Im From A Small Town In Maine, And There Is No Ancient Cult In This Town. Unless You Count The Masons.

I’m from a small town in Maine, and there is no ancient cult in this town. Unless you count the Masons. It is, however, possible that there are eerie unsolved murders. Have fun sleeping, everyone that can actually sleep! Unlike me, who has had sleep problems since elementary school!

What dark secret a small town is concealing, by region:

Northeast - ancient cult from old country

Midwest - a monster betwixt the corn

South - that reclusive family no one dares speak of

Southwest - experiment gone wrong

Northwest - eerie unsolved murder

I am Ford in this, clearly. Although I headcanon that Stan’s sleep schedule is also terrible.

don’t know if this fits at all with the Pines but the quotes seemed funny enough to me ┐(´ー｀)┌

NEVERHUMAN AU

NEVERHUMAN AU!!!!!!!!

1) Stan and Dipper go out to the forest to bond and do fae things together. Stan is super quick to tell dipper that mabel is still his sister, just like ford’s still his brother. species and lineage doesn’t matter to family.

2) Ford will occasionally take notes on Stan, but on the whole he’s actually a lot closer with him now that they both have something that makes them weird. He identifies with the supernatural so much, so now that there’s a supernatural creature that’s also his brother that’s always made him feel normal, there’s a lot of stuff Ford’s willing to just let go in this au.

3) Stan is genuinely surprised to know that Ford’s still (even mildly) insecure about the fingers thing. He all six of his eyes/sights out more often to make Ford feel a little more comfortable, and they really get a chance to talk. He’s in his fae form a lot more often after weirdmaggedon.

4) Ford and Mabel start a “My brother is a supernatural creature” club and their first order of business is to find out what hurts faes and make sure any of it within a fifty mile radius of the shack is destroyed.

5) Ford winds up helping Dipper cope with being a changeling, too, they talk about how weird it is to have a sibling that’s not their same species and ford secretly feels strange having felt like and treated as a freak all his life and as a result heavily identified with the supernatural, only to find that his brother is closer to an anomaly than he’ll ever be. But he keeps this to himself for the most part.

Bonus:

6) (not sure if this is already canon or not but) Stan molts. Every winter. Ford is very frustrated and the pipes have to be replaced every spring as a result because Stan cannot clean up after himself.

7) because molting happens in the winter, when dipper first experiences it, he panics and calls stan asking what to do. Ford picks up instead and awkwardly has to explain everything.

Anon, @peacekeeperangel and @brutishbeauty yep yep

Neverhuman Stan is a Fae

long story short, slipped into the crib

previous part

Reading more into my General Psych book and it is talking about intelligence. Identical twins almost always have the same IQ levels but if they reach that genetic potential they were born with all depends on environmental factors that encourage the child of reaching it. 

By the laws of science Stanley Pines has the same IQ level as Stanford but they were both treated differently in school and home life so they both developed it differently.

Stan was clearly not a book learner. If I had to peg him as anything I would say he is more hands on. He just goes for something without reading the instructions and can probably do it pretty well. Ford is the typical book learner that teachers love.

Home life was all about Ford and how great he was in school and Stan put all his might into boxing once he figured that was something he could do well and get praise for. Then comes everyone called him dumber then Ford so he never really tried to go for the high test scores because he probably (subconsciously) thought he could never get great grades. 

I know it is old news that Stan is super smart like Ford but I like having the science behind it. 

a thought:

Ford’s warnings about the portal were obviously written before he went through it, and are written in the theoretical (the portal if activated would…)

but Stan saw for himself that none of that happened when the portal really was activated. the effects were catastrophic, of course, but the universe was conspicuously still present afterward.

so it makes a lot of sense that Stan didn’t heed the warnings, and not just out of carelessness and brashness. from his perspective, they were basically a theory that he had seen for himself wasn’t actually true, at least not completely.

(another thought: thinking about someone being told that a device might destroy the universe and then charging ahead anyway made me think of the letter sorting machine from Going Postal and now I can’t stop laughing at the comparison)