#Stan o War II

[jacky-rubou]

interesting headcanon that I thought of... Ford occasionally sleepwalks on the Stan O' War II in the first few months of their adventure, leading to scenarios where Stan wakes up some nights to see Ford standing and staring at a wall or catches him wandering the boat, all while fast asleep. Sometimes even speaking incoherently to nobody. Stan usually ends up having to gently lead him back to bed, with reassurances that it was only him if he resists, though occasionally Ford went back to bed on his own. Ford never remembers these moments in the morning, but feels deeply disturbed the first time Stan related them to him off-handedly, being reminded of Bill possessing him in his sleep all those years ago. It almost makes him not want to sleep out of that old fear, but Stan was quick to remind him that Bill was gone, and, even if he wasn't, 'ya still got that plate in your head, don'tcha?', which was reassuring enough to get him to sleep without being scared that the somnambulism meant anything more than being a symptom of his years of sleep deprivation. Eventually, Ford's sleepwalking episodes grew farther apart and less potentially dangerous than that one time he took control of the boat while sleeping (Stan actually had to wake him up with an air horn so they didn't get lost), until they finally became a rare occurrence that only happened when he was exceptionally stressed. However, Ford was not amused when he found out that Stan, instead of getting him back to sleep right away one time, had recorded one of his more hilarious sleepwalking incidents and sent it to the twins back at home. He would never live it down when they came back to Gravity Falls to visit. But who could blame Stan when Ford had been arguing with the wall about jellybean flavors?

[lesbiten]

how DOES anyone deal with ford. guy comes home from superhell and immediately starts bullying his brother to make up for 30 years of Not Bullying Him and is only nice to him when he faces the threat of Him Dying Or Losing His Memory. ford you can be nice to stan like. normally just in your every day life

[gay-jewish-bucky]

Debunking the Claim that Bucky Barnes' Dog Tags "Prove He Cannot Be Jewish"

In 2021 and 2022, when discussing the fact that MCU!Bucky (henceforth referred to simply as Bucky) is based off of Arnie Roth, a gay Jewish man and Steve's childhood best friend, I received pushback from fans telling me that Bucky can't possibly be Jewish due to his dog tags; citing a behind the scenes picture posted by Sebastian Stan to his instagram story.

Transcription of the dog tags:

James B. Barnes (Legal Name) 32557038 (Serial Number*) T41 42 (Tetanus Immunization) O (Blood Type) R. Barnes (Next of Kin) 3092 Stockton RD (Address) Shelbyville IN (Location) P (Religion Marker)

*A serial number starting with a 3 indicated that the servicemember was drafted into the Army, it's important that we do not forget that Bucky didn't chose to fight.

During World War II the dog tags of American service members would have had one of the following regulation religion markers:

P for Protestant (the marker we see on Bucky's dog tags)

C for Catholic

H for Hebrew, this being the marker for 'Jewish'

NO (or left blank) for No Religion

For Jewish servicemembers fighting in Europe, being discovered to be a Jew by your captors–especially if you were captured by the Nazis–carried considerable risk and could mean the difference between life or horrific torture, experimentation and possibly even death.

Some Jewish service members, justifiably incredibly fearful of what could happen if they were found out, would either omit a religion marker altogether or, after getting their tags, would attempt to obscure the 'H' marker in some way so it could not be read by their captors.

While this saved some lives, it was not a perfect and fool-proof system, and we have no way of knowing how many times it failed.

In 1943, the year Bucky was drafted, the Army introduced a more official (and more widely adoptable, and thus widely adopted) option to protect Jews in its ranks:

Through the European Theatre of Operations United States Army, Jewish servicemembers could elect to have the 'H' marker for Hebrew on their dog tags replaced with a 'P' for Protestant.

This would offer Jewish servicemembers a more convincing layer of protection if they were ever captured by the enemy, because, unlike an obscured religion marker (or that lack of one) which could itself draw suspicion, a set of dog tags printed with a 'P' would be entirely indistinguishable from the dog tags worn by a gentile and would be less likely to draw suspicion.

Due to this option being made available to Jewish people serving in the United States Armed Forces, the 'P' marker on Bucky's dog tags not only does not definitively prove that he's really a gentile, in actuality its presence provides even further historical support in favour of him being a Jewish man.

Sources and Additional Reading:

Jewish GIs and Their Dog-Tags by Rabbi Akiva Males - Hakirah

A Star of David for Pvt. Benjamin Garadetsky - Jewish Telegraphic Agency (jta.org)

U.S. Army WW2 Dog Tags | WW2 US Medical Research Centre (med-dept.com)

Do You Know the History of the "Dog Tag" (jcveteranscouncil)

Beyond The Battle: Religion and American Troops In World War II (uky.edu)

World War II and American Jewish Identity

European Theater of Operations, United States Army - Wikipedia

Pride Month 2022, 40 Years of Arnie Roth and Michael Bech - Marvel Comics: The Queer History Behind MCU Bucky’s Backstory

J.M. DeMatteis, the creator of Arnie, confirming the character's use for MCU!Bucky

Full screenshot of Sebastian Stan's post of the dog tag

How to Decode a WWII US Army Serial Number | Amy Johnson Crow

[faustzlla]

stan o' war II

[all-lars-bars]

What if when Stan killed Bill, he got some of Bill's powers, like telekinesis or telepathy or smth. But he's still Stan, so he just uses them to cheat, scam, or to mess with his brother

The Stan O' War II would chaos

Stan: blows up pancakes with mind

Ford, sleep deprived from Stan projecting "the ocean is a soup" or something into his mind last night: My fucking panca-💥💥💥💥

[incomingalbatross]

Gravity Falls, the first year after canon:

Kids start school basically as soon as they get home. Wendy and Co. go back into high school. Dipper starts boxing lessons at a local gym.

Stan and Ford get the Stan O' War II operational around the end of September, making a detour to sail south and see the kids before heading to the Arctic. Meet the Pines parents! (I really wanted them there for Thanksgiving, but I couldn't justify delaying their voyage by a whole three months. And end of September situates their sailing right after Yom Kippur, which from my limited understanding seems nicely symbolic.)

The kids + parents spend Thanksgiving with their dad's side of the family. May involve a belated realization that no one told Grandpa Shermie he has two brothers again. Oops? Situation is rectified.

Through the Magic of Christmas and a fortuitous run-in with Santa, Stan and Ford unexpectedly get to go home for Christmas! They even get to visit Piedmont and (with the kids) Gravity Falls before they zip back to their boat. Lots of reunions. This is also when Soos and Melody announce they've just gotten engaged. :)

Spring is less eventful in terms of California-Oregon-Arctic traffic.

The second school lets out, the younger twins are racing the older ones to Oregon. It's a photo finish probably. Everyone crowds into the Shack, which is fuller with Soos and Abuelita there, but it's also full of secret rooms and a floorplan that makes no sense, so it's fine.

Stan and Ford's birthday is on June 15!! It is a Very Big Deal. Dipper and Mabel go all out on the party planning, though they keep it mostly confined to the Shack crew.

Somewhere in here (maybe at the start? maybe in the middle?) Dipper and Mabel's parents come up for a couple weeks of vacation. It's a little disorienting for everyone, but they learn to love the town and Mabel and Dipper love getting to share it with them.

Soos and Melody get married on July 13 - Melody is making a Statement with that choice of date, which Soos understands and is overjoyed by. Half the town is at the wedding and all of it is at the reception (even though anyone not on the limited guest list has to pay admission. Stan is weeping with pride).

McGucket uses his new wealth to throw a ludicrously wild and extravagant shindig for the town on the date of the traditional Northwest party.

Despite the reach of NMAT, everyone feels unsettled on the anniversary of Weirdmageddon. People end up congregating in the town square in the evening. Wendy and her gang start a bonfire, people start bringing out food, and suddenly people are singing apocalypse folk songs? Trading stories? It's a whole thing in the end, but it helps people make something fun out of their memories.

The summer ends on a better note for the whole town, though, with a blow-out party to celebrate Mabel and Dipper's fourteenth birthday. This year their parents come up to give them company on the trip home, so they get to be there for the party too!

[femboyhorror]

🌲 pines family headcanons ✨ click the read more for more in-depth headcanon stuff!

this started out as a little silly edit of ford, then i decided to do one for stan as well and once that happened i knew i had to do edits for the pines twins as well. i might end up doing others like soos, wendy and pacifica but for now we have the main four pines.

🌲 dipper has glasses but prefers not to wear them. he thinks they look nerdy but wears them more often with the support of mabel and his grunkles. 🌲 bisexual disaster. 🌲 dipper will always be a transboy in my head. struggled with gaining acceptance from his parents but knows he always has a place where he can be himself in gravity falls. 🌲 CW SELF HARM IMPLIED: his dysphoria and dissociation from his body ends up worse for a while after sock opera. for a while turns to… not so great methods to remind himself that his body is his own. 🌲 became clingy after weirdmageddon, either clinging to his sister and grunkles before going back to piedmont or just staying by mabel's side often after. 🌲 probably has pierced ears but would wear very subtle earrings, to mabel's displeasure.

🌠 big decora kei vibes. so many stickers and hair pins. she also will often wear mismatched socks! 🌠 is the one to suggest she and dipper get a matching hair streak. blue was the only color dipper would agree to. 🌠 mabel gives me big pansexual vibes. starts to discover her own identity around the time dipper does, and ends up dating candy and/or grenda for a hot minute. 🌠 wholly supported dipper when he came out as a transboy and was his biggest ally growing up. 🌠 after weirdmageddon she asks ford for drawing lessons. the two bond over arts and crafts. 🌠 CW MILD ED suffers from a sort of survivor's guilt after weirdmageddon, guilt over being tricked by bill and almost staying in mabeland manifesting mostly in the form of being a people pleaser, forgetting to eat and sleep. the other pines thankfully notice this and put a stop to it.

🎣 i love long haired stan. i like to imagine after the series the guy feels comfortable enough to grow his hair out again. 🎣 stretched earlobes! 🎣 is a transman and also gnc as hell. he also is insanely good at using makeup. (dipper and ford don't really use makeup and mabel just likes to be Silly with makeup.) 🎣 (tbh i can also imagine stanley as being transfeminine as well, they're just That Gender.) 🎣 as soon as mabel saw his "glorious mane" she was practically begging him to let her braid it. he pretends to just go along with it for her sake but he secretly loves having her do his hair. 🎣 the adhd to ford's autism. he definitely suffers hard from rejection sensitive dysphoria and tends to panic if it seems like someone is upset with him. (i.e. ford confronting him over the broken machine, mabel upset with him for lying in the land before swine.)

✋ his sweater is a huge comfort for him. in general he likes heavier clothes to ground him. ✋ i like to imagine him with plenty of earrings and tattoos. earrings mainly themed around space and stars and ends up getting some tattos on his wrists to cover the burn scars from weirdmageddon. ✋ a touch of the tism. has a hard time distinguishing tone. (i.e. not being able to tell if wendy was complimenting him ironically or not.) ✋ while he doesn't mind if people see him as a man, he himself doesn't feel all that attached to the idea of being male. fine with any pronouns but probably likes to use neopronouns. (maybe star/starself?) ✋ achillean, mainly attracted to enbies and men. tried to date a few girls growing up to try and be "normal" (comphet's a binch) but at around high school enough bad experiences made him avoid dating for a while. ✋ he loves loves loves space and astronomy! it's sort of his hyperfixation. used to name constellations with stanley while spending nights on the stan o war and they bond over this on the stan o war ii!

[headcanonfalls]

Tourny 2: Round Five!

our competitors:

headcanons that Ford has a high pain tolerance and Ford sometimes sings songs from other dimensions in the shower

(no explanation needed)

headcanons that Ford and Stan share a bunk bed on the Stan O' War II (Ford has the top bunk, Stan has the bottom bunk) and Ford discovers that he's autistic when he learns that Mabel and Dipper are

(no explanation needed)

[tessellated-sunl1ght]

Stress doodles of He.

[Image Description: a series of sketches of Stanford Pines from Gravity Falls.

Top left: a detailed, shaded grayscale neck-up portrait of Ford smiling and looking down to the right at someone unseen. He has a large scar tracing across his face and up to his left eye, which is covered by a blacked-out lens of his glasses. He’s saying “I am, as the youth say, awake.” Someone is replying “do u mean ‘woke’”.

Middle left: a colored drawing of Stan and Ford, in their Stan O’ War II outfits. Ford is smiling giddily up at something looming above him and casting a shadow over both him and Stan, with a notebook clutched in his left hand. Stan is a little ways behind him, looking up with a mix of fear and confusion on his face. Both brothers have brown-blue complete heterochromia in opposite eyes.

Bottom left: a warm, flatly colored monochromatic drawing of Ford looking down at something with a happy, excited look on his face. He’s lit by an unseen light source and yelling something in an alien language.

Bottom middle: a grayscale, full-body, top-down sketch of Ford looking up at something angrily. He’s wearing his classing outfit and has a gun clutched in his right fist, and is brightly lit by an unseen light source.

Bottom right: a flatly-colored sketch of Ford sat slightly hunched with one leg crossed over the other and holding a glass of wine in his right hand, posed over his knee. He is wearing a waistcoat over a black shirt and red tie with his golden six-fingered symbol on it. His legs and half of his torso are outside of the drawing.

Top right: a full-body colored and shaded sketch of Ford wearing a girl’s Japanese high school uniform and looking down at himself with his left arm held across his body thinking “this is actually quite comfortable.” He has scattered scars on his left arm and legs, his right arm is out of view.

Middle: a colored chibi drawing of Ford in his classic outfit with the agender flag behind him. The text above reads “his gender is unsafe science”. End description]

[writingwrench]

Confession (Stanford x Reader)

 I hope y’all enjoy! If you want me to write another or you have a suggestion, hit me up!

 Stanford glanced at the photo of the cheerful woman on his desk. She had this immutable, meanderous personality that he’d fallen hard for.

 Ever since they were younger, he’d had a type of respect for her enthusiastic and bubbly personality. Ever since high school (maybe even before then) he’d acquired an officious fervor for her. He didn’t really know how to tell her for fear of provoking some kind of rancor. 

 Even so, he ventured from his basement in search of his parsimonious heretic of a brother....

 “Stanley?” he asked,shutting the vending machine door. The twin was found sitting at the register, counting his day’s winnings.

 “Hey,bro!” he said, sea-tanned face splitting into a grin.

 “I need help,” Ford muttered,pulling a chair over to the counter and sitting down. 

 Stan set the money down,giving his brother his full attention. It wasn’t like him to ever ask for help. Even when they were on the Stan-O-War II.

 “I....I have feelings for (Y/N)....” he awkwardly began,hoping Stanley would understand. 

 Slowly, Stan began to smirk,before full acclaim filled the room. 

 “Finally, you admit it. It’s been over thirty years!” he laughed. Ford’s face was set aflame. He knew his brother wasn’t being callous, but he still felt somewhat ashamed for him to take this long to bring up the gall to tell her.

   Seeing Ford’s impression of a tomato, Stanley laughed again quietly,before,”Look,Poindexter, just go out there,hike up your big boy panties,  and tell her. She feels the same way...even though I don’t really understand, I am the better looking twin!” He grinned,winking. Which earned him an eye-roll from Ford.

 Still unsure, Ford, paused before the door, before Stan got fed up and just pushed him out to where (Y/N) was sitting with Dipper and Mabel. 

 “-I’m trying to nail that quack reporter for his actions,” She was saying. Stanford didn’t really understand what kind of conversation  he’d managed to walk into, but just hearing her voice, he’d instantly felt relieved. 

 “Hey, (N/N)?” he asked, nervousness seeping into his pores.

 “Hey, Ford!” she smiled brightly,turning to him. He stared at her for a moment, lost in her (E/C) eyes, before the awkward silence was broken by the angel he’d fell in love with.

 “What’s up?” she asked, not at all perturbed by the awkward silence. (She’d gotten used to it fairly quickly since Ford himself was such a cute, awkward person.)

 “I....um...I have to confess something,” he stuttered out, not meeting her eye for fear of peeing himself. He didn’t understand. He could take on demons and other horrifying creatures, but with a mere glance from (Y/N),his knees would buckle and he’d be a total loss for words.

 The girl raised a brow, signaling for him to continue....so he did.

 “I want...um...I would love.. gah,screw it! I’M IN LOVE WITH YOU!!” he yelled,startling (Y/N) and the younger twins.

 It was quiet until- “OH MY GOSH,GRUNKLE FORD!!!!!”

 (Y/N)’s face tinted pink.

 “Kids,” she said shakily,”Please give us some privacy.”

 They did as told, making their way to the house. It wasn’t long before she saw two heads pop up over the window sill. 

 Rolling her eyes and grinning, she rushed over to Ford,tackling him in a fierce hug. They both landed with a thud,before surprised giggles filled the air.

 “I love you too,Ford,” (Y/N) said, still grinning before pulling him to her by the front of his overcoat. Their lips met. The kiss was sweet and passionate, the  both of them marveling at how long it took for them to get to this point.

 They disconnected, resting their foreheads on each other’s shoulder, and quietly grinning.

 “(Y/N), I’m so sorry it took me so long,” Ford finally said,breaking the silence.

 He was met with another kiss.

 “It’s alright,you dork,” she said, still grinning.

 It may have taken forever, but she finally felt truly wanted.

[shitnpiss]

I've been thinking for a while and… I'm starting to think the antis are right… Stancest is gross and doesn't make any sense.

Like, yeah they're weird old men but if you were to ask either Stan if he liked the other in that way, they'd both scoff and yell "That's disgusting, he's my BROTHER!!! I only cuddle with him and french-kiss him PLATONICALLY!!!"

It's so gross. Stan would probably start crying from someone suggesting such heinous things about how he loves his brother that he cares about so much. Ford would then try to calm him down by kissing him on the cheek then slowly moving over to nibble on his ear (PLATONICALLY). They then start making out in a brotherly display of affection.

Once their lips break apart, they catch their breaths and look into each other's eyes... then at you. After a brief moment of their brotherly love radiating around you, Stan breaks the silence to say "April Fools, kid." Ford nods and follows with "I do fuck my brother."

You would probably respond with something along the lines of "Oh that makes sense. Thank you for the clarification."

Ford replies "No problem.

Stanford Pines, Ph.D, Ph.D, Ph.D, Ph.D, Ph.D, Ph.D, Ph.D, Ph.D, Ph.D, Ph.D, Ph.D, Ph.D

Professor, Department of Anomalies"

As Stan and Ford hold hands and board the Stan O War II, you walk away, realizing that you just wasted 3 minutes of your life reading a haphazardly written April Fools post about two old men being gay for each other and also twin brothers.

[mother-ofthe-universe]

Popular portrayal of the Stan O War II days say that Stan’s constantly dragging Fords ass to bed but let’s be honest this man’s got an equally fucked up sleep schedule full of working until he passes out just like his brother

[fallen-gravity]

Day 2: Favorite Journal Page

The one that talks about Stan recovering his memory!! It’s such a soft, intimate moment that comes as a welcome contrast to all of the heartbreak from Weirdmageddon. I genuinely love that they ultimately decided to keep this moment to the journal, rather than putting this in the show as a scene, because it reads to me as a very soft, private moment.

I remember right before the Journal came out, I was hoping and pleading for content of the Stan twins bonding. There was a part of me that was convinced we would get absolutely squat, since I knew most of the journal was written pre-reconciliation, and that anything other than angry griping and occasional nostalgia would just be hopeful thinking. This page, in turn, was a huge surprise. It felt like such a love letter to Stan and Ford, and everything perfect and not-so-perfect about their relationship. It felt like a loving thank you note to fans, for all of our crazy speculation and over-the-top reconciliation fics. 

I’m happy beyond words that we got a shot of them on the Stan O’ War II in the show, but I love this quiet moment just as much, because it feels very personal and grounding.

@gf10yearslaterzine​

[gin-juice-tonic]

more stan o war II adventures

[fordtato]

I was tagged by @anistarrose in this challenge! Thanks rose, this is so neat.

Rules are to share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. I will not be doing that lmao - I don't even think I have 10 fics on my Ao3 (a lot of my stuff doesn't see the light of day) So I have elected to pick 5.

it's all GF stuff, mostly because i refuse to publish my knuckles the echidna stuff lmao

Jersey Boy (Gravity Falls)

The Backupsmore University brochure wasn’t nearly as interesting as one would would think by the way Stanford Pines pored over it, but if anyone were to wander by and see the way he stubbornly refused to look away from its pages, they might think it was a map to glistening treasure or the Fountain of Youth, rather than just a mediocre list of mediocre “luxuries” provided by a mediocre “school”: -Bug free dorms!* -Edible lunches!* -Certified non-criminal teachers!*

(jesus what a run-on sentence - y'all read this stuff?)

2. A Holiday Classic (Or, How Ford Learned Jane Fonda is Still Kicking) (Gravity Falls)

Stan and Ford were at port for only a few hours, but it didn’t stop them from fully exploring the gorgeous Finnish port town of Jakobstad while they waited for the repairs on the Stan O’ War II to finish up.

3. How Hard Can It Be To Lose (Gravity Falls)

He felt sick, and he knew it wasn’t going away until that money was in his hand. 

4. Time Loop (Gravity Falls)

He just had to get run out of California, huh? Right as the new year was creeping in? Couldn’t have lasted long enough to stay hunkered down with the palm trees through the winter before the cops were called on him?

5. 30 years (Gravity Falls)

He spared a glance over his shoulder, at the hunk of metal that ruined his life, the hunk of metal he had spent the better part of six years creating. It was falling apart, debris draped across the rafters. The end of the world.

I will be tagging @nour386, @sciencevillain, @unculturedmamoswine, @fordanoia @gravi-mania @ninety-smiles-an-hour and uuuuhhhhh i know there are people im missing here so im sorry about that, im just typing this up during a break from work - feel free to ignore this tag or feel free to grab this challenge yourself even if you aren't tagged!!!!

[bbggrandpa]

romanticizes old stanchez: two old men who have been through it, with other people and each other in their younger days. both fumbled, hesitated too much or were too harsh on each other. but still think about each other through the years. maybe still a little tentative, but knowing what they want in choosing to get back in touch. being bolder in saying the things they should've said. them trying to be patient and mutually understanding about all that happened during the time in between. them having a long distance relationship, talking to each other over the phone, visiting each other for a week or a weekend out because they both have commitments to their families, while holding a steady relationship. rick spending a few nights on the stan-o-war II or visiting the mystery shack with his grandkids. stan visiting the smith house for family dinners. coming together like the brady bunch for the holidays. looking after the kids together, being their grunkle stan and grandpa rick. stan tying the knot and rick making the choice to remarry, maybe even changing his last name. having someone they aren't afraid to grow old with, caring for each other in their ages. indulging in what it's like to be an old married couple