History Fridge / ThreeCanKeepASecret

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but a ''spectacular'' deconstruction of ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3''s AuthorsSavingThrow regarding them. Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect true love matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary infatuation status effects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-style God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their now-unambiguous resemblance to '''date rape drugs.''' ''Three More'' very bluntly portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence, and further, is only able to use them in this way in the story ''because'' Hirsch and his team retconned them in an attempt to undo the ''original'' UnfortunateImplications. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' unambiguously nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to 100% indeed be what it unfortunately resembled, no possible refuge in ambiguity about it, and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it. ''Three More'''s deconstruction makes clear that the writers' attempted AuthorsSavingThrow was actually a ''spectacular'' OwnGoal, because it gave the Love God's potions ''more'' resemblance to date rape drugs, not less.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but a ''spectacular'' deconstruction of ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'''s AuthorsSavingThrow regarding them. Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect true love matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary infatuation status effects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-style God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their now-unambiguous resemblance to '''date rape drugs.''' ''Three More'' very bluntly portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence, and further, is only able to use them in this way in the story ''because'' Hirsch and his team retconned them in an attempt to undo the ''original'' UnfortunateImplications. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' unambiguously nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to 100% indeed be what it unfortunately resembled, no possible refuge in ambiguity about it, and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it. ''Three More'''s deconstruction makes clear that the writers' attempted AuthorsSavingThrow was actually a ''spectacular'' OwnGoal, because it gave the Love God's potions ''more'' resemblance to date rape drugs, not less.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but a ''spectacular'' deconstruction of Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow regarding them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3,'' one that not only destroys the attempt at backing away from the UnfortunateImplications but blows the remains back into Alex Hirsch's face. Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect true love matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary infatuation status effects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-style God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their now-unambiguous resemblance to '''date rape drugs.''' ''Three More'' very bluntly portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence, and further, is only able to use them in this way in the story ''because'' Hirsch and his team retconned them in an attempt to undo the ''original'' UnfortunateImplications. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' unambiguously nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to 100% indeed be what it unfortunately resembled, no possible refuge in ambiguity about it, and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it. ''Three More'''s deconstruction makes clear that the writers' attempted AuthorsSavingThrow was actually a ''spectacular'' OwnGoal, because it gave the Love God's potions ''more'' resemblance to date rape drugs, not less.

* Meta example: the creative choice to make Mabel's and Dipper's parents subtly favor Mabel not only fits with the twins' unbalanced relationship, behavioral red flags, and the Pines family's history of unhealthy parent-child relationships in general, but also mirrors suspicions from those more critical of Mabel's character that Mabel (who was based off Alex Hirsch's sister) was a CreatorsPet and the writing for the show was bent to avoid having Hirsch's sister's {{Expy}} face too much criticism or consequences outside of minor jokes about her quirky behavior, and suggestions that Hirsch was simply more comfortable making his own self-proclaimed Expy (Dipper) suffer through tough challenges and consequences than he was making his sister's. Their parents' favoritism for Mabel mirrors their creator's suspected favoritism for her. Both had unintented consequences on the perception of the twins and their relationship.

** Consequently: If the Crystal Gems ever get off their Earth again (as they eventually did in their own show's canon) they will ''not have made friends.'' They may well face retaliation from less forgiving parties for not getting involved with defeating the enemy they declared themselves in violent opposition to when said enemy decimated a huge portion of not only ''their'' universe, but the Multiverse itself--and that's if the hostile parties are even willing to recognize them as being seperate from the rest of Gemkind, the enemy race that tried to wipe all other living things out of existence. At the very least, there are a significant number of war-scarred races in the Gems' own universe with security systems seemingly designed ''specifically'' to target Gems as well as a Gem targeting biological weapon being released on Homeworld. And without the Diamond Authority to push back these opposing forces and maintain the safety of their Gem citizens, all while the various surviving planets and galaxies they oppressed have regained their autonomy amidst a giant power vacuum? The lack of authority, even a temporary one, to take over and try to ease a transition between the old power structure and whatever new ones come into being means certain figurative bloodshed and almost certainly a target on the backs of Gems everywhere. Not to mention a number of Gems are shown to be canonically indoctrinated enough to continue being actively hostile with these other races, which will no doubt propagate further violence until someone is powerful enough to either incentivized or coerce some form of peace.

* Speaking of which, if Dipper hadn't gone to live with Stan and Ford, [[ToxicFriendInfluence Mabel probably would have pressured him into being her accomplice]] on her delinquent adventures just like she did for many of her more self-interested schemes in Gravity Falls. If they were ever caught, Dipper would have likely [[ParentalFavoritism borne the brunt of the blame from their parents]] and any criminal incidents akin to the little we know Mabel got up to (drugs, b&e, possibly QuestionableConsent, and whatever the heck Mabel's temper did to that rival girl that made her greatful for her ability to avoid the cops) would have likely hurt his chances at finding a similar-quality education to the apprenticeship he'd passed up after high school, even if Mabel somehow became more accepting of them seperating by then.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but a ''spectacular'' deconstruction of Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow regarding them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3,'' one that not only destroys the attempt at backing away from the UnfortunateImplications but blows the remains back into Alex Hirsch's face. Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect true love matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary infatuation status effects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-style God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their now-unambiguous resemblance to '''date rape drugs.''' ''Three More'' very bluntly portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence, and further, is only able to use them in this way in the story ''because'' Hirsch and his team retconned them in an attempt to undo the ''original'' UnfortunateImplications. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' unambiguously nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to 100% indeed be what it unfortunately resembled, no possible refuge in ambiguity about it, and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it. ''Three More'''s deconstruction makes clear that the writers' attempted AuthorsSavingThrow was actually a ''spectacular'' OwnGoal.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but a ''spectacular'' deconstruction of Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow regarding them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3,'' one that not only destroys the attempt at backing away from the UnfortunateImplications but blows the remains back into Alex Hirsch's face. Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect true love matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary infatuation status effects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-style God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their now-unambiguous resemblance to '''date rape drugs.''' ''Three More'' very bluntly portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence, and further, is only able to use them in this way in the story ''because'' Hirsch and his team retconned them in an attempt to undo the ''original'' UnfortunateImplications. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' unambiguously nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to 100% indeed be what it unfortunately resembled, no possible refuge in ambiguity about it, and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but a ''spectacular'' deconstruction of Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow regarding them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3,'' one that not only destroys the attempt at backing away from the UnfortunateImplications but blows the remains back into Alex Hirsch's face. Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary affects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-style God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their now-unambiguous resemblance to '''date rape drugs.''' ''Three More'' very bluntly portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence, and further, is only able to use them in this way in the story ''because'' Hirsch and his team retconned them in an attempt to undo the ''original'' UnfortunateImplications. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' unambiguously nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to 100% indeed be what it unfortunately resembled, no possible refuge in ambiguity about it, and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but a ''spectacular'' deconstruction of Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow regarding them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3,'' one that not only destroys the attempt at backing away from the UnfortunateImplications but blows the remains back into Alex Hirsch's face. Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary affects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-style God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their now-unambiguous resemblance to '''date rape drugs.''' ''Three More'' very bluntly portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence, and further, is only able to use them in this way in the story ''because'' Hirsch and his team retconned them in an attempt to undo the UnfortunateImplications. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' unambiguously nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to 100% indeed be what it unfortunately resembled, no possible refuge in ambiguity about it, and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but a ''spectacular'' deconstruction of Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow regarding them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3,'' one that not only destroys the attempt at backing away from the UnfortunateImplications but blows the remains back into Alex Hirsch's face. Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary affects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-style God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their now-unambiguous resemblance to '''date rape drugs.''' ''Three More'' very bluntly portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' unambiguously nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to 100% indeed be what it unfortunately resembled, no possible refuge in ambiguity about it, and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but ''spectacularly'' destroys Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow over them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'' and blows the remains back into Alex Hirsch's face. Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary affects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-style God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their now-unambiguous resemblance to '''date rape drugs.''' ''Three More'' very bluntly portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' unambiguously nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to 100% indeed be what it unfortunately resembled, no possible refuge in ambiguity about it, and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but ''spectacularly'' destroys Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow over them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3.'' Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary affects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-style God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their now-unambiguous resemblance to '''date rape drugs.''' ''Three More'' very bluntly portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' unambiguously nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to 100% indeed be what it unfortunately resembled, no possible refuge in ambiguity about it, and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but ''spectacularly'' destroys Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow over them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3.'' Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary affects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-style God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their now-unambiguous resemblance to '''date rape drugs.''' ''Three More'' very bluntly portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' unambiguously nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to 100% indeed be what it unfortunately resembled, no possible question about it, and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but ''spectacularly'' destroys Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow over them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3.'' Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary affects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-style God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their unambiguous resemblance to ''date rape drugs.'' ''Three More'' unambiguously portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to indeed be what it unfortunately resembled and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but ''spectacularly'' destroys Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow over them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3.'' Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary affects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions weilded by an actual Cupid-stype God of Love" and hit much closer to home with their unambiguous resemblance to ''date rape drugs.'' ''Three More'' unambiguously portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to indeed be what it unfortunately resembled and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but ''spectacularly'' destroys Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow over them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3.'' Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable ''resemblences'' to real-life red flags owing to the potions, but so far those unfortunate resemblences aren't confirmed to actually be the situation with the Love God and that's the only problem with his character (well, besides the fact that his validation of LGBTQ+ relationships got censored, thanks Disney). This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary affects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions" and hit much closer to home with their unambiguous resemblance to ''date rape drugs.'' ''Three More'' unambiguously portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to indeed be what it unfortunately resembled and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but ''spectacularly'' destroys Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow over them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3.'' Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable resemblences owing to the potions, but so far that's the only issue with him. This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary affects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating, because now the potions have less in common with the distant magical concept of "true love potions" and hit much closer to home with their unambiguous resemblance to ''date rape drugs.'' ''Three More'' unambiguously portrays them as such, since the persons under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence. While it's not given direct attention in the story nor its concluding outline, this retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow accidentally retconned the Love Potion to indeed be what it unfortunately resembled and made Mabel look ''worse'' for using it.

* The way the story depicts the Love God's potions isn't just UnfortunateImplications, but ''spectacularly'' destroys Gravity Falls' attempts at an AuthorsSavingThrow over them in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3.'' Before the publishing of the book, it could be argued that the Love God is the Love God, the source of love, and that in the show's universe, the Love God's judgements are meant to be perfect matches and being matched by the Love God is implied to be just how long-term relationships form. Yeah, it does have some uncomfortable resemblences owing to the potions, but so far that's the only issue with him. This does have the effect, however, of making what Mabel did a ''permanent'' violation on Robbie and Tambry. So in Journal 3 it was retconned (most likely in an attempt to reduce the unintentionally blowback on Mabele's character): now the Love God's potions only have temporary effects that wear off within a few days, thereby sidestepping the whole "Mabel permanently violated two people" thing. ''However,'' this adds worse implications to the Love God. Whereas before he was a bumbling if seemingly experienced matchmaker creating assumedly perfect matches to make people happy, now his potions are just temporary affects that ''wear off,'' after which the people involved are no longer in love. Instead of removing the violating implications, this just makes the Love God seem equally violating. ''Three More'' unambiguously portrays the use and effects of the Love God's love potions as ''date rape drugs,'' since the person under their effects cannot consent to their own actions under the influence and they didn't even consent to being put under that influence, which retroactively makes anything Robbie and Tambry did under the effects of the potion ''also'' nonconsentual for either party, and ''Mabel's fault.'' Instead of making Mabel look better, the implications of the AuthorsSavingThrow make her look ''worse.''
** Which further explains why the potion incident traumatized them so badly. Nonconsentual kissing can certainly be traumatizing, but for teens as jaded as them? Given how much they both seem to revel in breaking rules and disregarding authority? This trooper suspects something more happened between them while drugged.

* Of course the Butterflies and MHC escape to Earth. Not only is it their Earth allies' base of operations, but Earth's general lack of magic naturally limited the scope of Bill Cipher's invasion during his previous attempt. Even if things get bad and he launches another attack on Gravity Falls, there's still a whole world to retreat to in which Bill's forces will, while still threatening, be greatly reduced in power, with their ''most'' powerful unable to leave Gravity Falls. When facing such a powerful threat, the most unmagical of the Mewni-known dimensions is the safest place to be.

** Consequently: If the Crystal Gems ever get off their Earth again (as they eventually did in their own show's canon) they will ''not have made friends.'' They may well face retaliation from less forgiving parties for not getting involved with defeating the enemy they declared themselves in violent opposition to when said enemy decimated a huge portion of not only ''their'' universe, but the Multiverse itself--and that's if the hostile parties are even willing to recognize them as being seperate from the rest of Gemkind, the enemy race that tried to wipe the rest of them out of existence. At the very least, there are a significant number of war-scarred races in the Gems' own universe with security systems seemingly designed ''specifically'' to target Gems as well as a Gem targeting biological weapon being released on Homeworld. And without the Diamond Authority to push back these opposing forces and maintain the safety of their Gem citizens, all while the various surviving planets and galaxies they oppressed have regained their autonomy amidst a giant power vacuum? The lack of authority, even a temporary one, to take over and try to ease a transition between the old power structure and whatever new ones come into being means certain figurative bloodshed and almost certainly a target on the backs of Gems everywhere. Not to mention a number of Gems are shown to be canonically indoctrinated enough to continue being actively hostile with these other races, which will no doubt propagate further violence until someone is powerful enough to either incentivized or coerce some form of peace.

** Consequently: If the Crystal Gems ever get off their Earth again (as they eventually did in their own show's canon) they will ''not have made friends.'' They may well face retaliation from less forgiving parties for not getting involved with defeating the enemy they declared themselves in violent opposition to when said enemy decimated a huge portion of not only ''their'' universe, but the Multiverse itself--and that's if the hostile parties are even willing to recognize them as being seperate from the Gempire. At the very least, there are a significant number of war-scarred races in the Gems' own universe with security systems seemingly designed ''specifically'' to target Gems as well as a Gem targeting biological weapon being released on Homeworld. And without the Diamond Authority to push back these opposing forces and maintain the safety of their Gem citizens, all while the various surviving planets and galaxies they oppressed have regained their autonomy amidst a giant power vacuum? The lack of authority, even a temporary one, to take over and try to ease a transition between the old power structure and whatever new ones come into being means certain figurative bloodshed and almost certainly a target on the backs of Gems everywhere. Not to mention a number of Gems are shown to be canonically indoctrinated enough to continue being actively hostile with these other races, which will no doubt propagate further violence until someone is powerful enough to either incentivized or coerce some form of peace.

* Meta example: the creative choice to make Mabel's and Dipper's parents subtly favor Mabel not only fits with the twins' unbalanced relationship, behavioral red flags, and the Pines family's history of unhealthy parent-child relationships in general, but also mirrors criticisms that Mabel (who was based off Alex Hirsch's sister) was a CreatorsPet and the writing for the show was bent to avoid having Hirsch's sister's {{Expy}} face too much criticism or consequences outside of minor jokes about her quirky behavior, and suggestions that Hirsch was simply more comfortable making his own self-proclaimed Expy (Dipper) suffer through tough challenges and consequences than he was making his sister's. Their parents' favoritism for Mabel is just like their creator's suspected favoritism for her. Both had unintented consequences on the perception of the twins and their relationship.

* Meta example: the creative choice to make Mabel's and Dipper's parents subtly favor Mabel and devalue Dipper not only fits with the twins' unbalanced relationship, behavioral red flags, and the Pines family's history of unhealthy parent-child relationships in general, but also mirrors criticisms that Mabel (who was based off Alex Hirsch's sister) was a CreatorsPet and the writing for the show was bent to avoid having Hirsch's sister's {{Expy}} face too much criticism or consequences outside of minor jokes about her quirky behavior, and suggestions that Hirsch was simply more comfortable making his own self-proclaimed Expy (Dipper) suffer through tough challenges and consequences than he was making his sister's. Their parents' favoritism for Mabel is just like their creator's suspected favoritism for her. Both had unintented consequences on the perception of the twins and their relationship.

*** Further, given the trauma and infrastructural hardship and spike in crime and illegal drug usage, there's no way all of this didn't scare off tourists and residents alike. Not only would a significant portion of their populace have been killed by Weirdmageddon's initial impact, but they probably saw a drop in population and finances from people moving or just deciding not to visit, too.