a bunch of thoughts/things i keep thinking about

• stan has an eyepatch/keeps an eyepatch because this old dope literally just wants to be a pirate 
  
• stan is similar to/connected to bill because it took a con man to fuck up a con man
  
• the transference of hats is so wonderful and so good (stan inheriting the fez, passing it on to soos, dipper pragmatically replacing his ruined hat with the closest thing on hand, but being given a hat with clear sentimental value by his dear friend (wendy’s hat is seen in AToTS as having originally belonged to her father)) there is a TORCH PASSING going on here and i dig it
  
• i want to believe that wax larry king’s head became a permanent fixture in the shack
  
• my mr. and mrs. mystery AU became canon except with soos and melody instead of stan and carla and i’m so happy
  
• stan can officially swear like the sailor he was born to be
  
• dipper and mabel getting packages from distant lands, full of trinkets and odds and ends the stans send them
  
• mabel taking waddles for walks around the neighborhood and everyone is totally jealous of those pines kids and their massive pet pig
  
• dipper thinking wearing wendy’s hat is going to make his fading crush come back, but it doesn’t. it smells like gravity falls, like the trees and the air and a little bit like the gnomes, and there’s that sort of musty smell on the outside that he’s pretty sure smells EXACTLY like the mystery shack. 
  
• stan and ford staying up, late nights out in the open ocean, catching up on 40 years worth of life updates.
  
• dipper and mabel with a shared calendar on the wall, ticking down days
• so. many. skype calls. wendy to dipper. mabel to candy and grenda. the stans to soos. soos to the twins. the stans to the twins. SO MANY.
• mabel prints out screenshots of stan’s face pressed way too close to the camera on the computer that fiddleford set up for him and ford. she hangs them from the wall. “this, dipper, is ART”
• fiddleford becoming a grandpa (with a mansion full of raccoons, and his son)
• a sailboat making port not too far from piedmont, and a very distinct red el diablo pulling up in front of the pines’ family home.
  
• ‘DIPPER! STAN GREW A BEARD!’
  

TYES YYES YES ALL OF THIS YES