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Gideon visits my friend in japan. Based on her photos here:[link]

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tiny little baby boy

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Because no one’s said anything… I’d like to point out Gideon’s “repaired” amulet.

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Stan denies it but he's, so soft? Like, Gideon falls laughing in the middle of trying to kill him? He encourages him and tries to comfort him, he hears Grenda once and his first thought to her deep voice is if she's alright, Mabel tries to get him to face his fear of heights and he knows what she's doing and follows her anyways, and when he opens his eyes on top of the water tower? He's not mad, he's scared, yes, but he doesn't get mad with her for bringing him there, and then he's concerned when she's scared.

He's definitely not a good guardian, but that's mostly to lack of experience, because he tries so hard!!! He took them fishing because he thought the could do something fun together, and when they went away, yes, he was a little frustrated, but he wasn't angry. I just, love Stan Pines so much.

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A fan-made Gravity Falls movie poster for the Midseason Finale of Season 2: “Not What He Seems” WOOOOH it’s still one of my favorite episodes from the series!!! I MISS IT SO MUCH

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i just recently finished watching gravity falls all the way through and am watching it again. i forgot how much i loved this show.

here’s some messy sketches i’ve done. i really hope i can come up with better than this, lol.

and yes, that is bill cipher in a bowl of salsa.

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how it feels rn

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rewatch countdown until mabel and dipper’s birthday: 03 days

“this party never stops. time is dead and meaning has no meaning. existence is upside-down and I reign supreme. welcome, one and all, to weirdmageddon” -weirdmageddon part I

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Here’s something very important from Matt Braly’s AMA last night. Gideon was just a normal kid before he found journal 2. He found the book just like Dipper did but at a younger age. Unlike many people have said, Gideon wasn’t just some spoilt, greedy kid, he was completely innocent until he found journal 2. This could have shown how the Journal’s knowledge really is dangerous. Also, with the majority of the fandom hating poor Gideon this could have been some good development (or the closest we would get to) for Gid. Look at how Pacifica went from one of the most unpopular characters to most fans loving her after her development in TGW and NMM. So many fans hate Gideon and I can’t help but feel this would have been so good to see how his character changed, and show us that he’s not all bad.

I’m really upset they deleted this scene (and I have no idea why they did!) all I can say is I really hope Gideon gets some more development when he returns.

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Special interest infodump website update.. I'm proud of how it looks so far! (Pls ignore the massive chunk of redacted text, it's full of spelling and formatting issues rn. Trying to get all of my thoughts out first and clean it up later.)

If you saw the old wip, then you'll notice I kinda changed everything. The old layout was just kinda awkward to use for what I was trying to do. Now it's just a super long page. I'll probably add shortcuts at some point though, It's already getting long as fuck and I'm barely even done...

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I find it really funny that I used to ship Mrs. Gleeful x Stanford as a kid because that's literally just heterosexual fidauthor now that I think about it

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That one time Gideon threatened to "text someone a photo" through a very outdated phone is funnier when you remember that he learned how to code an entire game out of spite. He doesn't know how phones work but he can make an entire game no problem.

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Gravity Falls Stickers by *albadune

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If Gideon had a fursona it would look something like this btw

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Wait I have to ask about some of those trans headcanons. Plz tell me about transfem Axel and Bigender Gideon.

(referring to my tags on this post!)

i'm giving you the gideon one first because the transfem axel one is stupid lmao.

When Gideon meets Mabel, he says one of the first things that drew him to her is that she "appreciates the sparkly things in life." So: Gideon appreciates the sparkly things, and this is a high priority to him.

He invites her over for makeovers, and his dressing room—

—is full of very feminine things. It's pink, it's sparkly, there's bows and feathers and flowers and ruffles and earrings and lipstick.

Mabel comes home with lipstick, eye shadow, false lashes, blush, fingernail extensions, curled hair, and a hair bow—which means Gideon had all those supplies. This is presented as his dressing room and we don't see his parents wearing that kind of stuff.

We know from out-of-canon sources that Gideon was unpopular before he found Journal 2, probably got picked on, and that's one reason he latched on to the journal's power. So that's one hint that there's Something Going On with Gideon that other kids twig as bullyable. It might be something else (like, he's fat, that's definitely bullyable), but it might be something queer.

If he's so eager to find a friend (or girlfriend) who appreciates the same "sparkly things" he does, it's probably because he's felt rejected by other kids in town who don't appreciate those things... or who judge him for appreciating them. Add on to that the fact that Gideon's got the speech patterns of a southern woman and steals high school girls' moisturizer, and he doesn't make for a terribly masculine little ten-year-old.

He latched on to Mabel so hard because she didn't judge him for any of those things. She saw a little boy into makeup and jewelry and sequins, and she got excited. She didn't see him as a weirdo... she saw him as someone just like her.

And Gideon looks at Mabel and sees someone just like him.

I headcanon that his crush on Mabel is only half because he wants to be with her. The other half is because he wants to be her: a cool pretty older girl (nearly a teen!) with long curly hair and skirts and headbands and fun cute colorful clothes she made herself and a lungful of bedazzling gems. A girl who doesn't feel constrained by her femininity, but rather uses femininity to freely express her full authentic self. She radiates everything that feels stifled within him. He wants what she has so much it hurts.

And he thinks the only way he can have what she has is by having her.

He's ten. He's grown up around the kind of people that use American flag pins on suit lapels to signal what good wholesome Christian patriots they are—and for y'all that didn't live through 9/11, in the 2000s those flag pins were shorthand for "conservative, or scared of offending conservatives." He's no doubt been taught that boys are boys and girls are girls and you are what you were born, and suggesting otherwise is not only impossible, but insulting.

Gideon's egg is years from cracking.

In the meantime, he's got his prison pals. They treat Gideon like something precious for being an adorable little child worth protecting, and for caring as they work out their emotional issues, and for doing crafts like friendship bracelets with them—he's found himself playing a rather feminine social role for these men, and they respect and admire him for it. I think he finds many of the same things with them that he found with Mabel: he can express the parts of himself that got rejected by his school peers, and he's celebrated for it.

You could just headcanon Gideon flat out as a trans girl and it'd fit the narrative perfectly. I headcanon bigender because I feel like he's not not a boy—he's just also a girl.

I imagine him as one of those kids who goes through middle & high school feeling more and more like something fits wrong, but unable to put a name to it, until he goes off to college and has a bunch of new life experiences and has a revelation. Does drag once "for fun" and suddenly that egg shell's dynamited apart.

Then she spends the next couple years grappling with "am I a girl? but if I'm a girl why does the thought of leaving behind manhood feel like ripping something out of my ribs? am I just a boy? but then why does the thought of not getting to be a girl feel like dying?" until she figures out she can just be both.

I think she'd tell her prison gang first, even before any of her family. She's sure if anyone will support her, it'll be them. (And they do, 100%.)

I think her parents would be alright with it, but I also think her parents are the kind of people who calmly listen to hateful talk show hosts denouncing trans & gay people because they never imagined they've got a little trans kid sitting right next to them listening too—"Well, sure Gideon asked for all those sparkly clothes, but that don't mean anything, our son's just an artistic little boy, that's all!"—so she didn't know they'd be okay with it.

Mabel would be thrilled for her—after she stops being weirded out that Gideon totally copied Mabel's childhood haircut. But I think her coming out would recontextualize a lot of what happened during Weirdmageddon summer and, okay yeah, not realizing you're a girl doesn't excuse kidnapping your crush and trying to kill her family, but it's easier for you to give a full and sincere apology for what you did when everyone has a better understanding of why you did it in the first place. I think they should both get the opportunity to have the big sister/little sister dynamic that in a perfect world they should've gotten in the first place.

okay and now here's my reason for the transfem axel headcanon, which i warned you is stupid:

years & years back i started a kingdom hearts 2 fic, back when the lore was just "when a person splits apart their heart becomes a Heartless and their body becomes a Nobody"; I think KH's soul alchemy has gotten more complicated since then, but I haven't kept up.

and the premise of the fic was that Axel ran into his Heartless—it was a Soldier—and they went on a quest together to recombine into one person. and I decided to make his Heartless a girl just because. didn't look different from any other Soldier, Axel could just tell it was a girl. it was his heart, so he should know. and that was about as much as it was explored.

years and years later i realized "hold on. if Axel's body/Nobody is male, and his heart/Heartless is female, then you've got a female heart in a male body. that's how countless trans women have described their experiences for centuries. ... welp, i guess she's trans now!"

this was about the same period in my life that i started a fic about orochimaru being a trans woman so it wasn't like i didn't know trans people existed, i just didn't think through the implications of my own headcanon lmao

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Mabel and Gideon in winter stuff that I doodled up in class a while ago. :)

I don’t think Gideon likes the cold haha And Mabel just likes my hat (I have one like it IRL)