squeeful:

squided:

noodl:

fady-jaeger:

danisontnonfire:

natalie-memeallister:

whats-your-name-man:

seaphil:

bunney:

its weird being 18, 19, 20 in 2016 because i remember going into kindergarten and seeing those chunky ass giant computers at the desk and then going through school while technology rapidly develops and graduate in a world where people can have the entire internet and more just in their pocket like idk its so strange to me

sorry to add to the post but I remember in 5th grade when they invented the “smart whiteboard” and my school won one for the library and everyone lost their shit because they were so expensive and I graduated high school last year and by the time I graduated every single classroom had one. Watching technology go from glitchy and expensive to powerful and affordable within less than ten years continues to blow my mind

no but also like owning a flip phone was the Coolest Shit™ and you could take photos(???) and it was like so incredible, and it was all fun and games until you pressed the key for THE INTERNET and you knew you’d be charged so you pressed that cancel key eighty times and prayed to god that he’d take mercy on you…and then iphones became a thing and it was like unreal

Going from vcrs and huge roll in tvs to streaming the movie online and projecting that onto the smart board within the span of 5-10 years.

ok but do you guys remember before proper projectors were put in there was the overhead projector that could only read clear plastics and it projected using light and mirrors

Technology

remember when you got your first phone, and it had monoton/polyphone ringtones=? OR THE FIRST TIME YOU COULD ACTUALLY PUT A SONG AS YOUR RINGTONE 1:1 that was such a huge thing…..Also the first phones with coloured displays, 100x100px photos……god what a time….

I remember before iPods became a thing and I was in like 5th grade and I got a Walkman CD player (because regular CD players would skip and shit if you moved them too much and walkmans were like A+ technology that you could listen to CDs on the go) and I had like the whole case of CDs I’d take with me everywhere. Then iPods became the new norm and everyone’s mind was collectively blown

My great-grandmother went from being the first house in town to have electricity to emailing her cross-national friends in her lifetime.

squeeful:

squided:

noodl:

fady-jaeger:

danisontnonfire:

natalie-memeallister:

whats-your-name-man:

seaphil:

bunney:

its weird being 18, 19, 20 in 2016 because i remember going into kindergarten and seeing those chunky ass giant computers at the desk and then going through school while technology rapidly develops and graduate in a world where people can have the entire internet and more just in their pocket like idk its so strange to me

sorry to add to the post but I remember in 5th grade when they invented the “smart whiteboard” and my school won one for the library and everyone lost their shit because they were so expensive and I graduated high school last year and by the time I graduated every single classroom had one. Watching technology go from glitchy and expensive to powerful and affordable within less than ten years continues to blow my mind

no but also like owning a flip phone was the Coolest Shit™ and you could take photos(???) and it was like so incredible, and it was all fun and games until you pressed the key for THE INTERNET and you knew you’d be charged so you pressed that cancel key eighty times and prayed to god that he’d take mercy on you…and then iphones became a thing and it was like unreal

Going from vcrs and huge roll in tvs to streaming the movie online and projecting that onto the smart board within the span of 5-10 years.

ok but do you guys remember before proper projectors were put in there was the overhead projector that could only read clear plastics and it projected using light and mirrors

Technology

remember when you got your first phone, and it had monoton/polyphone ringtones=? OR THE FIRST TIME YOU COULD ACTUALLY PUT A SONG AS YOUR RINGTONE 1:1 that was such a huge thing…..Also the first phones with coloured displays, 100x100px photos……god what a time….

I remember before iPods became a thing and I was in like 5th grade and I got a Walkman CD player (because regular CD players would skip and shit if you moved them too much and walkmans were like A+ technology that you could listen to CDs on the go) and I had like the whole case of CDs I’d take with me everywhere. Then iPods became the new norm and everyone’s mind was collectively blown

My great-grandmother went from being the first house in town to have electricity to emailing her cross-national friends in her lifetime.

nightrizer:

Alright, so I
decided to share my theory based on the responses I got. c: I normally
just keep my Gravity Falls theories and observations to myself and
just wait for someone else to point it out. It’s been a long time and
I haven’t seen anyone else notice this yet, so I really feel I should
voice my theory now.

People have been
pretty stumped at why Blendin Blandin appeared at the end of Gideon
Rises with no clear explanation. When I first watched the episode, I
did not notice that Blendin was there in the background until I saw a
screen shot online pointing it out. There was this particular scene
in the episode that always stood out to me as odd, and finding out
that the time traveler was there helped back up my suspicions.

So we all know
this scene in Gideon Rises: Gideon throws Dipper onto the cliff, he
feels weak and useless so he sadly turns and walks into the forest.
Right after, he charges back out and leaps off the cliff to save
Mabel.

Now, there is this
one part of this scene that REALLY bugs me.

Dipper is feeling
completely useless, he’s dejected and believes he is too weak, too
dumb to take Gideon on without the journal. He turns around hiding
his face in shame and walks into the shadowy forest off screen.

He isn’t shown for
only about one or two seconds, but still, anything could have
happened here.

Look at him. He was so
crestfallen, how did he get so confident so fast?

This
incredibly fast mood change does not make sense to me. When I
had to re-animate this scene a while back, I had to improvise. I
actually showed Dipper come to a sudden realization and become confident enough to jump off a freaking cliff even though I knew it was all
happening too quickly. The actual show purposely didn’t show Dipper
during his emotional transition. It could have possibly been just for
dramatic effect…but with Blendin being shown not long after, I
believe there was more happening off screen that what we originally thought.

My theory: While
Dipper was off screen, he met another character, or himself, from the
future. Someone had to of convinced him to go back and at least try. He might have been taken by the future visitor to find out
what might have happened if Gideon won, thus convincing Dipper to
take on Gideon when they traveled back to that very scene.

It could also be
that the Dipper that walked off screen wasn’t the same Dipper that
leaped from the cliff to battle Gideon. Maybe future Dipper was
unable to convince past Dipper and he went instead? We know that
Dipper has actually met his future selves as stated in Dipper and
Mabel’s Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun. However,
this scenario seems less likely because Dipper is shown wiping the
blood from his nose he got earlier when he comes out. This is still
a possibility though I guess.

In conclusion:
Time travel might have been involved in Gideon Rises when Dipper
momentarily went off screen. This would then explain why Blendin
Blandin was seen later in the episode.

It might seem too
far fetched, but right now it’s the only explanation I can come up
with.

nightrizer:

Alright, so I
decided to share my theory based on the responses I got. c: I normally
just keep my Gravity Falls theories and observations to myself and
just wait for someone else to point it out. It’s been a long time and
I haven’t seen anyone else notice this yet, so I really feel I should
voice my theory now.

People have been
pretty stumped at why Blendin Blandin appeared at the end of Gideon
Rises with no clear explanation. When I first watched the episode, I
did not notice that Blendin was there in the background until I saw a
screen shot online pointing it out. There was this particular scene
in the episode that always stood out to me as odd, and finding out
that the time traveler was there helped back up my suspicions.

So we all know
this scene in Gideon Rises: Gideon throws Dipper onto the cliff, he
feels weak and useless so he sadly turns and walks into the forest.
Right after, he charges back out and leaps off the cliff to save
Mabel.

Now, there is this
one part of this scene that REALLY bugs me.

Dipper is feeling
completely useless, he’s dejected and believes he is too weak, too
dumb to take Gideon on without the journal. He turns around hiding
his face in shame and walks into the shadowy forest off screen.

He isn’t shown for
only about one or two seconds, but still, anything could have
happened here.

Look at him. He was so
crestfallen, how did he get so confident so fast?

This
incredibly fast mood change does not make sense to me. When I
had to re-animate this scene a while back, I had to improvise. I
actually showed Dipper come to a sudden realization and become confident enough to jump off a freaking cliff even though I knew it was all
happening too quickly. The actual show purposely didn’t show Dipper
during his emotional transition. It could have possibly been just for
dramatic effect…but with Blendin being shown not long after, I
believe there was more happening off screen that what we originally thought.

My theory: While
Dipper was off screen, he met another character, or himself, from the
future. Someone had to of convinced him to go back and at least try. He might have been taken by the future visitor to find out
what might have happened if Gideon won, thus convincing Dipper to
take on Gideon when they traveled back to that very scene.

It could also be
that the Dipper that walked off screen wasn’t the same Dipper that
leaped from the cliff to battle Gideon. Maybe future Dipper was
unable to convince past Dipper and he went instead? We know that
Dipper has actually met his future selves as stated in Dipper and
Mabel’s Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun. However,
this scenario seems less likely because Dipper is shown wiping the
blood from his nose he got earlier when he comes out. This is still
a possibility though I guess.

In conclusion:
Time travel might have been involved in Gideon Rises when Dipper
momentarily went off screen. This would then explain why Blendin
Blandin was seen later in the episode.

It might seem too
far fetched, but right now it’s the only explanation I can come up
with.

gravityfallsrockz:

gravityfallsrockz:

headful-of-feathers:

thesnadger:

snapback-gravity-falls:

theory-anon:

headful-of-feathers:

thesnadger:

snapback-gravity-falls:

Stan had a hard time lying to kids’ faces outright. He had a lot of practice with Soos (who at first after growing fond to him, he found it hard to lie to) which is why he can lie to Dipper and Mabel so easily.

Even then, he finds certain circumstances throw him for a loop. Lying about the portal and the supernatural stuff in Gravity Falls is easy enough, he made it a point to practice that. But lying when he feels guilty (say, when he left Waddles chained up outside and a pterodactyl flew off with him) is a different story–that’s when he starts babbling, sweating and acting incredibly suspicious.

It doesn’t help that guilt is an emotion Stan doesn’t feel very often so he’s not good at dealing with it. 90% of the time, Stan is immune to guilt. It’s just that last 10% that destroys him.

To me Stan actually is eaten alive by guilt over every single mistake he made ever 24/7 but he just mastered pushing it as far into subconsciousness as possible. And that 10% is when it resurfaces, the current regrets along with the the old ones that make him feel twice as horrible.

I was rewatching Land Before Swine Lately, and I found his confrontation with Mabel about Waddles very similar to another scene…

In both situations Stan says: “No, wait, if you think about it… [there’s a silver lining.. treasure hunting?/Look, he’s an animal. He belongs outside!]”

And the reaction is:

Mabel: Now thanks to you Waddles could be DEAD!

Ford: 

Why would I want to do anything with the person who sabotaged my entire future?!

No wonder he looks so broken here. Hurting Mabel would be bad enough but he’s also relieving his falling out with Ford that led to losing him for… maybe forever? (back then there was no guarantee that he could come back)

Mabel: Grunkle Stan, I am never ever speaking to you again!

Sounds pretty similar to what another family member did…

It should also be noted that in both scenes Stan’s first instinct was to try and downplay his mistakes when initially confronted about them. He seems to have difficulty handling situations where he angers/disappoints people he cares about, and therefore tries to avoid those situations entirely – even in situations where he’d be better off in long run if he faced the music and owned up to his mistakes right away.

Though it’s also interesting to that he was already doing this kind of thing by A Tale of Two Stans, which might imply that this was his go-to method of handling confrontations with his loved ones long before the science fair.

I never expected this to get such thorough analysis after only a few hours when this was a 2… okay 3 am idea I wrote down. I love it.

This is a very good analysis. But just for clarification, when I say Stan is immune to guilt 90% of the time, I’m referring to the sort of actions that the fandom (for good reason, since they mostly happen to anonymous extras) generally doesn’t care about.

Scamming customers, stealing from people, destroying others’ property, laughing at others’ misfortune or insulting people…these are the sort of things Stan feels no guilt over whatsoever. 

But breaking Ford’s science project? Putting Mabel’s pet in danger? These things involve the people he loves. The ones he cares about. When they’re hurt, he feels their pain. And he feels like the scum of the earth for hurting them, even if it was by accident, or due to short-sightedness rather than malice.

That’s why I say it’s that last 10% that kills him. When he does feel guilty over something, it absolutely ruins him. He’ll do everything he can to wriggle out of the feeling or rationalize it. (I very much agree with theory-anon’s comment that “He seems to have difficulty handling situations where he angers/disappoints people he cares about, and therefore tries to avoid those situations entirely”)

And if he can’t do that, he’ll do whatever it takes to make it right. Whether it’s punching a pterodactyl in the face, or spending thirty years trying to get an inter-dimensional portal restarted.

Oh, right. I forget about all those scams and crimes on strangers as well… 

headful-of-feathers:

thesnadger:

snapback-gravity-falls:

theory-anon:

headful-of-feathers:

thesnadger:

snapback-gravity-falls:

Stan had a hard time lying to kids’ faces outright. He had a lot of practice with Soos (who at first after growing fond to him, he found it hard to lie to) which is why he can lie to Dipper and Mabel so easily.

Even then, he finds certain circumstances throw him for a loop. Lying about the portal and the supernatural stuff in Gravity Falls is easy enough, he made it a point to practice that. But lying when he feels guilty (say, when he left Waddles chained up outside and a pterodactyl flew off with him) is a different story–that’s when he starts babbling, sweating and acting incredibly suspicious.

It doesn’t help that guilt is an emotion Stan doesn’t feel very often so he’s not good at dealing with it. 90% of the time, Stan is immune to guilt. It’s just that last 10% that destroys him.

To me Stan actually is eaten alive by guilt over every single mistake he made ever 24/7 but he just mastered pushing it as far into subconsciousness as possible. And that 10% is when it resurfaces, the current regrets along with the the old ones that make him feel twice as horrible.

I was rewatching Land Before Swine Lately, and I found his confrontation with Mabel about Waddles very similar to another scene…

In both situations Stan says: “No, wait, if you think about it… [there’s a silver lining.. treasure hunting?/Look, he’s an animal. He belongs outside!]”

And the reaction is:

Mabel: Now thanks to you Waddles could be DEAD!

Ford: 

Why would I want to do anything with the person who sabotaged my entire future?!

No wonder he looks so broken here. Hurting Mabel would be bad enough but he’s also relieving his falling out with Ford that led to losing him for… maybe forever? (back then there was no guarantee that he could come back)

Mabel: Grunkle Stan, I am never ever speaking to you again!

Sounds pretty similar to what another family member did…

It should also be noted that in both scenes Stan’s first instinct was to try and downplay his mistakes when initially confronted about them. He seems to have difficulty handling situations where he angers/disappoints people he cares about, and therefore tries to avoid those situations entirely – even in situations where he’d be better off in long run if he faced the music and owned up to his mistakes right away.

Though it’s also interesting to that he was already doing this kind of thing by A Tale of Two Stans, which might imply that this was his go-to method of handling confrontations with his loved ones long before the science fair.

I never expected this to get such thorough analysis after only a few hours when this was a 2… okay 3 am idea I wrote down. I love it.

This is a very good analysis. But just for clarification, when I say Stan is immune to guilt 90% of the time, I’m referring to the sort of actions that the fandom (for good reason, since they mostly happen to anonymous extras) generally doesn’t care about.

Scamming customers, stealing from people, destroying others’ property, laughing at others’ misfortune or insulting people…these are the sort of things Stan feels no guilt over whatsoever. 

But breaking Ford’s science project? Putting Mabel’s pet in danger? These things involve the people he loves. The ones he cares about. When they’re hurt, he feels their pain. And he feels like the scum of the earth for hurting them, even if it was by accident, or due to short-sightedness rather than malice.

That’s why I say it’s that last 10% that kills him. When he does feel guilty over something, it absolutely ruins him. He’ll do everything he can to wriggle out of the feeling or rationalize it. (I very much agree with theory-anon’s comment that “He seems to have difficulty handling situations where he angers/disappoints people he cares about, and therefore tries to avoid those situations entirely”)

And if he can’t do that, he’ll do whatever it takes to make it right. Whether it’s punching a pterodactyl in the face, or spending thirty years trying to get an inter-dimensional portal restarted.

Oh, right. I forget about all those scams and crimes on strangers as well…