#wax stan

[sixfingerdiscount]

Wax Stan(cest) thoughts

Stan getting spooked when he saw the wax statue because it reminded him of a certain someone.

Stan watching TV with the wax statue and holding it close, as close as a man can be with his reflection.

Stan asking if the statue wants anything from the kitchen.

Stan presenting the statue in a grand award show. (In another life it would have been Ford up there winning a Nobel Prize)

Stan would have taken the statue fishing if he could.

Stan holding a funeral for the wax statue like he always wanted to do for Ford. (There were more people at Wax Stan's funeral than Stanley Pines')

Stan kissing the wax statue when he thinks the twins aren't looking.

The twins seeing him but they're like, "we saw a dude kiss a cardboard cutout today so this is normal now."

The twins seeing Ford and finally connecting the dots.

BONUS: Wax Stan coming to life during the waxing moon like the other statues and fighting with Stan for Ford's attention<3

[arttsuka]

Redraw this but with Wax Stan and Ford

I tried

[keykidpilipili]

Hey

Hey

Wax Stan had more people at his funeral than Stanley did at his own faked funeral.

[kathartic-kat]

Just realised this morning that Stan's obsession with wax stan wasn't just him being egotistical or weird (which he is granted). It's because that was the closest experience to being with his twin brother he had in decades and he took that opportunity to imagine what it would be like if they had been able to hang out together as adults. I'm crying in the bathroom trying to brush my teeth on god.

[phoeeling]

don’t take this as me being ungrateful for Internet Attention, but…

TikTok has no option to turn off “this [comment] got liked” notifications and I have grown tired from getting likes on this comment bc TikTok will tell me I have notifications and I’ll get all excited like “oooh, maybe some liked one of my edits” but no. it’s the comment from months ago.

So, my only solution is either:

Get notifications on this comment forever

Delete the comment and post the screenshots on Tumblr

I chose the latter.

[pink-rea]

Wax Stan Au

Ok so this prompt’s actually taken from one of my other tumblr accounts, but I thought I’d go more into detail and come up with a bit more for it, since it really is a cool idea. Its basis leans on the fact that because wax stan was made from the cursed wax Abraham Lincoln's wax, he should have come to life as Stanley Pines the same time the other wax figures did. (And yes, his suit does sparkle.)

There are a few headcanons that make this Au shine, one being the one about the cursed wax itself. In this Au, the cursed wax, when sculpted into the likeness of a certain person, takes on the memories and personality of that person. It’s a 50/50 chance whether they’ll remember they’re a wax figure or think they're the real deal, though. I also think that “when the moon is waxing” (i.e what wax Sherlock Holmes told Dipper near the end of the episode) was more just a literary device in Headhunters than a useful span of time. So for the purposes of this Au I think every night fits better. Which is good for Wax Stan, at least. I’m also picturing wax stan and the other wax figures as alive-ish (relative to the cartoon) as the rest of the GF cast during the night. By that I mean their clothes become actual articles of clothing, wax becomes skin-like though with a faint waxy texture, fake hair turns real. They're basically more durable humans, until the fire comes out. But, they also can't eat for enjoyment (no stomachs), feel temperature unless its hot (and so painful), but also feel no pain from non-heat related damage to their person.

Plot nuggets:

→ Stan Pines Dead

Stan Pines is beset upon by a hoard of wax figures, forced to take the fight outside under the waxing moon. He's killed in the struggle, leaving wax Stan to enact vengeance and pick up the pieces. Now he lives an imposter, wax Stanley Pines pretending to be alive, pretending to be Stanford Pines. He knows the kids would understand, but he can't stand the thought of the looks on their faces knowing their grunkle was dead with the knowledge he was the one that put it there. Plus, someone has to stick around and fix their mistakes. If it can't be the original finishing the job, then like hell was Stan throwing in the towel.

→ Wax stan can shapeshift through purposely melting and reforming. Animals only, and only for short periods of time, lest his wax forget its former shape, former identity.

→ Wax Stan is trapped motionless in his coffin by curse magic while his grand niece and grand nephew fight for their lives. In order to save them he makes a deal with a certain triangle that he’ll soon regret.

→ Stan & Lee Au

Two Stans. One Stan. One Lee. One very confused Ford.

[squishiyangire]

Personal headcanon: stanford pines is ftm trans, was this inspired by that comic i just reblogged.... Perhaps, but think about it, irl you can only have male and female twins if they're not identical, but look at mabel and dipper, they're pretty damn identical..... So, im choosing to believe that this one family, the pines family, had not one instance of male female identical twins, but two instances of this, and although i love mtf mabel, just the coincidence is just too bonkers for me not to jump on the bandwagon of,( or, alternatively, stanley is ftm, would make sense with how macho he tries to play back in his younger years, and it puts the wax stan into a whole new perspective)

[sunnywalnut]

How is it this cluster of memes that makes me realize that the "wax Stan" episode was literally just Stan pretending that the wax figure was his brother the entire time

No wonder he was distraught when he found dude decapitated.

He turned away and lost his brother all over again.

Oh god theres more

[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

[nenoname]

"i love stan being happy" i say as i save pics of all the devastating moments of his life to my phone constantly

[thewolffairytaler]

The Wolf Fairytaler: Now, where have I seen this before, I swear, I have seen something similar like this...

The Wolf Fairytaler: Oh yeah, it's with these two psychos. And now that I think about it, they have a lot of things in common.

[amaltheas-garden]

people still shocked that in the year of our lord 2024 some of us don't want to see Dany get her 'happy ending' by becoming the white savior who was promised

[sunburstsandmoonshadows]

ok so i was thinking of making handcrafted stan a statue if im including him in the curse/spell/dimension screw-up/WHATEVER and naturally my first thought was a stone statue

but what if

wax stan, but for real this time?

i can't tell if that's very funny or very stupid

[aihoshiino]

i'm saying this again but if you're an akane fan talking about oshi no ko and the crux of your analysis revolves around shitting on kana then maybe you aren't actually as big of an akane fan as you like to think lol

[misteria247]

Let it never be forgotten. That wax figures were fully willing to behead Gruncle Stan. Like if Dipper and Mabel didn't figure out what was going on, they probably would have attempted to do it again and the twins would no longer have an uncle.

[freshydip]

i know the "despite everything, it's still you" line from UT goes so so hard and can be applicable to so many characters but god do i go utterly insane when it's applied to my man stanley pines

like. you never felt like enough. always living in the shadow of your brother. you had your own identity but it was never good enough compared to his, so much so that a mistake that affected his future got you forced from your home and everything you knew. and when you finally come back to him, in less than twenty minutes he's gone again, and you have to be him now. you have to, to bring him back. two people come to your funeral when you "kill" yourself, a testament to all the people you were able to form meaningful and long term connections to as yourself. you live under his name for months, then years, then decades, and before you know it you've been under his name for just about as long as you've lived under your own.

when you look in the mirror, sometimes you have to remind yourself. despite everything, it's still you.