Dipper leads the Pines on a quest to find a missing friend. Pacifica grapples with her past and current actions.
Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aF-wUBEwGG28ffs0oAa4jQtU2UecqC3LyEeCb8RWarA/edit?usp=sharing
CONTENT WARNING: Body Horror, Discussion of Trauma, Abuse Mention, Suicidal Ideation
Poster by: @o-lanterns
EPISODE ARCHIVE (currently undergoing renovations): https://www.tumblr.com/project-summerhome/681641441759559680/summerhome-episodes-masterpost?source=share CHARACTER REFERENCES: https://www.tumblr.com/project-summerhome/720895734442049536/summerhome-character-references-masterpost?source=share AO3 MIRROR: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3578368
Mabel
Dipper
Stan
Ford
Soos
Candy
Grenda
Laurent
Talitha and Delfina
Dipper, Mabel, and Laurent by @tangelojack Stan, Ford, and Soos by @o-lanterns Candy and Grenda by @fmab Talitha and Delfina by @irradiatedsnakes
When Dipper and Mabel return to Gravity Falls, Mabel gets overwhelmed by how much she’s missed out on since their last visit. Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wROKiTxysqdkxo1KN-gtmEVSYGnXazc7bqgwQFQWWmQ/edit?usp=sharing AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48070828/chapters/121216093 Poster by @irradiatedsnakes Happy Summerween, everyone! Content warnings: Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
Eleven years. How has this show been around for eleven years. How. I don’t understand. What’s happening to us. The sand in the hourglass is falling so much faster than it’s supposed to. I try to hold onto it but I can’t even break the glass. And yet, somehow, safe in its case, the sand still drowns me. The sands of time drown us all. It’s only a matter of how long you can hold your breath. Obviously, Gravity Falls means a whole lot to me, otherwise we wouldn’t be here. It’s been a part of my life for over a decade now, seven years since it ended, and the world and characters still have enough of a stranglehold on my heart and mind that here I am, doing this. Summerhome is my way of trying to celebrate Gravity Falls, so along with a sincere thank you to the crew who made the show what it was, I also wanna use this time to elaborate on my last post. This is going to be kind of a soft reboot of the series; along with updating the current episodes to be more reflective of my current skills as a writer and plans for the story, the format of each episode will be updated to more closely reflect actual television scripts. I’m gonna try and strike a good balance between authenticity and readability, and will absolutely be open to critiques about both the writing and the format. Also: we now officially have our own logo by @tangelojack, and a blog header by @o-lanterns! Their work on the series has been phenomenal and invaluable and if you don’t applaud for them I’m blowing this whole building up Probably the biggest change, though: I’m gonna be posting on Ao3 now! Episodes will still be posted as they have before, in the form of links to the Google Docs, but there will now be Ao3 mirrors for them as well. (Disclaimer: I do not support Ao3 or its practices. Their refusal to take any action on the rampant racism, pornography of minors both real and fictional, and myriad other problems on their platform is fucking abhorrent. If Ao3 was a person, I would wrap barbed wire around my own hands just so it would hurt more when I choked it to death. The decision to start posting there was reached after some suggestions from readers and consultations with friends for the sake of better accessibility and further exposure, but I don’t want there being any illusions about my feelings on the site. I accept any and all complaints about my selling out and will be ready with a sincere but ultimately worthless apology) That aside, though: thank you all again for bearing with me through everything. Again, can’t make any promises about the update schedule, but I really do appreciate your patience, and I have high hopes for this reboot-take two of the premiere should be ready to post not too long from now! Thank you all for allowing me to drag you down with me as I spiral further into madness over a children’s cartoon, and I hope you’re all having a great summer!! (Also happy birthday to Stan and Ford Pines you old fucks I hope you never die or get sad)
Hey, everyone! Thank you again for your patience. I know it’s been a while since any real news, and I think part of the reason motivation has been particularly hard lately is because I’m feeling less and less satisfied with the foundation I’ve been building on. The currently released episodes are, I think, no longer reflective of my capabilities as a writer or the direction I want to take the series. So, I’ve come to a decision: I will be making updates to all ten current episodes. These won’t be full rewrites from scratch, just edits to the episodes as they already are-think of them more as “patches”. The basic story structure and most aspects of them will remain, but I feel there’s a lot that could use some touching up; dialogue tweaks, some character retooling, changing my approach to more sensitive topics that I feel I could have handled better, etc. I know it’s common for a series to get off to something of a rough start and improve later on, but I feel like it would be easier for me to write future episodes if the early ones I was building on were more in line with how I’ve grown as a writer. I’ve been averse to making post-release edits to episodes in the past to try and stick within the limits of a TV show, where such changes are harder to make, but thinking about it some more I’ve decided that, as I obviously can’t get this produced as a cartoon, I should lean more into the strengths that this medium offers. Think of this as something of a fresh start for the series-I can’t concretely promise a more consistent update schedule after the edits have been made since motivation in general is pretty much always a crapshoot for me, but I think this decision is ultimately what’s best for the story, and that I’ll have an easier time than I have been writing future episodes if I’m more satisfied than I am with this first batch. Again, thank you all; I’ll be making more posts to advertise when each episode has been updated, and hopefully more brand-new episodes will be coming not too long after that!
realized i hadn’t posted anything in a while and decided to do something for valentine’s day
happy
“A Tale of Two Parties”-Dipper, Mabel, and their friends try to plan the perfect birthday party for Stan and Ford. Art by @o-lanterns
So I'm hyped up for the next episode of @project-summerhome and I think about duck dipper ... way too often
“Stubble Trouble”-Mabel finds herself in danger of being forcibly ejected from the closet during a power outage. Ford and Fiddleford are trapped in their lab, while Stan and Soos run into trouble trying to buy a backup generator. Art by @tangelojack
“Wolfwatchers”-A camping trip led by the Valentinos places the crew in mortal danger-and the latest addition to Wendy’s friend group seems to know something about it. Art by @spectrumbunny and @tangelojack
I know it’s late, and I wish I’d had the time to do something more for it, but I wanted to do at least something to acknowledge this milestone. It’s insane that this show’s officially been around for a decade, and that so many people are still so passionate about it today. It’s hard to even articulate how much the show means to me and how much of an impact on me it had growing up, and I’m really glad I get to share in that experience with so many other people who love it too. As for Summerhome, as I said, I wish I’d been able to have the time to put together something more special for the occasion, and I know new content has still been fairly slow-going, but rest assured we’re still hard at work on this project-and we hope we can do this show’s legacy proud. Thank you all for your patience, and here’s to ten more years!
NOTE: The episodes beneath the readmore are currently being updated as detailed in my recent post. Please read this before deciding whether you’d like to read them in their current state or wait for the updates: https://www.tumblr.com/project-summerhome/717716290189606912/update?source=share
S1E1-Back to the Shack: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wROKiTxysqdkxo1KN-gtmEVSYGnXazc7bqgwQFQWWmQ/edit?usp=sharing https://archiveofourown.org/works/48070828/chapters/121216093
S1E2-Of Mouth and Man: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1duHp29rIsQFRCXYp0NM-ZOpQB2uQXhfAGAb2E088gwE/edit?usp=sharing
S1E3-Troubled Waters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GmbEBmYcApIKYabLGR6AI1dclBoY6_15ApkNbQgbx8w/edit?usp=sharing
S1E4-Junior Ducktectives: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d1ykhqVM2OXhu-T4hValfINdtUT07gwVWOeTc0KdjtY/edit?usp=sharing
S1E5-A Ringing of the Bells: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xiCHdbZOLiq_vrI3ows7J9JTWtuiSBbPhk4budf5rYA/edit?usp=sharing
S1E6-The Root of the Problem: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aF-wUBEwGG28ffs0oAa4jQtU2UecqC3LyEeCb8RWarA/edit?usp=sharing
It’s been a little while since the release of episode 7 now (link here: https://project-summerhome.tumblr.com/post/679473999300952064/summerhome-episode-7-meat-your-maker) so I wanted to share the concept art for these absolute nightmares of late stage capitalism that my friends on the crew did an OUTSTANDING job at designing
The Vice Cream Man does not get a design because he is nature’s least favorite mistake. Furger (plus babies), Chicken Jugglet, and Milkshake the Dog by @tangelojack The Onion Ringmaster by @o-lanterns Grimace by Grimace
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! This is your annual reminder that Dipper, Mabel, Stan, and Ford, on top of countless other Gravity Falls characters, are all trans, and there is nobody powerful enough to stop them
Art by @tangelojack
Hey, everyone! Thank you all so much for your patience waiting for news or episodes-I promise I’ll do everything I can to make the wait worth it, and you won’t have to wait much longer. Starting with the next episode, there’s going to be a scheduling shift-I’m going to be releasing episodes one at a time, whenever they’re ready to be posted, instead of in batches; so new content will come in smaller portions, but hopefully at a more consistent rate. So, that being said... Summerhome will return with “Meat Your Maker” on March 19th.
