You Ever Hear That Old Chestnut About How Most People Neglect The Part Of The Story Of Icarus Where He

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?

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2 years ago

i just created a whole new blog just to ramble on david tennat and michael sheen, yeah but they deserve it


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1 week ago
You Voted For Him! Our @sexyman-contest-2025 Champion Has Earned His Tumblr Sexyman Status 13 Years After

You voted for him! Our @sexyman-contest-2025 champion has earned his Tumblr Sexyman status 13 years after his debut in Gravity Falls, but Stan Pines has a history...

Travel back with us to 1975 and sneak a peek at the Hunky Drifters Catalogue!

A new Gravity Falls charity zine, Hunky Drifters Catalogue aims to recreate the look and feel of a retro magazine. Featuring page-turning articles, parody ads, and racy pictures of our favorite Hunky Drifter, Stan Pines, this zine is sure to please anyone that helped vote our beloved conman to victory!

Although canon implies that its in-universe counterpart may have contained more explicit content, our Hunky Drifters Catalogue strives for the "tasteful and classy" approach Stan might've been hoping for while still appealing to mature audiences (ie: no full frontal nudity).

To get the lowdown on this primo project, make sure you’re following @hunkydrifterscatalogue here on Tumblr (with notifications!) and any of our other social media!

Art by: @pinetreeshack

Disclaimer: Although he basically asked for it, this zine is not affiliated with Alex Hirsch, Gravity Falls, or Disney. This project is for charity, meaning all proceeds will go to a charity of our choice.

3 weeks ago

I’d been wanting to create my own AU for a while. It took me some time to decide which of all my ideas to focus on first, but I eventually went with this one because it felt like something I hadn’t explored before. And personally, I *love* stories where a character is accidentally de-aged. *Gravity Falls* has so many characters you can have fun with when it comes to that concept.

Lately, I’ve had a bit of a soft spot for McGucket, and I’ve basically been devouring every fanfic and fanart I can find of him—so I couldn’t resist making him the protagonist of this AU.

Here’s the premise: in this universe, during the episode *“The Legend of the Gobblewonker”*, McGucket stumbles across a strange mushroom growing inside the cave behind the waterfall. The spores from this mushroom have rejuvenating properties, which causes Fiddleford to turn back into a 13-year-old—retaining only the memories he had at that age.

With no idea what to do, Dipper, Mabel, and Soos decide to take a very confused Fiddleford to the lake shore and try to explain what happened. Fiddleford, of course, doesn’t believe a word of it and runs off the moment he sets foot on dry land.

It only takes him a day to realize he’s on the other side of the country… and that it’s the year 2012. Naturally, he doesn’t take it very well.

Dipper and Mabel eventually find him and offer him a place to stay. At first, they sneak him into the Mystery Shack every night behind Stan’s back—but Stan doesn’t take long to figure it out and just lets Fiddleford stay, as long as he helps out around the Shack with Dipper and Mabel.

Fiddleford ends up having an amazing summer, joining the twins on most of their adventures.

Meanwhile, Tate McGucket is losing his mind over his father’s sudden disappearance.

I’d Been Wanting To Create My Own AU For A While. It Took Me Some Time To Decide Which Of All My Ideas
I’d Been Wanting To Create My Own AU For A While. It Took Me Some Time To Decide Which Of All My Ideas

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1 year ago

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.

2 years ago

ten more points if it turns out that aziraphale goes viral after crowley convinces him to do a podcast talking about books

what about a universe where during the pandemic crowley just decided to start streaming because he was bored so just imagine this guy who looks like he's in his forties suddenly shows up and makes all these jokes about being 6000 years old and also he's fucking good at racing games (except mario kart somehow aziraphale always beats crowley in mario kart)


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2 months ago

Ok this is based mostly on the "clean slate" chapter of the third season of and "the big wheel" of the fourth season of CM so please pay attention. In 1987 there were more than 10 murders in a small town in Virginia, the newspapers named him "the bloody stalker" But they stopped from one moment to another what nobody knew is that the bloddy stalker also known as Aaron hotchner suffered an accident that did lose memory. Now 21 years later the BAU is called to the people because a bloody stalker impersonator has started a new wave of murders, but why does everything seem so familiar to Hotch? And what are those memories that come to mind? The team tries to find the copycat as hotch discovers a past he never knew about, did I just create a perfect story for a fanfic? Yes, I'll write it, I don't think so, I need someone to write it twice, yes, please Sarah, tell me what you think about this

Okay so... I am a sucker for Memory Loss AU's. *AND* it turns out the murderer was Hotch all along? Let's see, I headcanon he was born in 1971, so he'd be about 16 in 1987 (def old enough to start murdering people, especially if he was just taking out all this pent up rage and aggression on teenaged girls/boys he could overpower easily. But why all the rage to begin with? Because he's getting the shit beat out of him at home, of course <3).

This is a freaking amazing premise for a fanfic, like holy hell. Just imagine the turmoil and trauma that Hotch would have to uncover and re-live through all over again, staring at these images of the people he killed when he was 16-17 years old, trying to figure out if this new killer is a copycat or the original come back. Memories slowly trickle into his nightmares, waking him in a cold sweat, the phantom feeling of blood on his hands.

Is he actually the kind-hearted man he thought he was? Or is he actually a monster who's been in hiding this whole time? Will this unlock a part of him that had been buried deep within him, cracking the perfect façade of Big Bad Unit Chief as he stares at himself in the bathroom mirror? Will the memory of the thrill, the relief, the feeling of freedom that came with taking a life flood his system with the need to do it again?

Will Aaron Hotchner finally snap?

1 year ago
As They Save All Might, What If We Get A Continuation Of This Visual?
As They Save All Might, What If We Get A Continuation Of This Visual?
As They Save All Might, What If We Get A Continuation Of This Visual?
As They Save All Might, What If We Get A Continuation Of This Visual?

As they save All Might, what if we get a continuation of this visual?

Credits and Bonus below the cut

As They Save All Might, What If We Get A Continuation Of This Visual?

‘The path he chose.’

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Artist: Aqilah_exe2

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8 months ago
Never Played Disney Heroes But Their Move Set Is Funny
Never Played Disney Heroes But Their Move Set Is Funny

never played disney heroes but their move set is funny

8 months ago

y’all just— thinking about how excited Stanley must have been to host the twins— Alex says he smokes cigars but he doesn’t smoke once in the show— has a beer gut but he only drinks sodas in front of the kids— doesn’t swear when they’re around which must have taken INCREDIBLE effort— Stanley Pines, known crook, buying pancake mix at the supermarket and many bottles of syrup— learning to cook basic healthy meals and burning so many of them before he gets it right— buying new sheets, new mattresses— avoiding bunk beds because it reminds him of Ford— looking at the attic room he made wondering “is this enough will they like me”— trying to act aloof at the bus stop so he doesn’t betray the fact that he was there hours early— watching them goof around and thinking of New Jersey beaches— then the first night they’re there, he watches them debate running away and only stay because Mabel shook a magic 8 ball. That must have kept him awake all night.

9 months ago

I'm noticing a small pattern in my hyperfixations: every time I'm going through a stressful period, some hyperfixation from my childhood calls my attention again. Example number one: I just left university, and the hyperfixation I had for Beauty and the Beast when I was 6 years old has come back and is more alive than ever.


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