Ashes to Antics

In the waning heat of a Gravity Falls summer, the Mystery Shack hosts a backyard rave so low-budget it practically dares you to have fun. Disco lights in the trees, knockoff cheese balls, and Stan's classic grifts set the stage-but when Ash struts onto the scene, everything goes from weird to wild.

He's five feet of danger, dressed in fishnet and caution tape, and he knows it. With a smirk like sin and boots that literally light up, Ash steals hearts, stares, and probably loose change. Mabel is starstruck. Dipper is suspicious. Robbie is holding on for dear life.

There's banter that bites, longing glances hidden behind sarcasm, and a whole lot of chaotic queer magic as Ash turns a sleepy summer party into a dazzling disaster of affection, flirtation, and fabulous mayhem.

Will Dipper survive the night without combusting from secondhand sexual tension? Will Mabel ever recover from being flirted with by a walking rave poster? And what exactly is Ash whispering in Robbie's ear?

A story where the eyeliner is smudged, the soda's warm, and love might just be hiding in the shadow of a strobe light.