I find it incredibly hilarious that there's so much ship discourse in the gravity falls fandom regarding more controversial ships with people arguing shit like "alex hirsch would hate you" meanwhile-
He does not give 2 shits about any shipping discourse, like these are literally his responses to getting asked questions like this, please stop dragging him into this
Mfs when you're not shocked that ur toxic ship is toxic
hate when someone asks how are you and you say good how are you and they say "oh not so great" or something. it's always like ohh okay i see we're being honest i thought we were playing pretend. can i have a do-over
DEAD OR ALIVE
You gotta love how it only took an episode for Vi to get over her angst phase and immediately be all "Let's settle down and raise our daughter together in the hippy commune!" with Jinx.
Also big respect to Isha. Sometimes a family is just an adopted mute girl, her two sister-mums, and her werewolf grandad. And she'll do anything for them. That's beautiful.
"but why do you even ship them-" IT BRINGS ME JOY AND WHIMSY!!!!!!!
Sisterly love am I right or am I right
An aspect of Andrew and Ashley’s relationship as kids I’m very interested in is that, when you read between the lines, they actually care about each other quite a bit.
On Leyley’s birthday, after she rants about how birthdays are “all nonsense anyway” and ends said rant with “who cares,” Andy responds that he does. In turn, Leyley is shown to have genuinely appreciated his willingness to celebrate it, as she made a drawing of that day and kept it with her until adolescence.
Prior to that, Leyley notably doesn’t make a fuss when she recognizes Andy can’t afford a cake. She also states she went along with Andy choosing the lemon muffins because she thought he wanted them.
In the flashback about Leyley’s suspension from school, she’s displeased that Andy’s cooked her “the same crap” again but quietly eats it anyway. This, in conjunction with the previous point, suggests that as much of a brat as she is, she does (in a way) understand that Andy is trying his best to look after her.
Leyley appears concerned for Andy as he breaks down at the grandparents’ house and asks him if he’s okay. When he asks her if she wants to be friends, she replies “I thought we already were.”
In the abstract segment within Andy’s subconscious at the start of 3A, his family is represented by ghosts. At one point, the player is given a choice - either Andy gets yelled at by his teacher, his mother, or Pink Ghost/Leyley. When he takes away Pink Ghost’s coloring pencils, her reaction is a quiet expression of sadness as opposed to a roar.
The same segment also contains a similarly abstract “family portrait.” Renee’s Lime Ghost is the one depicted as angry - Pink Ghost, contrary to expectation, is depicted as sad.
I find the last two points particularly noteworthy. Leyley’s external belligerence doesn’t seem to leave as visceral of an impression on Andy as the underlying reasons for it.
Everyone else sees a helion. He sees a heartbroken little girl.
The fact that the way the Lord Unknown is named changes as Andrew's perception of them does too means a lot to me.
"Something kind" 💔
All Andrew really needed at that moment was someone (or something) to open up to, to actually listen to him, to *know* him.
I'm happy he was able to get that somehow, even if he got it from a mysterious demon.
𝑺𝑻𝑵𝑲 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰𝒗𝒍𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒓 ♔︎— 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐯𝐥𝐢𝐬/𝐅𝐮𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐧 ♡ | 𝑨𝑫𝑯𝑫 ✰ | 𝒆𝒔𝒑/𝒆𝒏𝒈 ➪ 🇺🇾
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