Aroace Ford My Beloved

A fresh batch of Sea Stans for your souls!

*jab jab*

A Metalocalypse episode concept I can see so vividly is one where the band finds out Charles is gay, and they start doing that typical straight guy “just don’t start hitting on me hahaha” thing. To which Charles reassures them that he’s professional and wouldn’t do anything to make them uncomfortable. Also they shouldn’t worry because none of them are his type.

That last comment causes everyone in the band to take psychic damage. They spend the rest of the episode obsessing and panicking over why Charles wouldn’t like them. Meanwhile Charles is just doing his job as normal.

I think a lot of Ford haters would also be Stan haters if we had a book full of his most private and vulnerable thoughts too.

You telling me that if Stan kept a journal he wouldn't have a moment where he thought about his brother for too long, got angry, and wrote some shit about how Ford is just some stuck up academic living easy off his grant money and doesn't care about his family? That after reuniting with Ford after 30 years, he wouldn't furiously write passages about his ungrateful brother gallivanting around the universe having fun adventures, growing out his sideburns, and not showering while he was working tirelessly to bring him home? That at the beginning of summer, before he really got to know his niece and nephew, he wouldn't make some snap judgements about Dipper being kind of a wuss, and express frustration at having to keep these snot nosed kids busy so they don't go snooping around and ruin everything? "Stan wouldn't do that! He loves those kids-" Yeah, he does, but he's also curmudgeonly and closed off and wouldn't know them yet. He'd be have first impressions (like everyone does) and write down those PRIVATE thoughts and frustrations in a PRIVATE journal.

"I just don't like Ford because he's an asshole-" SO IS STAN. STAN IS A MASSIVE ASSHOLE. Most of the time his assholery gets played off for laughs, and he either gets his comeuppance or learns a lesson by the end of the episode. Plus we have the whole series to get to know his better qualities and be endeared to him. Ford has much fewer episodes to work with, he's beefing with a character we already like, he only gets to learn his lesson at the end of the series, and we have a book full of his private thoughts that he doesn't say to anyone's face.

Ford is at a huge disadvantage here. I've noticed a trend in the fandom of Ford's flaws being amplified and exaggerated while Stan's get smoothed over. Neither of them are nice people. They've both done some fucked up shit. If you can look past that in Stan to see his good qualities and how far he's willing to go for the people he cares about, you should be able to do that for Ford too.

MTMM (Media that made me) Inktober Day 18

Gravity Falls

I came waaay late to this party but dammit, it’s better late than never. This show is awesome. The writing is sharp and hilarious. The animation is awesome. The storytelling is top notch. The villains it gave us…omg. BILL CIPHER is my FAVORITE villain in all of animation. It’s nuts. I can honestly say, this show is one of a kind.

After the science fair...

Stan rejoices at Ford's success. I really like the fact that Stanley is so genuinely happy for his twin.

You should draw Fiddleford trying to solve a rubix cube :0

Why the hackaroonie isn’t this more popular holy crap.

Staniel! 😜

"Ford wouldn't have saved Stan from the portal" you know nothing