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He's going through it

Man oh man did this take a while but I finally finished the family bonding montage at last! Wasn’t expecting it to take me so long but eh. Enjoy these sweet moments with the favorite family ❤️

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When I first got the idea of this image, I wanted to draw a comic, at least a sketch comic followup. And since people like it, I'm uploading the followup :D

stan is the only member of the pines twins^2 to never make a deal with bill and i think he needs more credit for that.

ford makes, just, so many deals with his demon boyfriend

dipper literally trades his body to bill in sock opera

and while i will die on the hill that it was never her fault, mabel is tricked into making a deal with him for weirdmagenon.

but stan never gets tricked. the only time he comes close was when he was pretending to be ford but that was with the sole purpose of getting bill erased. never does bill get to him or twist his thoughts. for being the "dumb one" he's surprisingly rational in this was.

nobody matches bill intellectually, ford's fatal flaw is that he thought he did, and the pines family wins because they have an emotional core that bill never had (the power of sibling bonding saves the day and i love it) but ill go out on a limb and say that out of everyone, stan is the only one to match bill's street smarts.

bill's a master manipulator but stan is a professional con-artist with no respect for the law, you tell me who's coming out on top.

stan successfully faked his own death, ran a business for 30 years, taught himself some sort of advanced engineering to repair the portal, evaded local, federal and international authorities from the age of 18, and did it all without any support.

and going back to when he pretends to be ford to get bill to enter his mind, that scene makes stan the only character to ever outwit bill.

anyways this has been a stan pines appreciation post, thank you and goodnight

YESSS OP SPEAK LOUDER. I would also like to add that something phenomenal about Gravity Falls as a story is how much it's designed to grow with its audience. As a child, you watch the show from Dipper and Mabel's perspectives-- who are by all means, young children who understandably, like all children do, take the adults in their lives for granted. They look at Stanley and see their morally ambiguous uncle who probably sprang into the world as a gravelly old man. They're too young and the target audience is too young to understand the incredible odds Stanley struggled against to, not just survive, but remain a loving person when he had absolutely nobody on his side from the moment he stepped into adulthood. He's impulsive and self-destructive sure, but deep down, he's still driven by that innocent unconditional love he built with Ford, and it shapes his every action. Every junky knick knack he sold, every unlawful gimmick, every million dollar smile, every back pain, every sleepless night, was done for the sake of bringing his family together. The world hated Stanley Pines but that didn't stop him from mustering every ounce of strength he had to protect his brother, his kids, and their home. That dorito didn't stand a chance, frankly.

Nightmare

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Accessorize ! Accessorize ! Accessorize !

based off of how my dad got his ears pierced))

God I love the insane amounts of d r i p Stanley just casually wears

Thiswas me trying to figure out how to draw Stanley

Istilldont know how

I played dress up with the Stans =]

twin brothers are unbearable actually

y’all just— thinking about how excited Stanley must have been to host the twins— Alex says he smokes cigars but he doesn’t smoke once in the show— has a beer gut but he only drinks sodas in front of the kids— doesn’t swear when they’re around which must have taken INCREDIBLE effort— Stanley Pines, known crook, buying pancake mix at the supermarket and many bottles of syrup— learning to cook basic healthy meals and burning so many of them before he gets it right— buying new sheets, new mattresses— avoiding bunk beds because it reminds him of Ford— looking at the attic room he made wondering “is this enough will they like me”— trying to act aloof at the bus stop so he doesn’t betray the fact that he was there hours early— watching them goof around and thinking of New Jersey beaches— then the first night they’re there, he watches them debate running away and only stay because Mabel shook a magic 8 ball. That must have kept him awake all night.

We’re back in the goddamned Mystery Shack!

Okay but seriously-- I’ve always thought that Stan would, at some point, teach Mabel how to box. That girl has had a mean left hook from EPISODE ONE. If Dipper and Ford get nerdtime, these two get boxing. 😤👏

young stan & eda but it's sapphic