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The Design Nerd

@cryptictriangle-blog / cryptictriangle-blog.tumblr.com

Author, artist, part-time adult, professional secret fangirl and triangle-obsessed Faller (despite the current theme). You may know me as The Design Nerd from ff.net or Mystery-Shack, the voice of Ana Graham from the WTNV/GF crossover podcast Welcome to Gravity Falls (link's up there), or I could've been wandering around cons or something. Who knows. I mostly reblog Gravity Falls, Doctor Who, or stuff that makes me laugh like a mute, dying seal. The follow button's up there somewhere if this blog is your cup of tea.
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merrigel

Work and school have both been getting a little hectic so I’m sorry for not being as active!! Please accept these Mystery Trio scribblings as an apology OTL

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phantomimey

Gravity Falls AU 

where everything is the same but due to the journal Dipper acquires the power to shoot Pine trees

from his eyes

enjoy 

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URL change

I've changed from fangirlingoverfezzes to cryptictriangle

It is still I, The Design Nerd, Ana Graham, Tiff, etc

This has been a PSA

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Oh no, I think I’m in too deep…

Here are two silly headcanons I came up with for the Gem AU: Dipper, with his gem being moonstone, has bioluminescent skin that allows him to glow in the dark. He has very little control over it, and it drives Mabel crazy when they’re trying to sleep. 

Mabel, with her gem being sunstone, is able to separate light into its different wavelengths; in other words, she can make rainbows. :) Stan forbids her from doing this inside the house. 

As a side note, Dipper and Mabel aren’t born as gems in my version, they  stumble across their gems and become infused with them by accident. 

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late night makeup test for bill cipher since the party is tomorrow. various shades of gold and brown eyeshadow, eyeliner isn’t super dramatic, gold glitter, and jewelled falsies.

my blue extensions haven’t arrived yet so just the gold wig for now

fun fact: when miko found out I was doing a bill cosplay, she asked me if I had made the eyepatch yet. I said, “what eyepatch?”

depth perception is the worst thing tho

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yazzystar

So pretty!!!!!! You did a beautiful job

This is gorgeous! Sure beats the heck out of mine

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diovos

I slowed down Gravity Falls opening and what I’ve got was something really creepy and… western?

((This is like a doomsday march, man. And when the music changes suddenly it’s like they’re ready to attack for real.

((This post affects me a lot.))

this is fucking scary

i love how this sounds!

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Carpet Diem Hidden Clues

I just rewatched Carpet Diem, and it drops some pretty heavy hints related to the Stanley theory. I just want to elaborate a bit.

  • We start with this. A panning shot that includes both the glasses AND the calendar. It sharp-focuses on the calendar for a split second as Dipper looks at it. Meant to draw our attention. July 4th, 1982. 30 years earlier.
  • (These glasses are seen in Time Traveler’s Pig. Just one shot of a man we’re supposed to assume is young Grunkle Stan. I believe it’s his brother.)
  • Stan grabs the glasses and hides them in the crook of his arm. He crosses his arms and looks away, eyes shifting.
  • Toward the end we get this: Stan carefully rubbing the dust off the lenses.
  • And when shouts and flashes start coming from the secret room, Stan looks startled, uncomfortable, and turns up the tv to drown it out.
  • At the end, we get Stan anxiously and uncomfortably trying to get the rug away from Dipper.

This show doesn’t add strange, unexplained details for nothing. The date is given focus. Stan cleaning the glasses is no artistic space filler. If they were his old glasses (therefore making it young Stanford Pines in the flashback) then he’d have no reason to hide them, no reason to treat them so carefully. He’d probably try putting them on if they were his, like “Hey, these old things.”

As for hearing flashes and bangs and shouts from the secret room—I think that dredged up old memories for him. At the beginning of the episode he was thoroughly enjoying Baby Fights (shouting “Fight fight fight!” at the tv), and now he only uses it to drown out the noise.

I fully believe the man we see in Time Traveler’s Pig is Stanley Pines, Grunkle Stan’s brother. The extra, fully-furnished room belonged to him, as well as the glasses and carpet. Grunkle Stan knows this, and he’s unsettled to see all these remnants of his brother resurfacing.

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