#HER NAME WAS SUSAN...

[doctorsiren]

Maybe you could call it Reunited Stans AU?

Also, how do you think the gravity falls locals would see those two? I think Ford would end up getting out of the cabin much more because of Stan. Maybe you could draw them going to town for drinks? I don't know.

I like to think the town locals would either be horrified of them and talk about them as cryptids in their own right, or just be annoyed by their shenanigans

I just remembered they’d be in their early 20s when coming to Gravity Falls haha

But yes they’d definitely start out as “those weird twins that live in the forest” but once Stanley starts feeling like he’s actually safe from that old life Ford pulled him out of, he starts going into the town, which then leads to him dragging Ford along

It’s probably a mix of both, where the town sees them as those odd guys and then also get annoyed by what they do, but also I think they’d think of them as a new endearing staple of their town once the whole “newcomer / stranger” title fades from them. It’d be sort of the same way Stan is in canon with the Mystery Shack, where even though people find him annoying, they also always come to the events.

Also Stanley 😭 your brother does not wanna be in that bar, let him go do nerd things

[goatsandgangsters]

on the one hand, it feels genuinely insane speculating on plot points based on an actor's actual IRL name because television does not work that way! logically I know this!

but on the other hand. when doctor who casts an actor named SUSAN TWIST in recurring roles every single episode of a season that: 1. broke the fourth-wall multiple times, 2. had an episode about coincidences, 3. did weirdly long musical number about "there's always a twist at the end," and 4. discussed susan by name and emphasizes the doctor's identity as a parent way more than usual

I start feeling insane and believing that fourth-wall-breaking, throwing-all-established-tv-logic-out-the-window, extremely meta actor-name plot twists are possible

[fungerisms]

horrid henry cuz ive been rewatching this series while working and im having quite a lot of fun with it :]]

[tinkerbitch69]

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So is poppy gonna be Susan’s mum????

[orphiceonian]

Jackie constantly trying to guess V’s real name and she tells him shit like Venezuela or Vehicular Manslaughter because she has such trust issues she doesn’t even want her best friend to know her real name.

V telling Jackie her real name in the back of the cab because she doesn’t think they’ll both survive the night and she doesn’t want Jackie to die not knowing her real name.

But they both survive and V ends up waking up before Jackie does. When Jackie wakes up V is asleep and he mumbles out “Hey Valerie” to wake her up and for once she’s happy with someone calling her that

[arthur-kilgore]

Here’s your fun little Arthur factoid for the day that I probably should have picked up on long ago but have you ever noticed who the first person Arthur calls for by name is when he gets back to Shady Belle after Guarma? I’ll tell you, it’s Charles

[lemontartmart]

Susan seems like the type to have a truck and maybe a motorcycle. I bet she tinkered on em

Bonus cat picture bc she was being a very adorable pest while I was trying to draw

[artfartt]

[to-the-western-wood]

susan: did you buy eggs like i asked?

peter: no

susan: then what the hell took you two hours?

peter, holding up a chicken: her name is fluffy

susan: i hate you

[krotiation]

All the cool kids are making blands ocs and I wanna join >:(

[corallapis]

the songs in the jukebox. btw.

[hideousvampire]

real things that happened in the karate kid

[bring-cringe-back]

Okay I might just be reading too much into this. But while I was watching the episode *cough cough* procrastinating *cough cough I realised that they don't show how the Doctor and Ruby got there.

And I know that it's probably just meant to be vaguely like 'they just went for fun'.

BUT this is the third episode in a row where we haven't seen them arrive. And for 73 yards it was clearly a doctor who episode when it started but it immediately gets rid of the doctor. ( I know that for 73 yards and for dot and bubble it was because Ncuti Gatwa was filming other stuff but let me cook) In Dot and Bubble you could effectively be forgiven for assuming that it was a random Black Mirror episode or something similar until the Doctor turns up, and tbh if you were just flicking through channels and haven't been watching Doctor Who you could probably basically not know for much longer. In Rogue they are just there, except for the title screen (the same for dot and bubble) you could basically watch it as a Bridgerton episode until the Chuldur turn up.

(And there's whole other rant about how the Chuldur fits into the theory about this basically being a TV show within a TV show, I don't know the name for this theory)

But anyway these episodes are increasingly separated from the Doctor and Ruby as plot points particularly in the beginning of episodes. They are more and more like an excuse to tell the story or explore the topic that the writers want to explore. Which isn't totally different from the occasional episode of previous series, but this is a lot more in my memory at least from previous series. So it feels a lot like they are skimming over the more sci-fi doctor who elements. Which fits in in my mind to the idea that the 'One who waits' is a representation of story telling. I've seen theories that it's Ruby but she doesn't know it which makes sense, I think it would also make sense for it to be her parent(s) who left her, or alternatively just it's own thing all together. But it feels very like that bit where Amy is living a life and starts to realise it's all fake.

The narrowing down of these episodes into not showing them arriving, and at least in Rogue - I can't remember in the others - not showing them leaving the story, feels very different.

It feels more and more like story telling. They have covered fairy tales, Period pieces/Romance, Dystopia, War/SciFi, Musicals, Political Drama. They are also showing the doctor playing his role, something that we see companions doing often enough but we seldom see the doctor doing it.

In Space Babies he is scared of a new creature. In the Devil's Code he sings a song that makes little sense in the story, he doesn't question the road making noise. In Boom he's more himself but it's also the closes to his 'normal' environment. In 73 Yards they just fully remove him from the story, which I realise was done for filming requirements but would have been so interesting to see the doctor in a Political drama. In Dot and Bubble he plays the role of the outsider bringing information to those living under a Dystopia, how is he UNABLE to access the inside, sure he plays a role that's fairly similar to himself but Doctor Who is really Dystopian.

In Rogue he is becoming more and more his role, he is playing the role of a sort of Elizabeth Bennet style character, a strong romantic interest for the brooding man. Which is great, he makes fun of the genre, but he is hyper aware of the genre and still ends up in its pitfalls. He trusts a man so quickly he ends up handing over his sonic, he gets proposed to and basically immediately accepts. Now I am really hoping that Rogue gets to stay around I really liked him as a character, regardless of which theory of his identity if any are true. But the Doctors reaction to him is still a little out of character, he is feeling what he is SUPPOSED to feel and he is acting how he is SUPPOSED to act.

It just feels to me like an increasing number of these episodes are more and more story like and more and more separated from the more Doctor Who elements. And the lack of an introduction of how they get there, and the lack of them leaving in the TARDIS is so unusual to me and stands out to my brain so much.

It feels like they are removing elements that don't fit the genre. Anyway not sure if that makes any sense but I'm vibing with it.

[kindheartedgummybears]

Images of the red dead girlys you've never seen because they were taken by me part 1.

[paperbaldi]

art dump

[femmeleatherface]

having daroga-centric poto brainrot is truly a nightmare because you run out of adaptations he's actually in faster than the brainrot can ebb, so next thing you know you've crawled through the internet for an embarrassing amount of time and found out there's a new german musical adaptation with him in it that makes him the narrator and gives him the name nadir khan maybe, and of course you will never be able to see it because germany is way too far away, but maybe in a few years if it does well enough you'll be able to listen to the soundtrack and watch bootlegs that may or may not have english subtitles. and in the meantime you must satisfy yourself with whatever the heck is going on in this photo from the musical's website:

(and then you find out erik is played by the guy who was death in elisabeth das musical and now you have to live with this accursedly tantalizing double whammy like you aren't now scratching at your computer screen like a cat trapped behind a closed door and screaming just as loud)