So I had a lot of feelings about the bubble changing Mabel, especially after reading this and of course this awesome post here, and then I began to wonder how it would fit in TAU. Also @marypsue helped too!
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Mabel coming out of that bubble changed and Bill made a big mistake, using her mind to fuel his apocalypse. Mabel who is chaos personified, Mabel and Dipper who thought the reality warping would stop once they were out of the bubble but it…doesn’t look like it? Eek. But then there are more important things going on to worry about; that Mabel’s eyes are still glowing white, flowers that smell of macaroni and cheese follow in her footsteps, that there’s a herd of kittencorns springing into existence just at her mention-that all can wait.
Here the Transcendence happens in the wake of Weirdmageddon, and the tear is repaired and the damage undone but nothing will ever be the same again and there is no hiding magic anymore. Here Bill still gets the shit beat out of him, still he tries to possess Dipper as he dies, still Dipper fights him and wins.
And yet as Mabel watches, Dipper’s chest falls still, stops moving. She runs to him and puts her head on his chest, but there’s no beat, no sound. He’s dead, her twin is dead and no, no no.
Mabel, eyes so bright white looking at them is like looking at the sun and encased in a bubble that swirls with a million colors. Mabel who tears reality apart, ripping into the very fabric of existence, shattering and reforming reality so that Dipper lives.
The demon thing is kind of unexpected, she admits to herself afterwards, but at least Dipper is alive, is still with them, and that’s what counts.
After pulling that stunt Mabel returns to normal, her power spent in keeping Dipper alive, in helping him transcend. Or at least, that’s what it seems.
Because Dipper can’t see any trace of power left on his sister, doesn’t see anything out of the norm in her aura, in her soul, and yet sometimes it rains when she cries and one day snadgers are just, suddenly a Thing. Like, been around for all of human knowledge, in the history and science textbooks, yes of course snakes and badgers can make snadgers just like mules, duh. He has no idea what Mabel can do or how he does it and it terrifies him a bit (if he’s not the smart guy, then who is he?)
Dipper who still possesses Mabel to do Mystery Twin cult-bashing shenanigans but he doesn’t peek into her Mindscape any more, not after the last time left him on the floor staring at the ceiling dazedly and wondering what the fucking fuck he just saw. Dipper who eons from now will have the might to destroy the world (he knows this, feels it in his bones), but he looks at his sister and knows with that same bone deep certainty that if she wanted to, Mabel could destroy it all now without a second thought. Because he is still bound by rules and deals and wards but there is nothing constraining Mabel, nothing that can hold her back other than herself. Dipper and the day he realizes he holds not just Bill’s power within him, but Mabel’s as well and then he goes and stares at the wall for a bit.
(He laughs when people call him the Lord of Chaos. He’s no ruler, only its servant and subject. Mabel, though. Mabel is the Empress of Chaos, the embodiment of madness and sheer possibility.)
Mabel doesn’t tell Henry at first because honestly, it’s almost never a big deal or issue and she isn’t sure how to explain and there’s the whole “my brother is a demon” thing and dating moves to getting married and it never comes up. Then Mabel gets pregnant and suddenly everything is going haywire. All the cartons of ice cream at the supermarket turn to pickle flavor, she cries and it rains frogs and kittens and bowties. And one day Mabel leans up to kiss Henry and burps madness bubbles in his face on complete accident oh my god. Henry gets a bubble full in the face and afterwards coughs up some fur and feathers and just Looks at Mabel. They end up on the couch, Mabel curled up in his lap, and murmuring into his shirt because she’s so scared and she fucked up and she doesn’t know where to start or how to explain and and-
Henry just gives her a gentle hug, and “It’s okay, you told me now, that’s the most important thing.” Then he looks at her stomach and asks “Um, are the babies going to do that burping thing?” and she laughs because everything is okay again.
(She makes him feel like the hero of all his favorite stories, the books where the brave adventurer stumbles into a world stranger and vaster and far more magical than their own. When they kiss sometimes his mind explodes into a riot of color and sound, madness on her lips. She’s disorder and bedlam incarnate and the kindest, sweetest woman he knew and every day he felt so privileged to be loved by one such as her.)
Dipper telling the kids bedtime stories about how Mom saved the world; he just did the cleaning up afterwards. Willow looks at her mother and Mabel in Willow’s eyes are the swirling colors of madness bubbles, a thousand flashing swirling maelstrom of color. It should hurt her eyes, hurt her brain but it doesn’t because, well, it’s Mom (and if Mabel is Chaos, then the triplets are the children of Chaos. There’s a bit of madness in all three of them.) Triplets and the shenanigans they get into because like attracts like, and weird attracts weird.
Willow still almost drowns when she’s fourteen, and Henry still becomes the Woodsman, but the difference here is that when they call Mabel, they don’t get thirty seconds into the call before there’s a feeling of plib and Mabel spilling out on the floor of the living room, the thousands of miles from Australia to Gravity Falls nothing to her will. Dipper can see the tear in reality his sister made mending itself. (He can see what would have happened if it had been him and her that rescued Willow. Sees eyes glow a cleansing, horrifying white and a pink haze rise around her. Sees her raise a hand and clench it into a fist and every soul in the room is obliterated, gone completely from the cycle of reincarnation, completely and utterly dead and gone in a way that no demon, no god, not even him can do. His sister glows and blazes before his eyes and she is utterly terrifying.)
It’s easier, in this timeline, for Henry to accept the Woodsman. How can he not, when he looks at his wife and there’s something beyond human comprehension hiding in her skin, sometimes he holds her at night and the world goes mad around him and he loses all sense of time and place and self. But she’s more than that, she’s love and sweetness and distractability and maybe there’s something a little (a lot) Wyrd about her but that’s not all of who she is, just like the Woodsman is not all of who he is. And maybe he’s not quite human any more, but neither is she, and together they make a perfect pair.
Just.
Literal Goddess of Chaos and Destruction Mabel Pines.
you're casually reading some gay smut online in your grandparents house as they amble on by.
There is genuinely nothing funnier than Brennan trying to make an evil campaign, only for the whole plot be derailed by democratic revolution, the progression of eagle rights, mental health movements and the Power of Friendship (particularly between Maggie and Leiland, who would have hated each other in any other narrative). Escape from Bloodkeep was wholesome in a way Fantasy High never was, because the Villains were high-functioning adults who only wanted the best for their land, while the Bad Kids indiscriminately killed and stole from everyone (extra points for the fact they cut off hands and ate people, whereas the Villains only ever seemed to push people off tall heights). Poor Brennan. He never wins.
Imagine after the Hunger has been banished and the world saved, everyone simultaneously agreed that they need time away from it all. The world will never know what they did, and they're fine with that. The boys just want some time by themselves to remember what they were once like, and how to blend their past selves with their current selves. There's lots of things they couldn't remember that they could do, and a lot of loved ones they forgot and they need that time to just take it all in and accept it. There's an end scene where, in remembrance of the fantastic beach episode we just had, the entire crew (Lup included because I need to have my girl back alive), as well as team sweet flips and Ango, just go to a remote beach for a while. There they can reconnect and forgive one another, and be with their loved ones. Lup and Barry can finally be together after so many years, and Lucretia can finally chat with the boys like the best friends they are. At the end of the day, Taako sits out in the waves on his board, and teaches Angus to surf. It's peaceful and tranquil, and everyone is whole and happy. (And they all end up living right next to each other in a town they founded for the BoB members to integrate back into society. Familiar faces like Ren (who decided to travel after being freed from the bubble) and Lucas (who is forgiven by Lucretia) even show up and settle down. And the tres horny boys settle down in their house alongside Taako's Kravitz, and their adopted son Angus. All is well.)
Bisexual and proud!
His tongue… >///< ♡ ♡ ♡
So I was chatting with machina-rex (as we do) and what was supposed to be a really sad headcanon back-and-forth actually evolved into something really cute. BEHOLD!
We figured that after Tadashi’s death, the cafe regulars probably brought Aunt Cass flowers. She’s been keeping the cafe kind of dark and gloomy for a while, because she’s in mourning, but her customers decide to brighten the place up a bit. So they bring flowers.
And Aunt Cass then goes and takes those flowers to Tadashi’s grave to decorate it and to show him how much everyone misses him at the cafe. He ends up with the most lavishly decorated grave in the cemetery (which helps Hiro to find the right grave through his tears whenever he comes to visit)
(This is the part where it should have stayed sad but didn’t :P)
But there’s just SO MANY FLOWERS that Hiro can’t possibly visit Tadashi withought getting covered in petals, no matter how much he tries to avoid it. He always comes home smelling like a garden instead of like graves after a trip, which actually helps him deal a bit.
And then one day Ghost!Tadashi starts making flower crowns out of all of his flowers and leaving them on his grave for Hiro to find. He didn’t know how to make them before he died, but the ghost of a little girl who died in the late 1900s taught him. She was his first ghost friend. Eventually a lot of ghosts come by and start helping out, because there’s not enough time for Tadashi to put into crowns all by himself in time for Hiro’s and other people’s visits. And when there’s too many flowers, they start leaving the extra flower crowns on the other graves too, especially the ones that haven’t had visitors in YEARS. The ghosts of these graves, who haven’t had flowers in a really long time, are very happy to see them.
There are so many ghosts constantly visiting Tadashi’s grave to help with his flowers that they end up creating ghost parties late into the night. Complete with ghost fires burning and flashing through the night like party lights.
Naturally, this freaks the gravekeepers out because, hello, mysterious flickering lights in a graveyard? Flowers moving on their own and weaving themselves? But over time they realize that they’re just really pretty lights dancing and really pretty flowers, so they get used to it. Maybe even enjoy it a bit. They tell their friends about it, chuckling about the strange stuff they get up to while at their job.
Only their friends tell THEIR friends, and sooner or later it becomes this little urban legend for the city. About this one SUPER HAUNTED gravesite, but with a very benign haunting. People come from all over the world to see it, even long after Aunt Cass and Hiro have passed away too, long after Tadashi’s name has worn off of the stone. But they all bring flowers so even though he has no family left to visit him, he still always has the prettiest grave.
Watching ‘Toilet-bound Hanako-kun’ Is hilarious because it’s set up so that the 2 school/ghost trios are thematically meant to maul each otherto death/be each other’s foils.
The only problem is that god has given (1) brain cell to each trio to share.
The Toilet Trio pass it amongst themselves like a hot potato. Kou sacrifices the brain cell the rare times he gets it just to help his friends through their emotional stupidity. Nene loses it every time a hot boi goes by. Hanako only gets more time with it because he has a goddamn job to do.
Meanwhile Sakura has never let go of the brain cell.
I made the mistake of rereading the masterpiece of 'You don't know me' by the angst master @Ferisae Decided I would draw the sweet, suffering summer child in celebration of my own pain.
Okay, so I don't know if anyone's talked about this yet, but while watching Gravity Falls I noticed something about the title sequence. The first few times I saw the part where Dipper is pointing out that huge footprint to Grunkle Stan I merely thought that the three Pines were going on a monster hunt and were tracking some sort of monster. You know, family fun time. When it became evident that Grunkle Stan 'didn't believe' about the supernatural stuff the scene became rather sad, as I then realised Dipper was trying his best to prove the supernaturals' existence to Grunkle Stan. The poor little noodle would probably take Grunkle Stan out on one of his and Mabel's explorations in the woods to prove that he wasn't merely a child making it all up. Then it was revealed that Grunkle Stan had known about the supernatural all along, and it all became clear to me. Grunkle Stan was merely pretending that he didn't know what Dipper and Mabel were talking about (you know, in order to protect them), but while he stood there putting on an air of scepticism for the kids, he was actually wondering what type of creature had made the footprint, and whether or not he needed to get his two kids out of there before it all went pear-shaped.
From the very beginning Alex has been hinting at Grunkle Stan's true persona, and it's simply amazing to see it all unfold and reveal it's true form.