viridianrebooted:

gregwhite:

It’s been just over three months and we’ve already got the first three scripts finished, with a bunch more close to completion. I think we’re putting out some great work and everyone involved is talented and lovely. The goal is to maintain the spirit of the original but to make it exist for today (or 2020 as it were). 

The sibling and Pinky segments in particular I think feel like great nods to the original series, and with the sibling segments in particular, the spirit of anarchy remains strong. I think the visual aspect of the show will reflect this as well: the character designs are very similar, but with just a little cleaning up to reflect the present era.  

We have the benefit in 2018 of having seen this amazing Renaissance of sketch comedy (Key and Peele, Portlandia) and an entire universe of weird, cool, smart animation, so the trick is doing something that takes advantage of our vantage point while making something that is still recognizably Animaniacs. I don’t look at our series as a reboot as much as I do a continuation. I hope people like it and find joy in watching it. 

I’m certain there will be people who love this new version and I’m equally certain that there will be people who hate it with a passion simply because it exists at all.

I don’t know what to say to this latter group, but I can say that all the writers are doing great work and that everyone involved–from Amblin to Warners to Hulu to the entire production staff–cares deeply about getting this right. A lot of us grew up watching the original series and so we’re not just cavalierly storming in and drastically changing things because we can. We’re making Animaniacs for sure, and we’re making it for our adult selves as well as future generations who haven’t seen the original as well as everyone in between who loved what the original stood for. 

Animation production begins very soon and then we’ll really be off to the races.  

I know you can’t give details so i won’t ask for any, but please just answer me this: do the siblings like each other? My biggest fear is that they’ll barely tolerate each other like the family in Family Guy, and that Dot in particular will become the Meg. 

Reblogging because I would like to know too

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viridianrebooted:

gregwhite:

It’s been just over three months and we’ve already got the first three scripts finished, with a bunch more close to completion. I think we’re putting out some great work and everyone involved is talented and lovely. The goal is to maintain the spirit of the original but to make it exist for today (or 2020 as it were). 

The sibling and Pinky segments in particular I think feel like great nods to the original series, and with the sibling segments in particular, the spirit of anarchy remains strong. I think the visual aspect of the show will reflect this as well: the character designs are very similar, but with just a little cleaning up to reflect the present era.  

We have the benefit in 2018 of having seen this amazing Renaissance of sketch comedy (Key and Peele, Portlandia) and an entire universe of weird, cool, smart animation, so the trick is doing something that takes advantage of our vantage point while making something that is still recognizably Animaniacs. I don’t look at our series as a reboot as much as I do a continuation. I hope people like it and find joy in watching it. 

I’m certain there will be people who love this new version and I’m equally certain that there will be people who hate it with a passion simply because it exists at all.

I don’t know what to say to this latter group, but I can say that all the writers are doing great work and that everyone involved–from Amblin to Warners to Hulu to the entire production staff–cares deeply about getting this right. A lot of us grew up watching the original series and so we’re not just cavalierly storming in and drastically changing things because we can. We’re making Animaniacs for sure, and we’re making it for our adult selves as well as future generations who haven’t seen the original as well as everyone in between who loved what the original stood for. 

Animation production begins very soon and then we’ll really be off to the races.  

I know you can’t give details so i won’t ask for any, but please just answer me this: do the siblings like each other? My biggest fear is that they’ll barely tolerate each other like the family in Family Guy, and that Dot in particular will become the Meg. 

Reblogging because I would like to know too

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Gravity Falls Crack au: Stan somehow officially and (mostly) legally adopts everyone. By the time he’s got Ford out of the portal, he has a small army of adopted children who may or may not be criminals. Soos is the get-away driver bc he’s the oldest (he’s like Short Round, but less annoying), Wendy is a boss at breaking and entering, Mabel forgeries are incredible, Dipper is the best pick pocket and usually helps Stan plan their family bonding nights (heists), Pacifica is a natural grifter and knows all the laws inside and out and can talk them out of anything, Grenda is the muscle and can break any lock that can’t be picked fast enough, and Candy is the family mad scientist. Ford gets a much bigger family reunion, and thanks to the kids discovering the portal early on, he gets home several years ahead of schedule.

i approve of this and especially the (mostly) you included in the legally bit.

because i’m trying to imagine how the semi-legal adoptions went.

especially Pacifica

Someone’s been going through my trash

I never expected to see this again.  But, hey, what the heck, lets flesh out my crack au!  I’ll try to keep it chronological, but I might just end up doing a time-line later.  Ok, here we go!

Dipper and Mabel get adopted by Stan when they’re less than a year old.  They were the easiest and most legal of Stan’s adopted children.  Either their parents die or are unable to take care of them (haven’t decided yet) and Shermy is in and assisted living home (I hc him as older then the Stans), so Stan takes them in and adopts them.

Next child Stan adopts is Wendy.  This happens about the same time Soos is hired and Pacifica comes into the picture (more on her later).  Both of Wendy’s parents die in a car crash on a rainy night.  None of Wendy’s family live close enough for them to take care of her right after the accident, and Stan was her regular babysitter, so she stayed with him and the little twins for a little while until her cousin from the logging camp (he doesn’t own it yet, but he works there), her new guardian, comes to pick her up.  When Stan see’s that Wendy’s cousin is barely 19 and scared out of his mind at the thought of being Wendy’s new guardian.  Stan talks to the kid, and Stan ends up adopting Wendy instead.

Not long after that, Soos is hired, and is a great help babysitting two two year olds and a five year old.  Raising three kids who are as rowdy, curious, and destructive as Dipper, Mabel, and Wendy is much more expensive than Stan though, so, in order to make some a lot more money, and fast, looks around and finds out that the Northwests are looking for a permanent nanny for their daughter.  Not only are they going to pay whoever gets the job a lot of money, but Pacifica is only about a month and a half older than the little twins.  So Stan forges some stuff, bribes a few people, and boom, high paying nanny gig.  Which basicly just means sticking Pacifica behind a baby gate with the twins and Wendy and has Soos keep an eye on them all.  Pacifica isn’t adopted yet, but we’ll get to her soon.

Soos’s abuela falls down the stairs and breaks her hip, arm, and leg.  She can’t work due to these injuries, and eventually, after her stay in the hospital is up, moves into the Gravity Falls retirement home.  Soos stayed at the Shack while she was in the hospital, since none of his many relatives live close.  Normally, he would have moved in with one of his relatives, but his abuela isn’t dead yet, can’t travel anywhere, and she see’s how good it is for Soos to have a father figure, albeit one who is as much of a conman as Stan.  So she arranges for the two of them to have shared custody over Soos.  He visits her often, but loves living in the Shack with his new little siblings and his dad Stan.  By this point, Soos is 13, the twins and Pacifica are almost 3, and Wendy is 6.

Pacificas parents die in a private jet crash.  They were flying to a fancy billionaires-only party in Europe. Over the weekend of their daughters third birthday.  I hate them so freaking much. Stan was taking care of her overnight, but instead of one of the Northwests butlers coming to pick up Pacifica like normal, no one comes for a few days.  Then, Pacificas paternal grandmother, Octavia Northwest, rolls up in a limo, says she came all the way from her villa in Tuscany to retrieve her granddaughter.  Well, she stays in her limo and sends one of her butlers to tell Stan that.  Stan, disliking this, tells the butler to tell Octavia to come get her granddaughter herself if she actually wants her.  Thus ensues a passive-aggressive game of telephone between the Shack and the limo, with the poor butler caught in-between, that ends with Octavia going “Fine! If you want her so badly than you can keep her!”  She drives off, sends Stan adoption papers that only need his signature, as well as documents legally changings Pacificas last name to Pines.  Octavia also had reports and papers changed so that it looks like Pacifica was on the plane with her parents and died in the crash as well, and sends Stan a substantial bribe so he’ll keep his mouth shut, which Stan uses to go buy Pacifica clothes and other essentials that “don’t smell like rich jerk”.

The twins and Pacifica start preschool.  Almost halfway through the year, Mabel and brings home two friends that she tells Stan she “‘dopted as sisters!”  Turns out, these two girls, Candy and Grenda, were both living in a foster home in town.  Stan looks at how good they were getting along with Mabel, and heck they were getting along with Pacifica and Dipper and Wendy and Soos too.  And Mabel was already making room for their things, and really, who was he to say no to his little pumpkin?  So two new adoption certificates wind up in Stan’s safe, and he starts shopping for two new beds.

Ford ends up getting home earlier in this au.  Candy and Pacifica find Journal 2 in second grade (so Gideon never happens) and Wendy and Dipper find Journal 3 about a year and a half later.  Stan still never tells any of the kids about Ford, but they show him the Journals as soon as they find them (in that cute little ‘I’m so clever, look upon my works and be amazed!’ way that kids do), and since Stan has his little crew of criminally gifted children to help him, he doesn’t get caught stealing the nuclear waste. (No, Stan doesn’t take anyone with him to steal the waste, but Dipper helps him plan better [kids a natural], and Mabel and Candy make a very loud, very glittery bomb distraction to set off at the other end of the building.  They don’t know all the details about what Stan is doing, but they’ve learned to trust him buy now.)  He does take them down into the basement beforehand though, so everybody gets to see Ford come out of the Portal.  Stan still hasn’t explained what the heck was going on, or who Ford was, so everyone is confused.  At this point in time, Candy, Grenda, Dipper, Mabel, and Pacifica are all around 8-9, Wendy is 11, and Soos just graduated high school at 18. 

Dipper and Mabel and Candy and Grenda and Pacifica call Stan Grunkle Stan, Wendy calls him Uncle Stan, and Soos jumps around between Stan and Mr Pines (except for when he thinks Stan can’t hear him.  Then Soos calls him his Dad)

Tiny Grenda is still very strong, and she body-checks Ford and sends him flying after he punches Stan.

What do I even call this au? Dad-Stan au? Stan-mily au? Ford-ticks-of-a-bunch-of-kids-int-less-than-two-seconds-by-punching-then-yelling-at-thier-father au?

STANMILY AU

*pounds fist*

THIS IS A THING NOW

GRENDA BODY-CHECKING FORD IS NOW MY NEW FAVORITE IMAGE

Previously I assumed had Wendy been there for the portal opening she probably would have decked Ford but actually TINY GRENDA ATTACK sounds so much better

his precious little criminals

the glitter NOT A BOMB is a beautiful thing Candy and Mabel made; they obtained a large amount of glitter gel pens and poured them into one big giant DEFINITELY NOT A BOMB along with (Mabel reluctantly getting rid of for the sake of the greater good) the industrial grade barrel of sprinkles along with smile dip (which was also banned for being an incendiary device under pressure) to create a beautiful NOT A BOMB that when exploded covered everyone in a 10 meter radius in sticky glitter gel laced with hallucinogenic candy and sprinkles.

Grunkle Stan couldn’t be more proud (or confused for that matter, but HEY, it worked).

Pacifica’s family can go fuck themselves and Stan is adamant about that fact and also considering blackmailing the Northwest’s to get their mansion (HE CAN HAVE ALL THE CHILDREN IN ONE PLACE THEN) currently now that Ford is back, he doesn’t NECESSARILY have to live in the Mystery Shack even though it’s his home too, just in case (PLUS THEN HE CAN OWN A MANSION, THERE IS NO DOWNSIDE)

Ford tries to threaten Stan with the ‘I own this house get out by the end of summer’ but is overwhelmed by tiny 9 year old’s and one 18 year old begging him not to make their grunkle homeless and a menacing 11 year old grabbing an axe (because all Wendy’s are proficient with lumber-jacking equipment, no matter the AU)

The Rift gets fixed early because Dipper is too tiny to keep secrets (ok so Pacifica, Grenda, Mabel and Candy are just good at getting secrets out of him) and instead of going in alone, Ford accidentally turns what was going to be ‘go into the ancient alien ship alone and or with Dipper because I’m the ‘cool’ grunkle’ into ‘Full scale heist operation involving five minors that did the job better than Ford ever could have on his own tbh and now he feels outclassed by several 9 year old’s and an 11 year old who didn’t need an electrical gun to scale down the sheer pipes’

STANMILY AU

alternatively ‘STAN’S TINY MAFIA’

I had to.

OH

MY

GOD

THIS IS AMAZING AND PERFECT AND PURE AND GOOD IN EVERY WAY

Ford will NEVER live this down till the day he dies; six children (I count Soos as a child) all saw him get decked by Grenda.

stan isn’t sure how to react to this turn of events. I mean, he has an army of small children at his disposal, but also he wasn’t expecting that and it was his brother…

“Grenda, sweetie.. uh, please don’t body-check my brother, no matter how much of a jerk he’s being.”
“STANLEY WHY DO YOU HAVE A SMALL ARMY OF CHILDREN HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOU SLEPT WITH WHILE I’VE BEEN GONE!”“
“[Genuinely offended gasp] Ford! There are children in here! And Soos!” (covering soos’s ears)

stan will not have his children corrupted by profanity…. not because he cares but because if HE has to constantly substitute words when he stubs his toe in this household, EVERYONE does.

if he doesn’t get to swear, no one does.

And then immediately after that Stan has to grab Candy to stop her from attacking Ford with some type of homemade tazer she dismembered Stans toaster to make.

“Do not worry Grunkle Stan, Candy will stop the evil shape-stealing alien that has come for you!”

“Candy NO!”

Pacifica to Dipper (they’re journal buddies btw) “Does number 3 say anything about clones?”

“No.  There is something about a Shapeshifter though Paz!”

“Can I see it?”

Mabel, Grenda, and Soos are all chanting “GRENDA! POWER! GRENDA!POWER!”

Wendy, to Stan “Uncle Stan, what the actual heck!  Also, one of my braces brackets popped off, we need to get it fixed again.”

Ford, on the floor, winded and confused “Jheselbraum please come save me again.  Please.”

this is the best au ever

flord

ford is flord

ford ded

no deity saves him he is at the mercy of these small children and a bigger child

mabel has leftover NOT A BOMB gel and tosses it in Ford’s face like she was suddenly realizing she needs to help Candy.

Ford experiences Smile Dip for the first time.

…

all in all a successful family reunion

soos records a video of ford talking to giant gummy bear dogs and whales, with bright green drugged out eyes and ford never lives that down either.

mabel thinks it was adorable because ford looked like an owl with his big old eyes and tiny pupils (never mind that it was because she NOT A BOMB’ed him with a hallucinogenic, IT’S ADORABLE HE’S LIKE A LITTLE OLD OWL MAN!)

She sews Ford an owl sweater as an apology. It’s a little big around the middle because she didn’t have fords measurements and based them off stans who has a bit of a gut so ford look sorta gangly because the sweaters too big. She thinks it’s adorable, he thinks it’s humiliating.