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I’m sure this has been talked about before, but my brain exploded when I saw a TikTok edit of Stan and Ford with Would You Fall in Love Again, at least the first part of the verse—"Is it you?" I just now realized how obvious the parallels are between Penelope/Odysseus and the Stans.Especially since most of the comments agree that Stan was basically Penelope, waiting for 30 years and doing everything he could to see Ford again. I know a lot of people see it as platonic, but if you show me an edit with that song and that parallel, there’s no way I can see it that way. They are definitely husbands 😭😭. Now I really wanna see a full edit or animatic of them with the entire song.

my fic recs!

angst + hurt/comfort

this is a MUST for any gf reader: hide and seek by parsnipit: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26956045

any works by @avidhousehusband , but particularly :

the whole truth: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51089620

adrift: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58507594

farmer’s friend: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60478171

a night of color and static by @jellyskink:(unfinished, feral ford) https://archiveofourown.org/works/59960611

old habits die hard by @thenoellebird / elliebluejay: (in progress, check tws) https://archiveofourown.org/works/62245828

everything by @ilentari , but i especially enjoy their dark ford works:

this is a gift, it comes with a price: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61528726

chain, keep us together: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61159726

@dark-lord-of-awesomeness cat stan au: (all works, but i’m linking the main one) https://archiveofourown.org/works/60926800

most anything by poggofroggo, but particularly:

watching all the ground beneath you drop: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60860902

bring me home (80s mystery trio au):https://archiveofourown.org/works/60262078

he’s going away tonight (and i can’t do anything) by jackyrubou (check tws): https://archiveofourown.org/works/62843519

fluff/family bonding:

(may contain slight angst, but largely wholesome)

a good ol’ dose of shame by @cosmiccrossing : https://archiveofourown.org/works/20277196

ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING from untrustworthyglitch @hydrangeathief but particularly:

i roll to punch you in the mouth: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37241182

from the “swear jar” series:

who even knows what holiday we’re celebrating here :https://archiveofourown.org/works/35580850

old man world tour: california edition: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35755423

(but seriously, read every work in this series they’re all fantastic)

cuteness aggression (in previously mentioned cat stan au) by @ilentari : https://archiveofourown.org/works/62459296

just know you’re not alone by coffee_scribbles: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60072073

flu season by @colubrine (read their angst too!!) : https://archiveofourown.org/works/59717653

can’t sleep (and it’s not because i’m touch-starved) by rubyflakes: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32120815

the sand with time… by @mythomagically-delicious : https://archiveofourown.org/works/11746458

brains, beauty, brawn by @eosrealis :https://archiveofourown.org/works/6187258

i’m right here by @iirvine : https://archiveofourown.org/works/41466255

there are SO many more for both categories but i’ll cap it there for now!! please let me know if i’ve missed tagging any of the authors who have a tumblr :p

stancest edit – me and my husband (mitski)

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I saw that ask you got and i just wanted to say that it's so funny to me when people are like "why would you ship stancest ew" acting like they didn't sail off into the sunset together after DECADES of Stan openly pining for Ford. If they weren't written as siblings they would hands down be the most popular ship of the show

There's a long answer, and then there's the tldr at the bottom marked in red text. Long answer: If they weren't siblings, you literally wouldn't be able to escape this ship. It would have been THE ship of tumblr after the finale had aired, considered the "healthy" ship and the good ending, would be considered canon even if they didn't kiss, and it would be the standard by which all the other ships are judged. You would have people writing essays about how they literally took off on a ship, guys! It's so obvious and a metaphor for marriage and and- But here's where I can extend a bit of empathy that perhaps they wouldn't give me, as well as look at things from the perspective as someone who has seen shipping culture their entire lives. First off- most people don't want to fuck their siblings. I know, shocker. Most people who ship Stancest probably do not want to fuck their siblings, but people who don't CERTAINLY do not want to. It's the most repulsive thought in the world to them. There is such thing as being in such a close platonic relationship that it's an impossible thought. I think a lot of people who want Stancest shippers to die or whatever find that kind of desire utterly repulsive, that and let's be real, 1nc3st in real life is rife with abuse. It isn't a healthy thought to get those wires crossed. People who do not like this ship are empathizing with either of the brothers and projecting their own repulsion onto them. But here's the other bit. I'm not shipping Stan and Ford because they're siblings. Most of my ships are not 1nc3stuous. I don't find that element hot or cute, and while I'm not here to harsh anyone's vibe, if that's the only reason you ship Stancest I really don't want to talk with you about these characters. People see ships as inherently sexual, as inherently sexualizing, as "you must only ship this because you want to see the characters fuck". And mind you, with Stancest I don't see it as a bad thing at all to draw them doing things or being attractive together, etc etc. Not at all, and I'd be a hypocrite for saying otherwise. My point is, that's where people's minds go, that's the assumption that they make. They find 1nc3st repulsive, and clearly the ONLY reason I would ship it is because I like sexualizing that and only that aspect about it. Basically, they assume I must LOVE 1nc3st in and of itself, because otherwise why would I ship brothers? Now here's where I go back to the first statement, because most people I've seen don't just ship them for that reason.

You ever seen that meme about "if they have chemistry, I can't make them NOT have chemistry"? That's why I'm here. EVERYTHING about how Stan and Ford are written is tailor made to be SHIPPED. Aside from literally bounding away on a ship, they have a closeness and codependency that most brothers in fiction do not. Alex himself has said they need each other, Ford in the third journal said he was going to spend the rest of his days making up to Stanley. Stanley has spent his entire life wanting NOTHING but his family, his brother by his side. He seems more bonded to his brother than to any one he's ever tried to date, and Ford likewise. I'm sorry, but these two are not getting a "healthy" ending. They aren't going to be with anyone else. There's no version of them in which they find separate partners after having a little adventure around the world for a year or two then just go off in separate ways. This is the most "childhood friends to lovers" story I've ever seen. These two are NOT healthy to begin with, why would anyone expect them to start when they're that old and that hurt by everything in their pasts? I don't believe it inherently has to be sexually 1nc3stuous, but it could be. Wires are already being crossed. It's rare for anyone to be loyal for 30 years to one person when they aren't in love, and Stan wanted to get his brother back so badly that he forgot his own goals and even threw away his own identity to get him back. His entire life was for Ford, and after Journal 3, it should be obvious that Ford's entire life is for Stan now, too. What I'm trying to say is, while this ship isn't the healthy ending, it is the BEST ending for either of them. I think people who wanted Stan to be able to deny going with Ford don't understand him or his character, or what his character NEEDS, same as Ford. And I think people who try to separate the bros for shipping purposes or who don't want to do 1nc3st or accidental emotional 1nc3st are not fully reading the same things, watching the same things that we are. If they weren't brothers, everyone else would see exactly what we're seeing. They would see this as the love story it is. TLDR: I understand why people won't ship this ship, and I try to be empathetic, but these two have been given the kind of story that would ping the lovers radar to anyone if they weren't brothers and I'm not going to ignore that just because they are.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

So.

I had to

- I don't think Stan would actually put something this heavy on the kids. When during A tale of two Stan's when he's sleeping in his car he just goes, "Awe yeah, i was doin GREAT"

But I still had to

Introducing: the Stanford Font

After many hours of tedious work, I can finally share with you my recreation of Ford’s handwriting in Journal 3!

Have you ever wanted to be able to make your own Journal entries and make them look authentic? Perhaps you just want to write “I love you” in Ford’s beautiful, sweeping lettering? Now you can!

It’s in no way perfect, mainly due to my complete lack of font-creating experience, but I did my best to make it as accurate to the Journal as possible! Below is a quote from the page labeled “July 18th”:

You can download Stanford here!

I think it's funny because I take sertraline and it still gives me really vivid dreams, but the weirdest thing I’ve ever dreamed was reading a book??? Anyway, I’d love to dream something related to stancest, and if I can make it lucid, I want to manifest that pizza just to see what it tastes like lmao

so here’s a fun fact: seroquel often gives you weird, vivid dreams.

anyways. had a dream where i went to a ytp party. someone brought out a fucking. stancest pizza? the box said “STANCEST: INCEST IS WINCEST” and the fuckin’. mini pizza table thing at the center of the pizza had a stancest decal. everyone was EXTREMELY hyped about stancest pizza

anyways are there any dream interpreters in the chat what does stancest pizza mean

AU where Stan and Ford are separated at birth and meet in college at West Coast Tech. And they at first get along terribly

I was talking to @frondere about this and we agreed that they would clash at first, because Ford is working his ass off and Stan seemingly barely does the bare minimum in class.

But then there's a turning point, (probably when Ford finds out that Stan works like SO MANY FUCKING JOBS and he's just tired and cranky all the time) and they get a long SO WELL. and cue the gay yearning from Ford

And like, important: they're dorm neighbors

There's been too much talk about soulmates lately. I decided to contribute

FIDDLESTAN NATION RISE AND SHINE

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Gravity Falls Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ford Pines/Stan Pines Characters: Stan Pines, Ford Pines Additional Tags: fem Stan, sappy y'all this is so sappy, sex but it’s not described in much detail, again we’re focusing hard on the sappy stuff, sea grunkles era, Sibling Incest Summary:

This is their happy ending, and Ford is more than content with that. However, he does miss their old intimacy. Stan does too, but it’s hard to get over the way forty years has changed her.

I think it's the asexual in me that is allergic to "aesthetic" ships. Some people will ship stuff because the characters look good next to each other or they're both hot and that grosses me out, which is weird because, yah know... I ship Stancest, lol. Compared to 1nc3st, being attracted to a ship because the characters are hot seems kind of strange. I think the difference is that Stancest to me isn't shipped at all BECAUSE they're hot. I find them hot because it's THEM. They're two grouchy old men that have been through so, SO much, apart and together, and have decided to allow themselves to love one another in their old age. They're hot because they're the two most emotionally compelling characters in the show, with depths that keep going the more you analyze and learn about them. They're hot because they're heartbreaking and their story is beautiful. If I want to take these incredibly compelling wonderful characters and draw them wearing tight ass shorts or making out sloppy style then idk man it just hits different.

the Stans in their prom outfits  👉👈

they danced together after getting soaked in punch,it's canon I was Stanley's bowtie😌

ford's encounter with the dream hipster revealing his greatest nightmare isnt JUST stanley dying, but it's very specifically stan dying *by his own hands*. one that he is responsible for, and where he'll be a spectator to his brother's doom, caused by HIM, and HIS hands.

And you have to wonder what scenario could possibly exist where that would happen.

I mean him killing his brother, caused by something that's his fault?

something else i really like is how even the dream hipster's joke "LOOKS LIKE YOU FINALLY GAVE YOUR BROTHER A HAND" is a poke at repressed guilt ford had about not helping stan.

guilt ford tries to hide, because it forces him to ask— acknowledge if he had a choice in losing his brother. to write in code, asking himself, "have i been too harsh all along?" while dropping tears onto the drawing of stanley offering him one last high six

"who knows what could happen if Cipher stepped inside stanley's mind for even one minute?" i guess what happened is literally ford's worst nightmare. kind of funny

I finally figured it out. The reason most fanfics focus on what Stanford wants rather than what Stanley wants is that, when it comes to desire, Stanley is genuinely much more indifferent than Stanford 🤔.

He doesn’t seem to have any strong obsessions (aside from Ford, of course), nor does he appear to be actively chasing anything. Even his pursuit of money feels more like an animal searching for a water source—it’s not about wealth itself, but about securing the resources necessary for survival. He never really seemed to crave a rich lifestyle, and even when he had money, he wasn’t the type to enjoy spending it. He just wanted it.

Strip away everything related to Ford and the ripples caused by Ford’s existence, and Stanley honestly seems like someone who could live just about any kind of life—married or unmarried, doesn’t matter. He likes kids, but the fact that he never had his own doesn’t seem to bother him. His life is, in reality, incredibly restrained. Outside of making money upstairs and fixing the portal downstairs, the only real sources of change or enjoyment in his life are the kids.

That’s what makes these two so fascinating. Stanford plays the role of a detached, rational scientist, supposedly free from worldly desires—when, in truth, he has so many wants, so many pursuits, so much ambition. Meanwhile, Stanley is perfectly content with everyone seeing him as a greedy conman, and he even embraces that image—but in reality, his lifestyle is practically one of self-inflicted asceticism.

there's multiple reasons why i love Demisexual!Ford with stancest but i think the biggest reasons is because it would be so fucking funny.

Imagine the only person you've ever been sexually attracted to in your entire life was your twin brother. You're cooked, sir.

Ford would be the type of guy to go “I’m so dark and evil,,,u don’t know what I’ve done,,,,I’m a monster,,,,” and Stan would just smack him upside the head like stfu and drink your coffee

Is this an Epic: The Musical reference. Coz Would You Fall In Love With Me Again is exactly this. And the song itself is SOOO stancest coded don't even get me started.

I think it also plays into Ford's need for narrative relevancy. He was so goddamn sure he's the main character for 30+ years, and then realizes it was Stan all along. Well, what's left for him then? If he's not the hero of the story, then... he must be it's villain. The one who ruined hero's life, the one who needs to be punished for his wrongdoings.

And Stan won't have any of that bullshit lmao he just wants his honeymoon in Arctic Ocean and that's it

how suffocating 

What are your guys' thoughts on how Stancest could come to confess their feelings in ways that don't somehow involve a supernatural event... Because I can't help but imagine that a fucking truth spell or hallucination caused by a siren or something has got to be involved for those two to communicate about something that insanely vulnerable

I found your old stancest collection and I was just wondering if there were more fics you'd written? I say another called foreign but that was all I could find :(

No prob, I'm on it

to start this was my old fanfic tag: cheezistyping

there should be a few drabbles in there and also just fics themselves back when posting fics on tumblr was a common thing lol

Also, AO3 links to orphaned fics! I BELIEVE this is all of them, and I'm at least 82% sure they're all fics I wrote. i dare not attempt to read through my decade old writing to find out for sure.

Honeysuckle / We Swear It's the Cold / Those 30 Years / A Collection / Where Credit Is Due / Mabel's Magic Mistletoe / Mullet Thirst 2: Boat Edition / Soft Sensation / Temperature

listed from the first fics i ever wrote in 2015 to the last Gravity Falls fic in 2018 ✌ also Foreign was the only gen fic I think i wrote for Gravity Falls actually haha

No because stan and ford not realizing they’re in love until they’re like in the middle of fucking sends me

IKR😭😭😭 But fr. I know we kinda make fun of gen artists for making them too close for normal brothers but really? They themselves wouldn't be aware, too. They were always weird about each other, no matter how you see it, and post-canon mutual compliance can really go for miles. And they would really really be happy with staying just platonic bros but. The need. The pull is just too heavy to ignore, especially in such close proximity to the object of your desires. And if the other doesn't say anything, then it's fine, yes? Then this, whatever that is, is allowed.

I know it sounds silly I'm self-aware but I genuinely love this concept, thank you for listening to my ramblings 🥰

shes got that coping skills thing figured out

Entertaining myself with the idea that Stan made a care package for when Ford comes home. Like, after Stan activated the portal and the countdown started, he spent the next day going around town buying Ford’s favorite snacks (jellybeans), Sci-Fi novels and movies, and pretty much anything Ford might like, and made a little care package he was planning to give to Ford. But then the fight happened, and Stan was too heartbroken and mad to give it, so the care package was forgotten about.

(Bonus)

After Weirdmageddon, Ford actually finds the care package by chance when he was rummaging around the kitchen. He was stunned by it. He looks at it closely: there’s jellybeans—both the regular kind, and the fancy artisan-flavoured ones; the full box set of Star-Trek; a book series called Harry Potter? Don’t know what it’s about, but it looks interesting. And…it has pretty much everything he likes and might like.

There’s also a card. Ford opens it, and inside, in Stan’s writing are the words: “Welcome Home, Sixer.”

Ford put the card down, took out a bag of jellybeans, starts eating it, and then begins to cry right in the middle of the kitchen floor as he continues to eat the jellybeans.

And then when Stan came in kitchen, Ford hug-tackled him to the floor.

Don't know how it could happen (and don't care) just a thought about that euclydians can see Ford's shadow and Bill can see Ford

SORRY FOE THE DUMP IM CATCHING UP ITS BEEN A HOT MINUTE

Original source: my mates playing with their dollies

Brother kisser.

so glad i can finally share this- here's something i did for a secret santa event!!