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the trolley problem vs. systemic oppression: a comic.

do u ever send smth in a chat thats not even risqué like “i luv salsa” but no one responds so u start overthinking it like…. maybe one of their parents died making salsa…… maybe they were all just talking abt how they hate salsa……. maybe salsa isnt evn real and they have no idea what im talking abt

Day 21 (page 25d) (goth phase ver. under the cut)

may I add that he lost in the semifinals to none other than STANLEY PINES

the book of bill is great

help help help

Free Spirits

My favourite harmless prank I've heard of was done by this girl whose dad was a geologist, and they'd go on day hikes with his geologist friends/co-workers and when she got bored on them she'd habitually pick up a random rock and go ask him what it is, and one of them would explain what kind of a rock that is, how it probably got here, and usually some notions of the more unusual features the rock had, if any.

And she had a friend who had once gone on a tourist trip to Iceland and brought back a volcanic rock. So she borrowed the rock and took it with her on the hike, and after two randomly picked up "hey dad what rock is this", she presented the volcanic rock, in the same fashion as all the others.

3 minutes later there are five middle-aged and older men circled around this mysterious rock, all agreeing on what it is, but not why it is. They keep asking her questions, where did she find it? Were there any other rocks around there that looked like it? Was it like this on the ground? People walking past the group try to stretch their necks to see over the geologists' shoulders to see what's the source of such amazement.

And in the end she couldn't take it anymore, burst into laughter and confessed. The geologists agree that it was pretty clever.

So I started playing cookie rush kingdom again and…

I got White Lily Cookie as my first undetermined cookie. Is this guaranteed or?

The sound wasn’t even working

Let’s go brass players

real, very real. i'd do the same tbh

i really how this turned out! especially the eye-bleeding shadow :D

i got other color variations

and a speedpaint (FLASH WARNING (i was doing the background))

Moment of peace inbetween observing/punching anomalies

so you dated the wrong person and learned a hard lesson. you chose the wrong major and had to start over again. you cherished a friend who backstabbed you. it sucks, but it’s also going to work out. that’s life; you learn, hurt, love, cry, laugh, and keep going. you experience setbacks and you grow and it’s all okay.

i cant stop thinking about the AUs where the Axolotl was the one who caused or directly lead to the destruction of Euclydia

doing perimeter patrols is a common but little known ptsd symptom, and i think ford doing it not only makes sense for him post-portal but also is a great way to force awkward, impromptu conversations between him and everyone else

sometimes I'll see a post about some discourse and just think "who the actual fuck is getting into fights about that"

I’m on a trip rn so I can’t draw much but the softness of these two possessed me 💥

guy who’s about to have the worst 30 years of his life

Kudos to Gravity falls for making the most character to draw ever!

[ID: Gravity falls fanart of Bill Cipher in various poses on a beige background. Stars float around him. End ID]

You being. You thing. How dare you make such a beautiful au. I love you.

How does shermie/the kids react to Stan, and do Soos or Wendy have any roles in this au?

(Referring to Asylum Ford AU)

thank you! I’m so glad you enjoy it, it’s very fun to think about. I love you, random citizen!

The kids were never told much about Stan and Ford. They have no idea at the beginning that Ford allegedly killed Stan, and they only barely know about Ford’s history. They mostly see Ford as a kind of strange and unhinged old man, who just so happens to need constant supervision. Ford loves them to bits, and told them stories about him and Stanley, and about his time at gravity falls. Shermie told the kids not to believe everything that Ford says, but lets Ford tell them anyway. What’s the harm, right?

when they get to gravity falls, Ford tells the kids that this is where Stanley ‘disappeared’. Dipper becomes enraptured by the idea of solving the mystery of what happened to Stanley Pines, only spurred on by the discovery of Journal 3 (Shermie is doing his best to discourage this). So he and Mabel have spent the whole summer trying to learn more about him. Stan coming through the portal was still a shock though, because they had found Stan’s death certificate and Ford’s arrest reports. They were half convinced that Ford was going to end the world (probably based on something McGucket said). So finding out Stan’s alive and was in another dimension hits pretty similar to how it did in canon.

Shermie has trouble grasping it. He’s spent 30 years thinking Stan was dead and murdered by his own twin in a fit of madness. He’d seen Ford’s breakdowns many times, he’d had to learn to live with his insane little brother, and had to help him live in the world with other people. Ford had insisted that Stan wasn’t dead, but he also confessed in court. Shermie feels bad for big believing Ford about it. But also angry. A bit at Ford, a bit at himself, but mostly at the world. His little brother was alive this whole time, and his other brother was falsely arrested for murder. Needless to say, he’s shocked.

I like to think that, in lieu of not having the mystery shack, Soos starts a handyman business. He’s a plumber, electrician, mechanic and pretty much anything else you need him to be. He’s the best handyman in Gravity Falls, so he gets decent business. He spends most of it on Abuelita and anime figurines.

when Soos finds out Wendy needs a job for the summer, he offers Wendy a job as his assistant. Wendy kinda hates it, but Soos pays well, and he lets Wendy slack off and hang with her friends, so it’s not too bad.

the pines are living in the shack over the summer, which hasn’t been touched in 30 years. So Shermie hires Soos to do maintenance and make sure it’s livable. So Soos and Wendy are just generally around a lot.

just realised how much I wrote for this. Damn, my poor thumb.

What's so interesting to me about Dipper is that he has no friends!

Okay, that's not necessarily true. dipper gets along very well with Soos, for example, and he's the twins' primary big brother figure for most of the show (we love u, soos!) dipper also grows very close to wendy, and in the end chooses to treasure their friendship more than he does any romantic feelings for her. he isn't lacking in terms of having important people in his life

but there's no one his age !

the closest we see to dipper having any sort of friend group is when he hangs out with wendy and his friends, which is obviously very telling of the fact that he wants to grow up, and he wants to grow up fast. consequently, he doesn't really want to be friends with them, per se, as much as he wants to impress them and prove that he's more than just a kid

(this is also contigent with his feelings for wendy, thematically speaking, but that's a conversation for another day)

along this train of thought is the fact that wendy's friends don't see him as a friend, either, simply because they are unequals out of age difference alone. this doesn't mean that they dislike him, in fact they're glad to have him around, but dipper's an accesory and not an actual member of the group, which is not necessarily a bad thing, simply that it's different

in general, the only person dipper interacts with in more or less an equal level is mabel, except her case is very different!

from her countless love interests, we see she has a very easy time interacting with people as early as tourist trapped, she is not shy ! she is not insecure ! she flirts, she giggles, she parties, you go mabel !

the most important element to this, i think, would be how in contrast to dipper, mabel manages to make a little friend group who share common interests and have similar personalities (candy and grenda)

this is not because dipper is somehow weirder and mabel the socially charming one. in fact, mabel doesn't enjoy a particularly popular reputation, and is thought of by pacifica as silly and childish during irrational treasure

from the very beginning, we see mabel and pacifica clash in a classic "weird vs mean" dynamic, with pacifica being someone who enjoys a favourable status in gravity falls (a little bit like a celebrity) and continuously antagonizes mabel, who hangs out with candy and grenda, consistently portrayed as weird and unpopular since their introduction during double dipper

regardless, mabel has no trouble making friends. she isn't a popular girl, but she is a social girl

you'd think that mabel, who has the wider support network, would be less dependant on dipper than dipper is on her

that's definitely the case in the valentine's day flashback shown in weirdmaggedon part 2, where mabel has a considerable amount of valentines, while dipper gets none and is mocked to the point of physically having to run out of class. he even hides his birthmark all the time because the kids made fun of him for it !

so it's very interesting that when we see the twins face the idea of permanent separation, it's mabel who doesn't want to leave dipper, not the other way around !

ps; pleeeeease send me asks about gravity falls i want to talk about this show so badly

only gonna post one reupload today :]

here's a mabel animatic!! we love angst right

I love it so much when Ford is portrayed as doing bad and morally wrong things that hurt others not because he doesn't care and chooses to be cruel, but because he cares too much and loves too strongly. Like, him thinking he knows what's best for other people (but that's also him wanting the best for them) him not wanting to be alone and trying to keep people from leaving or being very angry at them, because he cared about them and was hurt because of that.

It's sad to me that he is portrayed as cruel and uncaring so often in fanon when in canon he's anything but

Stop everything! Ford found a cool beetle!

No text version

I'm starting to get the hang of drawing him

awkward

Through the years ⛵️

get in the car ford