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

[allaboutme]

Loathing would imply I care that much about her in the first place.

[powerofmabel]

So you're... not a fan, I guess. [WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT A TV SHOW, RIGHT???]

[allaboutme]

I just think she's overrated.

[powerofmabel]

I guess that's fair... I think the supporting cast are pretty great too, and they never get as much attention.

[allaboutme]

Please. She doesn't have the hair to be a compelling main character.

[powerofmabel]

And it's probably for the best it's a TV show. Someone like Muffy wouldn't understand someone like Angel. He's sooo much more complicated and dreamy than the TV vamps.

[allaboutme]

[ she'll get back to that point in a second ] TV show?

[powerofmabel]

Yeah? Muffy the Werewolf Annihilator. It's a TV show. Wasn't that what we were talking about?

[allaboutme]

Not even the slightest.

[powerofmabel]

[jeopardy music]

....Oh this is one of those "one person's fictional entertainment is another person's entire life" things, isn't it?

[allaboutme]

Since when is that a thing?

[powerofmabel]

Since, like... always. We're in Wonderland, Cordelia. I don't tell Alice her life is a storybook when I talk to her.

[allaboutme]

I always wanted to be on TV, but this is definitely not what I had in mind.

[powerofmabel]

I know what you mean. No one wants to find out that they're actually a side character in the TV show of their life. Yikes.

[allaboutme]

Who are you calling a side character?!

[powerofmabel]

[whoops] I'm just saying if Muffy the Werewolf Annihilator is your life, and you're not Muffy, you must be... One of her... quirky sidekicks? [awkward laugh] But hey! Everyone is the hero of their own story, and it's not a TV show for you, so...

[allaboutme]

I have my own life, thank you. And she's not even remotely a part of it anymore.

[powerofmabel]

So you have your own spin-off?

[how much more meta can you get here. also is this what happens to TV characters who get written out? could she find out what happened to ALL of her secondary faves who were put on a bus this way? Wonderland, your powers are limitless.]

[allaboutme]

No! I'm star material and I don't need to spin off from anyone else's orbit to get there.

[powerofmabel]

This is all hypothetical and based off... y'know, my knowledge of TV.

[trying to...smooth this over] When you get down to it, Wonderland doesn't even have a White Rabbit, so that totally proves fictional realities lie!

[allaboutme]

But there's actually an Alice, right?

[powerofmabel]

Yeeeaaah... It's complicated.

[allaboutme]

Complicated how?

[powerofmabel]

She's been her for a really long time, and she sorta barely remembers... a lot of stuff.

[whoops. not a good selling point for wonderland.]

[allaboutme]

Right. That whole 'Wonderland is eating our brains' thing.