“if THAT’S A Sin Then EVERYBODY Is Going To Hell” Yes, You Are Beginning To Understand

Wendy even gets a turquoise bandana like thing in the last few episodes, which I thought was funny because it reminded me of Petra

I dunno if this counts as a "confession", but Petra is basically Wendy (Gravity Falls), right?? In a totally good way. I think that's why I vibe with Petra's character so much. I just cannot see them without thinking of the other!

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Introductory post that's actually mostly so I don't forget what tags I've used

Hi! Welcome to my blog... thing. I'm cakeiscool. Or cake. Or Cake_Is_Cool on Ao3.

I actually don't know what to put here because this is mostly so I remember the various tags I use to organize things. These tags, currently, are:

cake rambles < when I write something really long

Half Reversed Reunion AU < My Gravity Falls AU that's me smashing Reverse Falls and Reunion Falls together, except Dipper and Pacifica are reversed but Mabel and Pacifica aren't. Dipper ends up raised by the Gleefuls while Mabel becomes BFFs with Pacifica.

A Place To Call Home Series < I actually don't remember if I wrote "series" or "AU" but it was probably series. Anyway, this is my Infinity Train series following Lake after she got off the train and also a couple of original characters, Kaya and Evie.

There are probably more but I don't remember them right now. I'll add more as I think of them.

Feel free to ask stuff as long as you keep it PG and polite, and I'll probably answer, but there's some stuff I won't answer. Hence the "ask me (almost) anything".

Oralie: in your opinion, what's the height of stupidity?

Bronte: hey Kenric, how tall are you?

Rewatching Gravity Falls and Ford-Dipper is such a funny dynamic

I decided to try writing horror.

I am having Regrets.

(I’m not going to stop though)

I’VE ALMOST PASSED 200,000 WORDS ON AO3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (It’s 197,000 right now)

sorry just had to scream into the void for a minute there 😅

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

Look I know The Fandom tends to make Olivia the most sane of the original treehouse gang but I personally believe that everyone in the group has one brain cell that they all take turns co-parenting and Rueben is the one who usually ends up with the brain cell. Do you see the vision.

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doing perimeter patrols is a common but little known ptsd symptom, and i think ford doing it not only makes sense for him post-portal but also is a great way to force awkward, impromptu conversations between him and everyone else

I believe the fandom has overlooked Petra’s character. it’s understandable why Petra gets mixed reactions from the fandom but at the same time some people find it annoying when Petra expressed her feelings of being alone and distant from her friends in S2. Petra is often viewed as someone bold and tough that they forgot she, as a person has insecurities too. It’s human to feel being alone from your friends. It’s human to express how you feel. I would say she’s one of the most misunderstood characters in the fandom. You can hate the character as you want, but the way she’s written serves as a reminder that nobody, even fictional blocky characters are perfect no matter what they seemed.

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