Pinescone

Pinescone is the slash ship between Dipper Pines and Wirt from the Gravity Falls and Over the Garden Wall fandoms.

Canon
Dipper and Wirt are both the protagonists of their respective stories. They are both start their stories as outcasts, with similar weaknesses such as a lack of self-confidence and a tendency to overthink. They both almost daily encounters with the supernatural throughout their shows. The main difference between seems to be that Dipper is an "Agent Mulder" type, who actively searches for the supernatural, while Wirt is an "Agent Scully" type who insists that everything can be explained with real world logic. They are both also stalked by a demonic creature who wants to claim their souls for themselves.

They are both partially at fault for causing conflict due to clamming up in front of their crush. Additionally, they both have sibling characters who tease them about it, while Mabel is actually the slightly older twin between her and Dipper, Greg is Wirt's much younger half-brother. Though Dipper usually gets along with Mabel swimmingly, Wirt has to warm up to Greg. During the events of their stories, Dipper and Wirt both make difficult decisions that involve sacrificing something to save their sibling from despair. They also are not native to the settings they spend most of their time in in their series, Dipper visits his great-uncle in Gravity Falls, Oregon alongside Mabel for the summer, Wirt ends up falling into the Unknown alongside Greg during a botched escape. Despite only showing long-time interests in one particular girl, they both also get at least one other girl interested in them by sheer coincidence, showing that their social awkwardness isn't as much of a hurdle as they themselves seem to believe.

They both seem to enjoy reading, though Dipper prefers journals while Wirt prefers poetry. They are also shown to be skilled in playing wind instruments, Wirt's skill in the clarinet (and later bassoon) is important to the plot, but Dipper off-handedly shows him practicing the tuba in one of the shorts. They also have squeaky voices that sound almost identical. They also have design similarities, both have brown hair and wear prominently red and dark blue.

Fanon
Pinescone is just one of many Gravity Falls ships, but is incredibly popular in the Over the Garden Wall fandom. It has gotten to the point where the ship is so popular on AO3 that it overshadows actually canon-compliant ships from the series. This is mostly chalked up to good timing, Over the Garden Wall premiered a year after Gravity Falls and was aired in its entirety during a hiatus, giving GF fans plenty of reason to check the series out.

Many believe that Dipper and Wirt would become best friends if they ever were to meet, largely because of their similar personalities and struggles. Due to Over the Garden Wall's time period being deliberately ambiguous, set anywhere between the 80's and the early 2010's, some fics have Dipper use time travel and end up meeting Wirt that way.

Due to the popularity of the "Bad End Friends" crossover, some also ship Dipper and Wirt as "Bipper" and "Beast Wirt".

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION