#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

[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

[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 💛

[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 :]

[yourfaveisanavatar]

I was gonna say "stanford pines is an avatar of the eye and marked by every entity!" and then realized that, while very true, that also makes him qualified to be The Archivist so.... screw it.

Stanford Pines from Gravity Falls is The Archivist!

stanford pines from gravity falls is the archivist!

[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?

[thatraccoonthing]

YALL I JUST FINISHED THE FIRST CHAPTER OF A FIC ON AO3 GO CHECK IT OUT IF YOU WANNA IT'S COOL

THE COOL FIC

[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.

[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!)

[worm-emporium]

*staring at the tma and gravity falls characters*

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

[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