kanayasaysomething:

By now, Gravity Falls fans have come to see Stanford’s glasses as one of his defining characteristics. But, in Stanley’s story in Dreamscaperers about how his father tried to make him tougher, he’s wearing Stanford’s glasses the whole time.

All of this is happening in Stanley’s memory, so it’s possible that Stanley, having taken on Stanford’s identity, is mixing up their identities. Is he, on some level, forgetting that Stanford is a person separate from himself? Maybe he’s trying to cover up the pain and guilt of having trapped Stanford in another dimension by convincing himself on some level that he is Stanford, and how can he be Stanford without Stanford’s iconic glasses?

Perhaps it’s also noteworthy that in the second screenshot, Stanley looks much different than he ever did in A Tale of Two Stans. 

Compare the above photo with the second photo from Dreamscaperers. I would guess that they couldn’t have happened more than a few years apart (Stanley is probably in high school in the Dreamscaperers photo, and he’s in his senior year of high school in the above photo). In A Tale of Two Stans, Stanley never looks like he did in the Dreamscaperers photo. By traditional standards, Stanley looks much worse in his own memory than he does in A Tale of Two Stans, which seems to be intended to reflect reality more effectively even if it does still come from memory (“Word to the wise, kid: we’re in the mind. You can do whatever you can imagine in here.” -Stanley, Dreamscaperers). Stanley clearly has pretty low self-esteem since his family called him weak and stupid and abandoned him, and since he ruined his brother’s future and trapped him in another dimension. I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to say that he may remember himself as less attractive than he was.

Also, notice that in Dreamscaperers, Stanley is wearing an entirely different style of outfit than he or Stanford ever wears in A Tale of Two Stans. Is he simply misremembering what he and his brother wore, or is something else going on there?

I really like this theory.
It’s also supported by Boyz Crazy, when Stan tells Dipper how he lost Carla McCorkle to Thistle Downe (was that his name?) in that flashback, Stan is wearing what he wears in A Tale of Two Stans, and it’s also him telling a story, like ATOTS, not a memory in his mindscape like Dreamscaperers.

kanayasaysomething:

By now, Gravity Falls fans have come to see Stanford’s glasses as one of his defining characteristics. But, in Stanley’s story in Dreamscaperers about how his father tried to make him tougher, he’s wearing Stanford’s glasses the whole time.

All of this is happening in Stanley’s memory, so it’s possible that Stanley, having taken on Stanford’s identity, is mixing up their identities. Is he, on some level, forgetting that Stanford is a person separate from himself? Maybe he’s trying to cover up the pain and guilt of having trapped Stanford in another dimension by convincing himself on some level that he is Stanford, and how can he be Stanford without Stanford’s iconic glasses?

Perhaps it’s also noteworthy that in the second screenshot, Stanley looks much different than he ever did in A Tale of Two Stans. 

Compare the above photo with the second photo from Dreamscaperers. I would guess that they couldn’t have happened more than a few years apart (Stanley is probably in high school in the Dreamscaperers photo, and he’s in his senior year of high school in the above photo). In A Tale of Two Stans, Stanley never looks like he did in the Dreamscaperers photo. By traditional standards, Stanley looks much worse in his own memory than he does in A Tale of Two Stans, which seems to be intended to reflect reality more effectively even if it does still come from memory (“Word to the wise, kid: we’re in the mind. You can do whatever you can imagine in here.” -Stanley, Dreamscaperers). Stanley clearly has pretty low self-esteem since his family called him weak and stupid and abandoned him, and since he ruined his brother’s future and trapped him in another dimension. I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to say that he may remember himself as less attractive than he was.

Also, notice that in Dreamscaperers, Stanley is wearing an entirely different style of outfit than he or Stanford ever wears in A Tale of Two Stans. Is he simply misremembering what he and his brother wore, or is something else going on there?

I really like this theory.
It’s also supported by Boyz Crazy, when Stan tells Dipper how he lost Carla McCorkle to Thistle Downe (was that his name?) in that flashback, Stan is wearing what he wears in A Tale of Two Stans, and it’s also him telling a story, like ATOTS, not a memory in his mindscape like Dreamscaperers.