To be honest, I don’t think I’m done yet. There’ll probably be a part 3 as well because there’s just so much more I want to poke fun of. This book truly is the gift that keeps on giving.
ford should have guessed that bill was a filthy fucking cheater right from the start, because in their first game of chess bill had the black pieces but he took the first move. the white pieces always take the first turn in chess. bill cheated
ok but
neither of them moved a pawn first so it’s possible ford just has no idea how to play chess
I think it’s… the animators who don’t know how chess works :p
Alternative idea: Since the knight can jump pieces, and Bill’s opening move is technically legal, we can conclude that Bill has at least a rough understanding of how to play chess.
However, the queen, Ford’s opening piece, cannot jump pieces and therefore can’t be used as an opening move. Ford and Mabel share the same understanding of chess.
So the game probably went like this:
Bill: *internally* yeah okay he’s a nerd this is probably a good enough opening to catch his fancy
Ford: *internally* fuck fuck fuck I don’t fucking know how to play chess I only know how to play Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons. Fuck. I’m just gonna bullshit this and hope he doesn’t notice
Bill: *internally* okay don’t say anything just play along and maybe let him win a few times, don’t tell him he’s using the horses wrong don’t say anything. You can do this, Cipher, you need this guy to build you a portal.
Ford: *internally* he hasn’t noticed, I must be really good at this completely by accident.
Later, Dipper asks Ford to play chess with him and it’s just:
So an anon asked for Stans hugging/Ford being a protective bro and there I am, thinking “haha yeah I am totally nailing this request!!” until I….stop to look at it when I’m finished.
au where stanley was pushed in to the portal instead of stanford
stanford continued on his research in gravity falls, keeping the first journal but leaving the other 2 hidden. he couldn’t bring himself to dismantle the portal knowing stanley was in there, but couldn’t risk the destruction of the universe to power it up and bring him back. he spends 30 years indecisive about if he should save him or try to forget. against his best judgement he agrees to let dipper and mabel stay for the summer, even though the “mystery shack” is still just his house and research lab.
seeing them together convinces him that he should save stanley. as he starts up the portal, his conviction wavers, still worried that the portal would tear the universe apart. but events similar to nwhs causes dipper and mabel to loose faith in ford and they come across the portal themselves and unwittingly perform the last events to open the portal and bring them back. stanford tries to stop them, convinced it will bring the end of the world, but the twins do not press the emergency power down button and stanley exits the portal.
first he’s happy to see stanford again and happy to be out of the portal, until he quickly realizes that ford is not the reason he’s back, and becomes furious believing that his brother didn’t even try to save him
Here’s the first part of my week 2 Stanuary comic. Please be gentle (´；ω；`), I’ve never made anything like this before. I don’t usually make comics and when I do they’re very simple, so something like this is different from what I’m used to.
I imagine Stan would act rather flippant about Filbrick hitting him, for a variety of reasons. Ford however would not let it go so easily. Plus I think Stanley would still have some memory issues for a while after and thus wouldn’t be as careful with what he admits about himself.
I want to specify that I would never fault Ford for not noticing. He was a child, and that sort of thing is easy to miss. Ford however would blame himself anyway.
well i guess this is it 