The Month of May-bel 2025 has ended. I wanna thank all the artists, fanfic writers and more who participated this year.
It's amazing to see the fandom so alive still and coming together for another year to celebrate Mabel. This year, thanks to The Book of Bill hype, I made the month all about Gravity Falls books. And the turn out was amazing. This was the first year in ages where so many artists participated in every single week's theme. There was so much amazing art that I couldn't fit it all in this collage, but it should give you an idea of how much incredible stuff was created by fans.
We also had some video and fanfic related submissions this year which were new. I am beyond thankful for all of you for your hard work.
I say every year IDK if I'll host this event again. But at the same time, there really isn't anyone else doing it. I mean, I started this mainly as a way to celebrate Mabel in a time when the fandom still over hated on her thanks to posts and videos that were biased and ruined her reputation in the fandom. But these days, that stuff isn't so much an issue now, as many of those bad apple fans have left, those videos are either now discredited or gone and most fans agree the hate was way too much. So, IDK now if there is still the same fandom momentum for events like this that are month long. The original Mabel Pines appreciation week in 2015 was started for this reason; to help spread awareness and love for Mabel in at time fans were hating on her, and that only was a week event.
But, as long as I'm still in this fandom, I'll continue this. So, if I'm still around in 2026, you can be sure May-bel Month will return. But until then, keep loving Mabel. Because she's a character with so much of it to give...so it's important for us to show back how much we really do care for her!
Thank you again, everyone who participated. Below is a list of all artists featured and who made something for this year.
Tumblr artists featured: @theeddyinbetween, @car9723-t, @sc00bynatura1, @cb-works13, @rabbitindemun, @biggielean, @iluminaughter
Instagram artists featured: @wonderland.pines , @panda_paws_drawings, @fabiancrespnav18, @artstylilly , @deadbeat_secondchild, @theverysillyartist , @iluminaughter , @shocknhorror, @artsylunaz, @m.iinced
Also thank you to catflakez on Bluesky for their art, MysteryFalls4 on Twitter for their meme video and Gravityfallsfan96 for their fanfictions for each week.
You all made Mabel proud :)
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