Based on this post by midnightfuckingmayor and the tags I added to it.
part 1//part 2The Shack was so very much the same, and all together entirely different.
Tag: soos
Two Worlds Diverged in a Wood – Chapter 1 – Gray Eggs and Sam (kiwikami) – Gravity Falls [Archive of Our Own]
The prompt for this was “AU in which Bill turns Dipper into something
more like Willow or the Woodsman instead of Alcor and he stays human.” I
took a few liberties. Will probably work on this slowly over the next few months. The ending is marvelously sad and already planned out – it’s the actual story in the middle that’s the problem.
Meat Cute, 9/9
Or where there is finally, finally, a wedding. Buckle your seats kids. This one’s a long one.
Several thank yous are in store now that this is finally finished! Thank you @zilleniose-chu for being a wonderful human being, for creating TAU and the blog, and letting us all play with your idea babies. Thank you @marypsue for all of your amazing writing advice and help, not to mention letting me spaz on you on the reg. Thank you anon on the blog who sent in these two asks and let me use ideas from them. Thank you @randumbdaze for the art and thank you to the rest of the mods for letting me moan and groan at you.
And of course, thank you, my readers, for actually reading! I never would have imagined a year ago how big this would get or that people would want to read about my babies! So thank you, thank you again, and happy anniversary!
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As Henry explained
to the triplets when they asked years later, he had never officially moved in
to the Shack. He had never asked and Mabel had never offered. It was just
assumed that it would be a thing that happened.So by the first month of them going out Henry had a toothbrush in Mabel’s
bathroom, and some of his underwear and socks in a small folded pile on a chair
in her room. Five months and some of his favorite books had found their way
onto various side tables and shelves. His stays went from overnight to two or
three nights, to a week at a time, and Uncle Tyler constantly giggled at him
and told him to “Get it!” (Which in turn made both Henry and Uncle Dan blush.)Henry went ahead and moved the remainder of his stuff into the Shack three days
after he proposed to Mabel, when a brand new room appeared overnight on the
side of the Shack.
One Year Anniversary
It’s a year after the end of the world and Mabel Pines is talking to herself.
Because most everyone things she’s been talking to herself, thinks her mourning has turned to chatter, and only now when she’s in Gravity Falls again is it true.
Because Dipper was summoned somewhere far away and her Grunkles would worry if they knew. So she continues to talk to him with him despite everything. Right now he’s letting her win at checkers. He’s so thoughtful that way.
Mabel loves her family with the intensity of a forest fire.
It’s a year after the end of the world and Stan Pines complains there’s nothing good on television anymore. It’s a year after the end of the world and Ford Pines has invented a device to allow you to watch television from any alternate timeline. The brothers watch an old Harry Claymore movie instead.
In the kitchen Soos Ramirez and Wendy Corduroy make small talk: arguments about popular music, discussions about the metaphysical implications of ghosts, romantic entanglements.
Wendy leans back in her chair. “Do you even wonder if your Mom might come back now that-”
“No way, Dude,” says Soos. “I’ve been a zombie. Not something I’d want to spread around.”
They go back to arguing about pop songs.
It’s a year after the end of the world and Pacifica Northwest has cut off all her hair to see if she’ll turn into someone else. Her head feels lighter but her face is the same. She decides she’ll have Mabel do the next makeover.
In another part of the town Candy Chiu is live tweeting her dinner with a Kumiho. The Kumiho only tries to murder her a little.
Grenda Thompson shouts at her boyfriend over the phone about her day. Her enthusiasm is loud enough that Mayor Cutebiker gives up on privacy and eavesdrops to his hearts content. He really thinks those kids are going to make it.
It’s a year after the end of the world and Dipper Pines is summoned by someone else’s wheel. And now there’s blood on the gloves he only just decided to start wearing. He could remove it, easily, but he watches it turn from bright red to dark brown against the white of them instead. He just saved twenty people. He just murdered a man.
There’s a part of Dipper delighted to discover all the things that now exist inside him. There’s a part of Dipper that will always be twelve and anxious about this face. He goes home.
It’s the end of the world and they’re still here. Still fighting.
He should be there too.
The Scouring: Chapter 10
Final chapter ahoy!
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Sheriff Blubs and Durland were surprisingly easy to convince to go
along with letting Dipper take care of the cult – technically they
should have protested, tried to do things by the book, but to be
frank, they didn’t have the space in the Gravity Falls jail to keep
all the cultists in lock-up (it was mostly just a holding tank for
folk to sleep off too much drink, anyway) and taking them in to a
bigger city for trial would be…a problem.
It
was just…more efficient to let the Pines handle it, that was all.
Had nothing to do with wanting to get even or all the supernatural
creatures wanting it even more and getting antsy about it (and
nothing to do with not trusting a human court to help them, to maybe
care about the fact that the humans
had
been attacked but not care that they’d been hurt and killed, that
they’d all seen how little some courts counted their lives for. Of
course not.) Nothing at all.
The
Flock, which had been scattered around the square being petted and
made much of by near everyone (and terrorizing the caged cultists),
turned in near silent unison to watch their master when he drifted
away from the family and, alone, started across the square.
The background chatter in the square began to die off as Dipper
floated toward the cages holding Anthony and Gideon, claws held ready
at his sides and power sparking along his fingers, stopping mid
conversation as heads turned to watch, leaving silence in Dipper’s
wake, like ripples in water.
The Scouring: Chapter 09
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The Pines weren’t the only ones who needed rest, as it turned out.
After their first burst of cleaning, breaking magic circles and
bringing out the dead, the town of Gravity Falls simply shut down.The members of the Dinner Club (and quite a few of those who weren’t,
technically, part of them but had come to aid anyway) that didn’t
need as much rest as the others stayed awake to guard the
Anti-Transcendence Alliance – its leaders in particular – as
everyone else either forced themselves to eat before they collapsed
or went to friends and family homes to rest, too tired to eat.The Shack was too far for the Pines to go to, not now, while
everything was still unsettled and they could be needed at a moment’s
notice. They bunked down at Soos and Melody’s home instead, in the
Rameriz living room, curled around each other as best they could
manage with all of them on the king sized air mattress on the floor.
(Grunkle Stan claimed the couch, pretending it was because he was too
tough to join the cuddle pile instead of being too old and in too
much pain, while everyone saw through that and proceeded to haul the
air mattress to butt against it, where they could reach him, and he
them.)Dipper woke up before the rest of his family, as he didn’t need sleep
the way they did. Still, he’d been exhausted enough, body, mind, and
soul, to need some now, buried under their bodies at the bottom of
the cuddle pile (and grateful he was in the Mindscape and didn’t need
to breathe or it would have been highly uncomfortable).He’d thought his bloodlust would die down after the first rush of
blind anger, but lying here, under the heavy, warm, alive
weight of his family, it was just as strong and hot as earlier. As
much as he’d like to deny it, becoming a demon only strengthened the
darkness he’d already had, that Grunkle Stan had warned him about.And right now, he didn’t care.
Those people tried to take his family from him. They wanted to kill
everyone he cared about, destroy their way of life, and enslave his
sister. It may have been the demon, may have been the dark streak in
him, but…He wanted to see them suffer.
The Scouring: Chapter 08
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Mabel was crying silently over her brother’s body, the tears trailing
over her cheeks to drip onto his face, exhaustion finally catching up
to her and leaving her unable to do much more than curl around him
and sob.
Around them, the town of Gravity Falls and the augmented Dinner Crew
began to clean up, herding the beaten, bruised, and mostly silent
cultists into the cages they’d held the denizens of the forest in,
while others began to see to the wounded. They kept glancing up at
the platform where the Pines crowded around Dipper in worry, some of
them crying and wanting so badly to know if Dipper was all right, but
not quite willing to push themselves into the family’s moment.A few of the braver ones ventured into the church to see what needed
done there to clean up the damage the cult had done and, with cries
of shock and anger, began to bring out those killed, to lay them out
with what dignity they could.Up on the platform, Gideon tried to take advantage of everyone’s
distraction to escape and was nearly skewered by Kiyo’s claws for his
pains. Anthony lay trapped in her claws beside him, glaring at
everyone and grinding his teeth in anger. Each time he opened his
mouth to speak, Ben swooped in to give him another kick, and for his
tiny size his kicks were surprisingly effective (and painful).
Sorry to those who have been waiting forever for me to update now and then, here and there. But I’ve finally got time to write and here’s the new chapter (a bit long as a apology!)
The Scouring: Chapter 6
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Mabel had passed
‘pissed off’ a few miles back and now was seething, occasionally
tugging at her bonds. Bad enough these wacknuts had probably ruined
her sweater – it was a cult thing, she’d lost more sweaters to that
then she wanted to remember – and that they’d threatened her to
make her bro-bro listen to them, but they’d threatened her kids!Okay, four out of
five (because Reina was so one of hers now) since Hank and Vivi (who
was also now hers) were still safe in Portland, but that was low. And
as soon as any of the Pines got free, they were going to pay for
that.She hadn’t seen or
heard anything from Dipper or Willow in hours, and she was pretty
sure by this point it wasn’t just because she and Henry and the other
kids were being threatened.The link between
her and Dipper went both ways, even if it wasn’t as strong from him
to her she could still feel him, and he was scared.
Dipper wasn’t supposed to be scared, he was too powerful for that and
still her dorky brother and she was the only one allowed to terrorize
him!Okay, Stan and her husband and the kids could, but they were family.
Oh, and Wendy and Paz and Soos, but they were pretty much family. So
only family was allowed. Not these…religious fanatic nutjobs.And especially not Gideon. Fucking Gideon.
Finally finished this…lyrics are from “The Curse of Perfect Days” by Emery.
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