The Man Was Undressed

cha cha in the moonlight~

redraw of a beloved drawing(CLICK HERE ITS CUTEIE PIE) by @captain-amadeus

art :)))))) I MISS DRAWING GRAHH!!!! 💪🚬😿

AUGH SAMO!( @samo-nkey) !!!!! is the pretty thing slapping fords belly

Happy birthday, Stan and Ford! I drew Stan hugging that plushy in one of my previous drawings

Will you tell us the secrets of what fanon you disagree with so much?? Regardless of your answer, i love your blog!! You got Good Content

*points at the fanon characterization of Ford as a whole with much distaste*

Fanon Ford is a selfish arrogant narcissist who manipulates Dipper to do what he wants because he idolizes him, while wholly neglecting or sometimes even outright hating Mabel for being like Stan, only cares if he gets the glory, personally kicked Stan out onto the streets and hates his guts, and is simultaneously a big dumb idiot who can't tell when someone is lying. This made up version of Ford the fans were too blind and stupid to see that they were creating can go die in a fire for all I care.

Canon Ford is none of that. He is an autistic coded and trauma riddled man that is trying his best to do the right thing. He is not manipulative, instead, he was manipulated himself. He cares about Mabel as much as he does Dipper, the only reason he doesn't interact with her as much is the fact that he struggles with socializing with people he can't already relate to. He knows what he's made of, being confident he can do something isn't arrogance. Being proud of his abilities isn't arrogance. Conversely, his self worth is through the friggin floor. He doesn't feel like he's worth it if he's not proving himself. He can't simply exist, he has to do big things or else he's nothing. Some arrogance that is. Ford does love Stan, he just isn't very happy with him. Like can he not be angry with his brother without being stomped in the ground for five seconds? It's as if someone has to be perfectly happy with their sibling all the time, even when they did things that DIRECTLY HURT THEM and did not even APOLOGIZE for it ONCE. (Sorry, hit a sore spot there, let's move on) Ford was manipulated and abused by Bill and calling him stupid for it is blatant victim blaming.

anyway, I could go on, but Fanon Ford is my enemy that I have sworn to fight against every day in this dang fandom. I have taken a break from actively fighting this characterization for my own mental health (because this fandom is illiterate and also cruel I swear to the Axolotl), but it is a fight I take in my own mind every time I see any "hot" take about Ford that is more likely an ice cold take than anything because of how friggin often those kinds of mischaracterizing things are said. Anyway, that has been my answer on 'fanon'. Thank you for the question and for the compliment.

So, I had a dream about how Ford decided to borrow my blue turtleneck. I thought I needed to draw this

I really hope that Stan’s reaction to Ford claiming he’s not a hero was akin to this:

Like, bitch, Stan being a hero does not negate every good thing you’ve ever done. There is not a limited amount of Hero Points.

The FINAL installment

This ends on a very hopeful and bittersweet note.

Ford will be okay, I promise

This was a very cathartic experience for me, but also emotionally draining. I had to pull real life dialogue and memories into these comics. Losing someone is always painful. I’m sorry to those who found this series uncomfortable. But I needed it out

This was more for me than it was for you, but it’s here if you want to see.

Yes, that's how it was intended

Here are a couple more sketches with this charming wizard. There is even a small sketch of his grumpy raven.

Some drawings of these two from the past week!

More silly attempts to summarise my headcannon for these two.

[OK before I knew it these paragraphs appeared out of nowhere!]

After Ford starts dimension hopping I like the idea of them having a kind of cartoony back and fourth "I'll get you next time!" dynamic for a bit, except both end up in the position of the pursuer swearing vengeance and they switch back and forth depending on the context.

Bizarre banter during a chase scene, trying to outsmart the other's quips, deliberately prolonging they're interactions for very important and strategic reasons, stuff like that.

Point is they become very familiar with eachother, for better or worse, over the course of this 20 or so year long dynamic and it starts to become surprisingly fun? (Not sure what word to use exaclty it's very clear in my head but- agh words-)

I also imagine many times where they just... talk. No chasing or fighting or theatrics, they just chat over tea, usually in Ford's mindscape, with his encrypted thoughts it becomes safer to interact. Although they're are rare and very breaf moments when they're actually in person for once and they're also just chatting.

Until something serious happens, once again reality ruins all the fun, one thing leads to another, Ford's got a metal plate fixed into his skull, is building a quantum destabiliser, and Bill is furious.

Tale as old as time.