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Breathing in through a cigarette tastes like Stan.
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- Part 2 of Air
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Stan shudders as he mentally flexes his arms and throws out a worn rope in order to lasso his thoughts back in the folder where he Does Not Dwell On His Brother. Focus, he scolds himself, and hogties a memory of Ford that kept him turning restlessly for nights on end, that seemed to stretch like hot taffy, desperately comparing it to the silver screen’s expressions of people falling in love.
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- Part 1 of Air
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“A ladder in the middle of this goddamn ocean, Ford!”
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A Sea Grunkles adventure featuring water not adhering to physics, bickering, pining, and throwing yourself more or less willingly into the abyss from whence only few before you escaped. -
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His sight still adjusting to the light, he hears an ethereal, distant voice call his name without being able to recognize it yet. He blinks rapidly and turns his head in the direction of the sound, coming from outside of the manor, and sees a figure hasting towards him. She is clad in a pale colored dress that she has hoisted up, baring her creamy calves, so as to not trip over the skirt, and her long, brown hair is flowing behind her like a shawl. Ford has never seen her before.
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Returning home to his family estate for the first time in ten years, Ford soon finds that not everything is as he left it, and he himself might be in for more than he bargained for.
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He knows the plan is stupid. He has just enough self-respect left to at least admit that quietly to himself as he swallows past the unmoving lumps in his throat, wondering if the most stubborn one of them is, in fact, his own tongue. But he has no choice.
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Following an explosive argument, Ford decides to run after his sister into the night, fearing she will get hurt or worse; find the man of her dreams.
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Sure, Ford got the message that a man only capable of being in love with his own mirror image, never another person, to the point of tipping over and drowning to death was supposed to be a warning, but Ford figured that that had more to do with the fact that the poor sod did not know how to swim. Whereas Ford himself grew up by the shore.
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Stan’s skin tightens and turns decidedly uncomfortable, as if his pores are turning into wiggling ants with a zest for life. He clears his throat. “I, uh, I met this sexy lady… monster… who was, eh, made out of marinara sauce.” He huffs, feigning confidence in his story. “Yeah. I was just, you know, walkin’ down the street, hootin’ and tootin’ and whistlin’ a tune, as you do, when I smelled something from a restaurant window, and saw this–... This, uh, you know Pamela Anderson, right?”
“No.”
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Stan cannot stay out of trouble and Ford cannot not fix it.
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He knows the person lying in the closed casket at the end and middle of the smoky, tired formal room is not Ford. He knows that Ford can still come back. He knows he can still fix everything. And therefore, he cannot bring himself to say goodbye to a man called Stan Pines, because that would contradict everything that Stan himself knows, and that would be lying, and Ford would not like that one bit. Ford never liked it when he told lies.
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Stan is contemplating his life at his own funeral when his mother shows up from the other side of the country.
Written for 5SummersofStancest. Prompt: A Tight-Knit Family.
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- Part 3 of 5SoS 2024
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Ford’s ears have returned to their normal shape, and Stan struggles with rearranging his morning routine around the meteor impact shaped like his brother.
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- Part 2 of 5SoS 2024
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Some conversations are harder than others, even if the subject matter can be answered with a single word.
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- Part 1 of 5SoS 2024
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On the Workings of Electromagnetic Safety Measures by devilspedicure
Fandoms: Gravity Falls
18 May 2024
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He should not have taken that teaching job, possibly, but he was curious. And naive. He was aspiring to inspire himself, at least. He was, perhaps, hopeful that he would come up with a way to make the inevitable split between his younger self and Stan less painful, that he could intervene and prevent it from turning into the rift that could never be fixed in his own life. He is getting sentimental, he supposes.
But the consequences of his own actions are reaching levels of ridiculousness that should not be sustainable for the fabric of the universe.
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A clowny love letter to one of the trailblazer AUs in the Stancest fandom.
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Stan makes a phone call in the night. He cannot take it anymore.
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Rico once said that when the Russians nuked everything, there would only be two living organisms left in the world.
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Stan tastes like salty saliva and whispers of sweet-sharp rum, because he likes to pretend they are pirates and take swigs from a jug of the cheapest hooch, he could steal in Cuba. His beard is getting soft enough to not scrape rashes onto Ford’s chin. Some days, he jokes about dying it red and buying Ford a fake one to match so that they can be the reincarnated Barbarossa brothers and plunder the seas in style.
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- Part 4 of Algebra
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Mabel says “No peeking!” and Ford enjoys a cup of coffee and thinks about his relationship with his family.
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Long ago, far up North, where the swallows seek shelter from the full-blooming summer, there was a forest. Hidden inside this forest, a boy would soon grow up to be a man destined to bring about the end of the world.
Written for 5 Summers of Stancest 2023. Prompt: Follow the sun.
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- Part 3 of 5SoS 2023
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Ford is in charge of his own institute now, though, and their parents are dead and in the ground, so their approval is out of anyone’s reach. The race is over. Stan figures Shermie came in first, with himself following semi-close once Ford had forgiven him and Stan turned out to be the one child to move their parents into a nursing home, but the whole game was as if they were three people with as many legs between them trying to run the mile.
At least Stan kept his parental disappointment consistent, Ford made the grave mistake of showing promise.
Written for 5 Summers of Stancest 2023. Prompt: Last day of summer.
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- Part 6 of 5SoS 2023
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Stanford looks at the paper and feels a cold emotion well up in his blood that he cannot quite place, which in turn makes his voice crack as if he was seven years younger than he currently is.
“Food delivery?”
Written for 5 Summers of Stancest 2023. Prompt: Where do we begin?
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- Part 5 of 5SoS 2023
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Ford is hiding something. Stan believes it involves crustaceans and a business scheme.
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As he stands with his feet in the salt water of Glass Shard Beach's shore and on the metaphorical ledge of life as a college student, Ford reflects on his nickname.
Written for 5 Summers of Stancest 2023. Prompt: Around the world.
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- Part 4 of 5SoS 2023