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Happy Birthday TAU; thanks for making grad school bearable and introducing me to some of my bestest friends.
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Henry looked up to see four highly expectant sets of eyes on him.
“You’re not feeling funny are you?” Dipper asked.
Henry thought about it.
“My teeth hurt and I’d really rather not finish this bag.”
“BUT YOU GOT TO,” Grenda pointed out.
Candy nodded. “We need to know for science.”
Henry sighed, then leaned his head back and dumped the rest of the bag into his mouth before he could talk himself out of it.
Everyone waited with bated breath for a long minute, except for Henry, who was trying not to puke from shoving sugar powder into his throat without any water.
Finally, Mabel asked, “Are you seeing the dogs?”
Henry shook his head.
“What about the Rainbow Kingdom?”
“Afraid not.”
Mabel grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him in a way that she thought was gentle but just jostled his abused stomach more. “WHERE IS AOSHIMA?”
“Mabel, honey, I’m going to throw up if you don’t stop.”
Dipper gently pulled his sister back. “We gotta face the facts Mabel. Henry is Smile Dip-proof.”
“I’m… Henry, I’m so sorry.”
“I think I’ll be okay Mabel.” But still she looked utterly dejected so he went on. “But perhaps Stan isn’t?”
Mabel’s face broke into a wicked grin, to match the one that her brother, the literal demon, also wore.
“Oh that’s an excellent idea. Grenda, can you and Candy hold Stan down?”
“YES BECAUSE I DON’T SKIP ARM DAY.”
Candy glared at Grenda. “We’ve talked about this before; different gym routines work for different people-”
The four of them hurried out of the room, leaving Henry alone in peace and quiet. Since there was no way he’d be getting up for the next hour without puking, he might as well take the rare opportunity to steal the TV for himself. Now where was that remote…?
“I’m over here!” said the remote from inside the couch cushions.
“Thank you.”
(he didn’t remember the Food Network ever being so…. technicolor. And none of the food looked even remotely able to be eaten by humans. Weird.)
Meeting A Star
Close friends and family see Dipper’s object form for the first time.
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Mabel
Mabel stared at her brother, blinking slowly. He blinked back with a single eye, tiny little pipe cleaner arms shifting restlessly.
This was new.
Part of Mabel was screaming, huddling down inside her sweater, memories of a a triangle and her brother’s screams echoing inside her head.
The rest was seeing through her brother’s bravado, his attempt at pretending everything was okay, as if he wasn’t upset about this development.
“…you think this is permanent?” she asked after a few minutes had passed, needing to say something but this time worried about saying something that would send both of them spiraling out of control and knowing she had to be the adult in this situation despite their parents being just downstairs because they wouldn’t be any help right now and that wasn’t fair to her but it was the truth.
The joking could come later, to make them both feel better.
“No, I’m just too tired to stay human shaped,” her brother answered, thankfully, both of them relieved by his answer. “I think how I usually look is my default form now, and this is sort of…a power saving mode? I’m still working on the details.”
Mabel nodded as Dipper spoke, doing her best to hide how freaked she’d been. He could see her moods now, faintly, so he had to know, but it didn’t mean she had to be obvious about it. Now that she was calming down, though…well…her brother was pretty cute as a star.
But he was also still pretty obviously upset about this. Well, that couldn’t stand! It was time to unleash the Power of Mabel!
“Wait here, broseph,” she said, gesturing with both hands outspread. “Just hang out in here and wait.”
Impatiently, and more than a little nervously, Dipper waited. He knew Mabel loved and accepted him, but…what ifs kept playing through his mind, and he began to float back and forth across the room, the closest he could come to pacing while like this.
This was going to be a long wait.
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Gravity falls/Marvel AU
Bruce: Dipper
Jen: mable
Soos: Rick Jones
Candy: betty Ross
Grenda: Patsy Walker
Feel free to add more
Ten years. Holy wow. There are so many things I want to say that I don’t even know where to begin! But, first of all, I’m truly desolate that I wasn’t able to finish this piece properly in time; this was supposed to be a full work but unfortunately paired with my graduation, a nasty cold and just an overall busy year I just totally ran out of time. I intend on finishing this properly at some point, but for now all I can offer is the line work and the character flats. I hope you enjoy it anyway!
The really sappy stuff is beneath the cut. Happy double digits, Gravity Falls; I will always love you!
My brother and I have been close our whole lives. We first watched Gravity Falls together in November of 2015. These memories are some I hold so incredibly dear to my heart for so many reasons, but mainly because it was the summer of 2019 when my parents separated, and unfortunately also when my brother was hit very hard by puberty. He suddenly wanted nothing to do with me. We rarely even spoke because more often than not it’d end in a fight that brought me to tears. He hated me, and I could not stand it. I felt so lonely, so betrayed and, more than ever before, longed for the good ol’ days to come back to me.
Eventually, my brother’s destructive behaviour came back to bite him. One day I woke up to hear from some of our mutual friends that everybody had abandoned him; every single one had dubbed him a horrible monster and refused to talk to him ever again. He was completely alone, and, despite everything, I made the decision to ask him what was wrong. For the first time in years he opened up to me. We went on a long evening drive down the highway, just listening to his favorite music and seeing where the road would take us. After this, we finally began to talk again. He’d pop into my room every night just to say hello, watch YouTube and even asked me to teach him how to draw.
The reason I’m telling you all of this is because, during the endeavour, I was often reminded of Dipper and Mabel’s plight near the end of the series. It struck a cord deeper than I had expected it to when I rewatched it during this era, and it gave me hope. Gravity Falls was the last thing we had shared together and bonded over at the time. We created together, we imagined together, we loved together. The days we spent walking around the local track on sunny summer’s days musing over fun ideas for stories and fan-comics were some of the best ones of my life. So, you can imagine how difficult it was to feel like that had all been torn from me.
Nonetheless, just like the Pines twins (both sets! Happy birthday Stan and Ford <3 <3), we forgave each other. We’re best friends again, and I am so incredibly grateful for that. I can’t imagine my life without you, little bro, and I hope we continue to take on the world together for decades to come!
Thank you, Gravity Falls. Thank you for making me laugh, making me cry, making me think, making me feel and making me create. Thank you for the nights I spent curled up on the couch with my whole family, laughing and smiling together. Thank you for making me believe in the power of a sibling bond. Thank you for all of the inspiration, motivation and artistic growth (and being responsible for the first time I was drawing humans regularly!). Thank you for helping me bond and connect with my closest friends in the entire world. It is an absolute privilege to be able to be here to celebrate an entire decade of some of the best television to ever air. I know this show will never truly leave me; how could it after all of this? One day, I’m sure I will watch it again with my children, and then again with my children’s children, and create those memories all over again. And with each line, each frame, I’m sure I will look back to these memories. Moments forever frozen in time, where my family and I were as we should be: well and truly as one.
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Oh man now I’m crying lol, sorry if that was a bit incoherent I am beyond exhausted (been drawing for like eight hours straight) :’D But hey, it came from the heart!
Adios folks, I’ll hopefully see you soon with the proper iteration! And remember: “Gravity Falls is real and it will never die.” I, however, am going to die in approximately five seconds. snzzzzz