I Hc That Stan And Ford Are One Of Those Old Couples That Can Dance So Well A Crowd Forms Around Them

Figured id reblog directly onto this post since its the one that inspired me to draw this

now i can't stop thinking about how Stan wrote a whole 'fan-novel' titled the Duke's Temptations.

going on definitions, a Duchess is usually appointed her title by being a wife wife/widow of a Duke or titled by a Queen from being in a royal family. a Duke being, a man of nobility either appointed or inherited as well in the same way. [side note, their greeted as Your Grace]

Stan writes self-insert fanfics with himself and the Duchess in a heated affair, also allegedly writing a fan novel about the Duke being Ford from context clues (see AH's audio & connected post here).

i would like to assume the novel is about the Duke being tempted into an affair with Stan's stablehand self-insert. from a definition standpoint, i'm also lead to believe that in the Duke's Temptations that the Duchess is married to the Duke (otherwise they could be related but I think unlikely for that era's context).

so. what i'm trying to point out is. Stan wrote a fantasy of not being related to his twin brother and then being intimate with a characterized version of him.

which is an objectively incestuous obsessive thing for him to do as a hobby before he opened the portal.

Well Stanley did get voted Tumblr sexyman on weed Easter sooo... Stanley being the Easter bunny for his babies while Ford laugh at him in the background?

they dont know but their pa is not only the easter bunny but also the most sexy man ever ✨ a little extra below 👇

Is it still ok posting easter stuff....

me: so, I told my boyfriend I ship stancest and honestly he took it better than expected. he just bullied me a little bit.

friend: that's mean...

me: okay yeah well I did just admit to shipping incest so I feel it was warranted.

Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying

I don't want to be (too much of) an asshole but the whole "I shouldn't have to explain this isn't Stancest" to me is so sad... And frustrating. I genuinely want to ask these people to take a walk with me and show them their own work... Show them the way the characters lounge on one another, how they sleep cuddled together and live in the same house and kiss each other on the cheek and forehead and hold each other in bed... And then ask them "Would you sleep with YOUR sibling like this?"

Genuinely. Would YOU, the artist, sleep with YOUR SIBLING like this? Look. I wish we lived in a big beautiful world where anyone can cuddle with anyone and it doesn't have to mean anything, but we don't LIVE in that world. There is such a thing as couple codding, and the way that the twins get drawn draped over each other, placing their hands on each other's pecks etc etc... This is COUPLE language. Put ANY OTHER CHARACTERS THAT ARE NOT SIBLINGS in this situation and then look me in the eye and tell me that they are not a couple. Stancest does not have to involve SEX if you do not want it to- queer platonic couples are a THING. What you are drawing are queer platonic Stancest. The worst part is there are a lot of artist who draw QPR or nonsexual stancest, who embrace the term without feeling drawn to the sexual side. And I don't want to be like "Back in my day shit was better", but back in my day there wasn't this same violent hatred there was, and people were a bit more ready to be open about liking it. If you look at old Stancest art from when the show was still airing, you'd find pieces with a LOT more attention then they'd ever get now, and I don't think it's just because of lesser audience. I think the GravFalls fandom is thriving. I just think that fandom is so much more widespread and therefore so much more policed then it used to be. Anyway. It sucks, there's no fixing this, but I'm glad the Stancest fandom has gotten a little laugh out of it. But also maybe don't harass people, all right?

Running off like 40 minutes of sleep and an unhealthy amount of caffeine so this is Obviously the perfect time for transmasc!Ford with nsfw Stancest!

- “Caryn I cannot believe you named our daughter after a car.” “Filbrick, hush, her name is lovely, besides look at our son! He’s just not a Stanford somehow.”

- “Stop roughhousing you two! I know you two are having fun but Stanley, you do NOT hit girls. Cortina, ladies do not punch.”

- Ford, who never got told “stop crying out I’ll give you something to cry about” And if crying can get Filbrick to stop yelling or get Stanley out of trouble bc “he was just protecting me they were being so mean!” then that’s normal girls just cry sometimes.

-Stan, who is allowed to be close and protective about Ford and still manages to push those boundaries as far as they’ll go.

-“Stanley, what kind of brother are you to let your sister get beat up!”

-Ford never got sent to learn boxing but raptly watches Stan’s muscles flex from the bleachers

-Stan and Ford still share a room bc there just isn’t enough space (and they start fooling around after puberty)

-Stan fingering Ford’s pussy and calling him babygirl and learning how to dirty talk by what kind of praise and adoration makes Ford react the best

- Ford who still never learned social graces (that would require reading the hidden undercurrent of seemingly every conversation) and this translates to the universal autism experience of his peers thinking he’s the Manic Pixie Dream Girl of their dreams

-Ford’s guard dog of a brother scaring off suitors and bullies alike

-Ford, who doesn’t quite want to be a man but as far as he knows the only other option is to be a woman and Nope Absolutely Not

-Women are supposed to be interested in men and Ford has no interest. Stan doesn’t count, that’s Stan.

-“You’re my brother now? Ok, Ford. If it makes you happy it makes me happy.”

-Stan not even questioning it but asking whether this means Ford doesn’t want to be together anymore (Bc incest is ok I guess but gay incest is questionable?)

-“so do you want me to call your… uh. Stuff something different?” “No! I like it

-Ford asking Stan to teach him how to fight

-Ford trying to use chemistry to make a gradual voice changing solution but accidentally making Potion of Instant Baritone and freaking out about how their parents will react

-Freaking out and crying about how Stan might react and Stan is more concerned that Ford might be hurt but as soon as he realizes he’s 100% on board and just asks what kind of story he needs to help spin.

-and it’s part of what drives them apart

-Men aren’t coddled and protected by their brother

-Men pull themselves up by their boots and make a name for themselves

-Men don’t cry when they’re overstimulated or scared

-If Stan sabotaged him then does he see Ford the way men see women? Property he can control?

Bonus! Trans!Stan

-It’s not that he doesn’t like his dick but sometimes he wishes he had a pretty pussy like Ford’s too. The idea looks right (and he can give himself to Ford entirely)

-But women don’t enjoy having broad shoulders and a punch that can lay out a grown man

-Women don’t have hair absolutely everywhere and a voice like gravel

-After being kicked out and the things he’d had to do, if he was a woman he’d be the kind their parents always called “trash” and “fast” and crossed the street when they saw so he just wasn’t

-At heart he’s still Ford’s loyal dog above anything. A woman obviously can’t be that

Dumb stancest memes I made :3

What does your fem!stan look like? Sorry, i just realized you rarely describe how she looks and im dying to know how you imagine her 💜

True, I don’t! I’m flattered by your enthusiasm! 🩷

I imagine any fem!Stan as a... femme, so to speak. That’s because I see canon Stan’s over-the-top, exaggerated masculinity as largely performative; he wants to please Filbrick, to be a “manly man,” tough and aggressive, because that’s how his father and society (especially in his formative years) thought that all men should be. Fem!Stan, then, to me, would fall straight into the opposite category: she would start to perform hyperfemininity, instead! That’s what would please her father the most, imo, her most useful mask. So, in this way, both Stan and fem!Stan are trying to fit their assigned gender roles the best they can, even if they sometimes (utterly) fail.

I imagine that baby fem!Stan started as tomboyish, but with time, as she grew up, started getting more and more feminine. I headcanon she did theater classes instead of boxing classes (because again, her dad believes 100% in gender roles), and as a result she’s less aggressive and more genuinely charismatic than her canon counterpart. I picture her with long, slightly wavy brown hair, big brown eyes, very curvy and plump, and girly clothing. She has acne too, but she covers it up with makeup.

I have also written a fic in which both Stans are girls, called Queens of New Jersey, here. In QNJ, their physical appearance is a little more described, and my descriptions of fem!Stan’s (Melanie) can easily be applied to my fem!Stan (Stefanie) in the AU where Ford is still a man.

For context, my fem!Stan in QNJ is called Melanie, nickname Mel. My fem!Ford is called Melinda, nickname Linda. All the excerpts below are from Linda’s POV.

Baby fem!Stan (the tomboy):

Unlike Linda, who took secret pride in her long twin-braided hair, Mel could actually be mistaken by a boy if not for the too delicate facial features and high-pitched voice, not to mention the most recent development Linda was trying very hard not to think about. Her short curly hair, the fact she only ever wore pants or shorts and dirty sneakers, and her brash, bold as brass behavior were all indicative of her endearing (in Linda’s admittedly, shamelessly biased opinion) boyish character.

Her small, slender arms concealed a physical strength Linda wished would be useful against their bullies. It wasn’t, of course, since their tormentors were mostly girls and everyone knew girls—well-bred girls—didn’t beat each other up, but it never failed to impress her. Mel was a rowdy little tomboy, no doubt about it, and as such would always look the part.

Teen fem!Stan (hyperfeminine):

Sometimes she missed the old Melanie.

The little girl who didn’t care for skirts and make-up, all dirty nails and scraped knees, popsicle juice dribbling messily down her chin. A missing tooth instead of lipsticked lips, a bandage on her cheek instead of soft pinkish blush. She had been oh so much easier to understand, effortlessly in sync with Linda as twins should always be.

This Melanie was a new creature entirely. Even after almost two years, Linda still couldn’t get used to its strange habits.

[...]

She cursed the day their father had decided to offer them—more accurately, force them to attend—theater classes. The day Mel had finally understood that the way to please their father was to embrace gender roles instead of run from them, leaving Linda behind in the androgynous limbo of reason and science.

[...]

The shop had been short of options for curvy girls and Mel had been forced to rent it a size smaller, a knee-length puffy dress which made her look even more—ah, shit—cute. Very sweet, adorable even. Yes. Exactly. Plump like a ripe peach—no. Not like—not like something that could be eaten—

Like a flower. A flower not yet fully bloomed, shaped round and voluminous, the softness of its petals still encased in a bud—shielding an even greater, hidden beauty—

Heavens above, Melanie was all softness.

[...]

Linda didn’t understand much of fashion, but she understood just enough of what she saw. The dress was incredibly… form fitting, just as she remembered it being, hugging her sister’s curves like a possessive lover. There was an abundance of flesh to cover, ever since Mel’s body had developed—simple biology, of course, it was only natural—grown cushioned and womanly like a Renaissance muse.

The cleavage was a tad too generous for Linda’s taste, revealing far more of the smooth, creamy skin of the chest than she would have been comfortable with. They were squished by the bodice, and already quite large, which—

Focus.

It was a flattering outfit, perhaps all the more due to its smaller size. Objectively so. She was certain any man—any person with eyes would agree.

[...]

Linda couldn’t comprehend why she felt so irritated, for lack of a better word.

Perhaps it was the contrast between her own body and Mel’s, how overly feminine her sister’s hourglass figure looked covered in pink, of all colors. Perhaps it was the perfectly coiffed brown curls, framing her sister’s face in a highlight of her best features.

[...]

Because, even though Linda was not stronger than Mel, her hand almost dwarfed the perfect curve of Mel’s waist, the slight narrowing created by her wide, feminine hips in her delicate, feminine form.

“Actually ao3 shouldn’t allow-“ GO BACK TO WATTPAAAAAAADDDDDDD

I love Grunkle Stan