forever headcanon that ford’s in charge of the gravity falls nature census post-canon. counting all the animals and anomalies and assessing the health of them all and such
it’s like. a job no one else has ever had. cause why would anyone be in gravity falls doing that.
it was just something he did back before everything went to hell, and he started doing it again after because it was suggested to him that it could help him feel better, less stressed. he fell into the habit again. eventually, with his permission, mabel or stan or maybe both brought it up to actual gravity falls officials and they realized that oh wow this information is actually really good to know
so ford still does it for himself and his way, but now all the notes he takes for the census also get copied and sent to the folks in charge in gravity falls. It’s a semi annual thing, so he just does it every now and then during breaks in sailing, when the stans come home and chill












