A Defense of Stanford Pines | A 10-Year Fandom Retrospective

What we can’t woobify, we vilify. What we can’t vilify, we diagnose. And sometimes, in the Gravity Falls fandom, we do all three. Content warnings for: Discussions of abuse, discussions of ableism, and occasional adult humor Follow for the latest updates on Mystery Twin Mystery Bags, my charity project to raise funds for Gaza. BUY YOUR MYSTERY BAG: https://mysterytwinbags.bigcartel.com/ Mystery Twin Mystery Bags Twitter: https://x.com/mysterytwinbags MTMB Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/mystery-twin-m... MTMB IG:   / mysterytwinsbags   VO work (in order of appearance) by Chloe Leis (TsunamiHolmes):    / @chloeleis   Charley Marlowe (Charley the Pirate Theydy):    / @charleymarlowe   Nour386 :   / nour386   Closed captioning by: David Glennon [email protected] Video Chapters: 0:00 Tumblr Hating on the Elderly 2:34 30 Years and Now He’s Back 12:16 Mystery Trio and the introduction of Ford 22:22 In the trenches of the Stan War 34:13 Projecting on Old Men 56:31 Let the trial begin (opening remarks) 1:01:14 The Defense - Ford’s childhood/teen years 1:15:48 The Defense - Ford’s researcher years 1:25:55 The Defense - Ford calling Stan/Portal Incident 1:42:29 The Defense - And Now He’s Back 2:09:07 Ad for MTMB 2:12:32 The Defense - Ford and Dipper 2:36:04 The Defense - Weirdmaggedon 2:47:50 Death of the Author 3:01:16 Bill Cipher 3:13:46 No Defense - Fiddleford 3:43:12 Projecting on Stanford Pines 3:56:00 Mental Illness 4:41:22 Closing Remarks 4:44:05 If Icarus Could See Me Now 4:49:40 Credits+After Credits Support me on Patreon:   / hanahyperfixates   Support my Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/whatwouldmo... Sarah Z's video on Narcissism (it did not come out at a time where it influenced my video’s script - I just think it’s neat):    • The Narcissist Scare   Used for footage: Jonathan Frakes telling you you’re wrong for 47 seconds:    • jonathan frakes telling you you're wrong f...   Sources quoted: A transcript to my interview with Alex Hirsch: https://sites.google.com/view/hanahyp... Ovid’s Icarus: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/vsfd18/ov... Narcissism and self-esteem reactivity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Assessing Biased Attitudes Towards Clients with Cluster B Personality Disorders: https://encompass.eku.edu/cgi/viewcon... Rates of abuse and neurodivergence: https://link.springer.com/article/10.... A Cognitive-Behavioral Formulation of Narcissistic Self-Esteem Dysregulation https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full...