Box and told Sasha and Anne about it. Worth of mentioning she didn't know if it would work but it was a desperate act of her just to not having to move away from her friends yet.

When Sasha and Anne find out about this they are, not surprisingly, very pissed and push from Marcy away for a moment, making Marcy realize her mistake and eventually apologizes for what she did.

In ¨All In¨ Marcy finally comes to terms with how she can't force Anne and Sasha to be the way she wants them to be and that her codependency on them isn't a good thing. She realizes that has to move away to her new home at some point, that things change but that doesn't mean the three of them have to stop being friends.

As you can see, there is a clear difference between how Mabel Pines and Marcy Wu’s characters and flaws are potrayed in the narrative. While Gravity Falls makes Mabel’s codependency and controlling behaviour to be something acceptable and that Dipper should conform to, Amphibia does the complete opposite and presents Marcy Wu’s actions as flaws she has and that can hurt other people, including her friends. She is the one that has to make a change and understand she has to work on herself if she wants to have new friends and keep these relationships as times moves on.

Since we are on topic, one thing that really bothered me is how Mabel created a version of Dipper that is ¨cool¨ and says yes and goes along with everything she wants to do. (Weirdmageddon Part 2)

This has… interesting implications of how Mabel believes that relationships should work, or at least with her brother twin Dipper. A lot has to do with how she and Dipper have very different personalities and she maybe wishes that he was more like her, but expecting someone else to say ¨yes¨ to everything you want is a toxic mentality to have. And the episode itself doesn’t address this enough, it doesn’t bring up to Mabel she can’t expect people to work like this and she should try thinking more about what others wants.

Lets talk about The Ghost and Molly Mcgee. In this series Molly Mcgee often has episodes where she has to learn certain lessons. One of them she learns over time is that often she has to give up control and let what others want to do instead.

A good example of this is ¨Ready, Set, Snow!¨ in which she is constanly trying to make Libby and Scratch to go and play outside in the snow with her without considering they would rather stay inside and sit near the fire for the moment. She spends most of the episode trying to find ways to make them go outside until she gets angry and goes out on her own. She has… quite of a mental breakdown in a sequence song. Scratch goes to check on her but he tells to her that she can’t do always what she wants and what it is important is for her to be spending time with her friends. Molly realizes she was wrong, goes back to the house and she apologizes for how she acted.

Molly has quite a lot of episodes like this, and all this becomes important in the series finale ¨The End¨ when she sees that Scratch has to go back to be Todd even if that means forgetting the memories he got as a ghost, her included. She tells Scratch that she is going to miss him a lot but she knows that forcing Scratch to stay wouldn’t be right. She encourages Scratch to go and ¨live his life¨ because she cares about Scratch being happy.

Similar to Marcy Wu, Molly learns that she can’t force people to do what she wants and she has to let them choose for themselves. She knows that encouraging Scratch to do what he always wanted to do as human is the right thing to do, even if it means saying goodbye to him.

I do understand the idea that Gravity Falls was doing at with something among the lines of ¨Dipper and Mabel not repeating the same mistakes that their uncles did¨ but that doesn’t mean Dipper has to give up his dreams at expense of what Mabel wants. As Dipper said in VS The Future episode: he can still visit and they can still talk to each other. They don’t have to fall apart the same way Standford and Stan did. Just like in Amphibia, if Marcy still was able to remain friends with Anne and Sasha over the years, the same can be applied to Dipper and Mabel as siblings.

If not, it could be rewritten in a way that makes Dipper reconsider that he would like to wait a few years before joining Stanford in his adventures. That he is still a kid and wants to spend a while longer figuring himself out and be with Mabel before making a decision. That way it feels more like a decision he wants to do for himself and goes along with his character arc that he doesn’t have to rush to grow up.

As for Mabel, she has a lot of growing up to do. She has to learn overtime that Dipper is his own person and he can take is own path. That if she wants to have friends or have in general healthy relationships with others, she can’t make it always about herself and people have their own needs as well. She would have to work on her codependency and clinginess she has on others, specially her own brother. This would help her with being a more mature capable individual when she grows up.

This post on itself isn’t me hating on Mabel’s character since she has moments she can be good and i feel a lot of her behaviour comes from not being taught properly and being a teenager. The problem is that the series doesn’t address this behaviour enough and, as result, it comes off as the series giving an unintentional underwhelming message of potraying Mabel’s issues as something that should be acceptable and not her having a dynamic with Dipper that comes off as toxic. It is important to understand to learn to support others and not always make things about ourselves. That sometimes relationships change and we can’t force people to be in a specific way.