#the gravity archives au

[ifwebefriends]

Okay so like what if Gravity Falls was like The Magnus Archives and instead of journals Ford took tape recorded statements from townsfolk about the strange shit in GF and he’d get into trouble with local creatures and it slowly made him more paranoid and antsy hey hey look at me and like Bill Cipher was there and let Ford borrow some of his power to use and Fiddleford would be his assistant can you hear me and they would work together on shit but when Ford leaned more on Bill and his powers he would start to erase some of his memories and get in with some other powerful being or beings and Ford had to go save him and hello can anyone hear me

[captain--space--buns]

It's been years since I've actually posted something on Tumblr, but a recent fanfic has given me a burst of inspiration :

Earth Becomes Sky in the Most Literal Fashion by IdiosyncraticProjection on Ao3 (this has my full recommendation, it's genuinely so good!)

Spoilers for GF and TMA, as well as Earth Becomes Sky

CWs : Clusters of eyes, Eyes where Eyes shouldn't be, small clusters of pockmarks, knives, stabbing, (uncolored) blood. Let me know if I should add anymore. ^-^

I present very rough sketches of Jon and Martin in the Gravity Falls Art style (feat. Soos, Abuelita, Ford, and Delicious Huevos Rancheros)

I haven't, like, *perfected* their designs, and they're def not 100% the GF artstyle, but I like how these have turned out so far! Also, I'm very unsure if the Spanish part for Abuelita is actually right, so apologies to any Spanish speaking peeps if it is grammatically weird or just completely incorrect! It's also my first time doing ALT text, so feedback for that is more then welcome as well!

Take care! Drink water 💛

[matcha-milkies]

CONTENT WARNING: Body Horror, Toxic & Abusive Billford

MY "MARRIED LIFE" FIC HAS A FAN ANIMATION NOW?!!!!

PLEASE GO WATCH IT IT'S SO SO SO SO GOOD

(fic link below the cut)

Also: The Tumblr-Posted Version That I Still Need to Update

[worm-emporium]

behold my magnum opus, a gravity falls/tma crossover au called the cipher archives!!!!

in which the entire plot of tma remains the same, but i just replace the characters with ones from gravity falls. i’ve only done the archives crew so far, but im working on the others.

edit: theres now a follow up post to this here :]

[lowlylux]

I HAVE BEEN GIVEN PERMISSION YALL SO EXPECT A ANGSTY BILLFORD FIC BASED ON THIS TIMELINE/AU BY THIS WONDERFUL CREATOR COMING SOON

[luxury-nightmare]

Tma Gravity Falls crossover Au where Mabel befriends all the avatars out of pure stubbornness

she knits little sweaters for all of Jane’s worms

dipper is losing his mind over the archive

Micheal calls Robbie “budget Gerry”

[citricacidprince]

A couple years ago (I think?) I assigned some Gravity Falls characters to TMA fears entities for funsies and doodled them out and since it’s been so long none of them look very good anymore lol

But I was in a bit of a art rut for a second and decided to come back to that concept to force myself to actually draw something

So, here’s my baby boy Dipper with a Web/Eye alignment lol

[the-mystical-aquatic-gay]

wow these spot the difference games are getting harder and harder

i didn’t draw the picture of jon it was by wellotwig on twitter

[minijenn]

Story Summary: What would happen if the Crystal Gems had settled down in a place other than Beach City, a little backwoods town just west of weird…? What if, upon coming to Gravity Falls for the summer, Dipper and Mabel were to befriend Steven and Connie? What kind of magical, mysterious adventures would they have? And, how would they fare against the combined threats of merciless Homeworld Gems and a certain triangular demon?

Find out what happens when Magic and Mystery meet in Universe Falls...

Chapter Summary: The Crystal Gems happen upon a tiny little town just west of weird… Oregon, 1843 Somewhere in the stars, there was a place they once called home.  None of them had seen it in centuries–one of them had never even seen it at all. None of them had any desire to see it either. Why would they want to when they want to, when everything they had fought so hard to save was right here on Earth?  No, as far as the Crystal Gems were concerned, they were exactly where they needed to be. For thousands of years, they’d wandered this strange, yet special planet together. They’d worked tirelessly to protect the humans who inhabited it from the echoes of the danger they first brought here. And though there were only four where there used to be many, they’d still stuck together through it all.  Even now as they headed into the unknown all over again. Click the link to read more; all comments are appreciated!

[crispyliza]

In most of the fandoms I've been in there's always a specific AU that's really popular in both fanfiction and fanart and I've been wondering what that AU is for other fandoms.

For example, in the Hazbin Hotel fandom we have the "Overlord Husk wins Angel's soul contract from Valentino", for the Witcher fandom we have the "Geralt becomes a warlord and Jaskier is sent to him by Redania as trubute" and for the FNAF fandom we have the "Michael Afton travels back to the past to stop his father" etc.

So what's the equivalet in your fandom?

[spirited-splashes]

Gideon Gleeful as an avatar of the Web! 🕸️

Credits to one of @/abyssalzones old TMA x GF Art for inspiring this!

Gideon FEELS like he should be an avatar of the Lonely because of his hair but he is, at the end of the day: an avatar of the Web since he’s a manipulative demonic child. (I now know how to draw webs—)

List for assigned avatars for some gravity falls characters below

Gideon Gleeful: avatar of the Web

Stanley Pines: avatar of the Stranger or the Web

Dipper Pines: avatar of the Eye

Stanford Pines: avatar of the Eye or the Spiral

Mabel Pines: avatar of the Lonely

Fiddleford McGucket: avatar of the spiral

Wendy Corduroy: avatar of the Hunt

Soos Ramirez: avatar of the Vast (seriously, is anyone gonna talk about the time in Little Dipper where he fell off Gideon’s back when he shrunk down and somehow survived??? I know there was a soft landing but it’s still like, the equivalent of 80 miles off the ground—)

The Northwest’s are definitely this universe’s equivalent of the Fairchilds.

Bill Cipher is definitely a spiral entity even if he feels like an Eye entity.

(P.s if you have no idea what I’m talking about: this is a The Magnus Archives (TMA) X Gravity Falls Crossover! TMA is a Horror podcast and it’s really good so I recommend listening to it!)

[lorebird]

I’m sure this has been done 2748294 times before but. Gravity falls magnus archives au!!!

Ford’s investigations lead him to run-ins with avatars and manifestations of the fears, gradually marking him with each and every one. He became an unwitting Archivist (and I imagine he became a local cryptid who accidentally compelled statements out of the townsfolk on occasion). The portal was something akin to hilltop road, but idk what exactly happens with that yet

When dipper finds journal 3 and starts investigating the town, he starts interacting with the fears as well — and he’s already been marked by the Vast. Accidental Archivist number 2 baby!!! Also Mabel is 1000% plagued by the lonely. It fits TOO well. No one is doing good

[astrumtrain]

Vigilo. Opperior. Audio.

Gravity Falls x Magnus Archives AU

in this world exist Entities beyond our understanding. the small town of Gravity Falls is full to the brim of influence of these Entities.

one sunny summer day young twin Pines were sent there to their great uncle Stan

and they will never return the same

[matcha-milkies]

I've been sitting here watching everyone else's AU Fords and wanting to contribute my own, not quite knowing what to do, and then I realized I had already been writing one for months now? So, for the fun of it, I drew him. I would like to formally introduce Married Life Ford. He hates it here.

Might mess around and design his groom attire at a later date.

I also figure this is a way for me to disclose tidbits here and there that I haven't yet had the opportunity to work into the main story on AO3. Please mind the tags, as the fic is very dark and will only get darker.

Disclaimer: I write abuse-focused stories and black comedy as a way of processing the emotional abuse and toxic relationships that I have experienced in my own life. It's okay if it makes you uncomfortable, but please respect my right to work through my own issues however I please. Anyone who finds this kind of content upsetting can block me. I have zero interest in debating this with anyone.

[worm-emporium]

*staring at the tma and gravity falls characters*

well no one’s gonna like what i’m about to do

[trans-jon-rights]

Hm. New Idea. I'm putting this one out there because the Discord buddies said it was good.

Gravity Falls and TMA crossover, but Jon and Martin arrive at different times.

Martin arrives a few years before Jon. He meets Ford, becoming buddies with him. He distrusts Bill a lot, being sometimes reminded of Jonah before he revealed what he was. But Ford is a grown ass adult, and Bill doesn't try to bother him much, so he lets him be.

Jon arrives the day Ford fell into the portal. He tumbles from that exact same portal right before shit hits the fans, and both Martin and Ford end up lost.

He has almost no Eye powers, no knowledge of this strange new place he ended up into, and has to work with Stan to repair the portal and get both Ford and Martin back.

Talk about a Situation to end into.

(I need Martin to become a ruthless killer with Ford and Jon to have to make scams with Stan even though he hates it)

The timeline stays about the same. It takes thirty years for Jon and Stan's combined efforts to bring the other two back. In the meantime, neither Jon nor Martin are ageing due to the Entities still being present.

Just imagine.

The anxiety of Stan seeing himself age during those thirty, long years, unsure if he will manage to bring his brother back or not. Making Jon promise to do it for him if he couldn't go on because, despite himself, he'd learned to appreciate and trust this odd, prickly British guy.

Jon never certain if, when Martin will come back, he will be the same, or if he would have aged like every other person around him, being robbed of this opportunity to grow old together. Martin had never been an Avatar, right ? Jon didn't grow old because he was already dead, in a sense, but what about Martin ?

(Crossing between dimensions was a good metaphor for death and an excuse for Martin's Becoming, but Jon doesn't know that :3)

When twins arrive in Gravity Falls, Jon works at the shop (Stan used his "weird British narrator voice" to make him a tourist guide. For some reason, tourists like his voice).

Also this AU works well with my general idea of Jmart, both of them clinging to that ideal of the other and of what their relationship would be in a non apocalyptic context, making them confront the reality of things when they are reunited again.

Had it truly been their love for each other that had pushed them to work towards being reunited, or had it been the idea that once it would be over, being together would automatically mean they would be guaranteed happiness ?

Also, maybe give them each a period of time during which they were really happy and almost forgot their guilt for the other, and maybe give them some rough time when they're back together. Then, they look back at that and rethink their relationship and their quest, wondering if it really was worth it.

Happy ending for both is expected, of course, just lots of talking things through before. Making them healthy.

And as a bonus, I'm giving them a "Tim" and "Sasha". Not in the sense that they are actual alternate version of Tim or Sasha, in the sense that they are different characters who behave very similarly to Tim and Sasha. Sometimes, they mix up their names, and their face have the biggest grief for some reason.

Bonus point if "Tim" dies in an explosion caused by Martin and Ford and if "Sasha" dies to a shapeshifter. And after that, Jon just guiltily thinks, "At least it didn't take her face this time".