yeah I like characters a normal amount *trips and thousands of pictures of stanley pines fall out of my pockets* oh wait jeez I - *pictures keep falling out*

Is the orange-red/blue a cliché? Yes. I just wanted to do something dramatic. It was fun, but it never comes out exactly the way you first imagined it.

Inktober Day 8: Crooked

K’d zceh dpu riwf'v yyoh dlha sszsiyg Sih S'zh ifh gyqhvywbq ys op gzoiyg

I want Stan to wear some flashy shirts and swindle some suckers in Vegas legally and legitimately win big at poker. 

K’d zceh dpu riwf'v

yyoh dlha sszsiyg Sih S'zh ifh

gyqhvywbq ys op gzoiyg

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

in light of Gravity Falls-affiliated twitter accounts from the Cipher Hunt era teasing something cryptic again, I would just like to remind everyone:

[ID: a tweet from Alex Hirsch reading: "We had a Gravity Falls art book all lined up w Dark Horse in 2020, it was going to be amazing, hardcover, filled w exclusive never before seen art. Diz Publishing approved the contract. Then Diz Channel canned it with zero explanation. I still have no idea why. We were all ready".

He's quote-tweeting Matt Braly, who writes: "That there is no #gravityfalls art book causes me daily pain. To leave all that material buried in a Disney archive is deeply immoral." End description.]

Turns out my local fancy candy store had some for pretty cheap, so I can say this from experience: item: soft chewy candy that tastes like somebody sprayed perfume in your mouth

It’s a weird experience if you’ve never had it before, it really does activate taste buds that you’ve never used before; if you can find it at an affordable price, I’d definitely recommend bringing some to a gathering or game night as a new experience to share

seeing this post caused an immediate and visceral flashback to when hellman dared me to try this

Because I am literally never not thinking about weird meta, blurring lines between reality and narrative, and the whole concept of actors becoming their characters, I am now entertaining thoughts of a Shadow of the Vampire-style story wherein a late-2010s-style all-female The Lost Boys remake gets derailed when the lead actress suddenly starts not showing up to shooting because she's sleeping all day...

I tried and failed to resist the urge to title this thing with a shitty pun.

Do you like Stanford Pines or Gravity Falls deleted scenes (or both)? Well, do I have a treat for you! Back in August, Gravity Falls storyboard artist S. H. Cotugno shared some NEVER BEFORE SEEN deleted scenes from A Tale of Two Stans over on Tik Tok! These include Ford encountering mermaids and a mysterious traffic light creature!

Link to the Tik Tok Post

I also posted the boards on Imgur

Even in 2023, we're getting new Gravity Falls content in the form of deleted scenes!

I think my overriding frustration is about people seeing that multiple factors, including economic systems, contribute to problems in the world, and then coming to the conclusion that removing that economic system (or whatever the factor is) will automatically remove the problem, when the other factors that contribute to the problem are still there.

monday

Sneak Peek Sunday, and this one's original fiction! Have a chunk of the ominous homoerotic makeover scene from Fearleading Squad.

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Tiffany, unsurprisingly, turned out to be stubbornly persistent in evading Avery’s questions. When Avery asked how long Tiffany’d been cheerleading, while Tiffany was stirring together some kind of concoction of yogurt and oatmeal, Tiffany made Avery let her smear the goo all over her face instead of answering. When Avery asked whether any of the boys in town had caught Tiffany’s eye and why, despite being maybe the most desired person in the high school’s history, she hadn’t been on a million dates already, Tiffany’d just said she didn’t like being told what to do, and then asked Avery to pick out a movie. As Molly Ringwald handed over a pair of her panties on the huge TV screen (Tiffany hadn’t had Friday the 13th or Sleepaway Camp, and she’d never even heard of The Stuff), Avery had awkwardly tried a new tactic.

“God, I don’t even get why you like this movie,” she said, trying to watch Tiffany’s face without looking like she was watching Tiffany’s face. It was already hard enough to tell what Tiffany was thinking, the layer of quickly-hardening oatmeal-yogurt goop only made her expressions all the more inscrutable. “You must think Sam’s just pathetic. I bet nobody’s ever forgotten your birthday.”

It took Tiffany a long moment to answer. Avery was just starting to think she wouldn’t when she said, “You might be surprised. Hey, I think these masks might be ready to come off. Mine’s cracking.”

You get there and all the pretty boys look up from drinking from the reservoir and gallop away like gazelle

Anyway. Who here likes evil cheerleaders, melodramatic teenage goths, homoerotic loathing, Christopher Pike and Fear Street books, the Satanic Panic, and cheesy horror-comedy? Who here would like an exclusive sneak peek at the first chapter of Fearleading Squad?

Well, tough luck, because you're getting one anyway.

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Steve was the first to go missing.

He had a last name, probably, but Avery didn’t know it. She was just used to seeing his lanky, zitty self, limp greasy hair and facial piercings and ill-fitting black clothes, reading a comic book with his feet up behind the counter of the Movie Gallery. Or seeing the rusted-out camper van he was rumoured to live in parked in the gravel lot behind the tourist information centre, where he sold shitty weed with about as much enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit as he brought to the video store gig. He was a fixture around town, as much a part of the landscape as the sign on the highway advertising the annual rodeo or the grain elevator by the train tracks. Something you saw so often that you stopped seeing it at all.

Until he wasn’t.