Naz | she/they | This is the only hyperfixation sideblog I ever made and now I kind of don't watch enough cartoons to want to keep it up but I guess we're locked in. Main: @badkidgorgug
dr doofenshmirtz is a trans man to me. like look at him hes so trans man coded. "but evan he has a daughter from an ex wife" ok, he made an inator to give trans men the ability to get women pregnant, next question
My favorite part about Stanley is how he is the representation of Home.
Despite being this type of character that you think others would want no part of, Stan truly is an irreplaceable member of the community because there is no Gravity Falls without Mr. Mystery. Unlike Ford who spent his time in Gravity Falls in seclusion, to the point where no one in town knew him enough to call out Stan replacing him, twin or not, Stan is an active part of the community.
Everyone knows Stan. The grocery store employees, the Corduroys, the Northwests, the Gleefuls, the Ramirez's, Greasy Diner consumers, the press, the police, the town crazy (Fiddleford), children, older people, the mechanics, the tourists. Everyone knows Stan in some shape or form. He actively participates in their community by performing certain roles for people.
He's the convict, he's the joyful old customer, he's the boat renter, he's the diner customer, he's the business man, he's a man who needs a repair, he's a man with a story to tell, he's a man who has jobs for the younger people, he's the "third space" for younger people. Just like how he's had multiple identities, he also has multiple roles he plays to keep up with his appearance as this eccentric old man that lives in the woods.
Sometimes those identities give him a negative connotation, but he's been that way for so long now that most people see him as a relatively harmless (though not completely trustworthy) entity. Why else would parents of young children be so ok letting their kids spend time around him like in "Double Dipper" or "Summerween". Why else would Manly Dan allow his teenage daughter to work for him? The community knows Stan enough to see through the layers of him and recognize him as one of their own, despite being a transplant.
And the sad part is that Stan doesn't realize that he has become Home.
He is so dedicated to trying to bring his family back that he can't see that he has essentially built a family, a community, around him. I think we see that kinda come to together during the season finale when Stan explains that Fiddleford, who at this point has had very very very limited canon interactions with Stan, comes to the Mystery Shack with refugees for shelter. (Yes, this is peak jackass Stanley but honestly, at that point, he must have figured his whole family was dead and accepted it as is because the entire world outside was going to shit super fast.) But back to the point, Fiddleford and his group went to the shack. they could have gone anywhere else but they went to the shack for safety. Even the supernatural creatures went to the shack for safety. I wouldn't doubt that Stan, during his 30 years of living there, had some pretty significant interactions with the weirdness of Gravity Falls that wasn't just a passive bystander or a victim.
I think it's Ford who brings it up to Stan how much it seems that the community is going to miss him. Stan jokes back that they're not gonna miss a headache like him but Ford begs to differ. He's made a genuine impact on these peoples lives long before weirdmageddon started. Stan won't believe him, he can't believe him, but Ford doesn't stop telling him, and it doesn't stop from it being true.
I’ll try my best to describe this. It’s a video with a mash-up of a bunch of different Disney movies, set to a song that’s a mash-up of a bunch of other songs. That in and of itself wouldn’t make it praiseworthy, but this is DONE SO WELL that just, holy cow.
Stan and Soos' sorta-Dad and Sonployee relationship
We of course have Soos assigning Stan as his father figure the moment he got hired
But Stan holds that moment dear too, with Soos becoming his main source of company after the Mystery Shack, his first big success, was starting to hit rock bottom. And he made sure to keep the screwdriver that led Soos to him for a decade which unfortunately gets stolen by a certain time traveler...
(Their meeting being a paradox of Soos' family leading him to them is super sweet too!)
Playing one game of catch with their dads still was a dream for both of them, even when it was clear that it'll never happen, even when Soos knows that the Pines are his family and he shouldn't care about that biological deadbeat, even when Filbrick threw Stan away like trash.
But both of them end up finding closure with each other anyway.
Along with Stan likely teaching him how to fix golf carts (to the point that Soos is pretty skilled at it now), he also taught him boxing and tried to do something about his birthday, which is another sore spot for the both of them.
In the Sooscast, we have Stan continuing with the podcast despite learning this horrifying truth/not understanding what the hell is going on.
Noticeably, we see that Stan is a lot more lenient on Soos in comparison to Dipper, mostly because Stan doesn't project most of his issues onto him. (Not that he's immune from chores or shitty tasks but that's the burden of being a sonployee...)
And in NWHS, Stan trusts him to guard the lab with no questions asked (even if that ended up being foiled by Soos loving Mabel and Dipper too)
The comic story is Soos helping Stan regain and continue one of his childhood dreams, with the website having Stan continuing to draw on the Stan o' War.
And while unfortunately most of their father-son relationship content is at the end or after the series, Alex still said a lot about them in the commentary and interviews!
Before they met, Soos was someone who appeared to only really have his Abuelita and cousin, while Stan had.... a baby goat. And a disappearing frilly lizard.
We have Stan claiming that the reason why he never had children was because of his own dad and that money is basically his child (which just loops around back to his money obsession being his desire to get back his family)
But even still, he passes down the Shack and fez to Soos with barely any pause, the fez in particular being tied up with a lot of complex emotions. But Soos getting his own suit fitted just for him and not being pressured to wear a girdle to hide his weight kinda symbolizes to me that the role of Mr Mystery is now free from that baggage.
And whenever we'd end up getting Stan o' War stories, I'm sure the two of them are gonna get way more father-son moments
(Filbrick's impact on Stan post, Stan projecting on Dipper post)
out of the backyard gang baljeet is one of the worst to make into a coffee table. ferb would also be pretty bad. phineas and isabella would be mid because they have those bigass heads but the skinny bodies. might be worse than baljeet and ferb if you're a person who cares about symmetry. buford would objectively make the best coffee table because his silhouette has the most evenly-spaced surface area. now if you wanna talk about pnf characters in general i think pet mode perry would be the best coffee table out of all of them
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