I Don't Want To Be (too Much Of) An Asshole But The Whole "I Shouldn't Have To Explain This Isn't Stancest"

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?

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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

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