What she says: I’m fine
What she means: Does anybody really stop to think about Gravity Falls’ Sock Opera episode? I mean, the contrasts between the A plot and the B plot are unnerving. Mabel’s plot revolves around her weekly crush on a boy who loves puppets and she spends the whole week creating a fantastic and fun sock puppet show to impress him- it’s cheery and bubbly. Meanwhile, Dipper’s plot revolves around him descending into sleep deprived madness while trying to crack a code to a computer that might give him all the answers to Gravity Falls, and when the information on the computer is threatened, he is desperate enough to make a deal with an untrustworthy demon who literally ends up using his body as a puppet. This gives Mabel’s puppet show a much darker meaning, since her brother’s body becomes part of it- both in the fact that there is a demon in Dipper’s body and that Dipper’s soul has to possess one of Mabel’s socks in order to be heard or seen. Also, Mabel didn’t even notice that her brother’s behavior was out of the ordinary at first, and if Dipper hadn’t figured out how to contact her, he could have died (as revealed in Journal 3). Bill, as evidenced in the various actions like sticking forks in Dipper’s arms and throwing his body down a flight of stairs, could have cared less about the state of Dipper’s physical self while using it to achieve his own ends. In fact, he even wrote a suicide note to Mabel from Dipper, and would have thrown Dipper’s body off the Gravity Falls’ water tower and framed his death as a suicide, leaving his mental self to wander the Dreamscape forever in madness if Dipper had not gotten his body back. Literally how is this a canon series of events in a kids show what in the everloving f-