Happy Birthday @stephreynaart! I Couldn't For The Life Of Me Figure Out How To Attach An Image To A Ask,

Happy birthday @stephreynaart! I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to attach an image to a ask, so I'll just do this instead! I love your art, especially the cute family fluff! Jacob is pretty much Soos' canonical kid in my eyes ^^

(Also, the animations, your animation stuff is seriously impressive)

Absolutely no idea why this idea suddenly struck me, but...

Stan dies shortly after being kicked out. Not sure how exactly, but I mean, he's a homeless teenager in the seventies. Ford takes the loss extremely bad, and can't cope with the guilt of not having stood up to their father.

One of two scenarios follows: Stan refuses to leave Ford like that and clings onto existence through sheer stubborn determination, or—unable to let go and accept the loss—Ford uses his knowledge of the supernatural and arcane to bind Stan's spirit to himself.

Either way, the end result is the same. Ford tries to continue living as if everything is fine and nothing has changed while Stan lives on as his new shadow.

If Fiddleford had decided to tell Stan the truth about Ford being alive, would Stan have believed him? And if so, would Stan have tried to find Ford on his own? Would he be mad at Fiddleford?

To be honest, it's scary to think how angry Stan would be if he found Ford on HIS OWN. He would have hit Ford even if Ford had come by himself. And if Stan understood that Ford deliberately left the whole family to think that he was dead…

It seems to me that Ford would have heard a lot of non-childish words in his direction

And besides the government, he would have had to run away from an angry Stan

I think Stan would believe it, because he so desperately wants to believe it. He'd probably try to get Fidds to tell him where the heck Ford is, but I'm not sure Fiddleford would be willing to go that far against Ford's wishes. If he even knows. So it'd be up to Stan to track Ford down on his own (maybe with Carla and Fiddleford helping).

And whoa boy, the language thrown around in that encounter would not be child friendly. Obviously Stan would never actually want to harm Ford, but I don't doubt he'd be throwing hands.

For some reason tumblr is really buggy with writing atm, so a bunch of the words in the description/tags for the last drawing wound up scrambled?

Let me know if you notice anything odd!

I also want to wish you a speedy burst of inspiration and well-being!

This is not a suggestion, but rather an ordinary question. I'm still obsessed with your Author!Stan and I really need to know something. I'm writing the second chapter of "pen pals" (I don't know if you remember it or not. Au in au) And I ran into some problems regarding Ford's fake funeral. This will take up a very small part of the chapter, but that's what I had to rewrite a lot of times.

If you don't mind, may I ask:

1)If there is no government that forbids opening the coffin, would it be okay if Sherman performed this role?

2)Is there even a small chance that their mom would give in? This would simplify the task, but if the answer is negative, I also know what can be done (the main thing is to be canonical)

3)Besides Ma, did anyone want to see Ford's body? Or was it just her? It seems to me that Stan probably didn't want this, but I could be wrong.

To be honest, the line with their mom touches me to the core. It’s so good 😊❤️❤️

Ooh, excited to know you're still writing!

Stan and Ford did canonically grow up in a Jewish family, and I'm by no means an expert but I try to do my research when writing on an unfamiliar topic. Here's what I gathered when trying to figure out the "funeral" for myself.

As I've understood it in simplified terms (if I've got anything wrong please do let me know!) the custom for Jewish funerals is that someone is supposed to be with the body at all times from the moment of death until burial, the body is supposed to be buried as soon as possible, and the body should be washed. In the story both these things become impossible because there is no actual body to speak of, and that's one of the things that upsets their mom. I also think you generally don't display the body like how in other cultures one might have an open casket at the wake.

I don't see why the brother of the deceased wouldn't be able to be the one who does what needs to be done with the body. Maybe Sherman is able to convince Ma to let him because he wants to save her the emotional pain, and she's willing to concede because—while she wants to do it herself—Sherman is someone she trusts enough to let take that responsibility instead. Or maybe it's just a matter of practicality, if the crash happened on route to California where Sherman lives he might be the closest relative and so they leave him to take charge?

I think with Stan it could go either way. Either he'd be extremely persistent and refuse to accept that Ford is gone unless he can see for himself and have that closure, or he'd be too depressed to push much and doesn't want to know because he doesn't want to face the fact.

Trying to draw in my own style a bit, kids are tough to draw :/