Hi, so in case you can't tell my ever-so-creative blog name, this blog is dedicated to Gravity Falls and other related stuff! :) This includes all the other cartoons I'm into (Wander Over Yonder, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Wordgirl, Animaniacs and other shows that I'm probably forgetting) Please note that you are on my Wordpress site, and everything I post is imported from tumblr, so if something has transfered strangle, that's why. Reblogged posts (which are not mine!) will have giant quotation marks in front of the text, along with the username of original tumblr user who posted it in red text.
You know, I really love the concept of the Blind Eye Society. If you think about it, it’s a clever (if not disturbing) explanation for the attitude of everyone who lives in Gravity Falls.
The citizens aren’t dense. They aren’t oblivious to the supernatural or the paranormal around them on the basis that they are cartoon characters. They aren’t acting the way they do because they’re non-essential background pieces added in for a joke when the time calls for it.
They were forced to become what they are by the blind eye society; their minds tampered and damaged against their will.
It reminds me of what Grunkle Stan said in the “Dipper’s Guide to the Unexplained: The Hide Behind”. He stated that “the people in Gravity Falls are literally the dumbest people in the world. Literally.” At first I thought it was a funny joke from a disgruntled old man, but when you take this into account after we’ve seen what the Blind Eye Society has done to them, it’s tragic, because these people probably weren’t always this way. And they may never be the same again.
TL;DR: The background characters are not ignorant because they are background characters, they are ignorant because they were forced to be.
In Gravity Falls: Journal 3, Ford mentions that, in his travels, he came across a dimension where everyone is a baby.
A drawing of what the dimension looked like features a baby Dipper, a baby Mabel, and a baby Stan wearing his Mr. Mystery suit, with no Ford in sight.
This heavily suggests that, in this dimension where everyone is a baby, Ford also fell through the portal. Which means that, not only did Bill trick a baby into doing his bidding, but that baby was then sucked into the nightmare realm.
Not only that, but the fact that our Ford was able to enter the dimension suggests that there is an open portal in it, which is a whole nother can of worms.
Anyway, I know this was just a stupid joke in the Journal but I felt like it has a lot of implications that need to be talked about.
In Gravity Falls: Journal 3, Ford mentions that, in his travels, he came across a dimension where everyone is a baby.
A drawing of what the dimension looked like features a baby Dipper, a baby Mabel, and a baby Stan wearing his Mr. Mystery suit, with no Ford in sight.
This heavily suggests that, in this dimension where everyone is a baby, Ford also fell through the portal. Which means that, not only did Bill trick a baby into doing his bidding, but that baby was then sucked into the nightmare realm.
Not only that, but the fact that our Ford was able to enter the dimension suggests that there is an open portal in it, which is a whole nother can of worms.
Anyway, I know this was just a stupid joke in the Journal but I felt like it has a lot of implications that need to be talked about.
“How many fingers, Stanley?” “Six.” “No, no– how many am I holding up?” “Aw, why you hasslin’ me, Poindexter? S’like I told’ja already. Six.” “Oooooh that’sprobablynotgood.”
Gravity Falls and Other Related Stuff 