Stanley Pines - Blog Posts
YESSS, Why is a fictonal character better than my dad
thinking Such Insane Thoughts about gravity falls and parental love and liking your kids like. idk.
filbrick might love his kids in some way but he doesnt really like them. caryn loves her boys but doesnt care for them enough.
soos's dad might have liked the idea of a kid. but he never really loved him. abuelita had to take his place.
dipper and mabels parents probably love their kids, sure, but they fuck dipper up because of their issues.
wendys dad loves her as much as he can but she misses her mom so so much.
gideon and pacificas parents dont really love them. gideons parents fear him and pacifica fears her parents.
bills parents loved him so fucking much. it wasnt enough.
fiddlefords parents loved him enough to let him leave. but they left him with a bone deep fear of the "outside" in his bones.
but.. ford and stan. they arent even the twins parents but oh my GOD they love them. deep in their crazy old man bones they LOVE these kids.
fords angry and resentful but he sees them and he goes SOFT. he watches dippers every move and sees himself. he pats mabels fluffy hair "you're a good person, mabel."
stan loves these kids so much goddamnit. everything he does is for this family. you can see in every inch of him he just wants these kids to be ok. even when hes picking on dipper he wants to help so bad. he dies for them.
they are the best parents in the series and they save the world.
"I guess we doin peekaboo now"
KILL IT
so glad to be fixated on this show again. 2017 me going craaazy
Is it difficult to help us reach $55,000? Please help Samar, Mariam and my family. We need this. Samar needs you. You can do it.
We trust in your humanity.
Cringetober Day 9: Rarepair
Fiddleford has no strength and Stanley is all bronze
Sometimes i look at the world and remember why most of what i look at on the internet is gravity falls fanfic. Goddamn everything is on fire, but at least we have scientists with npd and evil gay triangles and old men punching the shit out of anything that threatens their families and redemption arc aus and hurt no comfort and mullet stan doodles and fanmade ocs and salamander deities and weird books
Every younger sibling I know feels like they can’t do the older sibling’s “thing”. Older sibling is a soccer player? Can’t do that! Older sibling is a computer geek? Computers are now impossibly confusing. Older sibling likes star wars? Your only two options are star trek or to forgo science fiction altogether. I don’t know why this is the case but my guess is so that the younger sibling’s successes can’t be directly compared to the older one’s, which will probably be better because they’ve done it longer.
Now, I know Stan and Ford are twins and thus the same age. But I think something similar applies here: Stan couldn’t be a nerd because Ford got the title first. So he didn’t even try. Ford would always be smarter, so he embraced his other skills (of physical prowess and later scamming).
In order to rebuild the portal, Stan not only had to process his grief and guilt enough to do things, but also get over the feeling that math was “Ford’s thing” that he was “taking over”. He had to get over the “Ford’s the smart one” rhetoric. Stan gets way too little credit in the fandom for what he managed to pull off to bring Ford back, both mathematically/mentally, and emotionally.
NOOOOOOOO
I gave him cuddles afterwards. He’s fine-
He is not fine, but I also treat my plushies the same way so I can’t be upset lol.
I gave him cuddles afterwards. He’s fine-
lol
The Stanley Parable (2013)
Stanley Pines is basically holding onto the teenaged version of his brother.
That connection is strong enough that it only took two words to get him to drive all the way up to Oregon and then spend three decades trying to bring Ford back. That kind of dedication, that kind of inextinguishable hope, is astounding, and it is not the behavior of someone who blames Ford for closing the window on him, not at all.
So why, then, does Stan care so much? Because to him, Ford is just about the coolest person to exist. Not just because he's astoundingly smart and capable, but also because he was the only person who really cared about him.
There's a lot of talk about suspected physical abuse in the Pines household for the twins growing up, but I think there was a lot of neglect too. I think Ford and Stan really only had each other as kids. That is an intense connection.
For Ford, that connection terrifies him. Because Ford does not want to be that boy. That boy was scared and that boy got knocked around and had to hide behind his twin. That boy was weak and Stanford Pines is not weak, Stanford Pines is special and important and he's going to show the whole goddamn world.
But for Stan... that connection is the only thing that proves he was worth anything. So if his relationship with Ford isn't salvageable...