Hey something that I haven't seen talked about a lot (likely because i haven't looked for it but that's not the point) that's been on my mind lately is Ford's relationship with his fingers (get your mind out the gutter you sicko).
We know that his polydactyly, supplemented with his abnormal intelligence, fed his appreciation and love for weird and unusual things. When he was a kid, he never seemed ashamed at all of his hands at home or alone with Stan. In fact, Stan's replacement of "high-five" with "high-six" in particular is an example of how normal and appreciated he probably felt for a good portion of his childhood (as in, it was normal to be different and weird and not a bad thing).
We also know that he was bullied quite a bit in school, and his extra fingers were an easy target. Crampelter and his goons made Ford ashamed of his hands. Since he was alive and on Earth at about the start of the Satanic Panic, we (with my incredibly limited knowledge, constrained only to hearsay) can only assume the kind of treatment he received as an adult. Even just with what we do have confirmed though, we know that his attraction to the weird was fed by a deep desire to find a place where he was truly normal, where he fit in.
And so his chase led him to Gravity Falls, and he was happy for a time. We see him comfortable with (even proud of) his hands again, marking his research journals with their golden silhouette, and no notable bullying about them; Fiddleford even added extra keys to his laptop. During his dimension-hopping years, he was even made king for a time because of his extra fingers, and who knows what else.
I like how he's depicted interacting with his fingers in the show after he returned home. He does all sorts of eye-catching things, wiggling them around and rolling a die between them more naturally than burning his facial hair off. I like how this contrasts with the way he hid them behind his back and looked at them despondently as a kid, or even his deliberate glorification of them as a researcher. He's truly comfortable with them, and proud of them because they're a part of him.
Anyway that's it that's my thoughts
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Very interesting (concerning) that while there’s a general consensus of “of course there’s queer Muslims and Jews and Christians we love them!” But that love is conditional. You can be religious but not too religious. You can be spiritual as long as it’s not actually that important to you. You can be observant of your religion’s dogma and traditions as long as you keep it away from everybody else.
But I don’t want to cut myself into smaller pieces. I don’t want to take a part of my life and culture and being and hide it away behind closed doors. It’s just…hypocritical and disappointing when people, who clamor about their love for the contradictory and self-authentic, hate when they’re confronted with it.
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Currently trying to convince myslef that I can do whatever I want forever and there's always at least one person with the same idea as me so might as well get it out there for them
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