#whyyyyyyy????

[permanentlyexhaustedpigeon88]

We're not talking about how many times I've watched ep. 5 of RoP, specifically to see...that scene.

We're just...not.

I am...unhinged.

[nyxocity]

Long time x-men comic reader, massive Claremont era fan. Haven't been watching x-men 97. My friend who has not been able to stop telling me to watch x-men 97 called me up out of the blue tonight and again proceeded to not shut up until I finally agreed to watch all 5 episodes tonight.

The fact that he CALLED me should have been a tip off. But I really feel like he should have prepared me better for that last fucking episode. That motherfucker (affectionate) knows how much I love the x-men, Gambit/Rogue and Remy in particular. And now he's fast asleep and here I am at midnight thirty screaming into the void when I have to get up for work tomorrow. Sleep? Hah. Not happening any time soon.

That was epic. And devastating. And I will be stuck in holy shit mode for hours.

I really just have one thing to say, I guess. And that is

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK???

[sea-l1ttle-sea]

EURYLOCHUS NOOOOOO!!!! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SANE ONE! THE ONE MAKING SURE ODYSSEUS DOESN'T DO SOMETHING DUMB AND YOU KILLED(MAYBE HURT IDK) THE IMMORTAL COW FRIENDS!!! WHYYYYYY!!! YOU WERE MY FAVORITE!!!

[thisghosts-obsessions-again]

RJ NOOOOOO!!!! 😭

[woof-verine]

ryan reynolds said I am going to create a movie so gay it will blow up the internet and then when point blank asked in an interview if it’s a rom com say that it’s a “friend com” AUGHEBDHEKAMK

[codacheetah]

There's so much yaoi between Jesse Pinkman and Walter White

[jupiterslifelessmoons]

[restinsodaroni]

I could have sworn I posted this on here 🤔 I guess I didn't lol.

Anyway, this was a drawing from my laptop, I'm still trying to get used to using it again haha (⁠*⁠˘⁠︶⁠˘⁠*⁠)⁠.⁠｡⁠*⁠♡

[legobiwan]

We need to talk about this. And I'm going to start right off with a contentious claim:

Ford was willing to gamble the fate of his entire dimension to feed his ego and insecurities and Bill had him pegged from Square One.

This sounds like a harsh statement. It kind of is. When we first meet Ford in the show, all we end up learning from him is that restarting the Portal was dangerous and could (and did) create a rift that would open the door for Bill and his gang to end the world. And Ford pins this entirely on Stanley, excoriating him for not listening to his warnings in the journals and doing whatever he wanted, like a set of monkeys flinging shit at walls until he happened to get it correct.

Ford is a highly unreliable narrator. After all, as Stan rightfully said, who built the portal in the first place?

But we need to go deeper.

In Journal 3, Ford speaks to the necessity of hiding his journals, which he - to be quite honest - does a crappy job of. Why keep two out of the three journals in Gravity Falls, a mere hair's breath from the actual Portal, which for some mysterious reason, Ford has declined to - you know - actually destroy? Why bury the Journals near an elementary school with children - children who tend to be curious creatures and can and will find a way to discover what they shouldn't? Why call on your estranged brother who you claim to despise as an absolute last resort? Ford's narrative, if you really start to analyze it, makes zero sense. And it makes zero sense because it's an edifice, a personal mythology meant to be a bulwark against the horrible truth of Ford's motivations.

"I've stared at the fire, journals in hand, for hours. I just can't do it. The knowledge in here could be a gift to mankind, the portal's potential limitless. Am I really going to destroy it all just out of spite? No, I won't give HIM the satisfaction. Instead of destroying my work, I'll find a way to DESTROY BILL INSTEAD. If Cipher has a weakness, I'll find it. I'll outsmart the devil yet! He may be a god, but I am a scientist."

Ford could have ended this thirty years ago if his ego hadn't gotten in the way. All he had to do was burn the journals and destroy the portal, just like every other human Bill tried to con over the years. How much did Ford actually care about the end of the world as much as he cared about Bill's betrayal and losing his earth-shattering (quite literally) research?

He didn't. And given this, is it a surprise that Bill, when he finally was able to breach dimensions and start Weirdmaggedon, still placed bets that Ford would join him in the end? The man who said, "Fuck the universe, I need everyone to know I was right."

This isn't about the possible apocalypse. Ford doesn't make one, single mention of that here, doesn't seem to give one fuck if the world burns, as long as he can prove himself to be better than Bill and better than everyone who doubted him for all his life.

And this is why, I am certain, that when Bill perused Ford's possible futures, a large majority ended up with Ford turning to the dark side, as it were.

There's a reason Ford pulled these journal pages. They don't fit his self-constructed narrative of the heroic martyr who wants to save the world. Ford edits his own story again and again, pushing everyone away so they won't see just how insecure and absolutely desperate for validation he is.

Sound like someone we know? Maybe a yellow triangle who literally outlines the steps to denial in his teenage angst journal?

Bill, in essence, promised Ford the universe. Yes, literally, but also the universe in terms of what Ford always wanted - recognition and revenge. Ford, by not destroying the Portal or his journals, didn't 100% reject this proposal, even if that equivocation was subconscious. It's why - I think - Bill feels Ford's just put him "on read" after he fell through the Portal (according to Alex Hirsch).

Ford's going to have to come to terms with this. Maybe he did during his time in the Portal. We have no idea how much Ford did or didn't mellow while being stuck on the other side of the universe, although we do know a) he still holds a massive grudge against his brother and b) Bill is still able to play him like a lyre when he asks about the equation to pop the bubble around Gravity Falls. (And I do not for one second believe that Ford was trying to buy time when he admits that "Of course, a simple equation could collapse the barrier," when Bill questions him about it. Ford needs to prove that he knows the answer, that he figured it out, that he's a scientist and outsmarted a god. Again, if the kids and Stan hadn't come to Ford's rescue, it's very hard to say where Ford would have landed in the end).

The thing is, there's a part of Ford that realizes he's being an ass, that he needs someone. We see this with Bill, obviously, with Fiddleford in the ways Ford runs so incredibly hot and cold with the man (I need you, no I don't need you) - with Stan, who is a last resort but the only person Ford trusts enough to summon to Oregon. Because Ford didn't need Stan to destroy the journals or the portal - but he needed someone, maybe he needed a dollar-store Bill in his life, maybe he just needed someone to reach out like that. Ford fucks it up, wildly, as he can't let his ego go and allow Stan (who is being extremely practical, if bitter) to burn the journals like Ford should have weeks previous.

And well, we all know how that turned out.

What I'm curious about - and what I think needs to be covered more in fandom - is how Ford deals with all of this post-Weirdmaggedon. He's obviously in contrition mode at this point, swinging wildly to this penitent, self-abusing figure who will claim fault for the tiniest infraction.

That's not going to last him long. The type of change and self-reflection Ford needs is not going to come overnight. At some point, his uglier tendencies are going to rear their head on the Stan O'War and Stan is going to have to weather the blowback (or just throw his brother overboard). One might say Ford himself needs a little time the Theraprism, as he nearly consigned his own reality to damnation just like Bill did.

I love Ford. I adore Ford. He is so, so, so complicated. But ohhh boi, Fordsy, do you have issues with a Capital "I".

[torsena123]

ROUGH DOODLE BUT:

M : Before you go, how about one last hurrah?

S : I'm pretty sure my family back home can serve us a feast for a hero like you! Ceroba can handle the guests, right?

C : Yeah, it's just... I can't believe this is happening. (if only it happened sooner...)

thoughts:

i understand that clover had to die but WHY IMMEDIATELY 😭😭😭

GIVE US SOME MORE TIME. THEY HAVE TO BE TOGETHER FOR MORE TIMEEEEE!!!!!!!

CLOVER AND THEIR BUCKET LIST. EVERYTHING THEY WANT TO DO. PLEASE LET THEM AND EVERYONE HELP FULFILL CLOVERS BUCKET LIST AAAAAAAAAAAA

[nikaii-koi]

I CAN'T GET THE FURRY 😭😭😭

[samuraia99le]

I miss him 🩵😞

[thursdayinspace]

I think when they get married, it's going to be just like this. Private. They will get their piece of paper, say the official vows -- maybe they will even dress up for it. There won't be many people there, if any. It's a formality, the official part. It's a nice formality, there may be a happy tear or two, a gentle kiss; it's a special day, after all.

But the real wedding, that is just them. At home. Nobody else present. They know their own vows, they have all the words in their heads, in their hearts. They go home, change back into their casual clothes and go for a walk. Enjoying the peace and quiet, the comfort of each other's company. And in a patch of sunlight, they'll stop, take each other's hands, look at each other the way they have from the very beginning, and speak their love to each other. For their ears only.

Ever since they met, they have been a unit of two. Even before they were a couple, they'd stand close together to talk, using their bodies to block out the outside world, creating a private universe contained only in the space between them. What they have to say to each other isn't meant for anyone else.

They don't need to shout their love out into the world, they don't need to promise undying loyalty and devotion where other people can hear. What they share is so intensely private, and it always has been.

It's the two of them, hands joined, looking into each other's eyes, and that is all there is. That is all they need. That is all they want. Each other. Nothing else.

[lazy-b1rdy]

irl drawing dump :3

(Got a new mini sketchbook bc i wasn't feeling happy about my last one)

[ankle-beez]

SHOWS UP OUTTA NOWHERE AND INVITES ASA FOR A DRINK

TELLS HER HE SHARES THE SAME VIEWPOINTS ON CONNECTIONS AS HER

TELLS HER TO STAY AWAY FROM DENJI

DOESN'T ELABORATE

LEAVES

[helphowdoiusethis]

You'd think finding out where the fuck Tadfield is in good omens in reference to the South Downs would be easy.

BUT WHERE THE FUCK IS OXFORDSHIRE !?