hello! i've decided to just edit my pinned post instead of making a new one, as one does.
→ my name is rayyan, if you couldn't tell. i'm 16 this year!
-> i do tons of stuff! i don't always show it, but i promise i do! i draw, write, and talk a lot!
-> my most active fandoms are backrooms, gravity falls, and hazbin hotel!
-> saya orang malaysia! (translation: i'm malaysian!) although, i would love to move to singapore or another less homophobic country.
-> no particular DNI, but i block if i feel like it!
-> before i end this off, i wanna give a special shout-out to my friends! @nazchokey and @sharkiewyu ! go check out their blogs, im sure youll find something of interest ( ╹▽╹ )
-> till next year; be nice, don't be a creep or a weirdo, and punch nazis!
the quality is in hell BUT if you can even see, the abs are meant to be a hershey's cookies and cream bar with green food colouring on top! the frosting was a last minute addition but i think i did well
[In order of appearance: Avel Ford / ABW!Ford by Mari. Loser Ford by @rayyanishere1. Reverse Portal Ford by @urdadsceilingfan. Jerk Ford by Me. Watchdog by @nowimjustastranger. Anti Ford is by Alex Hirsch and the wider fandom, but this specific interpretation is mine. Megalomanic Ford by @orxinus]
My goodness, an Epic the Musical reference! Specifically, the song God Games from The Wisdom Saga.
This gift idea was born from this post.
No text version and explanations below the cut.
Player: Avel Ford (From Everything Everywhere All At Once AU), Mari's take on A Better World) is Athena in this particular song, but the idea was he's supposed to be Odysseus. And instead of trying to go home, he's trying to redeem himself for unintentionally triggering his brother to commit suicide as seen in the prequel, and then later trying to steal Canon Stan from Canon Ford (He goes through a whole Mr. Steal-Your-Stan phase), which caused dimensional instability and his Fiddleford going missing in the multiverse.
Level 1: Loser Ford (from the Loser Ford AU) as Apollo. Loser Ford is one of the few variants here who didn't lose his Stan and they were never separated as teens, so it's only natural he would be the stand-in for a God known for being a twin, meaning he embodies the Didymaeus epithet, which is an aspect meant to refer to Apollo’s close bond with his sister Artemis.
Apollo was also one of easiest gods to convince in the song, and unlike most of his alts, Loser Ford is actually nice.
Level 2: Reverse Portal Ford (from urdadsceilingfan's Reverse Portal AU) as Hephaestus. As far are lore parallels go, Hephaestus is known as a smithing/artisan/craftsman God. RP!Ford in his AU runs a museum called Anomaly Oddity's. It differs from the canon Mystery Shack because instead of making up monsters out of taxidermy and glue, RP!Ford handcrafts realistic replicas of real supernatural creatures in Gravity Falls.
Hephaestus was also one of the easiest gods to be convinced. In his case, however, it's because RP!Ford would be a hypocrite not to extend the possibility/chance of redemption to Avel Ford, because his Stan was portaled and RP!Ford did not know if he was dead or alive.
There’s also Haphestas’ line “He sacrificed his own cohort.” a closer insight to his own hypocrisy because he chose keeping their dimension safe and stable over the possibility of rescuing his brother, something he did not correct for thirty years.
Level 3: Jerk Ford (from the Jerk Ford AU) as Aphrodite. Which may seem like a controversial choice, but hear me out. Jerk Ford, much like Loser Ford, was never separated from his twin brother until he was portaled, but unlike his kinder counterpart, he is not nice about it. Jerk Ford does have standards and typically does not use 'dead twin' as ammunition against a Pines variant, he would also be quick to point out that Avel Ford was not the only one affected by Stan's death.
“Claims to love his mother, but let her die of a broken heart.”
Aphrodite is widely considered a Goddess of Love, and there's more than one type of love. Greeks have different words for different types of love, and Jerk Ford embodies Storge, or familial love. Jerk Ford is family oriented, and even though Stan is the most important person to him, his goal in the multiverse was returning home to his FAMILY. His greatest fear was dying out there, and none of them ever knowing what happened to him. What Jerk Ford is against Avel Ford is that, presumably, Caryn died not knowing the truth behind Stan's death and Avel Ford’s own involvement in it.
(And Filbrick to a lesser degree but aint nobody give af about him)
Jerk Ford is one of the tougher nuts to crack; however, when Avel Ford gets vulnerable and pleads, Jerk Ford seems to be reconsidering, and then-
Level 4: Watchdog (from the Somebody to Call My Own AU) as Ares. Watchdog is an eerily close fit to Ares for a lot of reasons, the most obvious being that his most identifiable feature is his helmet. Ares is one of the Gods of War, closely aligning to Watchdog’s violent tendencies and aggression.
While Avel Ford fills the role of Odysseus and Athena because he’s advocating for himself, we’re going to look at his parallels with Athena. Athena, like Ares, is a God of War. And for that reason, they are often rivals who butt heads. Likewise, Watchdog and Avel Ford are a lot more alike than Watchdog would ever care to admit to. Namely, Watchdog’s Stan also committed suicide. Albeit, Watchdog wasn’t directly involved like Avel Ford, and it happened much sooner in his life, but the similarity remains; they both lost their twin brother to suicide, and that loss has haunted them ever since.
The thing you need to understand about Watchdog Ford is that if it weren’t for the fact that he dresses the part of a school shooter, he would absolutely belong in a classroom because he is a massive projector:
Watchdog’s anger and violence towards Avel Ford isn’t just in ‘justice’ for Avel Ford’s late brother, but also Watchdog’s own self-loathing. Calling him a sick coward, and later “Pathetic and weak” is a reflection of Watchdog’s self-image; no matter how strong he is, no matter how many Stan’s he saves, his own will forever be beyond his reach.
Naturally, he is the hardest one to convince.
However, Jerk Ford and Watchdog concede together; them being stand-ins for Aphrodite and Ares, who have their challenges grouped together, is a meta joke about Watchdog and Jerk Ford often being associated with each other and mentioned as a pair. So, Avel Ford would definitely make the retort “And tell your lover that a broken heart can mend.”
They are good friends who love each other, but they are not lovers; them being shipped together is a running joke made at their expense.
Level 5: Anti Ford (from the Anti Dimension, great uncle of Anti Mabel) is, much like Avel Ford, technically canon. While this is my interpretation of Anti Ford based on his vague description as a part time DJ and internet influencer, there’s no definitive version of him either so he’s a blank canvas.
He represents Hera because since he is technically canon, he’s one of the ‘strongest’ contenders here. Also, Hera’s verse is very disco inspired.That, and one of her associated animals being the peacock, fits right in with Anti Ford peacocking for internet clout.
While not the hardest to convince (that goes to Watchdog) he isn’t easy to break either, and Avel Ford has to pull something underhanded like how Athena pointed out Zeus’ cheating:
“Give me one good reason why you should prevail.”
“I hate J.K Rowling.”
“... You’re released.”
Final Boss: Megalomaniac Ford (From Euclydia Rises) as Zeus. So, MM!Ford is one of those god-level variants, either at the power level of canon Bill Cipher or close to it.
“Divine intervention, is that what you seek?”
His profile states he has the biggest ego in the multiverse and thinks he’s the best variant of Ford. And that’s why he’s the stand-in for the God-King of Olympus.
Given that he’s a cosmic war criminal, what would his beef with Avel Ford be?
“You dare to defy me?! To make me feel shame?!”
Well, honestly I think he just didn’t like being challenged, especially since he would have been so sure Avel Ford wouldn’t have been able to successfully plead his case to the others.
MM!Ford, like Avel Ford, has a dead Stan. However, his did not kill himself; because (I think, I could be wrong) MM!Ford killed him by proxy when he destroyed their dimension.
In this scene, Clark says "Can you imagine how good that must feel?"
"There's no thoughts, no pain, no ego. No fear. They simply exist. Like furniture."
But then when he turns the light off, the wheelchair user turns his lamp on. When Mary hits The Pirate with the concrete piece, he yells in pain. Clark consoles The Pirate as though its feelings might be hurt. And when the memory of his wife sees The Pirate, she tries desperately to get away.
They have every one of those things. He just refuses to see their interiority. Like he always did. Like he refused to understand why his wife would kick him out, and keeps refusing, even now that he can see that she was terrified of him. Cause she's always been just furniture to him.
scrolling through the notes on the idioms in other languages post is so fun and half of them are cute/make immediate sense when describing a certain thing and the other half would make you seem like a major threat to society if the other person did not know it was an idiom LMFAO
school uniform codes extending to what colours you’re allowed to dye your hair, and what piercings you can have and stuff is so crazy. you HAVE to go to school and you’re not even allowed to have pink hair or pierce your nose about it????
“oh it’s to prepare you for the workplace” okay. i don’t think any workplace should be dictating what you can and can’t do with your body either and i think it’s strange to decide to teach children that their body is not their own
so im at target right now doing christmas shopping with my dad and?? there’s just this… 67 dollar phone? not even like 69.99 or something but 67?? nnone of the other phones are like this??
see you guys in ten years when EVERYTHING is 67 i guess LMAO
One more time people, In defense of Op’s honor: “The Text is not legible so it’s AI”
On the right: photo taken in 2000s found on pinterest not ai. The text is legible just smeared if you lean back, two entirely different photos one a little clearer than the other, identical down to the banner all that’s different is the pricing being 67. When you overly sharpen something that is blurry it can create that halo and make it look very jank.
“Artifacting and the image looks ai generated”
Entirely different photo taken in target roughly 2015 2010 sorry, whenever the iphone 4 came out. A zoomed in picture of this otherwise clear photo warps the image and text considerably so this cannot be a clear enough argument.
“The Image is ai generated/doesn’t make any sense/too warped”
Phones were scary and beautiful back then
This is a Samsung Fascinate, if you notice it perfectly matches consistently through all the photos including OP’s and I don’t think Ai would have specifically injected something so specific as a Samsung Fascinate into its image much less one appropriate to the era
i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness
"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah🤤 i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.
i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights
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