Sigh, Today I'm Thinking About Ford Settling Back Into The Lab After He First Comes Home, And Seeing

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.

they’re judging you so hard kathy omg

bonus:

Sighs.

Im back

Au where ford actually kept track of Stan a little bit more than in canon. I’m talking the man would cast spells and ask the mail box “is my brother alive” or “where is my brother”

But of course because I love myself some angst, Fords questions were worded in such a way that he ONLY knew his brother was alive—but being alive doesn’t equal being okay. He gets his brothers location, but being realistic do you think Ford would think that he’s traveling so much because he’s running away or because he’s successful and LIKES to travel. “Oh look Stanley’s taking a vacation in Colombia. Although that’s a long vacations it’s been months… he must be pretty rich thanks to his products!” (Because remember ford had seen Stan’s commercials, so ford follows his line of logic to be that Stan is pretty successful.)

Of course one day Ford finally asks a slightly different question, one that crumples the narrative he created in his mind, “How is Stanley doing?”

And that’s when he learns that his brother is currently being transported to a hospital. That his brother is on the verge of death due to malnutrition, hypothermia, and because of an infected untreated wound. That his brother hasn’t been okay the last few years.

He learns that he asked all the wrong questions.

"It's Mabel's fault that weirdmageddon started-"

SHE WAS 12

HAD A HORRIBLE DAY

WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE HER FRIENDS FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR WITHOUT THEM EVEN BEING ABLE TO ATTEND HER BIRTHDAY PARTY

JUST LEARNED THAT HIGHSCHOOL, THE THING THAT'S UP AND COMING FOR HER WILL BE HORRIBLE

WHEN SHE GETS HOME, HER PARENTS WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT UNTIL THEY DIVORCE, WHICH WILL BE HORRIBLE AS WELL

OH WELL AT LEAST SHE HAS DIPPER- NOPE! HE'S LEAVING YOU TO STAY WITH THE GRUNKLE HE JUST MET RECENTLY

SO NOW SHE'S GONNA HAVE TO FACE ALL OF THIS BULLSHIT ALONE

And this full-grown adult man who is known to have stuff to do with time

Offers to stop it so she won't have to be alone

Which he can do with this weird snow globe thing that NOBODY TOLD HER WAS THE RIFT???

Weirdmageddon was NOT MABEL'S FAULT

It was BILLS FAULT

I remember drawing this parody around 2012-2013 on Tumblr? This was when Gravity Falls hype was still ongoing. Good times. 

various warmups cuz im tired today

a wonderful ao3 author note

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