#dipper sterling

[sezija]

TAU fic recs (arranged in as close as i can get to chronological order)

Dipnip - Yggdrasil and its effects on Dipper (non-canon(?) past SA of Mabel) Henry&Mabel - How they met, fell in love, and got married The California Incident The Woodsman - How Henry became the Woodsman (Acacia loses her eye in chapter 6) Hank and his Supernatural Mafia The Scouring - Gideon attempts to undo the transcendence (Alcor is tortured; has a sequel) (Post-Mabel) Creation of the Circle of the Dreamer's Star Return, Rewind, Rewrite - Dipper makes a deal to become the twin of Mizar (Belle Sterling), forgetting who he is in the progress The Creation of the Alcor Virus The Rosewood Affair - The Alcor Virus inhabits a body and decides to go to school Jan Faust - A retelling of Jan Faust in the TAU universe; amazing series with much more amazing content So You Want To Be A Demonologist? - Alcor goes to college as Tyrone, a regular old human Reincarnation Blues - Bill Cipher is reincarnated as Ian Baele Toby Pines - Alcor freaks out over raising/taking care of Toby, Ian's/Bill's Reincarnation Bentley Farkas and Friends Haunted and Hunted - Alcor is forced to possess a selkie by a Government Alcor creates a new universe as the old one dies

#transcendence au #tau #fic rec #do NOT ask me how ive decided which fics happen before which. you do NOT want me to start talking abt it bc i will never stop. #ive just been hording this in a google doc for over a year so. #also if u want the link to the google doc i'll give it but WARNING it has my deranged ramblings abt the timeline #this is like. my 'required reading' list? #idk if thats the correct words. idk

[praxcrown5]

Planes Fire and Rescue Thoughts

I'm really late to the punch on both Planes movies, and only recently watched them.

I was really surprised at how good Planes: Fire and Rescue was. Like it was a LOT better than I was expecting.

I had only two issues:

Dipper. WTF did they have to make her creep on Dusty like that. Reminds me of some of my old boyfriends...

I know they had to do it since they were planning to do a third movie...but I'm sorta upset that Maru managed to rebuild Dusty's gearbox "better than new." Like, I think it would have been more poignant to have Maru partially fix it, like enough that Dusty could fly and fight fires...but not much more than that lest it break, again. It would have been a great message about how people with disabilities can still do amazing things while disabled.

I dunno...I'm kinda tipsy rn. But the ending just felt sorta hollow IMO...

Things I loved about it:

The cinematography was so much better than the first movie. And the score by Mark Mancina! WOOOO! So. Freaking. Good.

They did a fuck ton of research about wildfire fighting crews and it shows.

MAYDAY. And the fact that he knows Sarge is a neat nod to the Cars movies.

MUIR Favorite background "pony." Just...why doesn't he talk? Is he mute? Are older trains mute? Like he was gonna burn to death in a fire and he just whistled sadly...

Cad Spinner. I fucking love him. Great antagonist right up there with Chick, Miles and Sterling. He's a dick...but he's fun to watch.

The whole flying to Piston Peak scene. It reminds me of my time in college doing field work out in the Sierra Nevadas....

#planes fandom #planes fire and rescue #dusty crophopper #dusty #planes 2 #maru planes #whythefuckdoilovemuirsomuchhesonlyintheemovieforliketwominutes

[the-ravenclaw-werewolf]

Those movies sound like good choices, though I have not watched around half of them (though I guess the Wolf guy would have taken the place of Legoshi, wouldn't it?). Other films that are good candidates, in my opinion, would be Balto, Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Early Man, Over the Hedge, Quest for Camelot (would be funny if Garrett was summoned) and Ferngully: The Last Rainforest.

What about Animated Series? Though best not to get into the ones that are way too long to end (like South Park, Simpsons, Family Guy, etc).

I few I would pick would be...

Archer (Sterling Archer)

Owl House (Luz obviously)

Little Witch Academia (Diana, but cheating a little because it's an anime, but their interactions could resemble the ones between their relationships with Amity and Akko respectively)

Gargoyles (either Goliath, David Xanatos, or Elisa Mana)

Phineas and Ferb (Heinz Doofenshmirtz)

Star Vs the Forces of Evil (Marco)

American Dragon: Jake Long (Jake Long)

Danny Phantom (Danny Fenton)

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Either Catra or Adora)

and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (Either Adam or Krass'tine)

I like the list you started, so here’s what I have:

(And I just realized that most of the characters will be even more traumatized by the adult shows I have here.)

Owl House (Luz)

Gargoyles (Goliath)

Phineas and Ferb (Doofenshmirtz)

Star Vs the Forces of Evil (Star or Marco)

American Dragon (Jake)

Amphibia (Anne)

Gravity Falls (Dipper or Stan)

The Proud Family (Penny)

Milo Murphy’s Law (Milo)

Kim Possible (Kim or Ron)

Danny Phantom (Danny)

Hey Arnold (Helga)

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Leo)

The Mighty B (Bessie)

My Life as a Teenage Robot (Jenny)

Fairly Odd Parents (Timmy) (And only up to season 5)

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius (Jimmy)

As Told by Ginger (Ginger or Courtney)

Invader Zim (Dib or Zim)

Spongebob Squarepants (Spongebob) (And only up to season 3 and the movie)

Infinity Train (Tulip or Grace)

Steven Universe (Steven or Garnet)

The Powerpuff Girls (1998) (Blossom or Professor Utonium)

Ed, Edd, n Eddy (Ed)

Courage the Cowardly Dog (Courage)

Samurai Jack (Jack)

Teen Titans (Robin or Raven)

Code Name: Kids Next Door (Nigel)

Ben 10 (Ben)

We Bare Bears (Ice)

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (She-Ra or Catra)

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (Adam)

Clone High (Joan or JFK)

The Boondocks (Huey)

Arcane (Jinx)

The Oblongs (Creepy Susie)

Inside Job (Reagan or Brett)

Tuca and Bertie (Tuca or Bertie)

Futurama (Philip)

Primal (Spear)

#main character syndrome (with exceptions) #the 40 #the_ravenclaw_werewolf #ask & answer #hulkchloron99 #cartoon 40

[gnomewithalaptop]

What are your top 3 Gravity Falls fics or favorite ships?

What is something in the Transcendence AU that's a must read?

Omg hi! I don't really ship much for GF but here's some of my favorite fics!

Changing Tides by Ariasune: Gravity Falls but with daemons! Honestly the character work in this one is just superb. It's really interesting to see how much the AU changes and how much stays the same.

Hive by MaryPSue: EXCELLENT plotty monster-of-the-week style fic. The tension goes so hard, the mystery is super well done, and the monster is genuinely scary.

putting the dog to sleep by parsnipit: A really well done character study of the Stan twins, complete with baby Stans and Old Yeller required readings. It's hard to describe this one, so I'm just gonna say it honestly made me cry.

And finally! My Transcendence AU must read:

Return, Rewind, Rewrite by MaryPSue: This one's an oldie but a goodie -- if you read nothing else from TAU, you should read this one. It's got worldbuilding, it's got intrigue, it's got demonic skeletons in the closet. I'm gonna paste the official summary below because I can't do it justice.

A family vacation to Gravity Falls, Oregon, now famous as the site of the Transcendence and the most magical place on Earth, calls into question everything Dipper Sterling thought he knew about his family and himself. (Next year, he's going to ask if they can go somewhere less dangerous. Like an active volcano.)

#asks #delicious-trash-tree #fic recs #gravity falls #transcendence au

[transcendence-au]

Just noticed that aside of Mabel's life, Belle Sterling, Mira and Bentley, Alcor doesn't often transform into his true 12-year self (either to tease them or get something) and with that incident with black sheep descendant, who would Dipper trust enough to share his true origin and name with?

The magic situation is 'if they're a Mizar, then maybe.' After that, it's 'if they're really close to a Mizar AND really close to me and I really like them, then juuuuuuuuust possibly.'

Really, Dipper doesn't trust most people he meets with his origin and name. Even then, it's mostly his name.

#mod talk #dipper #alcor

[evermorehqs]

RESULTS ARE IN!

Thank you for participating in Mabel’s Matchmaking Madness! Mabel and her helpers have been hard at work sorting through questionnaires to find the perfect pairings for you and everyone else that signed up! For tonight, dinner and dessert is on us; check your reserved table number and head to House Of Mouse at 6:00 pm to meet up with your blind date. We hope you have a lovely Valentines Day... and if it’s extra lovely, don’t forget to invite Mabel to your wedding!

As these are blind dates, characters will not know who they were set up with until they check in with their reservation at the restaurant. Dress code is formal, but no one will be refused entry if they’re not following it. Threads are not mandatory, but we do ask that you at least reach out to the other half of your match(es) to plot how their dates went. We don’t want anyone to be left out! If you do post an event starter, outfit edit, etc, feel free to use the evermorehqsevent tag so we can follow it! You can use CTRL+F to search for your character(s) on the following list! Happy Valentines Day!

TABLE #1: Alexis Balaska and Emilio A. Bahamondes

TABLE #2: Mabel Pines and Luis Salgado

TABLE #3: Taura Butter and Marie Bonfamille

TABLE #4: Fred Jones and Daphne Blake

TABLE #5: Pacifica Northwest and Max Goof

TABLE #6: Sterling ‘Swizz’ Malarkey and Parker Kokkinos

TABLE #7: Carmen Dicarmello and Andy Davis

TABLE #8: Riley Anderson and Jack Frost

TABLE #9: Gabriel Lumiere and Tiya Mahajan

TABLE #10: Dipper Pines and Victoria Everglot

TABLE #11: Cruz Ramirez and Fred Frederickson

TABLE #12: Meri Webster and Vitani Kagai

TABLE #13: Hans Westergaard and Rose Hunter

TABLE #14: Benjee Bong and Barley Lightfoot

#evermorehqsevent #admin ali apologizes for the late post; blame the laptop

[gay-otlc]

Seren: Star Sail mast or Serene (Seh-ren)

Soleil: sun

Solaris: of the sun

Elio: sun (EH-lee-o)

*Hoshi: star

Saturn: Roman god of agriculture and plenty, also a planet but you know that

Jupiter: Godfather??? also a planet but again you knew that

Galileo: my favorite astronomer who discovered Saturn and Jupiter along with 8 of its moons

Rigel: name of a Star

*Ursa: Little female bear also Ursa Major/Minor aka the Little/Big Dipper

Sterling: Star

*these are traditionally girl names but i’ve always thought of them as more masculine

Solaris actually slaps so hard??

[soldier-requests]

Hello! I'm looking for some masculine name ideas for a Sniper-kin ; if you want to experiment with making it earth/forest/canine themed that'd be really swag

hello!! wasn’t too sure about how masc some of these names feel, but i hope you find something you like regardless!

there's not as much as i normally end up doing, but it's still quite the list so i put them under the cut 👍.

acacia

acacius

ace

ackley

acorn

affie

alaska

alfie

alpine

arbor

arc

archer

archie

arctic

aries

arthur

artus

ash

asher

ashford

ashton

aster

atlas

august

augustin(e)

augustus

avens

avery

bandit

baron

basil

bass

basset

bay

bear

beaumont

beck

beetle

ben

bengal

benji

benny

bentley

benton

berry

birch

birk

blackjack

blaze

blue

blume

bo, boe

bolt

bone

boomer

borage

border

boxer

bracker

bracket

bramble

briar

brick

brin

brock

bryce

bryn

buck

bud

bull

burr

bush

busher

bushie, bushy

butch

buzz

caelum, caylum

callum

cane, kane

canid

canine

canyon

cas

casey

caspian

cedar

cerberus

charcoal

charlie

cheddar

chen

chez

chow

cider

ciel

cinder

citrine

citron

citrus

clay

clement

cliff

cloud

coal

coast

cobalt

cobolt

cocoa

collie

colt

columbine

columbo

columbus

conan

cooper

copper

cove

coy

coyote

crane

crimson

crispin

crow

curry

cyan

cypress

dagwood

dak

dakota, dakoda

dale

dane

dante

darrah

darren

darrow

david

dawson

deacon

dean

declan

den

denis, denys

deniz

denver

derry

dhole

digger

dill

dingo

dipper

douglas

drake

duff(y)

duke

dulce

dune

dusk

dust

dustin

dusty

dutch

dutchen

east

eden

elvis

elwood

emerald

emerson

emery

everest

everett

evergreen

falcon

fallon

fang

farley

fennec

fennel

fergus

fews

fin, finn

finch

finley, finnley

fir

firth

fish

fisher

flax

flint

florence

florent

flynn

ford

forest

forester

frank

frankie

franklin

fraser, frazier, frasier, frazer

frost

gale(n)

gardner

gene

genesis

ginger

goldie

grain

grey, gray

grove(s)

hades

harvest

hawk(e)

hazel

heath

hercules

hive

holland

hound

hugo

hum

hummer

hunt

hunter

huntie, hunty

jack

jackal

jackie, jacky

jason

jasper

jay

jett

joey

jove

july

june

juniper

juno

jupiter

kai

kale

kestrel

kip

kippy, kippie

koa

koi

lake

lark

leo

loch

locust

lodge

lotis

lotus

lucky

lumen

lupin(e)

lupis

mace

magnus

mane(d)

mango

march

marley

marlow

marsh

marshal(l)

matchbox

maverick

max

meek

meer

merlin

mickey

mint(y)

mob(y)

moose

morgan

morris

moses

moss

mossy, mossie

nash

nasher

nicholas

noble

norman

north

nox

oak

oakie

odie

odin

oleander

olive(r)

olivier

ollie

oto

otter

otto

ottoman

packet(t)

pear

percival

percy

perry

perseus

picard

pickle

pine

pongo

prairie

prince

red, redd

reed, reid

ren

rhodes

rhody

ridge

rock(e)

rocky, rockie

roman

ronat

rook

root

rory

rover

rudy

rune

russel

salmon

samsun, samson

scruff

scruffy, scruffie

silver

silvester

skylark

smokey

sol

solei(l)

solomon

sorrel

south

spade

sparrow

spot

spruce

stag

sterling

stone

sun

sunray

talon

tawny

terran

terro

terry, terrie

theo

thistle

thor

thyme

titan

toms

trip

tunnel

turtle

velvet

vulp

vulpes

wade

wane

warbler

wax

waxer

weaver

wells

west

whistler

winston

wolf(e)

wood

woodrow

woodson

woody, woodie

york

zeus

#request accepted | ''Allons-y; Allonzo!'' #anonymous request #name suggestions | ''How would you feel about Who?'' #tf2kin #tf2 kin

[decanard]

What are your list of muses here?

Here is a link to my Google Doc

BUT in case you just want a quick list

 

Ducktales 2017

Boyd

Daisy Duck

Elvira Duck

Fenton Cackshell-Cabrera

Dewey Duck

Huey Duck

Gosalyn Damien

Donald Duck

Louie Duck

Deuteronomy McDuck

Jim Starling 

June Sterling 

May Duck

HUE 

                    101 DS

Dante Dalmatian

Dorothy Dalmatian

         The Owl House

Edric Blight Lilith Clawthorne Kikimora The Collector Caleb Wittebane 

              Encanto

     Gravity Falls

Isabela Madrigal

Camilo Madrigal

Dipper Pines (AU)

Stan Pines

           Tangled/VAT7K

Varian Catalina Princess Nuru

Lady And The Tramp

Buster 

Danielle 

                Sonic Universe

Tails

The Secret of N.I.M.H

Martin Brisby

Teresa Brisby 

#behind the muses (ooc)

[feferipeixes]

Innocence Is Not Knowing That You’re Innocent (5/5)

Belle knows her brother pretty well. He likes comic books, he cheats at board games, and he wants more than anything to be human again. So, when he wakes up one morning with no memory of the fact that he’s a demon, she figures there’s no reason to remind him just yet. He deserves some time to just enjoy being Dipper, and not have to be Alcor.

Unfortunately, she can’t hide Dipper from the demon forever.

Chapter 5: And Then My Mind Returns (link to chapter 1) (2) (3) (4)

We’re at the end, folks -- hope you enjoy! And if you’ve been reading from the start, I hope you’ve had a good ride!

One more huge thanks to @toothpastecanyon for all of her help and support!

Content warning for body horror (but no blood or gore).

(See the most updated version on AO3!)

===

“Bang! Pow! I’ve got you, man!”

Gunshots blared through the room, followed by an overdramatic scream. Belle had to stifle a yawn.

Family movie night was usually pretty fun, but the movie her dad had picked out had her thoroughly bored, so she was entertaining herself in the usual way of smacking around a big wad of gum in her mouth. Her dad, on the other hand, seemed very invested in the movie, having sunken into his armchair when it started and not having said a word since.

It kind of seemed like the sort of movie Dipper would enjoy too, but when she looked over to gauge his interest, she saw that she was alone on the couch, and she had no idea when he’d gotten up. Alarm bells rang in her head -- ever since the incident on Halloween, Dipper had been asking too many questions, and she knew things were quickly getting out of hand. She’d taken to keeping an extra careful watch around him to try to keep his old memories at bay, and she knew it was starting to grate on him.

The train of thought she was heading down started to get overwhelming, so she tried to make herself focus on the movie instead.

“Dashell, I’m sorry! I tried to protect you as long as I could! I never wanted you to know about the treasure -- all who have searched for it are doomed!”

There was a groan, and the sound of tobacco disturbing a spittoon. “It was useless to try to keep it hidden, my darling. Can’t no one keep news of a treasure from me.”

“Doomed from the start, then. What a fool I was to love someone like you! I was only ever a footnote in your life, wasn’t I? The treasure was always more important.”

Labored breaths interspersed with coughs, and then the gruff voice again: “Maybe you were a fool but then I reckon I was too. If I’d’ve known better I woulda listened to you and kept my nose down. I’m sorry, Petunia, that all your efforts were for nothing.”

“Oh, Dashell, they weren’t! If I kept you away even for a minute, then to me it was worth all the trouble, because that’s one more minute you were alive and well, and foolish as I am, nothing else means more to me!”

There was a fwump, and Belle looked up to see that Dipper had returned and had sat down next to her on the couch, just as she started to blow a big bubble. For a few minutes, he just stared straight ahead at the TV, occasionally stealing glances at her out of the side of his eye. Then:

“Hey Belle?”

Belle’s bubble popped, the gum snapping back like a slap to the face, and she frowned. “Yeah bro-bro?”

He coughed nervously. “Can I show you something?”

“Yeah sure! Is it a movie? ‘Cause this one is awful.”

“No, uh, it’s in our room. So we have to go to our room.”

Belle blinked. “What?”

“Yknow…” He nodded towards their dad, who was sitting a few feet away, and Belle couldn’t help but notice the air spark a little by his head as he did so. The room suddenly felt a lot colder.

“Oh. Yeah, okay.” She got up and scraped the gum off her face into the trash.

“Be right back, Dad!” Dipper croaked, barrelling out of the room with his head down, leaving a trail of sparkles behind him. Belle followed slowly, glancing at their dad as she passed him. He stared back silently, letting the resignation on his face speak for him.

“I’m sure it’s nothing, Dad,” she said quietly, almost to herself. “It’s probably just some embarrassing nerd thing.”

He didn’t respond. Dipper’s voice rang out from the next room, “Belle! What’s taking you so long?”

Her dad’s expression morphed to one of pity. She stared for a moment, then exhaled, fixed a smile on her face that she hoped looked realer than it felt, and ran out of the room. “Coming!”

Dipper was standing in their bedroom. She skipped past him and did a twirl. “What’s going on, Dip-”

He slammed the door shut -- cutting her off mid-sentence -- and leaned against it. For a minute, he just stood there and breathed, big heaving breaths as if he’d just been sick. Then he looked up at her with eyes black as coal, and her stomach dropped out.

That thing about stopping before the situation went too far? Oops.

“Belle, I have something really important I need to talk about and you have to promise me you’re not going to deflect, okay?”

Belle felt like she was sinking into the ground. She tried to speak but could only manage a weak gurgle. She settled with giving him a nod.

“I’m serious -- you can’t deflect even if it would ruin whatever big secret you have that you think is making me happy, because whatever it is, it’s clearly not working, I am so not happy right now, I feel like I’m going insane!”

She managed to break past whatever was holding back her voice, but the sound that came out of her throat was hollow. “I-I won’t deflect. I’ll even tell you the secret, please…”

He shook his head. “You can tell me later, I can’t keep this in anymore!” Her mouth clamped shut, and she wasn’t entirely sure that it was voluntary on her part.

Dipper took a deep breath, and the color started to seep out of the room. “I… I think something’s wrong with me. Or, like… I think…” He sucked in a cold breath and pressed his fist into his forehead. “I think I might not be human.”

Oh no. Ohhhh no.

He started pacing, waving his arms around as he did. “I don’t know when it happened, if I got bitten or infected or something, but I keep seeing things, like things that aren’t there. Stuff like you or dad just, dead and covered in blood. And it always feels like… it’s my fault somehow. Like it’s my instincts coming to life.”

His voice sounded strangled for a moment, and then he broke into a coughing fit. He leaned against the door again and slid down to the floor. Whatever force was keeping Belle’s mouth shut fell limp. She bit her lip and sat facing him. Her brother turned his face away, but she couldn’t help but notice the tears running down his nose -- tears which should’ve been clear but were instead a shimmery gold.

“A-and that’s not all. Sometimes I see colors around people. When I have my headaches, everyone gets really colorful, and it just makes the headache worse. And then there was that thing on Halloween, with my voice, and then th-the streetlight fell…”

“You didn’t… it couldn’t… That was just a coincidence,” she offered uselessly, putting a hand on his shoulder.

He squeezed his eyes shut and shook his head. “No, no, it was me, I don’t know how but I know, somehow, I did that! I was so mad at him, he was hurting you! He can’t do that, doesn’t he know that y̧o̦̙ͅu̥̖̘͢'̛r͞e͏̰̤͇̗̪̜̲ M͈͈͎̰̙͡ͅI҉̠͚NE̠͚͉̹̖ͅ? And I was yelling, and then, I just... felt it -- felt the cable snap and then it was falling and it almost… it almost -”

He finally looked at her, and froze. Belle tilted her head in confusion, and his arms shot out, holding her by the temples. She yelped, but he ignored her, pulling her head closer and staring into her eyes.

“What are you doing?” she whimpered.

“Belle?” His voice was quiet and hollow, with just a tad of echo to it. “Belle? Please tell me your glasses are dirty. Pleeeeeeeease tell me you just touched something gross and forgot to wipe them.”

“Dipper…”

The demonic reverb in his voice crescendoed as he spoke. “Please tell me my eyes aren’t black and that everything’s normal and I’m just having a bad dream, please, please, P̿́̂͊̋͒ͤ̾ͩ̑̓̏̎̌̅̔҉̳̙̘̘̀L̶̸̡̘̞̘̳̫̭̦͕̩̗̠ͧ̍ͯ̕̕E̵̵͖̣̪͈̾̽͛ͥ̉ͤ͑̉͗ͫ̿͑̍̆̌͟͠A̬̳̥̙̺ͥ̈́̐͜͡ͅŞ̢̤̺͍͉̣͉̥̻̱͈͂̒̑̈́̉ͪͨ̆̊ͯ̂̓̏̇͜͡Ḛ͉̜̼̱̜͙̞̗̗̰͍̠̏̅͋̍͑͊̇̐ͣ̂ͯ͐̿̎͛̍̀̚͘͡ͅ!”

His voice flanged into a booming echo on the last “please”, and all the windows in the room shattered. Belle felt as if she’d just been punched in the stomach, but fought her body into staying upright because Dipper needed her right now. This was all her fault anyway. She wrapped him in as tight a hug as she could muster and tried to think of how she was going to do this.

He was really sobbing at this point. “Please, Belle, I’m just so scared, I don’t know what to do, I don’t- don’t want to tell dad that I’m... t-turning into a monster!”

This was the hardest part. Not because she was afraid or anything -- she loved her brother, demon or not. But this was the part she had been dreading because she knew how much Dipper just wanted to be human, and she was going to have to take that away from him -- again.

Who was she kidding? He hadn’t been human the whole time.

She sighed, and gathered all the confidence she could muster. “Hey Dipper?” she said, and he looked up at her and the pain in his eyes -- she almost couldn't handle it. But she had no other choice. Her dad was right -- the longer she let this go on, the more it would hurt him in the end.

“I’ve got something to tell you.”

Belle felt her lips moving, but the words themselves didn’t seem to reach her ears. She saw Dipper’s expression twist from one of fear to one of pure anguish, and then the air in the room started to rush violently around her, threatening to pick her off the ground. She felt like she was falling -- or was it just that Dipper and everything else in the room was rising? She wondered briefly why he was leaving her behind.

Then her hearing cut back in and she was hit with a howl of agony, so loud and violent that it shook the house and tore through the entire neighborhood. The world seemed like it was on fire, but just for a moment -- and then it was over, and everything was still. Silence, like nothing had happened, like everything was back to normal. And in a sense, it was.

Dipper was a crumpled heap, lying an inch above the floor and parts of his body flickering intermittently from human to something darker. His wings were flapping erratically and his top hat was lying off to the side. His clothing had changed -- the right half of him was still clad in his human guise, but the left was wearing his trademark suit. Belle crawled over to him -- she found that her legs suddenly did not want to obey her -- and lightly shook his side, to no response. She knew he was physically (metaphysically?) alright, but she also had all the reason in the world to worry for him.

She pushed herself into a seated position and closed her eyes. She wanted to scream, she wanted to hug him and apologize and go back in time and tell him everything a month ago and then give her past self a massive smack on the head for being such an idiot. Dad was right. Onika was right. She didn’t know what was best for him. She was being a fool.

“Hey Belle?”

Her eyes flew open, and she saw him rolled over to face her. His face was only half there, the other half just a blocky mess of glitter gold particles that was nauseating to look at.

“Yeah?” She could barely get the word out.

“...thank you.”

The world suddenly got very blurry.

---

Lionel set the teacup on the bedside table. "Are you up?" he asked, gently, to the huddled mass of pillows and blankets tucked into the bed.

The mass groaned playfully. "Well, yeah. I can't really sleep like this. My body keeps trying to but I can't play along yet."

A pair of hands slipped out of the blanket cocoon, pulling them back to reveal something not fully human but not fully demon either. "And you know tea won't help me get better faster, right?"

"Alright, I guess I'll just drink it myself, then."

"No!" Dipper yelped, his hands (one of which only had two fingers) flying towards the cup before his dad could take it away. "I still want it!"

Lionel smiled at his son, who easily managed to sound like the petulant 14 year old he was pretending to be instead of the ageless demon he truly was. "How are you feeling?"

"Well, I’ve definitely seen better days,” Dipper replied, grabbing the cup with his thumb and ring finger, and blowing on it. “But on the bright side, at least I don't need a full hand to drink tea!"

“Maybe not, but I find it usually helps.” Lionel sat on the edge of the bed. “I called the school and told them you had the flu, so you’ve got plenty of time to recover.”

“Ugh, what? I don’t get to go to school? Just because my body’s falling apart?” He pouted -- and his ear sharpened to a point as he did so -- but Lionel could see the laughter bubbling underneath.

“The last time you tried walking around,” Lionel replied, crossing his arms, ”your foot vanished and you fell down the stairs. Staying home and resting will be good for you.”

“Fiiiiiiiiiine,” Dipper moaned. He stuck his tongue out. “Thanks… thanks for…” (his voice got very small) “taking care of me, Dad.”

“Of course. I’ll be downstairs. Let me know if you need anything.”

He started to walk out of the room, thought twice about it, and then headed back over to give his son a light kiss on the forehead. Dipper eeped and blushed bright red, prompting his dad to smile fondly as he left the room for real.

Just outside the bedroom door, he gave Belle a pat on the head and said “You can go in now.”

Belle nodded nervously, and stepped into her dad’s room. Dipper was lying in bed, looking not much better than he had a couple of days earlier.

“Hey… bro-bro,” she said, trying as hard as she could to sound cool and casual. “Fancy seeing you, uh, here.”

He snorted, and mimed looking around the room. “Belle? Is that you? Belle would never be that nonchalant! Where’s my real sister?”

She flinched, and the grin died on his face as he realized the implication of that statement. “I didn’t mean it like that,” he hurriedly added. “I just meant that it’s nice to see you -- I haven’t seen you since… the other day.”

Belle squirmed under his one-eyed gaze, which didn’t look judgmental or angry but made her feel bad nonetheless. "Your, uh, your face is still kinda… not all the way there."

He smiled weakly, which looked really weird given that only half of it was visible. "Yeah… My body is just repairing itself… It was malfunctioning for too long, so when the memories came back, it kind of fell apart. I'll be okay. I- I always am. And besides," he added, patting the empty space in the bed next to him, "it's definitely got me feeling like a kid again. It's a nice memory -- crawling into dad's bed when I got sick, wrapping up in blankets and falling asleep watching TV."

He chuckled, but it sounded forced. There was a long awkward pause after that, with neither of them making eye contact. Then:

"I'm sorry!" they blurted at the same time.

They both did a double take. "What? You? What are you sorry for? Hey, stop it!"

Dipper snickered and Belle pouted. "No fair, quit using your powers to read my mind!"

He threw his hands up, letting go of his teacup in the process, which ended up hanging there in the air, scalding liquid frozen in mid-fall. "I wasn't, I promise! That was a coincidence!"

"Sure thing, goober, I believe you.” A beat. “It's the twin magic, then! I guess this sort of thing probably happened a lot with Mabel too." He looked away, and the room started to feel awkward again. She changed the subject. "But, uh, seriously. What do you have to be sorry for? This was all my fault."

He snorted, although it sounded more derisive than amused. "Yeah. You're the demon in the room, not me."

She crossed her arms. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Oh come on, Belle," he replied, sounding exasperated. One of his wings reappeared, hanging out the side of the bed, flopping around like a fish out of water. "I talked about wanting to be human so often that I made you think you had to run around making yourself miserable to keep me happy and in check."

"That's my fault, not yours!"

He fixed her with a steely glare, and his eye turned black again. "No. I made you do it. I -" (his voice hitched, and he suddenly sounded ashamed) "I have your soul. I- I can make you do anything. Obviously that's what I did. Even when I don't know I'm a demon, I still act like one. Isn't that perfect?"

He laughed, the kind of laugh that isn't sure whether it wouldn't rather be a sob. "I'm a monster," he breathed, and it hit Belle like a slap to the face.

"You're not, stop saying that!" she yelled, and then froze, worried that she'd attract her dad's attention from downstairs. She hoped he was watching one of his old explorer movies with the sound up, but just to be sure, she lowered her voice. "This isn’t your fault, so stop blaming yourself! This is 100% my fault, me, Belle, your sister!"

"No it's not, you didn't have to do this!”

"Yeah, exactly, but I did it anyway, cause I- I thought if I could push off your memories coming back even a bit, it would be just a bit longer that you got to be human, but all it did was hurt you." She gestured to the glittery hole in his head. "A-and it was selfish of me, I… I'm sorry."

He frowned, his eye turning back to its familiar white-and-brown, and he patted the empty space beside him again. Belle took the hint, climbed into the bed next to him, and wrapped herself in a blanket.

"Sorry, bro-bro," she murmured. "It… It makes me really sad to think about you having to fight cults and answer summons and have demon-y instincts and stuff all the time. I, like, miss when everything was easier and the worst thing you had to deal with was telling dad that you failed a math test."

Dipper snorted. "As if that ever happened." Her head jerked upright, confusion printed all over her face in response to the goofy look on her brother’s. "Me. Failing a math test, I mean. As if that ever happened even before Gravity Falls."

“Hey!” She gave him a playful punch on the shoulder. "Come on, you know what I mean! The point- the point is, I didn’t tell you earlier because I miss when you didn't have to be a demon, and I didn't really know how to admit it. If I did, I would've realized way earlier that you weren't happy. So it wasn't you making me do this. It was me."

Dipper sighed. Looked at her without meeting her eyes, like he'd been caught doing something wrong. Plucked the teacup out of the air, scooped the still floating tea back into it, and took a sip. Belle watched the liquid go in his mouth and right out through the hole in his head, splashing on the bed sheet, sure to leave a nasty stain. He saw this, sighed again, and offered the cup to her. She accepted it cautiously and took a sip -- it was still quite hot.

He closed his eyes and let his expression droop. It was quiet for a few minutes, and Belle almost thought maybe he'd actually fallen asleep. Then:

"Do you ever wonder if we made the wrong decision by not erasing our memories again after Gravity Falls?"

Belle did a spit take without thinking, and ended up spraying tea in his face. He didn't react for a moment -- then realization dawned on his face and he yelped, jerking backward in shock. Just a little too late to seem natural, though.

"S-sorry bro-bro, that was, okay that was dumb. Looks like you're not the only one of us who gets up to cartoon-style shenanigans." A silly grin spread across her face. "I, uh, I got tea on your nice suit."

"Heh. That's alright. It's time I changed out of this anyway." He snapped, and suddenly he was in his pyjamas, the ones with little lambs on them. He smiled, a grin relatively free of sharp teeth, and for a moment he seemed so young and carefree. But then something flickered in the air, like he was a projection that someone was walking through, and the left half of him was wearing the suit again. He groaned, slammed his arms down on the bed, and sank into his blanket cocoon.

"I'm trying so hard to be normal again. Why won't this demon stuff stop?"

Belle laid flat on her back, and looked up at the ceiling. She felt oddly peaceful, like it was a Saturday morning and she was a kid again, watching cartoons in her dad’s room with her brother. It’d been a long time since they’d done that, but they were a bit older now, and they had new traditions and new hobbies. That had never stopped -- their family had always been so close-knit and warm, apart from the month Belle had spent lying to her brother about who he really was.

“Because you're my little brother,” she said, after a pause. She heard Dipper sit up beside her. “And my little brother's a demon. And nothing’s ever going to change that. But nothing's ever going to change the fact that you're my little brother, either.”

Still on her back, she turned her head and saw Dipper poking out of his blanket cocoon. He was silent, but his lip was definitely trembling.

She continued. “This is super deep but you’ve gotta hear me out. I’m still your sister, even though technically I’m not. Dad’s still your dad, even though technically he’s not. You still get to curl up in bed on a sick day and watch cartoons, even though you’re a demon and you can’t get sick. Don’t you see?”

She sat up, feeling a swell of excitement rise up in her chest. “When you made that deal with Dad to be my brother, did you do it because you wanted to be human or because you wanted to have a family again?”

Dipper took a shaky breath before opening his mouth. “Both?” His voice was weak, and cracked like he really was a teenager. “But I guess more the second one…”

“Yeah, and I should’ve realized that ages ago! Maybe you’re not literally a human, but you still get to act like one and be a part of this family.” She wrapped him up in a bone-crushing hug (not that he had very many bones to break at the moment). "And I never ever want you to forget and go back to being a fake Dipper."

He sniffed, in that telltale “I’m Dipper and I’m definitely not crying” kind of way, and she felt tears of her own start to drip over her massive grin. When she let go, he was wiping clear-colored tears onto the sleeve of his pyjamas, and the non-glitter part of his face was pink and puffy.

“Tha- thanks for-” (his voice broke and he coughed into his fist) “Thanks for being so deep. I really needed that.”

“Good, because who knows when it’ll happen again!” She ruffled his hair, scattering a layer of golden dust over the bed. They both stared at it, then at each other, and Belle made a face. “So, you’re not mad at me for letting your body explode?”

Dipper put on a show of thinking about it for a moment, and then broke into a dopey smile. “Nah, I’m not mad. You were just trying to make me happy, even if it was misguided and destructive. Just maybe… don’t do it again. And I guess I’ll try to be a little less mopey about the whole ‘not really being a human’ thing.”

“You’ve got yourself a deal!” She raised her hand for a high-five. Dipper looked at it nervously, then at his own hand. Then he shrugged, and slapped his sister’s hand, causing a puff of blue flame to momentarily dance between their fingers before evaporating with a soft pop.

Belle grinned ear-to-ear, hugged him again, and laid back down. “So. What are we going to do about the Dipper Dust all over Dad’s bed?”

He harrumphed. “Oh no, you are not calling my magical dandruff ‘Dipper Dust’.”

“Can and already have O brother of mine!” She giggled and bopped his nose. “Also, you're bananas if you think ‘magical dandruff’ is any better.”

“Oh yeah? Well…” He hit her with a pillow -- causing her to yelp -- and snickered. “Take that!”

“Ack!” Belle recovered quickly and grabbed another pillow. “You’re asking for it now, mister!”

She swung at him, and for the next few minutes the air was filled with sparkling dust and the sound of laughter. Just like that, things felt normal again. The pillow fight soon died down, but their playful energy did not. They talked, they laughed, they put on some old cartoons, and they let the time pass.

When Lionel returned to his room, he saw his son and daughter lying on the bed, hand-in-hand, heads on each other’s shoulders, both sound asleep. Some more of Dipper’s face had returned, including the rest of his mouth, and he was drooling golden spit onto his lamby pyjamas. His breathing still had a bit of an otherworldly echo to it, but it was barely audible over the sound of Belle -- with her glasses still on -- snoring like a monster truck.

Lionel smiled, pulled a throw blanket over his children, and tucked them in. He removed Belle’s glasses, set them on the bedside table, and then picked up the empty teacup to take it back to the kitchen. On his way out, he looked back at them again, a girl and a demon, sleeping so chaotically and yet so peacefully at the same time. He turned the lights off, and eased the door shut behind him.

As he headed back downstairs, he thought to himself that this was good.

All was right with the world.

All was as it should be.

(AO3 link)

#gravity falls #transcendence au #dipper pines #alcor the dreambender #belle sterling #lionel sterling #dipper sterling #rrr #fic #my stuff #long post

[thatdisastrousfangirl]

Have some Sterling Siblings :3

#transcendence au #tau #my art #fanart #alcor #dipper #belle sterling #I’m really proud of that background

[motionoftruth]

(via Ursa major or big dipper constellation necklace from silver | Etsy)

by SpiceWildflowers

#jewelry #pendant #sterling #zodiac #ursa major #big dipper #consetellation #stars #moon #celestial

[shoottomiss]

Why Pacifica has more character than Wendy (And why that’s one of GF’s biggest issues)

I’ve technically already talked about this. Made a small little post about it way back when that pretty much covered it in one paragraph. But sometimes you feel like expanding on things like that, you know? Besides, It doesn’t really hurt to think about it a little more deeply.

Oh, and if you haven’t seen gravity falls? There will be spoilers here. So, enter if you dare.

It’s no secret to those who know me that Gravity Falls is my favorite show of all time. It’s impact was what “saved” me from the “all new cartoons are bad” mindset, a thought process that plagued many during the cartoon channel dark age at the turn of the decade.

I’d say the only thing I’d actually hate about it is that terrible 3DS game, and even then I don’t dwell on that. However, it does serve as a reminder that like all shows, Gravity Falls doesn’t have a perfect track record. A show can minimize its mistakes, but at the end of the day, it will still end up making them from time to time. Gravity Falls in particular had a few problems of its own, from Dipper’s crush that just kept coming back, to Mabel’s difficult to digest at times childish antics.

But while both of these aspects can be justified, Gravity Falls’ biggest mistake is one that was never addressed or fixed. Which can be a big problem when it’s one of the main characters on your show.

It’s hard not to like the colorful band of characters Gravity Falls brings to the table. Whether it’s Dipper and his nerdy awkwardness, Mabel and her crazy antics, Soos the eccentric handyman, or Con-artist Grunkle Stan, it’s very likely you’ll come to enjoy at least one of them. 

But one other character sticks out like a sore thumb, one that manages to share a bit of the spotlight with the other four, even though it feels like she doesn’t really deserve it.

Enter Wendy, the teenage cashier of the mystery shack. Wendy is the “Fonzie” of Gravity Falls, constantly doing awesome actions and saying cool stuff because she’s, well, cool and awesome. She often has sage teenage advice for Mabel or Dipper, handles dangerous situations like a pro, and is the main love interest for Dipper. On the surface, these traits make it seem like Wendy might be an interesting character. The reality however, is the exact opposite.

Let’s be honest with ourselves, Wendy is perhaps the most boring character on the show. Wendy may be cool and collected, but since it ain’t broke, there’s nothing to fix. There’s no emotional conflicts with her, no stories that center around her, and no flaws in her character to make her more interesting. She has little to offer towards anything in the story other than pushing it towards its next destination. Now sure, all characters are technically pushing the story forward at all times. But creators usually make it feel more natural, by having the characters be just the slightest bit complex, thereby making them seem less of an obvious tool.

Had she been a minor character, this wouldn’t have been as much of an issue. But Wendy is a major character, one that appears in the theme song and has been on adventures with the twins more than a few times. Yet constantly the most complex intricacies she displays are that of a wooden board (in fact, the board might have more to offer). She never changes, from the very beginning of the series to the very end. So why even put her up front at all? If she was going to act as more of a minor character, why have her anywhere near the spotlight the main characters have? There’s almost nothing to work with.

It doesn’t help that her only character traits can end up hurting her too. Especially the damn crush. The fact that the biggest things Wendy is involved in also involve Dipper’s crush on her 95% of the time can be extremely frustrating to deal with, way more than it is for Dipper’s character. These cases once make her feel like nothing more than a tool that moves others forward instead of herself.

Though it seems like that wasn’t always meant to be the case. There are inklings here and there, in certain episodes, where it seems like some sort of actual character is trying to explode out of Wendy, like some sort of literary chest-burster. Wendy’s emotions during Boyz Crazy, her feelings of being manipulated by Robbie and being hurt by Dipper’s naive disregard for how she felt, is a episodic-conflict that writes itself. But by the time we reach her in the next episode, it’s brushed off as nothing more than a passing feeling, that needed no follow up. Another two great possibilities to look into Wendy’s character happen within the same episode, Society of the Blind Eye.

Firstly, Wendy talks about to Mabel about her love troubles, where she decides to tell Mabel to forget about guys. Though it is her usual “teenage wisdom”, it presents us with a possible consequence of the numerous ex-boyfriends Wendy has had (as she lists off in Hand that Rocks the Mabel). Has she become disillusioned by dating, or love? Is she far more similar to Mabel than we realized, dreaming of having someone to hold and also reaching a dead end? Hell, is she discovering something about her sexuality? 

The second opportunity is perhaps the biggest one, the one everyone remembers. Fearing their minds will be erased, Wendy admits that she’s actually extremely stressed all the time, and that it’s mainly a result of her family. Could it be because she’s the only woman in the house, especially with her mother gone? In fact, what happened to her mother? Could it be the way her father raised her, seeing as how he substituted Christmas with apocalypse survival training? Maybe it’s that she has to look after her brothers while her father is doing god knows what? It would certainly be nice to confirm why she’s always so calm and collected.

All of these possibilities would have worked, and would have helped Wendy’s character immensely. But instead, they too are abandoned, and Wendy is doomed to be as complex as a piece of string until the series ends.

I would also like to mention the rumor I’ve heard on the grapevine- that Wendy was indeed supposed to have an episode based around her, but it was dropped (if I recall correctly, it was because they decided to finish a different episode instead). Though I can’t confirm it, I will say that the “stressed all the time” point is definitely evidence for it.

Things get even worse when actual minor characters end up looking more interesting than Wendy, to the point where characters like Grenda and Robbie, fucking Robbie, are characters who have managed to receive better development within the bits and pieces of a single episode. But none stole Wendy’s potential quite more than Pacifica Northwest.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love Pacifica and what Alex gave her. In fact I admit I support the relationship between the llama and a certain pine tree. But if we are to once again be honest with ourselves, as a two-dimensional mean girl bully character meant only to be an obstacle for Mabel’s goals, Pacifica had far more development than she ever deserved to have.

It’s strange to think that people would latch onto Pacifica, despite her having so little to work with. Perhaps it was the slight lampshade hanging over her, or that her version of the character archetype was so amusing, but people loved her. How much, you ask? Enough to catch Alex by surprise and convince him to make an episode centered around her. It was a strange occurrence, to say the least.

Season 2 began, and by the third episode, we already began getting a taste of Pacifica’s new development, seeing the pressure put on her by her father. But it wasn’t until Northwest Mansion Mystery where Pacifica was fully expanded upon, showing us new twists in her character. She could be rather nice when not obsessed with “looking rich”, she began showing remorse for her foul behavior, and the one thing that stuck with everyone the most- that her parents were very likely abusive. Pacifica’s popularity in the fandom skyrocketed, and she’s been a favorite ever since. People even went so far as to get angry when her character seemingly regressed in the finale, and for some, it’s the only thing in said finale they consider bad.

But Pacifica’s increasing popularity also increased the problem on Wendy’s side. While people were waiting for Pacifica to show up in episodes after, Wendy’s appearances would be received with a more “come and go” attitude. How Wendy would impact the story from here wasn’t anyone’s biggest concern, and any action or appearance she made would be acknowledged, then brushed aside. Meanwhile there were theories a plenty about how Pacifica would become involved later on. It isn’t hard to see why.

It created what I’d like to call the “character paradox”, where Pacifica seemed far more viable as a major character despite being a minor character, while Wendy looked more fit to be a minor character instead of a major one.

However, this also created another problem on Pacifica’s side. A problem similar, but different to Wendy’s. When the series ended, and Pacifica’s only other appearances were cameos and and small bits in the finale, fans became upset that Pacifica didn’t have more time given to her. Things that they wanted Alex to expand upon, like how Pacifica would deal with the bell, her relationship with one or both of the Pines twins, and so on. Alex gave them a bone, not realizing they would be swarming for more. Now admittedly, it is partially the fans’ fault for assuming we would get more out of such a small time character, but that other part has to go somewhere. And unfortunately, Alex and his crew are that somewhere, starving one girl character so much that the fans scrambled for the next best thing. 

And why wouldn’t they? There were paths you could explore with Wendy or Pacifica that you just couldn’t do with Mabel. Yes, obvious things like possible romance, but also other aspects, like their families (which would be much different from Mabel, since many of her family problem’s are also Dipper’s), or hell, their possible interactions other characters, or with each other.

But we were cut off on both ends. After everything was said and done, and the series was over, neither character felt complete. We were left with two underdeveloped characters instead of one or two fully developed characters. 

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the show is bad now, far from it. It’s a big problem, yes, but not enough to make Gravity Falls anything short of amazing. But when it came to this aspect of the show, it certainly does feel like Alex’s priorities were a bit skewed. I think fans would have preferred an episode about either of these two rather than an episode where Dipper learns to not be a womanizing jerk (don’t think we need an entire episode for that).

And hell, it’s not as bad as how much Rebecca keeps Connie from doing after four fucking seasons.

#gravity falls #wendy corduroy #pacifica northwest #dipper pines #alex hirsch #mabel pines #soos ramirez #boyz crazy #hand that rocks the mabel #golf war #northwest mansion mystery #weirdmageddon #march of the sterling jester #connie maheswaran #steven universe #rebecca sugar

[kingfezproductions]

Here it is, the eighth episode of TZW Friday Night Fight! Matches on this card are: Brandon Williams taking on Tornado, Jim Sterling facing off against Eddie the Head, and in the main event, Dipper Pines versus Templar, with the winner getting a match with Pablo Sanchez for the Intercontinental Championship at Barfight! Plus, a special edition of “La Boutique” where Bubbles outlines how her feud with Valentine will cap off! We’ve got just an episode each of WAR and Friday Night Fight prior to Barfight, all of which should be coming in the next month! Vague TZW time, same TZW gallery!

#toon zone wrestling #tzw #wrestling fic #My writing #tornado #Robot Wars #dipper pines #gravity falls #jim sterling #eddie the head #iron maiden #templar #charms dealer #vatican #powerpuff bubbles #the powerpuff girls #valentine skullgirls #valentine #friday

[bm-americas]

21st Century Traditional: Beaded Tipi, 2010, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Americas

This model tipi is described in the artist's own words: Those old decorated tipis came to people in visions. Each one had its own story, born out of that person's space and time. My tipi is a 21st Century vision. Our elders living today didn't fight in the Indian wars, they fought in Viet Nam. Our Indian kids living today don't play much with rawhide gaming wheels, they play with X-boxes. When men and women sing around the drum, more than likely their drum stick is made out of PVC pipe and a wireless microphone transmits their voices through loudspeakers. Grandmothers and grandfathers have managed to give us mothers and fathers non-tangibles that are at the heart of what it is to be Indian, and in my case, Kiowa. It is our job to pass those intangibles down to our children. The tools we use to pass those along...for me, those are just tools. I have aligned the images on this tipi starting at the doorway, which faces east. A mother and father stand around the door proudly holding their small children; purposefully I have dressed all of the figures in a mixture of traditional and 21st Century clothing. Moving left, (around the tipi cover) the women occupy the southern side of the tipi: a grandmother in traditional clothing watching a child, a mother in Black Leggings dance clothing walking with her daughter in shorts and a t-shirt, an elderly woman in a Gourd Dance shawl holding an umbrella and wearing iconic high heels. On the western side, the drum occupies the space, men in [sic] obviously in today's world using today's technology to sing songs that are literally timeless. Continuing to move left, the men occupy the northern side of the tipi. A Gourd Dancer with a rockabilly haircut, a Viet Nam vet shaking the hand of a new Army recruit, an Oklahoma Grandpa with a little boy. Above the figures is the sky/myth world: the morning star and the new moon around the eastern doorway, the setting sun at the western side. Spiderwoman and her husband, Stony Road rest above; those great Kiowa beings that survived the flood, before Saynday brought us into this world. On the southern side, the Bear Rock or Devil's Tower stands with the 7 Kiowa Star Girls above (Pleiades). This was a story I grew up hearing many times. Having heard the story two ways with both Pleiades and the Big Dipper being named as the Star Girls, I have included the Big Dipper on the opposite side (as it stands in the night sky). And crazy old Saynday leaves his hand print in the constellation, Orion. A group of buffalo runs across the top of the northern side, their medicine being called upon for many things, a soldier's needs especially. This tipi is my vision then of a 21st Century Traditional-of that passing of intangibles through one generation into the next through dance, ceremony, myth, history, family and community values. These things have helped to make me into the Kiowa that I am. I pray for guidance to pass these most precious things onto my children. Size: includes base: 46 x 29 x 32 1/2 in. (116.8 x 73.7 x 82.6 cm) Medium: Brain tanned deer hide, charlotte cut glass beads, seed beads, bugle beads, glass beads, sterling silver beads, pearls, shell, raw diamonds, hand stamped sterling silver, hand stamped copper, cotton cloth, nylon "sinew" rope, pine, poplar, bubinga

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/185557

#brooklynmuseum #museumarchive #artsoftheamericas

[transcendence-au]

HC: Dipper Sterling’s high school senior quote is "high school was a magical time, yalls! also the person below me in the yearbook will die on march 17th 2437".

#hc #dipper