I love shipping characters who hate each other in canon.
I love shipping characters who have had exactly one (1) conversation in canon.
I love shipping characters who have never met in canon.
I love shipping characters from different pieces of media.
It starts off silly. The notion of the pairing is so weird, so unexpected and seemingly dumb that it makes me laugh a little, perk up, look into it and see if this is really a thing.
And then it becomes a joke. Haha, look at this ship I’m shipping ironically, isn’t it silly, it would obviously never work out in canon but I’m looking at it and producing content for it anyway because it’s fun.
But as time goes on, it starts filling my feed. I start thinking about it - really thinking about it. Why did someone put these characters together in the first place? How would they really interact? How did they end up together, and why would they stay together?
What started out as a joke becomes a diving-off point, an opportunity to really think about both characters. The dynamic isn’t canon, so it’s yours to shape. The dynamic isn’t canon, so now you must delve into each character on your own, figure out how you perceive and understand both of them, learn to see them in a different light. What started out as a joke encourages you to dig deeper, think harder, fall even more in love with those characters as you consider the potentials which lie outside of canon, but which ultimately trace their roots through the core of the characters themselves.
Because by their very nature, crackships and rarepairs are not based on plot, and they are not based on canon. They are so seemingly random and odd that they disrupt your typical view of these characters, making you think more deeply about them. The non-canon ships you embrace or reject can inform your perception of these characters on a deep level. They can make you cry just as easily as they make you laugh. They add so much flavor.
And they can also be really, really funny.
My magnum opus and introduction to the Flatland fandom
Mas joto que un club de gaes no mames
Bonus thing. I have a college to do but also the funnies is more important clearly
Nunca lo había pensando para ellos, pero creo que tiene sentido(?) Uno de los creadores dijo que había pensando la canción como desamor
"Enamorado tuyo" (In love with you) by Uruguayan band, Cuarteto de Nos, is such a stancest song, and it could very well be sung to each other when trying to get over their relationship, in denial that they love each other.
"And if you think I'm in love with you, that's an invention, I intuit, don't give credit to murmurs." This part is self-explanatory: they have always been known to have each other's back, and suddenly, it's not the case. Nobody believes they stopped caring for one another.
"Because I rarely call to tell you I love you, and more than once, I've done it to the wrong number" This represents the need that they have to contact one another but won't out of pride; Stanley's call that he hanged up despite desperately needing his brother, as well as Ford saving Stanley's scam number; the final straw between him and Bill when the demon called Stanley to tell him he was going to kill himself and remark he "never loved him." Ford was angry for a reason, Bill lied.
Also, the "and more than once I've done it to the wrong number" is them convincing themselves they love other people instead of their twin. Stanley's failed marriage and Ford's "Muse."
"Rarely is the time I get desperate to have you by my side, and that doesn't mean it has a meaning." This one is entirely on Ford being the worst person ever. At his lowest point, the only person who comes to mind who he can trust is Stanley, and once he is there, he only asks him to get away instead of embracing him. Stanley's clearly not the case. He misses Ford every single day of his life, but he can hide it from others.
"If you think love is what I feel, please, don't make a fuss. Don't tell your people about our issue. " This adds to Ford's paranoia and secretive nature. He wants all the details about his private life to be private.
"Don't dress up. Don't pretend you are never seen. I have envisioned singing you 《see you later.》 Don't dress up. Don't pretend you are never seen; I have a song that says, 《See you, lady》" This is Stanley after bringing Ford back and seeing how his brother just pushes him. He wants to pretend he is stronger than that, and he would part ways at any moment despite not wanting to.
"I rarely see your picture on my cellphone. It is still there because I'm too lazy to press *delete.*" This is the holding onto pictures and objects that remind them of each other. Especially Ford, who has a picture of them as kids in his coat, which was always in his pocket.
"I'm not that obsessed, to clarify, if you think that's why I sing this song." This is just them reiterating their denial.
Overall, I already love this song and find it so fitting, even if we make it not incestuous, it would still remark their relationship.
Also, because the Latin American dub was made in Argentina (which is next to Uruguay and very culturally alike) it's easy for me to envision them singing this song and fitting them so much.
Fanart for one of my favorite bits from @littlelilliana15‘s fic right here!
I’m a sucker for a protective Ford and an even bigger sucker for Stan getting some hurt/comfort. I highly recommend giving it a read!
yatta my first teen stancest
Would anybody be willing to rec me some stancest fics? Can be explicit or not but really what I need is cute fluff and happiness. Mood has been real bad lately and I need a little break from the angst (unless you have one that is so top tier I should read it later on when I feel better)
In the Stancest discord I promised someone (I don't remember who, this was weeks ago) that I would write a fic about that stupid coffee commercial staring our favorite idiots! So, I did that and it almost killed me, but here it is! Happy holidays!
On a random Winter's night in 1978–parked at a shopping center in some dead end town in New Mexico—Stanley stares at the holiday lights strung around the window of a vacuum shop and thinks about Christmas. He doesn't know why it makes him so miserable.
Relationship: Stancest
this is just a little something i wrote the other day while i was stuck at work during a snowstorm while no one else was there, so there's nothing of particular substance here but i had this visual stuck in my mind that i liked a lot. Merry Christmas, have some miserable stangst! ^_^
smooches thru the years
STANLEY PINES IS IN LOVE WITH FORD PINES HE WOULD RISK THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE FOR HIM AND YOURE TELLING ME THATS NOT ROMANTIC SHUT UP
I find it incredibly hilarious that there's so much ship discourse in the gravity falls fandom regarding more controversial ships with people arguing shit like "alex hirsch would hate you" meanwhile-
He does not give 2 shits about any shipping discourse, like these are literally his responses to getting asked questions like this, please stop dragging him into this