hey. can people please stop parroting "stan only regained his memory because it's a disney show" like it's an objective fact and somehow a storytelling flaw? because that's reductionist and straight up untrue. stan regaining his memory is not a random deus ex machina, it's clearly established earlier in the season that the memory gun isn't permanent via mcgucket's storyline. as soon as mcgucket watches the tapes in society of the blind eye, he begins to gradually heal and regain his memories. it makes perfect sense that mabel's scrapbook (and in journal three, stan and ford's old home movies) would function the same way for stan.
realistically, stan probably wouldn't have remembered his entire life in the span of a week, but his recovery is obviously being condensed for the sake of pacing. there's a ton of awesome fanworks based on the idea that he's still recovering new memories long after the end of the show, particularly from the darkest period of his life when he was homeless and estranged from his family. but that's not relevant to the finale. what matters for the show's purposes is that stan remembers the events of the past summer, so that his goodbye with dipper and mabel at the end of the episode holds dramatic weight. because THAT'S HOW YOU WRITE A STORY.
I think the scrapbook aesthetic suits Fids really nicely, he would like washi tape 🌸 especially using it to decorate his otherwise plain pattern-less button-ups
Waddles x The Goat (I forgot their name it's been years). I just think it'd be cute to see Mabel trying to pair them at like a teaparty or smt :3
Love this so much. So cute, sweet, and simple. And, of course, Mabel is here to catch another scrapbook-ortunity! (Just don’t tell Dipper that those are his pillows)
Another old pagespread hehe. This is one of my fav cartoons ever, Gravity Falls! I really enjoyed the humor and the mystery within the show. Also I like how long it was despite having 2 seasons. I'm happy that the fandom is rising up again cuz that means I can bring up within irl conversations lol. Anyways enjoy~
Is there a realativity falls type au where Mabel is the one who builds the portal/falls for bills tricks and dipper is forced to pretend to be her?
Like instead of the other way around, bill preys on Mabel for her unfathomable creative vision, her impulsivity and yearning for an ideal vision of the future? Gets her to build it with her friends, candy helping with the tech(or someone else ? A tech guy idk who in the show fills that role) and grenda with muscle as Mabel understands the structure due to her arts and crafts needing that as a skill?
The two friends are broken in different ways by the portal, with one desperately afraid of tech and becoming a recluse (fiddleford/old man mcguget) and the other desparate to forget (brother eye)
And yet she persist, until her glitter covered journals and scrapbooks spiral into horror beyond even her scope of imagination. She calls dipper, the smartest man she knows. Surely he will fix it?
She falls in.
Nothing but a grappling hook as dipper tries to do the work of three alone. Then, of course, the stand arrive.