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AS I PROMISED THE FANFICTION IS DONE!!! Finally. Here’s the link to it—thanks for the patience everyone.

I do hope you enjoy Anchor Me. I’ve spent 4 months writing it…

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62699416

#gravity falls #stanford pines #ford pines #grunkle stan #grunkle ford #gravity falls fandom #gravity falls fanfiction

Wow. Okay. It’s been a hot minute hasnt it. I haven’t posted, messaged any one, or even RP in a long time.

Well, I have no excuses. I have been on this sites daily—but it’s kinda lost that whole appeal of posting everyday. I feel more comfortable when I’m posting…whenever right now. Especially deals with the last embers of my senior year—I DO NEED SOME ME TIME!

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But I didn’t come back empty handed. I do—recently of a couple months—have a Reddit. I go under the name Creatorsecret and have posted many things related to understanding gravity falls. Made an entire series about it actually.

So if you want to see just a bit more acknowledgment of my existence, go there. Or…you know…wait for me to post again. But that is all—OH ONE MORE THING!

I have started writing and posting fan fiction. I’m actually gonna use this platform to prompt it—and at some point will make a post about the fanart that inspired me to make this fanfic you see above. But other than that. Stay tuned! Bye!

#gravity falls #stanford pines #stanley pines #Oh they have no idea what I have in store #the tags are nihts!!!#see ya later!#fanfic #gravity falls fanfiction #gravity falls fandom

thereareeyesinsidethetrees

have you ever wanted to write paranoid ford

here’s some aspects of our paranoia (and paranoid thinking as a result) that you can use to make him a tad more accurate. of course this doesn’t speak for everyone- but it’s stuff that could help if you have no idea where to start

-if the character’s shower has a curtain, checking both sides before even daring to turn it on. yes, both sides. yes, you do look both up and down. yes, this is an important step that must be repeated every single time to avoid death (in the character’s mind, anyhow)

-on that note, having a bunch of little rules that only apply to them. don’t go in this one room or you die. don’t walk around past x time or you die. be exceedingly careful when opening x kind of door or you die. must sleep with x thing or you die. things like that

-long walks into buildings, especially in open areas. quicken your step, lest someone follow behind. you think they’ll kill you if they catch up. quick quick quick, little rabbit, quick quick quick

-cars. cars driving by (‘what if they shoot me?’), someone sitting in a parked car (‘they’re waiting to run me over’), cars cars cars cars cars

-leaving house. leads you to open spaces, many opportunities to die

-darkness. you cannot see what is coming to kill you

-thinking that there is ALWAYS something coming to kill you

-startling whenever someone pulls out a sharp object near you. they may be cooking. they may just have turned slightly too much towards you when pulling out scissors to open a package. either way, regardless of who it was, regardless of how much you trust them, you fully thought you were about to be gutted like a fish for a moment there

-always keeping your curtains drawn, your blinds closed (‘so they can’t see me’)

-hatred of being looked at (‘why? are you going to do something? if you hadn’t noticed me, there would have been zero chance of you killing me. now it’s gone up slightly’)

-anxiety. always imagining worst case scenario

-flinching when going down hallways and such too fast (‘what if there’s something waiting to kill me around the corner or a fucking spike or something is going to spear me through the skull if i go too fast’)

-*notices one tiny blemish on food* ‘this is going to kill me. i am not eating this. i will die’

-trying to appease invisible forces in order to convince them not to kill you. may include talking to nothing

-if you have objects with eyes or eye-like features in your house, turning them completely away from you when doing something you deem personal and/or important

-going to bed? keep all hands and feet within the ride at all times. you’re sure you’ll die otherwise

-staying in a hotel? you might find yourself focusing on the faint lights of the clock or alarm. you might find yourself focusing on them because you’re sure they’re going to kill you

-‘it’s not paranoia if something’s really out to get you’ and you’re damn sure there is (if only you had concrete evidence so people would believe you…)

-everything is a gamble with staying alive. this thing might lead to your death. this thing makes you fear dying. this thing makes you feel like you have one strike left before you meet your end

-for no reason at all, going to bed and thinking ‘i hope they kill me while i’m asleep so i don’t have to be awake for my death that is surely coming tonight’

-goes without saying, but suspicious of everyone. very hard to get you to trust that someone has your best interests in mind (for example: paranoid ford trusting stan and stan alone to help him, being terrified of anyone else)

-delusions. example from us: actively shutting off your train of thought anytime someone gets too close cause you’re sure they can hear your thoughts and you don’t want them to see anything that could put you in danger (you also just don’t want them to look at those in general)

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water-god19

Thanks so much for this—extremely helpful!

In the fic I’m currently writing—Ford is looking out of a window despite feeling like he’s being watched. After reading your explanation…it seems this might be counterintuitive? Not sure—if someone is paranoid then wouldn’t they be checking the areas that hold potential danger? Idk.

I’m thinking of having a pencil stare at him—or at least he thinks it is—he he turns the pencil around so only the eraser is facing him. Yet, he still feels like he’s being watched by something and just throws it against the wall. (This might make more sense with the information presented here—these scenarios aren’t one or the other. They both happen.)

thereareeyesinsidethetrees

(responding to the confusion in the first paragraph (‘if someone is paranoid, wouldn’t they be checking the areas that hold potential danger?’))

like we said, paranoia is different for anyone. this post was sorta just to give folks an idea of what a paranoid mindset is like

but! in our experience, you do both! for us, there are specific spots and areas that are thought of as ‘danger areas’ that are checked regularly (especially as it gets dark and they become harder to see). covering these areas up can help relieve some of the stress and anxiety since nothing can be watching you through there anymore

for windows, it sort of depends. for example, hearing a car drive by could prompt you to look outside the window to see what they’re doing, make sure they’re sticking around your area. on the other hand, certain noises could be labeled ‘danger noises’ in the mind. for these, it feels safer to avoid them (so, keep the curtains drawn and don’t look, basically)

another thing to consider with paranoia is how the paranoid person interacts with perceived danger. checking certain things might feel safer, while checking other things might feel like a risk. for example, if you look out the window, are you checking to make sure nothing’s there or are you alerting a threat to your presence? the danger of the second possibility may deter one from checking at all

what we said earlier in the post about a hatred of being watched is a good explanation for this one we think. if you haven’t been noticed, your chance of being hunted is significantly lower. once you may the threat aware of your presence, your chance of being hunted goes up

it’s a really precarious balancing act, basically. you have to balance making sure you’re not in danger with making sure you stay unnoticed, and some things that could make you feel safer (like checking windows) also carry the risk of making your presence known

that was a really long and kinda ramble-y explanation, but we hope it helped clear up the confusion a bit! ^^

water-god19

Yes this does clear up the confusion! Ford being paranoid has always been an aspect I’ve wanted to try since being in this fandom 5 months ago. Currently working on a fic with him and Stanley—without spoiling anything—I wanted to create a surreal experience of him in his room—not lab—while having a vivid nightmare.