Everyone Needs A Mabel For Their Dash.

dr who’s on first, doctor strange is on second and doctor house is on third. theres no way theyre getting through a single inning

[Image description: a hatless Dipper in a blue shirt with a black tie and pants stands with his arms crossed next to Gideon, who is wearing a suit similar to what he he wore in the show. On Dipper's other side are the words, "hates the tie and convinced them to let him get a black one instead of matching with Gideon." Above him are the words "Reverse Dipper." Above Gideon are the words "Canon Adjacent Gideon."]

It's more of my Reverse x Reunion Falls, which I have decided to name the "Half Reversed Reunion AU" which is literally just me saying what AUs it is - since it's half of Reverse Falls mixed with Reunion Falls.

Lore dump! Dipper is so done with the Tent of Telepathy shows but he does them anyway because he doesn't really have a choice. He was raised by the Gleefuls and is closer to Mrs. Gleeful (I don't think there's a canon first name for her so I'm going to call her Valerie in this AU) which Gideon is jealous of. I have several scenes of this AU planned and I think I can connect them into a story.

I was looking for out of context Infinity Train videos to remind myself what the characters sound like when I found one of those “name a better show than x” compilations. While Infinity Train wasn’t in it, Gravity Falls was. And y’know what else was? Minecraft Story Mode Season 2!!!! Technically a video game (not a show) but it brought me joy.

Nearly every time I've rewatched Infinity Train Book 3 since I first saw it in February, I saw more parallels and narrative echos, and infodumping my friends about them isn't enough anymore

I figured I should do a post about this one because I don't think I've seen a post about that specific thing yet, and I love this show's writing, and. idk. I just need to praise it I guess

So, the most obvious part first:

Grace became everything she hated about her parents

When Grace mentions her mother in the Debutante Ball Car, it's made pretty clear she's trying to distance herself from her mother as much as possible, and at this point, we realise retrospectively that Grace's room in the Mall Car in episode one was full of sports clothes - it seems she tries to avoid things reminding her of her life before the train. And of her mother. And yet-

She tries to control everyone and everything around her, and makes people do what she doesn't want to do

And she decides what's cool and what isn't

She makes people kneel in her presence, like her mother towers over her in her mind's eye

Obviously she constantly lies to get what she wants, and her dad does that in her tape

When her younger self looks up, she looks right through adult Grace, and it's actually her parents she's looking at! Her younger self is metaphorically seeing her parents where her adult self is standing!! I still can't get over this shot

Also I feel the need to mention her mother has the same voice actor as her in her tape and even if it might be to cut corners in the budget, that feels significant (and to be fair, sometimes you can cut corners while making meaningful choices at the same time)

Now you might think I'd have nothing to say about Simon on that matter, since we don't see any flashback of his life before the Train, and we know next to nothing about his parents. But I think it's very telling that the only actual backstory we get for him is his backstory with The Cat.

Because-

Simon became everything he hated about The Cat

Ok I never see anyone mentioning this, but hear me out

First, we have no idea if Simon knew The Cat was routinely invading people's privacy through their memory tapes, but he sure has no issue doing the exact same thing

But that doesn't stop there. He also collects things obsessively

And makes kids collect things for him as well, by the way

He thinks he's above others, but he immediately switches to victim mode when it comes back to bite him

HE. ABANDONS. A CHILD. WHO WAS UNDER HIS CARE!!

And. Uh. They both dig their heels instead of trying to change, too

Don't get me wrong, on some level I would have liked to know what Simon's parents were like too. I would have liked that a lot. But there's a good chance it wouldn't change anything, because everything we need to know about his background to understand why he's Like That™ is already in the show

But yeah, Grace and Simon both pretend they found freedom on the Train, and both distance themselves from parental figures who are at the source of their trauma, claiming they're different and better than them - and yet they are both subconsciously repeating patterns that caused at least part of their problems and/or trauma in the first place

And since they decided that making numbers go up was good, as long as they stick to that idea, they are bound to never escape from that self-perpetuating loop of harm and trauma

And I love it

And I hate it

Double Dipper, I too am fine!

okay, okay. Imagine you're watching Gravity Falls for the first time. You watch all the episodes in order EXCEPT one of them is mysteriously left out.

spin this wheel to see which one you skipped

reblogs appreciated!

This is basically all of my siblings (myself included) when one of our family asks us to do literally anything

I just wanna hear more of Dipper being a Menace

alright fuck it yeah

𖠰 dip headcanons: menace edition 𖠰

𖠰 once he gets back to piedmont, dipper isn't exactly rebellious, but in gravity falls, he got very used to being the master of his own schedule -- going wherever he wanted, whenever he wanted, without adults -- and it absolutely becomes normal for him to just ignore whatever rules his parents try to set about curfew or supervision.

𖠰 dipper plays a game with mabel where he sticks things to the back of her sweaters and waits to see how many things he can put there until she notices. it drives her absolutely insane and usually ends with her attacking him via stuffed animals.

𖠰 if someone tells dip no, he often just quietly does it anyway. who's gonna stop him?

𖠰 one of the reasons he enjoys playing video games with pacifica on call during the non-summer months is the outlet for friendly bickering. like puppies biting each other's ears in an enclosure.

𖠰 as he gets older, dip always carries some kind of weapon on him: switchblade, swiss army knife -- even a box cutter at one point. he never knows what adventure he's going to get embroiled in next and refuses to get caught unawares.

𖠰 he loves responding to the question "dipdop, can you do me a favor" with a simple, "no" -- usually while he's already getting up to do mabel the favor.

𖠰 beware a bored dipper pines. if he's bored, he will make it everyone's problem. best to avoid him.

𖠰 he once nearly burned the kitchen down trying to warm up food. he's put metal in the microwave. he's burned himself on the oven. the kitchen is not a safe place for him.

𖠰 he writes in various codes and ciphers on his shoes, pants, takeout containers—mabel is confiscating his pens at this very moment.

𖠰 sometimes he cuts his own hair and it looks... not awesome. but he has curls so it hides a lot of the fuck ups. mostly.

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anyway, i could do this all day. i love this boy. enjoy!

Am I the only one who gets annoyed that dipper and Mabel don’t submit the photos of the goblewonker?

I have to reblog this because it's funny. Funny because it's true

For a fandom surrounding a story about friendship and forgiveness, we sure have an issue with those concepts sometimes.

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he should do this instead of mental breezes