#oh wait!

He makes sure he’s keeping up with what Wendy, Soos, Fiddleford, and the townsfolk are up to so that he can relay it to Dipper and Mabel, which has the (unexpected for Ford but unsurprising to anyone else) side effect of Ford gaining his own network of companions. If the kids are having trouble with their homework he does his best to help, but if it’s some subject he’s not versed in he’s quick to go to his college yearbook and find the name of someone he knew who majored in that field and tells Dipper and Mabel to look them up on the internet because “I hear you can do that now. You can find anyone but Stanley and D.B. Cooper. That’s because your uncle is technically dead and last I saw D.B. Cooper was in the Alibi Dimension.” Dipper reaches out to the alumni sometimes. He becomes sort of pen pals with this old guy who got his film degree at Backupsmore in his forties. The guy’s older than Ford, still works as a professor, and is thrilled to talk with a young, excitable student like Dipper. Mabel reaches out to ANYONE with fashion, dance, music, or any other liberal arts degree. She’s got about 400 LinkedIn connections and a lot of invitations to some family potlucks.

Sometimes even if Ford knows the answers, he still asks Fiddleford to help. It makes Ford happy to visit his friend and hear him proudly explain something that he helped Dipper solve over the phone. Ford tries so hard not to think of a world where this conversation is different, where Fiddleford has clearer eyes and is telling him all about how proud he is watching his Tate grow up.

“No use dwellin’” Fiddleford would say. “Not while we got years ahead.”

And Ford would say “Alright.” And after catching up with his old friend he would excuse himself because it was Friday and the kids would each be expecting a call. He would walk back home and scroll through his phone looking for the kids’ numbers, marveling at how long his contact list has become. How odd, to have lived in a town so long and only now be discovering the people. Oh well. No use dwellin’. Besides, Gravity Falls was full of odd things.

I don’t personally feel the need to go with a particular headcanon, but I for sure know that I believe they are trans. JAX I WILL MAKE YOUR EGG CRACK NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES.

we have our own headcanons about what that video means for dalek as one contiguous "character" (if such a thing can exist) alongside which other videos might be able to form some sort of nebulous "canon" but it's really all conjecture. (here's that playlist though)

in conclusion: guy of all time, video of all time, what the fuck slash glad you enjoyed!

~@betweenlands

this is evil. He doesn't even have the mod pack anymore according to the comments. He's making me sick

I went in imagining something good but he really went "maybe if I'd made a different choice, I could have seen the light again" [paraphrased]and then never elaborates. We know loosely what caused all of this [rift] but he doesn't go through it, why did the crystals grow on his base, what happened! Why are you dead?? Why is the light permanently gone, what's through the portal, what was the last irl scene (was it significant? Just for fun?),,,,

But like. The lack of context is so good! Obviously knowing would be fun, but he really says "okay I'm done now you guess what happened :)" and boy am I guessing!

The medium also implies that this was written as some sort of journal (or video journal? Unknown) and therefore day 50 was the last entry, so theoretically day 51 was where he died, either to the crystals(?), the rift, or the monsters (unlikely this late), or maybe he just went fully off the deep end and gave up on keeping track of things? Or maybe the sight/aura of the crystals themselves was the problem, hence why it crashed? I suppose the crash implies the corruption of the world due to the crystals more than an actual death?

But like. Main questions are still about the ending obviously, but also the redacted word he was giving as a goal (if it was a journal, this was implying he wrote it down and later removed it I think? Whereas if it wasn't, then the in-world explanation would be that something about it was inherently unhearable), what's through the rift I suppose, etc

And then we'll meet again is a creepy type song but more than that, when he says something about the rift and what's on the other side, I swear he mentioned someone else (or something was redacted. Or someone else spoke. I can't quite remember, just that I thought there must be Some*one* on the other side, not just something), so like. Is he meeting someone else again, or perhaps he'll meet [the viewer] again, leading back to the sequel idea, but also immensely adding to the Lost Media vibes

I met this character less than a day ago but he's already making me ill. The way it starts from the very beginning saying there will be a descent [into madness], and yet it was all framed such that you really can't blame him, and for a long time it all feels so rational, grounded in horror, sure, but also understandable. He starves like anyone else, is scared like anyone else-and maybe its less a testament to his mental fortitude and more to the setting that he acts Strange. The way, the moment you feel like he's totally safe (his armor is good, nothing has taken more than a few hearts off in a while, etc), he comes in and says. Well actually it ends here. Once I as a viewer got complacent, he just dies (or maybe not just like that, it's an open ending), I'm chewing on this so hard rn

Truly a guy of all time. And he has other videos. Ough