I am so. so sorry this has been neglected for so long. There are a dozen good excuses I could throw, including life, the most difficult semester of college yet, a job search that just ended a few days ago, and not having enough asks until the new xkit update on tumblr found literally 30 that had been buried in the bowels of that website, but what matters is that I've been thinking about this story and have been meaning to update it.
161, 165, and 167 were written right after publishing the last chapter, and the others were written today. That's mainly why there's so much Xpcveaoqfoxso, because oh my god that happened, so if you're not caught up on the show I apologize but I recommend you hold off on this train of madness a little while longer.
Prompts for 161-170 are from Aldecaalfi (formerly Bedravi) and 171-180 are from really old asks by sapphireswimming. Luckily I have enough prompts for another chapter but I always appreciate more! It adds to my guilt when I haven't responded to them, which hopefully means faster updates XD! Definitions are next to each word that I had to look up before I could start writing, thanks for the challenge!
Ps: check out the Gravity Falls/Soul Eater crossover section for the expansion to Ancestor, as requested by AwesomeOliver.
Enjoy!
Boscaresque
Picturesque; scenically wooded
161. Kakorrhaphiophobia fear of failure or defeat (Xpcveaoqfoxso)
The world was quite literally going to Hell in a hand basket and the kaleidoscope of colors and supernatural terrors that made up Weirdmageddon was more than enough to make Dipper's head spin, but nothing quite twisted the young boy's stomach as the frozen golden face of Ford, the distant bubble trapping Mabel and the crushing weight that everything he cared about depended on him and he might not be strong enough, smart enough, or heroic enough to save it all.
162. Macrosmatic having a good sense of smell (shoutout to Headhunters)
It may be a result of Dipper's good investigative skills, or it could just be a side-effect of living in Gravity Falls for the summer, but whatever the cause, Mabel couldn't help but find it a little bit strange that Dipper was able to track the latest creature they were exploring the woods for by following its scent.
163. Oxter armpit (follow up to 162 Macrosmatic)
What was even more impressive was how the twelve-year-old was able to smell anything at all behind the odor of prepubescence and lack of showers just reeking from him.
164. Ulotrichous having woolly or crisp hair (Transcendence AU)
It was one of the first time Dipper had accepted a summons after Mabel had passed and of course it had to end badly; stuck without his normal support to lean on the demon fled to the mindscape crisp with drying blood, where he stayed buried into the wool of the Flock as they licked the foreign substance out of their master's head-fur.
165. Strange (Jumping on the bandwagon of WtNV crossovers given the Tad Strange leak because 160+ sentences into this thing means I can throw my cliché worries out the window!)
Gravity Falls had a bad habit of falling for the latest fad (everyone was all too happy to follow along with the shallow, glamorous life of Pacifica and the Northwest family, after all), but Dipper couldn't help but be suspicious when all of the townspeople started religiously listening and following the new radio talk show that only aired in their town, despite the infamous broadcaster definitely not living among the small, dull town's residents: it was all a tad strange.
166. Leader
Each of the teenagers in Gravity Falls had the occasions where they shined: Robbie as lead guitar of You're Dead, Tambry with her 50,000 social media followers, Lee and Nate with the freshmen awed and terrified by their class pranks, and especially Wendy with her charisma and lumberjack championships, but when all six of them met up, everyone agreed that Thompson, for how soft-spoken he was, was the glue holding them together and leading them forward (it also explained why he was promoted to manager of the movie theater first).
167. Devil (tag to my not-yet-published Superfalls fic Encore)
Ever since Dipper had met a demon (albeit a self-proclaimed dream demon) in Bill Cipher, a small voice in the back of his head had wondered if there was a boss, a king, a devil as so many cultures chose to call it, but never had he imagined that such a powerful creature would be interested in the seemingly childish adventures he and Mabel embarked on in Gravity Falls until he was face to face with the creature, Bill loyally at its side, and the technically not even a teen realized just how deep he really had gotten in over his head.
168. Spirit (Northwest Mansion Mystery, the Inconveniencing, also the Phantomfalls reference is inspired by silvermoonphantom and rhythmantics's Cold Front on tumblr)
Dipper spent a good week's worth of all-nighters flipping through the pages of the Journal trying to figure out where the Author went wrong: he had so clearly defined the 10 theorized power levels of ghosts, yet ones trapped in paintings were supposedly another class entirely, and while Level 10's ability to cross spectral boundaries explained the Northwest Manor ghost, nothing in the book classified what he had witnessed at Dusk to Dawn or even came close to satisfying his suspicions of the new boy hitting on Wendy.
169. Strong
Manly Dan as a father was all about imparting his children with the needed strength, and while Wendy appreciated the fact that she could beat up anyone and everyone who got in her way, she was secretly appreciated even more the fact that growing up in a houseful of Corduroy boys had taught her to keep a lid on her anxiety and be strong of heart.
170. Wolf (Carpet Diem)
It was quite the odd wolf that was playful enough to chew on Dipper's leg for the entire night without actually breaking skin or, you know, killing the defenseless preteen sleeping alone in the woods, and of course when Mabel heard she was all for finding the perfect bone to give it and a place to sleep over inside the Shack (as long as it stayed away from Waddles) which did nothing to help the very sleepover problem that drove Dipper to sleep outside in the first place.
171. Flare (Not What He Seems)
Stanley Pines couldn't help but fight a tear as he stood on the roof launching fireworks with the kids on today of all days: maybe where Stanford was he would see their signal flare and realize that tonight he was coming home.
172. Pearl (Xpcveaoqfoxso and Escape from Reality predictions)
If anyone asked Bill what his favorite color pearl was, he'd laugh at the random question and shout gold (it is the most valuable after all, and gold suits him), but the truth was that it was all because of a pink jewel that the world is Bill's oyster, and he'd ensure that Shooting Star remained his crowning jewel like the apocalypse depended on it.
173. Mouse (Xpcveaoqfoxso)
Bill laughed as the petty humans all scurried away from his madness wave after trying futilely to fight back, he'd have fun experimenting his newfound powers on them like the litter mice they were.
174. Comforter (Dipper and Mabel vs the Future)
Mabel couldn't help but stare at the walkie-talkie after the fizzled back into static after the piercing message it just gave; a short trip to Sweatertown revealed that it wouldn't be enough, she'd have to bury herself in her sheets and wish for a thicker comforter to hide under, all the while dreading the knowledge that winter would come and summer would end.
175. Shock (when I don't have any ideas for a simple word, I try to look up as many definitions of it as I can to get inspiration from melding multiple together. The one that did it for me here was that discover a shock could also be taken to mean a number of sheaves of grain stacked upright in a field for drying. The Last Mabelcorn)
Stanford Pines stood frozen and helpless in his own mind as he faced down the demon he had befriended and faced all those years ago who should have no dominion in this world and no dominion in his mind yet for all his genius, the Author could do nothing but sway with the fields of wheat as Bill laid out his plans to disturb and burn this dimension and wait to warn his family when the man finally woke up.
176. Agenda (Xpcveaoqfoxso)
Bill leaned back and watched his posse party as he contemplated his next step: he had been waiting billions of years to fulfill step one, and now that time was frozen for eternity it was hard to put on his calendar exactly when he should move on to step two.
177. Fringe
Dipper had thought it dumb when his one friend went through a baseball phase and dragged him to the store to find the perfect baseball cap until the eleven-year-old felt the fabric plaster over his bangs and cover the birthmark that always kept him on the outside of normal social life; it wouldn't have to be a sports cap, but maybe this could help hide the fringe he always danced on as he entered into the scary halls of middle school.
178. Childhood (Dipper and Mabel vs the Future and Xpcveaoqfoxso)
Stan felt the bronze knuckles on his left fist quake at the sight of his brother, the twin he had traveled to the ends of the Earth three times now for, as he finally pieced together how little the author card: Stanley had cherished their shared memories and dreams all his life, but Stanford had hated them so much that not only did he ignore his childhood, but he actively tried to steal Dipper away before he could share one with Mabel.
179. War (slight AU on Sock Opera)
Dipper's ghostly formed looked around for a suitable sock puppet to take control of in order to talk to his sister and shook his head as he saw the blood puppet that of course would be the only one Mabel would bother to bring to her dressing room rather than leave backstage during intermission: looks like Gabe Benson's sock puppet would be going off to war in both real life and in Glove Story: a Sock Opera.
180. Detour (Xpcveaoqfoxso)
The philosopher in Ghost Eyes couldn't help but wonder if this was what he was meant to do as he drove along the open road chasing the two kids in a stolen cop car through bubbles of madness; he had told himself as an undergrad that he had the potential to discover the secrets of the universe, and despite the unexpected detour through Gravity Falls Maximum Security Prison, here he was with friends and purpose in the End Times.
