Ok

ok

Gonna start constantly defending Clivesdale and say I'm from there, just to see how the fandom treats me (they can't hate me, can't commit to the bit)

I consider you the Gravity Falls expert here so I just gotta ask- do you have any idea who made this comic? I've seen it so many times but I have no idea who the original artist is!

Aww, thank you for the kind words. Honestly, I'm no expert, more so probably cursed with knowing too much about this show (just ask Alex Hirsch, lol JK).

Anyways, the artist for that is @sailorleo. It's from her iconic Reunion Falls AU. The image specifically comes from this post here.

She doesn't use that blog anymore. She's now on Twitter and here under the username @hellspawnmotel.

Still IMO one of the greatest artists in this fandom who made one of my personal favourite AUs.

The Mabcifica community is forever indebted to you, Leo :P

pacifica fans how r we feeling about the platinum paz code on thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com

As Gravity Falls reenters the void, and the inevitably of fanfiction begins to recirculate, there is a comment I fear I must send out to the general public.

As a trans man who gets, like, -1 representation in shows that aren’t explicitly about queer people, I often will latch onto characters that inexplicably have The Trans (TM) written into their bones, which includes Dipper Pines. And, as one might expect, I turn to my silly little A03 account to get my fix of representation and enjoyment of many a trans dilemma. Unfortunately, this is where my qualms get given the spotlight.

This is a generalization, but it seems as though every single godforsaken fic about trans!Dipper (I see this in the Spider-Man fandom a lot too, but that’s a conversation for a different day) he loses all his unhingedness, all his insanity, and is boiled down to a weak and sad little uwu trans boy who can’t handle his own dysphoria and falls apart at every slight inconvenience?

You’re telling me DIPPER, the same man who got called weak one (1) time and then disappeared into the woods for a solid 12 hours and came back half naked and rambling about positive vs toxic masculinity and manotaurs, is going to get misgendered and fall completely and utterly apart? You seriously think he’s going to have a run in with somebody who tries to bully him for being trans and he isn’t going to read them to filth? Are we forgetting that this is the same man who spent a whole episode learning about how to live and let live and then STILL told Pacifica her family was a sham with the mic-drop line of “deal with it”?????

Like good lord, please give this man some credit. I’m not saying he can’t have panic attacks, or trauma, or be treated differently by certain people, but it is the year of our lord and savior 2024 and we are STILL infantilizing trans men in fanon versions of media???

All I’m saying is if Mabel gets to keep her unhinged characteristics, you gotta let Dipper keep his too. Let Dipper punch a transphobe, as a treat.