Imma start keeping a running list of every time the Gravity Falls commentaries mention what Disney S&P wouldn’t let them do
so far:
kids had to wear lifejackets every time they were so much as near a boat in Legend of the Gobblewonker. Dipper having a swordfight on an open rooftop in the next episode? perfectly fine, carry on
(personal note: the kids and Soos wear lifejackets all throughout that episode, but Stan never does. apparently, no one cares if Stan drowns)
Leaderaur’s blood had to be green because we can’t have red blood in a kids’ show. we can totally have him reach into his own chest and pull out a bone spear, though.
apparently the ‘pain hole’ made them super nervous but they couldn’t actually quite articulate a problem with it well enough to get it pulled
‘chipackers’ came about entirely because they weren’t allowed to show the kids and Stan playing poker with real chips, so Alex told the artists to make it crackers instead and then apparently that evolved into crackers that were also chips
not allowed to label a building in the pinball machine as a saloon, because apparently Disney S&P really believed their target audience for this show would know what a saloon was. (they were also totally fine with having an actual bar in the show?? was it the implication that there might be prostitutes in a saloon or…?)
however, they did also nix McGucket’s original name, which was ‘Crazy Larry’, so…even a broken clock, I guess.
Hear me out on this: The Gravity Falls gang faces Wonderland, as seen in The Adventure Zone’s arc “The Suffering Game.”
…huh.
that’s a form of GF/TAZ crossover I haven’t seen before.
I just keep imagining Mabel saying some super optimistic and fun to keep everyone’s spirits up and Dipper frantically flipping through the journal to figure out how to defeat whatever they’re facing and Soos just fucking killing it on the runway.
I’d volunteer to do it, but I don’t know if I’m up to putting the Pines through quite that level of trauma.
also I have four wips going already
how ‘bout a version of this AU where the reason Ford’s been gone for 30 years is that he turned himself into a litch during the course of his research into some of the deeper magics, and has been stuck in the etherial plane in litch form for all that time,, and ends up assisting our crew (Dipper, Mabel, Soos, and Wendy? Is Stan there? Is Stan not there? *shrugs*) in eventually escaping.
Can Stan be the tank Magnus that’s all about throwing himself on the line for the rest of them? Taking the most hits, has a lot of tragedy, still trying his best to get them through this, protect his kids. He’s the one Ford’s been giving signals to, in lich form through thieves cant. Wendy knows a little bit of thieves cant, but Stan is the only one with a reason to maybe trust the floating red robed voice in his palm.
Also Stan being pushed out of his body and by the lich evil elves (gideon and ghost eyes? Idk who would be the evil in this case). And Dipper or Soos casting the spell that brings him back into his body. Maybe Dipper bc he’s got the book which is basically as natural as Merle’s extreme teen bible for pan. They’re not the exact numbers of the gang, so they share some roles.
But Stan finally sees red robed Ford begging to be believed and let him help. And he can’t explain it to the rest but he trusts the red robe and begs them to listen to the plan.
“Stan’s entire character, from the very beginning of the series, was built around, like, y’know, that he’s living with this tragedy. He’s a guy that outwardly seems like he doesn’t appreciate family, but in fact wants it more than anything in the world, and feels like maybe hes not worthy of it and will do anything to prove that he is.”
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