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Separate Worlds Ch 6 Updated!

Separate Worlds Ch 6: Countdown to Summer's End Part 1 is up now! This is gonna be another split chapter.

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what is he dissatisfied with?

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Separate Worlds Ch 6 Progress Update

Currently past the halfway mark now and finally at a very crucial plot point in the story. Because Mabel is remaining in Piedmont in the foreseeable future, she'll need a supporting OC cast alongside her family, so this chapter will be introducing a few new friends. I took inspiration from Tohru's friends in Fruits Basket, Uotani and Hanajima (one of my favorite animes) for Mabel's friend group, so I've kinda become attached to them in particular. Plus goth girl and pink girl is always a fun female friendship dynamic and I just wanted to include one here.

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AU Stan still pretends to be Ford, but contrary to Canon,

his mother Caryn is aware of the ruse. He regularly sends her letters. Filbrick has no idea though, since he never bothered to visit his son or his grandchildren.

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Cheers fro the precius and sexiest Man in Tumblr 2025.

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As much as I love both, I have to give this one to Stan.

DO YOU SEE HOW THIN AND ANGULAR DOOF IS AT LEAST STAN HAS MUSCLE ON HIM

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that’s it. that’s the show

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Stan wanting an old man ponytail kit and choosing to grow out his hair in his Sea Grunks era is really the most retired old man thing ever.

I remember having an old band teacher back in middle school who retired from regular teaching but stayed as an occasional music tutor (he played saxophone), and the first thing he did was go from bald to sporting an old man rock star type haircut over the course of one summer.

And his name was Mr. Ford too, so that's kinda ironic lol. He really liked telling this dark joke about a father tomato murdering his baby tomato and saying 'catch up!' when our amateur band couldn't keep tempo with the music.

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Separate Worlds Ch 6 Progress Update

Having a ton of fun playing around with different locations in this chapter! And there's one very specific part of the Bay Area where it makes perfect narrative sense for a certain someone to wash ashore....

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Gravity Falls 100 Word Drabble: Seeds

Written for the Gravity Falls Writing Guild drabble session.

Prompt: Seeds

Rowan Corduroy’s father is dead, one of many casualties of the Great Flood. 

Northwest Manor looms over the decimated forest, its splendor tainted by broken promises. 

Someday, they’ll answer for their crimes. 

But Rowan is not their judge. He focuses on revitalizing the forest, so that his children and his children’s children will never experience such devastation again. 

Like Johnny Appleseed before him, Rowan carries many bags of seeds upon his back. He’ll renew the valley and honor the fallen for their labor and fortitude. 

On his father’s grave, he plants a pine seed, the symbol of resilience and rebirth.   

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Gravity Falls 100 Word Drabble: Circus

Written for the Gravity Falls Writing Guild drabble session.

Prompt: Circus

Stanford braces himself in the window frame with freakishly oversized hands, all twelve fingers displayed for the audience’s amusement.

Flames consume the building, and he’s trapped on the top floor. Smoke and toxic fumes burn his lungs.

Music plays. The ringmaster bellows. People throw peanuts. The clowns laugh.

And laugh.

And laugh some more.

Makeup cakes his face. Ruffles choke him like chains. His nose honks when he tries to speak.

He’s a laughingstock, with only himself to blame.

Stanley is behind him. The shadows veil his eyes.

“Help me,” Stanford pleads.

But Stanley only pushes him out the window.

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So I probably should spend more time on actually plotting the actual plot cause I can barely respond to people's speculation on what exactly is going on with Ford's memories because even I don't have it fully fleshed out yet lol.

Instead my brain keeps going on about details like 'Dipper helps the cryptoveteranarian take care of a trio of orphaned plaidypups whose mother was hit by a car and their names are Omelette, Frittata, and Souffle' and 'Ghost!Stan is gonna make the most out of being stuck in public middle school by relentlessly pranking everyone but shockingly almost everybody loves this because the school environment is so stressful that the pranks are actually helping them relax.'

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GUYS

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Better World AU: Separate Worlds Ch 6: Progress

Good news, the first section of Ch 6 is complete now! This one's gonna be a bit of an odd chapter because I'm gonna be jumping forward to different days and locations up until the end of August. I really need to advance the story to the end of summer and finally place Dipper and Mabel with their grunkles so the fun can truly begin!

Also: because I skipped over the mom's reaction to Dipper accepting the internship, let's just say she wasn't happy with him or her husband for not thinking to include her on this whole 'send my twelve year old child to a different state to study under a strange estranged uncle we barely know' thing.

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Better World AU: Separate Worlds: Shermie Pines Backstory

There are certain aspects of Separate Worlds I'm still working on, but I've finally written out my plans for Shermie Pines' backstory!

Shermie was born in 1950 out of wedlock. Filbrick and Caryn watched a movie together, they "snuggled", then Shermie was born. Filbrick and Caryn married to save face in the community, and the date on Shermie's birth certificate was altered to make it look like he was born one year after their marriage.

As a child, Shermie grew up with a love of baseball and was always playing casual games with his friends and collecting baseball cards. He once owned a rare autographed card from a New York Yankees player, but Filbrick took the card and pawned it off for a lot of money. Though they had an indifferent relationship to each other before, this event soured their relationship on Shermie's end. Shermie's childhood dream was to become a professional baseball player.

Shermie is close to Caryn and he helps when he can.

Shermie met his future wife Ruth in high school, while she was leading a small group in an Anti-Vietnam War protest. He happened to be passing by, saw her leading a chant from atop her perch, and thought she was pretty. But while he was debating joining the anti-war group for a chance to get closer to her (forgive him, he's a teenage boy), the police suddenly showed up to arrest her for disturbing the peace. The group scattered, and Shermie grabbed Ruth and together they ran for it. Thanks to his upbringing, Shermie knew the best way to evade the cops. Ruth thanked him for the rescue and gave him a kiss out of gratitude. They've been smitten with each other ever since.

Filbrick disapproved of Shermie and Ruth's relationship for her rebellious streak. Stan thought Ruth was awesome, and Ford was polite to her but thought her rebellious streak was kind of a problem. Caryn didn't like her at first, but warmed up to her and eventually gave her one of her own necklaces to wear for the wedding, which was then passed to her daughter-in-law, Rebecca, and will become part of Mabel's dream wedding outfit someday.

6. Shermie graduated in 1968, married Ruth shortly after, and they moved into a small apartment together. Shermie then worked as a local fisherman up until he was drafted in 1971 via lottery for the ground troops in Vietnam. By this time, Ruth was pregnant. But due to her anti-war activities in school, she was known to the police so although Ruth still didn't want him to go, Shermie chose to leave for Vietnam so the police wouldn't arrest her.

7. Their son, Jacob, was born while Shermie was overseas. Caryn helped Ruth with childcare so Ruth could work and support herself to distract her from worrying about Shermie.

8. Stanley is kicked out in spring of 1972. Shermie doesn't find out until after he gets home.

9. In Vietnam, Shermie's platoon was ambushed in the jungle. He was shot in the right leg and the injury is permanent. Shermie lost his best friend in the attack as well. Despite this, Shermie remained in Vietnam until US troops officially pulled out.

10. Filbrick, much like how many others viewed Vietnam War soldiers at the time, thought Shermie was an utter disgrace and believed he should have put more effort into fighting the enemy. This, along with the revelation of Stanley's exile from the family, permanently soured Shermie's relationship with Filbrick.

11. Shermie and Ruth struggled for a time, Shermie's mental health preventing him from being more attentive to Jacob no matter how much he wanted to be there in his life (Unlike Filbrick, he actually did his best). They eventually came to the conclusion that they needed to start all over, so they left New Jersey for California for a fresh beginning.

12. Shermie and Ruth settled in Vallejo, California, in the Bay Area just outside of San Francisco/Oakland. The house was cheap enough to afford and they managed to build themselves up again. Shermie and Ruth found new career paths with a local war museum and they started to work there together.

13. Shermie also dedicated time into searching for Stanley, tracking arrest records and stories of a red El Diablo that seemed to appear and vanish like the wind through the states.

14. Ford founds the Institute of Oddology in the 1980s alongside Fiddleford McGucket. Shermie has never been close to Ford, but the entire Pines family attended the opening ceremony, so he was there out of obligation along with Ruth and Jacob. He can't help but notice Stanley's absence.

15. After the ceremony, Shermie asks Ford about Stanley. That's when Ford...has a very strange, almost out of character reaction for a sophisticated scientist. He breaks down, violently, and the only word Shermie can make out is 'Alaska'. Fiddleford apologizes on Ford's behalf and leads him away.

16. Shermie's family visits Alaska, only telling others they're visiting a national park. They go every few years, and every time Shermie dedicates time to search for Stanley. By Dipper and Mabel's time, Shermie has figured out that Stan took a boat out to sea.

17. Only Ruth knows the full story of Shermie's search. To others, it just seems like they enjoy Alaskan cruises and national parks. Not even Jacob knows the full extent of what his parents are doing. But Shermie has the feeling that it might be best to keep their activities on the down low for now...

18. Filbrick dies in the 1990s of liver failure, sometime after the Institute opens and before Dipper and Mabel are born. Shermie plans and attends the funeral out of eldest son obligation and for his mother's sake.

19. Dipper and Mabel's birth brings the whole family together, even Ford takes the time to visit. Caryn cried the whole time when she held them in her arms, weakening from age.

20. Caryn dies when Dipper and Mabel are three years old. Ford refuses to attend the funeral, only coming by for a brief visit with the twins, then goes with Shermie to the cemetery after she's buried in the ground. Shermie has had enough of Ford's aloof behavior and they get into a huge argument at Caryn's grave, which culminates in Ford refusing to interact with the family for another decade. Despite this, Shermie still sends Ford pictures of the twins growing up.

21. Shermie highly disapproves of Dipper going to the Institute, but why? What's so bad about wanting to learn under the great Stanford Pines? The Institute is the pinnacle of humanity's achievements! There's no way it can be the source of destruction for their family...or the world.

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