Can we PLEASE talk about the implications of Bill erasing the memories of arguably their most intense, traumatic, and intimate moments straight from Ford’s head. I know TBOB Pitch is not inherently canon, but the idea that Bill just wanted Ford to think they were less involved in any capacity? To just make it seem like they were more distant than they actually were??
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Are they lov— worse it’s worse
Man what the hell was Ford doing in college besides wear booty shorts, think about Nikola Tesla, and pine over his roommate because Im starting to believe the dude had his plate full
I think the Book of Bill executed the "btw the villain had a sad childhood all along!!" trope in the ONLY way that wouldn't make me upset. Establishing that we've had the wrong idea about Bill's race the whole time, and that his eye is an anomaly, ultimately bringing new depth to his relationship with Ford instead of just "explaining his crimes" is SO FUCKING GOOD.
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“i’ve made first contact with an extradimensional deity of knowledge…in a top hat”
Do yall ever read your own writing and kinda fall in love with yourself. "Oh my god who wrote that I need to make out with them" YOU did bitch. This is a private google doc
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but i remember everything
The most confusing feeling is realizing you relate to Stan in a "small town mama's boy with a starving heart, who never really lost the roots of his hometown, never learned how to make connections, only enemies, and left a piece of himself back in that house" way, while also relating to Ford in a "pressures of being a golden child mean you're always tethered to nothing, dreaming of more, starving to fly even when your gifts are held higher than yourself, and maybe you'll never change the world like everyone said you would" way.
And that maybe these things need each other, in a twisted sort of way. Maybe they live hand in hand. Maybe they share a twin bed.
#gotta stop working on my fic at 4 am#makes me post dumb shit like this#gravity falls#stanford pines#ford pines#stanley pines#pines twins#growing up in a trailer in the south#being told i was gonna make my family good money some day#and now my parents dont talk to me. whats that about#why did they make a cartoon about me
Rewatching season 1 is hard because suddenly The Legend of the Gobblewonker isn't a cute story about kids learning to cherish their elders, suddenly it's about Stan trying to relive his lost childhood and sail with his family because he never got to with Ford :(
I don't always give myself a lot of credit when it comes to writing comedy, but every time I rewrite this chapter I can't help but giggle at this dumbass exchange. Mabel's dramatic fake "this hurts you more than me" weeping VS Bill just wordlessly reaching around her VS her completely monotone acceptance of what just happened. Damn maybe I AM funny
Fidds' memory being an allegory for alcoholism and Ford's story being reminiscent of religious trauma. Alex comparing Ford to Icarus. Fiddleford "you're the one with the sickness" Mcgucket erasing Ford's memory when he brought up how reliant Fidds was on the gun. I hate them.