Fiddleford :) (the Last One’s Staying As A Sketch Cause I Don’t Like It Very Much.)

Okay, so Stan’s toffee peanuts, right?

The candy that’s now associated with a majorly traumatic event. Do we think Stan despises them now? Because if I were to have a candy associated with a traumatic event I would never go anywhere near that candy ever again. Do we think that he has like a physical reaction or something when he sees them? Imagine Mabel or Soos or someone brings that specific candy home and he freaks out (obviously he wouldn’t really freak out freak out, but yk what I mean).

Do we think Ford associates Stan with the smell of toffee peanuts? I mean, that was like the last thing he smelled before Stan was kicked out.

Just an interesting thought or something, idk. I’m half asleep so apologies if this doesn’t make sense.

HAPPY TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY!!

REMEMBER TO STAY PROUD, LOUD, AND UNIQUELY YOU!!!! YOU ARE ALL BEAUTIFUL AND LOVED NO MATTER WHAT!!!!

you guys made luigi mangione trend for days and I need to see the same energy for brianna boston. she is a 43 year old mother of three who ended a phone call with blue cross blue shield (after being denied a claim) “delay deny depose, you people are next” and is now being held under a 100,000$ bond and could face FIFTEEN years of prison if charged. she has no weapons, her record is clean, and yet she is being held behind bars. they are afraid of the public and are trying to subdue. do not let them!!!! be outraged that our freedom of speech is being threatened!!!!! deny defend depose! free brianna boston!

Hate it when people make fun of fanfiction.

Like, do you not partake in your particular interests through talking and other forms of media? I’m doing the same fucking thing except I’m writing. This thing that I do brings me joy in a world with so little and you have the gall to call me weird? Bug off and grow up.

Pretty photos I took :)

This miiiiight be a stretch, but. Hear me out.

In the Gravity Falls episode, Headhunters, when Grunkle Stan hosts a funeral for his wax figure, he’s mourning his brother, whom he didn’t think he would get back from the portal, but he’ll be damned if he stops trying. But he’s also mourning himself, and who he used to be. Think about it, he had to fake his own death and pretend to be Ford, only his mother, ‘Ford’(himself), and an FBI agent came to his funeral. No one else cared enough to come. So now, he has people who actually care about him. Hell, Mabel and Dipper went to avenge his wax figure, and he was so happy that they cared enough to do that. He actually has people who care about him, so he wants to see if they’d come to his funeral. He’s mourning his brother, but also who he used to be, and he has people to mourn with him now. He has a family.

Idk if any of that came out correctly, but y’all know what I’m getting at.

TOTS episode but what if Stan had the truth telling teeth. Like Mabel had put them on during that episode instead of the bottomless pit one. How much do you think thins would have changed ?

Honestly the most revolutionary thing about Gravity Falls to me is its commitment to sincerity.

I’ve been listening to Alex’s podcast where he goes into the details of each episode with different storyboard artists and writers who worked on the show, and it just baffles me how… cared for the story is. Right now in media there’s been an uptick in satire, and shows making fun of themselves for existing, or taking the piss at their own content to “win” fans to their side. It’s like whimsy is gone from so many pieces of media. But Gravity Falls just doesn’t… do that. It completely embraces itself. Weirdness and all. And so does the team behind it. I’m not used to something I care about being so cared about by everyone surrounding it.

Here’s this cartoon, written and illustrated by an entire team of people saying, “no, we’re serious. we mean this. we made this on purpose and we made it important.”

Throughout the podcast, Alex discusses little ins and outs of each character, offering so much deep internal struggles and enriching the story even farther. And listening to him unpack it with the utmost sincerity just warms my heart. Each character is so dynamic because they were cared for by people who imbued them with sincerity.

That’s exactly why we get quotes like “Shame is powerful, but it grows in the dark,” as Ford realizes the trauma he’s hidden for so long is being embraced by his family, diminishing it’s weight on him through their immediate support.

It’s why we get Alex describing Stanley with quotes like; “I always in my gut thought of him as somebody with a huge well of sadness, a loss of human connection. And that need to please? That need to get laughs from the crowd, and putting on a big show? He’s trying to get from them the affection he never got from his family, and that he lost with his brother.”

Or detailing how Mabel might be a goof… but half the time she’s doing a bit, because she’s really more mature than her brother and doesn’t want him to grow up too fast. She’s trying to help ground him and bring lightheartedness into his life. Because she knows otherwise, he’ll become too self isolated.

And those two mini character studies he dropped so casually in these podcast episodes just… color the show. It’s why the show survived so well even after ten years. It’s gruff-old Stan always calling his niece “Pumpkin” and “Honey”. It’s the family always holding hands without it behind laced with a joke, and falling asleep on one another in the car. It’s Alex explaining that people toyed with other endings, other plot lines, other twists, but it was always going to end with Stan and Ford mending the family tie they severed thirty years ago. Because that was their story. Messes and family and care.

Ten years ago, watching it for the first time as it came out, I felt all that. But now, as an adult, knowing that all the other adults who made it felt the exact same way? :,) What a special story we all got to grow up with, and get to continue being apart of.

Photos from my adventures :D

The tight writing in Gravity Falls just gets crazier and crazier because Alex Hirsch in the director’s commentary of Dipper & Mabel vs. the Future (11:25) says:

“Ford sees Dipper as someone who’s special like himself. That’s Ford’s great flaw, is arrogance. Is he believes that there’s special people, and everyone else. That human attachments are actually weaknesses. And the song and dance that he’s giving Dipper right now, is the song and dance that he gave McGucket, back when they were younger… ‘You and me are different, we’re better than everyone else. We have a path that no one else can understand, and only us can do this.’ It’s a very seductive idea for Dipper… Dipper is a smart kid, but Ford’s projecting. Ford loves Dipper because he sees someone who’ll tell him ‘yes’ to everything. Who’ll never challenge him, who’ll do a really insane dangerous mission.”

I CAN’T BE THE ONLY ONE WHO’S SEEING THE BILL -> FORD -> DIPPER PIPELINE HERE. YOU CAN JUST REPLACE THE NAMES IN THE ABOVE QUOTE. I’M GOING INSANE.

Gravity Falls and the cycle of “Hey, person who feels outcast from your society like me, you’re special, fuck human connection, join me and be something great!”