mistrel-fox:

mistrel-fox:

It’s this time of year again, so I want to kindly remind all Fallers that:

– You can draw/write about the Pines family celebrating Christmas, Hannukah, or whatever holiday you want them to celebrate, and no one has the right to condemn or attack you for this.

– The above was stated by Alex Hirsch himself several times: [proof 1] [proof 2]

– Dipper and Mabel were based on Alex and his twin sister, who are half-Jewish and grew up celebrating both Christmas and Hannukah non-religiously; and, according to Alex, the Pines also celebrate all holidays at Mabel’s insistence: [proof 1] [proof 2]

My point is: representation is a great thing and I understand how important it is to people, but that doesn’t mean you should police other people’s headcanons and condemn them for having a different vision of characters – especially when canon is ambiguos enough to not draw firm conclusions about someone’s religious identity. Please remember that these characters belong to everyone and there shouldn’t be any restrictions on how to portray them.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you’ll have fun this holiday season! ❤

reblogging again because I wanted to share these great tags:

#also being ethnically jewish and religiously jewish are two very different things #i know people who are both and people who are one or the other #these people also all vary in the holidays they celebrate #some celebrate just hannukah #some celebrate both or even more #and i think i remember one person whose family was ethnically jewish but not religiously jewish that celebrated just christmas growing up #i have two friends that are twins and they are both relgiously and ethnically jewish #they celebrate hannukah which is when they also exchange their smaller gifts and celebrate the religious aspect #and then on christmas they exchange larger gifts and just celebrate their family #yet you wouldn’t attack my friends for how their family celebrates the holidays #i cannot speak from personal experience bc i was born and raised christian and am not jewish on any side of my family #but i wanted to share a little bit about my friends in the tags

(via @strongintherealgay)

I’ve seen people try to tell each other which religion the twins HAVE TO BE, because of what they think the canon is.

hatbotx:

Doodled a shiny boy the other day and decided to absolutely torture myself and destroy my hand by giving it some detailed shading. The basic sketch took like 5 minutes. The shading took like 5 days.
Been working on a bunch of stuff all at once, hopefully I’ll start finishing them all now and I’ll be posting more original art soon.

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