I eat anything up

multishipper, proshipper or whatevs you call it. I literally just read anything on this sun scorched earth and if it's well made enough then welp, I guess I'm shipping it now 🤷‍♀️ past acc! @past-hale-powiyewe where I already posted some of the shit I cooked

[hale-powiyewe]

Welcome to my blog!!

I only have one rule and it's don't be pissy. I accept anything and everything under the sun so if you managed to pmo that's on you bruh 🤨

Don't have many tags yet so I'll be updating this whenever 🤔

• #hale-draws is for my art!

• #hale-yaps is just what it says me yapping about whatever LMAO

• #StanSwitch is the Stancest comic I'm cooking up with Fem!Stan, Alternate Dimensions, and Drama galore! 🥳

[life-of-a-rat]

there are a million TMA time-travel AUs where the S5 crew goes back to an earlier season, but where are my S1 goes to the future AUs???? please????

[late-to-the-magnus-archives]

So this is the funniest thing I’ve seen all day?

[zerafinacss]

✨ Utility Add-Ons for AO3 Site Skins

I added a file to my GitHub where I compiled various code snippets for hiding, replacing, repositioning, or modifying specific elements on AO3.

It currently contains the following:

Hide specific buttons

Hide/replace AO3 header elements

Hide statistics

Hide/modify specific tags

Hide miscellaneous elements (muted users notice, kudos list, non-English works, etc.)

Display download button for only one format

Position blurb icons in a row under the fandom tags

Miscellaneous (add a heart to romantic/sexual relationship tags, black out images in works or gif icons, etc.)

You can add the snippets to your site skins by copying and pasting the parts you want to use.

Here is the file:

site-skin-add-ons/utility-snippets.css at main · ZerafinaCSS/site-skin-add-ons

Code that can be added to the AO3 default site skin or other skins. - ZerafinaCSS/site-skin-add-ons

General instructions on how to add and combine site skins are here.

[l0verseyes]

[crumbleworm]

bro captain--space--buns did some INSPIRED fanart of "Earth Becomes Sky in the most Literal Fashion" (https://archiveofourown.org/works/32120029/chapters/79576018) by IdiosyncraticProjection on Ao3

and so I had to take a stab at my own take on my Jon and Martin in the Gravity Falls style

go read the fic it kicks ass (out of context spoilers below)

POV you’re watching the pines make bad decisions

I’m not solid on my Martin design but I think I’m getting there

Bonus:

[captain--space--buns]

It's been years since I've actually posted something on Tumblr, but a recent fanfic has given me a burst of inspiration :

Earth Becomes Sky in the Most Literal Fashion by IdiosyncraticProjection on Ao3 (this has my full recommendation, it's genuinely so good!)

Spoilers for GF and TMA, as well as Earth Becomes Sky

CWs : Clusters of eyes, Eyes where Eyes shouldn't be, small clusters of pockmarks, knives, stabbing, (uncolored) blood. Let me know if I should add anymore. ^-^

I present very rough sketches of Jon and Martin in the Gravity Falls Art style (feat. Soos, Abuelita, Ford, and Delicious Huevos Rancheros)

I haven't, like, *perfected* their designs, and they're def not 100% the GF artstyle, but I like how these have turned out so far! Also, I'm very unsure if the Spanish part for Abuelita is actually right, so apologies to any Spanish speaking peeps if it is grammatically weird or just completely incorrect! It's also my first time doing ALT text, so feedback for that is more then welcome as well!

Take care! Drink water 💛

[captain--space--buns]

It's been years since I've actually posted something on Tumblr, but a recent fanfic has given me a burst of inspiration :

Earth Becomes Sky in the Most Literal Fashion by IdiosyncraticProjection on Ao3 (this has my full recommendation, it's genuinely so good!)

Spoilers for GF and TMA, as well as Earth Becomes Sky

CWs : Clusters of eyes, Eyes where Eyes shouldn't be, small clusters of pockmarks, knives, stabbing, (uncolored) blood. Let me know if I should add anymore. ^-^

I present very rough sketches of Jon and Martin in the Gravity Falls Art style (feat. Soos, Abuelita, Ford, and Delicious Huevos Rancheros)

I haven't, like, *perfected* their designs, and they're def not 100% the GF artstyle, but I like how these have turned out so far! Also, I'm very unsure if the Spanish part for Abuelita is actually right, so apologies to any Spanish speaking peeps if it is grammatically weird or just completely incorrect! It's also my first time doing ALT text, so feedback for that is more then welcome as well!

Take care! Drink water 💛

[grapefruitbomba]

“So, I’m not sure how to tell you or if I even should…”

From Dreamescaping fanfic by @sheepishandshamefaced 

Ford visiting and interfering on Stan’s memories is a really interesting idea. Btw, I was the anon who made the comment about the good imagery of the fic, now I have a blog and decided to make my own art about it. I love this scene.

[~Coffee~][~Commissions~][~Colored Sketch~]

[natdremurr]

Mr. Cipher please stop playing with your food or we will be obligated to give you more time on solitary confinement

[kerink]

ford's lifetime of objectification is so important to me.

when you first watch the show, you don't really see it in tots. just taking the show in isolation, stan's experience is much easier to latch on to: stan is being neglected by his parents and the education system, and he compensates for it by becoming useful to (and therefore needed by) ford. the codependency and abuse are the themes that stand out.

which makes sense, since we've been following stan so long by this point we're bought into his character arc. alex has even said that ford was built to be someone who would explain stan's trauma response. we are meant to be looking at stan for these reasons and because ford lies to us (by omission) during his story. yes stan lies too, but only in the narration; we are shown the truth. ford's story is a lie both in narration and in visuals.

but as the show goes on and as the books come out, we are directed to start looking more and more at ford's experience.

when you read journal 3 standard edition, what stands out is bill's manipulation and how ford fails to grasp the lifelines fate throws him. we see ford transform from a man wanting recognition and connection to being isolated and unable to trust.

but then you read journal 3 blacklight edition, you realize it wasn't just bill: fiddleford was hurting him too. when fiddleford first presents the memory gun to ford, ford tells him that it's dangerous with a high risk for misuse, and to destroy it. not only does fiddleford lie about agreeing with ford and lie about destroying it, he also turns around and starts routinely, non-consensually using it on ford. whenever fiddleford wants to do something he knows ford will disagree with or be upset by? zap zap! conflict averted, no compromising or debating necessary. (and then, of course, he starts stalking ford to ensure nothing happens to him that fiddleford deems deleteable.)

and then we get tbob and watch bill hijack and mutilate his body, rewire his brain, and threaten his life. his value reduced down to a pair of eyeballs bill is more than happy to pluck out to use as keys if ford won't deactivate the retinal lock.

with this new insight, it makes ford's experience in tots significantly easier to see. filbrick didn't care about what happened to ford, he cared about what he lost. yes stan probably did care about what happened to ford, but not enough to tell him about the accident with time enough to fix it. not enough to let him be angry, let him grieve, let him figure out alternative college solutions. it was just right back to what stan wanted: sailing away together. for the entire scene, ford's opinion weren't asked for, his emotions not given a platform, until they were useful for what stan wanted: not having him kicked out. ford's experience of the event was so unimportant, he'd gone to his bedroom while filbrick and stan fought. he was no longer needed.

neither bill, nor fiddleford, nor filbrick, nor stanley see ford as a fully realized human being with wants and goals and dreams and aspirations of his own. at least, they see him as a fully realized human being only up until what he wants conflicts with what they want. after j3 blacklight it starts to become obvious that ford is a tool, a concept, to the people ford thinks are his closest allies.

to bill, ford is an escape (with just the show and j3 we think only into our world, but after tbob we learn that this is both literal and metaphorical). to fiddleford, ford is freedom (from his marriage, from societal expectations, from the pressure of being more than his roots). to filbrick, ford was stability (i refuse to believe it was just about the money, but more about what the money represented. filbrick and caryn wouldn't have to worry about making ends meet, wouldn't have to worry about their children's future; all reasonable desires for parents to have but inappropriate responsibilities to place on a teenager. not to mention how the lasting impact of the holocaust combined with the rise of holocaust denialism in the 1970s would influence filbrick's perspectives). to stan, ford was everything (he was willing to throw away his life on shore, both what he had and what he might have, to sail with ford, just the two of them, forever. and he did throw away his life bringing ford home: he murdered stanley pines and sacrificed 30 years in exchange for his brother. stan believes he is only one half of a dynamic duo, that without ford there is no him).

in a way, ford was a portal for all of them. something they could use to get a better, happier, fuller life. ford is fought for, someone hard decisions are made for, someone people do terrible things for. but not for him, but for the opportunity to keep him, to control him. hell, even his doctor said they want to kidnap him.

because keeping stanford pines is extremely difficult. he's hard to get close to, but once you're close he loves fully, trusts implicitly. but if he's wronged, he's vindictive, he holds a grudge, he pushes you away and he runs.

princess unattainabelle indeed.

doesn't it make sense, then, after all of this, ford would grow into someone who insists upon his own agency? that he was forced to become self-confident, self-assured, a man of action. that he would become an avid journaler so that his wants and goals and dreams and aspirations would become concrete, would become tangible. that he would become someone who lies about his past in order to have control over how he is perceived, how his life is remembered?

because after what fiddleford and bill did to him, wouldn't it make sense he would become someone anxious about his reality, his memories, his sense of self? how much of who he thinks he is and what he believes and what he knows and what he can do is because of changes they made to his mind?

does he even have himself?

for the entire duration of gravity falls, every character, at some point, to some degree, is chasing ford: his journals, his inventions, his knowledge, his identity, what he is able to give them, do for them.

but how many of them are chasing ford.

edit: just want to add this disclaimer for clarity. i intentionally left out other characters' nuance. if this reads uncharitable, that's not an accident and also i know there's a more nuanced perspective. that was just not the point of this.

[kerink]

@thatwolfnamednyla "to bill, ford is an escape (with just the show and j3 we think only into our world, but after tbob we learn that this is both literal and metaphorical)" Can you explain the TBOB part? My memory is fuzzy

we learn bill actually cared about ford and wasn't just using him; he was a literal escape out of the nightmare realm and a metaphorical escape from bill's suffering.

after a trillion years of grief and loneliness, bill finally found someone who he could relate to, who he could trust, who he could be himself around, who he wanted to be with. ford was important to him. but because bill lacks emotional intelligence, the ability to express vulnerability, and has gone insane (both from trauma and immortality), he's unable to connect the love he feels for ford to a healthy intimate relationship and instead uses ford as a bandaid/anchor/security blanket/new drug/etc.

while the losing sixer part of tbob first shows how important ford actually is to bill, in my mind the "even his lies are lies" part of thisisnotawebsite show it best: bill's therapist sees bill's relationship with ford as an on-ramp for discussing bill's relationship with his parents. what does this say about the role ford plays in bill's life? the feelings bill has for ford? the hole bill is using ford to fill? bill is both unable and unwilling to confront what happened on euclydia, and something about ford soothes that ache and makes it easier for him not to have to.

in tbob it's said that bill parties to drown out the screaming he can't unhear, and yet when bill's with ford he doesn't have to party. he can sit and talk and drink tea and play chess and be in stillness for hours and hours. that's extremely significant, but sadly bill only feels it, he doesn't understand it. ford makes him feel better, and therefore he has to keep ford for himself. even if ford's just a statue

[micaxiii]

#ford isnt just an onramp to him talking about euclydia #ford is the only person he ever honestly talked about that place with #he felt THAT FUCKING SAFE (tags written by @stemmmm)

[evilgoodguys]

interdimensional paternity court boutta go crazy

[iluminated-goat]

Enough 2fords fluff for now, time to return to my degeneracy. I talk a lot of preg!Stan but I can't believe you guys stood here watching me make a fool out of myself by completely forgetting about their firstborn son/j

Also biggest shout out to my amazing friend @mirrorworldangel who reminded me of this AU and got me inspired enough to finish these doodles I started a MONTH ago. Also why is the shapeshifter so hard to draw I'm not even kidding i was physically fighting the screen at times holy shit

This started more of a silly idea of wanting to see these two interact, especially in the context where Ford and Stan are... getting there in terms of fixing their relationship. And yeah the shapeshifter is an "animal"/anomaly, but it's still a baby y'know?? And considering the most prominent figures of his life were Ford and Fiddleford at the moment, I'd feel like he confuse Stan for Ford because of their similar appearance (and also cause newborns visions are SHIT I'm not even exaggerating). So Stan, who looks likes their main caretaker and whose smell is around the shack, is immediately considered family by him.

In summary it's just me throwing motherhood at Stan with the speed of a missile. Needless to say my guy is not on board with the idea for the first hours. But listen, when the only thing you've been practically doing is preparing to care for a baby, you kinda start recognising some things – willingly or unwillingly. So yeah, Stan might as well adopt the entire forest at this point.

So he takes care of Shapey with the excuse that "he's preparing for the real deal", that he's just going to take him to Ford and never see him again. But the kid grows on him like a fungus, especially when he takes Ford's young appearance – that he later changes to look a bit like Stan too (that's their mama wether Stan wants it or not). And yeah, Stan doesn't really call Ford his "Pa" cause that's kind of tied to their father, doesn't really feel like it belongs to his brother.

And no hate to Ford, he genuinely liked Shapey too. But my guy canonically treated him like a pet and Fiddleford was too terrified to get near him, so Stan's the one teaching him how to actually behave/adapt as a human (which just hardens his resolve that Stan IS his mom/caretaker).

And considering Shapey is still learning how to shift and how to be a human, he's in the middle line of the uncanny valley. He looks like a mix of both Ford and Stan (like a fusion), the way he moved (a bit stiff and uncoordinated), his eyes flashes like a nocturnal animal and his teeth (i know he leans more towards a bug, but I gave him the teeth of a giant isopod (top teeth) and an African Bullfrog (lower teeth) – fun fact, you can hold them like a baby in the crook of your arm/elbow from how big they are!)

While Stan's on his single-mother-era, Ford and Fiddleford are almost turning the forest upside down trying to find Shapey bc what if he gets hurt or hurts someone??? They're worried the kid is on the brink of death while he's out there living his best life playing with Stan, learning how to walk and write, eating more things than canned food and having bedtime stories. So yeah when Stan finally goes to them saying "look what I found in my bed lmao" the two are almost having a stroke.

Ford just doesn't start yelling/accusing Stan of tempering with the research (we stan a king who is not accustomed to change) because 1. Shapey has a fully human appearance 2. They don't want to startle the kid and accidentally hurt Stan (even more with his current situation - the pregnancy).

Stan with messy mullet hair, that's it. Shapey kind of starts losing the shape of what he shifted after long period of hours because he's not really used to it and he's still learning about his powers (and also cause putting a kid to sleep is hard). In case you want to know Ford's internal monologue, it's just him going: "he named him after me, he still want us to be family" kind of thing.

Also sorry if this is confusing to read, I'm almost falling asleep (which is becoming a pattern whenever I post lmao) so I'm gonna dip, good night or morning whenever you are guys.

Nothing much to add, but I really want to thank you guys for all the support you've given me. It genuinely makes me happy that you guys like my silly drawings and ideas. I know that I'm not very active on the tag or on other blogs (lack of motivation and I'm shy :(( ), but I want you guys to know that I appreciate every single one of my followers, lurkers, mutuals and my amazing friends. You guys are so cool and I'm grateful for every single one of you :D 🩵

[diacidic-remade-deactivated2025]

[kayiiin]

Super belated happy birthday to the grunkles and Gravity Falls!!!

How it start

[tiredyaoi]

he loves the lil thing..

bonus silly under cut

[strangersees]

Breaking news, Mabel Juice is denser than water

[kayiiin]

I present to you— Itty Bitty Grunkles! They're one jellybean tall.