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Does anyone remember when Ford was introduced and everyone was trying to figure out, scientifically, why he was so much hotter than Stan??? The fandom thirsting after Stan SO intensely this time around is a sign of growth

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.

I can't help but think that in an alternate universe, if Martin Whitly had committed the murders when he was at university and had been caught, the news would probably have nicknamed him the angel of death, (like Robledo Puch, a famous Argentine serial killer, there is literally an interview where a lady believes that I could not have done anything so bad because according to her the boy has an angelic face) also michael sheen as a young man really seems quite angelic

I feel like I know who that person is, but there are quite an odd number of angels of deaths. Though that is more reserved for doctors who kill at work, so I don't... know if the Surgeon counts as one??? But if he had committed them when he was still in med school, that would make for an interesting situation!

fountain of youth au where the stans get a second shot at their prime-- and the mystery twins trying to help them tackle the new 21st century all away from across the globe

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

A few days ago I found some of my old Norman Osborn drawings from when Spider-Man no way home was released and maybe because of that I spent a good few hours on AO3 reading fanfic of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies...

so my mother always tends to have new ideas for au's which is sometimes a bit annoying because I can't work in one au without having an idea for another, but coming to the point, what do you think about this idea? basically it would be some kind of roleswap but with martin whitly and harry watling just imagine this harry is the serial killer who has 23 victims to his name, martin on the other hand just blamed himself for edincott's death which was actually caused by Ainsley, so we have this murderous vicar and we have this surgeon who has never actually killed anyone but has dedicated himself to saving people.

Don't worry, I totally understand, I am... constantly making up new ideas, which makes it so hard to focus on anything involving my previous ones haha.

Hmmmm, so a while ago I saw a post where someone commented on how it's possible that they events we saw in the show of Harry were all told from his perspective, trying to make himself seem like such an innocent person in order to, ya know, not be guilty for kidnapping and all that, while he's talking to the one guy on death row.

This has me thinking that maybe he does this here too, pretends he never did those murders, they have the wrong person or he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, he never did what he did. Come on, he's a vicar, well respected and loved by his community, how could he have ever done such horrible killings?

And Martin, hoo boy, taking the blame like Malcolm did, that would play so heavily on his mind. A constant reminder that there is blood on his hands, even if he didn't actually hold the weapon.

Fascinating... I rather like this, it has potential!

two lovers

the moon and the sun

william afton and clara dancing

i couldn’t get it out of my head

I just read this while writing a fanfic in which Vox actually had a loving family and is willing to try to redeem himself to see his daughter and wife who are in heaven again.

I've known about precedents where a fandom would create endless ideas about a villain being sympathetic and ship them with one of the main characters and then it turned out that there was canonically nothing sympathetic about said villain and after that that part of fandom went silent and ashamed and hated on and eventually died out

i never got to experience that phase of that fandom - the thrill of creating incorrect ideas and talking about fanon with people. there was something magical about it. so i think there is nothing evil or out of line in creating cheesy aus where a villain character is nice or shipping said villain, mischaracterizing him and doing other stuff. Creating a niche part of a fandom and being a part of it as long as its fun - what could be so bad about it? Even if it contradicts canon. I get it can be annoying but it cant last long. So its okay to be in the moment, if it makes you happy, I think.