I Had Been Thinking

Since sales are officially over, here’s my piece for the @fiddlefordmcgucketzine

Working on this zine was a blast, thanks to everyone who made it happen!!

#Just saw it and it's kinda funny how three different accounts went all in on "This person ships stancest"—like, I got it the first time, but y'all can chill with the emphasis already (??)

cryin i just saw someone on twitter rt tiredyaoi’s titantic drawing saying “this person ships stancest” i keep forgetting normies don’t know that this is basically our beyoncé

Hi there. I'm new to Stancest ( your art has helped me radicelise into it. )

Got any good fic recomendations for beginners?

omg HI HELLO HIII welcome new stancestie bestiee <333

heres some of my absolute faves of all time!!

Third Time's the Charm by Dejaboo (deja writes them so good man GODDDD)

Tune in to the Beat of My Heart - It’s Writing You a Love Song by sillylilguy900 (reading it made me feel like i was getting into stancest for the first time very banger and awesomesauce 👍)

Ringing in the New Year by fractured_hourglass (honestly everything by hourglass fucking SLAPS)

National Cherry Turnover Day by Sock_Lobster (this writer also made PEAKK)

Love Potion No. 10 (banger fic based on banger art)

bonus some of my fave authors (couldnt pick just one fic from them so look at them all NEOWW ‼️‼️‼️ )

cellard00rs

fractured_hourglass

sixerstanley

Shmisky

WettBlankett

Stancestttttttt! I have the need.. THE NEED FOR FORDYLEEEEE

kiss ‘im hard ‘til he sees stars!!

I had some fun drawing the Big Bro Stan AU!

It’s nice drawing a guilty pleasure of mine<3

im trying not to step on anyones toes but the fact theres ford getting jealous of stan loving a ford plushie more than him comics coming from the non-stancest likers side on twitter is genuinely hillarious to me

Aimer jusqu’à en souffrir

I did it once and the author blocked me and I promised myself never to do it again :((

BTW i see these posts all the time like "ohhh i dont know what to comment on fics.." and every response is "keysmashes! or hearts!! anything works :3" and thats GREAT!! thats helpful!!

but: consider. if u genuinely like analyzing writing.. do u know ur just allowed to go through and quote your favorite parts and ramble abt what they mean to u and the author will LOSE IT WITH HYPE?

genuinely. i felt SO WEIRD the first time i did it.. but like. holy shit authors love it. its crack for authors. the first time i did it, it was on a fic that hadnt updated in half a year, give or take, and the author made 3 updates that month BECAUSE OF MY COMMENT.

LIKE. as an author every comment is INCREDIBLE!!! but also, dont feel like your comment has to be short or otherwise ur invasive or smth!! authors ADORE long comments more than ANYTHING.

The tight writing in Gravity Falls just gets crazier and crazier because Alex Hirsch in the director’s commentary of Dipper & Mabel vs. the Future (11:25) says:

“Ford sees Dipper as someone who’s special like himself. That’s Ford’s great flaw, is arrogance. Is he believes that there’s special people, and everyone else. That human attachments are actually weaknesses. And the song and dance that he’s giving Dipper right now, is the song and dance that he gave McGucket, back when they were younger… ‘You and me are different, we’re better than everyone else. We have a path that no one else can understand, and only us can do this.’ It’s a very seductive idea for Dipper… Dipper is a smart kid, but Ford’s projecting. Ford loves Dipper because he sees someone who’ll tell him ‘yes’ to everything. Who’ll never challenge him, who’ll do a really insane dangerous mission.”

I CAN’T BE THE ONLY ONE WHO’S SEEING THE BILL -> FORD -> DIPPER PIPELINE HERE. YOU CAN JUST REPLACE THE NAMES IN THE ABOVE QUOTE. I’M GOING INSANE.

Gravity Falls and the cycle of “Hey, person who feels outcast from your society like me, you’re special, fuck human connection, join me and be something great!”

God, I miss Pinecest 😩

I started this blog as a pinecest-specific sideblog, but even then I was late to the party. Literally days after making this blog, doublepines password-locked her blog, and then soon after deleted it. Everybody aside from a few lovely stragglers was kinda over it, every art had been drawn, every fic had been written, every theory had been theorized. It was time to move on. Sure, there was a fun little afterparty when the twins turned 21 and a few more times after, but the hype and interest had largely fizzled out.

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVED being a part of that afterparty. I just wish I could’ve been there for the golden days of Pinecest. When GF was getting new episodes, and people were realizing how cute these twins were together. I wish I knew what the culture of this little corner of the fandom was like, before the party started to die down. Back then, I wasn’t exactly an anti or anything, but the concept of being pro-ship was entirely foreign to me, and things like shipcest seemed gross, yet deep down I was intrigued. I missed out before I even knew the party had started. I can romanticize it in my mind all I want, but I really have a feeling that it was something special. Pinecest as a ship is so deceptively wholesome, people see “cest” and clutch their pearls, but when the oh-so-delicious taboo and angst are stripped away, they’re a cute, loving couple who only want the best for each other. I imagine the fandom surrounding the ship must’ve been just as wholesome in its heyday - excluding the occasional toxic fan and of course the rabid antis, but that can’t be helped.

I dunno, I just… I wish we could revive that again in earnest. I miss you, Pinecest 😭