Wolf

Hello there, traveler! I am Wolf. This is my Gravity Falls blog. Feel free to harass me and send me prompts; both drawing & writing. 18+ please.

[pineslycan]

Death of Me

Rating: M |substance abuse|

Pairing: Ford Pines & Stan Pines |GEN|

Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst, AU

ao3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28946787

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“Why’d you do it Stanley?,” It comes out sort of slurred, the buzz from the alcohol can almost be felt in the air surrounding the words. 

“Dun what, Sixer?” Stan asks, a look of total blankness on his face, clueless of any answer to Ford’s vague question. He’s definitely less gone than his brother, years of binge drinking bringing his tolerance up higher than one should ever be proud of. There’s a sweltering tension hanging in the room, like a summer’s day where the heat waves can be seen rising off the sidewalk. It feels like it could easily stay, go unnoticed and unmentioned, but heat is hard to ignore when it’s burning skin. 

“Why did you ruin my science fair project?”

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[pineslycan]

i like the idea that Shermie Pines is an overly normal, middle class American Dude (tm) but i also like the idea where he went off the grid after his kids grew up and never shuts up about government conspiracies

[incomingalbatross]

It’s just really funny to me–especially as someone who came into this fandom years after the show ended–that there was this unconscious assumption in the GF fanbase that Dipper was the Hero.

Between Sock Opera and NWHS especially, it seems like, the theories and speculation and fics all tended to revolve around Dipper. Bill was his nemesis. He was the center of this big overarching plot, whatever it was. And then…turned out that not only was that not how the story was going, that was never the story. 

The second half of season two completely recontextualized the Big Overarching Plot as revolving around Stan and Ford–Bill was and always had been Ford’s nemesis, Stan and Ford were at the center of everything involving Bill and the Journals and the gravity anomalies, and in the end Stan was 100% the Hero. Dipper and Mabel were crucial to giving the story a happy ending, but…it wasn’t their story, primarily. They walked into Act 3 with the rest of us.

And honestly, that’s really cool. For one thing, it’s super impressive how well NWHS and AToTS managed to reframe the entire narrative. Beautiful writing work. For another, I just…really love that people assumed Dipper was the Protagonist being set up to Vanquish The Evil, because in a kid’s cartoon it’s the main kids’ job to defeat the villain, right? And Dipper was wrapped up in all this mystery/plot/Bill stuff? And then the story basically picked him up and moved him to the side a little like “no. The grownups are going to deal with being Bill’s nemeses and having to sacrifice themselves to defeat evil. These are THEIR roles.” And it’s so thoroughly against the audience expectations–but once you have watched it, it also feels like the only way things ever could have gone.

[rum-and-shattered-dreams]

Yes! This was the thing that impressed me so much about this story. In the end, the adults were there with and for the kids in the fight against the big bad. The kids were an essential part of helping, not the ones shouldering all of the responsibility. Also, I’m sure a cartoon about two older brothers would have been dismissed by producers as uninteresting to kids but damn, a story like that sure was what people wanted to see. (And I think people underestimate what is interesting to kids. They can empathize with way more than what some people want to imagine). Two (actually three because of Fiddleford) people with an extensive, complicated history who, despite decades of trauma, finally get to resolve things and start really living their lives. And they managed to write it by weaving that story in under the kids’ story then bringing it to the surface near the end and it made complete sense because the groundwork was all there.

[pineslycan]

I would like to add that no one has to fight Bill alone. Ford may have started off that way, may have tried things that way, but everyone in the end carried a share of the weight on their shoulders, and it is such a breath a fresh air it didn't turn out as "the one and only chosen hero" trope like pretty much all other media labeled for kids. It tells a story of it being okay to ask for help, for a helping hand, for a shoulder to cry on, and that is a very powerful message to give to a person- of any age.

[dirtygfconfessions]

[pineslycan]

a small notice:

darkwoodwolf -> pineslycan

[mychlapci]

i literally cannot stop thinking about shermie pines and how its insane that stan and ford have an older (or younger i mean whatever) brother or sister or whatever because its literally insane to think that shermie is just some Guy, with a picket fence and two story blue suburban house, whos brothers are a weird conman greaser who was in prison most his life and a mad cultist scientist. like im obsessed with the idea that shermie is just some Guy while stan and ford are literally insane.

[roseverdict]

shermie is the one wearing headphones and jamming while everybody else in their family is having a knock-down drag-out brawl in the background wwkjdskdnskdjskxh

[mandaloriandragontrainer]

[dirtygfconfessions]

are the stans circumsized yes or no

Well they are American and Jewish so I mean, probably yes

[pineslycan]

why is this so funny to me

[luimnigh]

...oh.

Stan didn't just pretend to be Ford in order to keep hold of the Mystery Shack.

Stan was disowned. He hadn't spoken to his family in decades.

By pretending to be Ford, Stan was able to be a part of his family again.

And that's the only reason Mabel and Dipper are there. Because the Pines Parents knew "Stanford" well enough to send their kids to spend the Summer with him. And they only knew him because he pretended to be Ford.

[hellmandraws]

Keep reading

[falloutcipher]

(I made this wayyyyy back before roadside attraction but since the series is almost over I figured I’d finally post it)

[dippersguidetotheunexplained]

absolutely wracking my brain for even a vague hint of the possibility ford could be home of phobic / transphobic in canon and im coming up with absolutely nothing why was that apparently such a popular headcanon. i mean i know why but why

[pineslycan]

Ford is gnc as fuck with his princess unattainabelle performance, worst i could see is he's on Reddit for the sole purpose of being an unhinged femboy

[hart-arts]

*opening theme music*

[dippersguidetotheunexplained]

i love when someone expresses doubt about something absolutely batshit that mcgucket has done that i mention in a text post and then i get to whip out my copy of journal 3 like im a seasoned academic pulling out a dusty tome to drop some Relevant Spooky Lore in the beginning of a poorly written horror movie

[dippersguidetotheunexplained]

uhhhh do you know about him drinking the alien cow milk immediately after ford told him not to

[dippersguidetotheunexplained]

[pineslycan]

Saying either of them have "common sense" I would argue is a stretch, at times.

[stylampa-deactivated20220516]

*vibrates at a frequency that could shatter glass due to proximity alone* i love him a normal amount

[pineslycan]

It's 3am, we all have moving brain rot, and so we bought these rocks from the dollar tree ~for science~

[dirtygfconfessions]

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