HAPPY PAUL BUNYAN DAY!
Not sure what the Pines were looking for on their hike, but running across a couple of legends is a nice bonus!
Aside from the iconic statue in the town of Gravity Falls, and the OTHER iconic statue at Mystery Mountain, I was always intrigued by the little side about Stan invoking Paul Bunyan in his hour of need. (And really, given how they defeat Darlene, ol' Paul came through in the end. In a manner of speaking!)
What kills me is just how uncertain everything would have been. Stan had frighteningly little information to go off of, yet staggeringly unshakable faith. The way he talks to himself while he’s working on it just twists my soul about because he has no idea what’s going to happen when he turns the portal on. He has no idea if Ford is even still alive and I think at this point, the idea of all his work being for nothing would actually destroy him.
Imagine if Ford didn’t come through the portal. The implication that you spent 30 years on something and it didn’t mean anything, that you probably killed the only person who ever believed in you because you’re just That Incompetent and they were all right about you, you were never going to amount to anything because you are the scum of the earth, you are nothing more than a Stan Co. knock off of the real thing and even though you deserve every bad thing that’s happened, it just hurts and the fact that no one cares makes it that much worse.
Ford calls Stan a hero, but I worry that that epithet is too vague to really impact him. Because sure, Stan may have untold trauma from living in the dregs of society, but Ford has blood splattered journals and a rivalry with a demon. That’s what heroes look like. They don’t look like tired old charlatans who run a tourist trap.
But strength - especially the kind of strength it must have required for Stan to even get up every morning - isn’t always flashy or even visible. Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is continue to love when the world has given you absolutely no reason to.
tossed sun into a bowl with hella crosshatching and chemical x and suddenly he turned into a superhero. oops?
These two panels give me life because she's clearly loved and part of the family despite everything.
Cass has a family with whom she does any kind of activities, like a family should.
I love them so much it hurts.
And like Italians often say "nculu a mammt"
My Night in the Woods Mae’s journal (pt 1)
I know I took a little creative liberty when making this and I’m not the best artist but I’m still pretty happy with how it turned out. I wanted to include all of the journal pages and I hope I got most’ve them. I wanted to include both Bea and Gregg’s hangout sketches as well as all three investigation sketches.
Lord Ganondorf how much water should I drink
“Oh god, I’m so sorry sir. I’ve just been so on edge since we had to kick Alex out of the polycule, ‘cause he attempted to sacrifice us to the forest cryptid”
Y̸o̵u̶ ̴f̵o̷u̵n̸d̴ ̴m̵e̷!̵ ̶Y̶o̴u̶ ̵f̷o̷u̵n̶d̸ ̶m̷e̴!̵ ̴Y̴o̷u̶ ̶f̸o̷u̷n̶d̶ ̶m̶e̵!̸ ̵Y̵o̶u̵ ̵f̸o̸u̴n̴d̷ ̵m̸e̴!̵ ̴Y̵o̴u̴ ̴f̸o̸u̸n̸d̵ ̴m̸e̶!̶ ̷Y̷o̵u̵ ̵f̶o̵u̸n̴d̸ ̴m̴e̷!̵ ̶Y̴o̸u̷ ̵f̷o̸u̶n̸d̴ ̶m̴e̶!̷
idk if ur still taking requests but!!! would be awesome if u could draw all four slender brothers together ^___^
Family business
(slenderfam lore in the comments for u guys)
my wife and i caught covid before they could finish colouring this collab we were doing but im extremely proud of the sketch and linework i did for it so pls, take link and ganondorf but princess mononoke'd
