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Eleven years. ELEVEN YEARS. How could that even be possible? This show seems like it aired yesterday, it's so fresh in my mind. A show this special might never stop feeling like yesterday, because it's a part of me now, a part of who I am in the present. In eleven more years, I hope to still be rewatching. Happy 11 years of Gravity Falls!
Oh, and happy birthday to Stan and Ford - that's today too!
TIL that June 15, the date that the first ever Gravity Falls episode was aired, is also Stan and Ford’s birthday!
I almost forgot - this is also today! Happy birthday to Stan and Ford Pines!
IS TODAY!!!
grunkle stan?
How I feel about this character: There’s so much that I love about Stan! He’s a very complicated character who’s mysterious, mischievous, and lovable.
All the people I ship romantically with this character: Really no one. I never focused all that much on shipping while watching Gravity Falls. Like I said before, though, Steda does intrigue me.
My non-romantic OTP for this character: Stan and Ford. Their relationship is so complicated and at times angsty, but ends in such a wholesome way. I love it.
My unpopular opinion about this character: God, I can't really think of one. The best I can come up with is that Stan was completely justified in demanding that Ford say thank you. Maybe he went a little overboard at the end, but I can honestly see myself doing the same thing.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I would have like to have a little bit of insight into Stan’s deteriorating mental condition as work on the portal. He would have been incredibly sleep deprived and been weighed down by guilt and fear. I know Gravity Falls couldn’t show anything too brutal because of their young audience, but I would have liked to see some of that.
Thanks for the ask!
TIL that June 15, the date that the first ever Gravity Falls episode was aired, is also Stan and Ford’s birthday!
If you’re still doing the ship game
FIDDAUTHOR
I haven’t seen much new content for it and I feel like I’m going insane! I need someone to back me up about these nerds lmao
(I’m pretty sure I saw you mentioned you ship it if I’m wrong or you have already answered an ask about it I’m so sorry)
10/10.
You’re right, I did mention that I was a Fiddauthor shipper in another post! I agree, I don’t see a lot of new Fiddauthor content, mostly just reblogs of stuff from a while back. Fiddauthor is probably my favorite ship from Gravity Falls. I personally am mostly a young Fiddauthor fan. I go back and forth on whether I headcanon Ford and Fiddleford getting back together now that they’re both old men, but I definitely think they were together when they were young researchers. I mean, does living and working in a secluded cabin in the woods with your best friend from college not scream “we’re secretly a couple?” Like a good portion of Fiddauthor shipper (and Gravity Falls fans in general), I think that Stan and Ford’s dad might have been homophobic. Maybe Fiddleford’s parents were too, but we don’t really know anything about them, while the Pines’s parents are known to not be great people.
I think Fiddauthor is really cute, but I also like how it adds a whole new layer of angst to Ford’s story, especially where Bill gets involved. Fiddleford became convinced (quite correctly) that his boyfriend was being controlled by some evil force, and tensions between the two grew until Fiddleford quit working with Ford, essentially breaking up with him. Ford was probably very angry at the time, but when he realized that Fiddleford was right, he would have been overcome with guilt. The phrase “I’m sorry, Fiddleford” appears multiple times when Ford is attached to the mind-protection machine in The Last Mabelcorn, implying that Ford is still racked with guilt over what he’s done to Fiddleford. Overall, it’s a pretty heartbreaking story.
I also think this ship has a lot of evidence to support it. There’s a whole wealth of evidence, some of my favorite points being that there was only one bed in the bunker that they were both going to stay in, Ford being the only person in Gravity Falls that calls Fiddleford by his first name, and Ford calling Fiddleford “the man I once held so dear” in Journal 3. All in all, Fiddauthor is a great ship, and while it isn’t canon, I think it's close.
Thank you for the ask! Always good to talk to another Fiddauthor shipper :)
Dipper X Therapy.
9/10.
Yeah, now that you say it, Dipper’s got some trauma under his belt after everything that happened during Weirdmageddon. And also, imagine the crushing weight of his guilt after he realized that he was yelling at Mabel to push the button, which would have kept Ford trapped in another dimension. Therapy really couldn’t hurt.
The Stans x Sleep.
12/10. OTP. Get these men some sleep.
Billford?
1/10.
No hate whatsoever towards Billford shippers or anyone else who ships Bill, but I don't see Bill that way. I actually like Bill as a character quite a lot, and he delivers some of the best lines in the series, but at the end of the day, he’s a soulless demon that doesn’t care how much suffering he causes. Alex Hirsch has talked before about how he was surprised to see so many drawings of human Bill as this sexy young guy, and I agree with him. In my head, I see the canon human Bill Cipher. Bill never cared for Ford. He used him and drove him crazy and threatened him and tortured him. Bill never cared for anyone. He was cruel and heartless to everyone in Gravity Falls. I think Bill sees humans as nothing but pawns in his selfish schemes. I don’t think I’ll ever ship Bill with anyone.
Thanks for the ask!
So, I think Dipper Pines is a trans boy. If you would like me to explain why I have that headcanon/theory, let me know and I’d be happy to make a post about it. For the meantime, however, there are already a lot of posts outlining the evidence. Today, I wanna talk about a common reason people reject the trans Dipper theory, and why I think it just makes the theory MORE believable.
A little background on the trans dipper theory. Again, there is a lot more to the theory than what I list here. The theory was actually once relatively common when Dipper’s real name was shrouded in secrecy. People theorized that his real name could actually be his deadname. Dipper’s name was not revealed until the print version of Journal 3, released after the conclusion of the series. After Dipper’s real name, Mason, was revealed, the theory died down in popularity (although it had already lost some popularity by then). Fans saw Dipper’s real name as counterevidence. But I disagree.
The name Mason was revealed in Journal Three, in an entry written by Ford. Here’s exactly what the journal said (written from Ford’s pov):
“You and I are some of the strangest beans this town has ever seen, Dipper,” I told him.
“Mason,” he blurted out. He seemed shocked by what had come out of his mouth, and then deliberately repeated it. “My real name is Mason. Dipper is just a nickname. But everyone got used to it, and now it feels too late to tell everyone the truth. And it’s kind of a dumb name anyway. Don’t tell anyone.”
I tussled his hair and smiled at him. “Your secret’s safe with me, Mason,” I said. “And I think it’s a great name. The Masons are a great secret society, you know.” He smiled. I realized how much he trusted me–and what a shame it was that he was leaving at the end of the summer.
Let’s set the scene. Dipper and Ford are adventuring together. They are bonding, and Dipper has been developing this complete trust in Ford. I think that while they were on this trip, Dipper started to think about potentially telling Ford his big secret–he’s trans. Naturally, his brain wandered, and he started to think about his name.
I think that Dipper DOES have a deadname, and we don’t know what it is. He adopted Dipper as a nickname, perhaps even before he knew he was trans, and kept it, never choosing a new name. But, of course, he was thinking about it, and he privately thought that he liked the name Mason. In a moment of trust, he blurts out his chosen name to Ford, who is the first person to hear it. (Ford, however, was in another dimension when Dipper was born and does not know that Mason isn’t his birth name).
This theory is supported by everything else that Dipper says. He blurts out his name, and then repeats it, almost to himself. I think it’s the first time he’s said his chosen name to anyone else. Then there's the line “and now it feels too late to tell everyone the truth.” That line sounds absolutely trans-coded to me. It’s hard to tell people about a name or pronoun change, especially when you’re already Dipper’s age or older and it feels like it’s too late because everyone already knows your deadname. And finally, Dipper instantly second-guesses and feels self-conscious about his choice of name, saying “it’s kind of a dumb name anyway.”
The way Dipper reveals his name implies to me that it is a chosen name. I don’t think learning that Dipper’s name is Mason disproves the trans dipper theory. I think it does exactly the opposite.
why is the stanford x fiddleford ship name fiddauthor and not the obviously better name fordford
Let 👏 him 👏swear👏
Gravity Falls AU where everything is the same except this is how Weirdmageddon begins
