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Wow, thanks for all the new chapters. Really dig this stuff!

:sob: are you alright mate

I remember my last year trick or treating very clearly, but definitely not my last time playing outside with friends. I mean, I think it's because I still do play outside, just not playing imagination games and more hiking and hunting for forageable plants. But there's definitely a bittersweet moment where you realize that childhood has slipped away, and you notice that your parents have picked you up for the last time. My heart goes out to mabel.

You know, at the tail end of that bus conversation on the way home, or just after they get off the bus, I could see Dipper asking if Mabel would want to be told if his friends or whoever ever said anything like that about her, as he realizes she was talking him for his own sake and she might like to hear it for hers as well.

Very... existential.

For the longest time I only read the first book of this series because it answered my biggest questions and I'm a sucker for the beginnings of romance. So glad I finally found the mood to read the rest this weekend. Chapter 84, where Dipper said "I like you so much sometimes I think I'm going crazy" or something to that effect - wow, that hit me hard. Actually inspired me to write a bit myself, though it was somewhere between "can I turn this meandering train of thought from prose to poetry" and "damn, I cannot figure out how to put these feelings into my (upcoming) wedding vows but that line sure got to the core of it." This whole story is such a well written look at the struggle of growing up and that strange uncertainty that childhood carries, where you are both infinitely more safe because you have adults and infinitely less so because you are trapped, bound by what adults decide for you. I doubt you'll write this story long enough to get to this point, but I do think it would be interesting to see the moment Dipper realizes there is no hard line between adulthood and childhood. That he is still just him, now free to make all his own choices and now free to fail in a way he was never quite capable of before, because there is no one who can catch him if he falls. The moment you realize all adults are stumbling through every new situation just as blindly as you always have is a pretty powerful one, and the moment you realize you are expected to take the helm with no supports can feel like the world tilting on a new axis. Still, you always manage to bring deep humanity to each new stage of these character's lives, despite the veneer of weirdness. I'm eager to see Brandan and Mabel's relationship grow too. You know a writer is skilled when they can write an OC that is actually engaging. If you ever write an original story that gets published, please put a link to purchase on your profile. I think I would enjoy reading anything you write.

I cackled so hard at the drawing part
Favorite chapter

:clap: Childhood :clap: trauma :clap:
Loved the copyright-free game names !

Just wanna point out how much I love your Stan. His quips are always on point and he's been a great character all around. Good stuff !

Dipper feels sad and moppy right now because he’ll miss Pacifica. I loved how both shared a touching moment in the ending.

That off brand GTA name was just too funny.

I was as surprised as Dipper. Been there, done that with lobster, why not get a new flavor of giant animal monster, maybe a squirrel looking to store all its food for the Winter?

Huh, I could've sworn Dipper had already experienced a PTSD episode... but also, given how late it was and how tired he was, he might have been half asleep already, so it makes sense he would think it was a regular nightmare.

They might be missing that rush of adrenaline they occasionally get when weirdness goes on

"Perhaps this place fulfills our desires," Not-Ford muses. "You wanted to talk to your great-uncle. Or, perhaps I wanted to talk to my favorite nibling!"

Not sure if "nibling" is a typo of "sibling" or this is how it's pronounced in the Glass Dimension.

nice love it