Happy Peppy Geologist

Happy birthday! Brother!

wooh! happy birthday to the stan twins!

close up under cut

Aww they're turning one!

mandatory report to the watchful eye

[ID. Above, a color illustration of Stan and Ford Pines on the Stan o' War II, under a colorful dawn sky. Stan is fishing, and Ford is taking notes. Both are wearing fishing hats with their names on them, made by Stan. End ID.]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Stan and Ford!

And it's the 14th anniversary of the Gravity Falls premiere!

Fiona is married so it's time to reunite with her parents. But instead of marrying a prince, she's married to an ogre. Not just that, but she's also an ogre. (Yes everyone knew she would sometimes be an ogre but that was when she was a child, she didn't know she would be an ogre for the rest of her life, and besides once she met the right prince she would stop being an ogre. She was supposed to stop being an ogre.)

But okay they're both ogres. We can still ask about when they'll have children because even if they're ogres they can still have kids, right? That's what married princes and princesses do so naturally that's what everyone does. Even if ogres might not be great parents (I've heard that ogres eat their young, is that something you people do?) it's still something that should be discussed.

And okay you can stay in Fiona's childhood bedroom filled with all the reminders that hey, everyone thought she was just a princess and princesses marry princes. Her toys left out from the last time she played with them. The prince slays the ogre. The princess offers a token of gratitude for slaying the ogre. Fiona wrote Mrs. Fiona Charming a million times in her diary because what else was she supposed to grow up to be?

And Harold you have to fix this, your country can't be ruled by ogres. You were unfit to rule when you were a frog but I changed you, I made you better, I made you a prince. You know how this works. Think of your daughter's safety.

Okay so in the above quote, Alex Hirsch is talking about Bill and Ford, using Daisy as a placeholder for Bill, and Gatsby as a placeholder for Ford. And I'm going insane.

It's so backwards, to refer to Bill's violent and superficial partying life style, the pedestal he's carved for himself ruling over the Nightmare Realm as a self-proclaimed god of chaos, as safety, and in the same breath refer to Ford as representative of chaos.

And isn't that so Bill?

Of course Bill would look at the chaos and isolation he's surrounded himself with and think I'm safe. Nothing can hurt me, nothing can catch up to me here.

And then he looks at Ford, this adoration, companionship, love being offered to him, the closest bond he's had with anyone in insurmountable years and thinks, this is chaos. It's unstable, it's unsafe, it's too much.

Do you think that's why Bill was so quick to fess up about the portal, when Ford finally questions it a step away from the finish line?

Thank god, right? No more playing Muse, no more waiting for the other shoe to drop, Ford's finally noticed the boat is sinking. So Bill jumps ship first, because he's used to it, and he thinks because it's familiar it's safe.

Compilation of Digimon drawn in the style of Medieval manuscripts -- a digital bestiary if you will! Maybe I'll come back to this project again.