#research era ford

[jingledbells]

theyre talking about stuff

#sorry i really like the idea of post wmg ford and fiddleford telling mabel about their researcher era adventures #mabel would be really invested in them #gravity falls #mabel pines #ford pines #stanford pines #fiddleford mcgucket #fiddauthor #<- ig lol #bella's doodles

[pinetreeshack]

#ugh. just ugh. i have nothing to say about this except nightmares suck #fiddauthor #< at least implied #im still trying to figure out how i percieved their relationship during research era #fiddleford mcgucket #ford pines #gravity falls #doodles #art #gravity falls fanart #art diary

[caede9]

ive been inside your mind sixer i know your secrets

fyi, huuuuuuge thanks to @triangleguy for transcribing bill's handwriting here.)

layers under the cut

bear with me, i'm ssing these off my canvas because im too lazy to save all them, so they might be very minorly diff sizes

#gravity falls #ford pines #bill cipher #he's been on my mind a LOT recently so i figured why not draw him #also this was supposed to be a doodle that ended up being a little more so if you're wondering “grey why is the lighting so off” #that's kinda why #but GOD researcher ford when he was being used by bill cipher in his moments before the realization all came crashing down is so hype #i love flamboyant casually mad scientist chars who get clocked by their own hubris!!!!! #i love the way that ford recovered from that era!!!!! #he's so cool i love him #stanford pines #he doesn’t have glasses because i thought it’d capture the i’m not myself vine more but in hindsight it didn’t do that

[235uranium]

one of the fun things about ford pines is that this guy's always in situations. it's also one of the most tragic things about him

#☢️.txt #i love portal era ford so much #because hes simultaneously whoever he has to be to survive and The Same Person As Always #smth smth hes infinitely adaptable but he cant let any of this sink in because that would mean hes no longer #himself. and being himself being Stanford Pines. PhD. The Man Who Trusted Bill Cipher And Now Must Kill Him #is all he has left!!!!! so no matter what. no matter how attatched he gets. no matter how tempting it is #he cannot change but he must adapt #i also think about how the hand witch comments that he'll live many lives but none of them will be as long as he wants them #and while im p sure thats meant to reference kings of new jersey -> researcher -> paranoia -> portal -> home #it also works with him spending half his life having to be whatever the situation calls for #and he references this in j3! he references how he feels like hes lived a hundred different lives!

[godsfavoritescientist]

AU where Ford was so down to end the world that he told Bill this during their first meeting, and Bill went "oh shit really? Let's end the world together!" and everyone was on the same page about their plans from the beginning

#godsrambles #ford being fine with ending the world isn't even that hard to imagine #the line 'we could make a new world. a better world' (paraphrased from weirdmaggedon) could have so easily been said by researcher era ford #he knows the world has issues. and he feels like he could solve all the worlds problems if he was given the chance to. #ford wanting to take over the world is such a fun au concept to me idk #ford and bill plotting to take over the world together. imagine the shenanigans. #I think they would still end up having a messy breakup. but itd be interesting to think about what would cause it instead of betrayal #imagine... ford inviting fidds to help with the construction of the portal. and knowing from the beginning that it would end the world #and deliberately trying to keep that a secret from fidds. #fidds having a horrified realization eventually. and ford desperately trying to explain himself and convince fidds to believe in his cause. #its not 'evil ford au' its 'ford is on board with ending the world au' there is a DIFFERENCE. he genuinely believes in it! #he genuinely believes it'll make the world a better place!!! #godsficideas #tags essay

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

I'm not sure exactly how to phrase this, but I like to think Ford was very into music when he came back through the portal.

I mean, sure, he got to hear all kinds of funky and weird alien music, and that's cool and all.

But just. Imagine him listening to his dimension's music for the first time in thirty years.

Whether it's Mabel showing him new music or Stan and him listening to some of the music he's more used to (or used to be used to, I suppose), I think he'd just really love it.

#ford pines #wonder what specifically he would like #i read a fanfiction once that featured researcher era ford being very into Queen #thoughts thoughts thoughts

[braveparanoiac]

updated ford's trek verse a little bit. been debating for a bit if ford should be vulcan or not and fiery opened my eyes to half vulcan. making so many parallels to spock here and just rolling with it honestly. I think it's a good idea.

#no dominion in our world(ooc) #i still need to finish consuming trek media though #also on top of this if any future spock writers wouldn't mind... i think ford would probably idolize spock. like personal hero sort of deal #thinks spock is so cool and wants to be like him. #try to write trek ford in his college era and in his researcher era he apparently kept a photo of tesla around??? #the one good place meme. ford vc tesla we're really in it now #trek ford vc spock we're really in it now #working on the enterprise might be hell. imagine getting to meet your hero personally. perhaps it's a dipper and ford dynamic. perhaps not. #who knows i'm just rambling at this point

[micamone]

actually i think one of the best, most unhinged, type of fan art is a whole-ass site dedicated to it. just fully immersing yourself in the universe to make a functional website that would be in it. it’s writing it’s coding it’s art WHO is that insane enough to do that to themselves. i love it.

#<- guy who's THINKING about those real-time research era fiddleford/stanford blogs that i MISSED and learned about AFTER THE FACT again #i wanna make a ''dippers guide to the unexplained'' site so fucking bad could you IMAGINE how cool that would be #just pages of entries that could be like. just like ford's journal. shittily done like only a 13yr old with access to html can do. #i also wanna make a ''dewey dew-nite''; ''mabel's guide''; and whatever tf kim possible's site was. like legit. #my posts #.... i'm probably not going to do it unless i can get people to do it with because it'd be more fun and whatever that way #but i'm still THINKING about it

[journal-3]

a collection of memes i have on my phone and the GF characters i associate them with.

stan and dipper (alternatively ford and dipper)

ford and fiddleford during the researcher era

the tag on this one explains it . but yeah wendy and soos after soos becomes mr mystery

bill talking about ford

mabel

bill

dipper

feel free to add more

#gravity falls #billford #bill cipher #stanford pines #ford pines #dipper pines #mabel pines #stanley pines #fiddleford mcgucket

[ferretwhomst]

you know what. fuck it. it's time for the ultimate question

edit: i forgot to specify. i mean specifically during researcher era!!!

#gravity falls #ford pines #grunkle ford #fiddleford mcgucket #old man mcgucket #i keep forgetting people call him that and not just fiddleford . #fiddauthor #ferret polls

[yellowbluemoonshine]

Naoki Urasawa's manga "Monster" Interview;

Naoki Urasawa is one of the most successful manga artists in Japan, having not only been awarded the most important prizes in Japan, but also in Germany. He celebrated his international breakthrough with the thriller series "Monster", which he drew in the 90s. It's about a Japanese neurosurgeon in Düsseldorf who saves the life of a boy and gives up his career to do it - actually he should have operated on the mayor instead of the boy - and then gets into real trouble because he is involved in a series of serial murders and a conspiracy device. Andrea Heinze : How did you come up with the idea for the series? Naoki Urasawa: The drama “Monster” was created because I really liked the novel “Frankenstein”. That really interested me and I thought about whether I could bring the story into today. The second aspect was that at that time in the USA there was this film with Harrison Ford, “The Fugitive”. It was about a doctor whose wife was killed and I really liked it. And then I thought, I have to do something that involves a doctor who is being chased and has to solve a mystery. And then I was interested in “Frankenstein,” this old Gothic landscape, and I wanted to bring the two together somehow. And then we somehow came across Germany. Blonde boy as a contrast to evil Germany

I heard that people saying Johan was inspired by Hannibal and other psychopathic characters etc but it never make sense to me. (Maybe some characteristic sides makes sense but generally no, he is different). It makes sense that Monster is inspired by Frankenstein story because Johan is portrayed as more like someone who became the way he is because of his past. He is the monster created by the real monster. (Mostly its Franz Bonaparta who stole his and many others name, biggest sin a person can do). Its really combined between two stories because Tenma wasnt/isnt wrong to save Johan.

Heinze: And what does Germany have to do with it? Urasawa: I wanted to do something dark. And I don't want to say that Germany is the root of all evil. But if you look at the Second World War - and this is present in Japan, also because Japan was an ally of Germany at the time - there were a lot of dark stories in Germany and also in Japan. A lot has been clarified. But some things don't. I also came up with this beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed boy as a character. I think that's a good contrast to contrast with this dark, bad thing. And the more you delve into history, the more clear it becomes that the roots of the conflicts lie in the Second World War. If you add all of that up, the manga could only take place in Germany.

I am glad that real life stories was brought up but its really sad that this actually happenned somewhere.

Heinze: How did you research the story for “Monster”? Urasawa : I watched a lot of documentaries. In the 1990s there were also reports of neo-Nazi attacks on houses where Turks lived. I've seen things like that and they've also found their way into my story. I made up the rest. For example, the boy, Johann. He is raised in a children's home where many human experiments take place. And shortly before I finished my work "Monster," there was a documentary on Japanese television about the end of the Nazi era, and it also reported on a camp in which blonde, blue-eyed young people were herded together and essentially had to undergo elite training . And this boy who was depicted there was also called Johannes. I was then asked if I had known all of this before - but that wasn't true, it was all in my imagination. A person becomes a monster

This is insane....chills. Its so ironic that a lot of people remember Johan's character as some evil psychopath but not only he isnt written that way in story but also, his origin is literally coming from actual victim, a child. Intentional or unconciously or maybe coincidence but still, wow.

Heinze: How is it that Prague also became the setting for the story? Urasawa: Because everything that was east of Germany, all the Eastern European countries, was not even known in Japan in the 1990s. It's completely different today, but back then people hardly knew everything that lay east of Germany. While on the other hand, Germany and everything further west was already developed for tourism. And Eastern Europe had never been featured in the manga until then. It also fascinated and really attracted me as an illustrator. If you go to Germany or France, it is much brighter in the evenings. But if you go further east, in my case it was Prague, it was much darker on the streets in the evenings in the mid-90s. And I wanted to explore this darkness, this night, for myself.

No wonder story feels so real, with both its characters and places.

Heinze: What does the manga “Monster” have to do with Mary Shelly’s novel “Frankenstein”? Urasawa : Frankenstein is about a scientist who created a monster, and it's also about human responsibility. There are certainly things that humans are allowed to do and that they perhaps shouldn't be able to do. These thoughts can certainly be taken further, and that's what I did in the "Monster" series. It's about the Japanese doctor who saved a boy, and later the boy becomes a monster, a murderer. And then the doctor asks himself whether he is not responsible for the fact that this boy has become a murderer. This is a different conflict than in "Frankenstein", but the question of responsibility for one's own actions is also an issue in "Monster". Dostoyevsky novel using the means of manga

Though, story is inspired by Frankeinstein, Tenma is clearly right to save kid's life. He isnt the 'evil' doctor who is responsible for the monster. He is the real doctor who saves this boy from destruction at the end.

Heinze : For me, this doctor is an ideal example of the good in people. He even saves this boy against the wishes of the clinic management, who would much rather use their best surgeon to operate on the mayor. Urasawa: Every good person has places somewhere in their hearts that are perhaps not so good, and it was the same with Doctor Hämmer - in the hospital there were also some disagreements with the management, where he also thought: "Preferably I would like it if everyone were dead." And later Johann also tells him: "I have fulfilled what you wished for." Then the idea came to him that he had also caused all of this and was to blame for it. And I wanted to show in my work that there is something good and something bad in every person, and that is just human nature. Also, what I didn't mention: There is the classic manga "Astroboy" by Osamu Tezuka in Japan. There is a scientist whose son died and he then creates a robot that looks like his son and that also has feelings. But somehow he says: "You are not my son." At some point he neglects this robot. This scientist is basically Doctor Tenma. So “Frankenstein” and “Astro Boy” are the two sides that belong closely together. I especially consider the artist Tezuka with his classic “Astro Boy” to be my roots.

Here's the real message of Monster, that noone is just a monster and every person has monster in them and that story, Tenma is being parallels with father who neglects his son...I wonder is it him realizing that he was never supposed to kill Johan (the son), he was right to save him, trying to kill him is the neglect/him failing to understand him and end up saving him. Maybe i am reaching but its makes more sense that way. Btw i love how Tenma visits Johan even at the end. Despite everything, they really give that father-son energy.

Heinze: Osamu Tezuka is considered the founder of modern manga, what do you like about him? Urasawa: It's hard to say in one word. Maybe you can describe it like this: The manga were initially comics for children. But Tezuka did it differently, he practically wrote something like a Dostoyevsky novel, but using the means of manga. Something much deeper, and ultimately it's not about justice winning, but it goes even deeper, practically conveying the feeling that even winning can bring with it something sad and empty. This is something deeper. And he was able to convey that in the beginning of the manga. Statements made by our conversation partners reflect their own views. Deutschlandfunk does not adopt statements made by its interlocutors in interviews and discussions.

Its really deep story.

This is the source of this interview, i really wanted to make comment/analyze about it.

#naoki urasawa's monster meta #monster naoki urasawa #monster meta #johan liebert #tenma kenzo #interview #naoki urasawa #monster #frankenstein #crossover meta

[pinetreeshack]

for the color palette thign can you please please draw research era ford with 32. its like scary colors i can see the vision ok. make him sad

YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#ask #ford pines #doodles #fanart #color palettes #gravity falls

[eldragon-x]

I'm sad that I've only recently learned that there used to be two Tumblr blogs posting in-character as Ford and Fiddleford in research era respectively and followed along the Journal 3 timeline where shit went down until the Ford blog deactivated and the Fiddleford blog gradually deleted their posts before making a last one that said smth like "I think if I remembered you, I'd miss you" and deactivating too. It's like art to me.

#gf

[ashyslashyy]

modern day ford researcher era instead of drinking a bunch of coffee he just does those tiktok streams that are like "dont let me fall asleep" so people just pay to play vine booms super loud so he stays awake

#based on a conversation with a friend #gravity falls

[slowlyvaliantmoon]

I have a drawing request for ya 👉👈

Young Ford (researcher era) geeking out over someone with the same interest in oddology

I feel like we haven't seen him connect with anyone like that (aside from dipper, but that's when he's old).

Y'know, Bill is a bad example of a friend who supposedly shares your interest in things unusual to this world. Someone who is actually your friend won't try to manipulate you into ending the world... and they actually care about you and find your research into the weird and wondrous to be interesting after you find them on the side of the road in the woods in the middle of the night.

Ford deserved to meet a better friend than Bill 😤.

#don't get me wrong though- I like that things went the way they did for the sake of GF's story #gravity falls #stanford pines #ford pines #researcher ford #bill cipher #<- not in the picture but in my yelling #svm yells #ask the moon #doun-katsu #svm art #art #request #gravity falls fanart

[toytanks]

i am obsessed with the idea of modern era pre-betrayal ford having a tumblr blog and liveblogging the research and relationship w/bill. also like. letting bill answer asks, disastrous as it may be

and then, just not posting during the betrayal+portal days (for obv reasons) and stanley not even knowing the blog exists so it just gets abandoned

but. when ford comes back (maybe also bill too?) he just logs onto tumblr like nothing happened

#cipher's squawks #bill cipher #stanford pines #billford #ford snaps a selfie of him and bill with the caption “after thirty (30) long years......the boys are back” or some shit #hes become like a fucking urban legend in the intervening decades #everyone loses their shit but fords just like “yeah i went into the multiverse and got tortured by my demon bf no biggie”