"Trust The Process"

I appreciate it! However, I've already read See A Better Day (so so good, I too recommend it) but I'm not fond of trans Dipper or major character death/sad endings, so I probably won't be reading the others!

I was going to lament the complete lack of longer fics centered solely on Dipper and Mabel's relationship, before realizing that I have, in fact, read one story like that. However, Dipper was so traumatized he acted pretty different.

This is also the story that convinced me I shouldn't read main character death.

Am I the only one who noticed just how SAD Mabel was in Mabel Land? She was nowhere near the excitement and happiness she felt when she first held Waddles or when she shares a laugh with Stan or when she admires her smart brave brother. There was this deliberate undercurrent in every word she spoke of a girl whose heart was broken. (seriously MAJOR props to Kristen Schaal for getting that across in her voice alone)

That’s why Dipper could say with complete certainty “You’re not happy here”. And Mabel KNEW IT, she knew it from the start! She just needed to hear the words spoken out loud. Which is often what needs to happen for a person to realize that what they’re doing is wrong.

Look guys, its Dipper Pines.

I've done a pretty bad job balancing Dipper's confidence and snarkiness with his anxiety in my Mindscaperers series, so in upcoming chapters I'm going to try and rectify that.

While I write the final two chapters have a quote from Chapter 12, which is fully written but I don't feel like the battle is impressive enough for me to post on its own:

"We lived through an apocalypse and stopped it. We have faced zombies and ghosts and interdimensional nightmares. If Mabel and Pacifica want to, they can and will destroy the [sentient chess pieces'] government.”

Thinking about how both Ford and Stan saw themselves in Dipper, and each other in Mabel

i’m unwell

So I mentioned to my family that I was reading for another fandom and they were wondering which one. I chose not to tell them because I have a fondness for making people guess things instead of outright telling them . . . uh, it might also just be anxiety about words. Anyway, so I gave them a couple clues and they were guessing. And I was pretty sure they'd stumble upon the correct fandom given the clues and what they were guessing, and I knew if I hesitated before answering they'd think it was that one.

So they were guessing, and I was finding all this greatly amusing and going "nope" and then they guessed "Ben 10" and I hesitated, which made them all think I was reading Ben 10 fanfic. This was hilarious to me, because I was actually reading . . .

. . . ha, did you really think I was going to tell you what fandom it was?? Nope lol! Suffer!

Okay, so maybe this story isn't as funny to anyone else as it is to me. But I was having fun. So. Yeah. There's the story.

If I disappear from updating my fics just assume I’ve picked up a new fandom and have been reading 1 million fics of it. And probably written at least one work anonymously for it. I actually have a story that I personally find hilarious about this new fandom (new for me, it’s like two decades old lol) that I’ll reblog this post with. But not right now because I don’t feel like it.

Introductory post that's actually mostly so I don't forget what tags I've used

Hi! Welcome to my blog... thing. I'm cakeiscool. Or cake. Or Cake_Is_Cool on Ao3.

I actually don't know what to put here because this is mostly so I remember the various tags I use to organize things. These tags, currently, are:

cake rambles < when I write something really long

Half Reversed Reunion AU < My Gravity Falls AU that's me smashing Reverse Falls and Reunion Falls together, except Dipper and Pacifica are reversed but Mabel and Pacifica aren't. Dipper ends up raised by the Gleefuls while Mabel becomes BFFs with Pacifica.

A Place To Call Home Series < I actually don't remember if I wrote "series" or "AU" but it was probably series. Anyway, this is my Infinity Train series following Lake after she got off the train and also a couple of original characters, Kaya and Evie.

There are probably more but I don't remember them right now. I'll add more as I think of them.

Feel free to ask stuff as long as you keep it PG and polite, and I'll probably answer, but there's some stuff I won't answer. Hence the "ask me (almost) anything".

You sound really boring

. . .

You can always block me.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60976072/chapters/158390887

Chapter 7 of my chaotic chatfic! Admittedly it ends abruptly, but I wanted to post something.

Something silly I drew