#despite the sadness and stuff

[stupidlittlespirit]

What got you into gravity falls in the first place??

It's kind of sad and grim but I don't mind telling you haha. Just tw for personal abuse and mental health stuff!

I got into Gravity Falls when it was airing, just at the start of the second season. I was about 19, I think? History is really fuzzy to me because of ptsd and stuff, I have a hard time pinning time down for sure so give or take.

I had been kicked out of home by my mother and was very lonely and low. I had a lot going on in terms of abuse at home and estrangement/distance between me and my younger sibling. I'd also just started noticing symptoms of BPD on top of everything else. So, as you can probably imagine, I was not in the best of places.

It was around that time that I started watching movies and tv shows constantly to drown out my thoughts. I've loved movies since I was a child but I was always controlled on what I was allowed to watch, whereas at that point, for the first time in my life, I was free to find what I wanted. So I started picking stuff up just because I could. I only had a tiny little old samsung phone because it was all I could afford at the time, but I would watch stuff on it 24/7.

I can't remember exactly how I heard about it, but I think it was via tumblr? I was already on the site and had been for a while at that point (in the Sherlock and X-Men fandom), and iirc I think I saw a few posts about GF on my dashboard. People were raving about it and I thought it looked fun, so I found a way to access it because I could do that now, I could watch whatever I wanted. And I did.

Given what I was going through at the time, I expect you can understand the impression that it left on me. I had absolutely no one and this show acted as a faux family for me for a little while. Here was this loser uncle who really loved these kids despite them being 'naughty' (realistically they were just being kids, but to me, I was taught that that behaviour was bad). There were lots of lessons about it being okay to be weird, which was something I was badly treated for by my own family, and this shared bond between siblings which I had lost/was losing. I was also super into cryptids and monsters, and I'd always wanted to be a cryptozoologist anyway haha!

My life experience at that time was running eerily adjacent to Stan's. It would continue to do so, but it struck me very deeply in the moment. I saw this guy who went through everything I was going through, and he was still kicking and people still valued him. So, I thought maybe I should take a leaf out of his book and keep kicking back as hard as I could. Maybe one day I'd find someone who loved me the way the kids came to love him or the way his brother inevitably would.

So, I would wait every week for a new episode and I would watch it in bed on my shitty phone at fuck o'clock in the morning (because the episodes were uploaded really late at night for me in the UK) and for about twenty something minutes a day, I didn't want to die.

I felt very familial about Stan and the kids, and then when Ford was introduced, I fell head over heels LMAO. I started writing fanfiction for it which developed into me exploring more through drawing/art, and into me creating worlds of my own. Although I never went because life had other plans, I even got into an art course because of it! I actually also wrote this huge AU for Ford with an OC. It never came to fruition, but I had a huge sketchbook filled with plans/layouts/architecture/character designs/story lines for it. I lost it in a move a while ago and I'm still sad about it, but I was so obsessed with it that I remember most of it anyway. It was the first time I ever created a full, fleshed out world in minute detail and it really started a fire in me for it.

So yeah.... It meant a lot to me and still does.

[ladylightning]

i just love sevika so much and i fear there’s not enough time to fully explore her character and backstory given all of the other plot stuff. like where's her family. what was her childhood in the lanes like pre-zaun. what's the deal with her glowing scars and the arcane. what does she want for her life. what’s her happy ending. and a million more things.

[skitskatdacat63]

Seb comes to Fernando's bedside to cheer him up! (aka resolving my turmoil over there being no vettonso moments yesterday)(long gif!!!)

+ what if Fernando hadn't been out sick!

[savethedots]

Mathias in Rykter 3x07

[charrfie]

What do you think of him

What is this dude's problem

[vaguely-concerned]

I understand why they didn't do this because it would run the risk of telegraphing the twist too much too early, but imagine if one of elgar'nan's temptation lines during blood of arlathan had been 'I could bring him back to you'

[autistic-echo]

do yall like vampires

here's my emo ass Altmer/Maormer vampire OC fourth era design

lore dump + close ups under the cut

Ecis and his sister Aestle were raised on Summerset which was. Not Fun because hes half Maormer, and his sister is half Bosmer. Their mom was weird and found thrill in having relationships or one night stands with non Altmer races, the more "forbidden" the more fun it was, which eventually resulted in Aestle, and later Ecis. She doesn't really stop to think how this is going to impact her mixed children, and was not only neglectful of them, but did very little to protect her children from Altmer prejudices.

So from a very young age Ecis realized he'd have to be the one that protected himself and his sister, which resulted in him being dubbed the "problem child". He was very angry at the world for the way he and his sister were treated during their childhood, even more so at their mother for her neglect, and his cynical view of the world and his assumption that no one will ever accept him only grew over the years. He ends up falling into less savory crowds and learning necromancy, and eventually swept into the Worm Cult. He doesn't even really question what they're really trying to achieve until Aestle ends up getting kidnapped and put in the line of sacrifices.

With that as a wake up call, he immediately helps his sister escape, and a faulty and sabotaged portal winds up with Aestle falling into the sea near Khenarthi's Roost, and Ecis stranded in Coldharbour. While there hes infected with Vampirism, which is technically the only reason he survives the several months he spends there.

Ecis is reunited with Aestle several months later when she joins the Mages and Fighters Guilds assault on Coldharbour, They meet my other ESO era OCs, Reedys [Ebonheart Pact] and Daridres [Daggerfall Covenant, Vestige] and all are instrumental in the success of the Coldharbour assault.

Even in his aid to the success of the Coldharbour Assault, Ecis still feels he needs to do more to deserve redemption, and so Daridres tells him to seek out House Ravenwatch. Joins up and eventually decides to abandon his family names (that he honestly barely used anyways) and take the name of Ravenwatch.

he ends up outliving his sister and closest friends but lets ignore that for now. Hes also connected to several different OCs throughout the 3rd and 4th era but thats a whole other can of worms. If youve read this far thank u so much for reading ur so cool :3

[lunarharp]

played dragon age 2...just simple scribbles

[alienssstufff]

Updated Gillion and Edyn designs as exercise

+the oldish Chip and Jay sketch from twt

[beastomato]

i could be a good mother

[iero]

Going through my clothes for a yard sale that my mom and her friend are throwing next weekend and it's like, "Band shirt... Band shirt... Band shirt... Black pants..." in my head as I'm going through it.

[the-gayest-show]

"Man oh man why is there no new fanart, fanfic, or fandom content of my fandom in several days?" I ask myself, referring to small niche fandoms

[lucalicatteart]

Cats and Nasturtium Flowers~ something which was going to be a custom sticker sheet (for me to decorate my scrapbook with) until I realized that most sticker printing websites have like Actual Guidelines you're supposed to follow in terms of file type of the image and other things lol.. A nice picture then, I guess at least

[garlicgravy]

Another Ninjago movie concept art found. But apparently this was concept art for Lloyd, and since the Ninjago movie was in the makings way before season 8 > stated so by the hagemen brothers (before when Lloyd and the other ninjas had a redesign/updated design), I'm assuming this was concept art for pre-season 8 lloyd?

Despite Lloyd looking emo, something I noticed is that this concept design of Lloyd has eye-bags, and that's actually very depressing, that would mean Lloyd wasn't really getting any sleep, or that he was crying a lot, or was sleep deprived, maybe all of the above, and it would've been because of his dad issues :(

It's hard to make out what it's saying in this ss cause the words are blurry, but I can only make out that it says: "Poor Lloyd spends a lot of time in big open spaces trying to sort out his _______?? Potential problems"

I think it says potential, idk what the word before that is, maybe it's monumental? "Monumental potential problems"?? I could be wrong but I know what the first bit says!

I wanna just give Lloyd a hug, poor green man :(

[celtrist]

An artist recently got me thinking about this (due to unfortunate accusations toward them). And while I know I personally am not very affectionate with my sister (but I'm not a very affectionate person, I've realized so....), I was curious how affectionate people tend to be with siblings (in terms of what they do, not how often) Tried covering all the bases to the best of my ability.

[crossover-enthusiast]

I feel like I'm the only person that thinks the human characters should have been in SU more