#grunkle stan

[wormspoodle]

idk has someone done this yet

[cherttov]

oh my. gawd... stanley you ...

[brawcolie]

grunkle stan glazers are you AWAKE!!!

[artsymeeshee]

Slowly chipping away at the summer bonding pics so here’s previews of the ones done so far :’D

[jellynut]

“Admit it, you missed me.”

[starloved-bunny]

IM SOBBING LIKE A BABY I LOVE THEM

stanley pines deserved to be a dad, it's not even fair 😭

based off this dialogue in the 3ds game

[time-woods]

Accessorize ! Accessorize ! Accessorize !

based off of how my dad got his ears pierced))

[skipppppy]

The life of Stanford Pines must be so bizarre from the perspective of a random townsperson who doesn’t know him. Imagine you live in a sleepy lumber town, where the most interesting thing you’ve heard this week is that a plot of land on the outskirts of the woods was sold and someone has started constructing a cabin on there.

You later learn by word of mouth that he’s a phd student doing some kind of long-term research project. You don’t see his face until one night he comes blasting down the street on a trail of destruction, eyes yellow and glazed over, trashing public property, inflicting gruesome injuries on himself, and laughing like he’s on an erratic, drug-fuelled bender. He then goes home and locks himself in his cabin again. This becomes a cycle; he stays isolated for weeks, then comes out once in a blue moon to wreak havoc and be a nuisance to the authorities.

Then one day it stops. He doesn’t come back out. The next time you see him he’s at a grocery store looking completely different to how you remember; his hair is grown out, he’s put on weight, his clothes are completely different and he’s stopped wearing glasses. Some townsfolk finally work up the nerve to talk to him and you learn that he invited them to his cabin on a tour. His home is apparently FULL of dangerous research equipment and the scientist, who had allegedly been very quiet and level-headed on the days he wasn’t having his “episodes,” has had a complete personality change, he’s loud and confident and less than honest and a little sleazy but a damn good salesman and entertainer.

He hosts tours out of his home for the next 30 years. Over time he’d changed it into a museum of sorts that sells overpriced knickknacks to unsuspecting tourists, but aside from his shady business practices he’s a well known member of his community. He changes up the exhibits every few months, brings his niece and nephew to stay one summer and they become town darlings, and even exposes a beloved public figure for running a spyware scheme.

One day you hear he got visited by the FBI. They start going round town asking about him. A week or so later he gets arrested. The town goes CRAZY theorising why but then there’s a massive earthquake and in the chaos of that you forget what happened to him. One minute you hear that the feds were surrounding his house and the next they’re all leaving like they forgot what they came for. Another week later he resurfaces and announces he’s going to run for Mayor, dominated the polls, wins the popular vote, but loses his position immediately due to an extensive criminal record.

Then there’s gossip that he completely changed his appearance again. He’s lost his fez and is walking around in a coat and cable knit turtleneck in the middle of the July heat. Then you hear from someone else that he looks the exact same and didn’t change anything. Then you see two identical men walking down the street, one matching the description you saw. People are BUZZING to know what happened and you eventually learn that the “new guy” was actually the same Scientist and the guy that had been running the museum was his twin brother who stole his identity after he went missing. Then the apocalypse happens

[sappystrawberries]

Stanley Pines means so much to me as a character because he’s representation of the fact that sometimes, people like him—people like me—get to live that long. Not just in the show itself, but also in the way the fandom writes him. People with lived experience of houselessness, familial trauma, SA, drug usage, etc etc. He gets to survive to his 60s, and not only that—he survives long to live. Long enough to be loved. To have a happy fucking ending, after all of that. That is so unbelievably powerful. It means so, so much to me.

[yourstrulylightstar283]

Lovely😀

happy birthday to the stans ever

[apocalypsegay]

i don't think he clicked through

[cashytouille]

Shitposting cuz its funny

[thefallenangel2008]

I love fat guys with a mullet that are girl dad codded, gotta be one of my faves.

[paintedcrows]

When asked why they still haven't kicked the bucket after decades: Ford insists he beat Death at chess. Stanley insists he kicked Death's ass in a Denny's parking lot

[bulkhummus]

sorry its just that i am so enamored by Stan assuming Ford's identity in Gravity Falls and working through the grief and denial of losing his brother (in what feels like is his fault for what feels like the second time) all the while dealing with the fact that Gravity Falls is a weird fucking place.

grief and denial are some of the main motivators throughout the show for a reason (grief of losing someone or something, denial of growing up or being a child, grief of choices and actions, the denial of them etc.). human beings have the propensity to adjust to the abnormal and acclimate in situations of extreme stress. grief really can drive you a bit crazy in a way that feels sane and right to you, and completely unhinged from and outsiders POV. when everything feels off and you aren't taking care of yourself, you have no support system and you have no idea who you really are? having the strange and supernatural things occur around you becomes a game of is this my response to the world or is it the worlds response to me.

there is just something so delectable and juicy about how Stan makes a brand new identity that is a conglomeration of the two of them and that person is Stan - no 'ley' or 'ford' as distinguishers. He is still the shithead scammer he always was, but nows he's using that money and pulling all-nighters teaching himself the science and work put into fixing the portal. hes charismatic and sociable in a way Ford never was, but now he cannot run away somewhere to the next grift when things get too hot or too real. the very thing giving him freedom and purpose is also keeping him in place.

Stanley developed in direct defiance and denial of Stanford. Stan, however, developed in response to Stanley and Stanford no longer existing. Because one, in his head, cannot exist without the other (and for all intents and purposes, right now, Stanley 'died' and Stanford is as good as gone).

this traumatic situation has shown Stan that he is capable in a way that for years everyone told him he was not and it took not being defined by another, and grief, to get him there. He's forced to except that the things Ford has been saying for true, and he's forced to except that no one is going to fix this situation except himself which is horrific and abnormal in itself to somebody like Stanley.

So he adapts. When he shows the people in the cabin Ford's creations and he can't describe or explain anything, he adapts. He knows what people like and want and thats a certain amount of mystery that makes them feel excited to live in a world where everything is sought out to be explained. All the while, the people who have hated Ford and found him a strange recluse of a man, are beginning to like (take with a grain of salt) 'him' due to Stanley. I think it's easy to say that he's living in Ford's shadow throughout the show, but really, Ford provided a clean slate for Stan to become Stan, because he never bothered/ couldn't make interpersonal connections with anybody in town. they only know that one day the strange man in the woods suddenly started behaving differently, and while he looks similar, there's just something a little bit off about him.

there is something about the way Ford and Bill fuse together that feels so similar to me because for a time, Stan and Ford were fusing together too and that person is Stan. neither are quite one another, but something entirely new born of necessity out of grief and denial on both their parts.

[socvincjpeg]

Stanley Pines sandwich tutorial!! 😁❤️