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fordarkisthesuede · 3 years

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Hey! this will sound out of place probably but I randomly run into one of your asks where you said that Disney’s handling of the show could’ve been way better. I watched the show fairly new so I don't know if there was an event while the show was still airing but I really wonder why do you think like that. (I hope I don't come across as mean. English is not my first language so I'm not the best at expressing myself.)

This is probably very very late, but "Disney's handling of [Gravity Falls] could've been better" is very much related to their terrible scheduling system.

It started out with about 3 episodes a month. The first big gap in the airing was between the Summerween episode (S1x12) and Boss Mabel (S1x13) was 5 months, from October 5 to February 15. This was actually around the time I started watching, because people on here kept talking about it on here!

But a 5 month gap MID-SEASON is still unheard of for regular shows. It technically wasn't even the MIDDLE of the season! There's only 20 episodes! You'd normally produce a whole season of a show to air over the course of a year to have a steady amount of content and keeps eyeballs primed and ready, with a 4-6 week long break for the winter holidays.

From 1x13 - 1x17, new episodes were twice a month, so every other week. But 1x18, Land Before Swine, aired about 1.5 weeks after 1x17, and then Dreamscaperers another 2 weeks after that. You remember that cliffhanger, right???? The Shack is destroyed, Gideon's run amok, the twins were going to be sent home for SURE.... People on here were OBSESSING over Bill Cipher. EVERYTHING was Bill. Every meme, every newly-discovered hint, every theory, every fanart was Bill-Bill-Bill *Bill* *Bill!* *BILL!* BILL CI ~ THE TRIANGLE GUY!

And we had to wait 3 weeks until the season finale, Gideon Rises aired. Imagine having to WAIT FOR THAT DAMN CLIFFHANGER SEASON ENDING. THREE F*CKING WEEKS.

But maybe you're still like "that's not too bad, it's bi-monthly, right? Maybe a little fickle. Doesn't sound horrible." Oh, my sweet summer child. You don't know the worst of it.

Season 2 started a day over the 1 year mark since Gideon Rises, and kept up tradition of 1 new ep twice a month, with the usual winter gap...and then, 2015 happened:

The proof's in the wiki page. Imagine, you wait patiently for 2x11, Not What He Seems, and get THE BIGGEST PLOT TWIST EVER PREDICTED BY FANDOM, with everyone losing their SH*T over what happens next....only to wait for the new episode for 4 months.

And again, it's not a real mid-season break. It wasn't like the next episodes hadn't been made yet, either. And they kept up a rough twice-a-month airings (sometimes with a 2-week gap, and other's 3) until...

WEIRDMAGEDDON.

THE EPIC 3-PART FINALE. PINES FAMILY VERSUS BILL CIPHER. THE SERIES ENDING. A BIG MOMENT FOR THE SHOW, THE FANS, AND EVEN DISNEY XD,

got split up into another 4 month gap.

Imagine it. IMAGINE how you're all excited for the series ending, a little scared to see what happens, and sad to see it go. The first part is so exciting, so full of promise, so easily ready to marathon with the rest - it'll be like watching a movie premier!

But that horrible goddamn mouse only laughs in your face. "Ho Ho! A marathon? Not on my watch arms, buddy!"

You've seen Part 2. You know how great it was. The emotional reconciliation, Mabelland, the series callbacks, the build-up to the fight with Bill. Can you, with your streaming services and dvd/bluray sets and pirated material you can watch at the drop of a hat even FATHOM what it was like to have to wait 4. Damn. Months. for the series to end?

To this day, I don't know of a show that's given that kind of haphazard hate-boner of a schedule. (Except for maybe Wander Over Yonder, which only ran 2 seasons for 3 years until it was cancelled.)

I'm sure Disney has excused it away with the dying breaths of cable on the wind and the growing popularity of streaming services, but I want to take your anonymous shoulders gently in my hands and look you dead-on so I can tell you this, from the bottom of my heart:

Gravity Falls wouldn't have made it without it's very, very dedicated fanbase. I was there for every episode live-stream after 1x15 aired. I only started a tumblr to keep up with the fandom. We waited for a 2-season, 40-episode cartoon show to complete for 4 years, knowing that the likelihood we'd ever get a movie out of it later was <0.

I just don't think Disney gave 2 flipparoonies about their animating department, let alone this show. They didn't make much merchandise for Gravity Falls. The vast majority of it back then was fan-made, with the official stuff being sold strictly online. I was lucky to find a single t-shirt in a Hot Topic up until the first break of Season 2, and then they slowly started bringing out Waddles plushies, the POP Vinyls, and of course the physical copy of Journal 3 by the end of the series.

TLDR; Disney didn't really care about this show, man. :/

#gravity falls #ask #sorry for the very very very long wait #anon #I'm getting caught up in my tumblr asks #been a while since i used the desktop #in comparison Cartoon Network keeps great scheduling #just look at the air dates for Steven Universe S1!#Sure they had some gaps later on but it was NOTHING like the Gravity Falls Hiatus'#I've never forgotten #and never forgiven #hot belgian waffles was that a f*cked up schedule #I Survived the Gravity Falls Hiatus is a badge of honor ok #anonymous

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youtiaoshutiao · 4 years

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i got to the epic poetry recital scene in ep 27 of Joy of Life and ahhhh i love it so!!! i’m an uncultured swine that can only recite maybe 5 chinese poems lolol but still, goosebumps all over. it was done so well!

- fan xian prefaces it by saying he memorised these poems from a 仙境 /paradise. “and you’re telling me you memorised all of them?” guo senior taunts. “you don’t know, that period of memories are carved into my mind as if by knives and axes. every word i saw and every book i read i remember to the most precise detail vividly.”

sounds badass. but the domestic Chinese audience watching it knows that he’s referring to the gaokao/college entrance exam where memorising tons of these poems are required HAHAHA

- true enough wang juan the scriptwriter did choose only poems that are required for gaokao. this way it stands true to the plot point of fan xian being considered a literary genius in qingguo because he’s a modern person who benefits from being taught all these literary works through the 9 yr education pathway. and it also resonates with the audience as they too have memorised the same poems before.

- zhang ruoyun’s line delivery was AMAZING. i got so excited and emotional the moment he threw the vat of wine aside and began reciting 将进酒 as he stumbled around drunk but at the same time voice and expression so sure and full of conviction.

- some of the poems fan xian recites apart from being legends in their own right also speak of his loneliness and how alone he is, in a land that is not his own, in a time period that is not his own. 水调歌头 written by su dongpo when he was sent to an appointment far away about his longing for his brother. ending off with chen zi ang’s 前不见古人后不见来者念天地之悠悠独怆然而涕下 “i see no ancestors before me, i see no descendants behind me, thinking of how vast and limitless the universe is, alone and sorrowful i weep” (ok v loose translation lol excuse this!!!) but yet while he stands solitary, an outsider in every aspect in this AU, he is at the same time not alone as he recites poetry that came from all the poet greats throughout chinese history. thousands of years of culture stand with him as well.

- and after reciting over a hundred poems and making zhuang mohan vomit blood (literally), he falls to the ground and right before he passes out drunk goes “ 我醉欲眠卿且去。。。。。。去nmd。” basically a “I’m drunk and want to sleep, you may go [up to this point an actual poem]... go f*** yourself.”

the best conclusion to the best poetry recital 庆国 is ever gonna see!

#joy of life #庆余年 #cdramanet #zhang ruoyun #张若昀 #drama watching #imagining if i were someone who did go thru the gaokao and the pain of memorising all these poems... i'd prob love this scene so much more #i got a bit bored of the show at like ep 13 or smth when teng ziqi was killed and stalled for months but now that i picked it back up #it's so fun #hehehe #mine

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eregyrn-falls-art · 6 years

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Inktober, Day 14: Land Before Swine!

FROM HECK’S HEART, I STAB AT THEE!

Ah, the Original Hunkle Moment! Obviously, this would be reinforced/improved on in Scary-oke, but this is really where Badass Grunkle Stan burst on the scene, as well as proof of Stan’s underlying heart of gold (and softie status when it comes to Mabel). So while there were a bunch of really great possible shots from this ep, the choice was pretty easy.

#gravity falls #stanley pines #inktober 2018 #my art

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eregyrn-falls · 6 years

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Gravity Falls Eps Ranking Challenge!

Was also tagged to do this by @a-million-chromatic-dreams! This was HARD. Ask me on a different day and I might shuffle them slightly differently? Especially the ones in the middle?

Here they are:

DD&MD NWHS ATOTS Weird 3 The Last Mabelcorn Weird 1 Weird 2 DAMVTF Scary-oke Land Before Swine Dreamscaperers Gideon Rises Into the Bunker Society of the Blind Eye The Time Travelers' Pig Summerween Double Dipper Stanchurian Candidate Carpet Diem Sock Opera Northwest Mansion Mystery The Legend of the Gobblewonker Tourist Trapped Dipper vs. Manliness The Inconveniencing Bottomless Pit Little Dipper Irrational Treasure Headhunters The Deep End Boss Mabel Soos and the Real Girl Roadside Attraction The Golf War Blendin's Game Boyz Crazy Fight Fighters Little Gift Shop of Horrors The Love God The Hand that Rocks the Mabel

So like: listen, I’m very up front about the fact that I’m a Ford fan, so the eps he’s actually in are gonna rank really high for me. But I’m not going to try to grade them all or anything, because that’s too difficult. The stuff lower down has a lesser degree of rewatchability for me, but that doesn’t mean I dislike them completely. In fact, basically for every episode of the show, even those eps at the bottom, you could ask me to tell you what I loved about them and I’d have things to talk about -- things I flat-out loved or think are timelessly classic. That mades it super-hard to downgrade things.

I don’t know who would most enjoy doing this, so I’m not going to tag specifically, but -- if you see this and think it’d be fun/interesting to do, please do it and let me know!

#gravity falls #gpoy #meta

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sinceileftyoublog · 6 years

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Live Picks: 2/16-2/22

Brockhampton

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Here are our live picks for the week ahead, starting with the weekend and ending just before the next one!

2/16: Little Big Town & Kacey Musgraves, Allstate Arena

It’s hard for non- or casual country fans to remember that Alabama’s Little Big Town were around before they were singing about girl crushes on the Grammy Awards. Sure, their breakout and by my ears best album Pain Killer skyrocketed them into the mainstream, but they released five albums before then and have been around since the late 90′s. Though live they certainly play hits from Pain Killer and last year’s even more popular The Breakers, they often throw bones to fans that have been with them since even before 2012′s Tornado, especially when playing songs like Southern anthem “Boondocks”.

A woman deserving of a headlining slot, Texas country star Kacey Musgraves is the second of three acts on this tour (she’ll be opening for Harry Styles in June). She’s released two really good studio albums (2015′s Pageant Material landed in our top 40 albums of that year) and one surprisingly good Christmas album, and she’s planning to release a new record, Golden Hour, early this year. Expect to hear plenty of new songs during her set.

Breakout Texas country band Midland opens.

2/17 & 2/18: Oh Sees, Empty Bottle

Music Frozen Dancing, the Empty Bottle’s annual free winter outdoor concert, always seems to nab a great lineup, and this year’s no different, mostly due to the headliners: Oh Sees/OCS (formerly known as Thee Oh Sees and about a million different other names), whose devoted fan base makes sure they sell out every Chicago show. Memory of a Cut Off Head, their latest album as OCS, is a little different from their raucous punk and sounds like the band’s early stages. It’s a 60′s-indebted, mostly acoustic psychedelic collection of songs from founding member John Dwyer and former member Brigid Dawson. (It notably features horn arrangements and saxophone from Mikal Cronin.) Just before Memory but also released in 2017 came their first album as Oh Sees, their supposed new moniker for the near future, Orc, which is more consistent with the pummeling sound they’ve been known for over the past 10 or so years. (It notably features co-production from Cronin buddy Ty Segall). Live, though, they could play literally anything from their 20+ album discography, even new songs, considering the rate at which they put out music. Of their recent records, I’m a fan of 2016′s A Weird Exits as well as 2009′s Help, 2011′s Carrion Crawler/The Dream, 2013′s Floating Coffin, and 2015′s Mutilator Defeated At Last. And for a nice document of what they sound like live, check out their stellar Live in San Francisco album from a couple years back. Like King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, they’re simply nonstop in their distorted riffing, chaotic drumming, and yelping.

Co-headlining Music Frozen Dancing are Detroit electropunks ADULT. Rounding out the lineup are Brooklyn rockers B Boys, DJ Taye of local footwork behemoth Teklife, and local hardcore band C.H.E.W.

The band is also playing a Music Frozen Dancing after party, a ticketed (and already sold out, of course) club show at the Bottle itself. Opening the show are local noise rockers Rash and garage punks Skip Church.

2/18 & 2/19: BROCKHAMPTON, House of Blues

They call themselves the world’s first Internet boy band, but that’s misleading in more ways than one. BROCKHAMPTON aren’t the first boy band to benefit from the viral tendencies of the web, for one. More importantly, they’re not what you think of when you think boy band. A giant hip-hop, pop, and R & B collective, the band is more freewheeling and prolific than heavily and carefully curated, releasing three albums in 2017, culminating in SATURATION III, the most realized of the three that found a way to be experimental, catchy, and cohesive. Their fourth studio album, Team Effort, is set to be released this year, but you can expect them to perform SATURATION songs almost entirely.

2/20: Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters, Riviera

At this point, pretty much anybody who vaguely pays attention to guitar music knows about Robert Plant’s full-fledged transition from classic rocker to old folk fogey--Raising Sand, his collaboration with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss, won them Album of the Year at the 2009 Grammy Awards. But lesser known and just as solid are Plant’s two albums with his new-ish band The Sensational Space Shifters, 2014′s Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar and last year’s Carry Fire, which allowed Plant to bend beyond the traditions of rock, bluegrass, or folk, incorporating elements of Arabic and North African influence into his arsenal. Luckily, however, for Zeppelin fans, Plant tends to mix beloved rock radio classics in with his newer material, overall making for a set that exudes old school songwriting, familiarity, and warmth whether you’ve heard the new songs or not.

Sensational Space Shifters band member and English folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman opens with a solo set.

2/21: Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, SPACE

Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn are both prominent musicians in their own name, two of the most proficient banjo players ever, Washburn’s clawhammer composition skills unrivaled, just like Fleck’s technical prowess. Together, the two are more than just husband and wife--they’re natural musical collaborators, having released two albums and an EP of both traditional and original material. They’ll be playing two shows Wednesday at SPACE, but if you miss that, you can catch them at two more shows next Saturday at Old Town School of Folk Music.

2/21: Adam Torres, Empty Bottle

Singer-songwriter and former Southeast Engine member Adam Torres finally released Pearls To Swine two years ago, 10 years after self-releasing cult classic Nostra Nova. He’s a folk singer with an otherworldly voice, his ability to reach high notes and wail with yearning rivaling Jeff Buckley, and his band--consisting of violinist Aisha Burns, bassist/pianist/Molly Burch collaborator Dailey Tolliver, and Swans percussionist Thor Harris. Thankfully, it didn’t take Torres long to reach the follow-up to Pearls; granted, it was a 4-song EP recorded at the same time, entitled I Came To Sing The Song. But it felt different, its songs notably more insular than the expansive, epic Pearls. I can only imagine a Torres live set achieves both ends admirably.

Indie pop band Wild Pink co-headline. Rock band Minor Characters opens.

2/22: Architects, House of Blues

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a tour named after a non-album single, but Brighton metalcore band Architects are doing it anyway. Their “Doomsday” tour, named after, yes, a non-album single that followed their 2016 album All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, the heaviest, darkest, and perhaps best album the band has ever released. They know it, too; in recent live sets, the band has heavily favored that record, even in favor of recent beloved releases like Lost Forever // Lost Together and Daybreaker.

Hardcore punks Stick To Your Guns and Counterparts open.

2/22: Shame, Schubas

Songs of Praise is the debut album from London post-punks Shame that came out just a month ago and is already seeming like it’s going to be one of the best debuts of the year. The band tackles serious subjects with dark humor over pummeling guitars and drums and, when they feel like it, melodies that could rival peak Britpop.

Pittsburgh post-punk revivalists The Gotobeds open.

2/22: Four Year Strong, Concord Music Hall

Worcester pop punk band Four Year Strong just released Some of You Will Like This, Some of You Won't, a collection of unplugged rarities. For hardcore fans, it was perhaps welcome. But for casual fans and in comparison to their Go Down in History EP and especially raw 2015 self-titled record, the latter of which was produced by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, it came across as too soft and tender for a band who proved to be so good at eliciting sore neck headbanging. Lucky for us, live, the band who has been playing 2007 album Rise or Die Trying in full every night should bring the same level of energy they had 10 years younger to a co-headlining set at Concord Music Hall.

Gainesville ska punks Less Than Jake co-headline. Pop punk bands Direct Hit! and Bearings open.

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englishmastering · 7 years

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ep 684 stakeout: đi tuần tra - be off the hook: dược trong sạch - froth: bọt bia - breast pocket - steam: hơi nóng - veranda: ban công - contractor: chủ thầu - stuntman: diễn viên đóng thế - lawsuit: vụ kiện - diet member: thành viên nghị viện - fabricate: làm giả

file 972 knife-hand strike: chém bằng cạnh bàn tay land a punch - right-hand traffic: tay lái thuận - catch a bite: ăn gì đó - parasol: dù? - dabbed with salt: rắc muối - circus troupe: đoàn xiếc - overdo sth: làm quá nhiều - make a scene: làm ầm lên - goard rail: rào chắn an toàn - seat belt - front glass: cửa trước xe - rear seat: ghế sau của xe - branded + n: đồ hàng hiệu = passenger side's window: cửa sổ ghế cạnh tài xế - soaking wet: ng ướt sũng - mingle with trà trộn vào - be enveloped: bị bao bọc - make a (quick) getaway: tẩu thoát - ski mask - rubber boat: thuyền cao su - wash into the sea - sandal strap: quai dép - pick up girls: tán gái - be on the run: chạy trốn - gaudy - pareo - banknote: tiền giây - lay forth ? đưa ra? - wristwatch - cross-check: kiểm tra đối chiếu - see through s.o: nhìn ra, phát hiện ra điều gì ở ai - filch: ăn bớt - stolen stuff is tracked: giấu đầu lòi đuôi - resolve: mong muốn? - be possessed by sth: bị ám - take one's life: lấy đi tính mạng - obscure: che giấu (sương) - purge: xua tan - training: tập sự - apprentice: đệ tử - domain: lãnh địa - be stuffed with / be bundled into sw: bị nhét đầy với - wholesaler: ng bán sỉ/ bán buôn

file 790

- figurine: tượng bằng nhựa??

- picking marks: vết xước ??

- vehicular vandalism: phá/ đột nhập xe ??

- thinner: dung môi??

- red sphray paint: sơn xịt đỏ

- tag along with s.o: đi cùng ai

- be transfered to sw: được chuyển đến

- headquarter: trụ sở

- twin tails: 2 bím tóc

- hold up: khoan đã

- late-blooming: hẹn hò trễ?

- thickheaded: ngốc nghếch

- have a grudge against s.o

- moe characters

- wince

- street racer: ng đua xe

- flashily customized

- take delight at sth: coi cái gì là niềm vui/ có thú vui

- be rear-ended bị tông từ đằng sau??

- head starts swimming: đầu óc choáng váng

- engine idling: để cho nổ máy

- seal off sw: phong tỏa

- windshield: kính chắn gió

- wreck

- conspicuous

- ram sth into sth (car); đâm xe

- copycat crime

- derogatory: từ lóng xúc phạm

- come-hither: tán tỉnh

- kilometer reading: đồng hồ xe

- swim tubes

- rubber raft: thuyền ao su

- prod: giục hỏi

- violent crime: tội phạm

- get in the way: làm cản trở

- detour: đi vòng

- suction cup decal

- rear-window: kính sau xe

- obstruct: che khuất

- questioning: lấy lời khai

- anything miss its mark: sót gì ko

- lockpick: cạy khóa

- set eyes on : để ý

- stroller: xe nôi

- imprudent:

- child safety seat

- be held up: bị giữ lại

outgrow sth

- open up field of vision: giải phóng tầm nhìn

- saliva: nước bọt

- give s.o a ride home

- be taken into custody: bị giải đi bắt đi ??

- patrol car: xe tuần xa;

- pearls before swine

- cream stew: súp kem

- idiosyncrasies: điểm lạ

- regain consciousness

- object of 1st love: đối tượng

file 470 - long distance phone area code: mã vùng điện thoại - scale - out of tune: lệch tông - feisty: nặng lời - thin out music: sửa nhạc?? - wrestle: chống trả vật lộn - entranced (a): - railing: lan can - priest: nhà sư - banquet - fireproof suit: y phục chống cháy - park car: đỗ xe - be aflame: cháy rừng rực - string snap: dây đần đứt - arthritis: viêm cơ? - be sealed: bị niêm phong - cigarette tray: gạt tàn cigarette butt? đầu lọc - mess around: phá phách - serial murder - bite mark: vết răng cắn - strong smoker: nghiện thuốc lá nặng - entrance door: cửa ra vào - musical scale: (thứ tự) nốt nhạc - violin's bridge: bộ phận nâng dây của violin - baton: gậy chỉ huy dàn nhạc - switch tráo đổi - flimsy - neighbouring note: 2 nốt gần nhau - jarring sound: âm nghe khó chịu - be entranced: nổi lòng tham?? - collude: đồng phạm lỗi - divine providence: sự trừng phạt của chúa trời - trampoline: đệm cứu hỏa - capriccio: khúc tùy hứng - requiem: khúc cầu siêu

file 954-957 - muscle-bound - maniac - cut someone some slack: - be bound by the contract: ràng buộc - go into a rage: nổi điên - back out a payout: tiền bồi thường hợp đồng - juicy rumour - bribe s.o: hối lộ - turn sth upside-down - An hour or two cant hurt, right? - die-hard fan - explain at length: giải thích dài dòng - be granted access - fire extinguisher: đồ chữa cháy - be hanged: treo cổ - insight: khả năng nhìn thấu/phán đoán - be shrunken: bị teo nhỏ - make deduction:suy luận, phán đoán - folding chair: ghế xếp - kite string: dây diều - excess rope: đoạn dây bị thừa - rigor mortis: độ tụ máu/ độ cứng của xác ?? - dilation of pupils: độ dãn đồng tử - loop rope through sth: luồn dây - hoisting machine: máy móc di chuyển đồ - pulley: ròng rọc - bleacher: khán đài ko mái che - interrogate: lấy lời khai - raise a fuss: làm ầm lên - brunt: gánh nặng?? - aura: khí chất - filthy lie - fly off the handle: nổi giận ?? - motive: động cơ - mountain climbing - hoist sth up: treo lên - deranged fan: fan cuồng - alibi: bằng chứng ngoại phạm - back of hand: mu bàn tau - pull the trigger: bóp cò do sth this instant: làm ngay... - have it one's way: muốn làm gì thì làm - sneak in : đột nhập - be bogged down - narcotic: - conduct a raid - forensics(os?); ng khám nghiệm hiện trường - military gloves găng tay lao động - take the liberty tự ý / nhờ? - noose - armrest: tay vịn - transport knot: nút thắt vận chuyển - retract - diameter - forearm: từ khuỷu tay đến cổ tay - be pregnant with one's child - make it big - suffer a miscarriage - police probe into sth; điều tra - omniscience: thính tai? - coroner: nhân viên pháp y

file 731 - buckle: chỗ gài - genuine artice: đồ thật - exhorbitant - sash dây đai?? scabbard: kiếm - appraiser: ng thẩm định - certificate of authenticity: giấy chứng nhận đồ thật - hook s.o: dụ đc ai - centerpiece: tâm điểm - pistol; súng - lament: than thở v - depravity: sự hủ bại - shady: vớ vẩn?? đáng ghét?? - a drop in the bucket - preparation: tạm dịch- cách đối phó - if we assume that to be true - shove: đẩy, chen lấn - patriot: nhà yêu nước - feel inclined to - rain gear: áo mưa - turn away visitor: ngăn khách vào - find oneself in a pinch: bị sập bẫy - nab: tóm được - endorse a plan: đồng ý - go through the trouble of sth: bỏ công sức - blockade: phong tỏa - suspend the crime: tạm ngưng - guard: bảo vệ - competence: năng lực metal detecting gate: cửa dò kim loại metal detector - linscupulous earnings: làm ăn bất chính - heist: vụ trộm - dagger: dao găm - grip : rãnh súng - stand in one's way: ngáng đường - appraise: kiểm định - slippery: tài thánh - fire sprinkler: vòi chữa cháy tự động - forgeries: đồ giả forged items - conduct dna test- bulky: cồng kềnh - aniti theft device - plate - take the matter to court: đưa ra tòa - ruse: cái bẫy - pigment: phẩm màu - higher-ups: cấp trên - feel cramped turn tail and run: quay đuôi bỏ chạy - mouse trap - make a show out - every nook and cranny: mọi ngõ ngách- hanging scroll: tranh treo trường cuốn lại đc - cease sth: dừng làm điều gì - master and pupil: sư phụ và đệ tử - slip into the crowd: trà trộn vào - superintedent: cục trưởng - quite a bargain

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COPY PASTING SOME YOUTUBE COMMENTS BC ALL THIS MABEL HATE MAKES ME MAD

ShadowRevya91 week ago "He wasn't lying in that regard as to just casually mocking her." Bill wasn't just casually mocking her. In context, he was trying to create a rift between the twins because at the time Dipper wasn't yet willing to make a deal with him for so much of a stitch of one of Mabel's puppets.

"Makes Mabel seem like a Mary Sue." I don't follow, what is it that makes Mabel seem like a Mary Sue? I thought a Mary Sue was a character without flaws, but your issue here seems to be based in Mabel being deeply, brokenly flawed.

"Dipper is shown to constantly give something up for Mabel" Dipper willingly giving things up for Mabel—in circumstances where it is clearly established as the decent course of action, with Dipper learning a lesson in doing so—does not mean Mabel is selfish. Ex. Dipper learning that it's creepy to be so controlling over another person's life choices and choosing to give up his hard work for his sister the moment he sees for himself that losing her pig would genuinely hurt her means that Dipper grew as a person and cares about his twin respectively, not that Mabel somehow got away with something to his detriment. For comparison, in Carpet Diem, the moment Dipper explains to Mabel why it is he wants his own room, she gives up the key and tells him she won't fight him for it. This obviously isn't an example of Dipper being selfish, it's just that Mabel understands and cares about her twin. And as you say, the lessons Dipper learned in his eps and his ultimately being able to forge a genuine friendship with Wendy are positives, not losses, and certainly not losses "because of Mabel's selfishness".

"Everything (in her mind) has to be about her." Mabel is portrayed as constantly trying to help other people. As shown in The Last Mabelcorn, other peoples' happiness is what she stakes her own happiness on. She says as much in The Love God when Dipper and the teens ditch a suffering Robbie: "How can I be happy if I know someone else is sad?" In contrast, Dipper holds grudges; he isn't invested in the well-being of people he doesn't know or people who have crossed him/his sister in the past (Robbie, Pacifica, the gnomes, etc.). Mabel's so concerned about Gideon's happiness in The Hand that Rocks the Mabel that she can't bring herself to turn him down even when it distresses her. She tries to help Dipper along in his crush on Wendy and in building confidence, and when it doesn't work out offers to make him a list of rebound crushes. She tries to play matchmaker between Lazy Susan and Stan when she finds out he wants her to like him. When she finds out Stan has a fear of heights, she spends the episode trying to help him move past it. I could go on, but seriously she does these things for the entire length of the show; it's her 'thing'. Ford, Dipper, and Wendy agree in Mabelcorn that Mabel's the most pure-of-heart, well-meaning person they know.

"she is shown to constantly take advantage of his dedication and/or belittle his ambitions" When is she ever shown to consciously take advantage of Dipper or hurt his feelings? She makes fun of his voice, lack of manliness, and love of nerd things, but only playfully and she's definitely not the sole character to do so (see Stan, Wendy, and Soos) (Stan is so hard on Dipper that it becomes a major plot point near the end of season one). In Bottomless Pit, Mabel, Soos, and Wendy all express how much they think Dipper's voice is perfect at the end of their mixtape. Mabel realizes in DD & More D that Dipper's actually been taking a lot of their teasing to heart and feels bad about this because it was not her intention. This isn't a realization specific to Mabel either. In Little Dipper, Dipper realizes that he's unintentionally been rubbing his success in Mabel's face, that she feels inferior to him because "you're better than me at like everything", and that her teasing is her attempt to feel better about what few victories over him she has.

"And she never really "pays" for it" Mabel is punished while learning lessons, same as Dipper. As I said before, it's just easier for the audience to brush off. Ex. Mabel gets multiple attempts to kickstart the summer romance that is her central desire for the summer; every single one goes down in flames (literally, in Sock Opera) and we see in Society of the Blind Eye how much those failures weigh on her and how difficult it can be for her to remain confident in the face of them. Like Dipper, we see throughout season 2 that Mabel makes an effort to move past this and comes out better for it.

"Is she at least sorry for nearly getting her brother and close friend killed simply to teach them a lesson? It was an accident, yeah, but it was a result of how short-sighted she is." Maybe it's just me, but Mabel... pushing Wendy and Dipper into a closet together... falls a bit short of consideration as a heinous crime. Besides, Mabel 1) was trying to be helpful, 2) was also in danger, 3) didn't know there was a monster in the bunker. Pinning Into the Bunker on Mabel is like pinning Sock Opera on Dipper for not realizing he was about to be screwed over or pinning The Inconveniencing on Dipper for going along with the teens in an attempt to fit in or pinning Weirdmageddon on Dipper for not telling Mabel about the rift in the first place. You could pin Into the Bunker on Dipper as well while we're at it; he led the mission, the purpose of which was to benefit his summer priority, and the gang almost were crushed in the security room. Point being: The kids not being able to see the future isn't a character flaw and the others don't typically expect apologies from them in such instances. This is different from, say, when Dipper intentionally raises the dead in Scary-oke or Stan leaves Waddles outside in Land Before Swine.

"Unlike in season one where it's pretty obvious that the story is about Dipper" How is season one about Dipper? I didn't get that impression personally.

"I can only think of two episodes where she actually learns a lesson (Boy Crazy and Sock Opera)" Here's what I can remember off the top of my head: Tourist Trapped, Irrational Treasure, The Legend of the Gobblewonker, The Hand That Rocks the Mabel, Boss Mabel, The Last Mabelcorn, The Golf War, Society of the Blind Eye, Northwest Mansion Mystery, and The Love God. Not that number remotely matters (as you say, Ford's arc wrapped up neatly despite his only being present for the final 7 episodes), but hope that helps.

"She KNOWS this isn't real that Bill is gonna destroy everyone she cares about in the REAL world... but CHOOSES to stay put." This... ignores a couple things. 1) So did Wendy and Soos and nearly Dipper, only he remembered that what the bubble was showing him wasn't actually what he truly wanted, only what he thought he did (i.e. being Wendy's age). Which ties into his speech to Mabel later. 2) It's a magic prison bubble; Mabel's under a spell. She doesn't snap out of it until the sincere sibling hug. 3) This incident is parallel to the first season's penultimate episode, wherein Dipper initially decides not to save Stan and the shack because he feels Stan doesn't care enough about him to merit rescuing. Mabel is similarly hurting because she believes Dipper has decided to ditch her. This is part of the reason she creates a false Dipper; she thought the real Dipper meant to abandon her and couldn't accept a reality where that could be true. Because when it comes down to it, and Dipper spells this out himself, Mabel isn't stuck in her fantasyland because she's selfish and it's giving her everything she thinks she wants; she's stuck because she's afraid of losing Dipper and "of growing up".

Throughout the series, Dipper and Mabel are both portrayed as childish. Dipper has a childish idea of what it means to be grown up and can't wait to leave his childhood behind and become the great person he imagines he will be as an adult. Mabel is a tad more mature in that she understands being afraid of being perceived as childish is itself childish and that the twins have to cherish their childhood and their time together while they have it because it won't last forever. However, faced with both the thought of her childhood ending and Dipper leaving, she can't handle both at once and instead seeks solace from reality, refusing to move forward in the process. Dipper developed as a character over the series, but like Mabel those lessons don't fully sink in until the events of Weirdmageddon, where he becomes a realist who understands he can't deal with reality by constantly living in the future. He sees Mabel struggling with the unrealistic desire to remain stuck in time as similar to his unrealistic desire to have already grown up and explains to her they can kill two birds with one stone and face reality together; the spell breaks here because Mabel no longer needs the fantasy world to deal with losing Dipper and that subsequent panic of having to grow up alone. "Man, I went nuts back there. The real world can't be that bad, right?" Show less Reply 3 ShadowRevya9 ShadowRevya91 week ago (edited) "It's sad to see that ONCE AGAIN, Dipper sacrifices his ambitions for her" "All she really learned that is if she guilt trips Dipper enough times, he'll always turn around for her." I think you're missing a critical component of Dipper's character arc here. Dipper's 'ambitions', to essentially begin a career path at friggin' 12 and skip/squander the remainder of his childhood and teenage years, are explicitly portrayed as being as delusional as Mabel's fantasyland. Dipper isn't giving up anything of value here and he isn't giving it up for Mabel's sake; it's a personal decision he's made and he's using this decision to show Mabel that he's chosen to face the music and implore her to join him in doing so. This is why when Mabel tells Dipper—immediately after they've escaped the prison bubble—that while she appreciates his speech he's free to take the apprenticeship if he wants to and she doesn't want to be responsible for holding him back, Dipper simply reiterates that he doesn't want it.

Again, Dipper letting things go of his own volition (not due to supposed emotional abuse on Mabel's part) is not somehow synonymous with him getting the short end of the stick. The only ones who try to frame it that way in-universe are Bill "literal monster" Cipher and Stanford "isn't having siblings suffocating?" Pines.

"with her... not really giving up much this time" This is what I meant when I said it's easier for the audience to value what Dipper sacrifices more. Mabel gave up the prison bubble, a world where she gets everything she wants (except Dipper, which makes the whole thing worthless). The bubble was her dream the way Ford's apprenticeship was Dipper's: unrealistic and unfulfilling. It would have been awful of her to choose to stay, the same way it would have been awful of her to give Bill the journal to keep her play; the same way it would have been awful of Dipper to keep the megaphone, the same way it would have been awful of Dipper to deny Wendy's freedom to make her own choices. These are all sacrifices, but only seem to be viewed as such when they are Dipper's, despite the fact that in each instance, 1) giving up the thing was hard for them, 2) unambiguously the right thing to do, and 3) they realize the thing being given up wasn't actually worth much at all. Show less Reply 2 jenny xu jenny xu6 days ago I'm feeling bad for jumping into this argument but at the same time...

Alright, I see a lot of what you're saying here, but my first impression agreed with Edward Gil and my reason for 'why' stands thus. Dipper, as far as I've perceived him in both season one and season two, drops everything (except for Wendy, I suppose) the moment Mable needs his help. When Waddles was taken by a pterodactyl in the Land Before Swine, Dipper dropped his attempt to photograph the pterodactyl the moment he learned that Mabel's pig was taken. Of course, he would help, but as far as I remember, it never occurred to Dipper to bring a camera 'just in case.' That's him caring for Mable and putting her above his priorities.

Later on, in the Golf War, Mable may have been the bigger person and stated that cheating was wrong while Dipper was perfectly fine with it, we have to remember that Pacifica is Mable's nemesis. Not Dipper's. The only reason Dipper would have any issue with Pacifica would be because of the way she treats Mable.

Even earlier, in the Deep End, when Mermando couldn't breathe and Mable told Dipper (as the assistant lifeguard) to give him reverse CPR, Dipper didn't hesitate. The obvious solution would have been to roll Mermando into the lake, yes, but I thought it was heartwarming that Dipper /didn't hesitate/ to give reverse mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a merman he met literally seconds earlier. He probably would have done it, Mable or no Mable, but I think the fact that his twin went through all that trouble before hand to get Mermando to the lake played a role in how quickly he conceded to the demand.

In dangerous situations, Dipper's first words are always 'let her go!' and 'her' always being Mable. Despite not being the bravest or strongest person (don't we know it), Dipper always, always, stands in front of Mable against monsters and threats to shield and protect her. Obviously, this isn't to say that Mable is less capable than anyway. If it comes down to it, I'm willing to bet that she's the more athletic one, but the fact of the matter is, Dipper is constantly proving how much he cares for his twin.

Now Mable on the other hand? Aside from how she always supports Dipper fully in his investigation of the supernatural (Mystery Twins!), it's hard to think of an example where she dropped her own priorities in order to help Dipper.

Now, in terms of 'being a good person,' I think Mable probably has Dipper beat. She goes out of her way to help others, she has a stronger sense of morals and in the Last Mablecorn, Mable outright stated that she had the purest heart and Dipper just went, 'no arguments there.' I just think, when it comes down to paying attention to each other's needs and such, Dipper is just more aware than Mable, you know? He's the analytical one, the one who's always winning at chess. So he's the one who takes more care to see things from Mable's perspective.

Meanwhile, Mable is playfully ribbing Dipper about an assortment of shortcomings, from lack of manliness to his voice to being slightly shorter to his crush on Wendy to a miscellaneous collection of other small, harmless comments that... frankly add up. It's not much of an issue considering. as you've pointed out, Wendy, Soos and Grunkle Stan do virtually the same but considering how Dipper is towards Mable, it's worse coming from her.

When things get serious, Mable is there for Dipper, but not the same drop-everything way he is for her. When it comes down to it, I think that's what rubs people the wrong way.

This is all open to discussion, of course. Show less

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