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I never thought I'd say this but here it is!!

The long lost Gravity Falls "Next Time On," reel has FINALLY been found!

This right here is what made this show happen and the reason why every new Disney cartoon also has a next time on reel. GF's last big lost media hunt is over!

Alex Hirsch said that he was okay if this ever was to leak. So, if this goes down, blame Disney!!

#Gravity Falls #video

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Stan would call Angie "Hurricane" and Angie might call Stan "Scorcher".

​Angie might come up with a different nickname for Stan. maybe Twister. or something ironically cutesy, like Sunshower.

but omg HELL YES Stan calling Angie Hurricane. he starts calling her that shortly after she joins the team.

#vulpixen #Storm Chasers AU #response

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which is definitely not an omen

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Ryouiki Tenkai

#sick as HELL #Amphibia

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I am CONSIDERING making a follow-up video to my Gravity Falls AU fandom deep-dive analysis from last year.

AUs covered in the 2023 video include: Timestuck AU, Monster Falls AU, Reverse Falls AU, Relativity Falls AU, Transcendence AU, Blind Faith (and Reverse Portal) AU, Drifting Stars (and Grifting Stars) AU, and the One of Us AU.

I'm thinking about making a follow-up covering any AUs I missed, though it depends on interest. Also, I intend to focus on AUs that were a collaboration, like Monster Falls or Timestuck and Blind Faith, where multiple people wrote and drew for it.

Leave a reply below if you can think of an AU that I missed.

Again, NO PROMISES that I will make a follow-up. I'm just thinking about it.

#Gravity Falls

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had a v fun thought for the Storm Chasers AU

the storm chasing team (in particular Stan and Angie) might protest being called as such, but they are all dorks. and bc they are dorks, I think they come up with weather-themed dorky little nicknames/codenames for each other.

AND for their team as a whole.

currently accepting suggestions lmao

(Stan named the special car they drive for storm chasing "Stanmobile II" btw)

#had a kinda rough day and want some lightness #Storm Chasers AU #speecher speaks

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She brings some of her best pictures to her interview with Stan. Stan is incredibly impressed by the high quality photos taken up close

Fiddleford, a protective older brother, is less impressed and more frustrated his baby sister got so close to such dangerous storms, particularly tornadoes, which can change direction without warning. something Angie, a meteorologist, knows very well

*slams hands on desk*

WAIT

Angie in Storm Chasers AU isn't just the team trained meteorologist she's also the team camera person

#btw yeah tornadoes can change direction suddenly #so don't trust it to go in the same direction when you decide to watch from your porch #Storm Chasers AU #rebagel

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The other day I saw a comment on a video of a Mountain Goats song that said they finally figured out that the overarching theme of Mountain Goats songs is radical kindness.

And like, okay, your interpretation is valid, and given the song it was commented on ("You Were Cool"), understandable. But I also think it is very, very wrong.

In my opinion, there is no one theme to be applied to all or even most Mountain Goats songs. There are too many concept albums for that, for one thing. But if I had to choose a theme that pops up the most, it wouldn't be radical kindness. It would be radical acceptance.

Acceptance of a troublesome, complicated past or present. Crucially, not forgiveness or moving on or revenge. Just accepting that this happened and regardless of how I address it, I have to live with it. "Prowl Great Cain", "No Children", and "Romans 10:9" are a few off the top of my head that I think fit into that general idea. And, funnily enough, I think "You Were Cool" fits as well.

Within that theme, there is a subtheme that I see the most, which is moving on without enacting revenge, forgiving, or seeking forgiveness. Which makes sense, given how many songs (especially earlier songs) are about John Darnielle's history of drug addiction and the abuse he experienced at the hands of his stepfather. "Up the Wolves" (my personal favorite), "Small Green Things", "Picture of My Dress", "Never Quite Free", and sorta kinda "Heretic Pride" are some that fit.

However. I do think that trying to condense the discography of the Mountain Goats into one theme or even one major theme is not the greatest thing. Individual albums, yes. Like I said, there are a lot of concept albums. But there are so many powerful and complicated songs that you have to really think about and understand John Darnielle's past to Really Get. Saying there's one theme, and in particular saying that theme is "radical kindness" minimizes and reduces the complexity of much of his work. There are multiple themes that show up multiple times, but there is no one theme.

There are songs about drug addiction, and domestic abuse, and the Khmer Rouge, and Dungeons & Dragons, and divorce, and toxic friends, and professional wrestling, and a hawk you see in your backyard, and a book series by someone kinda racist, and a character that appeared in a song in an earlier album.

The songs of the Mountain Goats aren't about one thing. And they never have been.

#idk folks I guess it's thinking about the Mountain Goats hours lmao #The Mountain Goats #speecher speaks

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#I know some songs in Latin bc church choir #but I also know songs in German. sorta know one in Spanish. #and Albanian!!! #idk if I can sing the whole thing anymore but I used to know ''The Lion Sleeps Tonight'' in Albanian #(I knew one or two others in Albanian as well but have forgotten them rip)

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Listening to Jenny from Thebes for the first time like

#Jenny from Thebes is the latest Mountain Goats album #and I finally listened to it today and uhhhhh holy shit #it may have usurped Tallahassee as my favorite Mountain Goats album #in particular the songs ''Fresh Tattoo'' and ''From the Nebraska Plant'' got me Feeling Things #anyways the vibes of the album remind me of #In League with Dragons. All Eternals Deck. and Getting Into Knives. #so if you like those albums you'll probably like this one #but the song ''Jenny'' from All Hail West Texas is required listening ahead of time if you haven't heard it before #The Mountain Goats #speecher speaks

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*slams hands on desk*

WAIT

Angie in Storm Chasers AU isn't just the team trained meteorologist she's also the team camera person

#why didn't I think of this before #she v consistently in my AUs loves photography #and she can do video as well in this AU #but the video never turns out as good as her photos #Storm Chasers AU #speecher speaks

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Mechanical snencils

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1 am thinking abt the triassic cuddle once again and getting sad. The Thrinaxodon was in a torpor and wouldn’t have woken up before it drowned in the rain. The Broomistega was badly injured and dying. Neither of them ever actually knew each other but their last moments are curled up together and immortalized in stone Hggggm

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More storm chaser au thoughts:

Ford is injured and disappears in tropical storm Bill which is where they get his name from. Sort of a mean placeholder that sticks.

When he's finally released from the hospital after the incident, with no memories and no idea who or where he is, bill stays with Jack who insists. Bill is having a hard time with memory, concentration/focus, and things like that (don't mess with head injuries) so he insists on helping out more around the house to thank Jack, doing dishes, cleaning, etc. it leads to a moment where Bill is very frustrated and upset and Jack takes him outside and they chop some wood and "huh. You could make a lumberjack out of him yet". It's also a very cute moment where Bill/Ford is like. Hm I am in fact gay.

In regards to Ford going by Bill, we've been discussing in my Discord the idea that Bill Cipher did some mental reaching out to Ford at some point before the storm gave him amnesia. And then after Ford loses his memories, he still remembers the name Bill, and latches onto that as his name.

(Exactly how much and what form the contact took is something still being determined. I'm gonna sleep on it but it looks like Bill Cipher has some sort of role in this AU, though very minor. Ford losing his memories really throws a wrench in the works with Bill's plan.)

I looooooooove all that, with Jack being the one to house "Bill"! "Bill" would 100% feel guilty like he needs to be doing something, even while recovering from a head injury, which, like you said, you gotta be careful with. Jack is trying so hard to keep this foolhardy, intelligent, yet also dumb person from hurting himself further by pushing himself too hard too fast. But "Bill" insists on helping just as much as Jack insisted on housing him. But of course, "Bill" is injured and struggling and regular tasks are difficult.

I love the idea of Jack having "Bill" work off his frustration by chopping wood. He shows "Bill" how to do it and "Bill" gets all flustered seeing Jack in action. Jack doesn't get flustered when "Bill" takes his turn. "Bill" isn't good enough at chopping wood yet. But Jack has been having some emotions for "Bill" by seeing him be smart and sweet and trying so hard to be helpful in the house. "Bill" even gets Jack to laugh a few times with his horrible puns, something that is notoriously difficult to do.

#I looooooved this ask thank you so much! #lmao new OTP unlocked: Ford and Jack the lumberjack #Storm Chasers AU #ask #wheresernie

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A group of friends and I did a one shot recently in 5e. The catch is that they play something called “Dude Squad” where the only play “dudes” (not exclusively male people, just dude mentality) and they hate all magic and magic users. They think true strength is muscles and only muscles, and have in the past encountered magic users who they then convince to give up magic.

We got told to build a level 17 character for this one shot, most of the other folks had previous Dude Squad characters to resurrect. But I didn’t really want to play a straight martial class. In my heart, spellcasters are my true class, and I didn’t really have a strong idea of what kind of character to make.

So I approached the DM and said, “Hey, I have this idea to play a character that pretends to be a martial class but is actually a magic caster?” My girlfriends character is an aasimar who thinks he’s Thor and my backstory was that after meeting him and falling for him she decided to invest heavily in deceptive magic so as not to alienate him.

And my DM. Loved it. So he helped me build an extremely custom character. Two levels in Hexblade warlock gave her a good weapon and the ability to cast disguise self pretty much nonstop to appear buffer than she actually was.

Then there was four levels in Stone sorcerer in order to get 4 sorcery points, the ability to use those points to cast using Subtle Spell and no one could tell she’s casting, and to buff her AC.

Finally there was 11 Bladesong wizard levels in order to get some attack bonuses, even more AC, extra attacks, and the ability to burn spells to take less damage.

So the whole time I was burning spell slots to recharge my sorcery points every time I cast things like Haste and Spider Climb and use my Bladesong powers. We busted through walls and smashed our way through puzzles. We lied and said my character was a Barbarian/Monk so they didn’t bat and eye when she ran on walls with spider climb, but no one noticed when even after dashing she “held onto the stone wall” without any kind of check.

The final battle: the goblin wizard boss we were fighting had cast invulnerability on himself and had our friend mind controlled. So I’m trying to cover for not attacking as I try to dispel his invulnerability. I can no longer run on walls, or make the jumps my party is making on floating platforms over a spike pit so I try to use my actions on other helpful things like tying ropes for friends in the pit. I manage to dispel the magic on our friend but I burned almost all my spells trying to secretly dispel the boss’ spell and finally we just ended up grappling and suffocating him then pummeling him to death.

But at the last moment as we’re running out of this horrible goblin mansion I’m running down a wall and my friends are climbing down. The building says there’s 6 seconds left and my very injured love interest is not gonna make it so my character shouted “Fuckfuckfuck!” Ran over and cast dimension door to bring them both to safety. (Two people got left in the blast but both survived cause Dude Power). Then I critically failed my deception about how I had used magic and came clean and everyone lost their shit when they heard what we’d done. Her final confession, after dropping her buff disguise self, was, “When I met Kathor I really liked him and he freakin’ hates magic so I just kinda figured out how to hide that I was castin’ magic cause I though we might go to pound town.”

Kathor then declared, “I’ve never had someone try so hard to get in my pants!” And swept her up and they messily made out. It was deeply satisfying the wonders that DnD can create, like making a whole class based on the lie that you’re not spellcasting.

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i had a dream of your stanley mcgucket au x timestuck au and i dont remember most of it but it was really cute and idk just wanted to share

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Thank you for sharing with the class, Anon! I've gotten told by a few people that my nonsense made an appearance in their dreams, and I'm flattered each and every time!

#meanwhile I've never dreamed of like. anything Gravity Falls I don't think. #maybe once? idk. #I'd much prefer it over my recent trend of nightmares ugh #ask #Anonymous #lovemail