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Introducing: Dipper Pines, Young Adult

Now a young man, he’s currently a permanent resident at Gravity Falls, living with his Grunkles on the Stan-O-War II docked at the lake. (The Sooslets are ever-growing and the Pines insist Soos and Melody need the Mystery Shack’s space. And how did they transport such a huge boat into a lake inland? Just ask McGuckett)

This stage of his life can be summed up like this:

Ask Dipper to steal Baba Yaga’s flying mortar, rip out the back hair of a raging alpha werewolf, or drink the brain water out of a Kappa’s head — He’ll do all of that back-to-back, with no hesitation, and come out unscathed.

i’m like “you can totally go downstairs, but just so you know, right now the only thing down there is the genealogy department. that’s like the history of this area and the people who lived here a long time ago.”

i’m expecting them to lose interest, but to my surprise, they go “we want to see the genealogy department!!!!!!”

so i’m like “alright let’s do it!!!!” and lead this group of maybe six elementary school kids across the library make way for ducklings style and downstairs to our extremely not kid friendly genealogy room. our genealogy librarian is super cool, though, and he pulls out a few interesting things for them to look at & they ask a lot of questions and try to find where they live on maps from the 1800s

after about fifteen minutes, their curiosity has been sated, so we go back upstairs and over to the children’s department in that same duckling parade style

It's about kids learning that they can go where they want to go, it's about kids seeing what the world (library) has to offer and expanding the range of options in their minds