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obsessed with fiddlefords genuinely impressive banjo playing that we hear for like 5 seconds in atots

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Had a random thought that may or may not be influenced by my being in church today

We've seen 'accidental cult' au's for Danny. But have we seen any accidental religion creator danny? Where he becomes a preacher/priest/pastor/rabbi/guru/what-have-you/whatever-you-want-to-call-his-position?

One where he (either as fenton or phantom) begins by answering questions about the afterlife semi absentmindedly (lectures and explanations from various leaders in the realms running on repeat in his mind), so tired he doesn't notice when he starts explaining what he had been taught.

It started with him overhearing a question/conversation in school. Something small. He answered it and moved on. Forgot about it. But it keeps happening. Until people start coming to him with questions regarding the afterlife (realms) on a semi regular basis and he does his best to explain (if they understand maybe they won't be so eager to hate ghosts? Maybe they'll be able to foster understanding? Maybe he won't be so tired).

While he starts answering one person's questions others gather and hang around. Listen. And start asking their own questions. Soon, its simpler to just arrange a dedicated time and place to meet and discuss.

It starts as a simple Q&A. And over time grows and becomes more elaborate until its an official thing. He finds people who had been listening to him answering questions when they come across them (in person, online, etc). That some had taken videos and written transcripts. That those are being passed around. It grows beyond his hometown.

And Danny? Is really not sure what to make of this. (I wanna vote he doesn't become aware its a whole thing that he's been accidentally grown and run until someone who is notably *not* from Amity park calls him [insert religious leader title here]. Cue freaking out to Sam and Tucker (maybe jazz and/or Valerie too) who have been helping to run and organize this whole thing being like 'did you just realize this *now*??'

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odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”

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art by Alex Hirsch and Dana Terrace! went and rewatched and listened to them draw and talk about teen Dipper and Mabel in the Charity Draw-a-thon, november 2016. 

some headcanons they have about teenage mystery twins (because these are NOT canon, they reiterate)

Dipper grows and ends up much more confident after the summer. keeps looking more stressed and anxious as he gets older though. 

Dipper has an obnoxious overconfidence phase. from helping defeat Bill bc that’s a giant ego boost. 

Mabel has a goth phase. possibly from heartbreak. tries out many different personas like that but ends up more or less the same.

Mabel burned off half her hair with 4th of July fireworks accidentally, realised it was a good look and went with it.

those are glittery temporary tattoos on her arm. she does get real tattoos though, because “sure why not!” Dipper doesn’t get any tats because he absolutely CAN’T decide what to have on his skin permanently.

Wendy basically turns into major Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell reference).

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I’m rewatching Gravity Falls (never watched all of it when it was airing) and I’m so disappointed reverse! Falls was evil mabel and dipper and not like. Child Bill visiting his Grunckle’s and being harassed by a pine tree and shooting star symbol. t

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Am I wet? Am I on my period? Did I pee my pants?- next on wtf is going on down there.

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“Bruce wouldn’t call his kids any cutesy nicknames y’all are cringe” first of all Bruce canonically refers to children as “honey” and “sweetheart” as BATMAN, so, close your mouth, monster breath

Second of all, Thomas Wayne called him everything from “Bunny, honey, sweetheart, baby, bambino, sweetie” to “Gumdrop, honeybee, amore, babe, “ and you can die trying to take it away from me

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Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

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one time i had a dream that tiktok users deemed “kid” as a slur and that you HAD to refer to them as minors otherwise you would get harassed and threatened with doxxing. you couldn’t say “when i was a kid” anymore for example you HAD to say “when i was a minor” instead

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BATTLESHIPS:

NOT BATTLESHIPS:

JUST BECAUSE A BOAT HAS GUNS ON IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS A BATTLESHIP. KNOW THE DIFFERENCES

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ngl I keep forgetting that Hobby Lobby is a real store that people go to. That people actually think of it as a craft store and not as a crazy Christian mass artifact smuggler. I google "Hobby Lobby" and get a page full of results that make me go "wtf is this craft supplies and operating hours shit, I thought we all knew this place for smuggling looted cuneiform tablets out of Iraq"

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It's been a while since I painted ghost king Danny. I went with the aurora borealis crown this time. Also more animation experimentation with 2d and 3d stuff.

I struggled with the background a bit. Below is an alternative version, I can't decide what looks better.

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looks at you

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Oh god, why didn’t you just let him through?

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you can literally say anything to men, it doesn’t matter