tbh I'm neither surprised nor weirded out. If anything I'd have thought Mabel/Pacifica woulda been more popular from the beginning.
Yup, I expected all that Stancest after the finale. And a ton of Billford. :( Also expected after the finale. TBH I kind of like reading hilarious crack Billdip which is what 90% of Billdip actually is. You can always tell when it's going to be stupid and cracky because Bill takes a human form that looks like it stepped out of a yaoi manga.
I am still disappointed to have not found proper Dipper <>Pacifica fic where Dipper antagonizes (well, not the right word but i cant think of another one) Pacifica into being a better person.
I want Pacifica with anyone that gets her out of her Northwest family bubble. And I had no idea I wanted Robbie to take her to Edgy On Purpose until just the other day.
I think most of us are on board with learning-disabled!Stan, but here's some extra meta on dyslexia and what that would mean.
As a related aside, I've been listenign to Welcome to Night Vale at work, and when I reached the point where it introduces the Man in the Tan Jacket, guess who I instantly thought? And guess what kind of horrified, internal reaction I had when I listened to the part where he was spotted collecting flies out behind a Taco Bell? Welcome to Gravity Falls, I suppose. If that includes NSFW bullshit fanfics.
One thing I liked a lot about GF as it was airing was the fair treatment, narratively, of the young twins. Dipper is very intelligent, very book smart, analytical, and good at problem-solving. Mabel is also very intelligent, is way beyond her years in terms of creative output, and also very good at problem-solving. (Fight me, she's incredibly good at conflict resolution, it just doesn't always look that way because she focuses on resolving emotions rather than situations.) The show went out of its way to say that both are useful and both have their high points and their low points. There are things both of them can't do, but the other can find something to do when the one can't think of anything. It's the same for the Stans. Obviously Stanford is intelligent, he's meant to be an out-and-out genius with the capacity to be good at just about everything. See the creative skills and fast thinking he employs along with his analytical STEM job. (Paranormal STEM job? If you're building trans-dimensional portals it counts.) But that doesn't mean that Stanley is unintelligent just because he's acting as a foil. Hell no. You have to be good at something to be disallowed entry into that much of the country and have been in and out of prison that many times and not be basically dead. Actually dead. We saw how quickly he turned facing down an angry mob in a house full of shit he didn't even understand into a business. And how he played the system on the Wheel of Fortune rip-off, though that was played for laughs. He knows what he's doing, and he's good at it. It's not always useful, but building a trans-dimensional portal to hell isn't always useful either, Stanford. Look at this dimension, it's got anxiety.
Did anyone else see that fancomic where Ford was on Not Wheel Of Fortune, and he lost it all at the end just like Stan except it was "Thank you" he couldn't say? I'd dig it up again but I'm not sure where to look.
Jesus Christ, Hirsh. I decided to re-watch Carpet Diem, because I am suffering without GF and wanted to watch an old silly episode again. Back when it was an old man who had no reason to be anything but a hilarious joke and two sweet kids. Anyway, as you may recall, Soos stumbles across the carpet in a room that has been hidden for a long time (there's a calendar that dates July 1982 on the wall) and the kids find it fascinating. Obviously, in retrospect, it's one of Standford's rooms, something Stanley either didn't find or forgot about. "Grunkle Stan, what is this place?" asks Dipper with wonder. "I dunno. Just another room I gotta clean up now," says Grunkle Stan, sounding surly, as he picks up an item laying on an end table and very quickly hides it in his suit jacket. What item? And, as you may recall, the rest of the episode is intense sibling rivalry as they fight for the room they both want but can't both have (also body swapping.) Christ.
