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[The video starts off dark. There's some shuffling sounds, like someone dragging clothing on hangers across a metal rack. Then, a pair of eyes, one bright gold and the other white look into the feed, wide and startled. The camera blurs out, but the tiniest, panicked voice can be made out.]

Alcaid! I said textIsaidtext!

[It cuts and then a moment later a text post is attached.]

Ignore that, thanks.

I just want to give a quick heads up, especially to anyone who saw my uncle's post about my other uncle leaving: He's back.

Sort of.

He's thirty years younger and doesn't have any memories of this place so, try not to be too alarmed if you see him. If you could also avoid bringing up Bill (If you know who I mean) to him, that would be great.

It makes me wonder... how many of us from the Dream are still here? It seems like a lot of us have gone back to the ocean. I went through the doors because I didn't have a place in my own story anymore, hoping this would be the place where I fit. Maybe that was just wishful thinking and we don't fit anywhere anymore.

Anyway, that's all.

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[...Oh! Ryan might not be from the Dream but he is glad to hear from him.]

Same. Would you believe me if I told you that when I went "home" right before we came to Trench, going back to middle school had been what made me snap and decide I'd take my chances with whatever here might have been?

I don't really regret that.

[There's a moment as he thinks about the last part, and the next message comes a moment later.]

It's going to make me sound crazy, because there's a lot of reason to NOT like this place, but, it's let me see, do, and BE in ways I never would have been able to back home. That means a lot to me.

oh totally
back home I left town like RIGHT after graduation - i couldn't wait to get out of town do do what i actually wanted to do with my life and like honestly? if someone told me magic squid was an option I would've at least thought about it

[So yeah, he believes it. Frankly the main reason he probably wouldn't have done it is there is no way in hell he would have convinced Min to jump ship to Squidville back in middle school.]

dude you don't sound crazy
but it does sound like you fit just fine. someone who didn't fit here probably wouldn't feel that way about it, right?
if you feel good about who you can be here theeeeen it sounds like you belong here to me. :)

Ahahaha, nice.

Back home it wasn't like I hated where I lived or anything. Piedmont was just really normal. ~~Last summer~~The summer before last we (my sister and I) visited our uncle in Oregon, a town called Gravity Falls, and it was packed to the BRIM with weird supernatural nonsense. It was the best thing that had ever happened to me. But, you know. summer ends and we had to go back home.

That place was also one of the first times I ever felt like I fit somewhere. I think I'm just meant to be where stuffs weird, you know?

[Oh. What a nice thing for someone to say to him. Dipper already feels weirdly vulnerable right now, so being validated hits him unexpectedly hard.]

Oh. You've got a point, huh. Thanks, dude.
I think I needed to hear that.

Edited 2022-05-10 07:02 (UTC)

powell lake was pretty normal too but, yknow. big fish small pond etc etc. then there was a solo tour, an upsetting detour on the wormhole judgement line, the REAL tour, and noooow I'm here!

[There are many things that are not being explained here.]

sounds like gravity falls was a pretty cool place though. and hey, no problem! sometimes you just need someone else to say it. :) plus if you're supposed to be where weird stuff is, this place deeeefinitely fits the bill.

[Like a mothman to a street lamp, Dipper hones in on something.]

"wormhole judgement line"?

[Yeah like Dipper was going to let that go extrapolated on.]

It was great! And honestly a lot of the crazy stuff that happened there made it pretty easy to adjust to here? So, that worked out, I guess.

[Whoops. He probably said too much there. How deep into the wormhole judgement line does he wanna get?]

yep. two tickets on the train to nowhere.

but right? weird how that works. compared to bug cowboys and giant pig babies a lot of this has been kinda tame!

[Somehow, this explains even less.]

[You can't dangle details like that in front of Dipper and not think he is going to climb a wall wanting to know more.]

Are the bug cowboys and giant pig babies related to your wormhole train to nowhere? Because you are hinting at something Very Interesting here, dude.

[Luckily for Ryan, everything about the train is completely absurd. Even if he gives details, how on earth will Dipper connect them all together into something coherent?]

'Interesting' sure is a word for it!

but yeah they were on the train. not passengers but like, they were there.

[He can TRY.]

What were YOU doing on the train?

magical wormhole stuff. it just kinda happened

[What a fun way to say he threw Min's keys in the portal and ran in after them.]

the whole squid thing was a lot weirder honestly

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