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crying sobbing this is put too well into words
I know I’m a few years late to the Gravity Falls party, but I can’t get over how effectively the Ford reveal flips the switch on Stan’s character. From what little I’d seen of the show on Tumblr before I watched it, I’d always assumed Stan was a pretty one-dimensional sleazy con man. And since it was a series aimed toward kids, I kind of assumed Stan wouldn’t get that much development or story outside of Dipper and Mabel. I figured if he did have an arc, it would be the pretty common “gruff bitter loner guy who doesn’t like people gets kids and learns to love them” storyline.
And for like the first half of the show, this kind of seemed to be the case, aside from the mystery surrounding whatever Stan was hiding in the basement.
And then the Ford reveal / backstory happens and you see Stan in a completely new light.
Stan isn’t a con man because he wants to be. He’s a con man out of necessity - first because he was kicked out of his house and forced to make it on his own at 18, and then because it was helping him work to bring his brother back. He doesn’t just run the mystery shack because he likes to lie to people and swindle them out of their money - he does it because he needed a way to make money and keep the shack while trying to figure out a way to reopen the portal. He has a fake identity because he needed to keep people from snooping around looking for Stanford and the easiest way to do that was to take his place.
All the things that make you think he’s selfish and shady throughout the first half of the series are revealed to be because he’s a desperate, heartbroken man who wants to bring his brother back. He isn’t the traditional gruff guy who doesn’t love anyone until some rambunctious kids come into his life at all - he loves his brother so much that literally everything he does is to get him back. And he lies to the kids in an effort to protect them and keep anything bad from happening to them like it did to his brother.
Great twists / mystery reveals don’t just take the story in a new direction - they cast new light on everything that has come before. And Gravity Falls does that so well.
Just look at one of the first episodes in the series where Mabel makes a wax figure of Stan and Stan appears to fall in love with it and mourns it when it melts, going as far to host a funeral for it. Without knowing Stan’s backstory, this whole storyline just feeds into our view of Stan as a self-centered, ridiculous person. It’s ridiculous he would cherish a wax figure of himself. It’s so egotistical that he would host a funeral for it when it died and get honestly choked up about it.
But then you learn that Stan lost his twin brother and that whole storyline doesn’t really feel like the story of a selfish, egotistical man anymore. It’s the story of a man who felt like he got his brother back again momentarily and then had to lose him all over again.
That’s an effective twist. You can’t learn about Stan’s backstory and then go back and view him the same way you did before it.
I am slowly going through Gravity Falls for the first time. I've just reached the first episode with this glowing Dorito demon. I knew going into the show that his name is Bill Cipher. I also knew he was involved in some really janky things and I know he was to he feared. I've seen some epic fanart of this funky evil triangle.
And yet, when he opened his nonexistent mouth to speak, the last thing I was expecting was a voice halfway between John Mulaney and Spongebob.
#my blorbos
oh yeah my favourite character- you know, who got outshined by his prodigy sibling? had an abusive, neglectful father? got burned in an immensely traumatic incident after making a mistake as a child and has family ties severed as a result? has problems with self-worth? spent years being homeless and travelling the world to earn his way back into his family via an impossible (improbable) task, committed numerous serious crimes, had a terrible haircut and a gravelly voice, and redeems himself by working retail and mentoring a bunch of kids, specifically two twelve-year-olds with different talents and personalities? is impulsive, stubborn, hot-tempered and lashes out when he’s upset, but also cunning, fiercely protective, loyal and devoted to the people he cares about-
no, not zuko. grunkle stan
Maybe some Ford and Mabel bonding?
using this opportunity to push my ford-should-have-a-prosthetic-arm agenda
Me, 5 years ago: Stanford Pines is a terrible person (derogatory)
Me, now: Stanford Pines is a terrible person (positive)
The worst thing in the entire world is when you’re sweeping a big pile of dirt into a dustpan and it leaves that little coke line of grit behind. No matter how you position your pan or your broom and no matter how many times you sweep over it your outcome cannot change. As immovable as fate. I hate it so
damn y’all weren’t joking about the fembots
To the stranger I’m sitting next to, I want to work up the courage to ask you an awkward question because ur perfume smells awesome and I wanna smell like that but I don’t wanna flat out ask what perfume ur wearing cause that’s idk creepy so I’m just gonna sit here and stare at my phone ig
reblog to kick the duffers in the ribs
The brain trying to fix problems within itself is quite literally the hardest thing
I hope today it’s my last
one day, you will close Tumblr for a final time…
Ayoo wtf 2022
Does everybody else in the world call them midgies or is it just me
Um 2022…
Have youuu not kicked in yet cause uhh I don’t know how to say this but I’m still feeling the 2021 vibes and frankly those can fuck righhhhtt off yeh
What the fuck do people do in November
It’s such a stale month I swear
Please for the love of fuck can people start liking the shit that I like so I have more tasty content to consume
My sources are running dry and stale like 3-day old pizza crust
Who says ‘Oh it’s on like Donkey Kong’ any more
I’m Who, nice to meet u
Damn being a part of dead fandoms is like frolicking in a meadow with bindis instead of daffodils
Come get ur cold soup
Heyyy lockdown I know it’s been a while and that u still feel some kinda way ,, but I’ve moved on and I’m just not ready for that kinda relationship again
I love hosting a hub for sexbot accounts to just accumulate and grow stronger like the dust bunnies in the corner
Brains really do be out here making us move our noodle limbs to wiggly air
As much as I’d like to pretend I understand Shakespearean language, I can confirm, I very much don’t
Just saw taming of the shrew and every piece of dialogue when straight over my head
When does life get interesting? Is it before or after the crushing reality that nothing matters
Zeus, my dude, do me a favour and give my spinal cord a lil zap
Yo so I’m new to this whole tumble thing
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Do people normally put their age and shit in bios or is that like,, idk, a thing??