So I was thinking about a post canon Murder Drones AU where Tessa and Doll live, but what I really want is just shenanigans. Cyn is Uzi’s tail shenanigans. I need more Cyntail shenanigans in my life! But I also want to shove all the characters together and make them interact.
Like, make them all live together in chaotic domesticity. Mostly the main characters. Doll would hate being in such close proximity to V, but Uzi and N wouldn’t let her follow through with her murder plan. Lizzy would be glad that Doll is alive and well, but it’d be awkward because V, y’know? N and maybe Thad would just want everyone to get along. Uzi would probably instigate drama because she got bored. J would be uneasy that Cyn is still around but glad to have Tessa back. The chaos would get J to loosen up and eventually idk make friends. But at the same time, the post canon story I have now has like . . . Plot. And I really shouldn’t write two post canon stories when I already have like 40 WIPs.
Anyway, the point of all this rambling is that I crave shenanigans.
petition to stop saying that fatespeaker is a 'rip-off sunny' and instead (if we must) compare her to a combination between sunny and tsunami. like. sunny is brave, but she is not brave to the point of stupidity. sunny is not insulting a giant dragon who is seriously considering killing her to his face, repeatedly. sunny has impulse control. fatespeaker has a lot in common with sunny, but just as much with tsunami.
i think one of the funnier wendy replacements in relativity falls is susan as the cashier
she’s usually too busy reading baking magazines and looking up cute pictures of cats on her phone to pay attention to anything, like her job or her employer’s weird behavior or stanley pines’ massive crush on her. she somehow manages to use her complete inability to realize people want to stop having a conversation with her to force customers to buy way more stuff than they meant to, which is half the reason she hasn’t been fired yet. the other half is that she’s so nice mabel would feel debilitating guilt for it.
On Tumblr you can reblog posts, Which gives OP those lovely notes. Reblogs may be just that (empty) Or text or tags add to OP.
Now, if you add a clever quote, Reblogs from you will give you notes. But as you, still, are not OP, If that's reblogged they know, not thee.
As some reblogs are so well done They make the post ten times more fun, One thinks, in wistful dream, at times, "Oh, to keep track of which are mine..."
So Tumblr changed their strategy: Notes for rebloggers, not OP. This robbed OP of rightful notes! Concealed from them were posts they wrote!
Farewell to banter, jokes, and games, When added text starts its own chain! "I like this art", "loved your story", Such praise takes notes from poor OP!
For text reblogs, reblogged again, Were separated from their main. OP would never know the joy Thus added to their proffered toy.
Or, on the converse, if some brute Said something cruel (or merely rude), The venom spread now on its own! Gone was OP's damage control!
Oh, horror! Oh, calamity! On both fronts harmed, oh, poor OP! The users raised their anguished cry: "Reverse! Go back! The site will die!"
So one dark day of sorrow passed. The users, angry, sad, aghast, Prepared to face their platform's end! Where would they go? Where would their friends?
Until, at last, came sweet relief. The staff, aware of users' grief, Returned reblogs to status quo. An end to fear, and to woe.
Notes to reblogs may come someday, But not, we hope, in such a way.
"You should create for yourself" and "it's okay to feel discouraged when creating your own original projects if no one interacts with them" are two sentences that should be able to co-exist with each other
On the one hand, you should kill that capitalist in your head that tells you to make art only for the enjoyment of other people. On the other hand, it's totally fine to be disappointed that you spent hours or even days on something that only got 4 notes. You can feel both ways.
I've been making a handful of Pines Parents headcanons and Dipper angst recently, and I'm not gonna get into it now (it's just sprinkled throughout my posts and rp blogs) but I like to think that hearing this comment from Stan (before finding out it wasnt about him) really hit close to home
be free my Dippers
i) sleepy dipper
ii) angry dipper
iii) dreamscapers
iv) weirdmageddon
was just practicing this style a bit :3 reblogs appreciated!! <3
You know it always amuses me when people say that Mabel never learns consequences for her actions, but they be the same people who excuse everything Dipper does even when they themselves don't realize it.
"Dipper is also 12 and he faces the consequences of his actions!" If he faces consequences for his actions then why in the fuck do I see people saying that Mabel was in the wrong in Time Travelers Pig when the entire point of the episode was that Dipper was wrong for messing with the timeline? Oh, but he faces consequences, right? Or in the Deep End episode because God forbid Mabel just wants to help a fucking mermaid get back home to his family. "She made Dipper give up his job!" Dipper wasn't even focused on the job itself. Literally the only reason he got that job was because Wendy was there. He had nothing important really going on in that episode. Let's not forget even after he found out about Mermando's situation, he at FIRST selfishly hesitated because again, Wendy was on his mind. Now, the Deep End isn't necessarily an episode where Dipper faces consequences, but people love to pretend that what Dipper had going on in The Deep End episode was THAT important, but it wasn't. But we're the ones excusing everything Mabel does for the sake of it, right?
people have this tendency to believe that fandom discourse exists because people in fandoms are Stupid Nerdy Losers, but in fact fandom discourse exists because anytime you get a group of more than 100 people together, they will start creating interpersonal bullshit. fandom is not special in this regard
Not sure if this is considered a hot take but I think age really doesn't matter in mcsm.
I've seen people reason with it a lot. I know there's a lot of things we can use as examples of aging(like for example someone said Harper's hair) but there could be a lot of alternative explanations for it happening.
Just.. the logic of age doesn't make sense. And the only time age even matters in this franchise is when people discuss ships(or rarely with like.. school related AUs)(but even in those, we can make the ages whatever we wish so really it can change). There's no reason for them to have age. It wouldn't be a big deal if they don't have it
I have nothing against it. It's fun seeing people headcanon all the characters in a different age group, how certain characters can be seen differently by everyone. But in mcsm itself, I feel like age isn't a very clear concept. It doesn't really have big meaning. While we're on the topic, old order x new order can totally work. I saw someone a few.. weeks? Ago shipping Ivor and Lukas. That was a pleasant surprise ngl. Even if we do say they have ages, I can totally seeing a handful of them being in the same age group.
I'm getting off topic here. If anything is wrong in what I said, you would be absolutely right. I probably won't be able to make clear points on this topic with my shallow knowledge of how people actually take in the age concept of mcsm anyways. But that was my hot take
As far as I am aware, Eric said we shouldn’t worry about age in this game.
Personally, I prefer to imagine all the characters over 25 y.o.
If one of the creators said we shouldn’t worry about age, then we shouldn’t. And the amount of harass that happened based on the topic of age in MCSM is genuinely disgusting.
I really think that people who allow ships like Romesse, Lukmeo and etc., but cross the line at Old Order x New Order are just hypocrites who think just because Romeo is a god means and acts like a toddler throwing tantrum that makss it okay to ship him with someone they consider “young” aka Jesse, Lukas and Petra even tho he’s clearly several times older than anyone from Old Order.
Either stop shipping Immortal X Mortal, or don’t harass shippers of Younger X Older.
Plus, as I said before, plenty of people who imagine New Order and everyone in the range of their age “young” (18 or under) are also the people who make lewd jokes about them, which is not okay.
And last but not least. MCSM season 2 has a joke about one of the character’s underwear. I hope people realize how fucked up it would be for the creators to joke about character’s underwear if they ever imagined them 18 or under.
Final: I love this hot take, and people should stop crossing line at Old Order X New Order ships.
I think a lot of writers might benefit from giving themselves permission to get weird with format.
Use second person, drop classic rising action and climax format, write backwards, just sit in a moment, tell all you want and refuse to show, make an entire book that’s just one run on sentence, reject tropes, use all tropes, cliche yourself to death, produce something that’s completely gibberish. Break all the rules of marketability. Become ungovernable.
i've been asked how to get people to care about your characters and the most honest answer i have is: don't shut the fuck up about them. if your corner of the internet involves them in small or big ways, but involves them, people will start recognizing them. nobody can know what you're not showing, ye?
also facades and false identities are so fun . many such variations.
someone accidentally slipping further into a facade than they intended . someone purposefully retreating further into a facade . someone accidentally dropping their normally impeccable facade for a moment . someone purposefully letting their facade down as a taunt or mockery or in a genuine way because they're finally in a situation where they don't need the facade anymore . someone whose facade really is just a tool that they have complete control over and it never falters or fails . someone whose facade is the opposite and they're having a really bad time trying to maintain their facade or trying to maintain their true self under the facade . many such good options. all fun.
i love you facades and false identities and presentations of the self and separation of aspects of the self and
small detail I hadn’t noticed anybody pointed out:
before the portal where he could learn many out of dimension things, Ford apparently knows German andhowtherelatedfairy tales goes.
it could’ve been that Ford did learn the language in a class, but there’s a key word that makes this stand out:“Folk”. it could mean that it must be a familial language besides the implied Russian origins with Caryn. especially worded as “rusty”, as in he hasn’t spoken the language for a long time. sure adds more fuel to them being Ashkenazi besides the mention of Hanukkah and other things like Stan’s fez, doesn’t it?
for how rusty Ford says he is, he did understood Krampus well enough to have a chat on that page lol
so to deduce all of this: not only Jewish, Filbrick could be German. not only told his own jokes, he probably shared that part of himself, ft. folk tales! enough for ford and most likely stan to know since the past?
Huge shout out to all the people who read fics. Who actually take the time out of their busy days to open a fic and read it
Before I started writing in earnest, I did not understand how much writing was going to eat into my fic reading time. We joke about having too many tabs open, but I have a different problem: the amount of tabs I have open on new fics is way smaller than it used to be. My ao3 wrapped would be a sad affair. Unless I’ve subscribed to an author or come across something on my dash, I basically don’t see it
Which has really driven home for me how much fandom cannot just be creators. You have to have people who want to read fic and meta discussions and joke posts. You have to have people who want to look at art and gifs. It has to be mutual.
Community thrives on flow. You have to have that movement of people sharing things with each other for a community to exist
tumblr loves to make everything massive... SIGH. OK. anyways god its so hard to get photos of harper i cant even fathom stamp outline by cheriisoda :eyes:
okay no i don’t care that i’m a decade late i need to talk about that FUCKING CARPET—
it’s labelled as an experiment. ford made that. ford made a carpet that can swap bodies. ford. the guy who grew up bullied for his extra finger. he made a carpet that can swap bodies. someone talk to me about this before i explode
kinda awesome when you can rope a blorbo into your mental breakdown especially if you can just give her your same issues. get over here tortured fictional woman we're in this TOGETHER
additional jesse practice for today feat. my favorite variants for respective genders 🫶🏻
still need to practice rendering also I think i made them look too young (i hc them to be around like 18-22 in the first season + adventure pass and 25-29 in the second season so i need to work on drawing older people forgive me youth bias)
I think people really, really need to learn the difference between "this story was Poorly Written" and "I had extremely specific expectations of what I wanted this story to be and was extremely disappointed that it went in a different direction."
Similarly, people need to learn the difference between "this character was written Out-of-Character" and "I built up so many headcanons for this particular character that I wound up with my own extremely specific interpretation of them and was extremely disappointed when those headcanons were jossed."
You are allowed to experience disappointment when stories don't go in the direction you want them to! But that is not the same thing as those stories being poorly written.
You know, maybe if you’d said
“Defending and liking Ford is great but you know, too many wonderfully written characters have their flaws erased by the fandom [personal note: cough cough stanley pines cough cough] and I’d rather that not happen to Ford” I would have agreed with you. Maybe if you’d said
“Ford shouldn’t have asked/was wrong to ask Dipper to be his apprentice, he should have put more energy in reconnecting with his brother”
I would have reblogged your post without hesitation and praised you for it.
Maybe if your personal blog wasn’t filled with posts that not only blatantly misrepresent Dipper’s love for his sister above all else [my post on the matter], but vilify Ford for practicing standard disaster scenario protocol(by which I mean Ford, knowing that Bill was threatening thousands of lives at that very moment in time, was the primary threat, and that Ford did not know that Mabel had been captured by Bill at that point, and thus assumed that if he had succeeded in defeating Bill, Mabel would no longer be in danger, chose to eliminate the primary threat to Mabel’s safety) I would have decided the post wasn’t worth my time and and left it be.
You decided that differing fandom interpretations warrant this kind of overly aggressive posting behavior (which is, as I’ve said before, rude as fuck), a type of behavior I personally haven’t seen since the days when people were literally calling for Ford’s head over this shit(a phenomenon that lasted right through to the finale). So guess what? The salt is coming right back at ya.
I’ve been vagueblogging about this shit all day because you’re in for the long haul.(and also I don’t want to inadvertently cause you to get anon hate cause no one deserves anon hate)
You think I (as a Ford fan) have an unfoundedfascination with Ford and am placing him on a pedestal? Fine! I’ll cite my fucking sources.
So let’s start with the beginning. You claim that Ford is a narcissist, an egomaniac with no regards to other people’s feelings or emotions. Sure he set his face on fire to get Dipper to come more quickly, but let’s not be so quick to judge here. That’s not because he was (quote) using some sort of pavlovian bullshit to somehow train Dipper for nefarious purposes. He was pulling the exact same shit that Stanley’s been pulling for the past two seasons (and he didn’t have any repercussions in the fandom!). So let’s review:
Stanley has (among other things): ignored Dipper and Mabel being endangered by a gnome beast [Tourist Trapped],gotten the kids a night in the county jail [Legend of the Gobblewonker], arranged a marriage between Mabel and Gideon[The Hand That Rocks the Mabel], and lied to Dipper and Mabel’s faces [the whole damn series until NWHS].
Ford is doing the exact same thing as Stanley, he is pulling the exact same New Jersey bullshit as Stanley but do I have to deal with rude and aggressive Stanley posts on my dash? No!
Furthermore, when you say that Ford only cared about himself, where, exactly, are you getting this information? Because I’m not seeing it.
Let me break it down for you:
You seem to be operating under the misconception that Ford, when he said the line “And isn’t it suffocating?” that he was directly referring to Mabel.
My first point of contention is this: if Ford was referring to Mabel, why did Dipper not argue with his uncle? “Because he’s The Author” I hear you say.
Need I remind you that Dipper is the kid who raced to fight off a zombie/gnome when he thought Mabel was in danger[Tourist Trapped], that Dipper has jumped off a cliff and fought a giant robot to save Mabel[Gideon Rises]? That Dipper held a grudge against Pacifica for nearly two seasons because Pacifica smack talked to Mabel once, even after Mabel herself had gotten over the incident[Northwest Mansion Mystery, Golf War, Irrational Treasure]? The kid who called out Stanley on his bullshit in Land Before Swine? Are you seriously trying to tell me that Ford was stupid enough to try and badmouth Mabel to Dipper’s face? Bullshit.
And you can’t deny that Ford and Stanley were codependent on each other when, during A Tale of Two Stans, it’s Stanley who says “Without Ford I was just half of a dynamic duo. I couldn’t make it without him.”
That’s not healthy! Of course Ford described his only experiences as a twin as suffocating, people literally treated them as a unit. (A Tale of Two Stans, when the principal calls Ford and Stan to his office when he only needs to talk to Ford).
Dipper, throughout the entire course of Weirdmaggedon, is never angry at Ford, that fact alone should tell you that Ford’s never so much as thought ill of Mabel.
And that’s not all!
You claim that Ford thinks Dipper is some sort of mini me. This isn’t the case, congratulations, you’ve misinterpreted Ford and Dipper’s entire relationship.
Dipper is what Ford WANTS to be. (“I should have been more like you when I was young,“ The Last Mabelcorn). Every time Ford praises Dipper, it’s for stuff that Ford wouldn’t do, didn’t do, would have done differently, or wished he had done. (Fighting back against ‘Bill’ in The Last Mabelcorn, standing his ground against the security droids in Dipper and Mabel vs The Future).
Dipper isn’t a Ford clone, he’s the physical embodiment of everything that Ford cares about.
He’s smart and nerdy, like Ford, he understands the gravity of the situation at hand, like Fiddleford, and he’s strong willed with a fierce protective streak, like Stanley. Dipper even looks like Stanley did as a child, it’s no coincidence.
Ford is nostalgic as fuck. In his dreamscape we see three things: a destroyed portal, the Stan O War, and the swing set.
The Stan O War is in the same condition Stanley and Ford found it in (the same condition as the one in his photograph), while the swing set is brand new. Ford isn’t in denial about the state of his relationship with Stan, he MISSES his childhood years in New Jersey (“There’s no place in Gravity Falls I’d rather be than this lake. It reminds me of my hometown… Glass Shard Beach” is written in Journal 3, along with a scribbled out drawing of a sailboat, the worn out childhood photo that Ford has in Weirdmaggedon Part 3, the photo that he could not have gotten after coming out of the portal, he had it with him the whole time, and when you think about the fact that he had that photo on him thirty years ago, it really makes the whole “Remember our plans to sail around the world on a boat” thing from A Tale of Two Stans seem a hell of a lot less out of the blue).
And after 30 years of being trapped between dimensions, Ford’s first conversation with Dipper was about the Journals. Ford’s research, his life’s work that the man has poured so much passion and heartache into. Not only did Dipper take the time to read them, but he also understood them and was interested in them enough to make finding the author his main goal.
And Ford and Dipper’s second conversation? Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons. Ford was surprised they still made it, he likely hasn’t played it in thirty years, and yet it’s still his “favorite game in the whole multiverse!” The last person Ford played that game with was likely Fiddleford, even if he did know that DD&MD was still in production, Ford didn’t expect to find someone to play with anytime soon. And Ford was DEFINITELY referring to Fiddleford when Dipper first wandered into the basement in The Last Mabelcorn (“My work is far too dangerous for a single living soul to spend even one second in–“). And here’s this little kid, holding Ford’s favorite game that he hasn’t played in years, bravely wandering into the basement, unafraid of the dangers. Wanting to know if Ford wants to play. And Ford can’t say no, even if he wanted to.
Dipper reminds Ford of happier times. And the most important thing about Dipper? The thing that Ford DEFINITELY needs right now?
Dipper trusted and made a deal with Bill Cipher.
It’s no secret that Ford blames himself for what happened with Bill, that he’s impossibly and unhealthily angry with himself over it. (“It was the biggest regret of my life,” The Last Mabelcorn, “I’d die before I join you,” Weirdmaggedon Part 1, “I know [it’s my fault], Stanley, just help me fix it!” Weirdmaggedon Part 3, “Trust no one,” Tourist Trap, “We’re not the first two idiots to be tricked by Bill,” The Last Mabelcorn, “I personally had a metal plate installed in my head,” The Last Mabelcorn, “[devestated] We’re too late, it’s the end of the world,” Dipper and Mabel vs The Future).
But when Ford finds out about Bill’s more adverse effects on Dipper’s psyche? (As in, the actual literal panic attack Dipper had in The Last Mabelcorn?) He opens up to Dipper in an act of solidarity. He isn’t angry at Dipper, not in the slightest. It’s a coping mechanism for Ford, he’s not mad at this child, so why be mad at himself? Why not forgive myself for what happened? This child thinks I’m great, maybe I’m not so bad after all. Because Dipper is a hero, and Ford knows this. Dipper fights back.
He fought back against Gideon, he fought back against Stan during the portal incident (even though he was wrong, something that Ford never once blames Dipper for), he fought back against Bill and he fought back against the security droids. Ford tries to fight back, he tries to fight Probabilitor, he tries to fight Bill, he tries to fight the security droids, but he fails each time, he gets captured each time, he gets tortured at the hands of his abuser and denies Bill any power over him in an act of defiance.
Ford might be Dipper’s idol, but Dipper is who Ford wants to BE. Dipper is who Ford wishes he WAS. Ford knows that Dipper isn’t exactly like him. That’s why Ford wants to be around him so much.
Because, honestly, Ford isn’t very confident or egotistical.
He’s never thought himself superior for having six finers (note the closed fist in the second pic).
He throws himself in front of Dipper, risks his life for him and begs Dipper not to follow him, because it’s too dangerous to save him.
He literally never makes Dipper feel bad for his mistakes.
Bill absolutely ruined Ford’s mental health, Bill is the whole reason that Ford acts paranoid and can’t trust anyone but Dipper for the first several episodes he appears in, despite the fact that he loves Mabel and Stan.
Ford is an abuse survivor.
And honestly, removing Ford from this context, much less saying shit like “the whole point of [the arc in which all of Ford’s interactions with his abuser are malicious and abusive and literally torturous] was to bring him to his knees and show him how wrong he was” is really fucking gross.
And it’s also the flaw in your whole argument.
Because you want to know why Ford offered to make Dipper his apprentice?
Dipper is the first person in 30 years that Ford has been able to trust.
And for Ford, that is huge.
Should Ford have focused on reconciling with his brother? Yes, but that’s for later in the post. We’re focusing on Ford and Dipper here, so sit down.
Bill strung Ford along from the moment they met, achronological prophecies aside, there is absolutely no reason for Ford to believe that Bill had any malicious intent, especially when Bill was using him from the start. Ford’s desperate for answers, sure. But a five second conversation in which Bill praised him exactly once, offered him tea, told him when and how he was going to die, and invited him to play interdimensional chess in the most obvious metaphor Hirsch has ever written was enough for Ford to dismiss all warnings about Bill. Bill is someone who preys on people’s insecurities. All Bill had to do was act cordial and Ford was wrapped around his finger, and as an abuse survivor who was bullied when they were younger, let me be the first to tell you that sometimes that’s all it takes: acting cordial to someone with low self esteem.
So fast forward, Bill’s betrayed Ford and Fiddleford’s left him right when Ford needed him the most (as an aside, Ford didn’t force Fiddleford to build the portal, nothing that happened to Fiddleford was Ford’s fault, by the time Fiddleford had erased most of his memories, Ford was dimensions away) so he calls Stanley.
Stanley Pines.
The man that, regardless of your opinion on the matter, Ford fully believes selfishly sabotaged him for his own personal gain. Stan was the first person to betray Ford’s trust, even if it was on accident. And at his lowest point, when his back is to the wall and he can’t trust anyone (because abuse like that, where they build you up and then pull the rug out from underneath you, always leaves you feeling like you can’t trust anyone) Ford trusted Stanley to help him.
Fast forward even further, after Ford’s back from the portal and he’s still upset with Stan because a) Stan’s the one who pushed Ford into the portal in the first place regardless of whether it was an accident or not and b) (more importantly) Stan has effectively undone all Ford’s work and put him in a prime position to be targeted by his abuser again.
He still can’t trust anyone, but lo and behold, here comes Dipper who is in the exact same scenario. And Ford has (and this is the part where his true flaw lies) decided to push away his brother and ignore any attempts to reconcile with Stanley, in favor of trying his damnedest not to lose the first meaningful connection he’s made in 30 years.
And that is huge.
Asking Dipper to be his apprentice is an act of trying to heal, and offering Dipper an opportunity at hands on experience in his desired field.
And another thing:
Ford never says anything bad about Mabel. He doesn’t believe that Mabel can get the unicorn hair because he wasn’t able to with years of experience under his belt, because he’s encountered the unicorns before and knows what they’re like. It’s not that he doesn’t believe in Mabel, he cannot trust that she’ll return.
But when she does?
He kneels right the fuck down to her level and congratulates her on it, tells her she’s a good person (something she really needed reassurance on) he’s so proud of her.
Its not that he doesn’t like Mabel. It’s that he cannot trust her because Ford does not share the same experiences with Mabel that he shares with Dipper (in relation to the Bill thing).
Ford truly believes that Mabel would be fine on her own. If you’ll notice, in Weirdmaggedon Part 3, Ford says “Bravo, Dipper and Mabel!” even though he has no real reason to believe that Mabel’s in there, or really any knowledge of who is a part of the rescue operation aside from Soos and the Wax Larry King head. He believes in Mabel Pines.
You want to address sexism in the fandom? Go ahead! Talk about how Mabel is always sexualized (especially in the Reverse Falls AU) talk about how Mabel’s mental trauma is usually glossed over by the fandom in favor of Dipper, Stanley, and Stanford’s.
Just don’t fucking try to remove one of the only positive examples of an abuse survivor in fiction from the context of abuse. And don’t say that Ford rising up and fighting against Bill was some act of egotism, that he was only in it for himself, when he was 100% willing to put himself back into that situation of abuse, when he was willing to erase his own damn memories to defeat Bill, Ford was, is, and always has been 100% willing to sacrifice himself for Dipper and Mabel’s safety and yes, tumblr user @pinesonfire, that includes Dipper and Mabel vs The Future. Though I’m not surprised you’re of that opinion, considering you’re the one who made this post. And this one.
How dare you take an act of defiance, an act of a survivor standing against their abuser and refusing to give that person power over them again, and turn it into an arc meant to “bring him to his knees and show him how wrong he was.”
How.
Dare.
You.
Do you know how powerful that was? Do you realize how important that was? The fact that you would tarnish it with your opinion and claim that any deviation from that opinion sickens me. And to claim that anyone who disagrees with you, personally, is looking at Ford through rose colored glasses?
Ford’s actions in Dipper and Mabel vs The Future were justified. Was it the completely correct thing to do? No, I believe that Ford should have put more effort into reconciling with Stanley. Did Ford’s actions hurt Mabel’s feelings? Yes and no, Mabel was upset because Dipper took the offer, not that Ford made it.
So maybe next time you decide to go on and on about people supposedly misinterpreting a show, try watching the damn thing.
So I was thinking about a post canon Murder Drones AU where Tessa and Doll live, but what I really want is just shenanigans. Cyn is Uzi’s tail shenanigans. I need more Cyntail shenanigans in my life! But I also want to shove all the characters together and make them interact.
Like, make them all live together in chaotic domesticity. Mostly the main characters. Doll would hate being in such close proximity to V, but Uzi and N wouldn’t let her follow through with her murder plan. Lizzy would be glad that Doll is alive and well, but it’d be awkward because V, y’know? N and maybe Thad would just want everyone to get along. Uzi would probably instigate drama because she got bored. J would be uneasy that Cyn is still around but glad to have Tessa back. The chaos would get J to loosen up and eventually idk make friends. But at the same time, the post canon story I have now has like . . . Plot. And I really shouldn’t write two post canon stories when I already have like 40 WIPs.
Anyway, the point of all this rambling is that I crave shenanigans.
Ooh would you consider sharing the link when you’re done if you post it? I might write a one shot based off the OG post but it’s fanfiction, so all the cakes are better than one
Was listening to We Fall Apart by We As Humans and this line struck me as Arson and V. They actually get over their initial distrust fairly quickly. They get along a lot better than V and Uzi did at first, anyway. Arson secretly has a lot of destructive impulses but he’s too scared/wants to uphold a certain image too much to act on them, and then he meets V and they … Make each other both worse and better. They match each other’s freak is probably a better description, tbh. The image quality may not be good but give me some grace please because I’m in the car rn, typing on my phone.
Fanfiction is supposed to be cringy. You're allowed to write bad. You're allowed to be cringe. Fanfiction is supposed to be self indulgent. You're allowed to be cringe. Let yourself be cringe. Fanfiction is supposed to be fun. Stop putting arbitrary rules on yourself and be free.
I don't think we talk enough about how we don't know the name of the Solver's main host.
Sure, we call them "Cyn", but that's not their name. That's the name Tessa gave them - or rather, gave the Absolute Solver. The host had no input on that.
We'll never know what their name is.
We'll never know if they remember it, or if they ever had one.
They're just a husk called Cyn who hasn't been in control of their body since they woke up in the dump and begged to not be discarded.
So anyways if you're making a 'Cyn' revival fic may I suggest renaming them? I'm not going to do it for mine because I'd have to get my friend on board which is very difficult but someone else please do it for me.
My theory is that Tessa was terrible at coming up with names. By some miracle the serial letters for N, V, and J were and are actual names; however Cyn’s serial letter was not so Tessa named Cyn after the start of her model number.
Theories I have about what the Absolute Solver could be and where it came from:
Superpowered virus that somehow managed to hack reality itself. Either arose spontaneously, or was created for something else before going rogue.
Runaway experimental JCJenson program that somehow gained an animalistic mind and hunger. Cyn might have been a test subject that was deemed a "failure" and thrown away.
Extradimensional entity using the medium of code to enter and consume our reality, a la "The Laundry Files." The entity would normally be too alien to fit in our universe, but the Solver program's calculations help temporarily bridge the gap.
Literal, actual, Abrahamic-style demon that adapted to advancing technology by manifesting as a computer virus. Maybe it got bored of trying to corrupt humans and just switched over to Drones to see what they could do? Turns out, the answer was a lot.
Extraterrestrial predator that feeds on growing civilizations by turning their technology against them. This could be the in-universe explanation for the Fermi Paradox if it's been around for long enough.
What do y'all think? Got any theories that you think are plausible?
I've always thought of it as the intelligent core of every drone. Each drone having their own copy which is why the zombie drones video is a thing; drones that need help booting have a chance for the solver to answer, taking control of the drone.
I have about four AUs where it focuses on Petra being a fashion designer.
One is a high-school AU where she's studying fashion. Another one is the jobs AU I got where her dream originally was a fashion designer but her dreams were crushed by a high rank fashion designer she once admired(Ivor), now she's mainly making jewelry. The other AUs are smaller but has enough story in them.
And ALL of them are Luktra.
And yet, they haven't even fucking kissed yet in a single scenario.
I want them to. But I can't. You can cuddle all you want but my brain just has no idea how to make you idiots kiss. Not when I'm actually trying to make it a story. Or anything. Your love is built on respect, dumb jokes, friendship and acts of service. Deal with it.
The other two AUs. Actually there's another one. Uh.
The last three AUs are mostly the same for Petra. She has a career in fashion.
1, she's an upcoming designer. Lukas is a well-known model. And that's basically the plot.
2, petra is a known designer, Lukas is the supportive boyfriend with a shit fashion sense. Absolute shit. He somehow still manages to pull it off sometimes. It annoys her even more.
3, petra is a... more known designer(yeah idk what you call this) with like.. high class people or smth i guess and Lukas is decora. Or other subculture style. But my main dig is decora. Was it an excuse to make Lukas decora? ....perhaps. but like.. it's cool. He would look great in decora
this and also fanfic writers choosing to write a chapter a year, because they don’t want to write more often than that, or abandoning their works entirely because they lose interest and don’t feel like continuing anymore is also a valid reason, and you’re an entitled asshole if you attack, guilt trip or shame them for it (being sad/disappointed is completely okay and normal, you can’t control how your mind feels and reacts to something, what matters is that you respect the author’s decision and don’t be a dick to them about it).
fanfic writers write for themselves and their own enjoyment. they’re kind enough to let you read their works for free. they don’t owe you any explanation. they don’t owe you the details of their personal lives. they don’t owe you anything.
Fanfic is a great way to practice self-indulgence while writing. It doesn’t even have to be good, it just exists purely for your pleasure, be a little freak about it. Worry about quality and what other people think when it comes to works you intend to publish in a formal setting
peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it
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Nori: would it be wrong if I asked him at dinner, 'are you autistic'? cuz...I like 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