Hate Drawing Backgrounds

Seeing the way Stanley thinks and handles himself (with fears, shame, and everything else) I still don't know why Ford, and even the fandom, seems to come to the conclusion that Stanley is a selfish and self-centered character. He didn't even want to ruin Ford's project, maybe he chose the wrong words to explain what happened, but he genuinely didn't mean to ruin anything, (I mean, Stanley was genuinely afraid of being alone in his town, he was angry and frustrated, and he was afraid to tell Ford, but I don't think he wanted to break Ford's dreams, you can tell Stanley really loved Ford, it's not for nothing that you base your life on protecting someone and encouraging said person, knowing this, why would Stanley do that with full intention?) not to mention the abuse and abandonment, which was stronger (and it shows) for Stanley than for Ford and Shermie, no matter how you look at it, it's kind of sad; Stanley surely wanted to hold on so tightly to Ford or to the little he had that he considered him to be something more than a failure, a spare part. After what happened with Ford and his most important relationships, Stan seems to have avoidant affect, like: I will actively screw up before I fully attach myself to someone.

FILBRICK PINES YOU ARE A SON OF A BITCH! I HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL!!! How the fuck can you live with doing that to your son?!

and then there's that fucking Filbrick... this makes me realize that he was going to get rid of Stanley with or without the accident... I hope he rots in hell, seriously, they screwed up Stan's life more than necessary, and it pisses me off when they say that the rest of what happened to Stan was Stanley's fault alone. Are you kidding me? His whole fucked up environment made him not want to improve himself and not believe that he could improve, why? If his important figures told him that he was a copy, a defective thing, an extra, a thing that's just making space. Not even Caryn! and her fucking BIG brother were able to refute anything knowing that Stanley was capable of fighting the devil himself in order to protect him, Stanley only asked for Ford's loyalty, to speak clearly, if they had spoken things could have been different. And the fandom tries so hard to always make Stanley out to be the idiot when he wasn't the only one, Ford I love you but you are also the biggest idiot I've ever seen, you waited for your brother to literally die to realize that. How do you spend thirty years feeding that hatred? Why do you blame Stanley for not listening to you? Why should he listen to the idiot who only wanted to know where he was to serve as his messenger? And you have the audacity to get angry and tell your brother that he did everything for you, that you're giving him the opportunity to do something good for his useless life? Don't fuck with me Ford, ahhhh!! It makes me more and more angry every time I discover more things about the Lore of Gravity Falls, because Stan had every justification for being a piece of shit person, and it makes me more angry that he had agreed to go on a trip with Ford, and that he recovered his memory so quickly. 😡😡😡😡😡😡

Or maybe I'm making a world out of something so basic.

so @skittlestew​ brought up an ‘angsty stans clothes swap scene, but with the tattoos’, and i had to see this idea through

Okay... I'm really serious now.. WHERE IS BOTTOM!STANLEY?!

Where is my beloved Stanley, who is lying under Ford and just moaning with pleasure under him???

Where is the same Stanley who loves the way Ford touches him and the sweet and pleasant compliments Ford gives him???

Where is Stanley, who blushes when he sees the hungry look Ford is giving him as he examines him completely from head to toe?

Guys, please make more content like this, I beg you. 😭😭😭😭

fanfiction truly being the savior for everyones sanity

What do you think was Stan's fate in the Better World Timeline?

Ooh, very interesting question! Thanks for the ask and sorry in advance for the enormous answer you’re about to get, hahah ❤️

So, to begin answering that (I promise I will eventually!), I have to first point out that what always caught my attention in Ford’s Better World description in the journal is that not once he meets his parallel self. On that hangs my entire analysis.

Instead, he gives us a reason why they didn’t meet: parallel!Fiddleford explains that he had been leading a portal expedition to a certain dimension, but one of the security officers ran into his parallel self and as soon as they touched hands, the entire dimension started to warp and fizz with static. Fiddleford and his team barely escaped alive!

But that’s the thing: as soon as they touched hands, only! Not as soon as they saw each other, or as soon as they were in the same room together, or as soon as they talked to each other, like you sometimes see in fanfic! No, it very much required actual skin-to-skin contact. You would think that Professor Stanford Pines, celebrated star of the scientific community, founder of the International Institute of Oddology, and our Ford, 12 PhDs (or a few less PhDs at the time) would have enough sense and self-control to... just not try and touch each other? Or, for security reasons, stand at least a few meters away from each other? If they feared an accidental touch so much, they could have talked through a glass panel or some kind of physical divide. I do believe every Ford must be a deeply curious individual, and you’re telling me that parallel!Ford, known genius, wasn’t capable of creating a way to enable himself to interview his parallel selves safely? Wouldn’t you be very curious to meet your parallel self? I think it’s more likely than not that other versions of Ford would end up pushed through the portal, so our Ford might not even have been the first Ford to visit that dimension.

But instead Fiddleford goes so far as to detain our Ford and hold him captive without even attempting to explain things first! A bit overkill, no? You could say, “but Bunny, Fiddleford just didn’t want impulsive, reckless Ford to go and run to his parallel self upon seeing him for the first time!” But herein, my friend, lies the crux of the matter: even after Fiddleford explains things to our Ford, even after our Ford understands he couldn’t touch his parallel self... He still doesn’t meet or talk to parallel!Ford. Wasn’t he trusted enough/allowed to do so, even then?

My Doylist explanation (that considers what led the author to choose a certain path) to that is: the writers just didn’t want the two Fords to meet and wanted to leave it ambiguous. It’s really not that deep 😭

My favorite Watsonian explanation (in-universe headcanon) to that is: Fiddleford didn’t want them to meet 😏

Now, would Fiddleford ever lie to Ford? Yes. In fact, he already did, in our original timeline! Ford asked him to destroy the memory gun, Fiddleford apparently agreed. “He was crestfallen by my advice, but after some discussion he came to see the wisdom in it. He said that he didn’t want to risk forgetting his wife and son. I ordered him to destroy the gun, and he did.” (“Ordered”... Oh, Ford, never change...) Reality: Fiddleford hadn’t destroyed it at all, and in fact used it on Ford to erase his memories without Ford’s consent or knowledge.

So even though I don’t think this was, necessarily, either Alex’s or Rob Renzetti’s intentions, I like to think parallel!Fiddleford was bullshitting our Ford a bit. To which extent, I don’t know. The thing about the parallel selves touching and causing a dimension to end might very well be true (in fact, according to Alex’s Word of God, it is! he has said on Twitter that parallel selves really can’t meet in their home dimensions, but can meet in the in-between spaces!) BUT because of the reasons I explained above, it’s my headcanon that it wasn’t the main reason why Fiddleford didn’t want the two Fords meeting.

I just love, love the vibes of A Better World. I love how utterly smitten with that world our Ford is. He describes himself as “drawn” towards the Institute “like a moth to a flame,” and mentions his desire to “revel in [his] parallel self’s success.” He’s utterly smitten it with it despite never once meeting his parallel self. He imagines his parallel self as the happiest man on Earth despite never once meeting his parallel self. He leaves that dimension sighing wistfully despite never once meeting his parallel self. I love how parallel!Ford is just... shrouded in this very ambiguous mystery. It all sounds a little bit ominous to me. Is he happy? Is he satisfied? Does he like what he accomplished?

Our Ford, of course, imagines that he is. Our Ford doesn’t even wonder about parallel!Stan, because that’s who Stanford Pines is: self-centered as all hell, hahah. His brother doesn’t even cross his mind, since he’s too busy being dazzled by his apparent great success and the fulfillment of his dreams! I think he subconsciously assumed parallel!Stan must have been fine.

What do I think happened to parallel!Stan? Oh, well, he’s very much dead 🪦💐 And parallel!Ford, the man Ford believes to be so lucky, is actually miserable. Fiddleford was merely protecting our Ford from the truth.

If you want to get a bit darker, just look at this excerpt from the Not What He Seems script:

Meanwhile, in the Lost Legends comics, Ford is saying shit like this:

We stan an insensitive king who is utterly and blissfully oblivious to his brother’s dangerously low self-esteem and borderline suicidal thoughts ❤️

Before TBoB, I might have been reluctant to think something so dark could happen in GF, since it still is, after all, a cartoon for kids, and Stan’s a main character! But then TBoB went and revealed to us that Dipper and Mabel died horrible deaths in all the other timelines! 😭 And while I do take that with a grain of salt because it was revealed to us by Bill Cipher and Bill is not trustworthy but a professional liar, just the fact Alex acknowledged and played with the possibility of the two protagonists dying horribly is already pretty telling in and of itself...

I think that once parallel!Ford called Stan after a decade, unwittingly gave him hope, and then ripped it out from his hands... Yeah. We know how Ford is important to Stan. Reconciliation with Ford might very well have been what was pushing Stan forward. Stan can be very, very stubborn — working on a portal for 30 years — when Ford is involved. But having no Ford at all...

Parallel!Ford might have planned to call Stan back, but by then it was probably too late. So yeah. I like to imagine that parallel!Ford would be, ironically, so, so jealous of our Ford’s happy ending with Stan.

Actually, as I type this, the funniest idea occurred to me. The real reason Fiddleford didn’t allow the two Fords to meet is that parallel!Ford, upon listening our Ford praise his accomplishments and shit-talk Stan (“I can’t believe Stanley listen to you! He’s so stubborn, so selfish, he never listens!”) would disregard all reason, all training, and all self-control just for the precious chance to punch himself in the face. Dimension ending catastrophe? A minor detail.

comp. of old and new art that i never posted here

Back From the War

Some 80s era Stancest I wrote a while back. Inspired by some of @nekoaimy‘s posts on the subject.

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“So, um, you okay?” Stan asked, his hands unsteady.

Ford nodded, and sipped from his mug of coffee. “I feel better, now.”

“Okay,” said Stan. He breathed out a sigh, ran a hand through his hair. “Okay.”

It was almost surreal, remembering the events of the past hour: him and Stanley fighting over the journal in the portal room, him branding his brother’s shoulder (and oh, was that going to leave a mark),  the shove, the panic that filled him as he floated above the room–

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