This Is Basically All Of My Siblings (myself Included) When One Of Our Family Asks Us To Do Literally

The stream’s Defying Gravity cover is reading like Dipper really wanted to be Glinda but Mabel insisted on duetting with Stan because she thinks it’s hilarious.

Started rewatching Infinity Train recently, and something I find interesting about the fandom is that everyone seems to be taking the mirror world at face value? Like, for a setting where literally everything supernatural on the train is directly fabricated by the train, I see a surprisingly high number of fanworks that assume the chrome car just happens to be the intersection point to a total-third-party mirror dimension.

In a lot of ways, I like Lake’s story more if she and the four other reflections popped into being with 13+ years of fabricated memories the split second Tulip set foot in the car. It plays wonderfully into her overall identity crisis and it dovetails nicely with how Mace seems to be acting more as a mouthpiece for the train during episode 8. 

It also would play nicely with the vague frustration Lake has whenever Jesse tries to wheedle information about the Mirror world out of her- the train never intended its worldbuilding to stand up to prolonged scrutiny, It didn’t expect any human to be engaging with the set piece for more than like a minute. 

[An image of Pacifica and Mabel, standing next to each other. Pacifica is wearing a light blue dress and has a flower in her hair. Mabel has a yellow headband and is wearing her shooting star sweater and a dark blue skirt. The girls are looking at each other. Above Pacifica are the words "Reverse Pacifica." Above Mabel are the words "Normal-ish Mabel" cut off partway through "Mabel."

This morning I was thinking about AUs or something because I came up with "Reverse Falls but it's only half reversed so Pacifica and Dipper are reverse but Mabel and Pacifica are the same but it's also Reunion Falls so Dipper's grown up with Gideon." Partly brought on because I like Reverse Falls to an extent, but all the characters are so out of character. Which IS part of the AU, I know that . . . I just want to stay true to the characters' core personalities because they're the ones I know and love.

So now I can add the half-reversed Reverse x Reunion Falls to my ten thousand other AUs. Yes, I will write this too. Maybe not a whole story. Maybe just scenes. (Who am I kidding, this'll end up a story with twenty thousand words of lore. Why do I do this to myself.)

we all knew it was only a matter of time before this happened

KotLC x Gravity Falls AU! aka Gravity of the Lost Falls

all ideas were in collaboration with @blerpywatermelon and @sophisticated-crow , and you bet you're probably gonna see more of this AU from at least one of us :3

and here is the Pines family crest! i chose to base it off the portal because i couldn't really think of anything else that really symbolized the whole family - pine tree, shooting star, and all the other usual things would be too much to just one of them. i considered making it star shaped or bill cipher based until i had this idea

(the white bits are made of lumenite, so they glow faintly)

I decided to try writing horror.

I am having Regrets.

(I’m not going to stop though)

ma there's a weird snowman outside

my kid has started to write stories and like, no lies, they’re funny as fuck

The moment Mabel gets her grappling hook, the scene presents it as if you should be questioning why Mabel wants it, with answer being “that’s just Mabel!”

But there’s not any attention being brought to question why there was a grappling hook in the gift shop.

Was it merchandise like Dipper’s hat? Why would you sell that in a gift shop?? Was it just something Stan had lying around? (seems plausible) If so, why was it in boxes in the gift shop?

SO MANY (most certainly not important at all) QUESTIONS!

#i really do think that people are able to distance themselves from bill’s actions because he’s not human#the book of bill#

you just made my point so much more succinctly than I did lol

I have a theory.

This is going to be a long post, but I don't know how to do the "read more" thing, sorry.

Bear with me for a minute. So I realized recently that I don't actually see that much Mabel or Ford hate, it's mostly stuff I hear from other people. (What I see is generally more subtle, like I read a fic that was good, but Ford took responsibility for Filbrick kicking Stan out. What was he supposed to do? He's 17 too! I also saw someone say the apocalypse wasn't Mabel's fault, it was Ford's. I'd just like to say that it was Bill's fault and Ford was manipulated into building that portal.)

But I do see a lot of Billford. It keeps on showing up in my suggested communities and the "For You" thing, despite The Book Of Bill portraying it as a very manipulative, horrifically abusive relationship. (When I say relationship, I don't necessarily mean romantic. It could have been a completely platonic horrifically abusive relationship.) And I have to wonder if, because Bill is a triangle, we let him get away with things we wouldn't if he were a human and/or doing these things directly to Ford.

Say that there was a movie. In it, there are two human men. Their relationship is clearly built on manipulation, and when the manipulated realizes that he's being manipulated, he tries to leave. The manipulator proceeds to torture him. You see this onscreen and it's horrible. The manipulator drives a nail through this guy's hand, shoves spiders down his throat, humiliates him . . .

Would people ship these two characters? This is the main fandom I'm in, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say probably not. (I'd like to say that I don't have a problem with people who write them as together . . . as long as it's portrayed as the abusive relationship it actually WAS and not a good relationship.)

All of those were actual things that happened in The Book of Bill. I didn't even mention the psychological torture (He makes Ford forget his OWN NAME) and forced sleep deprivation.

But Bill is a triangle. Bill isn't doing these things directly to Ford. He's doing them while in Ford's body, which is arguably possibly more horrific than if Bill was a separate person doing these things to him, but it's not something that could happen in real life.

But in this analysis of Ford: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58698496/chapters/158032750 when speaking of the torture Ford endured during Weirdmageddon, Callipraxia mentions that the fact that people can't electrocute others "takes at least some of the realism and therefore some of the horror out of the situation." (I apologize if this quote is incorrect, I couldn't find the part where she says this in this quite long work.)

And that makes me wonder if, again because Bill is a triangle and the things he does are literally impossible, it makes people less inclined to see his relationship with Ford as abusive when I have read two separate analyses (one of them is the one referred to above) that straight up say "This reads like a domestic abuse situation." One of them (the one NOT linked above, I'll look for it later) says that Bill hits every. Single. Criteria. For an abuser.

Even before Ford learned what Bill was really there to do, their relationship wasn't good. Bill doesn't show up for months and when Ford asks him where he's been, Bill responds by basically gaslighting him and making him doubt McGucket.

And there's one more thing I noticed. I wasn't in the GF fandom when the show was airing, but I'm pretty sure Billdip didn't become a popular ship until after Sock Puppet Opera, much the same as Billford wasn't so popular until TBOB. It's a pattern of "Bill abuses someone, then gets shipped with that someone." It's quite disturbing.

I know people are going to ship what they're going to ship, but Bill x Pines family members really shouldn't be so popular imo.

Tl;dr: If Bill were a human and you saw him torturing Ford, would you still ship them?

I'm pretty sure I forgot some of what I was going to say, so I might edit this later or reblog it with the extra information.

I do want to say that I do NOT support being rude, sending hate comments or death threats to people who do ship this. Don't do that. Just wanted to say, just in case.

I also want to say that though I put "anti Billford" and "anti Billdip" in the tags, I'm pretty sure I'm not an anti, though I haven't been able to fully figure out what the term means.

Another addendum: I am NOT qualified to be talking about abuse.

This is just a theory.

Something silly I drew