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Happy birthday! Brother!

And here it is, the video version of the "Trouble" Multi-Artist Lyric Comic! All the kudos in the world to @stariousfalls for editing this whole thing together!!!

Go here for the post with all of the lyric page art viewable separately. Go to the Trouble Lyric Comic tag on my main blog to see links to people's posts of their art.

Below the read-more, please find the credits, with tags/links to everyone's blogs!

And once again, huge thank you to everyone who participated in this project -- it was so much fun to work on! And special thanks to @mercury-falls for helping me to organize all of this! I'm still so jazzed to see this final product -- the "amv" to this song that I've been wanting to see since 2016, and here it is, and it's wonderful! And it's even MORE wonderful because this represents a LOT of people coming together to express and share their love for this show.

(Go here for some more extended thank-yous!)

Hey everybody!

Long time, no see? No seriously, how long has it been since I've left this blog inactive? I kinda lost track of time...

Anyways! I am here with some updates for ya'll. Some good, some bad depending on what content you're following me for. I'll first start with the overall update.

As the header of this post states, I'm gonna start coming back and posting again. I got some art I've done over the time since I stopped posting that I'll probably start with. When with the first post be, I dunno. Atm, I'm just going with the flow.

Second, (this may be the part that will upset some of you) I am not updating my fanfics. Those have been inactive for a while as well and I know many are wandering about next chapters to some of my unfinished fics, but at this time I won't be making any updates on those because I've got a project I'm currently working on (more on that in a moment 👀). And I don't want to burn myself out working on multiple things at one. I will make a post to update when I will be getting back to my fics, I promise.

Just Stanley Kingsley and his axolotl companion- Frills! :]

So, I was thinking. In Dipper and Mabel and the Curse of the Time Pirates' Treasure! (super underrated book btw), there's an option where as a way to deal with a dragon the twins and Blendin encounter, Mabel suggests they talk to him. The option then sees Mabel talking to the dragon and letting him vent out all his frustrations and such to her, asking how he feels and giving him advice on how to work through it and grow...almost like a therapist.

The more I look back on this as the years have passed, the more I've found this rather wholesome of a thing to have in the book. Not just cause it shows Mabel trying to help out someone per her kind nature, rather than the other option in the book for the dragon (being medieval battle, lol), but also due to the fact it can also be seen as a small reference to the fact that Mabel's inspiration, Ariel Hirsch (Alex Hirsch's twin sister), is in real life, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.

And in the story, some of what we hear the dragon talking to Mabel about are things like his family and life issues. It gives one an interesting thing to look into regarding Mabel and how maybe, becoming a therapist is a path she may go down, just like her IRL inspiration (kinda like how Dipper in the show mentioned he wants to make his own TV show, like Alex did). And while yeah, Time Pirates is not a canon book, it is still wholesome to consider. And now, we have kinda seen hints of that in stuff that is, like recently in The Book of Bill when Mabel mentions how she has Waddles sorta play her own therapist with who she talks out her problems with.

In the midst of all else we learn in the book, it's a bit of a small and forgotten detail but one when looked at this way, is rather telling IMO. Add on the hints at their parents marriage issues and similarities that shows with Alex and Ariel Hirsch's life we have heard from them about, and I honestly feel pretty strongly about the fact Mabel may grow up to be therapist, perhaps like Ariel, in the family and marriage field.

It's kinda interesting. For years, so many of us when headcanoning Mabel's future ambitions, look at stuff like her being an artist or maybe something similar, given it sorta seems about what you'd think she'd pursue (and I mean, the amount of headcanons and Gravity Falls AUs out there where Mabel is an artist when she's grown up, really show how prevalent the belief is). And while yeah, like all headcanons, it's just that and as valid to be true or not as any of those other ones are, I think all things considered, it's a rather wholesome and pretty Mabel outcome for her to pursue.

She's always got the best intentions at heart no matter what and wants people to be happy and comfortable with who they are. And as she gets older, she more than likely would be the type of person who'd wanna pursue that as a life ambition and career and see being a therapist as one way to achieve that. Maybe I'm thinking too much into it, but I can't lie, therapist Mabel sounds pretty interesting. It's not the usual Mabel headcanon that fans come up with...but maybe it's the start of something.

But...here is a thought...

The portal is 30 years old when it's finally reopened, as well as all the computers and technical machines. Stan still would have had to work on all that through the years to keep it operational, which was very likely a pain at first even with the notes. And without us as the viewers knowing whether or not Ford still had the diagram layouts of how the computers/machines linked to running the portal were built. Cause there's a good chance he did something with those since the only instructions he had left to get rid of were for the Portal's operation specifically (the journals). So there was a high chance that while he may not have had to completely replace anything on the portal itself, he probably had to replace parts in the computers and machinery hooked to the portal.

Anyhow, that's just my initial thought about it. He definitely didn't have to reconstruct the portal, be he probably had to redo a lot of the computer systems which he more than likely knew nothing about how to fix.