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People like Cedric because he's the most expressive, ironic, and sassy character of the show. He has a great *unconventional* design, he walks funny, he's weird, he bullies kids because he's tired of his job (who in the world can't relate to this) and he gives us funny scenes. He's just so done with life that there's a scene where Sofia asks what's wrong with her, and this mf starts to laugh like joker thinking about thousands of things to say to her, but he holds himself not to
He has a terrible sleep schedule, he's grumpy, he's frustrated with his work, his social life sucks, his posture? same thing. Absolutely no bitches, no friends, depressed, irritated, and still too silly to do anything too cruel, or he fails constantly. And he has a big repressed heart underneath all this, which makes us relate to him even more.
His voice actor is amazing, his songs are good, his backstory???? Perfect, he has good reasons of why he did what he did, and he wears purple. Chef's kiss.
People like him because he's relatable, funny and he stands out from the other characters. The other part of the fandom can't be mad just because the character who stands out the most is the most popular one. It's not my fault that I get just happy watching the usual episodes but laugh my ass of in the ones he's in. Blame the writers for making such a lovable and relatable character.
Yes, there are indeed some people in the fandom who react too much when his name is mentioned, like for example hating ANY character who goes against him somehow, but I guess that's how fandoms work. Our fandom is small (thank god), y'all would know what real suffering is when your favorite character has a huge fanbase who treats him like a baby who can't be harmed in any way. I swear to god the STF fandom is a lot healthier than other fandoms that I've met before. For me, everything here seems nice and under control. There's weird stuff here and there, but I've seen worse (I'm an og undertale fan)
Roland and Cedric - Part 1
Just to be clear , this isn’t a hate Roland post. But I just had to talk about Roland and Cedric’s relationship as I think there are things about their relationship that really need to be addressed. This Post may have to be a two partner though as this post will be way to looooooongggggg. For part 1 ill just be talking about why they may have drifted apart.
While I am happy that Cedric and Roland are on more friendlier terms now, the fact that they had a special bond as kids kind of bugs me. I think it’s because I have a few mixed feelings about their relationship overall as adults and because its revealed that as kids Roland knew all along that Cedric felt pressure to be like his father whereas before it was presumed he didn’t know. But I think what bugs me the most is how un-loyal young Roland comes across in his friendship towards young Cedric. Ill try to explain :/
In the episode “In Cedric we trust” , Cedric states that Roland and him would escape to the fields to play dazzle ball when the pressures of being like their father’s became too great. This in turn gave Cedric the impression that he had a special bond with Roland as they could both relate to one another on their situation with their dads.
But then the incident happened with him and Cordelia , where as soon as Cedric made one unintentional mistake with magic ( which wasn’t even his fault ) , everyone judged him immensely on what a bad sorcerer he was even though he was just a 11 year old kid :/
When Cedric explains what happened after the incident he states that from that day on, his life was never the same after that day and that everyone in the kingdom including Cordelia , Goodwin and Roland have thought of him as Cedric the bungler.
But if they had such a special bond , why would Roland think of him as Cedric the bungler. Wouldn’t he try to support and help him ? Wouldn’t he stick up for Cedric and try to stay friends with him despite what others may think ?
Well here’s a few points I’m going to make in this post as to why they may have drifted apart. This is in no particular order :)
Roland’s peers
Cordelia
Roland and Cedric were not at the same level anymore to living up to their father’s reputation
Cedric being seen as a bad influence
1 - Roland’s peer’s
Seeing how Sofia is technically 11 years old by the end of season 4 and at this age she is moving from Royal Prep to Ever Realm Academy , id say Kid Roland would also be attending Ever realm Accdamy at this point in his life. This is becuase he is one year or so older than Cedric is as Cedric is 11 and Cordelia is 10 in “through the looking back glass”, meaning Roland would probably be at the age of 12.
From what the show has said and shown us, I’m presuming Cedric was 11 years old or so when he started to attend Hexley Hall. I think this because
Every time we have seen kid Cedric in his school uniform , he has those white streaks in his hair which he only had after the incident.
In Substitute Cedric , Cedric states to Sofia and her friends “When I first got to school, I couldn’t do the disappearo spell either , or most of the other spells come to think of it.” and during the song he says “When I first began to learn the ways of sorcery , I quickly found it wasn’t the easiest course for me”. Before the incident Cedric was capable of doing magic but after the incident he found magic tricky to do because he lacked confidence and got nervous. So it would makes sense that when he started to attend Hexley hall that this was after the incident where his sorcery skills weren’t very good.
Amy, Elliot and Kurt looked a bit older than the royal prep students. Amy also addresses them as kiddies indicating that she may be a tad older than them .
The reason I mention all this is because this would mean at this point of time , Roland and Cedric would be starting new schools where Roland would be making a bunch of new friends at Ever realm academy whereas Cedric would be on his own at Hexley hall where he would be being teased and pranked by his class mates.
Keeping this in mind , due to so many royals and sorcerer’s being invited to Cordelia’s sorceress ball , what happened at the incident was probably talked about among their families and peers , making Cedric’s reputation well known among royalty and sorcerer’s and everyone in the kingdom.
So when Roland went to Ever Realm academy, his class mates may have known about Cedric being the future Royal sorcerer of Enchanica and how bad of a sorcerer her was. Maybe Roland’s class mates and everyone in Enchancia made him feel embarrassed to be around Cedric or to even be associated with him or to even be ashamed of the fact that Cedric would be his future sorcerer.
If this is true then It would explain why we only see Kid Cedric and Kid Roland play Dazzle ball together when Cedric hasn’t got white steaks in his hair.
Because of this little detail it makes me doubt that they still played dazzle ball together after the incident.
2 - Cordelia
Cordelia is probably one of the biggest factors as to why Roland and Cedric driftied apart :/
Cedric states that after the indecent Cordelia would taunt him even in front of Roland and that whenever she was around she made people think he couldn’t do a thing.
“She always wants to put me down , even right before the King. With all her taunts, when she’s around , they all think I cant do a thing.”
Cedric also states that when him and his sister grew up in the castle together , she would criticise his magic skills everyday – “My own sister doesn’t think I can cast the simplest of magic spells. And now that she’s living here she’ll be telling me so everyday , oh just like she did when we were children. Soon enough she will be taking over my workshop and meddling in my work , telling me I’m not chewing my food thoroughly or combing my hair the right way.”
So Cordelia was probably good at easily influencing Roland and other people’s opinions of Cedric through her own negative perception of him.
Its also plausibly that she is the reason why Roland blames Cedric for anything that goes wrong as when Cordelia admits that it was her fault that she shrank the castle , she tells Roland “ You shouldn’t assume everything is his fault you know” which Roland replies “Well that’s strange to hear , coming from you” indicating that she often blamed Cedric for things is well.
3- Roland and Cedric were not at the same level anymore to living up to their father’s reputation
Both Cedric and Roland felt pressure to be like their father’s hence why they played dazzle ball together to get away from that pressure but after the incident , Cedric’s reputation got worse and worse where as Roland had more of a chance to reach his potential than Cedric did.
Despite the fact that Tilly was supposed to be Queen , Roland’s father knew that all Roland wanted to do was to be King and that it was all he could ever do. Tilly even mentions that they all thought he’d be great at it.
Roland - “But , why didn’t anyone ever tell me”
Queen Mun - “Because we knew that being King was all you ever wanted. And your father and I knew that it was all you could ever do”
Roland - “… I guess that’s true”
Tilly - “ And we knew you’d be great at it”
In Day of the sorcerer’s Cedric mentions that everything Roland did growing up was the best thing ever and that Roland and Cordelia could do no wrong in their parents eyes.
Cedric - “I remember those days where your father was the king and mine was the royal sorcerer. Everything you did was the greatest thing ever. But did anyone notice when I did something right , Noooooo. They only noticed when I made a mistake !”
Roland – “And you made a lot of mistakes.”
Cedric – “So did you. And so did my sister. But neither of you could do any wrong in our parent’s eyes. I on the other hand could only do wrong.”
So even though Roland knew how uneasy it felt to be in the shadow of a famous person ( his dad ) , I do believe Roland had a lot of support and made his father proud despite how strict and traditional Roland the first may have been. The only thing Roland didn’t really have from his father was quality time with him as his father was always too busy being King. This is kind of sad as maybe Roland felt like he had to do more than he had to do in order to receive his father’s attention :( but that’s just my opinion.
But when it came to Cedric growing up, no one noticed when he did anything right and only noticed when he made a mistake. He was constantly being laughed at , criticised and teased and would frequently mess up his spells because of his nerves.
If Roland was being far more successful than Cedric was with his reputation, Roland isn’t exactly going to think that his at the same level as Cedric anymore. His going to think that Cedric may be a loss cause and that his holding him back.
I can see this causing a bit of resentment between the too as with King Roland , he should be a much better king than his father was. But the only factor which is holding him back is having Cedric as his royal sorcerer. Roland the first had Goodwin the great as his royal sorcerer , who was one of the greatest wizards who ever waved a wand. Roland the second is considered the best king Enchancia has ever had but unlike his father , he has a sorcerer who he compares to as a children’s magician.
With Cedric , he probably resents the fact that everything Roland did was the greatest thing ever as Roland isn’t accountable for any of his mistakes where as he constantly is. It certainly wouldn’t be the greatest feeling in the world seeing someone who drifted apart from you doing much better off with out you or being treated differently to you when you’ve both done something wrong.
4- Cedric being seen as a bad influence
For my last reason, I believe people may have thought Cedric could be a bad influence on Roland. Out of all the reasons I’ve showcased I feel like the other three have more weight to them but anyway, after the incident , people only noticed Cedric when he made a mistake and according to Roland he made a lot of them . He was also seen as someone who could only do wrong , was blamed for things he may have or not have done , failed most of his tests at school and was hugely criticised.
This probably gave people the wrong impression of Cedric and saw him as nothing but bad.
Even Winfred , his own mother thinks its hard for Cedric not to do bad things as seen in the episode “Cedric be good” when she is telling him to stop doing bad things in order for him to get a power from the amulet – “Oh Cedric , you have to stop doing bad things , as hard as that may be”. She even encourages him to do the wrong thing if it suits his best interests.
So it wouldn’t really surprise me if Roland’s parents thought Cedric would be a bad influence on him if they allowed their son to be the next ruler instead of Tilly.
Now this is just my opinion but in the episode “through the looking back glass” we see kid Roland pouring a jug of water into a bunch of hats for some reason. If this is a hint that Roland was a bit of a trickster or prankster , then they certainly wouldn’t want Cedric’s enthusiasm for prank day to encourage Roland with that behaviour anymore.
So those are my four reasons as to why I think they drifted apart despite having a special bond but if these reasons are actually true then I feel like Roland needed to be more loyal to Cedric despite what others may think of him and learn what Wormwood learned in the episode Hexley Hall where Sofia tells wormwood that Cedric is his friend and that he should accept him despite any flaws he may have as we all mistakes.
Wormwood – “I didn’t mean to do it , it was a mistake. Well Cedric makes them all the time.
Sofia – “Of course he makes mistakes. Everyone does.”
Wormwood – “But the other animals, they were going on and on about what a fool Cedric is”
Sofia - “That’s what you’ve been saying all day too. Don’t you see that when someone is your friend, you accept them, flaws and all.”
I also think that as understandable as it may be , Roland shouldn’t have let others influence his opinion and relationship with Cedric as if someone is really your friend then you should stand by them and not drift away from them in their time of need. I say this because Cedric and Cordelia were practically inseparable, and all Cedric did was try to help her. But after the incident Cordelia was no longer close to Cedric and he lost what ever good relationship he once had with her.
Everyone was turning against him , he was being teased , was being treated unfairly and didn’t have any friends growing up. So when the one person who you have a special bond with thinks of you as Cedric the bungler like everyone else does , it must have been really crushing and devastating for him.
Especially when Cedric states that when they played Dazzle ball together he felt like they were a team, that Roland had his back and that it was better than any dream. But Roland obviously didn’t have his back as much as Cedric thought he did.
No wonder Cedric sounds so resentful in Cedric’s apprentice when he wants to prove to everyone how wrong they were about him when he says “And Especially King Roland”.
Like , Its bad enough for Cedric that Roland thinks his a bad sorcerer for understandable reasons but the fact that Cedric probably felt abandoned by him after the incident and saw how much praise Roland was getting despite him also making mistakes, is bound to make his relationship with Roland strained and resentful over the years.
Because of what happened with Cordelia and Roland, it’s no wonder Cedric has a hard time knowing who his real friends are.
But who knows , maybe they drifted apart because of Roland’s unknown wish or because Cedric couldn’t save Roland’s first wife ?
But anyway, in Part 2 ill be talking more about their overall relationship as adults :) Its just sad that their relationship became so strained knowing they were once dazzle ball buddies. If I’ve misinterpreted the situation or have some of my facts wrong I apologise . I just had to get this of my chest though as I don’t think I’m the only one who’s thought about this :)
Not sure if I ever said this here before, but I am on the side who believes that Ford never actually said that he was going to kick Stan out. All he said was for Stan to give back his [Ford's] house, his name, and end the Mystery Shack.
Ford could've easily said he wanted Stan out, but he didn't. While I have no doubt that Ford might be projecting an attitude similar to Filbrick, I don't think Ford would want to kick his brother out like their father did.
However, I would not blame Stan for thinking that was the case due to Ford's tone. Ford wasn't exactly sparring Stan's feelings on the matter. And, hell, he might as well have told Stan to take a hike when he said he wanted the Mystery Shack (Stan's business that he worked hard on) to shut down, even if he didn't mean it like that.
And was Stan meant to do then? Just...loit around?
Not only that, but I don't think that Ford has that grant money anymore...or any money, for that matter. The Mystery Shack would've provided some sufficient funds.
Sometimes, I wonder if Ford didn't think that through, believing that upon taking everything back and returning to his research, it would be like nothing happened...
Sort of similar to Stan's own previous attitude about the situation.
What is this, my oc??? :0
yes, he is a gardener ^_^
More of this weird guy..He's stalking me
I just adore this sorcerer, he's so...you know💅
🧡💛🤍🩵💙
Sofia the First Challenge 3 of 5 Characters → Baileywick
Nigel: You always look on the bright side. Baileywick: That’s because there’s always a better view there.
I get that the bookshop fire was traumatic for Crowley because he thought he lost Aziraphale.
I keep seeing people say they want Aziraphale to know what it would feel like to lose Crowley, but I'm pretty sure my eyes weren't the only ones open when this happened...
Right?
"And that was the last I was to see of Crowley for some time."
Aziraphale has lost Crowley. To Hell.
He could do nothing to stop what happened in Edinburgh, and I can't imagine that he didn't fear he'd lost Crowley for good here.
Aziraphale has experienced more heartbreak than some fans care to even acknowledge. He exists in constant fear of losing Crowley to Hell again. AGAIN.
We saw Aziraphale save Crowley from Hell in 1941 with the human magic trick he used on Furfur.
Aziraphale was the one sitting in the bathtub of holy water after the Notpocalypse, knowing this was the reason he'd been so scared to hand Crowley his own thermos of holy water in the first place.
He's lost Crowley to Hell before and he will do anything to prevent it from happening again.
That's the impact Edinburgh had on Aziraphale. This is the impact that losing Crowley had on Aziraphale.
I decided to rewatch a cartoon series that I watched as a child. And this wizard sank into my very heart. It's very nice to draw him. Of course, my first attempts were not the most successful. But now I have received a satisfactory result for myself.
Aroace Ford my beloved
I've always found the end of Journal 3 a bit strange, but one of the specific things is ford throwing his journals into the bottomless pit. It's kinda cool as a concept, but it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
The bottomless pit basically makes it so the fate is unknown of whatever goes in. it could come back, it could end up somewhere else, or it could continue falling for eternity.
ford has attempted to hide his journals before, but they were all found. Gideon even dug up the 2nd one and used it to terrorize the town and even ford's own family.
so I don't think ford would be blind to these outcomes, its happened before why wouldn't it happen again? I think the thought of the journals falling through the pit and wounding up in the hands of someone more powerful than an 8 year old would be enough to keep him up at night. the forever uncertainty would kill him.
then I think, well maybe he would burn them with everything else?
however, I think it's important to remember how much these journals meant to him. despite the memories they carry now, they were once his sole confidant in six years of solitude.
even if ford felt any sort of connection to them now, he probably felt like he had to get rid of them.
he probably felt that his work was a burden to those he cared about. that he would have to make the sacrifice to part with them.
I think it would be a great dilemma for him. So I believe he gave them to someone. I think a lot of people would assume it would be Dipper, but to me what it comes down to is that it would have to be someone ford could fully trust.
it would be someone who could see the value in his work despite his mistakes. someone who could fully understand where his passion came from at the very start.
so i believe he gave them to fiddleford
I think fiddleford has had an interest in Ford's old journals ever since his memory started to recover. he remembers something new each time he reads them. fiddleford would be able to keep them safe, keeping ford's mind at ease knowing someone was keeping an eye on them.
and I think that would be enough for him
been trying out a new style lately :O
So I was watching the episode ‘The Amulet of Avalor’ and can we just talk about how when Cedric was accused of being the thief Roland just went along with it. The man didn’t question it. He didn’t even allow Cedric to explain himself. Did Roland seriously have his expectations for Cedric set this low??
EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP.
STOP SCROLLING‼️
JUST FOUND THE SEXIEST INSTANCE OF CEDRIC IS THIS WHOLE FUCKING SHOW ON A WHIM AND HAD TO CLIP IT.
anyways here
guys if this keeps up I'm gonna get on all fours and start howling like a fucking Dog and I won't apologize for it
9d mcgucket and/or 10b simon!
when the clock strikes midnight making it no longer "past 8"
An essay on Ford and Mabel
To commemorate my 1000th post, I decided to embark on an essay on the limited Ford and Mabel bonding in the show!
Among some of the shortcomings in the show (including Wendy being chaffed as a main character), there aren’t as many moments for Ford and Mabel to bond over, compared to Ford with Dipper. Well, it’s also due to the short runway we have from A Tale of Two Stans to Weirdmageddon, but for rather odd reasons, Ford didn’t get a lot of screentime and often holed up in his own lab. Even Roadside Attraction did not even drop any mention of Ford. As a mutual lamented to me, it’s likely the case of Ford, like Wendy, being another character whom the writers had a purpose for (as the answer to the mystery of Stan and the Portal), but didn’t know how to write outside that purpose.
Of course, some argued that, for plot reasons, this is so that Mabel gets duped by Bill since she didn’t know about the Rift from Ford. Or that Ford just overlooked her when he offered Dipper the apprenticeship. As such, there is a main misconception that Ford didn’t care about Mabel at all compared to Dipper. Or, in some ridiculously extreme cases, that he hates her. While I guess this was extrapolated from what we might have gleaned in the show, I don’t agree with such extreme views.
People forget that Mabel was actually the first twin he interacted with, and it was largely positive. When Mabel stated that his six-fingered handshake was one finger friendlier than normal, Ford laughed and said he liked her. Given how much he was shunned by many others for his extra fingers, it probably warmed him to hear someone saying something positive about his anomaly. It seemed initially set up that Ford and Mabel should get along fabulously. Even Mabel went as far as to knit finger puppets for Ford and while he sounded rather hesitant in Journal 3, we later glimpsed a scene in which both bonded over something similar (a hand turkey).
Which brings me next on Ford’s journal entry about Mabel. (I also noted he interviewed, or wrote about, Mabel before Dipper). His interview with Mabel sounded largely positive given he remarked how he was “instantly charmed” by her “enthusiastic” personality. Ford also considered her as an “odd specimen” (almost certainly a compliment), and also hoped to seek her help to repair his own coat.
I suppose this interview probably shaped some initial impressions for Ford about Mabel. “Overall positive but somewhat ambivalent/not-really-comprehending how she ticks necessarily” is much of how I would define Ford’s attitude toward Mabel - he likes her, but doesn’t especially identify with her because the traits he admires in her are almost inversions of some his own.
At this stage, one could also take that with his remark in Dipper’s initial assessment about how he “possibly takes after Stanley” as Ford initially trying to identify with Mabel the way he ended up identifying with Dipper, such as him enthusiastically commenting about her sweet tooth and hair curls being a Pines trait. Of course, as it turned out in the show and in Journal 3, his perceptions of the twins shifted and he found himself relating more to Dipper especially when he looked back on Dipper’s entries and additions, and the events of Dungeons, Dungeons and More Dungeons.
I have to admit that when I first read this part, I thought he remarks he himself needed further psychological testing and not Mabel. For some light-heartedness, I rather think of it that way, but there’s something deeper in this for the two’s psychological profiles. First off, the tests were flawed, given Rorschach testing blots should be less definitive, but it probably reflected Ford’s possible lack of comfort with ambiguity, and the preoccupation he had with death and destruction for so long. As for Mabel, it shows a certain degree of wilful misinterpretation, trying to see things through a particular positive lens and has a sort of fear of unpleasantness that manifests in a possibly neurotic drive to control reality around her, which finds its ultimate expression in Mabeland.
This is rather important as something I would delve into deeper later on in this essay, which gave Ford an impression that Mabel’s psychology, while odd, was overall positive and not much to be concerned about. He clearly recognized Mabel’s social ability as a valuable skill, and may see her lack of cynicism as something of an asset too, as we later see in The Last Mabelcorn. I suppose Ford neglected to do a deeper dive into her psychology given the fallout we would see in Dipper and Mabel Vs the Future. He might claim to have 12 PHDs, but I doubted one of them is in psychology.
We move on to the Last Mabelcorn, which is where we see Ford interacted more with Mabel and offer a bigger insight into how he feels about her. First, he agreed with Mabel when she stated she was probably “the most pure of heart in the room” and entrusted her with the unicorn mission, even knowing that the unicorns were difficult (and frustrating). As such, he equipped her with Journal 1 and a crossbow for the mission. Obviously this was for her safety, as well as trying to give her as much help as he could regarding unicorns, even though he himself had little success (Ford mentioned of an arm-wrestle with a unicorn in the blacklight edition which I doubted went well). At the end of that episode, he directly told her that she is a good person, even without being aware of the struggles she had gone through with her morality moments prior. And after the episode he even regarded her as an expert on unicorns given she managed to defeat one, and allowed her to write an entry in Journal 3 about unicorns. I needed to note that Mabel was the only person who wrote in Ford’s Journal after Dipper returned Ford the Journals (and before their recovery in Weirdmageddon). This rather showed how much Ford really trusted Mabel, especially when he regarded his Journal as his “important scientific documents”.
Dipper and Mabel vs The Future is more contentious in this regard. We see how plenty of fans often using this episode as proof that Ford doesn’t care about Mabel just because he only asked Dipper to stay in Gravity Falls, and waved off concerns that Mabel would be all alone in California. However, we need to relook some bits of this in context.
Dipper: There’s also Mabel. She’d be all alone in California. Ford: Mabel will be fine on her own. She has a magnetic personality. I watched her become pen pals with the pizza delivery man in the 60 seconds he was at the door.
From this, we can see how Ford cared enough to observe Mabel’s social skills with the pizza delivery guy, plus probably witnessed plenty of instances of Mabel handling herself without Dipper’s help. I guessed that was further underlined by her success in the unicorn adventure, and thus he genuinely believed that Mabel could take being without her brother outside of the summers.
Dipper: Gosh, we’ve never really been apart before. Ford: And isn’t it suffocating? Dipper, can you honestly tell me you never felt like you were meant for something more?
This is another contentious bit, I admit. It sounded like Ford considered Mabel as a stumbling block in Dipper’s future. Well, I concede Ford isn’t perfect. Again, this is one of those times Ford was projecting his issues with Stan onto the younger twins after finding out how similar he thinks Dipper is to him (possibly aggravated probably by Stan blatantly aligning Mabel with himself, ex, telling Dipper that he belongs upstairs with “me and Mabel”). At this point, he was just extremely clueless about the nature of her and Dipper’s relationship, and how it was much healthier than his was with Stan, probably even at that age.
Nevertheless, to say that he didn’t care about Mabel at all is simply a misguided oversimplification. He cared about them both so much. His traumatic experience with his own twin just tainted how he saw the twins’ bond being something that could be potentially suffocating. He did sort of have a point though; Dipper and Mabel couldn’t force each other to stay glued at the hip forever or it could potentially stifle their individual dreams if handled badly. But the twins were only 12 and had a lot of growing up to do together. It wasn’t a great idea to separate the twins at this point, which was something Ford forgot.
Mabel wasn’t forthright about her feelings about leaving Gravity Falls and growing up until she blew up at the end of the episode. We see how she maintained that mask of optimism throughout the show, even when she was worried about the Grunkles’ falling out and the parallels she found between her and her brother back in A Tale of Two Stans. That mask began to slip when she realized growing up wasn’t as great as she thought, and Ford didn’t know how badly Mabel would take it.
Ford thought he was doing Dipper a favor by giving him a head start on his studies. This is probably a bit too charitable of an interpretation, but one could, I suppose, see Ford's “something more” remark as “Dipper more than just half of a set” instead of “implying that Mabel is in some sense inferior than her brother.” As said earlier, he even believed Mabel would be fine and thrive on her own, too. That the two could have reached a compromise if needed.
We can probably conclude that Ford actually did not disregard Mabel or see her as the "inferior twin", but he just found trouble trying to connect with her despite his initial positive impressions. At the same time, due to Mabel's outward outgoing personality, he overestimated Mabel's confidence in being on her own, and also (subconsciously) projected his own issues with Stan on the younger twins. Not to say Ford was a bad person by any means, but he was misguided in some of his assumptions and impressions.
On a tangent, I say the recent fan episode Return to the Bunker tried its best to imagine how Ford and Mabel might go on an adventure together. However, it instead exaggerated too much of his flaws (e.g. his trust issues) and it became more of a Ford bashing episode. Yes, we know Ford isn't perfect by any means, and he might be unfamiliar with interacting with others like Mabel.
Yet, as we also saw from the canon (the show supplemented by Journal 3), he could get along well with Mabel, especially in such a desperate situation like confronting a Shapeshifter (how he dismissed the others' suggestions is really beyond me). We even saw how Ford was willing to give up himself to Bill in WMG when Bill threatened to torture or even kill the kids.
I supposed the writers of that fan episode did read J3 but took the wrong lessons. While definitely an attempt to show Ford's flaws, the episode instead went the other extreme. Ford could sometimes be insensitive (like the remark he made about "suffocating"), but not anti-social or downright unpleasant.
There is definitely potential for more positive Ford and Mabel bonding moments that could further underscore that Mabel could cope well on her own (from what we saw in The Last Mabelcorn). From what @hkthatgffan also told me (and on Reddit), when Lost Legends was coming up, everyone thought, from Hirsch's hint through his emojis, that we might finally get a Ford and Mabel bonding story but instead we got an (admittedly) half-hearted attempt to redeem Mabel from her role in WMG.
I supposed another angle could be Ford and Mabel also coming to terms with their roles, given Ford is partly responsible (and even took some blame himself), and both can overcome the trauma together. I don't doubt these are already concepts being explored in various fanfics and fanarts. And here are some other ideas from Reddit.
Let me end off with some parallel scenes between Ford and Mabel, which show how similar both are. We need to also remember that it's not exactly Dipper-Ford and Mabel-Stan, but rather Dipper and Mabel paralleling each of the Stans in different ways. That is probably another essay for another time.
This essay is written with assistance from @jacky-rubou (who already provided an initial essay for me to work from) and @callipraxia who is able to offer more insights.
how the hell do people work full time AND work out. and also eat. i feel like a dvd player
Ещё немного скетчей по фиддавторам (их много не бывает)
It's Ace Week!
He has so many different charms (silly little guy, scruffy handsome little guy, loving mum/bigger sister little guy, tired divorced dad little guy...)
MTMM (Media that made me) Inktober Day 18
Gravity Falls
I came waaay late to this party but dammit, it’s better late than never. This show is awesome. The writing is sharp and hilarious. The animation is awesome. The storytelling is top notch. The villains it gave us…omg. BILL CIPHER is my FAVORITE villain in all of animation. It’s nuts. I can honestly say, this show is one of a kind.
So, I had a dream about how Ford decided to borrow my blue turtleneck. I thought I needed to draw this
Do you like Stanford Pines or Gravity Falls deleted scenes (or both)? Well, do I have a treat for you! Back in August, Gravity Falls storyboard artist S. H. Cotugno shared some NEVER BEFORE SEEN deleted scenes from A Tale of Two Stans over on Tik Tok! These include Ford encountering mermaids and a mysterious traffic light creature!
Link to the Tik Tok Post
I also posted the boards on Imgur
Even in 2023, we're getting new Gravity Falls content in the form of deleted scenes!
