#Duck-tective

[mysterybooks-world]

You know what Deputy Duck Reminds me of Duck-tective from Gravity Falls

I can imagine them working together.

Or I have another idea

Duck-tective had an accident and then he became Deputy Duck

[thewisemankey]

Okay, I actually didn't but people clearly a LOT smarter than me did and I was skeptical.

Also, I just wanted to make the Gravity Falls reference/joke.

Oh brother

[enby-jellyfish]

The Start of Summer

Chapter 1 of Managing the Mystery Shack

Grunkle Stan X GN!Reader (POC friendly)

Pronouns: You/Your

Summary: Summer has begun and the twins have arrived.

Warnings: Slight angst, but that's it I think.

Word Count: 1984

A/N: Hey y'all, sorry it's been *checks notes* Over a month!? I hit a mental block due to school starting and had to micro dose my productivity for a bit :( I will try having a better updating schedule from now on!

Previous part

It has been around thirty years since the incident. A lot has changed in that time. The wound on your face has healed, leaving behind a visible scar in its place.

The shack has also changed. Over the years it has been properly transformed into a beloved tourist trap, complete with gift shop, now named the Mystery Shack. The left over rooms have been fully redecorated and anything science related has been moved into the basement.

Together you and Stan have made countless renovations to the formerly grim shack and transformed it into your shared home and a successful business.

In the time that passed the two of you grew very close, almost like a family. You work in the shack together, eat together, watch TV together, and work on the portal together. There is very little time you spend apart.

The two of you sit squeezed next to each other on the small worn couch in the living room, watching a rerun of an old Duck-tective episode, as you usually do after dinner, when the phone in the office starts ringing. “Who calls at this hour? Can you get that? I would but, it’s sooo. Faaar. Awayyy.” Stan asks you, extending his arm in a fake attempt to reach the ringing phone, not taking his eyes from the small TV for a second.

You sigh and roll your eyes at his lazy antics as you get up, joints cracking as you do so. You should probably get that checked out at some point. “Ugh, fine. But you’re getting it next time.”

You move to the office and pick up the phone, holding it up to your ear and putting on the best customer service voice you can muster. “Hello, this is the Mystery Shack. We put the ‘fun’ in ‘no refunds’! How can I help you?” You can hear someone yelling on the other side of the line before they address you, “Hey, can I talk to my uncle please- YES, I’M CALLING NOW! GET OFF MY BACK. Please.”

The remainder of Stan’s family is… certainly something. Dropping the customer service voice you respond. “Sure, one second. Stan, it’s for you! Your nephew!” You call for him and he groans in response. You hear him turn off the TV and start shuffling your way, muttering curses under his breath. He takes the phone from you, leaning on his arm against the wall, fidgeting with the phone cord in his fingers. “Hey kid, what’s up?”

You head back to the living room to give them some privacy, flipping through an old notebook while waiting for him to finish his conversation.

About a minute passes when Stan calls your name. “, is it alright if my grandniece and -nephew spend the summer here?”

You had met the twins a few times before. In fact, Stan had taken you with him to the hospital when they were born. He finds it difficult seeing his family alone. He mentioned once, in a moment of vulnerability, that you make it easier.

He was nervous to hold them at first, worried he would mess something up, but when his nephew placed the two infants in his arms he practically melted. You remember how he refused to let them go. Shermie basically had to wrestle the twins out of his arms.

You had seen the twins a handful of times more after that, they seem like good kids.

“Yeah, it’s fine by me!” Stan finishes up his conversation and rejoins you in the living room.

“They’ll be coming tomorrow, their parents really seemed eager to get them out of the house.” You feel bad for those kids, it’s no secret their parents’ marriage is on thin ice with the amount of fights they have. At least they’ll be out of the house and won’t have to witness when it all falls apart.

“Where are they gonna be staying?” There aren’t really any bedrooms available in the shack with Ford’s being boarded off and Stan taking Fiddleford’s.

“I was thinking the attic, we should still have a spare bedframe and a few old mattresses lying around here somewhere.” He rubs his chin thoughtfully.

“Sounds like a plan.” You check the time. “We should get their room ready now if we still want to work on the portal tonight.” Stan hums in agreement and extends his hands for you to grab, hoisting you up from the couch with a groan.

The two of you clean up the attic and gather what you need for the room. Together you take apart the bedframe, putting the headboard with two mattresses on one side of the writing desk underneath the triangular window, and the base with one mattress on the other side. A few pillows, blankets, and some fairy lights later it looks pretty decent.

Exhausted, yet satisfied with yourselves you wipe the sweat you build up from your brow. “Do you think they’ll like it?” You shrug. “I don’t know for sure, but I think so, kids love attic rooms, right? Why?” Stan sheepishly shrugs, rubbing his neck and avoiding eye contact. “I want them to like it here, I guess.” You can’t tell if ‘here’ means the room or with him in general.

You step closer to him, placing a hand on his shoulder and squeezing gently. “I’m sure they will.” Stan stares at you for a moment, seemingly deciding whether to believe you or not. He settles for the first and nods.

Suddenly realising you still have your hand on his shoulder you remove it, patting his shoulder awkwardly before turning for the door. “C’mon, we still have a portal waiting for us. It isn’t going to fix itself.”

After a few hours of working in the basement you bid each other good night and head for your respective bedrooms.

That next day Stan anxiously awaits the kids. In his mission to make a good impression he threw away all alcohol and cigars in the house and even swore off cursing in front of the kids.

When the bus with the twins finally arrive, he excitedly gives them a tour of the shack before taking them to Greasy’s Diner with the excuse that he ‘doesn’t feel like cooking’.

That night when you get ready to head to bed you stop in front of the twins’ room. Stan stands in front of the door listening to the voices pouring from the room. He notices you, puts a finger to his lips and continues listening in on them. You are about to tell him off for eavesdropping when you hear what the twins are discussing.

“Think about it Mabel, do you really want to spend the entire summer here? We could just run away, catch the next bus home, maybe call the FBI while we’re at it, because I’m pretty sure at least 90% of everything going on in this shack is illegal.”

You look at Stan, but he refuses to meet your eye. “I don’t know Dipper. I mean, Grunkle Stan seemed really happy to have us here. This all doesn’t seem that bad. Maybe we could- OH, I’ve got an idea!” You hear Mabel explain that they could use a magic eight-ball to decide their fate.

You hold your breath as you wait for its answer. It tells them to stay. That is good you suppose.

You pull away from the door when you hear the twins settle into bed, Stan suddenly rushing toward his room. He was never very good at dealing with emotions properly, a remnant of his rough childhood, but you’ve known him long enough to tell when he needs comfort, even if he won’t ask for it.

You gently open the door to Stan’s room and find him sitting on his bed, head in his hands. Without saying a word, you sit down next to him and softly put your arms around his tense frame. After a while of holding him, you feel him starting to relax a bit.

Without saying a word, he sits up and moves you so you’re both laying down. This isn’t the first time you’ve slept in the same bed, holding each other, though it has been a while. In the early days you quickly found out he had a lot of nightmares.

You had come rushing into his room at the sound of him screaming, finding him looking disoriented and covered in sweat. Eventually you had managed to calm him down.

Stan didn’t want you leaving after that.

You didn’t want to either.

Whenever the need arises, like now, you would just hold each other. Sometimes there would be talking, sometimes not.

Now it's the latter. Both of you content with just laying there, inhaling each other's scent, and tracing patterns over aged skin until sleep takes over.

The next day Stan is mostly back to his usual self and decides to put the kids to work, making Dipper hang up signs in the woods.

In the time Dipper is gone Mabel, who has decided that this getaway is the perfect opportunity to have an ‘epic summer romance’, after many failed attempts around the shop, which was pretty entertaining to watch, finally found a date.

“Hey boss, guess what?” You turn your gaze from the notepad you were comparing prices on to the widely grinning girl next to you. “I’m not your ‘boss’ Mabel, you don’t work for me. What is it?” You gently remind her, despite knowing that nickname is definitely going to stick.

She rolls her eyes playfully and waves away your comment. “Pshh, tell that to Grunkle Stan! Anyways, guess who has a date? It’s me! I have a date!” She squeals excitedly. “Aw, that’s nice. I’m happy for you Mabel.” She squeals some more before running off to get ready for her date, leaving you to continue doing your job.

He comes to pick her up later that day. The teenaged emo boy is quickly introduced as ‘Norman’ before Mabel rushes them outside. Dipper follows them shortly after, hurriedly exclaiming he has no time to explain before rushing out the door, leaving you slightly confused.

A few hours later the twins walk back into the gift shop looking dishevelled. “Hey kids. Mabel, how did your date go?” She gives you a big smile and a thumbs up. “Horrible!” Well, that’s not the answer you were expecting. “Oh! Are you okay? Do you need anything?” She waves away the idea. “Nah!” Well, alright then.

Stan, who was counting money before, stops and tries breaking the ice by making a joke, which he doesn’t get a reaction to. You decide to help him out. “Oh, would you look at that. It seems I have overstocked some inventory.” Stan is about to tell you off for wasting precious money but stops himself when he notices you giving him a look and nodding to the twins.

“OH, er. Hey kids, how about you pick something from the shop, on the house.”

Dipper picks out a nice hat with a pine tree symbol and Mabel chooses a… grappling hook?! Where did she even find that?

Stan is easily persuaded, but you are still hesitant. “Stan, giving a 12-year-old a weapon doesn’t seem like the best idea.”

Mabel gives you her best impression of a kicked puppy. “Oh, please, please, please, please, boss?”

Oh, you can’t say no to those eyes. “Do you promise you’ll be careful?”

“Scout’s honour!” She gives you a salute. “You have never been a scout.” Dipper corrects her.

“GRAPPELING HOOK!”

That evening Mabel accidentally destroys a window.

Next part

Masterlist

Thank you for reading <3

[sometimes-they-come-back-237]

Duck-tective + Dew-tective

[phongharuka]

A shooting star is born

A Big Dipper AU story - prequel

“Let's go through the list one last time,” said 10-year-old Dipper, holding a piece of paper that appeared to be a checklist.

“Shower check”

“Mentally prepared check”

“A good-looking outfit check.”

Looking from the outsider's view, they might thought the little boy is preparing for a date with a girl, which might be true, but not today. Because today is a very special day for Dipper, his 10th birthday, he has decided not to hold a party at his house but at the hospital, which may sound strange but there is a valid reason.

Because coincidentally today is also the day his little sister is gonna step into this world, he's gonna be a big brother.

“Kid, do you think going through all that stuff is necessary?” said a grumpy voice in front of Dipper.

“Of course Grunkle Stan, my dad always said ‘It's best to make a good impression for people to like you, since there will never be a second chance’” Dipper said excitedly.

Stan is incharge of take care of Dipper after his mom were rushed into the hospital after saying about something inside her belly have popped by his dad with Stan twin brother Ford and his older brother (Dipper grandpa) Shermie. By “take care” mean the grumpy grunkle let Dipper paparing with his checklist while Stan sitting in the living room watching a black & white, old lady boring channel flim called ‘The Duchess Approves’. Dipper didn’t know why his grunkle loved it so much, he's more into mystery-type shows like “Duck-tective” or paranormal reality shows like “Ghost Harasser”.

“Besides, you also need to make a good impression too, unlike last time…”

“Hey! I think i done quite well that time” said Stan as if he just been offended.

“Yeah right, by drawing 'Big Dipper' on my forehead since you think my birthmark looks like it,” Dipper said with a deadpan expression.

“I think it pretty good” said Stan still looking at the road in front of him.

“Yeah, with a permanent marker.”

“Whatever you said, kid” said Stan rolling his eyes. 

The journey to the hospital continued with some conversation between the two Pine family members, from Stan advice on how to deal with younger sibling from the experience of being the youngest (Ford come out sooner than Stan by 20 minutes), while Dipper control himself from being both nervous and excited, he start day dreaming about beating kid who dare to bully his sister and carefully examining boys she bring home when she at her teenage years to see if they are good enough for his precious little sister and stereotypical thing big brother do to protect his little younger sister seen on cartoons or flims.

“And we’re here” announced Stan snapping the soon-to-be-big-bro out of his day dreaming.

(Change scenes)

Dipper was amazed by how crowded and big Piedmont Hospital is, which is much bigger compared to the local clinic near his neighborhood, also where he went after most of his adventures in the nearby jungle (it got more and more frequent after his first summer with his grunkles at the Mystery Shack), it was even considered his second home at that point.

The 10-year-old was later accompanied by his grumpy grunkle inside the hospital after finding a perfect parking slot for his car by taking the spot for the disabled (his excuse was the cataracts he had, which Dipper knew better not to fact-check it).

After being told the room number where the boy's mother was by the nurse, who was a receptionist working at the hospital front desk. While the Pines duo made their way to the destination, Dipper started going down memory lane, thinking back on the moment when he heard about he gonna had a sibling for the first time.

*Flashback*

It was early February came, when the chilly weather of winter started to faded away, Dipper started to notice something was off about his mom.  

She began to move more slowly, more carefully with her everyday task, and most importantly, his mother was getting “bigger”, more specifically, her belly was getting rounder. The first few times, Dipper ignored it since he thought it was just the result of his mom eating more lately, but as months went by, it was just getting bigger to the point he wasn’t able to ignore it anymore.

So one time at the dinner party with his father's side of the family, Dipper decided to go “Duck-tective” mode to solve this “mystery”.

“Mommy, why did you choose to get fat?"”  the curious boy asked his mom out loud about it in front of the dining table with a straight voice. 

The boy's innocent question caught everyone who was sitting surrounding the table off guard, especially his parent.

There was no reaction… 

Until Stan broke the slience with his barbaric laugh, followed by everyone else at the table. 

Dipper was confused by the reaction of his relatives, even his mom giggled lightly at his question. His parent were originally planning to keep the secret from the boy. Since the cat is out of the bag, they decided to tell him that his mother was carrying a little life inside her, more specifically, his soon-to-be little baby sister.

“Wait, does that mean I'm gonna be big brother?” asked Dipper while his brain tried to process the newfound information.

“Bingo, kid!” said Stan after regained his breath after laughing for so long.

“Like grandpa?” 

“Exactly, Dipper. You're gonna be a big brother like Shermie, or more precisely a ‘Big Dipper,’” exclaimed Ford.

“I AM GONNA BE A BIG BROTHER!” The little boy couldn’t help but scream excitedly.

He had always loved his grandpa's stories about the relationship between him and his younger siblings. While he wasn’t able to be there for most of their childhood, Shermie always tried to be the best big brother whenever he could, and Dipper wanted to be like him.

The atmosphere of the dinner has been more lively with Dipper enthusiasm and memorable stories shared by the senior Pines about each other.

Since then, Dipper has always helped his mom with chores to lessen her work so she can rest until the day his sister made her way into this world.

*End flashback*

Back to the present, as they headed inside the hospital room where his mom was, Dipper could see his mother was lying in bed. Eventhough, she was tired but still held a smile at the direction of her husband, who was holding a little figure wrapped in a pink blanket surrounded, with his other grunkle and his grandpa standing next to him, both smiling at the little thing.

“You two finally made it here!” said Mom when she noticed the presence of her son with the younger grunkle in the room.

“We should have arrived sooner if this little goblin right here spent less time at the bathroom,” responded Stan pointing at Dipper.

“Hey! Did you know how long for me to get this ‘Manly’ smell right now?” Dipper bounced back.

“Eh, every smell is the same kid.”

“Yeah, said the old man who bathed once a week,” commented Ford with their older brother nodding in agreement.

“Whatever you say, Poindexter. Anyway, where is my little pumpkin seed?”

“She's right here,” said Dad, who was holding the baby.

“Come here so your favorite grunkle can hold you,” said Stan as he attempted to snatch the baby from her dad.

But before the younger twin could succeed, he was stopped by his oldest brother.

“Not so fast, Stanley, I want Dipper to hold her first, you will get your chance after that,” the boy's grandpa commanded.

“Let me guess, is this a revenge when I got the chance to hold the little goblin first before his grandpa?” said Stan rolling his eyes.

“You could say so.”

Dad ignored the beef between his dad and his old, grumpy uncle, headed where Dipper was sitting, and cuddled his mother.  

“Meet your little sister Mabel,” Dad said with a smile. 

“Wow, coming up with lazy names really runs in our family blood. Like your grandpa named us Stanford and Stanley, and now you name your children Mason and Mabel, like i dont hate the name but wow,” said Stan as he was surprised by the baby name.

Ignoring his uncle's comment, the father slowly brought the baby to her brother's arm.

“Wait Dad, but what if I might hold her too tight, or maybe my noodle arm drop her on that cold stone floor?” Dipper started to panic.

Despite saying to himself that he was mentally prepared, the boy couldn’t help but let his fears and anxieties get the better of him.

“I know you won't, Dipper” Mom said lovingly to reassure her son.

When the baby was wrapped, surrounded by her brother's little arm. Dipper started looking closely at his newborn sister's appearance. Mabel looked identical to her big brother, like he just came out of his mother's womb, the only noticeable difference was her big eyelashes. She also had that baby smell, which started to grow on her brother.

Looking at his little sister who was sleeping peacefully in his arms, Dipper couldn’t help to feel protective, as he could battle with the rest of this planet to keep her safe.

As the newly-big-brother was locking his gaze at the sleeping baby, he was surprised by a *SNAP* sound coming from his grandpa as he took the picture the treasure this precious moment of the sibling.

The little family consisted of Mom, Dad, and Dipper—now welcoming a tiny angel into their world. The little boy believed that happy memories were about to come crashing down upon their family like shooting stars.

Or at least, that's what Dipper thought at the time…

[samuelmorgan3d]

Update:

-Added Bill Statue

-Added Beaver

-Added Duck-Tective

-Added even more props all over the town

-Added street signs throughout the town for easier orientation

-Added names of the teleport locations to the teleporters, for easier navigation

-Added Journal 1, 2, 3 to Stanfords underground laboratory

-Added "I eat kids" ballon

-Added a few more small things

-Fixed a Dialogue Bug

-Packed as a full version for testing purposes and it runs excellenty on my RTX 2080 Super with settings on "Epic"

[violetganache42]

A collection of highlights celebrating some of the best dads, uncles, and father figures in the Duckverse/Mickey & Friends franchise:

"Donald's Happy Birthday"

Donald's birthday being on THE DAY BEFORE KRABS FRIES

hueberryshortcake: "WHAT THE FUCK LUEY" puffywuffy8904 and caro: "LUEY?!"

WriteBackAtYa admitting how some of the Donald shorts he streams are reminders on why his DT17 iteration is the best one

"Darkly Dawns the Duck"

Godfrey and Missy joining JUST IN TIME for the theme song

A man has fallen for a man in St. Canard

"Oh brother, this guy STINKS!!!"

Darkwing always forgetting the milk

Clips from the theme being featured in the episode

Everyone passing on Hammerhead in "Smash or Pass"

Godfrey and I joking about the vulture being Bradford

Everyone happy to see Launchpad!

"I'm a pilot!"

The first crash of the Not-the-Thunderquack

Everyone also happy to see Gosalyn making her debut!

Gosalyn's adoption monologue

puffywuffy8904: "ON HIS YEEYEE ASS BIKE"

ACAB! Again! (Except to M'ma)

"I'm a kid. I'm supposed to be irresponsible."

Missy: "im gonna choke gosalyn and drake" WriteBackAtYa: "-Darth Vader" Godfrey: "Nooooo" WriteBackAtYa: "-Darth Vader in Revenge of the Sith"

Little Girl Blue

Godfrey: "Major motion picture DW CHILL"

Darkwing Kung-Fu

Jail bird

Launchpad crashing into the jail cell

Thunderquack

Darkwing Duck: "Let's get dangerous!" Us:

"Before I met you, I didn't have a life worth risking."

Bulba: *steals the gold* Godfrey and I: *Scrooge mention* caro: "ME MONEY, ME BEAUTIFUL MONEY"

hueberryshortcake: "it's over taurus bulba i have the high ground" Me: "YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER"

Drake adopting Gosalyn

The theme song playing before the credits rolled

"Life, the Negaverse, and Everything"

Fearsome Five appearance!

Missy's Negaduck Mode going into overdrive

hueberryshortcake: "ATTENTION DRAKE MALLARD!!!!!!!!" Godfrey: "I'VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT-"

"I hate the Muddlefoots, and I hate their parties!"

Drake's relationship with the Muddlefoots:

(Meme by @blondedonaldduck)

Fearsome Five in a nutshell:

(Meme by @hueberryshortcake)

melcat33: "they are so desparate to appease the boss" Missy: "i'm desparate to appease negaduck, too"

(This has become a running gag with these highlights. lol)

Darkwing Duck: Into the Negaverse

Nega Gosalyn and Nega Launchpad appearance!

Della 🤝 Darkwing NOTHING CAN STOP THEM

Nega Honker being a FUCKING MENACE

Friendly Four appearance!

"Gosalyn's guardian is Negaduck."

Us: "NOT THE TOWER"

"LOSERS"

Spider-Clown

Darkwing's Ducks

MY ACCIDENTAL TIMING (I was actually crying from laughing so hard! lmao)

puffywuffy8904: "MEGAVOLT'S YEEYEE ASS MASK"

Nega Gosalyn having four Darkwings to take care of her

Negaduck getting killed

"What Ever Happened to Donald Duck?!"

Lunaris Hate Club

Donald getting beak clamped like: "You can't mute me, old man!"

Phooey mention!

Dewey and Webby's ghost pepper conspiracy theory:

Penumbra appearance!

"Unlikely roommate situation"

Dew-tective and Bad Cop

SAVE THE SAD, WET CAT

Dewey and Webby getting to be kids

"Bills, bills, more bills. Man, being an adult is not fun."

Missy: "Jones needs to learn how to word his letters better"

Anger management therapist Jones being based off of Neighbor Jones

Classic Donald Duck shorts humor and slapstick in this episode

"Fine, but if that summer camp shuts down, it's on you."

"Aw, phooey."

Scrooge, his enemies, Della, and the triplets being among potential threats to Lunaris

puffywuffy8904: "lunaris is such a nice man surely he would never target children specifically OH NO"

Lunaris electrocuting Penumbra:

(I am sorry if Tumblr butchered the quality from 1080p to 720p.)

Scrooge sounding OFFENDED at Dewey calling him "old man"

Jones' monologue about Donald's anger issues and how he was able to channel it healthily

Donald attacking Lunaris:

"PK FIRE" "PK THUNDER" "PK FREEZE" "ZETTAFLARE"

"Goofy's Grandma"

"HUMANS"

Dreamy: "GO MILITARY GRANNY GOOO"

Donald disguised as Goofy and getting paid for it

Mickey seeing a giant ass spider right as he opened the front door a la "Wormy"

A Goofy Movie (Rewatch)

caro: "Watching a movie. There better not be any goofy shit" puffywuffy8904: "WHAT THE FUCK"

Max dressed as Powerline

Pete losing Peg and Pistol in the divorce

Speaking of which, THE MOVIE THAT STARTED THE PETE HATE CLUB

The FUCKING principal

🎵STAND OUT ABOVE THE CROWD🎵

puffywuffy8904: "that was megavolt jr."

Donald being Goofy's best buddy!

Us whenever Idaho is mentioned: "POTATOLAND! POTATOLAND!"

puffywuffy8904: "you know who else is gonna end up in the electric chaaaair" WriteBackAtYa: "MY MOM"

melcat33 being Cinemasins (Ding!)

WriteBackAtYa: "To me, it's a regular movie." Me:

Wilhelm Scream

Mickey and Donald cameos!

Lester's Possum Park

Dreamy: "Max isn't white enough to like country music"

Lester mascot being Phantom Blot

SQUIRRELS IN MAX'S PANTS

WriteBackAtYa: "Stupid Rat Show"/"YOU LEAVE MIC'S NAME OUT OF THIS"

Amphibia AU of A Goofy Movie because Bill Farmer

The absence of Max's mom + the absence of the triplets' dad (*cough* Daffy *cough*) = they eloped together

Spam: "yeah i'm going to the zoo i'm going to the zoo and then i'm gonna see some animals"

The PIZZA

Seriously, between Three Musketeers and this, WHO THE FUCK IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE PETE FANSERVICE?!

"CHECK DA MAP GOOF"

The colors and lighting throughout the movie

DuckLooneyHistorian: "'My son respect me!' Really Pete, what about your wife? 😂"

Any joining at the WORST possible time

The scene that inspired Puffy's DT17 fanart…

…and the "Draw the Squad" meme

"I just want to be a part of it."

Just how fucking amazing the soundtrack is

WriteBackAtYa: "Don't tell me. We're about to go over a huge waterfall." Me: "Yep." WriteBackAtYa: "Sharp rocks at the bottom?" Me: "Most likely." WriteBackAtYa:

THE PERFECT CAST

Reminiscing about how "I2I" started playing RIGHT as Godfrey's birthday began

Any: "Dat ass ahyuk"

Powerline:

Jamming out to "I2I" during the credits

melcat33: "/to the tune of Bill Nye/ WILL WILL WILL WILL"

DuckLooneyHistorian doing the Goofy holler

[godfrey-the-chaos-duck]

Uncle Night Highlights!

@violetganache42 isn't feeling well (get well soon vi) so I nominated myself to do the post

let's ignore the fact that I was a whole hour late, I scrolled up the chat to catch up really quick so anything up to The Depths Of Cousin Fethry is just from what I could gather from that)

Spies In Their Eyes

DuckTales feat. Period Typical Stereotypessss

Scrooge being boring

JAIL

From The Confidential Casefiles Of Agent 22!

BEAKLEY BADASSERY

60s Spy Movie Vibes

@writebackatya "More like The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Scrooge, amirite?"

GUMMI BEARS

@hueberryshortcake "Scrooge 'fuck it we ball' McDuck get surprised when all of his wards have 'fuck it we ball' mindsets"

@tealottie thirsting over Beakley (to absolutely nobody's surprise) but dammit she's right

Dime Enough For Luck

"THIS HOUSE IS A FUCKING NIGHTMAREEEE"

People Not Liking Gladstone

Magica's BEAUTIFUL ACCENT

Pointing out that WebLena is basically Dimeshipping but a generation down

Gladstone loses his luck (and his shit)

AUDIO PROBLEMS

"better luck next dime"

The Depths Of Cousin Fethry!

Huey kissing a worm (New ship: HueWorm)

Fethry and Huey being autistic

Dewey being an ableist POS and us all calling his ass out (he gets better at the end)

Neurodivergent ducks save the dayyyyy

(then we watched a bunch of cool DuckTales animatic and the audio was a Dumpster Fire)

House Of Scrooge

Scrooge McDuck bought the House Of Mouse and is a cheap bastard about it (but NO MORE PETE WOOO)

SHAKESPEARE CARTOON BABEYYYY it was a parody of A Midsummer Night's Dream and HELL YEAH

More of Scrooge's Mr. Krabs level cheapskatery

Mickey et al fighting fire with fire and ALSO being cheapskates (it doesn't work as intended)

Show And Tell feat. Scrooge's dime

VON DRAKE'S HOUSE OF GENIUS (in which he gets arrested)

Whatever Happened To Donald Duck?!

Everyone being Very Very Normal about this episode at the start

GHOST PEPPERS

Penumbra is Amazing

Dew-tective (and Webby's deerstalker hat)

that CREEPY ASS MOON BUG (which gave Donald temporary fighting skills!)

Donald actually went to therapy (the only one who actually did)

Collective Lunaris Hate

"There goes the bravest man on two worlds"

[dailymolars]

if you've made your way here from my main because you've met me in college. you don't want to be here. run while you can. anyway duck-tectives for tech :3 no seriously unless I have shown you this account already shoo pls I like to pretend I still have some dignity

[ltwharfy]

Long Post of Random Thoughts on Finishing "Gravity Falls"

Are you interested in reading a really long post where a middle-aged guy talks about a children’s cartoon that ended seven years ago? If so, you are in luck! I just finished watching “Gravity Falls” y’all! And here are a bunch of totally random thoughts about it:

-“I’ll have you know Duck-tective has a big mystery element! And a lot of humor that goes over kids’ heads!”- it was nice that the kids show that I became obsessed with over the past two months or so acknowledged the reasons adults might get obsessed with it. Also, Duck-tective has to be one of my favorite show-within-a-show premises. I’d definitely check it out!

-While I do love the humor of the show so much, it is really the mystery element- the ongoing story arc- that took me by surprise and eventually led to me bingeing the last eight episodes or so in one day. I just don’t remember animated kids comedies- or really, many kids shows of any type-when I was growing up that had ongoing story arcs like that. Kids shows where the episodes could be watched in any order and everything was always “back to normal” at the beginning of the next episode was the norm.

-I’ve been a fan of Kristen Schaal since she was on The Daily Show and eventually end up watching everything she’s in. So, the main thing I knew about Gravity Falls going into it was “Kristen Schaal does the voice of that girl”. As Louise Belcher is one of my favorite TV characters, I was worried- would I be able to forget about Louise while hearing Mabel? Yes, quite easily. Their personalities are so different! It was basically never an issue. I actually tried to listen for Mabel lines that sounded like Louise might say them and really only ended up with two that stuck out to me (“I high-five hard.” and “I AM THE GOD OF DESTRUCTION!”)

-Oh, but Louise would also want a grappling hook. And, honestly, she’d get as much or more use of it than Mabel did. Like I can think of a few episodes (and the movie…) where it could’ve been helpful. But I digress.

-One final Bob’s Burgers related point, there were a few things in season two that I just couldn’t help but wonder if they were references to Bob’s Burgers. First, the Jersey Shore hometown of Stan and Ford definitely made me think of Seymour’s Bay. And the Pines briefly have a burger phone in “The Stan-Churian Candidate”! On the other hand, both Jersey Shore towns and burger phones are real things that existed well before Bob’s Burgers and not every appearance of them is a reference to it. (But when you’ve also got Kristen Schaal involved…)

-And speaking of cast members who I remembered from other things, both Dipper and Wendy were voiced by actors from short-lived early 00s shows that I loved: Joan of Arcadia’s Jason Ritter and Freaks and Geeks’s Linda Cardellini. The fact that I will associate them with those shows is another indication that I am not in the target demographic of Gravity Falls! But, honestly, if I had known Linda Cardellini was also in this show, I might have checked it out sooner.

-And speaking of Dipper and Wendy, I really loved how they handled Dipper’s crush on her in season two. Their scene together at the end of “Into the Bunker” is so sweet, it just made me feel so much affection for both the characters and the folks who make the show. It would’ve been so easy to never really make any effort to resolve that plotline and instead just always have Dipper pathetically crushing on her for the whole show. Or make it a nerdy boy wish-fulfillment thing and have her actually return his feelings (which just wouldn’t’ve been realistic given their ages). Instead, I feel like they addressed it in a realistic and sensitive way, which was nice.

-Another thing I really appreciated was how they developed some of the supporting characters in season 2, particularly Old Man McGucket and Pacifica Northwest. I enjoyed those characters in season one, but pretty much assumed they would always stay in their stock character roles- crazy old man and mean rich girl, respectively. Instead, McGucket gets what I found to be some of the most moving scenes in the show- when he gets his memories back and when he reunites with Ford.

-And Pacifica! She’s honestly the character I find myself wondering the most about what happens to them after the show. She’s realized her family has been pretty horrible for generations. She stood up to her parents. Her family lost some of their money and had to sell their mansion (her dad pledging allegiance to Bill and investing in weirdness bonds is probably one of my favorite details from the finale). She’s becoming a teenager. And she lives in Gravity Falls full time. I just think her post-series finale life is gonna be pretty fascinating!

-And maybe that life will involve her getting romantically involved with Dipper? Yeah, I started shipping that after “Northwest Mansion Mystery”, and even though the show really didn’t give them any scenes together (which is understandable, there was a lot of other stuff going on) I still like it. I checked to see if there was fic about it on AO3 and immediately got freaked out because there is so dang much of it! Seriously, the number of Dipper/Pacifica fics on there is literally ten times the number of fics for my favorite Bob’s Burgers ship! What am I supposed to do with that?!

-So if the statement, “I’m looking for the ‘Be My Thrill’/’heaven help the fool who falls in love’ of Dipper/Pacifica fics” means something to you, and you have a recommendation, let me know.

-One supporting character I wish had been introduced earlier: Tad Strange, the most normal person in town. The name, the character design, the voice, all just amused me. It would’ve been fun if there was more of him.

-Speaking of supporting character designs that I loved: Toby Determined and his hat, with the press card that says “hat” instead of “press”. That literally always made me smile. I love it so much. It is one of my favorite cartoon character design details ever.

-Possibly the most random of observations: I can now think of four fictional characters named Mabel off the top of my head, but don’t think I’ve ever met anyone with that name in real life.

-I don’t have any kids of my own, but I do have a nephew, and now I am pretty excited about the possibility that I could be a Grunkle a few decades down the road. Hopefully, I’ll have my own Mystery Shack by then.

-Even though I know how the storyline ends now, I feel like this show has a high level of rewatchability for some point in the future. I’m sure there will be tons of details that I didn’t notice the first time around, and there are definitely more layers of it to peel back (I never paid attention to the codes/puzzles in the credits. Although, had I been watching this show when I was 10 I probably would’ve obsessed about them.)

-I can probably think of more things to say about this show and probably will, but this seems like enough for now. Thanks to Alex Hirsch and everyone involved in making the show for creating such wonderfully weird, hilarious, entertaining world! And thanks to you, person who actually read to the end of this post!

[rainypixarcinemahorse]

Natsu and Lucy are watching Duck-tective.

[fictionkinfessions]

This goes out to any and all Stanley Pines out there. Grunkle Stan, I want you to know that this Mabel loves and misses you dearly. I never got along well with my parents back then, I guess we have that in common, where our parents liked our brothers more than us huh?

But I’m so glad we didn’t leave the shack the first night. Dipper felt like my only family that night and over that summer, you and Ford became family too. You were like the dad I never really had. When I went back to school, everyone asked about our summer away, and I would tell them stories of all the amazing things you did for us. Taking us fishing, taking us on that road trip through the other mystery spots in Oregon (you say it was to prank em but I can tell you liked going on that trip with us 👀), even just sitting and watching Duck-Tective with us.

And you were always there. Every summer we went back to Gravity Falls. Welcoming us with open arms. And I hope you know I followed in your footsteps. When I was older, and graduated school, Dipper became Ford’s apprentice and I became yours. I took over that shack when you couldn’t anymore and I can only hope that even when you were gone I made you proud. Conning tourists out of their money with cheesy attractions. LOL!

Anyways, this message has gotten a little too long. I love you Grunkle Stan, best dad I ever had. 💖 - Mabel Pines 🌠💫💖

griff

[fereality-indy]

Out And About

Mabel, Candy, and Grenda have just completed an evening art class Grenda: Hey, crazy ladies. Listen. Shall we go out? Candy: When? Grenda: Tonight. Mabel & Candy: What? But we are out! Grenda: Let's go out-out! To a club! Mabel: Now? But it's nearly nine. Four words: Rush home for Duck-Tective.

[frequentfalls]

Frequent Falls

June 6th - 9 AM

Headhunters

Timestamp: 0:00 - 2:44

Dipper and Mabel are watching Duck-tective.

Soos shows them a secret room he found full of wax figures.

Gruncle Stan shows off the figures, but finds Wax Abraham Lincoln has melted.

Mabel offers to make a new figure.

Gruncle Stan likes her gumption; she doesn't know what that word means.

Includes: Theme Song

[a-gil-rebel]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60471892/chapters/159232321#workskin

The link function for Tumblr seems to be broken today? Oh well, ugly post I guess 😂. Chapter 16 of Fade to White - Grunkle Bill! Is someone starting to catch onto "Phill"? Did I try my hand at poetry to some degree of success? Does someone get the shit beat out of them? Is there a reference to TBOB? Here's a small excerpt, hope you enjoy!

Bill froze as Ford started talking about the duck-tective-athon planned, moving his second sip of coffee around in his mouth. He hadn't detected it at first, not until he swallowed and that familiar bitter, almost metallic taste stuck around. Bill swallowed his second mouthful, confirming what he suspected.

"What did you put in this?" He kept his voice low and even, but it still came out as a growl.

[zeethequeer]

ABOUT MY GRAVITY FALLS DR

✨BASICS✨

Name: Stella Pines

Age: 16

Height: 5'5"

Hair Color:Brown

Eye Color: Black

Skin Color: Light

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight

Pronouns: She/her

✨FAMILY✨

Mom: Mrs. Pines

Dad: Mr. Pines

Siblings: Dipper and Mable

Aunt: ???

Uncle: Stan and Ford

Cousins: ???

Closest Friends: Wendy, Robbie, Tambry, Lee, Nate, Thompson, Dipper, Mable

S/O(s): None

✨EXTRAS✨

Favorite Color: Orange

Favorite Food: Apple Pie

Favorite Show: Duck-Tective

Favorite Drink: Pitt Cola

Hobbies: Nature walks, playing arcade games

Time Of First Shift: Start of the summer

Song That Reminds Me Of DR: The Moss - Cosmo Sheldrake

✨MY LIFE STORY✨

Not much to say here currently. I'm the twin's older sister, just as much of a nerd as our Grunkle Ford, and kicked a gnome in the face once. 🤷 The events of the show play out relatively the same, I just happen to be there for most of the chaos Dipper gets into earlier in the show. A few of the major changes have no bearing on the outcome of anything we get ourselves into.

✨ FAVORITE SCRIPTED✨ ✨MOMENTS✨

I kicked a gnome

Me - "Nope! I drive, you keep gnomes away!"

Dipper - "You only have your permit!"

Me - "And you're twelve! Get in the back!"