#gruncle ford

[drakenaa]

PINES! PINES! PINES!

I felt bad for not including Ford in the last pines family group photo, so here’s this! I love this show, and this family, so much you have no idea.

[sach-draws]

He’s just like me fr

I head canon Ford on the asexual aromatic spectrum😊 but I love fics that portray him as Demisexual👌👌

I strongly relate to this man, and I have for YEARS and I just barely figured out that I’m actually aromatic🤭

I still want him though…..



[redhatmeg]

It did not escaped my attention during the rewatch o BTTF that two of my favorite scientists in fiction are older, nerdy men who look badass in brown overcoats and have sweet relations with boys in puffy vests.

Now, I wonder if my love for Emmett Brown was partly to blame for my love for Ford Pines.

[sach0w-draws1]

I’d also love reblogs with y’all’s opinions!!! I’m excited to find out 😅

[retirement-home-rumble]

Retirement Home Rumble: Round 1

Side B

Why they would crush the other geezers under the cut:

WARNING: There may be spoilers

Gandalf Propaganda:

Pines Twins (old version) Propaganda:

[muria-art]

Thanks to the chat for the reminder of the birthday of these two

[b3dh3d]

EVERYONE GO SUPPORT THIS RIGHT NOW!

[common-writers-fly-sometimes]

gruncles cheering up Dipper

[hkthatgffan]

11 years ago today after the Let It Shine movie, Disney Channel aired the first episode of a new cartoon called Gravity Falls. Tourist Trapped would mark the start of what would go on to become one of the most beloved cartoons of all time, that still remains as one of the greats! Gravity Falls changed my life in many ways and I'm sure it did yours too. Whether you joined the fandom yesterday or 11 years ago, Gravity Falls is a show we all are united in our love for. It's rare for a show that ended so long ago to still remain so relevant and popular...but Gravity Falls is no ordinary show as we all know.

Stay Weird!

[msnewobsessioneveryweek]

Gravity Falls released 11 years ago today. Time isn’t real. I feel so old. I watched it when it was airing and I still adore it.

[drakenaa]

He’s reading Dipper and Mabel’s entries in the journal.

Some of yall really liked my sketches of Stan and Ford, so here’s a fully done drawing of Ford. DISCLAIMER: I did not draw the background, I just pulled it from the show.

Anyways, hope you guys like it, expect more gravity falls stuff soon :)

[beweepbomp]

Growing up is knowing that both Stanford and Stanley had reasonable reasons to be upset with each other. Stanley never did anything intentional and Standford felt betrayed from those actions. Both of them acted irrationally but also reasonably. Their feelings were valid in their circumstances. With them it's very complicated but beautiful.

[redhatmeg]

My first Gravity Falls fanfic idea since 2016

I don’t know if I will ever write it (and I have a sneaking suspicion that someone already did something similar), but here it is:

Somehow Stans get back in time and realize that they landed in their old school the day before the Science Project Incident. They witness as the Past!Stan accidentally ruined the project and the Present!Stan gets the idea to repair it and change the future. Present!Ford agrees, because they both want to prevent their discord, Stan getting disowned, Ford meeting Bill and all the horrible things that happened since then.

So they change the future but it turns out that it’s not all that good as they expected. I don’t have many ideas on this bad future, but I was thinking about Stan not finding his own place after Ford went to the university, and neither of the Stan twins settling in Gravity Falls - therefore Mabel and Dipper aren’t sent to their gruncle Stan and don’t do all those things that had good consequences (Mermando being rescued from the pool, Pacific and Gideon getting character development...). Now I see that lack of Stans will also mean Soos not having a father figure.

Either way, Stans not coming to Gravity Falls results in disaster and they ultimately decide to go back in time again and sabotage the science project. And so they get to witness once again how Past!Stan gets disowned and Past!Ford doesn’t say anything... but Present!Stans also get to have a serious conversations about that night and about how they felt afterwords.

So? What do you think?

[pokegalla]

Funny Scenarios

Phase 2 edition

Epic: BRUUUUUUH I THOUGHT YOU FORGOT ABOUT ME!!!

Cross: DUUUUUUDE WE’RE TOGETHER AGAAAAAAAIN!!!!

TK: Aw you added Epic in Phase 2 so they can be together?

Me: *Nods* It just hit me. Like since I changed the story, everyone I added in the other’s groups wouldn’t be apart of the main story anymore. And Epic was one of the guys I REALLY wanted to be apart of the story. So when I added Cross, I was like yooooooooo.

Hisoka: You seem excited~

Me: I’m still concerned about adding you….

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Lillie, Rosa, Noelle, and Bunny: *Being themselves*

Hisoka and Chara: *Flirting*

Me: PROTECC SQUAD ON DECK BETCH *Pulls out crowbar* YOU TOUCHA MAH CHILDS, IMMA CHOP YOUR D*CK OFF.

Hisoka: Kinky~

Me (Bonks his head): No-

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Abyss: Why can’t you just do your mission?!

Hex: REEEEEEEEEEEEE-

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Nox: I just want to tell her how I feel….how I’ve always felt about her.

Nox: But why am I competing….

Nox: WITH THIS-?!

Epic: Chicken wing, chicken wing. Hot dog and baloney. Chicken And Macaroni. Chillin With My Homies-

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Epic: Hey bruh. Look over here.

Cross: Yeah look!

Me: Hm what-?

Epic and Cross: 👌 HA GOTTEM-

Me: *👌 Both hands on boobs 👌 *

Epic: DAMMIT!!! BOOBA!!! YOU HAVE DECEIVED ME!!!

Cross: *Blushing and highly confused*

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Me (Hugging Dipper, Mabel, and TK): These are my kids now. I’m adopting them.

Stan: No you can’t have them all. Those two still have parents.

Me: I’ll pay you

Stan: Say less

Ford: STAN-!

Stan: 🤷‍♂️ It’s free babysitting-

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Me: Making my way downtown! Walking fast-

Wickedtale group: *Begins catching up*

Me (Starts running): Walking faster-

[ckret2]

How are ford and dipper interacting with Bill. (especially after their ptsd due to how he hurt them)

So "how are they interacting with Bill OVERALL" is a big question—and one i've already touched on in a couple previous asks—so to shrink the question to manageable size, I'm gonna interpret this one more as "talk about any Bill-related trauma Ford and Dipper might have and how seeing him again impacts it."

I actually don't think either of them necessarily developed PTSD (although Ford has worse odds). Not because they didn't go through traumatic experiences thanks to Bill, but rather just because not everyone who goes through a traumatic experience develops PTSD. Some excerpts from the National Institute of Mental Health:

It is important to remember that not everyone who lives through a dangerous event develops PTSD. In fact, most people will not develop the disorder.

Many factors play a part in whether a person will develop PTSD. Risk factors make a person more likely to develop PTSD. Other factors, called resilience factors, can help reduce the risk of the disorder.

Some factors that may promote recovery after trauma include:

Seeking out support from other people, such as friends and family

Finding a support group after a traumatic event

Learning to feel good about one’s own actions in the face of danger

Having a positive coping strategy, or a way of getting through the bad event and learning from it

Being able to act and respond effectively despite feeling fear

The Pines are part of a close knit family that shared in Weirdmageddon, and 3/4 of them were puppeted, hurt, and/or manipulated by Bill and can commiserate. They also have friends in Gravity Falls they can talk to about their Bill experiences. Although Ford and Dipper are ashamed of being fooled by Bill in the past, even during the course of the show they started helping each other process that; and all four of them have reason to be proud of how they faced Weirdmageddon. They all ultimately responded to their fears by taking action. The family's in a good position to get through the aftermath with minimal lingering trauma!

The biggest potential issues are their physical isolation from their support network, and Gravity Falls' Never Mind All That Act hampering people from talking with each other; but if you assume they're still regularly talking with each other on phone or online and that people are still willing to talk in private amongst friends about Weirdmageddon, I think they can get around the majority of those issues. (Plus, realistically, the Never Mind All That Act would hamper recovery from trauma; but since it was clearly intended to be a funny cartoon joke about life going back to normal, I don't want to narratively treat it like a serious thing with serious consequences.)

(I'm also on the fence about headcanoning whether Dipper & Mabel tell their parents; Dipper spends most of summer trying to tell the nearest adult relative all about the weird stuff in Gravity Falls and Mabel immediately writes to mom & dad about the new gruncle that came out of a magic portal, I don't see why they'd stop that when they get home. Odds the parents get the kids therapy is like 90% but odds they'd let the kids go back next summer is 5% so... *makes a weighing scales gesture*)

So I think they'll get through with minimal trauma-trauma. But the scars of the incident can show on them in ways other than full-blown PTSD.

The worst of it Dipper experiences is nightmares. Sometimes about Bill, sometimes about being stuck outside his body while it sleeps below. Admittedly, nothing to sneeze at; few things are more terrifying than waking up, disoriented and in the dark, from a nightmare about a guy who can actually invade nightmares—you can spend the next half hour asking yourself "what if it was real?" But if you've got a sister in the next room to reassure you it wasn't real and a grunkle in a weird time zone you can call at 3 am to hear he's had similar dreams for thirty years and they never meant anything... eventually a half hour of fear becomes five minutes of fear and the dreams become annoying instead of terrifying.

If anything, being in the Shack with Bill helps Dipper deal with the nightmares—it's reassuring to be able to wake up from a Bill nightmare, bellow "GET OUT OF MY DREAMS YOU FREAK," and hear back from the floor below, "I'M NOT IN YOUR DREAMS, I'M WATCHING TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES WITH ABUELITA."

Even his dreams about out-of-body experiences have decreased since coming back to the shack—that's probably a sign of healing, right?

(One of the things Bill plans never to admit to the humans: he still has a sizable amount of dream-related magic, and he's started shoving Dipper's soul back in his body whenever Bill sees him astral projecting because he's sick of getting blamed for Dipper's "nightmare" when he wakes up.)

Between Dipper and Ford, Ford's the most likely to actually get PTSD—specifically because at the outset, he got the least emotional support. After he found out Bill's motives, he was trapped alone in his house for weeks, afraid that the world could end if he fell asleep, until the point that he was hallucinating Bill in other people's eyes—if it was a hallucination.

That extreme sleep deprivation, that paranoia, that terror, and most of all that isolation from any support—THAT sure could trigger PTSD.

But Ford's had thirty years to process that, all while traveling through a multiverse full of people like "oh, THAT Bill Cipher? Oh yeah we totally sympathize, that's the exact kind of thing that guy would do." Getting dumped into the multiverse probably gave him a better shot of healthily processing the experience than he could have had on Earth. (Note that he's not checking people's eyeballs when he gets home from the multiverse.)

On the other hand, I do believe he's got some noteworthy trauma from thirty years in the multiverse, but never mind that! (You could arguably call that "caused" by Bill—but I don't think interacting with Bill conjures up memories of traumatic multiversal travels for Ford. He didn't see Bill during those 30 years. His mind sorts them in different boxes.)

The biggest negative psychological impact Bill left on Ford is trust issues. When he first returned to Gravity Falls, that was more global—TRUST NO ONE. Those trust issues have shrunk a lot—now it's just "don't trust Bill." Bill could tell Ford the sky is blue, and he'd have to go look to make sure Bill isn't trying to keep Ford from finding out that the sky's turned pink.

Upside: this makes it almost impossible for Bill to mess with Ford's head. Ford is all but mess-proof. Everything Bill says carries zero weight with him. Downside: this makes it almost impossible for them to carry on a conversation.

(Bill's the only one who considers this a downside. He's looking for a way to twist Ford into regretting not listening to Bill. Maybe the next time the kids are in trouble, he'll go tell Ford first, and then he can feel all self-righteous when Ford feels all guilty about brushing Bill off and not helping the kids.)

[retirement-home-rumble]

Retirement Home Rumble: Potential Pair Preliminary

Gravity Falls - Stanley Pines

You decide if they get to team up!