Hot Take Apparently:

Stanley is an absolute asshole and that's one of my favorite parts about him. Like yeah we can talk about his hidden heart of gold and whatnot, how he subtly shows his care for the kids and for his brother, but, like. He's still an asshole.

He has beef with multiple children! (Gideon and Pacifica, at the very least). And he has a reason--- defending his family--- but it's still beef with children! He regularly scams travelers out large amounts of money! He doesn't pay his employees! He insults people to their face! Even if he's doing it out of projection love, he still gives Dipper the short end of the stick, like, all the time. He opens a potentially world-ending portal just to get back his brother--- that's an asshole thing to do!

And this isn't a critique of Stan at all. But his churlish asshole nature is a beautiful part of him that makes him a really fun character. Being a good character doesn't = being a nice character. I'd even argue him becoming nicer isn't--- shouldn't be--- a requirement for his character development post canon. This is a guy who's yelling at other boaters over the radio. This is a guy who undoes your boat's drain plug 'cause you insulted his brother. Stan's a rude, penny-pinching curmudgeon that his family insists is nice deep down because he is--- to them. He don't give a shit about anyone else!

Let Stan be mean, dammit. He deserves it.

EVERYONE RAAAH.

Okay, OKAY.

Everyone is all on the transmasc Dipper train, right?

OKAY.

Transfem Mabel.

STOP. LISTEN.

They SWITCH. Switch names, switch identities, etc.

Mabel and Mason play the flip flop game to trick their parents. They’re identical so it’s easy.

I’m real deep in this trans-ing everyone’s gender now. I’m American so I gotta live out my dream of everything going well for trans people in fantasy format. 🥲👍

I just love the idea of trans Mabel and Trans Dipper switching everything and living the life they wanna live through cooperation from each other. They’re each others biggest supporter.

#hazbin criticism

Homura Akemi is a better example of a character who's arc centers her love interest

Warning! Madoka Magica spoilers!

Homura’s entire arc, her motivations, it all centers around Madoka, just like how that’s how it is for Vaggie.

However, Homura actually has a versatility of emotions. We also know her relationships with other characters and how she feels about them. We also know the full extent to what she’d do for Madoka. We’ve seen her do horrible things for the sake of Madoka, even having to kill her in one timeline to save her. We see her go through change, from a shy, unconfident transfer student, to a cold, calculating warrior. We see how her love for Madoka affects her, even in some of the worst, most painful ways possible and turns into an obsession.

Vaggie though? She’s.. mean, she’s.. loyal. She loves Charlie. What’s her relationships like with the other characters? Idk, she doesn’t seem to like them though. She only wants to support Charlie’s dreams. Why? Idk, don’t ask. We don’t see a change from her being an exorcist to her now. She has nothing going for her but Charlie. And that’s treated as a VIRTUE.

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Idea: Talia's has an irl friend group in Ukraine mirrors the Choir VERY closely. It's be so funny. And yes none of them believe Mischa is real

As Gravity Falls reenters the void, and the inevitably of fanfiction begins to recirculate, there is a comment I fear I must send out to the general public.

As a trans man who gets, like, -1 representation in shows that aren’t explicitly about queer people, I often will latch onto characters that inexplicably have The Trans (TM) written into their bones, which includes Dipper Pines. And, as one might expect, I turn to my silly little A03 account to get my fix of representation and enjoyment of many a trans dilemma. Unfortunately, this is where my qualms get given the spotlight.

This is a generalization, but it seems as though every single godforsaken fic about trans!Dipper (I see this in the Spider-Man fandom a lot too, but that’s a conversation for a different day) he loses all his unhingedness, all his insanity, and is boiled down to a weak and sad little uwu trans boy who can’t handle his own dysphoria and falls apart at every slight inconvenience?

You’re telling me DIPPER, the same man who got called weak one (1) time and then disappeared into the woods for a solid 12 hours and came back half naked and rambling about positive vs toxic masculinity and manotaurs, is going to get misgendered and fall completely and utterly apart? You seriously think he’s going to have a run in with somebody who tries to bully him for being trans and he isn’t going to read them to filth? Are we forgetting that this is the same man who spent a whole episode learning about how to live and let live and then STILL told Pacifica her family was a sham with the mic-drop line of “deal with it”?????

Like good lord, please give this man some credit. I’m not saying he can’t have panic attacks, or trauma, or be treated differently by certain people, but it is the year of our lord and savior 2024 and we are STILL infantilizing trans men in fanon versions of media???

All I’m saying is if Mabel gets to keep her unhinged characteristics, you gotta let Dipper keep his too. Let Dipper punch a transphobe, as a treat.

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*grabs your hands and speaks to you in a tone that is so gentle* they/them pronouns stop being universal once you learn a person's pronouns. Sometimes that person's pronouns will include they/them and in that specific case you are allowed to keep using those pronouns for that person. In any case where you learn a persons pronouns and that person doesn't use they/them, you should no longer use those pronouns for that person. If you continue to use they/them pronouns knowing that person doesn't use them, you are now misgendering that person. Kindly stop doing that please. Thank you, I love you.

"Maybe it will be as hard as I think. Maybe I won't be able to do it" I say, using reverse psychology on fate