Well crap, i read the whole thang because i'm weak. Where i stand on "Fistbump Harder"? I'm unfazed by the course of events, It may be because i'm a soulless ginger on the inside, or just because of my experience with forbidden relationships, serious injuries and substance abuse, and a current battle with depression holly crap, my two decades of life were fracking crazy, but i'm really not surprised with the angst currently in motion. I'm surprised with its realism, because, well i'm not talking from second hand experiences, but i'm not going to gauche my eyes out to stop the sadness from leaking. I still want it to have a happy ending tho. That being said, i'm invested. I wonder what the Stans would say if they found out that the pines are medicating their kids. If this story weren't so "craaaaawwwlinnnnnnng iiiiiiiinnnn mmmmmyyyyyy skiiiiinn", Stanley would probably say something in the lines of "You cant just give drugs to children and hope everything in their lives gets better, you're going to destroy them... they'll do that by themselves in a couple of years when they think is cool and hip" and Ford would look back and say "So it is not okay to give drugs to children anymore, how much things change" and quickly hide his bag from view. I dunno, i find that train of thought amusing. I may just get my shoe and... wait Reading this thread i see that you mentionated that Fistbump Harder its based on the five states of grief. We already went through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, so the next step is acceptance... So they are just going to accept that they cannot be together?... My offer of beating you with a shoe may just have become a lot more visceral. And thats something to fear, i'm a latino, we turned trowing "chanclas" into something of an art form. So please, correct me if my assumptions are wrong, but is the smut on the las part going to be something like "this is our last night together lets make it last"? I thought we already went there on Fistbump You said the ending was going to open possibilities for other stories on this continuity, so how are you going to write the rest, about what will be "Fistbump With A Vengance", "Another Day to Fistbump" and "Live free or Fistbump". Will Fistbump With A Vengance be about Mabel (because its always Mabel) getting a boyfriend and Dipper getting jealous and accidentally falling into his sister's vagina and so they reconect? If it is, come on man you're better than that! Thats every third pinecest story ever. Sorry, sorry, i should not tell you what to do, its your story, sorry. Anyways. To talk about the present, In its current unfinished state, i would put it in the same shelf i have "A Weekend Ruse" by pineneedleshurt, but in right the other side, not because its bad. But because 'ruse is that great fic that i re-read every time i need to relax, or every time i need to shut my brain down and just enjoy something. I quite enjoy Fistbump Harder, but as it is now, i will just read it once, because of its lack of resolution. Maybe on 2018 when its done i'll re-read it every once in a while, if its ending lives up to expectations. It still great tho. Know something that bothers me? Its not about your story, but kinda sorta about how everybody percives dipper. The kid bested a manotaur, shot down a spaceship (while being on it) and is currently on the process of defeating the freaking apocalipse, at 12. So why in the seven hell everybody thinks of him as a wimp? He is like Jonathan Joestar, the dorkiest badass that ever lived. Again, i'm keeping tabs on this, and you should keep up the good work.