I saw The Iron Giant featured on a list of Underrated Animated Films. It was basically a list of all the good 90s and early 2000s NOT made by Disney. (And also Black Cauldron which was Disney, and also from the 80s) But Iron Giant, underrated? I know full grown adults, that can be rendered to tears with one word. (As long as it’s delivered in a sufficiently Vin Diesel-like fashion)
Superman.
I feel like everyone I know in their 20s and 30s loves it like it was a family member (that they knew for a fact wasn’t racist. )
Yesterday you may have noticed that I’ve (finally) finished Fistbump 2. Today I went back and modified the Introduction post, updated the navigation links at the top of every subsequent chapter, plus I made sure my Master Fic post is up-to-date, as well.
So what’s next? What will I do with all this free time (snort)?
1) I’m going to take a copy of Fistbump 2, and run it through a Text-to-Speech app to make an audiobook version of it, like I did with the first Fistbump story. I don’t think very many of you will actually download and listen to it, but whatever, I’m making it anyways. Look for that announcement soon, I hope.
2) My Pinecest Authors Appreciation Project is out of date. Some new writers have appeared, while some of my existing links are now broken. I’ll tidy that up and spread some fresh love.
3) I have another new fic which I’ve mapped out and just begun to write. It will be in the same AU as “A Perfect Pines Christmas”, but will be much longer, and much more intense. The intent is that I’ll be finished by Christmas, but you know how good I am at keeping a schedule.
4) Following (or perhaps in parallel with) the above story, I have a fairly fluffy idea for a medium-length fic in the “Unexpected” AU: a story from Cassie’s point of view prior to the events of “Coming Out”.
5) The “Fistbump” AU is by no means finished. There are at least four stories of various lengths (drabbles to another long multi-chapter behemoth) that I want to tell for these kids. At some point I want to write them.
Unfortunately, one thing that is not on my calendar is the making of another “Top 11 Countdown” list, like I did in September of 2015 and 2016. Although there have been several excellent fics that have been posted here since last fall, there’s not been quite enough to warrant another project this year (an obvious by-product of overall decreased enthusiasm in our fandom). I will do another list in the future, but not just yet.
Thanks for following me. Hope you enjoy what’s to come!
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They say the heart of Pinecest is still beatin’ And from what I’ve seen I believe ‘em.
Tumblr: lol @ Middle age white women screaming at cashiers. Don’t they know thats cruel and it can’t change anything anyway!? I would never treat someone like that.
Also Tumblr: *screams at content creators via twitter when their ship doesn’t become cannon*
mr. and mrs. pines let their 12 year old children take a bus to a completely different state…. alone.
mr. and mrs. pines expected their kids to ride on the same bus, alone, back home.
in gideon rises, stan had to have warned mr. and mrs. pines that their kids were coming home because he couldn’t care for them – but how did he explain everything ending okay? and, more importantly, why did the pines parents continue to trust stan’s quality of care?
they leave their kids in oregon the whole summer. if oregon was on the other side of the country, i could understand it, but it’s not that far away – a two week visit is sensible, but a whole summer? what good parent would let their kids go for a whole summer?
alex has addressed the fact that the pines parents don’t call often, so it’s not just something that happens offscreen and they don’t include it for time purposes. they really don’t call.
in scary-oke, mabel says that dipper and stan are her favorite people in the whole wide world. dipper is understandable, but how is stan more important to her after half a summer than her parents after 12 years?
neither dipper or mabel respect stan’s authority that much, and dipper lies to him without much problem – nevermind the fact that stan’s trying to protect him.
neither dipper and mabel find anything wrong with running all over the town and rarely telling stan where they’re going. stan is definitely not the best caretaker, but dipper and mabel seem used to it from an early point in the series.
dipper and mabel cling to each other, and they’ve been shown to do this throughout their whole lives – which. it gives them a powerful relationship, but have they ever been able to rely on their parents?
mabel is frequently ingesting toxic substances – yeah, craft glitter is toxic, and those plastic dinosaurs in her mabel juice? if left in there for long enough, they’ll start leaking chemicals. that’s why water has an expiration date – because plastic isn’t safe after a certain period of time, and you most certainly should not put plastic in your drinks. and that’s not even talking about the choking hazard. and bedazzling your face? eating ice cream off of the floor? none of that stuff is safe.
dipper runs fast and loose too, and has no real problem getting into extremely dangerous situations. jfc parenting 101 is, “teach your kids to stay out of danger and not eat toxic substances.” these are the basics.
dipper questions whether his family loves him, when family is supposed to be the go-to love machine for kids: you’re supposed to know that your family loves you. dipper doesn’t. and he’s too young to think that way already.
mabel has insecurities over not being as book-smart as dipper, and in the guide, dipper refers to tests and school as a really stressful thing, so i’m led to believe that there’s a lot of weight put on intelligence in the pines household.
keep in mind that i’m measuring these to what i personally know, and that everyone’s different, but this is what stood out to me as strange. but i really don’t think highly of mr. and mrs. pines.
Those kids are too good for them
So… Just gonna say. I’m actually from and grew up in Piedmont and this seems very in keeping with the Piedmont reputation (Alex Hirsch also grew up there so it would make sense)
In most families there is indeed absolutely massive amounts of academic pressure (in some families I knew getting anything more than one or two B’s in a report card would be a point of concern) – it would be entirely unsurprising if that were the case.
Also the other part of Piedmont’s rep is that it’s full of massively rich white people, which is… Mostly true. This could certainly explain lack of good parenting (and also explain why the twins weren’t *too* impressed by pacifica’s mansion.
to;dr this is 1000% the Piedmont parent stereotype (especially academic pressure yeesh)
Thanks for sharing your perspective on this. (Cuts my research down for fics XD)
For my part I definitely don’t want to assume actual bad parenting, intentional or otherwise. Like, I can see them being very busy. Professors or lawyers, or what-have-you. An area like that definitely houses highly paid people (for the middle class) and that strikes me as busy. Maybe they e-mail or text more than they call. I prefer to think that the parents are as present as they can be, but not so much where they can’t go on private adventures.
So…this happened. This was something that I began but never finished that’s been sitting on my computer for a little over half a year when I recently felt the urge to revisit and then to finish it. The entire second half was written in a single sitting yesterday evening.
What does this mean? Am I back? Short answer: I don’t know. I’m not going to commit to anything at this point. But at the same time, I do feel I should share this now finished piece with everyone. I guess we will just see what the future brings.
Ahhh!! Yes! So good to read a Sprucefic again. Definitely worth the read if there’s anyone that follows me that hasn’t read his stuff. And if you have read his stuff, you already want to read it, so click that Keep Reading.
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