video/action } forward dated to 6/24 } cause the mightiest, scariest, creature is you

[krmvgivv]

Hi everyone!

[Dipper's not wearing his usual outfit. He's wearing a white shirt with suspenders as he sits at his desk, his usual blue pine tree hat hanging off the chair. Behind him, Mabel can be seen bustling around, covered in scraps of cloth and glue and glitter.]

So, looks like another event from our world. One that has absolutely nothing to do with gravity turning off, weird. Almost like that was entirely unrelated to this event.

[He scowls very pointedly YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE PEOPLE HE'S SCOWLING AT.]

Anyway, this... well... okay, so in Gravity Falls, they like Halloween so much that they celebrate it again when summer comes and call it Summerween. Judging from the jack-o-melons hanging around, the fact that it's late June, and the fact that literally no other town would have something as ridiculous as Summerween, I'm calling it. This one's ours.

[Mabel tosses a piece of blue cloth at Dipper's head, which he fastens around his shoulders like a cape. She vanishes out of the camera's field of vision.]

The good news? Halloween's just as fun in the summer. The bad news? Last Summerween a monster called the Summerween Trickster tried to eat us and our friends because we [mostly just Dipper] lacked the "Summerween Spirit." [He rolls his eyes, making finger quotes.] I don't know if that's gonna happen here, but let's face it, it's Wonderland, so I'd get a costume just in case. And hey? Free candy. Not such a bad thing.

[Mabel comes back, wearing green suspenders. She hands Dipper a pointy red hat and lifts a silver teapot over her head. Together, they lower the hats onto their heads and fistbump, costumes complete. Summerween is about what really matters, after all: pure evil.]

So hey, I guess we're trick-or-treating? We'll see you out there. Try and have fun! Since you know, you might die otherwise.

[He cuts the feed, though he and Mabel will both be responding to any confused questions. Throughout the rest of the event, they'll be mostly sticking together, trick-or-treating with each other or with any friends they catch up with, especially once their trick-or-treat-or-die theories are confirmed. There is nothing cuter than twins in costumes, and they're experienced trick-or-treaters, so they're gonna hit every door. Might be they'll even come to yours!]

Comments

[sciencelizard]

So... w-we have to. Dress up? In costumes? Like, whatever w-we want?

[HO HO HOLY SHIT]

[krmvgivv]

Yep. Only limiting factor is your own costume making abilities.

[determinedest]

Jack-o-melons?

[Wow. Gravity Falls really is...something.]

What do you have to do to get into the "spirit," then?

[krmvgivv]

Like jack-o-lanterns, but made from a watermelon.

[It sure is.]

Oh, you know. Costumes, trick or treating. The usual stuff. [A beat.] Uh, do you know? Maybe it's not a monster thing.

[A beat. Dipper frowns, tilting his head thoughtfully.]

Well, I guess it is a monster thing where we come from, but more in the what people dress up as sense, not in the them actually celebrating it sense.

[brainmeme]

So... what you're saying is... trick-or-treating? Free candy? Free candy or else?

[Those are definitely stars in Amethyst's eyes.]

[krmvgivv]

That's generally how trick-or-treating works, yeah, though the "or else" is not always implied. And costumes. Don't forget the costumes.

[powerofmabel]

All the candy.

[punful]

much as i like free food, i think i'll sit this one out. [SO HE SAYS.]

but hey, nice costumes. so the idea is you...dress up weird and people give you candy?

[krmvgivv]

Sitting it out may not be an option. Just... warning you. But yeah. And you say "trick-or-treat."

[fulllifeconsequences]

[Wow! Halloween is for babies and children. Or Summerween. Whatever. They don't want to talk about the actual event, because then they'll have to choose between death and feeling childish and stupid (death looks pretty appealing).

So they avoid the subject and focus on something inane and irrelevant. You know, as you do.]

So... what? Gravity flipped off because this is a Gravity Falls holiday? Wonderland's really stretching.

[krmvgivv]

No, that has nothing at all to do with the event. It... does have to do with Gravity Falls. Specifically, people from Gravity Falls being extremely stupid.

[allaboutme]

[ so fucking triggered ten times over ]

Oh no. No way, Jose.

[powerofmabel]

[sigh] What is it? A candy allergy? Horrible costume trauma? 'Cause the Summerween trickster doesn't play around with lame excuses.

[krmvgivv]

Believe me, this is not the worst an event can be.

[suicidemission]

Wait. Yer saying it'll eat us if we don't have a costume? What kinda place are you from?

[powerofmabel]

Gravity Falls.

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[singloversing]

You've got to be kidding me. Seriously, you guys?

[He's not talking about the event. You know what he's talking about.]

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[powerofmabel]

[INNOCENTLY] What's wrong, Wirt?

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[krmvgivv]

I know it sounds ridiculous, but we've lived through it. [Dipper knows he's not talking about the event. He just chooses to ignore that knowledge.] I promise, trick-or-treating isn't that bad.

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[charlastan]

Huh. Go figure!

[That's all Stan's gonna say on that subject publicly. He's in the middle of getting his costume together though - he's already glued the Frankenstein (Frankenstein's monster, as Ford would probably correct him) bolts to the sides of his neck, and he's started painting his face green already.

But he's here doing what he does best - pretending everything is totally fine until it actually is fine.]

So, uh. I get that Dipper's your weird gnome friend or whatever, but what are you s'pposed to be Mabel? I...what am I lookin' at here.

[He honestly has no idea like at all.]

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[powerofmabel]

I'm Wirt's brother! Greg! He wears a teapot and likes frogs. That's all I've got so far.

[video forever] (i legit thought i did this already wtf)

[drummeintheface]

[GASP.]

Mabel! You're an elephant too!

[video forever]

[powerofmabel]

[is that what she's supposed to be?? it matters not, because she's in a constant state of humoring the Greg child.]

I sure am! D'you like it?

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[vampdetective]

A costume.

[Angel looks uncertain about that.]

I'm already a vampire. That doesn't count?

[Video]

[powerofmabel]

Not to the Summerween Trickster, but to me, it always counts.

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[morework]

How did you survive the attack? We will prepare for a fight as best we can.

-Cullen

u gonna die cullen

[krmvgivv]

Soos ate him from the inside. It turned out all he wanted was for someone to think he's delicious.

I don't know if the same trick will work twice.

[perennialpetals]

If this so-called trickster comes around again, I will be happy to get rid of him for you.

[SPACE ROCK MAMA IS ON THE JOB.]

Whether or not I find a costume, I'm not about to let anyone be hurt on such a fun-sounding human holiday.

[krmvgivv]

...I appreciate the offer, but this is Wonderland. It might not be that simple.