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 :)